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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
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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
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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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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 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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Thursday January 01 1970

Protest against "exemptions" for hare coursing and fox hunting in "animal welfare" bill

category national | environment | event notice author Monday March 25, 2013 15:33author by Ban Animal Cruelty posing as "sport" Report this post to the editors

New law makes a mockery of "animal protection" pledge by government

Protest on Thursday re “animal welfare" bill that protects...

Hare coursing and Fox hunting!

Peaceful protest: Location: Dail Eireann, Dublin. Date: Thursday, March 28th. Time. 12.30 to 2 pm.

This "sport" could be permitted under "animal welfare" bill
This "sport" could be permitted under "animal welfare" bill

On Wednesday and Thursday (March 27th and 28th) of this week, the government proposes to enact into law the Animal Health and Welfare Bill, which it has promised will update protection of animals in Ireland.

However, the Bill will specifically exempt some of the most horrific animal cruelty practises ever devised by man: Hare coursing, Fox hunting, and the practise of “digging out” foxes or fox-cubs that go to ground during a hunt.

So, instead of protecting hares and foxes from cruelty, the Bill will protect the interests of the powerful coursing and hunt clubs, allowing them to continue inflicting savage and completely indefensible distress and suffering on these animals for “sport”.

The proposed exemptions would make a travesty of a Bill that purports to modernise our animal welfare laws.

The Bill has been proceeding slowly through the Oireachtas for months but the Final Stage will be debated this week and the bill is expected to be voted into law on Thursday.

Attached links below show that the blood sports activities to be exempted from prohibition are indeed cruel, despite ludicrous claims that the animals are “humanely treated” in coursing and foxhunting.

Deputies Clare Daly and Maureen O’ Sullivan will be challenging the government’s bid to exempt these two blood sports under the Bill.

A reasonable turnout for the protest on Thursday would help to drive home the message that the exemptions are unacceptable to people who believe that animal cruelty should not be protected by a law enacted to protect animals from such cruelty.

The cruel nature of live hare coursing that all animal protection groups, and (according to opinion polls) the majority of the Irish people, object to, has been repeatedly captured on film. The veracity of the following footage has not been questioned. As you will see, the “action” filmed is very similar to the types of incidents observed and reported by NPWS rangers.

The following three pieces of footage were filmed at the 2013 “Irish Cup” live hare coursing event, held at Limerick Racecourse in February:

1)

Cruel coursing scene at Limerick Racecourse
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xy224b_disgusting-crue...imals

2)

Hare cries out when hit and mauled
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xy21zl_hare-cries-out-...imals

3)

Hare severely mauled and carried off field
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xy21v5_hare-severely-m...imals

A brief film about hare coursing in Ireland:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k1L1JfKi3N8RkNAwGy?sta...rt=12

Related Link: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k1L1JfKi3N8RkNAwGy?start=12

...Exempted from prohibition under new law
...Exempted from prohibition under new law

Coursing protected by new animal welfare bill...instead of the hare!
Coursing protected by new animal welfare bill...instead of the hare!

Fun for some...
Fun for some...

author by fredpublication date Mon Mar 25, 2013 17:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

FG couldn't give a toss about animal welfare, as this Orwellian titled "animal welfare" bill shows. Also as shown by them allowing the barbaric fur farming industry to continue to have a home in Ireland, putting us, as a country, on a par with the likes of China in cruelty terms.

If there is a sniff of money involved in animal cruelty, then who gives a shit about the suffering caused to the animals. That's just the kind of morally bankrupt philosophy you are up against with these guys.

Guaranteed they will ram this through, regardless of any protest, or principled speech in the Dail given by decent people like Clare Daly.

There's profit in hunting and coursing, for tourism, and a few psychologically scarring minimum wage jobs in fur farming. And also, their rich 1% friends like riding around in their red coats looking down on the peasantry from astride their horses and probably had a quiet word.

We are now living in a post capitalism feudalist society. It's not surprising to see that our current lords and masters also enjoy acting just like the feudal lords of old, and are just as well connected with the political establishment.

 
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