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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

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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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

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent

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

offsite link China?s CITY WIDE CASH SEIZURES Begin ? ATMs Frozen, Digital Yuan FORCED Overnight Wed Jul 30, 2025 21:40 | 1 of indy

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offsite link Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits... Fri Sep 19, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 51 of the Sceptic: Michael Murphy on Charlie Kirk, free speech and the scourge of ?anti-fascism?, and Ben Pile on how the British public are going cold on global warming.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits are Cooling on Global Warming appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:07 | 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.

offsite link We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture Thu Sep 18, 2025 19:00 | Noah Carl
The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.
The post We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech Thu Sep 18, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump?urged?Keir Starmer?to deploy the military to stop the Channel small boats crisis that is "destroying" the country, drill in the North Sea and uphold free speech at a tense joint press conference today.
The post Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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An tOllamh Chomsky

category international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Friday June 23, 2006 21:31author by Liam Ó Maoláin - Iriseoir Report this post to the editors

Caitheann an tOllamh Chomsky Neamh-súil fuar ar rudaí ar fud an Domhain – Na Cartúnna Danmhairg, An Iaráin agus an Cogadh Iaráic, an d’aois Núicléach, agus Cursaí Reatha eile.

Dúirt an criticeoir frithcogadh, Noam Chomsky, le déanaí nach ceist saoirse a bhí ‘sna Danmhairg ar an scéal cartúnna, agus nach caismirt iad faoi an Iarthar agus an domhan Ioslamach, ach ionsaigh tríd is tríd ag an rialtas Danmhairg ar an mionlach Ioslamach atá ina gconaí san tír sin. Bhí sé ag caint liomsa nuair a bhí mé ag obair ar raidió Coláiste Uí Ghríofa an mhí seo caite.
Deir sé go raibh an Araib Shádach go formhór mórchuid antoisteach d’ainneoin an ioróin gurbh é sean-comhghuallí Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá. Deir sé freisin gurb é Indinéis comhghuallí eile Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá, agus bhí an Ginearál Suharto freagrach as dúnmharú na mílte daoine. Cuir béim ar “ionsaigh míofar ciníoch” agus níl aon rud ar bith de saoirse preas. Cúpla seachtain ó shin, foilsíodh na cartúnna, ach níor fhoilsigh an páipéar Danmhairg – “Jyllands Posten” - iomháineachas Críostaíocht, a dúirt an Ollamh Chomsky.
Thug an tOllamh clúiteach domhain ó Boston MIT focal trom ar an breithiúnas ó na cúirteanna san Ostair, nuair a shocraigh siad príosún trí bliana a ghearradh ar an scríbhneoir agus staraí Briotanach David Irving le déanaí. Ciontaíodh é ar an muirear go ndúirt sé nar tharla go an uileloscadh i rith an Dara-Cogadh Domhanda. Deir an tOllamh freisin nach bhfuil staír maith ag na tíortha seo – An Ostair agus an Ghearmáin – i rith an cogadh ar fud an domhain. Deir sé go raibh an Fhrainc níos measa. Bhí an Fhrainc freagrach as Bernard Lewis a chur i bpríosún mar gheall ar cad a scríobh sé faoi na daoine Airméin sa Tuirc. Deir sé freisin go bhfuil “cumhacht íochtaránach” sa Bhreatain nuair a chuir faoi chois an cléir Moslamach.
Nuair a bhí sé ag caint faoi contúirt gléas troda núicléach, deir se go raibh fiontar an-mhór ann. Níor thug polasaí ná polaitíocht an Uachtarain Bush aon siochán do daoine ar fud an domhain. “Bhris an AE comhaontú leis an Iaráin,” a deir an tOllamh Chomsky. Dúirt an rialtas Iaráineacha go stopfaidís ‘saibhrú uranium’ agus thug an AE ‘ráthaíocht sábháilteacht’ ach ón caint trodach na Meiriceánaigh. Níor cloígh an AE leis an comhaontú, agus rinne said athchomhairle.
Toisc an cogadh san Iaráic, tá an Iaráin faoi timpeallaithe ag saighdiúirí Meiriceánacha agus saighdiúirí ó tíortha eile, leis an mBreatain, agus faoi bagairt an t-arm núicléach Iosrael. Mar gheall ar sin, níl aon ionadh ar an tOllamh Chomsky go bhfuil an Iaráin ag forbairt cois núicléach. Dúirt an tOllamh gur féidir leis an Iosrael ‘céad mile arm núicléach’, agus arm eile don náisiún Meiriceánach. ‘Cumhacht mhór’ agus ‘tír naimhdeach’ i Meiriceá, a deir Chomsky. Cuireann sé eagla ar an AE d’ainneoin an comhghaolmhar idir na tíortha Eorpacha agus Meiriceá ar rudaí eacnamaíochta agus infheistíochta.
Nuair a bhí sé ag caint faoi cogadh núicléach, thagair Chomsky d’alt le Robert McNamara dár teideal “Apocalypse Soon”, agus thug sé rabhadh duinn mar tá clár Bush ag ‘méadú an bagairt’.
Tá scanradh ar Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá faoi tSín agus an dúshlán atá inti eacnamaíochta í. Is dúshlán mór do dhaoine Meiriceánacha a thabhairt ar rudaí eagnamíocht. Tá an Meiriceá Laidineach ag éirí maidir le cúrsaí eagnamíochta, agus tá eolas i measc na polaiteoir Méiriceanacha ar an forbairt nua. Gan amhras, is cloch mhíle é. I ndáirire, tá buntáistí mór ag na daoine Síneacha agus an rialtas Síneach. B’fhéidir buntáistí do gach duine atá ina gcónaí san Áis. Ó am go chéile, agus anois is arís bíonn fior tíogar Áiseach ann. Gan dabht. Tá an eacnamíocht Síneach ag fás suas ag an t-am seo, agus tá na tíortha Meiriceá Laidineach ag teacht ar bhuntáistí an neamhspleáchas. An rud seo – an forbairt agus an timpeallacht agus an clioma nua – is mibhuntáiste é don náisiún Meiriceáneach. Tá na polaisaíthe Síneacha cosúil le polaisaíthe an Roinn Airgeadais in Éireann – “Fás eacnamaíocht a chur chun cinn a mbeidh de thoradh air fostaíocht inmharthana, forás sóisialta agus caighdeáin mhaireachtála go huile ar ardleibhéal.” (Suíomh gréasáin An Roinn Airgeadais). Tháinig fás agus forbairt ar an tSín, d’ainneoin an géarchéim airgead san Áis.
Chomh maith le sin, tá na margaí ar fud an domhain faoi bhagairt iomaíoch ar gach taobh agus tá clioma nua thart. D’ainneoin na ndeacrachtaí uile, agus an cóngaracht idir an Eorap agus na Stáit Aontaithe, níl sábháilte ag an gComhmargadh freisin. D’aithin an tOllamh an cairdeas sin; agus tá intleacht agus géarchúis go mhaith i léith an intleachtach Meiriceá seo ar an bagairt tSín san áit-margadh.
Nuair a bhí sé ag caint le raidió stáisúin Coláiste Uí Ghríofa le déanaí, labhair an tOllamh freisin faoi ábhair eile, mar tá smaointe féin mitheatneamhach ar na polaisaíthe thiar, agus mholadh sé John Steinbruner as nuachtán measúil ‘Acadámh de Ealaínna agus Eolaíochta’ agus an alt a scríobh sé: An Armageddon of our Own Making!
Níl sé sin indéanta!

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