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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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Human Rights in 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 Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

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offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Good News from Colombia

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday April 10, 2003 18:59author by joe ranii Report this post to the editors

A ray of hope for long-suffering Colombia as child is freed from the clutches of suspected FARC gangster kidnappers. This comes just a few days after last Sunday's nationwide demonstrations that called on the FARC and other criminal gangs to abandon their war against Colombia's children.

From AP:

Kidnapped Boy Rescued, Colombia Rejoices

By CESAR GARCIA, Associated Press Writer

BOGOTA, Colombia - Police burst into a Bogota home and rescued a 3-year-old boy from a dungeon-like hole, a week after he was kidnapped from his school bus, officials said Tuesday.


For a country mired in a civil war, beset by drug trafficking and the world's highest kidnapping rate and with so little to celebrate, the liberation Monday night of little Vitys Karanauskas was heralded by many in Colombia.


Vitys was returned to his mother in good health, though she said she almost didn't recognize him, because the kidnappers had dyed the lad's blond hair.


"When I saw him I didn't recognize him," his mother, Saule Karanauskas, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I only realized that it was him when he hugged me and kissed me."


Pictures of the toddler were splashed across newspapers and television news shows, printed on T-shirts protesters wore to marches and shown by his mother to anyone who would look.


Police arrested eight people. The kidnappers demanded a $170,000 ransom to release Vitys. Police said many people came forward offering information about the child, making the rescue possible.


"Faced with an act of this sort, which moved all of society, there were many people who thought they might have valuable information," said the nation's police chief, Gen. Teodoro Campo. "One of them led us to the results that we are all praising."


After the boy was abducted on April 1, his classmates held marches to press for his release. In interviews with local media, Karanauskas begged the kidnappers to treat her son well, even asking that they try to convince the boy it was all a game so he wouldn't be frightened.

The kidnappers snatched Vitys from a school bus in Villavicencio, 45 miles south of Bogota, then brought him to a house in the capital, and stuffed him into a dank cubbyhole underneath the floor.

More than 380 children were kidnapped in Colombia last year, many abducted by criminal gangs or leftist rebels seeking ransoms, according to the Colombian anti-kidnapping organization Free Country

author by Rubiella lorenzapublication date Thu Apr 10, 2003 20:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

You'll find that it is in fact the Colombian government junta that are kidnapping and murdering street children. It's just like babaric selfish greedy rich snob juntas to try to solve the probelm of our barrias street children by kidnapping and murdering them. We've seen it all before in places like Brazil, Guatemala where state policemen were trying to exterminate all the children of the poor and the barrias. In a sinister effort on behalf of big business corporations, to beautify barrias districts for tourists. FARC do not kidnap children, they prefer to kidnap wealthy western multinational industrialist tourists and business men. FARC unlike the Colombian junta do have common sense, a strategy and integrity, unlike uncontrolable Junta animals who murder and slaughter peasants whenever possible to satisfy their sadistic urges. In colombia the junta and state security services are like Rose and Fred West, they are that babaric, cruel and sadistic. Can you imagine a country run by Rose and Fred west, well thats what the Colombian Junta are like.

author by Yukpublication date Thu Apr 10, 2003 20:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ian Paisley and Maggie thatcher are the Fred and Rose west of politics here.

author by Sammy Nelsonpublication date Thu Apr 10, 2003 20:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

No Ian paisley and Daphnee Trimbull

author by Nigel Duddspublication date Thu Apr 10, 2003 20:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Have you noticed that Ice queen security minister Jane kennely has a bit of an air of Rose west about her. She is actually a blood relative of Rose west.

author by Caspianpublication date Thu Apr 10, 2003 22:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Israeli trained paramilitary death squads are the monsters of Columbia who average 30 killings a week of men women and children who get in the way of their drugs operations. The FARC for all their faults are trying to defend the poor of Columbia and are fighting back against the evil, corrupt, American backed, drug barons who rule Columbia.
Once again we find the Israelis doing their dirty work in yet another part of the planet. Not content with running America and causing a war in Iraq they are teaching death squads in Latin America to do what the so-called Israeli Defence Forces are doing in Palestine.

author by joe raniipublication date Thu Apr 10, 2003 22:12author address author phone Report this post to the editors

... Can you imagine a country run by Rose and Fred west, well thats what the Colombian Junta are like


I am not too clear on your reference to West.
If you are talking about some English murderers it is obvious that you are more familiar with England than with Colombia.

I've been in Colombia 7 or 8 times in the past few years, so that kind of garbage doesn't impress me. Colombia has disgraceful disparities between rich and poor, but you don't solve that (and FARC certainly haven't) by murdering and kidnapping people.

Why don't the FARC follow the example of the Farabundo Marti in El Salvador? A decade after losing a civil war they are now poised to take power democratically. Yet FARC is further away than ever from controlling even one mid-sized town, and even less from gaining any foothold in the hearts of the Colombian people. In fact there is distinct evidence that the FARC are on the run in several areas of northern Colombia. Large numbers have been killed or arrested, and in many areas whole units are asking to be admitted into the Rehabilitation programme.

author by The Holy Muggerpublication date Thu Apr 10, 2003 22:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If FARC are so great why did the kidnap the Columbian anti-corruption campaigner,Green Senator and former Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt on Feb 23rd 2002. This women is the best hope Columbia has. She has still not been released along with her campaign manager. FARC ARE THE SAME SCUM MURDEROUS TERRORISTS AS THE GOVERNMENT AND SYSTEM THEY CLAIM TO OPPOSE. THEY USE THE SAME MURDEROUS TACTICS. JUST LOOK AT THEIR BAD BEHAVIOUR AS OPPOSED TO THE ZAPATISTAS IN CHIAPAS.

author by Peacepublication date Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:58author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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