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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 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.

offsite link World Kindness Day is Just Another Way of Grooming Schoolchildren into the Climate and Open Border C... Sat Nov 22, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
World Kindness Day may have passed you by. But it won't have passed by your children, whose school will have been sure to teach that climate action and open borders are essential elements of 'kindness', says Steven Tucker.
The post World Kindness Day is Just Another Way of Grooming Schoolchildren into the Climate and Open Border Cults appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Bin Tax prisoner romps home while Coke boycott stays

category dublin | anti-capitalism | news report author Thursday November 20, 2003 05:37author by UCDSU hack Report this post to the editors

Dave Murphy, the UCD student currently in prison for taking part in peaceful protests against the bin tax has been elected to the UCD Academic Council. Meanwhile the boycott of Coca-Cola products has been endorsed in a second referendum.

Murphy topped the poll by some distance in the elections for student seats on University College Dublin's Academic Council. Dave is a Socialist Youth and Campaign for Free Education activist from Tallaght. The Student Union has already started a campaign to free him.

This vote will help bring further attention to the fight against the bin tax amongst UCD students. The last member of the Council to be imprisoned was Eoin MacNeill.

Simultaneously a second referendum was taking place on the Student Union's boycott of Coca-Cola products. The boycott was initiated in response to a call from Columbian bottling workers who had been subjected to intimidation and even murder by right wing paramilitaries.

The policy was decided in an earlier referendum. Right-wing students collected signatures to force a rerun of the poll.

During the campaign, Anne Speed, Sinn Fein's industrial organiser and a SIPTU offical, led a delegation to Belfield to leaflet in support of Coca-Cola management. Nevertheless, students repeated their vote in favour of a boycott.

56% voted No to overturning the boycott on an increased turnout. Could these two results, following last year's Campaign for Free Education and the ousting of Fianna Fail from control of the Students Union, be signs of a return of student radicalism out by the Stillorgan dual carriageway?

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Good News     delighted    Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:12 
   Congratulations!     John Meehan    Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:27 
   well done     ollie    Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:32 
   Coke and Siptu and the Boycott     Gearoid O Loingsigh    Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:54 
   %-)     iosaf    Thu Nov 20, 2003 12:26 
   Anne Speed Political Biography     Oganach    Thu Nov 20, 2003 13:40 
   Accurate and Factual Political Biography of Anne Speed and People's Democracy     John Meehan    Thu Nov 20, 2003 13:59 
   UCD Vote- implications for SIPTU, SF and USI     tallyrand    Thu Nov 20, 2003 15:26 
   Excellent result on Coke     Cian    Thu Nov 20, 2003 15:31 
 10   Coca Cola boycott? F*ck off!     Aido McBane    Thu Nov 20, 2003 16:34 
 11   Coke and SF     Janus    Thu Nov 20, 2003 17:03 
 12   Some questions     Steelie    Thu Nov 20, 2003 17:15 
 13   victory!!     ci    Thu Nov 20, 2003 17:25 
 14   2 referendums and 2 fingers to coke,siptu and the right.     Angry Liberal    Thu Nov 20, 2003 18:05 
 15   what about the rest of the bin taxers?     random input    Thu Nov 20, 2003 18:37 
 16   Results of Election     tallyman    Thu Nov 20, 2003 18:50 
 17   cheers     random input    Thu Nov 20, 2003 19:09 
 18   on transfers     tallyman    Thu Nov 20, 2003 19:30 
 19   don't forget to sign the petition to Free Dave and the others     petition man    Thu Nov 20, 2003 19:33 
 20   reply to Steelie's Questions     UCD activist    Thu Nov 20, 2003 19:45 
 21   Why are lies repeated?     Ciaran Flemming    Thu Nov 20, 2003 21:57 
 22   TCD Students     In awe    Thu Nov 20, 2003 22:43 
 23   Coke workers     trade unionist    Fri Nov 21, 2003 00:42 
 24   Ann Speed = Yellow     yellow Union    Fri Nov 21, 2003 01:10 
 25   ahem     random input    Fri Nov 21, 2003 02:36 
 26   College - best years of my life     seedot    Fri Nov 21, 2003 04:54 
 27   Trolling!     Seán    Fri Nov 21, 2003 10:03 
 28   Lies, and the lieing liars who tell them     SF supporter    Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:35 
 29   Sinn Fein whataboutary     Mé Féin    Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:07 
 30   Answers     Answerer    Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:20 
 31   Mé Féin     dg    Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:21 
 32   Correcting Lies II     SF Supporter    Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:34 
 33   Answerer     SF Supporter    Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:44 
 34   Coca Cola is one of the largest multi-national-corporations     %-)    Fri Nov 21, 2003 13:39 
 35   Cheese rocks!!     Cormac    Fri Nov 21, 2003 17:03 
 36   Dick did well.........     Rightwinger    Sat Nov 22, 2003 14:06 
 37   SIPTU solidarity stoppages would not raise need for boycotts     Johnny Wilkinson    Sun Nov 23, 2003 03:33 
 38   Angry Liberal is one angry motha!     Starstruck    Mon Nov 24, 2003 21:20 
 39   SU politics & coke     interested    Fri Nov 28, 2003 11:38 
 40   What do YFG matter?     Binchy Watcher    Fri Nov 28, 2003 13:18 
 41   SU tallyman     SU tallyman    Fri Nov 28, 2003 13:57 
 42   YFG     not exactly a 'binchy' watcher    Fri Nov 28, 2003 23:12 
 43   Right wing Dream Ticket     Tallyrand    Sun Nov 30, 2003 18:11 
 44   re: talyrand     gravity    Mon Dec 01, 2003 14:27 


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