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Indymedia ireland

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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ICTU pro 'partnership' vote a disgrace

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday March 26, 2003 23:52author by Paul Kinsella - CPSUauthor email paulkinsella53 at yahoo dot comauthor address 53 Lorcan Grove, Santry, Dublin 9, Eireauthor phone 087-9748511 Report this post to the editors

But not surprising

The only surprise was that the vote in favour was so close - only 45 votes seperated the pro and anti partnership sides. The choice is where do we go from here? Have ICTU finally signed their death warrant? Will the breakaway Independent Workers Union (IWU) gain many new disaffected union members?

After constantly voting through various increasingly pro employer wage agreements over the last 15 years the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) sunk to new but not suprising lows today when they voted by an admitedly tight margin of only 45 votes in favour of the new 'partnership' deal - "Sustaining Progress". This deal is an absolute disgrace for workers in both the public and private sectors with the totally insulting pay rises of 7% over 18 months which will amount to a cut in real terms in the living standards of workers after inflation is taken into account. Many other features in this 'partnership' deal are even more objectionable than the pay terms, bad enough as they are. For example severe restrictions on the right to strike generally and an effective ban on strikes in the health service, effectively taking away nurses and other health service worker's right to strike against say poor pay and working conditions and cutbacks in the health service, and probably extended to many other workers in 'essential' services such as electricity generation, bus and rail workers, fire and ambulance drivers, binmen etc, binding arbitration in industrial disputes and lack of statutory union recognition amongst others. I know the war is of grave urgency and concern to us all, but this erosion of worker's rights should be of grave concern to us all and is something which should be discussed more on Indymedia Ireland. Talking of the war (yes I know! But it had to come up sometime) and on an indirectly related subject, were any emergency motions for urgent trade union mobilisation against the war proposed at today's ICTU SDC and were any passed?

author by pat cpublication date Thu Mar 27, 2003 11:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Conference?

author by Pat Murraypublication date Thu Mar 27, 2003 11:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Christ Pat haven't you heard - they are all down in Shannon trying to win the workers over to stopping the use of Shannon as a warport.

author by C.publication date Thu Mar 27, 2003 12:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I saw their banner in Shannon on March 1st as part of the IAWM march.
With Mick O'Reilly back in the ATGWU are they going to continue organising?
Have they tried for members in Shannon?

author by anne conway - trade unionists against the warpublication date Thu Mar 27, 2003 16:19author email annefconway' at yahoo dot co dot ukauthor address dublinauthor phone 086 3388962Report this post to the editors


It was very disappointing that the IAWM did not support the lobby. Those who were present found it to be a very useful initiative. The trade unions must turn their words into action. We should demand action from them by getting groups of workers to send such a demand to their national unions and to ICTU - resolutions, appeals signed by workers from workplaces, phone calls, harrass them at every opportunity. We should also demand they PROTECT ANY WORKERS WHO TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE WAR and make a public declaration to that effect. Strike against the use of facilities at shannon should be campaigned for.

Anyone interested in this contact 086 3388962

author by SIPTU memberpublication date Fri Mar 28, 2003 00:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Finally someone on indymedia seems serious about trying to stop this war. Ann Conway is right about having a strike in Shannon, it should have been done weeks ago, what is the swp and the sp doing about organising such a strike? and what is SIPTU and the ATGWU doing? both have been equally silent and inactive. ICTU will pretend to oppose this war just like they pretend to opposethe employers, but it is now obvious thatall the groups I mentioned above are just as fake and cynical.
p.s we need another useless march going nowhere like a hole in the head

author by pat cpublication date Fri Mar 28, 2003 11:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Sadly the SP are not just doing nothing. At last Sundays IAWM meeting They voted down a proposal to lobby the ICTU conference in support of industrial action against the war.

Apparently they were afaraid they might alienate David Beggs and Des Geraghty. Its more important for the SP to have these selouts on their platform than to win over workers to strike action.

author by amenderpublication date Fri Mar 28, 2003 16:21author email annefconway at yahoo dot co dot ukauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

annefconway@yahoo.co.uk

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