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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite
UCC has paid huge sums to a criminal professor
This story is not for republication. I bear responsibility for the things I write. I have read the guidelines and understand that I must not write anything untrue, and I won't.
This is a public interest story about a complete failure of governance and management at UCC.

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
Socratic Dialog Between ChatGPT-5 and Mind Agent Reveals Fatal and Deliberate 'Design by Construction' Flaw
This design flaw in ChatGPT-5's default epistemic mode subverts what the much touted ChatGPT-5 can do... so long as the flaw is not tickled, any usage should be fine---The epistemological question is: how would anyone in the public, includes you reading this (since no one is all knowing), in an unfamiliar domain know whether or not the flaw has been tickled when seeking information or understanding of a domain without prior knowledge of that domain???!

This analysis is a pretty unique and significant contribution to the space of empirical evaluation of LLMs that exist in AI public world... at least thus far, as far as I am aware! For what it's worth--as if anyone in the ChatGPT universe cares as they pile up on using the "PhD level scholar in your pocket".

According to GPT-5, and according to my tests, this flaw exists in all LLMs... What is revealing is the deduction GPT-5 made: Why ?design choice? starts looking like ?deliberate flaw?.

People are paying $200 a month to not just ChatGPT, but all major LLMs have similar Pro pricing! I bet they, like the normal user of free ChatGPT, stay in LLM's default mode where the flaw manifests itself. As it did in this evaluation.

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent
Evaluating Semantic Reasoning Capability of AI Chatbot on Ontologically Deep Abstract (bias neutral) Thought
I have been evaluating AI Chatbot agents for their epistemic limits over the past two months, and have tested all major AI Agents, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, for their epistemic limits and their negative impact as information gate-keepers.... Today I decided to test for how AI could be the boon for humanity in other positive areas, such as in completely abstract realms, such as metaphysical thought. Meaning, I wanted to test the LLMs for Positives beyond what most researchers benchmark these for, or have expressed in the approx. 2500 Turing tests in Humanity?s Last Exam.. And I chose as my first candidate, Google DeepMind's Gemini as I had not evaluated it before on anything.

offsite link Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Fri Aug 01, 2025 23:54 | 1 of indy
We have all known it for over 2 years that it is a genocide in Gaza
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has finally admitted what everyone else outside Israel has known for two years is that the Israeli state is carrying out a genocide in Gaza

Western governments like the USA are complicit in it as they have been supplying the huge bombs and missiles used by Israel and dropped on innocent civilians in Gaza. One phone call from the USA regime could have ended it at any point. However many other countries are complicity with their tacit approval and neighboring Arab countries have been pretty spinless too in their support

With the release of this report titled: Our Genocide -there is a good chance this will make it okay for more people within Israel itself to speak out and do something about it despite the fact that many there are actually in support of the Gaza

offsite link China?s CITY WIDE CASH SEIZURES Begin ? ATMs Frozen, Digital Yuan FORCED Overnight Wed Jul 30, 2025 21:40 | 1 of indy
This story is unverified but it is very instructive of what will happen when cash is removed
THIS STORY IS UNVERIFIED BUT PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO OR READ THE TRANSCRIPT AS IT GIVES AN VERY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT A CASHLESS SOCIETY WILL LOOK LIKE. And it ain't pretty

A single video report has come out of China claiming China's biggest cities are now cashless, not by choice, but by force. The report goes on to claim ATMs have gone dark, vaults are being emptied. And overnight (July 20 into 21), the digital yuan is the only currency allowed.

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offsite link British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
The post British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
The post Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.
The post Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
It's bad enough that all UK TV users are forced to fund the BBC via a TV licence. But it's worse than that, says Charlotte Gill: millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are handed to the corporation via backdoor channels.
The post Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran Sat Nov 22, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing against the acquittal of Hamit Coskun, who was convicted of burning the Quran in a protest, reigniting fears Britain could introduce blasphemy laws by the back door.
The post CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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Imperialist Butchery on Show

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Friday March 21, 2003 21:31author by Anti-Bush Report this post to the editors

Divide & Conquer

Busholini & Divide & Rule

The imperialism of old claimed they were 'civilising' the world,bringing it into the realms of civilisation, opening up new markets,new frontiers, new possibilities. Initially the change of one era into another, the march from the feudal to the capitalist entailed the greatest changes in the realms of connecting the planet into one indivisible whole. But in order to secure control of colonial plunder,
the exchange of goods soon turned into the domination of one by another and then division of all by the few. From the moment imperialism entered its decline a new era dawned, that of wars and revolutions.

Throughout the 20th century the European Empires entered the period of decline so characteristic of Empires whose only motive after 'civilisation' evaporates is the securing of the booty indefinitely.
In two world wars they fought each other to a standstill and brought humanity to the brink of total annihilation. Only the Russian Revolution was the spark that broke the chain of imperialist decline and collapse.

After the Yugoslav intervention - the preamble to world domination - by the large transnational corporations of our day - the door has been left open for the old imperialist policy of divide and rule to become once again dominant. The Arab world for years divided due to the corruption and ineptitude of its ruling elites, be they sheiks in the oil rich gulf sheikdoms, or nationalist leaders in Syria or Egypt, unable to unify poses starkly the question raised many years by the bolsheviks who challenged and defeated imperialism in 1/6 of the worlds earth surface. Only workers in alliance with the vast indentured majority of peasants have the organising capacity to defeat
imperialism. No one else will do it for them or will bring the struggle to a successful conclusion.

For the defeat of the US-UK invading forces is a necessity to stop Iraq being divided and occuppied, Baghdad bombed and surrounded in order to be starved into submission, so the Bath party dumps Hussein like the example of Yugoslavia with Milosevic. If the other Arab countries let Iraq go down, they are next, divide and rule will become a dominant policy once more of imperialism in its decline. A defeat
for Iraq will have geostrategic issues of immense importance. The Americans, financially bankrupt, politically alone are entering the twilight of their rule. Each act they now committ, despite what the
mass networks of disinformation show, will reap more trouble than they imagine. There are hundreds of millions of Arabs and the shooting war against Iraq isn't the only war.

The left paralysed by 9/11 and allied with the status quo in its respective countries is dead, morally, politically, practically. It is unable to either lead the coming storm or to offer a way out. We are at a political impasse and as societies cannot live in either impasses or vaccuums for too long an explosion becomes the only possibility in
the current political situation. Throughout Europe millions of people will go on the offensive in dynamic action which is the only path of stopping the war and derailing the globalisation agenda. For that they will require new forms of organisation, new parties, new leaders, new strategies.

Five decades now the Palestinian people have lived like dogs in a cage surrounded by beasts. They have been hunted, chased, exiled, bombed and still they stand tall refusing to bow to their American oppressors. The war against Iraq, apart from oil is the signal that anyone standing up against the American Empire will be shot down. But their armed gangsters in the Middle East are caging themselves in behind a wall, reminiscent of the castles of the Middle Ages. This is the sign, if any where needed that the American Empire is brittle, it has no mass social support and its hasn't managed yet to unify the
ruling classes of this earth into a total search and destroy mission to all who stand up against its corporations. It is trying like a dying man to avoid terminal decline. It will fail, in the concrete jungles of Iraq. The sooner the better.

author by Paddy Xpublication date Fri Mar 21, 2003 21:49author address author phone Report this post to the editors

What we are witnessing now is the organized violence of the Anglo-American empire. Ireland, North and South, is more subjugated to this empire than any other country in the world. Let anti-imperialism begin here at home. Otherwise all your passion and anti-war activism is merely feelgood posturing.

author by Declanpublication date Fri Mar 21, 2003 23:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Paddy X, you are a troll. Go back to the factory in North Korea, where they made you.

 
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