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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.

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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

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sunday papers

category international | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis author Sunday July 18, 2004 18:16author by -guess. Report this post to the editors

ha ha! you thought we had gone away.

in this weeks issue-
Progressive Democrats why the fuck is a party that changed the constitution and garnered praise from the main leadership of the extreme right on three continents doing in power?
Ahern, why the fuck does he think, that Summer time is the time to prepare humble pie Celtic Tiger whilst his neoNazi sidekick Mc Dowell seeks Gardaí of vocational worth.

Haiti. what the fuck are the Guardia Civil (of Franco's invention) doing in Haiti the land of Toussaint L'ouverture (at Zapatero's order)?

Oh there's more.

The Ardoyne. My short and blunt sunday paper opinion is- Ireland the cultural entity has talked too much Temple Bar and too little Ardoyne since I left. sorry.

Forum 2004 Barcelona has been invaded by Sea, Land and Air this very hot day. I'm a merrovinginvanjan of dubious vampyre stock, and so can't go out in the Sun for long. I can't regale you therefore with an eye witness account of the rafts that made the journey.

Aznar. the fucker is in Colombia and really seriously kicking in his "i'm an improved Thatcher I speak español" role. He has not gone away either.

Bush is a fucking muppet.

There are not many Irish companies who have Managing Directors who call for the cancellation of external debt in the states where they do business. One such company saw its lawful business venture in Iraq slowed down by the absence of the then lawful ruler Sadam's signature on their contract. Then the fucking muppet bombed the place. I suggest, fuckity fuckity me, that the past present and future of this company ought be of considerable interest to the Irish people since it's like "flying your flag".

other things-
who the fuck told Pat Cox the Catalans were terrorists in January 2004?
who the fuck told Aznar (to tell the world) there were WMD in February 2003?
who the fuck told Blair there were WMD?
who the fuck said it was ETA?
Who the fuck would say it "in your little scrawny neck of the woods" it was the mad IRA, or et cetera. In times past, when my forebears were still working up to the vampyre skin, you were lied to systematically by "Cads". now they're just fuckers.

author by vyvyanpublication date Sun Jul 18, 2004 18:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The leadership will never take you seriously and nothing will reform ever ever.

author by armchair pirate.publication date Sun Jul 18, 2004 21:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

in an action to highlight the anti Forum of Cultures PLC which is being held in BCN,
a flotilla of rafts made from recylced material was launched from a beach in the urban speculation zone and sailed around the coast into the ticket only Forum 2004 recint.
Highlighting Immigration, Unsustainability and creativity.
A really Inspirational achievement from the group-
http://www.paterasurbanas.net
photos of this morning:-

http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/105827/index.php

http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/105815/index.php

TV coverage has focussed on the 3km distance covered by these aquatic protesters.
http://www.telenoticies.com/noticia/not154263072.htm
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/07/18/enespecial2/1090154301.html

If I had had better parents I would have melanin. I would not burn up in the Sun.
But I do. I've got skin like a Ultra Violet powder and it smokes gently in strong sunlight. Nor do I ever really move in a coherent fashion before 11am.
so I'm an armchair pirate. fuckity fuck. & to think in my enthusiasm I had watched all the old naval movies. But it got on the TV channels and was a great success. and I'm sure there'll be lots more photos. )-: I wasn't there. fuckity fuck.

author by armchair pirate.publication date Mon Jul 19, 2004 12:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It ought be noted, that the vast majority of Sub Saharan immigrants who work in Europe for the lowest wages, and who hold thier jobs with the lowest security, have made the last leg of the journey to Europe on raft.

Everyweek the coastal guard of Spain and Italy take hopeful migrants from the Mediterranean sea, indeed it their main function is to patrol the narrow stretches of Sea between Andalusia and Morocco, and Sardinia/Sicily and Tunisia searching for small rafts.

The demonstraters yesterday, of whom 200 managed to make a 3km journey, used the same material (used water bottles, urban waste, old palatte boards) to make their rafts, which our fellow workers, use to enter Fortress Europe. But their journey is considerably more dangerous, and on average more than 50 km in distance. Some chose routes around the Gaurdia Civil and will spend many days afloat and cover a distance of 250km.

Once inside the Forum complex there was a brief attempt by the Forum director, to "absorb" what is being termed by mainstream media as an "anti-Globalisation protest" by "the Assembly".
However after a few minutes, the aquatic teams of the "Assembly" had had enough of playing "protest and spectacle for the business of culture industry" and tagged the place up instead.

Related Link: http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/105925/index.php
author by :-)publication date Tue Jul 20, 2004 13:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Amidst complaints from the PP municipal leader that the assembly and its members who took part in the stunning action of assembling and navagating a flotilla of rafts and thus bringing 200+ protesters by sea into the "pay only" Forum compound, ought be prosecuted.
The Assembly is reported in todays minor commercial press as having handed over an envelope containing 100€ to the Director of Forum2004 to cover the cost of water and food.

It must be remembered, that the Assembly apart from concieving this astounding action, never planned any objective further than "entering the Forum precint".

Once the objective had been acheived, the activists were naturally hungry and thirsty, and is is only natural that they as pirates looted in a nice utterly liberal and modern way the food and water and soft drinks made available at high cost to those who pay the top whack entrance fee.

Unfortuanately none of the universal culture God Squad remained from the previous week's parliament of religions, and so there were no well cooked British Sikh nan breads going.

The directorship of the Forum have accepted the envelope, and though describing the incursion as "incivic" in that it saw many multi-national-corporation logos obscured by aerosol spray, they have agreed not to press any criminal charges.

the airborne division of Sunday's aquatic invasion force.
the airborne division of Sunday's aquatic invasion force.

 
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