North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?
US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty
Anti-Empire >>
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The Saker >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
Public Inquiry >>
Voltaire, international edition
Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en
Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en
The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en
Voltaire Network >>
dublin |
politics / elections |
event notice
Sunday December 03, 2006 21:54
by John Meehan - Campaign for an Independent Left
printable version
Digg this
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Technorati
Facebook
Gab
Twitter
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2The article below, written by Tommy Mckearney, appears in the current issue of Independent Left.
You can discuss it with Tommy and others at the CIL Meeting advertised above.
Flying high on Friday and back to earth on Tuesday was the message being carried by the media newsrooms in Belfast on 17 October. After the exaggerated expectations of a major breakthrough in the northern Irish political situation created by both British and Irish government sources at St Andrews on a Friday, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) restored some reality by the following Tuesday morning. As the camera crews waited for a glimpse of the grand old bear of unionism on his way in to a meeting with the leader of what the DUP still refers to as Sinn Féin/IRA, the set piece fell apart.
Just how much daylight separated reality and fond hopes may be gauged from the tone of an article written by the DUP’s Jim Allister MEP that Tuesday morning for the unionist Belfast News Letter. Denouncing this apparent attempt at detente, Allister criticised the St Andrews document for lacking a mechanism for expelling Sinn Féin from an executive and he also condemned the continued existence of the IRA. And this before Rev Paisley’s meeting with Sinn Féin was to begin.
Not that Ian Paisley and was outdone by Allister. The Free Presbyterian moderator refused even to talk with the Shinners until he receives assurances that Martin McGuinness will publicly swear a pledge to support the northern police and judiciary before his nomination as Deputy First Minister. As Mark Devenport of the BBC said; “ It might not be the end of the process but it is a very inauspicious beginning.”
With years of experience overseeing failed northern initiatives, the governments in London and Dublin recognised the alarm signs. Blair and Ahern’s advisors quickly had their comments ready and were telling us that this was merely a blip and that all was well for a restoration of the ‘institutions’. Well, we’ll see about that.
Sinn Féin is desperately anxious for a return to the executive and will agree to practically anything demanded by Paisley. The Ard Comhairle will undoubtedly call for an extraordinary Árd Fheis and the party will almost certainly endorse both PSNI and judiciary. The problem for Gerry Adams and his supporters, though, is that the DUP may still refuse to cooperate. People who vote Paisley will find it very difficult to accept an arrangement that will have those they despised for years as terrorists, sitting in a Stormont administration. This is what Jim Allister was publicly telling his party leader, though in reality he need hardly have bothered. The old man knows better than anyone what goes down in the mission halls and Orange halls of the unionist heartland and it’s unlikely to involve cuddling up to republicans.
The real problem for Sinn Féin might very well emerge in the aftermath of any decision to endorse policing. With the party having made the definitive transition towards becoming a conventional member of the parliamentary establishment, Sinn Fein may come to be viewed as just one more centrist organisation. The edge it has had among the marginalised and the disadvantaged could melt away and so too its hopes of occupying a spot to the left of Labour. Paradoxically, the party might find that making itself acceptable for coalition with the right – either north or south – could make its ambitions still more difficult to achieve.
Tommy McKearney
Tommy, keep away from the losers. You politics may be sound but your association with serial losers is distracting.