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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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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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Karen Fallon Last of the Catholic Worker 5 to leave Prison

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday April 17, 2003 16:27author by Joe Sheehan Report this post to the editors

Karen Fallon, the last of the "Pitstop Ploughshares 5" still in prison, is to leave prison tomorrow, Good Friday, morning.

author by ipsiphipublication date Thu Apr 17, 2003 16:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

relax.
surround yourself with friends and breathe gently.
thank you from everyone.
:-)

author by redjadepublication date Thu Apr 17, 2003 17:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

when is the party?! :-)

author by Ruairipublication date Thu Apr 17, 2003 17:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Thank you Karen for your brave actions and strong show of resistance. It has opened up avenues for the rest of us to speak and act and put pressure on the illegal acts of the Irish Govt.

author by Rpublication date Thu Apr 17, 2003 18:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

http://www.ploughsharesireland.org

author by Antpublication date Thu Apr 17, 2003 19:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Karen, her Catholic Worker comrades and Mary Kelly can't be thanked enough for sacrificing their liberty and making a stand that most of us aren't able to.

Their actions against this war - in addition to being effective - have been truly inspiring.

author by Phuq Heddpublication date Thu Apr 17, 2003 20:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

and all the Catholic Workers. An excellent job and an impressive demonstration of spirit and morality.

author by friends of karenpublication date Thu Apr 17, 2003 22:24author address author phone 087 918 4552Report this post to the editors

YOU CAN JAIL THE RESISTER BUT NOT THE RESISTANCE

A vigil will be held outside Limerick Prison on Good Friday morning kicking off at 8 a.m. until Karen is cut loose.

Related Link: http://www.ploughsharesireland.org
author by Thomaspublication date Fri Apr 18, 2003 01:47author address author phone Report this post to the editors

you and the other Catholic workers and Mary Kelly should be proud. Your actions were the best thing that happened over the past few months of anti war activity

author by Blackberry - Dis...publication date Fri Apr 18, 2003 23:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Sun welcomes you with splashes, while Wind whispers soft airs .sShh... Springs, wait your kettle to fill, and Streams your feet to bathe. .sShh... Future... from around each Riversbend...... Moon, wishes you well, an Early mist sits on green grass, .sShh... Dawn

author by Damien & Nuin - Dublin Catholic Worker 'Pit-Stop Ploughshares'publication date Sat Apr 19, 2003 00:21author address author phone 087 9638398Report this post to the editors

Hey Karen...you're back in minimum security!!! No more classes in sewing bug-eyed stuffed animals. No more guards trapping you in a closet for 22 hours at a time! No more GM vegetables in wierd shapes. No more listening to people scream down the halls at 4 AM. WE are relieved that you are on the outside againn!!! Great seeing you today. Many blessings and peace...moran beannachdan agus sith dhuit!!! [Scottish Gaelic..... Ur Language!!!!!]

Welcome back from the 40 shades of grey demesne. Now more razor wire surrounding....now replaced by the forthcoming darling buds of May and melodious larks harmonising. No more screws waiting outside your door at 7.15pm for lock-up. No more cornflakes,breakfast marmalade ;-) nor belly inflating white bread. No more lack of access to pool tables, gym, library, language classes, chapels, etc.
Blessed are we to have you grace our land.....your land :)))
Bondye avek nou ma petite soeur (Creole French

Related Link: http://www.ploughsharesireland.org
author by BlackPope - Peace through Resistancepublication date Sat Apr 19, 2003 20:19author email BlackPope at operamail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Congratulations and thanks for the great work and inspiring witness.

You will never walk alone

author by PHILIPpublication date Sun Apr 20, 2003 15:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Do the Catholic Worker group actually support the catholic church?

Do they believe in transubstanciation and other similar hocus pocus peddled by the church?

Do they support the churches position on abortion?

And do the catholic workers try to convert people to catholicism?

Please answer these questions I've asked them before and got no reply.

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