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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 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.

offsite link Egyptian Illegal Migrant Who Raped Woman While Living in Hilton Hotel is a Convicted Islamic Terrori... Thu Sep 18, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
An Egyptian asylum seeker who was jailed for raping a woman in?London's?Hyde Park while living in the Hilton hotel at taxpayers' expense?has been revealed to be a convicted Islamic terrorist.
The post Egyptian Illegal Migrant Who Raped Woman While Living in Hilton Hotel is a Convicted Islamic Terrorist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Fact Not Fiction Gangland and mobiles

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Friday May 04, 2007 12:03author by Kevin T. Walsh - Social Justice and Ethics Report this post to the editors

Who praises people like Willie Corduff, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (Environment)

We need TV naturally to embrace news and what is happening around us. We also need radio but Liveline this week was a complete sham. Joe with the ego (Bottler)and Williams (the great man of fiction on Irish Gangland). We all know what happened when a prisoner phoned from a cell in Portlaoise. I personally believe RTE have broken the law on this occasion. How can we have a prisoner in Portlaoise taking the airways and making threats.

Williams stated as always the lies on Liveline that prisoners were walking around E1 landing in Portlaoise prisons with mobile phones swinging everywhere. People listened with bewilderment. I am sure Anthony Campbell's mothers did not feel happy listening to gangland speak directly on the radio. Now I know Duffy has a lot to prove. He took over from Dear Frankie as Ireland's agony act or perhaps now Ego aunt.

The facts came yesterday, hard and blunt. McDowell came on Liveline yesterday and for 15 fifteen minutes, Duffy kept his mouth shut - it must be a record. I am not a McDowell fan but in fairness, he told Joe facts are facts and there are no prisoners walking around Portlaoise carrying mobile phones. McDowell went on to say there maybe some phones smuggled in but that is a matter for the prison authorities to deal with and they will.

McDowell also told Duffy that three members of staff are pending proceedings at DPP level, in relation to smuggling in contraband into prisons but what impressed me most about McDowell yesterday - McDowell showed Duffy up to be the Little Bottler in the Classroom taking instruction from the Head Master.

Williams come from a paper of 40 pages of sex adverts and D'Arcy's page on just how great he is....

Facts are Facts and I am sure Joe did not like being lectured to. Liveline cannot be trial by radio for any Irish citizen. Last year Duffy was caught out when some looney from Cork phoned in and made an ugly remark about Ms. Leech, Mr. Martin Cullen's advisor at the time. Miss Leech is currently going through the courts in relation to this remark about her character.

I ask why has Joe not considered bringing on Willy Cordfuff, a member of the Rossport Five (Shell) who has just won the Nobel Prize (Environment).

I also ask the most pertinent question .......... Why has no-one Minister, the President, the Taoiseach, the Church not congratulated this man on his Global Achievement. In any other country, Willie Corduff would be a hero but in Ireland he is villified by a corrupt Government bought by Shell. Would Bottler Duffy and Sherlock Holmes Williams ever wake up and write about good people for a change and stop giving Gangland Scum Airways.

Again I will say it was great to see McDowell giving Joe a lesson about facts. One more point - Vincent Browne a real journalist took over the show at the Mansion House, now Duffy and Williams, could not tie his laces when it comes to media coverage. Browne may not be popular with some but he is a brilliant journalist.

Quotation
Interconnectness - Petra Kelly (1947-l992)
German Green Politician
'We need policies of Eco-Justice, and we need to realise the spiritual dimensions of our life, of our interconnected planet Earth, of each other!!!

M3 cancelled, another archaelogical find only 3 weeks ago at Lismullen......now those who have supported Tara over the years will hopefully succeed and our history can continue to be evidenced and 'felt with no un-natural 'noise'.........

author by Jack Russell - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Tue May 15, 2007 00:10author address author phone Report this post to the editors

An old friend of mine, a prominent barrister, he has evolved from the Rugby green to the environmental green. Yes, he is canvassing door to door near. the border. He holds both the Rugby and environment with passion and respect.

This man does not have a mobile phone - he does not need one and he gets on with his visits to the Law Library and other venues, without it. He rides a bicycle, he has a small car but rarely uses it - a true Irish citizen representing the Greens.

In the meantime, Bottler butler from Ballyfermot with his wife and four kids receiving unemployment for the last 28 years has 8 mobile phones in the house - Can someone explain to me why the 8 phones and who are they phoning daily? Are they phoning global experts about enhancing the environment - I don't think so.......

Some weeks ago, in Herbert Park, allegedly Paul williams accompnaied by his armed guard - Mr. Williams is under threat from another bottler i.e. Bottler Daly from Portlaoise prison on his mobile who in turn spoke to Bottler Duffy on lifeline - it is alleged an old man walking his Shitzu in the Park roarded - 'You are the Leitrim gobshite that is costing the Irish taxpayers thousands in relation to your security over Bottler Daly and Bottler Duffy. The old man repeated mobile phones will be your downfall, Williams - it is alleged Williams ran hotfoot from the bar, with his body guard in hot pursuit.

Williams in recent years has become a legend in his own mind. I believe the FBI require his services to hunt Bin Laden. In the meantime, Bottler is trying to search out Bin Laden in the caves, to talk on Liveline on why he wants to bomb Dail Eireann - the rumour goes Bin Laden does not like corruption.

Now many years ago people would be very cyncial to see Sinn Fein in Government both sides of the border so is it not feasible to say that in 25 years in time in Ireland given the rise in the Muslim population that a grandson of Bin Laden could be in Fianna Fail - (Evolution.....) and could in fact become Taoiseach. This country is revolving so fast not, it is like a roller coaster - we buy two mercedes cars every two hours every two days but when reality checks in and I mean when the bluff of the economy stops and unfolds the truth - our hospitals will not be able to cope with the number of people with mental health problems, addictions to alcohol and illegal drugs. As the old saying goes, it is hard to swallow the illusion - you were once rich but it was only paper!!! And sometimes paper lies.

Jack Russell

 
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