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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.

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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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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.

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offsite link Exposed: How Green ?Philanthropy? Writes Scripts for Ulez ?Clean Air? Activists Sun Nov 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile highlights the work of Charlotte Gill exposing how green 'philanthropy' gives scripts to activists pushing 'clean air' schemes like Ulez as blatant proxies for the climate agenda.
The post Exposed: How Green ‘Philanthropy’ Writes Scripts for Ulez ‘Clean Air’ Activists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Nov 23, 2025 01:46 | Will Jones
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 British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
The post British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
The post Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.
The post Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Media Round-up: Shannon Warport Protest

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Sunday January 19, 2003 15:09author by redJaDe Report this post to the editors

Global coverage of Saturday's Shannon Warport protest. All mainstream sources. Of course, there was more and better coverage on various Indymedia sites around the world.

Culled from news.google.com
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&scoring=d&q=shannon+airport&btnG=Search+News

many more mentions, but mostly from syndicated news agencies.

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Over a thousand people have marched on Shannon airport to protest at its use by American military.

http://www.online.ie/viewer.adp?article=1930006

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More than a 1,000 people from across the Irish Republic converged on Shannon airport to protest against the possible use of the airport to refuel American military planes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2670527.stm
http://breaking.examiner.ie/2003/01/18/story84781.html

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– Ireland: Protesters converged on Shannon Airport to protest its use as a refueling stop for U.S. military aircraft.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11605-2003Jan18.html
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030118_1477.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/18/protests.glance.ap/
http://www.azstarnet.com/star/today/30119NProtests-Glan.html
http://www.dailystar.com/star/today/30119NProtests-Glan.html
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/america_at_war/article/0,1299,DRMN_2116_1683993,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2332601,00.html
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/4980282.htm
http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=1089825

- literally dozens more of American TV station websites used this article from Associated Press.
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Irish protest military use of Shannon airport

Nicola Byrne
Sunday January 19, 2003
The Observer

Almost 2,000 protesters gathered at Shannon airport yesterday afternoon to object to the US military using the facility to transport arms.
As revealed in last week's Observer, American weapons are being brought through the airport in preparation for war with Iraq. The Green Party has renewed its appeal for Gardai to be allowed to inspect military and chartered civilian aircraft ferrying troops to the Gulf.

http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,877914,00.html

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1,500 at Shannon anti-war rally

January 18, 2003

(18:54) An estimated 1,500 people attended today's anti war march and rally at Shannon airport to protest at the use of the airport by US military aircraft and troops.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0118/shannon.html

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"There's been too much capital invested in this war for it not to happen. But we're making our position clear, we're saying 'no'. There are people speaking out on this all over the world now, and we're part of it," said Adam Conway, an activist living at a peace camp near Shannon Airport in Ireland.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=123&art_id=ct20030118195351986I623296&set_id=1

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In Goteborg, Sweden, about 5,000 protested U.S. plans to attack Iraq, and about 2,000 gathered at the international airport in Shannon, Ireland, to protest its use as a refueling point for U.S. military aircraft that are part of the Pentagon's buildup to a possible invasion.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woprot193095427jan19,0,7063050.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines

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In traditionally neutral Ireland more than 2,000 people protested against a government decision allowing US aircraft to use southwest Shannon Airport en route to the Gulf.

"There's been too much capital invested in this war for it not to happen. But we're making our position clear, we're saying 'no'," protester Adam Conway said.

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1042490904280
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2202511a12,00.html
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=74356

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In the Irish Republic, some 1,000 people were expected at the gates of Shannon airport to protest against its use as a refueling stop for U.S. warplanes en route to the Gulf.

http://www.islam-online.net/english/news/2003-01/19/article01.shtml

Related Link: http://NoWarBlog.org
author by if i am not a number am i counted? - rebeltechpublication date Sun Jan 19, 2003 18:49author address the living worldauthor phone Report this post to the editors

The Western markets are presently "bullish".
The richest economy (USA) is experiencing difficulty due to the unplanned for effects of a general strike in Venezuela which have given advantage to OPEC states.
Leading economists are currently pitching the drop in corporated unit trusts as indications of the beginning of long term slump in investor confidence building on the collapse of Enron, worldcom and alledged irregularites in other sectors.
The dollar is sluggishly responding to recent highs in European markets as investors hedge their bets on Bush´s administrations handling of energy policy.
The British forces assembling on the border of Iraq were mostly due to go anyway to take part in training exercises off the coast of Malaysia.
The build-up of American forces is not effecting aerospace shares the traditional root to death investment.
Faustian Pax
the world´s leading advisor on business financial intelligece has seen no support in futures exchanges for the build-up.
Liffe it seems finally has a price?
This round-up is cool RDJ.
Symbolic references to our past will shape our future, if you find yourself in a minority then act as one.
IF you are outvoted then choose a tactical vote.
we have symbolic numbers.

Related Link: http://www.beyondtv.org
author by Timpublication date Sun Jan 19, 2003 18:50author address author phone Report this post to the editors


http://www.dailystar.com/star/today/30119NProtests-Glan.html

Rallies held around the globe
Thousands say no to Iraq war
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A look at a selection of other anti-war demonstrations Saturday in U.S. cities and around the world:

* Orange County, Calif.: About 300 marched to the Nixon Presidential Library.

* Florida: "Smart Bombs Dumb Move," said a sign at a St. Augustine protest that drew 200. About 400 assembled in Venice. About 500 in Tampa rallied outside the gates of MacDill Air Force Base, home to U.S. Central Command, which would coordinate an Iraq war.

* Indianapolis: A crowd that reached 600 huddled at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in temperatures in the teens.

* Des Moines, Iowa: More than 125 marched two miles in near-freezing temperatures.

* Las Vegas: Tourists gawked and motorists honked as 200 protesters rallied on the Strip. One sign: "Elvis hates war."

* Lansing, Mich.: Hundreds marched to the Capitol.

* Albuquerque, N.M.: About 800 protested near the University of New Mexico campus; 500 marched downtown to rally outside an Army recruiting office.

* Portland, Ore.: Streets rang with drumbeats and peace hymns, and marchers hoisted signs with slogans like "Grandmas for Peace," in a protest that drew 20,000.

* Montpelier, Vt.: About 3,000 marched.

* Britain: Near London, about 200 anti-war protesters demonstrated outside a military base. Several thousand marched in Bradford.

* China: A small group of demonstrators marched to the U.S. and British consulates in Hong Kong.

* France: In the third nationwide anti-war demonstration since October, 6,000 protested in Paris.

* Germany: Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the U.S. Army Europe headquarters in Heidelberg.

* India: Hundreds of communist workers burned an effigy of President Bush.

* Ireland: Protesters converged on Shannon Airport to protest its use as a refueling stop for U.S. military aircraft.

* Italy: Activists among 2,000 protesters in Bologna tried to break through a police line around an unrelated demonstration of rightists, and police responded with tear gas. American residents in Florence were among around 2,000 who formed a human chain near the U.S. Consulate.

* Japan: Students rallied in Tokyo.

* Middle East: A march in Cairo, Egypt, drew 1,000. About 4,000 in Lebanon waved posters showing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. In Jordan, 300 in Amman burned U.S., British and Israeli flags.

* Netherlands: Hundreds marched the streets of Rotterdam, Nijmegen and Leiden. In Uden, police detained 90 activists for trying to enter an air base where U.S. and Dutch forces are stationed.

* Norway: A few hundred demonstrators gathered in Oslo.

* Pakistan: Hundreds marched in several cities.

* Russia: Outside the U.S. Embassy, Russians chanted "U.S. hands off Iraq!" and "Yankee, go home!"

* Sweden: About 5,000 marched in Goteborg.

* Turkey: Communists demonstrated outside a theater showing the latest James Bond movie to protest the U.S.-British alliance.

author by Confused by Harneypublication date Sun Jan 19, 2003 18:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Irish government is not breaking its own laws by allowing US military planes to land at Shannon airport, it has been claimed.
Tanaiste Mary Harney said there was no truth in the claims made on Saturday at an anti-war protest.
``There is no question of the government breaking the law and of course what`s happening globally is under UN mandate,`` Ms Harney said.
``America is a friendly country,`` she said. ``America is well aware of what our laws are and the government is well aware of the implications of enforcing the law and certainly if there was any change from the government`s perspective that would have to be a matter for the Oireachtas in the future.

Wait a minute...

"``America is well aware of what our laws are and the government is well aware of the implications of enforcing the law.."

So the folks in Washington know our laws. Okay.
Sounds fine...

"The Government is well aware of the implications of enforcing the law"?

What the hell does that mean?
Does it mean what I think it means?

Any chance of a clarification Tanaiste?

author by iosaf - rebeltechpublication date Sun Jan 19, 2003 19:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ní maith leo an fíor a cur.

The Americans didn´t ask for permission.
That is the nature of "power".

That is
why we choose
we are not chosen

Reagan did not ask
Mrs Saxe Coburg Goethe Windsor
for permission to attack
Granada
It was no longer needed.

Hubris.
Suez.
neither UK nor France
asked for permission to attack
Suez.
Nemesis.

They claim they had not the power nor intelligence to stop Sept 11 2001.
If so what has changed?

Cassandra.
Reclaim the Genome.
a global message.
a global reply.

Be irritating!
"we are a rash"
:-)
:-)
o o
¿

smile.
we are almost there.

 
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