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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 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.
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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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category national | miscellaneous | news report author Saturday January 25, 2003 14:00author by iosaf jedi of the quotationsauthor address barcelona codols 23. 08002 Report this post to the editors

The flag of African Country Cote d´Ivoire.

This last week some have turned their thoughts to the possiblity of the € being used as a world currency. Excellent critical writing and thinking has been seen on ireland.indymedia from the greenie feasta people.

However as I pointed out some days ago in a comment the idea of a unitary currency for Africa has long been mooted and applied by France. It is also a key element of neo-fascist policy.

Today A country which shares a flag with Ireland except it "reads" the other way is seeing it´s government speak with the French about peace, investment, human rights and macro-economic theory.

Graham Caswell of the Irish Green Party on the use of $ as an alternative world currency.
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=24245
my comments are the first two

today by the way
25/01/03
1 Euro = 5,120.00 Afghanistan Afghani
1 Euro = 89.22275 Algerian Dinar
1 Euro = 3.40156 Argentine Peso
1 Euro = 174.097 Kazakhstan Tenge
just for keeping you all up to track with world finance. [If you´re into manipulating Oil/Gas reserves]. I am on written record as saying at the first uncivilizaion conference in Barcelona 2002 that all we need is 2 trillion$ to make the world better.
1$ = 1€ give our take a Kyoto.

{that´s my line and none of you can afford to fight my lawyers so use the jokes but don´t forget who holds the copyrights, trademarks and moral right to be attributed as author}

Now you people probably don´t want to speak in trillions. most don´t.

So lets talk briefly about Western African macro-economic policy.
Then you can dress up the ideas in acceptable words with the gloss of good jokes and use them in local meetings or articles or whatever you are accustomed to do.

The European Union has invested heavily in the North African countries. Most particularly Algeria in an attempt to secure future Oil and Gas supplies.
this is currently seen as "sorted".

The subsaharan african nations fall into three spheres of influence.
Those whose former rulers were French.
Those whose former rulers were British.
And those whose state was donated in the midnineteenth century by US christians.
(Liberia).

The French states have almost consistently been tied to the Franc and most recently to the €.
The British states have been instrumental in changing corporate practise. I think the key word for your google goo here is Diamonds.
If you don´t want to google goo then find a member of the Oglivy family and ask them why they chose to take their family business off of public trading.
If you can´t find a member of the Ogilvy family you could always ask me.

Children are used soldiers in all Western African states. You will find regular adverts in your sunday supplements asking you to be angry about this.
Be angry.
These children use the AK47.
This weapon is all over the world.
it is a "brand classic".
Liberia is a mess. We all know that don´t we?
but why is it a mess?
Because European greed made it so.
France is showing signs of guilt.
The French have never been good at guilt.
But it is promising that they are beginning to draw connections between all the nasty points on the map.
here is the polite words of le france:
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3212--306826-,00.html
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3212--306776-,00.html
and on liberia
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3212--306678-,00.html

French thoughst on the risk of their involvment.
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3212--306680-,00.html

& I am not going to translate any of it for you.

Ireland now likes to think of itself as a victim of imperialism.
Well it isn´t.
If you do nothing else track Irish invovlement in bilateral EU aid to Western Africa.
If you want to hassle Mr Cowan and pals, then track the friendly visits of the Irish navy to Western African nations.
IF you want to stop children being used as weapons then ask the Irish authorities to stop the largest fishing vessel in the world stealing all the fish off of Africa´s coast for starters.

More things you could consider doing...
Track the Irish Bar.
not the lawyers.
the pub.
Dakar boasts the first subsaharan Irish Pub.
how do you think that got there?
would that be spin-off?

Finally no good jokes today. sorry.
but a thought why do you think Cote d´Ivoire has the same flag as Ireland?
Why do you think a small emerging country of several nations presently one of the poorest on earth a victim of rape, brutality and theft chose the same colours as the Irish for it´s tricolour?

we are the dreamers of dreams.

Ireland is one of the richest nations on earth.
It is not a vicim.
It´s working class people are poor but not in poverty.
It´s society is a rump.
It has made a mockery of all it once could have stood for.

some more currency thoughts for you.
1 Euro = 1.35239 Libyan Dinar
1 Euro = 10.77992 Moroccan Dirham
1 Euro = 65.53315 Pakistan Rupee
1 Euro = 2,090.77 Sierra Leone Leone
1 Euro = 1.07788 Liberian Dollar

oh and the commidities market. not closed globally so you could still score a few ounces.

1 Euro = 0.22806 Silver (oz.)
1 Euro = 0.001669 Platinum (oz.)

oh and if you brush up your macro finance and learn some arabic

1 Euro = 4.06313 Saudi Riyal

that means the Prestige is worth $35000 more per Brent barrel today.
I really should have taken my own advice and bought the salvage.
I am supporting France. They have presented the world with best short term options for the moment.
It is a very difficult choice to make and one I shall not deem to be irreversable, but for the moment Paris and Quai D´Orsay are exercising "prudence".
France as any fan of Fanon Fritz or Franz will know is an imperialist centralised state. It has created monsters and rarely even thought to apologise. However they are presently providing the "tinker with the ecomonomic indicator" people of boring middle class middle brow mediocrity with workable options.
Some day too we shall sort France.
But till the end of this current War we can not.

Now what I and my peers in the 5th may think is probably too gobshitey for a lot of you.
But if tomorrow you seize power from the little rascals you will run out of heroin shipments in two weeks. That would single the end of any glorious revolution.
Do you get the point?
there shall be no review tomorrow.

I´m going to be mixing trance records.

author by iosaf = o as if - 23publication date Sat Jan 25, 2003 14:10author email ipsiphi23 at email dot comauthor address our planetauthor phone Report this post to the editors

is based on
casas sin gente
gente sin casas

that means houses without people
people without houses.

not tinkering with a pityful sum of Ireland´s GNP.
it means law reform.
Ireland has several statutes which date from An Gort Mhór. You must remove them.

and if you want to "specualate"

join us in preventative purchase of equatorial zones.
You get a small plot of a few metres that is impossible to resell.

and Most of you can afford that.

{Our Resistance is as Transnational as Capital}

author by blahpublication date Mon Jan 27, 2003 04:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

iosaf

No offence to you personally. You have a lot of interesting stuff to say, but your writing style is very difficult to read or pay attention to. You

use

a

lot

of

paragraphs

where it isnt necessary and the ideas just seem disjointed and random. I like what you have to say but presentation... needs work man. Please dont be pissed off, keep up the contributions! It is just an attempt at constructive criticism.

author by comrade piddlestickspublication date Mon Jan 27, 2003 17:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

if you tilt your thoughts at a suchlike angle, slanting so to speak and perhaps bounce them a little

first
it

all
makes

sense then

sometimes

(or so it seems)

author by .publication date Wed Jul 09, 2003 23:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

@ time of writing Bush 2
flies over Africa and shall in teh course
officially land and shake hands five times.

Big continent.

Liberia-South Africa-Nigeria.
lots of stuff for Mr Bush 2.

 
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