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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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Windfarms the New Blight

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Tuesday May 13, 2003 13:52author by Leon - No More Windfarmsauthor email nomorewindfarms at yahoo dot com Report this post to the editors

Lets join together nationally to help stop windfarms and change government policy.

Windfarms are inefficient energy producers, Despoil the countryside and kill birds. Why are they still being built. Think of all the energy they waste spinning those blades around

Like some robotic infection corrupting the Irish countryside the windfarm virus continues to spread.
The welcome introduction of the plastic bag levy has reduced (though not eleiminated) that disgusting symbol of our private wealth and public squalor. A new sign emerges the windfarm.

Windfarms provide negligible amounts of electrictity in exchange for massive damage to our scenery and to ireland's fragile bird populations.

These eyesores will ruin tourism wherever they are erected.
The British government has accepted a link between pylons and cancer. Pylons follow windfarms as the plague follows rats.

Why are windfarm's still being built? In this country when no clear reason for public policy can be found we should look for reasons in opaque brown envelopes.

The government's Strategy for Intensifying Wind Energy Deployment explicitly invites County Councillors to invest in windfarms in their localities (p 95) and further emphasises that this may be a means for encouraging Local Authorities to grant planning permission.

The largest wind energy company in this country is owned by NTR. NTR has admitted to paying Liam Lawlor IRP 74,000.

The Danes have over 4,900 wind turbines these produce less than seven per cent of that country's electricity. How many must we have for them to make any impact. How many landscapes will they destroy?

So far anti windfarm campaigns have been local.

When they win or lose the campaign disintegrates.

Lets keep that energy going nationally, lets cooperate and collaborate to get these ridiculous monstrosities stopped for good.

Lets do something about it.

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Hello?     Noel Hogan    Tue May 13, 2003 14:04 
   you are tilting against windmils     pat c    Tue May 13, 2003 14:06 
   Wind Farms are the Future     Bart B    Tue May 13, 2003 14:22 
   To leon     tom    Tue May 13, 2003 14:22 
   Joe Schmoe     Joe Schmoe    Tue May 13, 2003 14:23 
   Windmills yes yes.     don iosaf de quixote    Tue May 13, 2003 14:26 
   Hemp and other energy crops     Raymond McInerney    Tue May 13, 2003 14:39 
   Windfarms are a positive development     Manus    Tue May 13, 2003 14:43 
   Well said Bart...     jj curly kale    Tue May 13, 2003 14:53 
 10   bullshit     conor mc gowan    Tue May 13, 2003 14:54 
 11   too many bananas!     pete ranks    Tue May 13, 2003 14:55 
 12   tail wagging dog     A nitpicking nerd    Tue May 13, 2003 14:58 
 13   Troll     Albo    Tue May 13, 2003 15:27 
 14   Hi Raymond!     iosaf    Tue May 13, 2003 15:28 
 15   Thanks Iosaf     Raymond McInerney    Tue May 13, 2003 15:40 
 16   no prob. Raymond.     iosaf    Tue May 13, 2003 15:46 
 17   Windfarms Not Green may be useful in 2020 but useless now     Leon    Tue May 13, 2003 15:53 
 18   Mail me to set up public meeting     Leon    Tue May 13, 2003 15:55 
 19   Ray watch out for those windfarm! they'll can clip your ears     Mr. Bree    Tue May 13, 2003 15:58 
 20   Re: Mail me to set up public meeting     Ray McInerney    Tue May 13, 2003 15:59 
 21   Some Cold Hard Facts     Bart B    Tue May 13, 2003 15:59 
 22   Manus     Ray McInerney    Tue May 13, 2003 16:01 
 23   leon     conor    Tue May 13, 2003 16:20 
 24   Alernatives please     Sidlebar    Tue May 13, 2003 16:21 
 25   leon, don't associate me with mr myers thank you very much.     pete ranks    Tue May 13, 2003 16:24 
 26   A fatuous point     JohnCunningham    Tue May 13, 2003 16:29 
 27   Democratic control over our energy supply and more     Terry    Tue May 13, 2003 16:56 
 28   Hello to Manus and Raymond     Alex    Tue May 13, 2003 17:30 
 29   simple solution     dowtcha    Tue May 13, 2003 17:55 
 30   in support of above.     iosaf    Tue May 13, 2003 19:24 
 31   Issues around Planning and how we value our Public Space     Leon    Tue May 13, 2003 20:00 
 32   He's wrong about Windmills but...     Limerick Lady    Tue May 13, 2003 20:15 
 33   Energy     Wind power    Tue May 13, 2003 22:01 
 34   And as for hydro electricity.....     Killian    Tue May 13, 2003 22:12 
 35   Suggestion     Jame McKenna    Wed May 14, 2003 07:28 
 36   How About A Windfarm At The Next IAWM Conference?     pat c    Wed May 14, 2003 11:30 
 37   Windfarms cause corruption?     Noel Hogan    Wed May 14, 2003 12:27 
 38   Re: Windfarms cause corruption     Terry    Wed May 14, 2003 14:28 
 39   Windfarms cause coruption?     biggles    Wed May 14, 2003 15:52 
 40   Wind Power the solution for corruption.     iosaf    Wed May 14, 2003 16:04 
 41   Portstewart and the ongoing debate...     Chris Henry    Wed May 14, 2003 21:18 
 42   No option is perfect..     Gaillimhed    Thu May 15, 2003 15:32 
 43   historical note     iosaf i'm taking the piss. sorry.    Thu May 15, 2003 20:52 
 44   rise up and take a bow sir bernard     barry    Fri May 16, 2003 00:50 
 45   Windfarms and the Privatisation agenda     Leon    Fri May 16, 2003 12:24 
 46   Yes, but     Gaillimhed    Fri May 16, 2003 17:15 
 47   "Spirit of Ireland "plan.     Pete.    Thu Jul 02, 2009 16:06 


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