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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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BUSH/BLAIR=NEW ORDER OLD NAZI EUROPE

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Saturday February 01, 2003 00:08author by cocaine killed my community Report this post to the editors

BUSH/BLAIR are in fact old nazi NEW ORDER EUROPE. Bushe's family connections with the third reich during the second world war, give a true indication of exactly what NEW ORDER europe Bush/blair represent and have in mind for us all. For Germany and France painful memories of the NAZI holocaust regieme, are still fresh, so France and germany will not be repeating their past mistakes and falling in line behind NEW ORDER europe.

You have only to study carefully the make up of NEW order Europe, made up of still fascist neo nazi sympathising countries, such as Ukraine, Lithuania, Italy, Spain, and other extreme right wing 'white'russian statelets. All of whom collaborated with the gestapo(like Bushes family), to kill and rob their jewish/gypsy/communist neighbours and are not strangers to practising brutality, bigotry and extreme sadistic cruelty as they did during the second world war.

author by Tosserpublication date Sat Feb 01, 2003 22:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Let's be clear, when we speak of nations like Italy, Spain, Ukraine, do we mean each individual in that nation?
No.
Obviously that makes no sense. People will disagree, start opposition or separatist movements, call for local autonomy, etc.

But governments--states--they are definable, and have definiable and explicit objectives. And the power or ruling elites i.e. those who wield the most influence over the state in question, are accountable for the actions of those states.

So when we speak of the USA's government, we mean George W. Bush (and his family--a political dynasty with many illicit connections--including with Nazis), the members of his cabinet or administration (Cheney--CEO of Halli-Burton Oil, ex-Secretary of Defense...Rumsfeld--longtime Pentagon hack and the most dangerous man in America...Powell--aided cover-up of Vietnam War era's My Lai massacre, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Bush Sr.'s war...and so on), and the corporate interests which support him and fund the political campaigns of himself and his allies.

But fascism does not always need to be Nazi fascism. It simply requires a belief in the use of the will, or coercive force, of the state to resolve matters, that the individual exists only so far as the individual is a facet of the state, and that liberty -- i.e. freedom linked to certain inalienable rights -- is expendable and irrellevant. The current American regime has displayed these tendencies through their actions all too clearly, as have other states recently, including Berlusconi's regime in Italy. At the very least, the precedents are being set that will allow for the total dominance of such an ideology -- one that links old nineteenth-century style fascism with old nineteenth-century style lassaiz faire capitalism, wrapped in the technology and propaganda campaigns of the twenty first-century.

Nightmare scenario anyone?

author by iosafpublication date Sat Feb 01, 2003 12:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors


i am not arguing with the author but....

i don´t like the terminology but the essence is true.
the pro Bush line up
Italy
Spain
UK
we don´t need to point to human rights abuses, torture, etc.,
but we can´t use up valuable and accurate terminology on them alone.
France and her allies are currently facing down Bush/Blair/Aznar/Burlosconi
but their past is no less littered with fascist imperialism.
So be careful.
Austria under Haider sent the most non aligned diplomatic assitance to Iraq.
We know Haider is a fascist.
And he has not gone away. He is a new head who will be sitting at Europe´s table for another two generations.
So please choose your words carefully.
The fascists learnt from the past as well. They reconstructed and blurred the old clearcut dilineations of their tactics loyalities and ambitions.
Also it might be worth reminding Irish readers yet again the Spain is not a unitary nation state.
Nor is the UK.
Nor is Italy.

If you continue to speak about "Spain" without consideration of either Basque countries or Catalonia as being distinct entities within a Spanish constitution under serious strain and pressure, then don´t be offended if others in Europe see no distinction between GB and UK and Ireland. there are many who see Irlande as merely "petite angleterre". Italy too is a constitution under strain. But there the seperatism is closer to the right. Is Basque nationalism/ seperatism / independence / regionalism the same as Catalan as Paduan?
no.
Paduan independence found its articulation through reconstructed fascists. Is Sardinian or Sicilian regionalism the same as Paduan?
no.
Padua and the league of the north supported by Burlosconi can not be compared to the regionalism nationalism of the south.

So Irish people should be most careful of their words.
On terms of European identity, ten million people speak Catalan as their first tongue. They have had a unitary legal structure / state for longer than Ireland. They have suffered torture and the wrath of Franco that only in the last year has left the closed archives to face historical scrutiny.

Ukraine is the newest addition to your musings.
Be most careful what you think about the Ukraine.
US foreign policy and manipulation began there long ago, before most Irish people had even given the country thought.
IS Ukranian nationalism the same as Bylorussian?
no.
Bylorussian is based on .....
if you think about for a while you will see how foolish it is to use the word "fascist" unless you are very sure what you mean.
Is lithuanian support for NATO the same as...?
Europe is big.
500million people.
ireland is small.
but it could be bigger.

author by sticklerpublication date Sat Feb 01, 2003 00:50author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Stop before good old Pat C bursts a blood vessell, you are challenging all he holds dear.
He has strict criteria for defining fascists:
1 docs
2 Skinhead haircuts
3 putting up anti refugee posters in some alleyway. He gets very cross when these criteria are not strictly adhered to.

 
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