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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 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.

offsite link CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran Sat Nov 22, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing against the acquittal of Hamit Coskun, who was convicted of burning the Quran in a protest, reigniting fears Britain could introduce blasphemy laws by the back door.
The post CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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PFC - Attacks during Belfast Pro-war Rally

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Tuesday April 08, 2003 16:48author by Joe Murphyauthor email doire98 at yahoo dot com Report this post to the editors

Pat Finucance Centre Update - Pro-war demonstrators attacked a number of business premises and individuals during a pro-Bush and pro-war rally in Belfast city centre last night.

Two Catholic pubs and a taxi company were targeted and passers-by were assaulted by a group who had marched from the loyalist Shankill area through the largely nationalist Castle St and King St area of the city. Passing vehicles were also attacked.

The 300 strong pro Bush and pro war rally had been organised by a senior member of the Unionist party, Sir John Gorman, a former British soldier. Ian Paisley, leader of the DUP, was pictured at the rally standing alongside a woman carrying a placard which bore the slogan, Bagdad, Basra, Crossmaglen? The apparent implication of the placard was to urge the British Army to ‘deal’ with republican areas of the north (Crossmaglen) in a similar way to Basra. The British Army require no such prompting since it has murdered innocent civilians here in Ireland for years and there is ample evidence that it is doing the same in Iraq.

Meanwhile a small group of loyalists, including members of the UDA, waved British flags and chanted anti-Catholic and pro war slogans on the fringes of the large anti-war protest at Hillsborough Castle organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the anti-war movement. There are also reports of UDA members and individuals associated with Combat 18 ‘trawling’ Belfast in cars looking for anti-war protesters who could be attacked. Combat 18 is an extreme right wing British fascist organisation with links to loyalist paramilitaries. The number 1and 8 in the alphabet refer to the initials AH or Adolf Hitler. Yesterday extreme loyalist websites were urging attacks on anti-war protesters.

Today (Tuesday) at approximately 1.45 pm riot police arrested a number of demonstrators who had sat down on one lane of the roadway outside Belfast city hall during a trade union rally against the presence of US President George Bush in Ireland. Protesters have complained about the behaviour of some of the riot police. In particular several witnesses have told the PFC that one officer dragged a young woman off the roadway by the hair. The number of the officer was 6277 according to a number of sources.

author by paul tylakpublication date Wed Apr 09, 2003 15:31author email ptk34 at yahoo dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Why in a democracy are these people allowed to march? We should have attacked them.

author by Janice hutchinsonpublication date Tue Apr 08, 2003 19:13author address author phone Report this post to the editors

DUP stallwarts such as Big Ian, entertained their select well heeled clique of 'never on a sunday' golden boy bible churners. Those in attendence included holy C&W gospel crooner Rev William McCrea, who entertained the baying crowd by reminescing about having shared a platform in Portadown with his dearly beloved model christian chums Billy 'liar' Wright and Mark 'swinger' Fulton. Also in attendence were pillar of society, former North Down DUP member Bertie Baxter, out on bail, on charges of sexually abusing his own children. 'Larrd Jaysus kkkrist be praised, God bless George dumbwar bush, in his holy war against heathen and papist savages'. 'laard Bless the LVF and keep us safe from papists and commie scum'.'laard bless George Bush, and my ranch in the USA'.

author by Cleopublication date Tue Apr 08, 2003 19:01author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The DUP under the protection of LVF scumbags, organised the PRO WAR rally. LVF arseholes subsequently ran amok after it, unable to contain their hatred of catholics, targeting catholic pubs and taxis. Where were the heavy handed so called impartial PSNI pigs then?. It seems the PSNI think it's ok to manhandle republicans and anti war protesters, but then put on the kid gloves for their DUP/LVF cohorts.

author by big eye in the skypublication date Tue Apr 08, 2003 17:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

..those combat 18 thugs will be the first to go.

author by neanderthal watcherpublication date Tue Apr 08, 2003 17:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

well there you are then, society's true divide. The peaceful and the violent. love and hate. life and death.
A march in defence of Mans right to bludgeon his fellow man to death so he can take his mammoth fur from him.

author by aunty partypublication date Tue Apr 08, 2003 17:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yes, it's terrible to see people chanting pro-war slogans and going on demonstrations. The anti-war movement should act now and call upon the police to suppress these protesters, who have obviously been infiltrated by violent and/or hate-mongering elements.

Nothing new from the PFC, who only believe in the Catholic right to march...

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