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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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Have they no shame?

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Monday November 17, 2014 20:14author by Political Hostage Report this post to the editors

In the meantime, Michael McKevitt sits in his prison cell, unlawfully detained, thirteen years into a sentence that was handed down on the word of a paid MI5/FBI informer who operated illegally within the twenty-six counties with the full connivance of the Dublin government.

"There can be no doubt that behind all the pronouncements of this court, and in my case, behind the arrest and today's inquiry, there exists an extensive organization… And the purpose of this extensive organization, gentlemen? It consists of arresting innocent people and introducing senseless proceedings against them, which for the most part, as in my case, go nowhere. Given the senselessness of the whole affair, how could the bureaucracy avoid becoming entirely corrupt?" - The Trial by Franz Kafka

Earlier this summer two High Court decisions [Ryan and Farrell] ruled that every prisoner in this state must be entitled to enhanced one-third remission if they meet three criteria: [1] that they are categorised as “enhanced” by the prison incentivised scheme; [2] that they are of good conduct; and [3] that they engage in 25 hours of “authorised structured activities” per week. These decisions were broadly welcomed by human rights organisations, as they brought the Irish penal system into line with most progressive European nations.

One of the successful applicants, Niall Farrell, was a republican prisoner detained on the same landing as Michael McKevitt in Portlaoise Prison. Michael subsequently applied for enhanced one-third remission in early July this year. Had Michael been awarded enhanced one-third remission he would have been released on July 26th 2014.

Towards the end of July the Minister for Justice procrastinated and refused to make a decision on Michael’s application. Consequently, Michael took his own Article 40 application, as his case stood on similar facts to Niall Farrell. Just hours before Michael’s Article 40 application was scheduled to commence in the High Court, 150 prison officers entered E-Block Portlaoise Prison and conducted a search of unprecedented intensity. Michael’s cell was the first cell searched.

Clearly the Irish Prison Service were hoping to find “contraband” in Michael’s cell. This would have scuppered his application for one-third remission because in that eventuality he would be no longer deemed to be of “good conduct” and would have failed to meet the criteria laid down by the High Court. However, nothing was found in Michael’s cell. The only items removed were his legal documents and other related items, which have yet to be returned. After the futile search, Michael was informed that the Minister had refused him enhanced remission. Later that afternoon new prison rules were introduced making it increasingly difficult for prisoners to attain enhanced remission.

After considerable legal debate, the High Court conceded that Michael’s application had to be heard under the old prison rules which were in existence when he applied for enhanced remission. Having overcome these blatant last minute obstructions and interferences by the state, Michael’s Article 40 application was heard by Justice Barton in the High Court. However, within days of the commencement of Michael’s application, a specially convened sitting of the Supreme Court overturned the Ryan judgement, stating that the correct mechanism by which to challenge a Minister’s refusal to grant enhanced remission was not an Article 40 application but rather a judicial review. Therefore, Michael’s Article 40 application was moot and he was forced to re-challenge the Minister for Justice’s refusal via judicial review.

The judicial review was scheduled to take place on October 8th 2014, however, on the morning of the hearing his legal team were informed that a High Court judge was not available to hear his judicial review. The President of the High Court informed Michael’s legal team to return to court on a daily basis. “Take your chances and see if a judge is available,” was his learned advice. This unacceptable state of affairs received some media attention. In order to avoid outright embarrassment the state eventually provided a judge the following day. The hearing concluded on October 9th. However, six weeks after the hearing, Michael still awaits judgement. And there is no sign of a decision on the horizon.

Michael’s family have been advised that if this delay extends beyond eight weeks they should instruct their legal team to return to court to remind the judge that the judicial review concerns Michael’s liberty and should be dealt with forthwith. Numerous human rights observers believe Michael is being imprisoned unlawfully and that he should have been released on July 26th this year.

They have also pointed out that although Michael’s recent application is a judicial review, it is within the realm of a constitutional Article 40 application, and thus should receive some precedence within the judicial review list, as it concerns his liberty. This latest legal saga is reminiscent of a Franz Kafka novel. Inconvenient judgements are overturned. Emergency Supreme Courts are specially convened. Legal rules shift at a whim. Legislators rewrite prison rules, effectively nullifying legislation enacted by previous legislators. Judges when required go into hiding quicker that Salman Rushdie under a Fatwa. A battalion of prison guards search one man’s cell, leaving with nothing other than his legal documents and their heads hanging in shame.

In the meantime, Michael McKevitt sits in his prison cell, unlawfully detained, thirteen years into a sentence that was handed down on the word of a paid MI5/FBI informer who operated illegally within the twenty-six counties with the full connivance of the Dublin government.
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