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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 Sadiq Khan Refuses to Call for Cancellation of Pro-Palestine Protest Sat Oct 04, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sir Sadiq Khan has refused to endorse calls for pro-Palestine protesters to cancel their demonstrations following the Manchester synagogue terror attack.
The post Sadiq Khan Refuses to Call for Cancellation of Pro-Palestine Protest appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The New Schools Guidance on Gender Ideology is a Disgrace Sat Oct 04, 2025 09:00 | Caroline Ffiske
The new schools guidance on gender ideology was published in July, and it's a disgrace, says Caroline Ffiske. It normalises the concept of 'gender reassignment', encouraging children to question their biological sex.
The post The New Schools Guidance on Gender Ideology is a Disgrace appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Wes Streeting?s Condemnation of Cousin-Marriage is Inconsistent with His Accusation of ?Racism? Agai... Sat Oct 04, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Wes Streeting condemned Nigel Farage as "racist" but also slammed new NHS guidance praising cousin marriage. Doesn't he realise that pushing such 'cultural' ideas is what Reform was warning against, says Steven Tucker.
The post Wes Streeting’s Condemnation of Cousin-Marriage is Inconsistent with His Accusation of “Racism” Against Nigel Farage appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Oct 04, 2025 00:57 | Toby Young
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.
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offsite link Did Lucy Letby?s Defence Team Collude in a Guilty Verdict? Fri Oct 03, 2025 17:00 | Guy de la B?doy?re
During Lucy Letby's trial, her defence team failed to call a single expert witness, a decision which the authors of a new book call "inexplicable". Was there covert collusion in a guilty verdict, asks Guy de la B?doy?re.
The post Did Lucy Letby’s Defence Team Collude in a Guilty Verdict? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Indaver submit starving man and grossly understated vertical plume risk zone to Bord Pleanala

category cork | environment | press release author Tuesday July 25, 2017 22:08author by CHASE - Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment. Report this post to the editors

CHASE have submitted forensic analysis of Indaver’s new material to Bord Pleanala which reveals a starving model man on under 1,000 calories a day in order to meet EU dioxin intake limits, a gross underestimation by over 57metres of the vertical emissions dispersal and associated risk zone to helicopters, comparisons with a helicopter landing base near a UK Naval base that fails to mention that helicopter operations there ceased in 2012, three years before the nearby incinerator commenced operation in 2015, as well as ongoing dioxin discrepancies. The submission period for observations on Indaver’s new material closed on Friday last, 21 July at 5.30pm.
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The material submitted by Indaver in May 2017 at the invitation of Bord Pleanala refers to further information on flight paths around the incinerator stack and information regarding the incorrect dioxin information submitted on the final day of the 2016 Oral hearing.

RISK TO HELICOPTERS AND SAFE OPERATIONS AT HAULBOWLINE NAVAL BASE

  • Indaver consultants, Irish based Graham Liddy and UK based DBS Consulting, have misinterpreted reports carried out on behalf of Indaver to present a 3.5m high-risk plume zone in both horizontal and vertical directions when the true high-risk plume segment models to a vertical height of 61m.
  • Modelling carried out for CHASE in response to Indaver’s new material (modeled using AERMOD, taking incinerator specifications provided by Indaver in their EIS and real weather data from the Roches Point weather station) shows the danger zone for helicopters from the incinerator plume extends 61m vertically above the stack (430ft above ground level), not the 3.5m distance submitted by Indaver. The modelling was carried out by Plume Plotter and a video animation ( https://youtu.be/sghB1jcDgC8 )can be viewed at https://youtu.be/sghB1jcDgC8.
  • Applying the Department of Defence recommended “standard obstacle clearance height of 500ft”, the minimum safe height for helicopters is 930ft, which is consistent with the Department of Defence conclusion that a 1,000ft avoidance zone is required and the statement of the Department of Defence at the 2016 Oral Hearing that it would be reckless to operate an aircraft anywhere close to that high-risk zone.
  • Indaver mislead in their failure to mention that a helicopter landing site which they reference at Devonport Naval Base in the UK closed in 2012 BEFORE an incinerator opened nearby in 2015, instead stating “The waste to energy plant has been operating since 2015 without interfering with the operations of the Naval base in any way as we believe would be the case for Haulbowline”. This statement was made despite Indaver having carried out a site visit in 2017 along with their consultants.

DIOXIN MODELLING

  • Indaver have starved the MARI man, allocating a calorie intake below 1,000 calorie a day diet in order to meet EU limits of acceptable daily dioxin intake. The MARI (most at risk individual) is a theoretical subsistance farming family living in the vicinity on whom the effects of dioxin and dioxin like compounds are modelled over a lifetime. If the MARI man had been fed a subsistance farmers typical diet, the MARI adult’s dioxin/furan intake rises well above the EU “tolerable intake” and the MARI child’s dioxin-like intake rises to over 30 times as high as the figure submitted by Indaver and 4 times the EU “tolerable intake”.
  • Predicted levels of dioxins/furans still do not link consistently with dioxin/furan intake in certain tables.
  • Modelling documents reviewed and reported on by Dr Paul Johnston for Indaver do not appear to be the same documents as those which have been made available to the public via the Indaver owned website ringaskiddyrrc.ie, and presumably also submitted to An Bord Pleanala.
  • No robust explanation has been offered by Indaver for the original errors, instead claiming ‘transcription error’ which is not credible.

Dioxin expert, Dr Gordon Reid, who exposed the irregularities on the final day of the hearing said “In view of the fundamental unreliability of the data we have already been given, and its only partial improvement in the further information now submitted to the Board, I would suggest that the Board cannot accept at face value the dioxin deposition values”.

CHASE Chairperson Mary O’Leary said “The shameful inaccuracies, manipulation and omission of critical information are an attempt to gain planning at all costs, including misleading the planning authority and the community that an application is safe when it is not. It is a cornerstone of the entire planning system that the information submitted by a developer must be true. That cornerstone has been shattered in this case and it would be outrageous to grant permission or scope for any further clarification in these circumstances.

It is time to reject this application once and for all, allow Cork Harbour to reach its full potential and to get in line with current EU Circular Economy recommendations.”

The Bord Pleanala website currently states a decision date is currently unavailable. The decision was originally due in July 2016 in order to meet Strategic Infrastructure statutory guidelines.

Links
Link to Plume dispersal animation video
https://youtu.be/sghB1jcDgC8
Plume Plotter Ringaskiddy modelling page
http://plumeplotter.com/news/ringaskiddy/plume.html
Dr Gordon Reid dioxin submission for CHASE
http://chasecorkharbour.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Response-to-Indaver-further-information-dioxins-Dr-Gordon-Reid-19.07.2017.pdf
Dr Gordon Reid illustration and basis for calculations
http://chasecorkharbour.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Reference-document-and-illustrations-for-Dr-Gordon-Reid-analysis.pdf
Helicopter Risk submission from Mike Griew, Pilot
http://chasecorkharbour.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/PL04_PA0045_MGriewComments.pdf
Bord Pleanala application page
http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/PA0045.htm

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