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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in 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 Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

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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Interview with Ploughshares Activist Parents in OZ

category international | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Monday June 30, 2003 12:42author by Pit Stop Ploughshares Report this post to the editors

Interview with Ploughshares Activist parents

Interview with Parents of Pitstop Ploughshares Australian
by News Ltd, Monday June 30, 2003 at 09:31 AM


THE Brisbane parents of a peace activist are proud of their son but worried he may be facing a jail term in Ireland. On Tuesday, Ciaron O'Reilly, 43, will stand trial with four others on criminal damage charges arising out of the disabling of a US Navy aircraft during an anti-Iraqi war protest at Dublin's Shannon Airport in February.

Mary O'Reilly, 72, and her husband Garrett, 75, said their devout Christian son had dedicated his life to peace and they fully supported him.

While Mrs O'Reilly could not help feeling a mother's anxiety for her second son, she said: "I've just accepted that this is going to be the way it
is."

She admitted that friends and others in Brisbane who had seen their dreadlocked son in protests over the years did not understand why he
had turned his back on a teaching career to live a life of poverty and protest.

"I'm quite sure the majority of people don't know what he's on about and what motivates him to do this," Mrs O'Reilly said. "He definitely has a
spiritual side to him."

Irish-born Garrett O'Reilly said Ciaron and his brothers Sean, a nurse, and Brendan, a hospital administration officer, were brought up to think
about less fortunate people in the world.

"As very young kids they went collecting door-to-door for the handicapped," he said.

Mr O'Reilly said he was disgusted that, in a supposedly neutral country like Ireland, US planes destined for the war in Iraq were allowed to
refuel at Dublin's Shannon Airport. He said he understood his son's protest action.

"All of us admire martyrs. We wouldn't want him any other way," he said.

Mrs O'Reilly said Ciaron was a "rather charming" child who was good at sport, especially soccer, and became a teacher at St James's College in
Fortitude Valley, where he was educated.

Ciaron was involved in the protest movement from the time he was in Year 12 and Mrs O'Reilly remembers seeing him standing on a soapbox in
the Queen St Mall in the 1980s speaking to the crowds.

In 1991 Ciaron spent 13 months in prison in the United States for destroying and conspiring to damage US Government property, after
damaging a B-52 bomber in New York with other members of the ANZUS Ploughshares group during a Gulf War protest.

"We didn't know it was going to happen," Mrs O'Reilly said.

"He could have been shot on the spot."

But she said his US jail experience has given him the strength to cope if he was again sent to prison.

The couple, from Mitchelton in Brisbane's northwest, proudly showed off press clippings about their son's protests and an autographed photo
of US actor Martin Sheen, who plays a US president in The West Wing television series.

In Ireland recently, Sheen gave a press conference supporting the Pit Stop Ploughshares activists, declaring he would give them all "a
presidential pardon".

http://www.ploughsharesirelend.org


www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6631926%255E2765,00.html

author by IMC readerpublication date Mon Jun 30, 2003 15:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This "interview" is basically Ciaron's Mam and Dad saying that they think their son is a great guy.

I'm with the Ploughshares people, good luck to them in their trial, but come on, this article really doesnt merit being up on a newswire.

Unless anyone else wants to quote their parents about how great the work they do is?

author by Joepublication date Mon Jun 30, 2003 15:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Not sure I agree with 'IMC reader' (a funny handle, are we not all be definition IMC readers). At times it is useful to put a 'human interest' angle on a story, to remind the reader that the 'fanatic with the dreadlocks' remains another human being with parents etc. This helps break down sterotyped reactions.

Related Link: http://struggle.ws/stopthewar.html
author by Pretty Lamepublication date Tue Jul 01, 2003 06:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

IMC reader...don't think luck's got much to do with it! You sound like a good German waving the next train load off to Auschwitz. Good luck to you, buddy.

author by Lizpublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 23:34author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Do people cruise these sites looking for a bit of cyber-rage or what? In the light of Berlusconi's highly inappropriate comments today, Pretty Lame looks, well pretty lame, really...you come to a site like this for an alternative view, and what you end up with may as well be the "Sun".

 
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