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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.

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent
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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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B52s cross Irish Airspace

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday March 06, 2003 21:05author by Sean Cullen Report this post to the editors

B52s sighted over North Mayo

A neighbour sighted two aircraft flying very close together this evening about 5.45pm near Belmullet heading East. He got his camcorder out and used the digital zoom. We examined the footage, which was quite poor (its a basic camcorder) and with the zomm there was a lot of shake, but it looked like two B52s. 4 engines (I know there are 8 but they are paired off), very dark colour all over and a largish tail.

This was definately in Irish airspace.

author by John Jefferiespublication date Thu Mar 06, 2003 21:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I spotted two similar planes over Cork this morning around 9.20am, flying at high altitude. Each had four engines.

author by Amandapublication date Thu Mar 06, 2003 21:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The first one was Rays doing his surveillance on any civil servants logging onto Indymedia and the second one was Goldhawk spying on Ray!!

author by Lone Gunmanpublication date Thu Mar 06, 2003 22:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Could also have been C5 Galaxy. How high appx? B52 operates over 3miles high.And how could you Id its tail fin if it was that high?BTW how high is irish airspace before it becomes free space?

author by eye-spypublication date Thu Mar 06, 2003 23:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

They're probably part of the 14 B-52s going to RAF Fairford ahead of being sent to slaughter people in the Gulf.

Legally you might as well be letting them land here as letting them fly over. complicity is complicity.

Irish airspace goes up a hell of a lot more than 3 miles... commercial international traffic is normally more than 5 miles up.

author by Eternal idiot watcherpublication date Fri Mar 07, 2003 04:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Could also be one of many million 4 engined aircraft that overfly regularly..
Rule out the Galaxy because it has a High T Tail

Military aircraft do not usually practice formation flying at 70000feet..

Most possibly a 747,707 A340, But wait..I know that soldiers often use these types to go on holidays....so they must be military also..Lets wreck them too..while we are at it lets raid irish Refining because they make oil products..and we know oil is the root of all evil...
Then lets boycot all Oil based products because they are all the work of GW Bush..so all synthetic materials such as PVC,Nylon have to be boycotted...so there go most of the clothes we wear,except for things made out of silk wool and hides..and animals are hurt by our use of them,so lets all run around naked instead...
and we cant live in a house because the quarry where the stone came from is carried by a oil burning truck,which we cannot allow to be used,and in the quarry once lived some rare form of butterfly,whose habitat may be destroyed...

so why not just go back to living in the stone age? Unless I am mistaken that seems to be the final ambition of the narrow minded plebs who use this site anyway..
No offence but I will carry on living the way I am. Eating dead animals,using their skins to make my boots,using their million year old bones to fuel my car,and thanking god that I live in a country where lunatics like the free everything movement are allowed to walk the streets while the good law abiding,taxpaying citizens are held prisioner inside their own homes and places of work because of the actions of a couple of misguided anarchists.

Hope you all die screaming.

author by pat cpublication date Fri Mar 07, 2003 11:27author address author phone Report this post to the editors

But I shot down the one spying on me. Good old SAM 7, beats Uncle Sam anyday.

author by Seaninpublication date Fri Mar 07, 2003 11:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I saw one of those black helicopters once.

author by FourWindspublication date Fri Mar 07, 2003 22:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

A country's airspace goes all the way up! That's why the US is having some problems about moving planes and troops about - some middle east countries will not let them fly over.

As for attacking oil refineries - there's no point. They will all be going in 25 years or so anyway when the oild starts to run dry.

author by Intransigentpublication date Sun Mar 09, 2003 02:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

when people used to park outside Dublin Airport for some plane spotting. It suddenly got so much more exciting for them. Ooh look dad a B52 about to blow up some Iraqi kids. That 's right sun look at it's wings. Just like a spaceship!

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