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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 News Round-Up Sun Nov 23, 2025 01:46 | Will Jones
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 British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
The post British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
The post Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.
The post Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
It's bad enough that all UK TV users are forced to fund the BBC via a TV licence. But it's worse than that, says Charlotte Gill: millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are handed to the corporation via backdoor channels.
The post Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not 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

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

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national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday February 05, 2003 00:58 by honest opinion!   text 9 comments (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 17:19)
DO you agree with the deployment of the Irish Army at Shannon Airport? 57% yes 43% No read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday February 05, 2003 00:43 by Eoin Dubsky   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 19:40)
While of course the Irish law enforcement authorities have a duty to intern the US armed forces and their aircraft at Shannon, and no amount of "security breaches" around the perimeter fence could come close to the risks posed by the bomb laden US military cargo aircraft at Shannon... this one *is* a gem... My dad just emailed me this from Ireland, I didn't see it myself but I guess you can check it up yourself on the RTE website too: read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday February 05, 2003 00:25 by John Cunningham   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 16:32)
The contents of this week’s bulletin are as follows: 1. About the GAAW Bulletin. / 2. Galway Public meeting, 10 February. / 3. Information distribution in Headford Road area. / 4. Galway City street activity, 8 February. / 5. Inter-denominational Peace Vigil at Shannon, 8 February. / 6. Loughrea street activity, 8 February. / 7. Galway Trade Unionists Against War. / 8. DUBLIN DEMONSTRATION, 15 February. / 9. Anti-war group in Tuam. / 10. The ‘direct action’ at Shannon read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday February 05, 2003 00:08 by Raymond McInerney   text 61 comments (last - tuesday march 28, 2006 19:18)
His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi proclaimed the readiness of his Global Country of World Peace to achieve the "seemingly impossible - to transform today's problem-ridden world by creating prevention-oriented, problem-free administration in every country. To do so, Maharishi revealed his Vedic technologies of consciousness to eliminate "karma" - to prevent the negative influences of past wrong actions by a nation's people from creating new problems and suffering for the whole country. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday February 05, 2003 00:02 by Ocean   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 13:17)
There seems to be something a bit odd happening on RTE in the last few days. I'm sure that most people can agree that our state/commercial news sources are far from unbiased but I think that there has been a new tendency towards a more overt slant recently. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 23:49 by Moirin O Donovan   text 17 comments (last - monday february 10, 2003 19:18)
I'm so sorry to see that the camp is being disbanded. It was manned and womanned by groups and individuals who feel that (while having diverse viewpoints and agendas) we cannot stand back this time and do nothing. I hope that the anti war movement grows from strength to strength. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 23:20 by Mary Pat Gallagher   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 14:57)
I want to commuicate to the people of Ireland and members of the world community some not atypical views concerning Bush's plan for preemptive war on Iraq. To a certain extent, it's a counterpoint to the comment from a New Yorker posted earlier. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 23:10 by Martin Walker   text 4 comments (last - monday april 26, 2004 18:14)
According to the article, The Regime is sputtering with rage over Chirac's refusal to accept his marching orders against Iraq. The Regime has also expressed its contempt for the German government. An observation here: The position that Chirac has taken is commendable as far as it goes, but unless Iraq is placed under the protection of a French nuclear umbrella a la USA and Japan, the end result looks like it's going to be the same. As Arundhati Roy has pointed out, it is not sufficient to confront Empire, it is necessary to place it under siege. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 22:54 by student   text 6 comments (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 17:35)
There was an interesting item on the 10 o clock news on channel 4 last night about attitudes among male and female students in a school in England. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 22:34 by iosaf = o as if   text 6 comments (last - saturday april 24, 2004 21:03)
Saddam and Tony Benn speak. Can Mr Benn be believed that he has in fact spoken to the real Saddam? What of it? Osama Bin Laden has singed a petition in Galway to save the trees. What of that? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 21:20 by AP   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 11:28)
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 20:17 by James McKenna   text 9 comments (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 02:30)
Irish Army now part of US war effort read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 20:15 by Sean Burns   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 17:58)
The Irish Army is now no more than a division of the the US military whose values and objectives are not congruent with Irish Culture, constition and laws read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 20:14 by Fintan Lane   text 11 comments (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 15:37)
It has just been announced on RTE that World Airlines (the main transporter of US troops through Shannon) is to dramatically reduce their visits to Shannon Airport - as a direct result of recent anti-war protests! It seems that a diversity of tactics is beginning to have a real impact. Next stop: Dublin, 15 February. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 19:36 by John Costigan   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 04, 2003 22:43)
The working class get away with murder read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 19:24 by Islam Online   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 08:18)
"It is worth taking such a risk if we are to succeed in heading off war on Iraq. I stand ready to stay here to that end," said one Green Peace activist. The Irish government, meanwhile, approved Tuesday the deployment of soldiers at Shannon airport to protect planes carrying The Regime's troops and equipment to the Gulf for a possible war on Iraq on a round-the-clock basis. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 18:01 by Niall O Brolchain   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 10, 2003 19:49)
On Saturday 1st February, I spent 24 hours in Eyre Square as part of a vigil to ‘Save the Trees’. This is what happened. (Times are approximate.) read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 18:00 by Angela Doland   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 04, 2003 19:19)
Despite intense pressure by The Poodle, French President Jacques Chirac said he remained steadfastly opposed to war against Baghdad without giving U.N. weapons inspectors searching for banned weapons as much time they need to do their work. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 17:52 by Janus   text 12 comments (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 12:46)
This seems a little odd. A FGer just mailed me gloating about it. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 04, 2003 17:50 by S. Aerobics   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 05, 2003 14:11)
"The army will patrol Shannon tomorrow after Gardai could not guarantee the security of the facility", - Jerry Ryan, 2FM. This morning's interview with a Garda press officer and a retired soldier who "keeps an eye on the army since he left in the early 80's". read full story / add a comment
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