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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.

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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

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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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Horse RACING kills FIVE more horses in Dublin.

category national | animal rights | press release author Sunday January 08, 2012 13:55author by Bernie Wright - Alliance for Animal Rights AFARauthor email bigbrownrat at gmail dot comauthor address AFAr po box 4734. d1 Report this post to the editors

Stop abusing race horses

PRESS RELEASE.8.1.12. HORSE RACING DEATH TOLL PROMPTS CALL FOR A BAN . Five young horses died last week at Leopardstown Race Track whilst Racing. This follows a similar incident where six horses died at Tramore track in Killarney a few years ago. In Sligo two years ago a horse collision at Cullenamore Races resulted in a horse having to be put down and two jockeys rushed to hospital. The collision occurred in front of hundreds of spectators. Laytown is remembered for the pile up of horses in the nineties when three horses were killed. While these fatalities are described as ‘freakish’ ‘sad’ and ‘regrettable’ the number of injuries and deaths is rising because horses are raced and made jump.
UNNECESSARY HORSE SUFFERING
UNNECESSARY HORSE SUFFERING

While these fatalities are described as ‘freakish’ ‘sad’ and ‘regrettable’ the number of injuries and deaths is rising because horses are raced and made jump. There is immense suffering involved in this so called sport that is veiled by its glamorous façade. Sport for who we ask? Definitely not the horses that are whipped around the courses, many resulting in injuries and deaths, an unknown tally killed in slaughterhouses when they are no longer winning. Commercial horse racing is a ruthless industry motivated by financial gain and prestige. Sadly the best dressed unthinking woman at the races is promoted more than discussion about the inherent cruelty. Please subscribe to a less cruel activity to pass your free time, sign our petition to end horse racing on http://www.petitiononline.ie/petition/end-horse-racing-.../1307 Cruelty? You can bet on it! We call on Minister for Sport Leo Vradakhar to instigate an investigation into Horse racing accidents immediately and to end this animal violation based on the vast cruelty that is inherent in Horse Racing. • HSI is the governing body for equestrian sport and receives funding through the Irish Sports Council. It has come under scrutiny recently after the Irish show jumping team failed to qualify for the London Olympics and there is a likelihood its funding will be cut further. In addition, Ireland’s ability to breed top-class horses for the changing demands of show jumping has collapsed, with the Irish studbook ninth in the world rankings. Press Officer AFAR, 0872651720

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author by Tracy Everitt - Coalition to Ban Horse Drawn Carriages, NYCpublication date Sun Jan 08, 2012 15:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Fast running Rickshaws pulled by suffering,poor, innocent young boys was outlawed in disgustingly evil old Peking many years ago. Fast forward to see today's scenes of horse games/ there you will see the even worse injustice perpetrated,  with equal unnecessary suffering still being caused, but now done by millionaires impose the suffering upon the noblest of all animals-Horses: those INNOCENTS, risking their lives in good faith, are pushed to their deaths by their "SPORTING" masters. All that suffering and dying by horses is done just to win a silly, stupid little ribbon for owners. It must outlawed immediately  just as the BOYS pulling  rickshaws was in evil old China.  Winning "place" ribbons must be seen for what it is: The Owners'' Egos are Stroked in exchange for  the suffering and dying of Horses.The owners say they love their horses. Hypocrites.

author by Zelda Penzel - People for the End of Animal Cruelty and Exploitation~PEACEpublication date Sun Jan 08, 2012 16:21author email zpenzel at twcmetrobiz dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

In the US, our government under the auspices of the Bureau of Land Management, has for years been rounding up and sending to slaughter thousands upon thousands of wild horses who compete with cattle for cheap grazing land. Ranchers have a friend in the Secretary of the Interior, in Washington DC. That travesty and injustice is out in the open and many people are aware of it, but another matter, the dark side of horse racing is almost never discussed nor is the horrible secret of the more than 100,000 horses that are led to slaughter for want of a home. The issue of horse slaughter comes down to one that is not unlike the issue we have with our household pets... OVERBREEDING, which leads to the death and destruction of millions of homeless/unwanted animals. That said, many fewer people are prepared to "adopt" a horse or take on the expense of caring for these abandoned animals for life....so they go to hideous slaughterhouses where they are worth more if sold to the meat market for their flesh. An all-out effort to educate the public must be made! They need to know what happens to *race horses, the horses in rodeos, at riding stables, etc when they are no longer considered worth keeping. We must do everything possibe to end the exploitation of these magnificent animals. Greyhound racing is being shut down in state after state because the public has finally begun to get that message about all the senseless cruelty and the killing of unwanted, "used up" animals. We need to do the same for our horses. Please check out the following links: *http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/28829795 Seven in less than one month at Santa Anita Racetrack. All the hand-wringing and emotion following the death of the filly Eight Belles in the Kentucky Derby last May – just so much fluff, as these things always are in “sports.” *SLAUGHTER IN THE RACEHORSE INDUSTRY http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=RSboR03WnjI This is not a pretty picture! And it is long past time to start this conversation!

Related Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=RSboR03WnjI
author by Ralvinpublication date Sun Jan 08, 2012 16:50author email ralvin3 at yahoo dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

DETESTABLE, INHUMANE AND CRUEL TREATMENT OF HORSES. THEY FAR DESERVE BETTER.

author by Suzie Douglaspublication date Sun Jan 08, 2012 21:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Many will protest that we need more regulation. The fact is, you cannot regulate cruel spectacles like horse racing, what are you going to do have a policeman in every horse stall to make sure they aren't drugged, have a policeman on the horse behind the jockey to make sure they aren't whipped? Ludicrous! Humans have shown time and again, particularly where money is concerned that they cannot as a collective whole be trusted with proper care of animals. These horses are injured, then drugged to keep them running with injuries. They are dying much too frequently at much too young ages.
This cannot be regulated, ban all horse racing everywhere!

author by meher toorkeypublication date Mon Jan 09, 2012 16:49author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Horse racing is neither glamorous or fun, as we see more & more young horses meeting their death on tracks. It is no use pretending that this is more the exception than the rule. Horse racing cannot be regulated to oversee that it is humanely managed, as greed will always supersede humanity & whipping, over training & dangerous jumping continue & horses meet their death or are sent of to slaughter houses when they can no longer make money for their greedy ownrers

author by Colinpublication date Mon Jan 09, 2012 20:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

A Barbaric sport that should be banned NOW

author by horse loverpublication date Mon Jan 09, 2012 22:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

5 horses are dead for "sport". This makes you realize that the Middle Ages are not so far away.

author by Louisepublication date Wed Jan 11, 2012 23:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I didn't realise that horse-racing could be so destructive for the animals involved. It's as bad as greyhound-racing. This is terrible, and shameful for us. Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Looks like we're not much of a nation then.

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