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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 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.

offsite link Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
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.

offsite link Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
It's bad enough that all UK TV users are forced to fund the BBC via a TV licence. But it's worse than that, says Charlotte Gill: millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are handed to the corporation via backdoor channels.
The post Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

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More direct action against the War at Shannon

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday January 29, 2003 12:23author by Andrew Report this post to the editors

US military plane damaged on runway

RTE online is reporting the arrest of a women at Shannon who is "being questioned about damage to an American military plane there."

They claim the women has been staying at the peace camp and that "It is understood the nose of a US Navy cargo aircraft was damaged in an incident on the tarmac early this morning."

If the story is true then this is the sixth succesful Direct Action at Shannon in the last year and the second in which a US military plane was damaged. The largest of these actions back in October saw 150 people take part in breaking down part of the perimeter fence and then entering the airfield itself. A detailed report on this with photos is at http://struggle.ws/wsm/news/2002/shannonOCT.html and more reports on protests in general at Shannon are at http://struggle.ws/wsm/shannon.html

These direct actions in Ireland are part of a growing international anti-war movement that says protesting the war is not enough, we must take action against the war machine. Recent actions have seen blockades of military bases in Britain while in San Francisco up to 2,000 people attacked the INS office. More reports on these and background information on the war online at http://struggle.ws/stopthewar.html

Related Link: http://struggle.ws/wsm/shannon.html
author by Kdog McGuillicuddy - Brick anarchist collective/Chicagopublication date Sat Feb 01, 2003 08:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Mary's brilliant action is being discussed and supported by the growing anti-war movement in the states.
It will take massive direct action to stop the imperial slaughter, This action points us in the right way.

U.S out of North America!

kdog, Chicago

author by Intransigentpublication date Thu Jan 30, 2003 13:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

You made this same comment as Spike on another thread, Shelly! No one cares about either of you and on that note no I don't think anyone cares what I am putting here either. Best get that out before you accuse me of being real big headed!

author by shellypublication date Thu Jan 30, 2003 02:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

oh wow iosaf you are so poetic and sophisticated and cryptic!

wow!

you tit!!

just say what you have to say

author by iosaf = ipsiphipublication date Wed Jan 29, 2003 15:10author address author phone Report this post to the editors

ok i´m going to go pseudo
(Hi Andrew ;-)

everyone knows i´m a fan of Deuleze and Guatarri.
great duo those.
They argued that the war apparatus as nomads is exterior yet essential to the state apparatus.

The War machine starts and runs of its own organised accord independently to the state apparatus.
Nomads lie slightly outside the state set yet hold nodal points of interaction with it.

There was once upon a time a comhaontas glas, green party discussion on ireland´s defence policies. Oh that was back in the old days when they didn´t have a TD, and were still disorgansied on anarcho-syndicalist assembly grounds. But then the TD arrived and the TV decided that was "a leader".
The Green party and it´s voters continued their path, as yet no sign of change and left behind the wisdom of their beginnings, where it was adjacent to but exterior to the state apparatus.
(very pseudo today sorry Andrew)
Anyway the defence policy was to be termed Self-Assured-Desctruction.
I think that was a jokey reference to Mutually Assured Destruction MAD the mutual assured destruction of nuclear conflict between USA and USSR.
Yes this all happened a long time ago.
USSR days.
Anyway SAD the greenie option meant that Irish people would best defend their country by destroying their own defense resources.
The thinking being that no-one would want to invade a country without airport running strips.

Now that is indeed an interesting idea the old SAD no?
I have just visited Carrer Ignatius. Named after Ignatius Loyola of Loyola who died in Rome in 1541.
There are seven recognised graffiti tags on the walls of the street, two slogans from Catalan nationalist groups, abloack sheep and a CAAT type anti-tank stencil. I saw no trace of jesuits but I suppose they have taken note of the changing function of vandalism and visual culture.

Nomads are great.
give one a home today.

author by MGpublication date Wed Jan 29, 2003 12:32author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Government takes a hatchet to the Irish Constitution. The peace camp takes a hatchet to a US warplane. Congrats.

 
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