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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

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Is Tony Blair the Village Idiot - or Is He Being Blackmailed by Bush?

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Sunday April 06, 2003 04:11author by Cheryl Seal Report this post to the editors

If He's Being Blackmailed, Just What Is the Skeleton In His Closet?

Bush's Dad was the head of the CIA - still has CIA ties and pals. So, the dirt that these guys could have on ANYONE would curl your toes. What could they have on Tony Blair potent enough to make him behave like a minion to "Little Hitler"?

OK, I've been wondering about this now for weeks, so I may as well just get it out in the open. Tony Blair's behavior has been, from the outside looking in, all but insane over the past several months. He appears to be following Bush right over a cliff, yet defending Dubya every step of the way! He appears willing to risk his career, his country's security - hell, the world's security! - the European Union's unity, and thousands of lives to support Bush. Yet Blair has never struck me as the village idiot, nor has he struck me as someone who wanted most of the British people, esp. the young, to find him repulsive. This week, even after fragments of the marketplace bomb were found and shown to be clearly from an American smart bomb, Blair was induced, no doubt directly by Bush, to stand before Parliament and lie - on record - about the bomb, still disclaiming it came from the "coalition."

So what gives? Here's my theory. Bush's daddy was the head of the CIA and many of his personal pals are former (and, I assume still current) CIA people. These guys must be privy to one helluva an international grapevine, and thus have the "dirt" on just about everyone who is anyone. Put two and two together: Bush's dad and Bush himself by extension have access to all kinds of CIA dirt.Blair's reckless behavior fits that of a man who is being blackmailed - and blackmailed over something that he is so terrified of having revealed he will do nearly anything, perhaps short of murdering someone himself, to hide. Conclusion: I bet Blair is being blackmailed by Bush.

So, what could it possibly be? Let's face it, after Lady Di and Charles, heterosexual extramarital exploits wouldn't have enough shock value with the press to motivate Blair. Unless of course, he's been captured on film visiting a call girl once a week, dressing in a poodle suit and barking while she spanks him (what an image!).

But in Blair's position, given the attitude of the stodgy Parliamentarians and his idol the Queen, I think the subject of blackmail is more likely to be homosexual liaisons - from his deep past (youthful experimentation) or more recently (he is a closet gay). I say, come clean Tony!! The world would prefer an honest gay man far more than a dishonest Bush toady any day. If London rejects you, you can always come to gay-friendly Baltimore!!!

Related Link: http://newsinsider.org
author by ipsiphipublication date Sun Apr 06, 2003 19:57author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Mr Putin who served as KGB director and rose through all ranks to achieve that position always greats Mr Bush Jr. with a small talk joke
"Your daddykins was head of the CIA".
Mr Bush Jr. always replies "that was a honorary position".
and it was.
and only for a year.
the Bush CIA profile is over-estimated most of the time, the Bush clan are just as likely to be targets of dark machinations as any one else.
And Mr Putin has access to a global grapevine of let us say a certain proved history of efficiency.

author by R Stevenspublication date Sun Apr 06, 2003 22:50author email robbies at direct dot caauthor address Canadaauthor phone Report this post to the editors

Your CIA links may prove to be relevant one day soon, however, you have to look no further than Blair's wallet to find that it is still full of British Pounds rather than Euros. Blair has a great deal to gain or lose depending on the outcome of this 2003 scenario. If the US topples Iraq, and replaces the Euro currency with US dollars for oil trade, it will dismantle OPEC and retain US dollar status as the world-wide accepted currency for oil and control 20% of the oil reserves ....thus the Euro will devalue and when Britain makes the change,... the pound will buy a great deal more Euros. Should the reverse outcome happen, the Euro (also note that it is based on the gold standard, the US dollar has not been since 1971!) will dominate the oil market, and become an extremely valuable currency for trading nations. This scenario would lead to a devalued pound relative to the Euro, and Britain would lose a great deal of its wealth almost instantly. Keep a close watch on Japan, Venezuala, Iran and Saudi Arabia, as they are all in extremely sensitive positions relative to the outcome of this scenario.

Related Link: http://www.pubtheo.com/page.asp?PID=1181
author by Blare watcherpublication date Mon Apr 07, 2003 02:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Some of the British cabinet seem to be kiddy-fiddlers.
That may have something to do with it.
And there seems to be a connection with the Dunblane massacre too. The asshole who carried that out was a paedophile, and arranged contacts for politicians.
If anyone has links to that story please post them.

author by RedQueen - TheFalloutShelterpublication date Mon Apr 07, 2003 06:09author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Can he be BOTH? I mean, I don't think they are mutually exclusive...

Related Link: http://www.falloutshelternews.com/
author by Gaillimhedpublication date Mon Apr 07, 2003 09:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

(Was it Macmillan?) the then british PM behaved in an almost identical manner at the beginning of the Vietnam War, egging on and sucking up to the big boys for a slice of the imperialist cake, and then getting cold feet. Must be genetic.

 
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