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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

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Anarchy in iraq?

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Friday April 11, 2003 11:36author by Anarchist Report this post to the editors

Am I the only person who is getting pissed off listening to all the media organisations describing the looting and violence in Baghdad as anarchy?

I know that the technical definition of anarchy is the absense of political power and the existance of disorder and chaos, but the general public are unable to distinguish between Anarchy and Anarchism. I believe that the media organisations and propagandists recognise this and are using this opportunity to discredit the entire anarchist political viewpoint as violent random, pointless destruction.

Responsible reporting would either be sure to distinguish between a state of anarchy and an anarchist state, they should choose a different word (chaos is just as good) or educate the public (which is, after all, their job)

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   thanks USA, say anarchists     an archist    Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:41 
   instead of anarchy     pat c    Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:47 
   It is Anarchy     Hilda Robinson    Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:48 
   Ah yes     King Mob    Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:52 
   bah! rumbled!     pat c    Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:53 
   Hilda says ...     bjg    Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:54 
   retail looting/wholesale to come     Ciaron    Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:55 
   Reveals more then you might think     Andrew    Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:55 
   Anarchists should be happy     Alert Activist    Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:05 
 10   re: Hilda and 'alert' activist     Andrew    Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:16 
 11   Libertarian Socialism = Anarchy     James    Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:18 
 12   tired of anarchy     an archist    Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:19 
 13   Anarchism in action     Andrew    Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:24 
 14   tired of the spanish revo     an archy    Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:27 
 15   Not just against     David Rynne    Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:31 
 16   as an anarchist living and active in Barcelona the world capital of Anarchy     ipsiphi    Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:32 
 17   It's nice how the archists ignore all of the explanations     Chekov    Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:33 
 18   Spain failed but not because it was a bad idea     David Rynne    Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:36 
 19   boring anarchists     -    Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:36 
 20   Things created by anarchists     Andrew    Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:48 
 21   Things created by trots     anarchist rebel    Fri Apr 11, 2003 13:10 
 22   adding to trot list     --    Fri Apr 11, 2003 13:24 
 23   What about peace??     floJo    Fri Apr 11, 2003 14:08 
 24   What have the Romans ever done for us (lately)     Monty Python    Fri Apr 11, 2003 14:23 
 25   Phew – for a moment there, I thought the anarchists had run out of things to say     Dada    Fri Apr 11, 2003 14:37 
 26   Directionless     Joe    Fri Apr 11, 2003 14:43 
 27   James, I know your comment is way back up there but...     AL    Fri Apr 11, 2003 14:50 
 28   Oh, boo-hoo     chris    Fri Apr 11, 2003 14:51 
 29   Maybe thats not a bad idea chris...     AL    Fri Apr 11, 2003 15:00 
 30   Chris: it's the ideas not the language that is important     Chekov    Fri Apr 11, 2003 15:03 
 31   Re: Chris     Andrew    Fri Apr 11, 2003 15:06 
 32   With friends like those     Andrew    Fri Apr 11, 2003 15:11 
 33   the word anarchy is vilified because we are still dangerous     conor (wsm personal capacity)    Fri Apr 11, 2003 15:25 
 34   First off Andrew...     AL    Fri Apr 11, 2003 15:44 
 35   Meant to add..     AL    Fri Apr 11, 2003 15:45 
 36   Re, AL's question     James    Fri Apr 11, 2003 15:50 
 37   Andrew Advocates Workers State!     Hilda Robinson    Fri Apr 11, 2003 16:00 
 38   re: AL     Andrew    Fri Apr 11, 2003 16:02 
 39   re: hilda and the workers state     Andrew    Fri Apr 11, 2003 16:19 
 40   No anarchy in Iraq     Chuck0    Fri Apr 11, 2003 16:49 
 41   Hi Chuck     Andrew    Fri Apr 11, 2003 17:00 
 42   Here's my contribution...     anon    Fri Apr 11, 2003 17:40 
 43   No war but the class war!     Sylvia Pankhurst    Fri Apr 11, 2003 20:32 
 44   Where were the anarchists...     alma    Fri Apr 11, 2003 21:58 
 45   anarchist = wsm?     me myself i    Sat Apr 12, 2003 01:38 
 46   WSM are narrow-minded ideologues     Paddy Mac    Sat Apr 12, 2003 03:06 
 47   in reply to andrew     Hilda Robinson    Sat Apr 12, 2003 18:52 
 48   new bosses...     anarcho    Sun Apr 13, 2003 11:19 
 49   Nozick is no anarchist or libertarian     anarcho    Sun Apr 13, 2003 11:27 
 50   In Defence of Marxism     Hilda Robinson    Sun Apr 13, 2003 14:21 
 51   In reply to anarcho's last point     Hilda Robinson    Sun Apr 13, 2003 14:28 
 52   Party power, not workers power     anarcho    Sun Apr 13, 2003 22:47 
 53   just to add a few more I'd say some 'marxists' would get the horrors if they actually read Trotsky     conor (wsm personal capacity)    Thu Apr 17, 2003 15:50 


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