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Indymedia ireland

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.

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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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Punky Churchill round up.

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Sunday December 08, 2002 16:25author by iosaf in the spirit of Punky Churchill. - the punky Churchill fan club.author email us at our dot netauthor address everywhere transantional and as free as the $. Report this post to the editors

what´s going on like.

well lots is going on.

Yes the preliminary report is on it´s way.
Iraq via Lufthansa to New York City.

"Nous savons qu'un rapport doit être transféré sur le vol Lufthansa LH404 de 17 h 05 locales (16 h 05 GMT) à destination de New York", a déclaré ce porte-parole, sans être en mesure de confirmer que des inspecteurs de l'ONU accompagnaient le document.

Yes Iraq.

http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/589.php

we know lots is happening in Venezuela coz the interested neighbours in Colombia are telling us.
they´re getting worried about rightist inteference in subverting the democracy.
Very traditional worries there.

Gallizia.
http://corriere.it/av/galleria.html?petroliera&7
look at the Italian photos.
I particularly recommend number 6 of these "say it strong" photos.
"Un delfino ucciso dal petrolio sulla spiaggia di Nemina" (Reuters)
i told you the dolphins are well fucked off.

Now incidently the submarine (leased from the French with black dolphin logo is also giving loads of data).

There are thousands of volunteers on the beaches with proper protection and the TV is showing the navy getting involved now with proper protectin and that great sign of Western Civilisation´s ability to protect and serve.
....................the Hellicopter.
are´nt they great.

oh look more paper and data from Iraq to the US sorry UN.
Un deuxième groupe d'inspecteurs est parti à 16 h 10 (14 h 10 GMT) de l'aéroport de Larnaca à Chypre pour Vienne, par un vol direct, où une autre copie sera remise au siège de l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (AIEA). Le groupe en partance pour New York a quitté Chypre à bord d'un avion de Cyprus Airways à 10 h 45 (08 h 45 GMT).

it´s all in french.
the language of diplomacy.

http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3218--301335-,00.html
go brush up on your langauge of diplomacy!

oh those venezuelans.
http://www.aporrea.org/dameverbo.php?docid=2278

shannon have in any flights from Iraq?¿?¿?¿?

reuters teh Amercian news on the flights:
Saddam has said sorry!!!!
to Kuwait.
[shitting it isn´t he] oh yes Reuters we believe that one.
APOLOGY TO KUWAIT

At the same time as Iraq's arms dossier was handed over to U.N. inspectors in Baghdad Saturday, Saddam apologized for his country's 1990-1991 occupation of his oil-rich neighbor Kuwait. In his letter, however, he blamed Kuwait's leadership for precipitating the invasion.

Kuwait rejected the apology and accused Saddam of using it as a pretext to incite attacks against U.S. troops currently training in the Gulf Arab state.

now check out the British response:
"Saddam Hussein ... has made a number of disclosures in the past about what he says he has or hasn't got," British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told BBC Television.

"None of them have been accurate or full disclosures. Normally, they have been a pack of lies."

oh matilda.....
Mr Straw went on to warn the shitting it properly this time Saddam...
The first thing Saddam must do is account for those "thousands of tons of material," he said.

oh dear don´t they know he´s shitting it?

President Bush, who threatened war if Washington judges Baghdad has deceived the world, said on Saturday that the Iraqi declaration would be studied carefully.

OH GOD it´s him.
not a day goes by without his "threatening WAR".

Well Mr Bush, I stood below Punky Churchill and watched indymedia activists walk through an impromptu garden built with haste yet care in front of "the mother of Parliaments" and I thought to myself,
....we´ve got something here.

Isn´t it comforting to know neither Mr Bush nor Mr Hassein probably wouldn´t have a notion what it was we realised we had.

And we still have it.
relatively recent news on Galizia:
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=20768
and try the "babelfish" translator
http://babelfish.altavista.com.
if you want to read news on Venezuela.
http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/589.php
it´s all about Oil you know.
link: www.istas.net/decops.htm
some info on Oil and how dirty it is if you go volunteer for the clean up.
or want to advise the little rascals how they would clean up in a similar hypothetical situation.

and there is today and yesterday as sometimes it seems eternity.
Palestine.
The land of the flag.
Black+White+Green+Red

peace=siochain=shalom=saleem
heart & mind to ye!

author by ipsiphipublication date Tue Jul 18, 2006 20:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

With British and French help, and a US navy within helicopter shuttle distance but still off the visible horizon - EU citizens (and a few hangers-on) are going to Cyprus from Lebanon.

The image attached shows you the acession celebratory stamp issued by the regime of Bertie Ahern and Co. to welcome all those extra states into our Union. States like Cyprus. But the Irish postage people didn't put Cyprus in, they just moved Crete into the position Cyprus normally is.

Lebanon hasn't moved since Irish peace keepers were last deployed there. Like Cyprus & Ireland, the land of the Cedar tree is pretty much where it used to be. But Irish people have more fun stuff to take their minds off it.

The EU people in their orderly and patient queue out of Lebanon are not all going to find jobs, homes or even a decent night out in Cyprus. That wasn't planned for. But they will feel they are walking in historic footsteps as Lakuna saw the last internationally reputable and independent and tippy toppy qualified weapons inspectors pf the International IAEI atomic division touched down at 16 h10 local time : 14 h 10 GMT on route to Vienna from Iraq on the 8th of December 2003. They didn't say Iraq or anyone else in teh Middle East had or were building nuclear weapons. No-one wanted to hear that which is why they were all asked to write letters of resignation, and we never heard from them again.

Or they could be lefties and merely think the CIA ahs been accused of rendition through that very airport - & we never heard from them again either.

Nothing to do with Cyprus though.
Nor Lebanon.
This comment is just meant to use contemporary Irish Design & Foreign Policy Culture to drive home a point. All the Irish were not "got out" of Lebanon. Will they skip the queue too?

The 25 state accession stamp of Bertie's EU presidency - swapped Crete for Cyprus & left the balkans and Lebanon out.
The 25 state accession stamp of Bertie's EU presidency - swapped Crete for Cyprus & left the balkans and Lebanon out.

 
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