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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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Burn Your Passport and Money Tomorrow

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Saturday March 22, 2003 03:31author by as do many other passport holders Report this post to the editors

Dow jones index had best day since the early eighties testerday - war is good for business - burn your money - and - see below


http://www.boycottamerica.org/iraq/

I'm against the war, you're against the war, pretty much everyone's
against war in Iraq. Sending e-mails to the United Nations is a start,
but it isn't going to change a lot, because they aren't the ones who want
to drop bombs.

The man who needs to be convinced is George W. Bush, and the only people
he listens to are the heads of big US Corporations. If *they* think war
might be bad for business, they might suddenly get a conscience, and put
pressure on Bush to stop this nonsense. And if George Bush thinks war
might actually harm a few Americans and hurt his re-election chances
instead of just killing thousands of Muslims, he might just listen.

So it's time to send a message that they will hear.

In a world where we are just spectators in "democracy", the only power you
really have is that bestowed upon you as a consumer: the power of choice.
Choose European, Choose Asian - but boycott US products.

Why boycott?

Well one solution is not civil disobedience but commercial disobedience
- quite simply to stop buying products made by large American corporations.
From cars to cola, from sportswear to software, boycotting US products
from large American corporates sends out a loud clear message that we are
have noticed what is going on, and we are not happy with it!

http://www.boycottamerica.org/iraq/

Listed below are some major US corporations and their email addresses.
STOP Buying Their Products. Buy European instead. Create Jobs in Europe!

Send the US companies an email with subject "Boycott USA" saying you'll boycott
US products until the US stops waging war on the world. It might take a lot to
have an affect, but thousands of mails will get them thinking.

Please forward this to everyone you know - and start buying European, and
Boycotting US products!


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Product: Nike, Reebok
Alternatives: Adidas, Puma, Umbro and Fila are widely available European brands

Nike: Corp.comm@nike.com
Reebok: rhrworkersuggest@reebok.com

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Product: Tobacco: Philip Morris (Marlboro), RJReynolds (Camel)
Alternatives: Benson & Hedges, Embassy, Gauloises

Philip Morris: resourcing.webmaster@pmintl.com
Reynolds: SmokersWelcome@rjrt.com

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Soft Drinks: Coca Cola, Pepsi
Alternatives: locally made cola

Coca Cola: info@coca-cola.com,
Pepsi : Shareholder.Relations@pepsi.com

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Food: McDonalds, Burger King
Alternatives: SuperMacs or real food!

BurgerKing: RDoughty@Whopper.com
McDonalds: equiserve@equiserve.com

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Mobile Phones: Motorola
Alternatives: Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung, Philips

Motorola: investor@motorola.com

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Software: Microsoft, Apple
Alternatives: OpenOffice, Linux

Microsoft: msft@microsoft.com
Apple:

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Computers: Compaq, Dell, Intel, IBM, Apple
Alternatives: Fujitsu Siemens

Compaq:
Dell: Investor_Relations_Fulfillment@dell.com
Intel:
IBM: bhughes@us.ibm.com
Apple:
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Product: petrol: Esso, Texaco
Alternatives: BP

ExxonMobile: corporate.public.affairs@exxonmobil.com,
ChevronTexaco: comment@chevrontexaco.com
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Product: Cars --> Ford, Jaguar, LandRover, General Motors, Volvo, Mazda
Alternatives: Toyota, BMW, Renault, Peugeot, Citroen,

Ford: wford@ford.com,
GM: john.devine@gm.com

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You can also send emails to:

president@whitehouse.gov
devans@doc.gov
secretary@state.gov
secretary@defense.gov

author by Wild Irishmanpublication date Sat Mar 22, 2003 03:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

They are "loseing it". See earlier comment about this at
http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=36720

Related Link: http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=36720
author by simonpublication date Sat Mar 22, 2003 04:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If your 'easy as 1,2,3' methods were followed the last people to be effected would be the corporate clowns and bush's. the first casualties would be thousands upon thousands maybe millions of workers - losing their jobs. people with families to support - people with lives to lead, some who share your opinion, some who dont.
would you have a solution to stop the evictions?

Its only slight less isolationist and blind than 'freedom fries'

author by lackeypublication date Sat Mar 22, 2003 04:58author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Cows in ireland get a subsidy of more than E2 per day - more than the majority of the humans on the planet earn - no blood for jobs and fuck you above commenter

author by ozmapublication date Sat Mar 22, 2003 07:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

max, there you are again.

the only Position you should be worried about is the one i will have to restrain you in to get the Slamafram down an oriface.

Now if you go back to your room I will give you a copy of the Position of the Government by Max.

author by ashamed american - portland.indymedia.orgpublication date Sat Mar 22, 2003 10:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

as an american anti-war activist, i encourage a boycott of american products. i myself, and most of my fellow activists, boycott almost all corporate products as a regular way of life. one of the only weaknesses of the hyper capitalist global exploitation system is the power of the people to choose alternatives, or choose to not consume much, period. we buy almost all of our food from local farmers, we get all of our clothes from second-hand stores, we ride old bikes that we fix up. the large exploitive corporations exist simply because we buy their crap, so we simply choose to opt-out, to withdraw our support. as for hurting the average working class american, so be it. it will force people to work for or create businesses that are sustainable, fair, and respectful of life on this planet. a nike manager who markets nike shoes lives a comfortable life, while the 14 year-old girl who makes the shoes in some 3rd world nation toils for 14 hours a day under threat of beating. we no longer accept the lies of the nike manager who claims, "i am only trying to make a living and feed my family". time to go into a different line of work.

bring the boycott on, and help us challenge this murderous government and its corporate supporters!

author by simonpublication date Sat Mar 22, 2003 11:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Im taking the point now undertaken by the leading aid agencies etc. The way to influence is to not put more peoples lives in jeopardy. Thats what will happen. no human should be a barganing chip for anybody's agenda, ever.

This no blood for jobs call rings hollow for me now because no matter how non-corporate compliant you are your involved. From the shirt on your back to the breakfast you ate this morning your tied up in the 'blood' network. Unless you grow your own or go 'bio-regional', make your own clothes and dont consume any products whatsoever your economic ties to the world are set. you have blood on your hands.

I would love to see a structures of self sufficiency and bio-regionalism but there not here anymore (i live as close to these ideals as possible by growing vegtables, herbs, buying local, buying fairtrade etc.). Look around at the stuff you own PC included and tell me that your any way near self sufficient. Its all well and good putting other peoples lives at risk when its not your own or your mothers et. and when you live in a cusioned system where the nanny state will pay your way. Pay your way with tax money that is also dirtied with blood, it has to be said.

You have to think your actions out a bit better bring them forward so they can help as many people as possible and not just you. boycotting to me sounds isolationist, which is a bad thing.

author by Paul O'Donnellpublication date Sat Mar 22, 2003 12:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

BP (British Petroleum) is hardly an alternative if people want to boycott petrol / oil from the warmonger nations.

The following should be boycotted:-

Texaco
Esso
Shell
BP
TOP (for refuelling at Shannon)

Instead try these:

Statoil
Mobil
Emo
Estuary
Amber


author by satan burgerpublication date Mon Mar 24, 2003 10:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Boycott of US products has been gaining momentum for the past few years, just look at McDonalds and the lengths they go to to get you in to their 'restaraunts'. They are on the run, their greasy fat-squelching food is losing popularity and restaraunts are closing world wide.

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