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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Voltaire, international edition

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Information for Irish Reclaim the Streets Activists

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Friday May 10, 2002 19:15author by Shane Foran - Galway Cycling Campaignauthor email galwaycyclist at yahoo dot co dot ukauthor address Galway Cycling Campaign c/o the Galway One World Centre, the Halls, Quay St., Galway Report this post to the editors

The issue of road users rights has gained prominence in recent days. The following links to information on Road Design/Traffic Management are available on the web for Irish "Reclaim the Streets" activists who wish to get a more holistic view of the issues.

Information for Irish Reclaim the Streets Activists

The issue of road users rights has gained prominence in recent days. The following links to information on Road Design/Traffic Management are available on the web for Irish "Reclaim the Streets" activists who wish to get a more holistic view of the issues. These consist of Galway Cycling Campaign information sheets and adopted Galway Community Forum Policy documents. Some of these may be quasi-technical in nature and hard to read but unfortunately what is going on Irish streets complex and not given to simple sound bites.

CHILD PEDESTRIAN DEATHS
In 1997 and 1998 Ireland had the highest child pedestrian deaths rates in Western Europe
http://www.geocities.com/galwaycyclist/info/childdeaths.html

CAR SPEEDS ON IRISH ROADS
How this happened (in part) and what the Gardai haven't been doing about it
http://www.geocities.com/galwaycyclist/info/speeds.html

GALWAY COMMUNITY FORUM MOTION ON 20MPH SPEED LIMIT
Part of the solution
http://www.geocities.com/galwaycyclist/forum_20mph.rtf

GALWAY COMMUNITY FORUM POLICY DECLARATION
MULTILANE ROUNDAOBUTS
http://www.geocities.com/galwaycyclist/roundabout/forumroundabout.html

GALWAY COMMUNITY FORUM POLICY DOCUMENT ON A PEOPLE FREINDLY
ROADS INFRASTRUCTURE
This is a large word document (120 kb) but sets out the basic principles
http://www.geocities.com/galwaycyclist/forum_mtn_pple_frndly_rds.doc

GALWAY COMMUNITY FORUM POLICY DOCUMENT ON WALKING
http://www.geocities.com/galwaycyclist/forum_motion_walking.doc


Finally, the car lobby and their allies in the Gardai, Govt Departments and National Press have long controlled and managed public access to information on road safety and other issues. RTE is alleged to be involved in an illegal relationship with the AA and this matter is currently before the Supreme Court. The Irish National Safety Council is largely funded and controlled by the same motor insurers who have been making huge profits out of the excessively high level of death and injury on Irish roads. Many of us, through no fault of our own, have ended up internalising the lies and misinformation put out by these sources. The only remedy to misinformation is information, and sometimes the picture that emerges is not very nice.

http://www.geocities.com/galwaycyclist/info/seatbelts.html


Even more information sheets on various issues are available on the GCC web site

http://www.geocities.com/galwaycyclist/

or by request from galwaycyclist@yahoo.co.uk

Well done to everybody who came out.

author by all-da-people-all-da-time! - rhythmsofresistance.co.ukpublication date Sat May 11, 2002 04:22author address tod@s en las callesauthor phone Report this post to the editors

the effects ( and nevermind the affects) of global warming caused by modern & post-modern capitalist production ( i.e. you and me mate, -you & me- gettin' in our cars and going to work!)-
collectively we are causing climate change and making disasters for humanity of all classes-

but especially for the multitudes without property, for the animals and for the vegetation of our planet-

it's all our futures that are on the line-

take some action - get out more often-

relaim the streets
love and rage!

Related Link: http://www.risingtide.org.uk/pages/aboutus.html
author by Working Class Cyclistpublication date Fri May 10, 2002 21:37author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If both my bicycle and your car come from outside of the country then we should obviously use cars instead! Good logic.

A bicycle apart from causing less damage to people contains a lot less rubber and metal than a car, it costs a lot less, so importing it is less of a drain on our economy.

I can see you now when I'm trying to drive my Ford Explorer SUV instead of a Chieftan tank

ME:"how much damage does my bike do to the economy and the roads compared to my Ford Explorer?"
SID:"we live in a globalised economy, don't worry about it, you may as well drive the tank, sure aren't they both made abroad?"

Brilliant Sid, brilliant!

author by Sidpublication date Fri May 10, 2002 20:45author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Too late. You live in a globalised economy, no escaping that. Where do you think the rubber and the steel comes from that makes bikes, Tipperary?
Cars are made by workers from other countries. However its the capitalists from each 'nation' that profit from our work. Your nationalism only leads us behind Irish bosses.
Internationalism means linking with workers elsewhere and forging a better society everywhere.

author by Working Class Cyclistpublication date Fri May 10, 2002 19:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

in the purchase of cars (none of which are made in Ireland)?

Also do you have any data on how much of my taxes gets spent on building motorways which I will never use as opposed to bicycle facilities which I do?

 
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