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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 Free Speech Documentary Cancelled by London Cinema Fri Nov 21, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
London cinema Rich Mix has banned a documentary by Spiked about free speech because it does not "align with our values and mission".
The post Free Speech Documentary Cancelled by London Cinema appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Inquiry Has Failed to Engage With the Evidence Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
The Covid Inquiry module two report fails to question faulty assumptions and draws conclusions without engaging with the evidence, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson in a damning assessment.
The post The Covid Inquiry Has Failed to Engage With the Evidence appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Debunking the BBC?s Claim That Pakistan?s Floods Are Made Worse by Climate Change Fri Nov 21, 2025 09:00 | Paul Homewood
If the BBC's Standards Committee, which is reviewing the corporation's coverage of climate change, wants a good example of bias, it should take a look at its report of recent floods in Pakistan, says Paul Homewood.
The post Debunking the BBC’s Claim That Pakistan’s Floods Are Made Worse by Climate Change appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 59: Why Shabana Mahmood?s Asylum Crackdown is Not All It?s Cracked Up to Be, a... Fri Nov 21, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 59 of The Sceptic: Rob Bates on why Shabana Mahmood's asylum crackdown is not all it's cracked up to be, and Chris Morrison on how the Met Office and the BBC push climate alarmism.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 59: Why Shabana Mahmood?s Asylum Crackdown is Not All It?s Cracked Up to Be, and How the Met Office and BBC Push Climate Alarmism appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Nov 21, 2025 01:14 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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FARC blow up water supply

category international | worker & community struggles and protests | news report author Tuesday March 14, 2006 15:19author by Gearoid O Loingsigh - Colombia Solidarity Network Report this post to the editors

blow to community organisation

FARC attack town water supply

The FARC blew up the water supply to the town of Saravana in the department of Arauca. The water supply is run by a community cooperative ECASS. ECASS has successfully resisted all attempts by the corrupt public officials and local elites who have tried to have it closed down and replaced with a private company that would charge exorbitant rates for its water.

they like a number of other coops in the region have received threats from the paramilitaries and harrassment from the State which has subjected them to monthly audits and external investigations without fail. Many leaders of these coops have been arrested and charged with rebellion and being members of the guerrillas.

In July last year a Colombia Solidarity Network delegation to Colombia met with leaders from these coops and were impressed by their commitment and dedication. They have gone to jail , their fellow workers have been murdered by the State and now their work is to be undermined by the FARC who have killed a number of social leaders in neighbouring Botallon and other rural parts of Arauca.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   ?     ?    Tue Mar 14, 2006 15:52 
   checking     pat c    Tue Mar 14, 2006 15:53 
   Not an impersonation     Gearoid O Loingsigh    Tue Mar 14, 2006 18:13 
   Gearoid : caveat emptor     anton    Wed Mar 15, 2006 17:24 
   reply to Anton     Gearoid O Loingsigh    Wed Mar 15, 2006 21:56 
   who represents lasc     Gearoid O Loingsigh    Wed Mar 15, 2006 22:00 
   the dogs that don't bark     k keating    Thu Mar 16, 2006 08:35 
   Sleepwalking     Peter    Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:05 
   to kevin keating     anton    Thu Mar 16, 2006 22:06 
 10   Endless lies     Adam and the Antons    Thu Mar 16, 2006 22:17 
 11   The Record     Peter    Fri Mar 17, 2006 00:06 
 12   sellout second nature to bureaucracy     k keating    Fri Mar 17, 2006 03:53 
 13   Okay, fine, whatever     Peter    Fri Mar 17, 2006 14:14 
 14   Coke boycott news from british campaign     k keating    Fri Mar 17, 2006 17:51 
 15   Fresh faces     Dan    Fri Mar 17, 2006 18:41 
 16   documentary on a Colombian Peace Community     StablinskiFusion    Sat Mar 18, 2006 19:51 
 17   to staniliski/fabio     anton    Wed Mar 22, 2006 17:25 
 18   Anton     pat c    Wed Mar 22, 2006 17:29 
 19   Pat C     anton    Wed Mar 22, 2006 17:53 
 20   Fairy tale stuff     Dan    Wed Mar 22, 2006 18:40 
 21   The bicycles     Peter    Fri Mar 24, 2006 01:54 
 22   No point debating with people who won't make themselves accountable     Dan    Fri Mar 24, 2006 23:11 
 23   to dan     anton    Sat Mar 25, 2006 15:01 
 24   to dan agin     anton    Sat Mar 25, 2006 16:27 
 25   The slime never ends     Dan    Sat Mar 25, 2006 20:16 
 26   Temper, temper     Peter    Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:07 
 27   now .hasn't the child a temper!     anton    Mon Mar 27, 2006 17:52 
 28   Two unprincipled charlatans with too much time on their hands     Dan    Sun Apr 09, 2006 19:06 


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