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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 Wed Oct 01, 2025 00:40 | 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 Climatism in Europe is Dying Tue Sep 30, 2025 19:00 | Eugyppius
Climatism in Europe is dying as its grassroots support evaporates and Left-wing activists move onto other concerns. Eurocrats are well-insulated from public opinion but they can't ignore it forever, says Eugyppius.
The post Climatism in Europe is Dying appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Blow to Miliband as Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling and Union Boss Calls for Him to Be... Tue Sep 30, 2025 17:36 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves has signalled support for drilling in the North Sea in a blow to Ed Miliband ? as the boss of the Unite union calls on Keir Starmer to sack the "disastrous" Net Zero Secretary.
The post Blow to Miliband as Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling and Union Boss Calls for Him to Be Sacked appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Wes Streeting Says Nigel Farage is ?Racist? Tue Sep 30, 2025 15:30 | Will Jones
Health Secretary Wes Streeting?has said Nigel Farage is "racist", joining Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson in using the insult of the Reform party and its leader.
The post Wes Streeting Says Nigel Farage is “Racist” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the ?Friend-Enemy Distinction? Right-Wing Critical Race Theory? Tue Sep 30, 2025 13:00 | Noah Carl
Perfectly neutral institutions will never be attainable, argues Noah Carl, but that doesn?t mean that reasonably neutral institutions aren?t worth striving for.
The post Is the ‘Friend-Enemy Distinction’ Right-Wing Critical Race Theory? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Loyalists Slash Guard, Storm City Hall Over Belfast Flag Vote

category national | miscellaneous | other press author Tuesday December 04, 2012 15:11author by Brian Clarke Report this post to the editors

A loyalist mob which had gathered outside Belfast City Hall this evening
erupted into violence following a vote to limit the days on which the
British Union Jack flag flies above the building.

A loyalist mob which had gathered outside Belfast City Hall this evening
erupted into violence following a vote to limit the days on which the
British Union Jack flag flies above the building.

The mob charged through the building and even breached the council chamber
as the PSNI police stayed clear.

Loyalists who had gathered in east Belfast also attacked St Matthew's
Catholic church after the result of the vote was announced.

The vote to reduce the flying of the Union Jack to 17 days a year,
mainly British celebratory and commemorate events, had been widely
expected.

But the compromise between nationalist councillors and the moderate
unionist Alliance Party provoked unionist extremists who had rallied
supporters from Scotland and England for a "protest".

A low-profile policing presence appeared designed to encourage violence,
and the mob set about burning Irish tricolour flags in the city centre
area well before the vote was taken.

The debate centred on a motion to fly the British flag on designated
days during the year, rather than year-round.

Despite their fading majority in local elections in the city, many
unionists and loyalists saw the decision to "take down" the Union Jack
as symbolic.

The flying of the British flag over Belfast City Hall has long been seen
as a metaphor of unionist domination in the city. Despite losing a
clear majority on the council several years ago, the motion which went
before the council was a compromise negotiated between nationalists and
the moderate unionist/cross-community Alliance Party. It allows the
British flag to continue to fly on 15 days out of the year (see below).

The move by Alliance, which holds the balance of power on the council,
was strongly condemned by the DUP and unionist extremists. Before the
vote, leaflets had been distributed in many areas of the city, blaming
Alliance for the historic shift.

In the end, the motion was passed by 29 votes to 21. News of the
outcome acted as a trigger for the mob, who, in the absence of any PSNI
intervention, knifed a security guard in the neck before marauding
through the building's courtyard, as well as setting fire to vehicles
outside.

The Press Association (PA) also said that one of its photographers has
sustained a head injury after getting caught up in the violence at the
city hall.

The nationalist SDLP councillor, Tim Attwood, who took part in the
vote, said: "This was an appalling spectacle, resulting in significant
damage to property and, most alarmingly, injury to a number of those
seeking to keep City Hall secure, and our thoughts are with those who
were hurt.

"Any attempt at a resort to mob rule cannot be countenanced," Mr
Attwood said.

Marie Hendron from Alliance said the violence had been orchestrated.
She said the scenes of violence in the tourist-oriented city centre
area had been a "disaster for this city". Some tourists were reported
to have been confronted and intimidated by the mob.

Sinn Fein's policing spokesperson Gerry Kelly said the police response
had been inadequate.

He said: "I have to say, and I don't use these words unless I really
mean them, it was a disgraceful police operation - or lack of a police
operation."

"If that had been 1,000 or more republicans, it would have been very
different. There they would not have left it that they were able to
come into the back of City Hall.

"They indiscriminately attacked cars. We are very, very lucky that they
didn't get into the building or we could have been dealing with a lot
more injuries."

Mr Kelly said he would be raising what he described as "major failings"
at a meeting of the Policing Board on Thursday.

He said: "I am angry because it's not as if they were taken by surprise.
This was a well-planned protest. There were discussions with police
about previous experience. Everyone knew this was a vote which was going
to affect people in different ways.

"At a very early stage today, it was clear it was a huge protest and
that it could turn ugly."

According to this evening's motion, the British Union Jack will be flown
above Belfast City Hall on the following days:

* 20th January (Birthday of The Countess of Wessex)
* 6th February (Her Majesty's Accession)
* 19th February (Birthday of The Duke of York)
* A notified day in March (Commonwealth Day)
* 10th March (Birthday of The Earl of Wessex)
* 17th March (St Patrick's Day)
* 21st April (Birthday of Her Majesty The Queen)
* 9th May (Europe Day)
* A notified day in June (Official Celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday)
* 2nd June (Coronation Day)
* 10th June (Birthday of The Duke of Edinburgh)
* 4th August (Birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother)
* 15th August (Birthday of The Princess Royal)
* 21st August (Birthday of The Princess Magaret)
* A notified Sunday in November (Remembrance Day)
* 14th November (Birthday of The Prince of Wales)
* 20th November (Her Majesty's Wedding Day)

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