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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 Meet the Conservative Black Scholar Standing Up to BLM Dogma Sat Oct 25, 2025 15:00 | Dr Norman Fenton
Norman Fenton interviews Prof Carol Swain, a US conservative black scholar who has spent decades standing up to 'anti-racist' dogma in academia and this month successfully opposed a pro-BLM motion at the Cambridge Union.
The post Meet the Conservative Black Scholar Standing Up to BLM Dogma appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link More Miscakes Made by Labour Sat Oct 25, 2025 13:00 | Jack Watson
With reports that the Government is set to ban birthday cake in primary schools and nurseries, Jack Watson wonders which of life's simple pleasures Labour will target next. Enjoy them while they last.
The post More Miscakes Made by Labour appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Scientists Demand Ban on Bacon, Claiming Link to 54,000 Cases of Cancer Sat Oct 25, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Scientists are calling for a ban on supermarket bacon and ham after the chemicals used in their production were linked to more than 50,000 bowel?cancer?cases.
The post Scientists Demand Ban on Bacon, Claiming Link to 54,000 Cases of Cancer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Diversity? Never Includes Those Not Keen on ?Diversity? Sat Oct 25, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
Prof James Alexander has had his fill of 'inclusive' politicians who love 'diversity' so much that they must silence all the 'fascists' i.e., people to the Right of Karl Marx who don't love 'diversity' as much as they do.
The post ‘Diversity’ Never Includes Those Not Keen on ‘Diversity’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link While Sadiq Khan Frolics on Billionaire Pal?s Gas-Guzzling Superyacht, Ulez is Exposed as a Money-Ma... Sat Oct 25, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
While Sadiq Khan frolics on a billionaire pal's gas-guzzling superyacht, his 'clean air' Ulez scheme is exposed as a money-making ruse at the expense of hardworking Londoners, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
The post While Sadiq Khan Frolics on Billionaire Pal’s Gas-Guzzling Superyacht, Ulez is Exposed as a Money-Making Scheme at the Expense of Hardworking Londoners 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

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Us Pressures Arab Countries Not To Push For Israel To Join NPT. Why??

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Wednesday September 15, 2010 00:10author by V for vendetta Report this post to the editors

The US has been recently pressuring arab countries not to press for Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Why is this such a big deal for them?

The US has been pressuring arab and other nations not to press for Israel to Join the NPT. Why is this such a problem for them? Everyone knows Israel has at least 200 nuclear weapons since they were outed by Mordechai Vanunu. Yet they still insist on Israel's right to "pretend" that they have none. Is this because there might possibly be some legal fallout from such an official admission? After all knowingly giving billions of aid from US taxpayers to a country developing a nuclear weapons program outside the NPT is certainly a breach of the NPT.

See the beginning of the included video by Max Kaiser for the calculation. Here Max reckons, somewhat tongue in cheek, that the state of Israel owe every man, woman and child at least 5000 dollars reimbursement for the illegal aid payments to Israel.

Here is a link to the breaking story on Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/20....html

Being a very litigious country, I hope somebody decides to take a case and sue the american government for taking their tax money under false pretences and in clear knowing violation of international law on giving military aid to rogue countries in breach of the NPT

All this is tinged with Irony considering the rigorous IAEA standards currently being imposed on Iran (and largely being adhered to)

Accompanying this is an announcement that 60 billion dollars worth of weapons are being sold to Saudi Arabia
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/....html

One wonders if the US has other motivations for not taking effective actions to help bring peace and a nuclear free middle east whilst drumming up the fear of a nuclear armed Iran in the media and political dialogue.

It's hard to keep up with the machinations isn't it?

Caption: Video Id: 0U2oMEWPaRA Type: Youtube Video
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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Issue of Israel up for discussion today. Fingers crossed everyone     V for vendetta    Thu Sep 16, 2010 09:24 
   catch 22     but.......    Fri Sep 17, 2010 22:52 
   "Speak Softly.. but carry a Big Stick."     Cannannite.    Sat Sep 18, 2010 15:06 
   Containment.     Physicist.    Sat Sep 18, 2010 15:30 
   hang on a minit...     opus diablos    Sat Sep 18, 2010 16:25 


 
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