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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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Public Inquiry
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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Human Rights in Ireland
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 Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 20:31 | imc

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

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Are Girls Really ?Masking? Their Autism? Fri Oct 24, 2025 15:45 | Mary Gilleece
Teenage girls are now being labelled as autistic even when they have no symptoms, with the claim they are 'masking' their condition. Isn't it more likely that the 'autism spectrum' is now just a racket, says Mary Gilleece.
The post Are Girls Really ‘Masking’ Their Autism? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour ?Nowhere Near? Hitting 1.5 Million New Homes Amid ?Devastating? Collapse in Construction, Say... Fri Oct 24, 2025 13:27 | Sallust
Labour is "nowhere near" hitting its pledge to build 1.5 million homes amid a "devastating" collapse in construction of new-builds across London, with excessive regulation to blame, according to experts.
The post Labour “Nowhere Near” Hitting 1.5 Million New Homes Amid “Devastating” Collapse in Construction, Say Experts appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour Humiliation as Party Loses By-Election in Key Heartland With Just 11% of Vote Fri Oct 24, 2025 11:30 | Will Jones
Labour has been humiliated in the Caerphilly by-election, losing its 100-year hold on a key heartland as its vote collapsed to just 11% while the Welsh nationalists romped home with 47.4% and Reform came second on 36%.
The post Labour Humiliation as Party Loses By-Election in Key Heartland With Just 11% of Vote appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Tony Blair?s Call for Net Zero Levies to Be Abandoned is Hugely Damaging for Ed Miliband Fri Oct 24, 2025 09:00 | Ben Pile
Tony Blair's call for key Net Zero targets and levies to be abandoned over cost is hugely damaging for Ed Miliband, says Ben Pile. But in truth the ex-PM is trying to salvage the fast-sinking green agenda.
The post Tony Blair’s Call for Net Zero Levies to Be Abandoned is Hugely Damaging for Ed Miliband appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 56: How Labour is Still Failing Grooming Victims and the Lunacy of the Greens?... Fri Oct 24, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 56 of the Sceptic: Adam Wren on how Labour is still failing grooming victims, and Matthew Bowles on the lunacy of the Greens? wealth tax.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 56: How Labour is Still Failing Grooming Victims and the Lunacy of the Greens? Wealth Tax appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Thursday January 01 1970

Indymedia Moderation Meeting

category national | arts and media | event notice author Friday September 23, 2011 09:43author by One of the indymedia.ie Report this post to the editors

A meeting to discuss moderation on indymedia.ie will take place as follows
Venue: Teachers club,
Date: Sunday October 2nd
Time: 2-4pm


In the run up to this meeting we would like to elicit some ideas and discussion on the subject amongst the users of the site. This thread is intended as a vehicle and a catalyst for this.

A large part of our work as volunteers at Indymedia consists of making judgement calls as to whether comments on submitted articles are contributing to healthy discussion or not or indeed whether a particular article should be allowed to remain visible on the site at all.

These judgement calls are based on our editorial guidelines.
https://www.indymedia.ie/editorial

Previous editorial decisions are stored here
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Do you think any of our guidelines should be amended?
Do you have any suggestions how our moderation can be improved?

Editorial note: The guidelines have been loosened in this thread to allow a full discussion

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   ban zionist /islamophobe posters now     tomeile    Thu Sep 29, 2011 14:24 
   actually, tomeile     opus diablos    Thu Sep 29, 2011 15:15 
   Try actually answering     hello    Thu Sep 29, 2011 17:48 
   a little more of a commitment to fairness     hello again    Thu Sep 29, 2011 18:03 
   @ hello - yes that is a problem all right. but its not malice. Usually just lack of resources.     wageslave    Thu Sep 29, 2011 19:32 
   Address     Sean Crudden    Thu Sep 29, 2011 20:04 
   the role of moderation in Indymedias decline     Medea    Thu Sep 29, 2011 20:39 
   I'm in agreement with Medea     f    Thu Sep 29, 2011 22:44 
   Oh, and...     f    Thu Sep 29, 2011 22:51 
 10   Are you proposing we have a blasphemy guideline tom?     wageslave    Thu Sep 29, 2011 23:53 
 11   @f and medea     wageslave    Fri Sep 30, 2011 04:03 
 12   Map of How to get to teachers club.....     wageslave    Fri Sep 30, 2011 04:21 
 13   "hiding", not deleting     f    Fri Sep 30, 2011 09:11 
 14   @f     wageslave    Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:50 
 15   Feedback and request for the good and bad     Terence (personal capacity)    Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:07 
 16   .     Medea    Fri Sep 30, 2011 13:23 
 17   @terence     tomeile    Fri Sep 30, 2011 14:20 
 18   We don't write the stories! The public do.     wageslave    Fri Sep 30, 2011 23:03 
 19   Keep It Simple     Sean Crudden    Fri Sep 30, 2011 23:47 
 20   exclusivity and the importance of content     wageslave    Sat Oct 01, 2011 00:07 
 21   keep going     Des Bartle    Sat Oct 01, 2011 02:42 
 22   thanks for kind remarks and donations     wageslave    Sat Oct 01, 2011 06:44 
 23   Like most other things - useful if used correctly !     Sharon.    Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:53 
 24   Many thanks Sharon     wageslave    Sat Oct 01, 2011 19:13 
 25   @wageslave     tomeile    Sat Oct 01, 2011 19:23 
 26   Indy admins ate my hamster...and stole my IP     wageslave    Sun Oct 02, 2011 14:42 
 27   Historical     Seán Ryan    Sun Oct 02, 2011 16:04 
 28   A discussion/notice Board.     Sharon.    Sun Oct 02, 2011 22:03 
 29   Interesting post Sean thanks...     wageslave    Mon Oct 03, 2011 00:50 
 30   Some spit and polish!     Seán Ryan    Mon Oct 03, 2011 04:11 
 31   nothing negative has been said to me about your post Sean.     wageslave    Mon Oct 03, 2011 05:59 
 32   Some observations points made at meeting     Laurence    Mon Oct 03, 2011 17:34 
 33   freedom of expression     peter    Tue Oct 04, 2011 00:48 
 34   Not happy.     wageslave    Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:22 
 35   WS     pat c    Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:34 
 36   stop it. both of you.     wageslave    Tue Oct 04, 2011 13:27 
 37   Wage Slave     pat c    Tue Oct 04, 2011 13:33 
 38   I am NOT 'tomelie'     I am NOT 'tomelie'    Tue Oct 04, 2011 13:45 
 39   To I am not tomeile     pat c    Tue Oct 04, 2011 13:48 
 40   I am not tomeile     pat c    Tue Oct 04, 2011 13:50 
 41   @Pat C     @pat c    Tue Oct 04, 2011 13:53 
 42   You're just proving my point     @Pat C    Tue Oct 04, 2011 13:55 
 43   Examples     pat c    Tue Oct 04, 2011 14:04 
 44   @ Pat C     tsk tsk    Tue Oct 04, 2011 14:10 
 45   Climate     pat c    Tue Oct 04, 2011 14:10 
 46   tsk tsk     pat c    Tue Oct 04, 2011 14:14 
 47   Thanks to those who made efforts to be constructive     wageslave    Tue Oct 04, 2011 14:29 
 48   thread now reopened for further commentary     wageslave    Wed Oct 05, 2011 06:37 
 49   freedom of expression 2     peter    Wed Oct 05, 2011 21:21 
 50   some good points Peter     wageslave    Wed Oct 05, 2011 22:13 
 51   My tuppence worth     Contrarian    Thu Oct 06, 2011 00:13 
 52   how to deal with propaganda posts?     wageslave    Thu Oct 06, 2011 01:41 
 53   Suggestion for "wageslave" at Thu Oct 06, 2011 01:41     W. Finnerty    Thu Oct 06, 2011 07:20 
 54   yes thats one way to tackle the problem.     wageslave    Thu Oct 06, 2011 09:34 
 55   Comments which are personally abusive     W. Finnerty    Thu Oct 06, 2011 13:49 
 56   freedom of expression 3     peter    Thu Oct 06, 2011 14:33 
 57   second most of that, Peter     opus diablos    Thu Oct 06, 2011 15:17 
 58   freedom of expression 3     peter    Thu Oct 06, 2011 15:43 
 59   methinks, peter     opus diablos    Thu Oct 06, 2011 16:25 
 60   @Opus     Contrarian    Thu Oct 06, 2011 17:42 
 61   Any chance?     Richard Barrett    Thu Oct 06, 2011 20:23 
 62   Ahem     @ Richard    Thu Oct 06, 2011 22:20 
 63   freedom of expression 4     peter    Thu Oct 06, 2011 23:28 
 64   please try to stay on topic. thanks.     wageslave    Fri Oct 07, 2011 06:27 
 65   Please     Richard Barrett    Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:15 
 66   "President and the Press" John F. Kennedy Speech (April 27, 1961)     W. Finnerty.    Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:56 
 67   response     opus diablos    Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:25 
 68   Question to wageslave     Laurence    Fri Oct 07, 2011 17:37 
 69   FoE 5     peter    Fri Oct 07, 2011 19:49 
 70   firstly, peter     opus diablos    Fri Oct 07, 2011 20:03 
 71   this is really not about raking through individual decisions to hide posts but I'll address it     wageslave    Sat Oct 08, 2011 02:09 
 72   thanks william     wageslave    Sat Oct 08, 2011 07:46 
 73   FoI6     peter    Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:47 
 74   honesty and integrity, peter???     opus diablos    Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:20 
 75   "moderators must walk a thin line" .     Tom    Sat Oct 08, 2011 13:39 
 76   FoI 6     peter    Sat Oct 08, 2011 18:04 
 77   Did you sleep with an editor uugh!     watching this space    Sat Oct 08, 2011 20:43 
 78   comments v. news     occasional comment poster    Sun Oct 09, 2011 02:20 
 79   Appreciate the balancing comment O.P.     wageslave    Sun Oct 09, 2011 08:11 
 80   FoI 7     peter    Sun Oct 09, 2011 21:27 
 81   not sure if that would be much of an improvement     wageslave    Mon Oct 10, 2011 13:47 
 82   FoI 8     peter    Mon Oct 10, 2011 19:47 
 83   just in case     opus diablos    Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:59 
 84   technical solutions     nb    Tue Oct 11, 2011 13:55 
 85   FoI 9     peter    Tue Oct 11, 2011 15:43 
 86   Personification     me    Tue Oct 11, 2011 20:01 
 87   FoI 9     peter    Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:46 
 88   Site rankings on Alexa     me    Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:59 
 89   indeed     opus diablos    Sat Oct 15, 2011 13:53 
 90   Obvious question: then why do you bother to post here??     wageslave    Sat Oct 15, 2011 13:58 
 91   you are presuming, assuming and in the process getting it wrong     me    Sat Oct 15, 2011 14:45 
 92   er..me...     opus diablos    Sat Oct 15, 2011 15:01 
 93   PS     me    Sat Oct 15, 2011 15:09 
 94   PPPS:     me    Sat Oct 15, 2011 15:13 
 95   mistaken identity     opus diablos    Sat Oct 15, 2011 15:16 
 96   Difficult but Hope     Brian Flannery    Sun Oct 16, 2011 14:11 
 97   sorry "me", my bad     wageslave    Sun Oct 16, 2011 20:46 
 98   Sounds fair to me     me    Sun Oct 16, 2011 22:29 
 99   Well there's the problem right there     @Opus    Mon Oct 17, 2011 02:00 
 100   @@     opus diablos    Mon Oct 17, 2011 09:12 
 101   FoI 10     peter    Mon Oct 17, 2011 17:34 
 102   Suggestions on moderation changes     Terence (personal capacity)    Mon Oct 17, 2011 22:53 
 103   more thoughts on the confidence voting idea     wageslave    Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:58 
 104   Votes     Pondering    Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:09 
 105   its only a positive vote     Thwarted troll    Tue Oct 18, 2011 13:27 
 106   fairness     critic    Tue Oct 18, 2011 15:58 
 107   sorry critic     opus diablos    Tue Oct 18, 2011 16:38 
 108   moderation     critic    Tue Oct 18, 2011 17:24 
 109   well, for what its worth..     opus diablos    Tue Oct 18, 2011 17:27 
 110   nonsense     wageslave    Tue Oct 18, 2011 17:29 
 111   unfair moderating     critic    Tue Oct 18, 2011 17:38 
 112   SUGGESTION, CRITIC     opus diablos    Tue Oct 18, 2011 18:13 
 113   we are not an amalgam, we are all individuals     wageslave    Tue Oct 18, 2011 18:17 
 114   please explain this comment     wageslave    Tue Oct 18, 2011 18:31 
 115   oh...now I see     wageslave    Tue Oct 18, 2011 18:46 
 116   FoI     Peter    Wed Oct 19, 2011 18:07 
 117   "Indymedia is probably beyond redemption."     W. Finnerty.    Wed Oct 19, 2011 20:01 
 118   thanks for your input     wageslave    Wed Oct 19, 2011 20:57 
 119   On the "removel of comments" thing     Des    Wed Oct 19, 2011 22:04 
 120   access to hidden comments...     wageslave    Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:09 
 121   what about     aunt vanya    Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:36 
 122   '..the law and justice..'     opus diablos    Sat Oct 22, 2011 12:44 
 123   Indymedia Ireland descend?     tomeile    Sat Oct 22, 2011 13:37 
 124   People in glass houses....     wageslave    Sat Oct 22, 2011 15:15 
 125   re what abour     Aunt vanya    Sat Oct 22, 2011 15:41 
 126   or,..auntie v     opus diablos    Sat Oct 22, 2011 15:53 
 127   bored now.....     wageslave    Sat Oct 22, 2011 16:44 
 128   not as good a suggestion as you seem to think.     wageslave    Sat Oct 22, 2011 16:59 
 129   another suggestion     Aunt vanya    Sat Oct 22, 2011 21:17 
 130   admit it Wageslave     opus diablos    Sat Oct 22, 2011 21:29 
 131   No Opus     tomeile    Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:34 
 132   reply to Tom     opus diablos    Sun Oct 23, 2011 13:21 
 133   Pot kettle I think regarding personal integrity Tom...     wageslave    Sun Oct 23, 2011 13:45 
 134   censorship     tomeile    Sun Oct 23, 2011 15:56 
 135   tom     opus diablos    Sun Oct 23, 2011 16:38 
 136   stop riding roughshod over our guidelines tom.     wageslave    Sun Oct 23, 2011 19:36 


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