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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 National Trust Puts Vegan Tampons in Men?s Toilets Fri Oct 10, 2025 17:28 | Will Jones
The National Trust is under fire for putting vegan tampons in men's lavatories, dispensing them from a large box fixed to the wall near the urinals with the message: "Got a period situation going on? We got you."
The post National Trust Puts Vegan Tampons in Men’s Toilets appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BREAKING: Hamit Coskun?s Conviction for Burning Quran Overturned by Crown Court Fri Oct 10, 2025 14:13 | Will Jones
Hamit Coskun's criminal conviction for burning a copy of the Quran while shouting "f*** Islam" in a protest outside the Turkish consulate in London has been overturned by the Crown Court in a victory for free speech.
The post BREAKING: Hamit Coskun’s Conviction for Burning Quran Overturned by Crown Court appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link It?s Time to Make Judges Accountable Again Fri Oct 10, 2025 13:26 | Dr David McGrogan
Nearly 80% of Britain's 'Establishment' is Left-wing. No wonder our 'independent' judges keep making lunatic decisions. It's time they were made accountable to voters once again, says Dr David McGrogan.
The post It’s Time to Make Judges Accountable Again appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East Fri Oct 10, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump was today snubbed by Nobel Peace Prize judges ? who instead awarded the prize to a Venezuelan politician ? despite the President bringing peace to the Middle East.
The post Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails Fri Oct 10, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The technocrats are falling across the West as their ideology founders on reality. The cracking of the Net Zero consensus, like the end of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, is a moment of hope, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
The post The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Italian Hostage crises.

category international | worker & community struggles and protests | news report author Wednesday September 08, 2004 00:38author by iosaf Report this post to the editors

members of a pacifist NGO founded in Italy in 1991.

They called themselves "ponte per Iraq" whilst working in Bagdhad, where their activity focussed on water purification, sanitary and hygiene operations in support of the Islamic Red Crescent equivalent of the Swiss Red Cross.
Simona. she looks like a pacifist, she's been photo-ed with the rainbow flag and she is not self employed or working for a right wing newspaper.
Simona. she looks like a pacifist, she's been photo-ed with the rainbow flag and she is not self employed or working for a right wing newspaper.

Little over a week ago, I reportd the hostage taking of two journalists, (one self employed) and the other a worker for the right wing daily Le Figaro, both citizens of France, who with their Syrian chauffeur were on their way to the besieged Islamic town of Najaf, the scene of prolonged conflict between Islamic fundamentalists with considerable international interest and the current enterim regime of Iraq with assistance from the U.S. forces stationed in Iraq for over a year since acting on unreliable intelligence deposed the undoubted tyranny of Saddam and brought it up to date with the sort of ridiculous and contrived packaged global horror that we are all now used to, and I sugested in the author field of that article that someday Al Jazeera would face the key maker, might I remind you that in the meantime there have been in excess of 600 arrests in the southern suburbs of Baghdad which btw are the "road to Najaf", Al Jazeera Iraq no longer exists and all his material has been seized by the interim government as well as its employees, and this has led to the appearance of a new "islamic fundamentalist friendly(?)" TV channel and website. The same which maintains the "imminently to be released" French journalists kidnappers are asking for millions of "dollars" from the French Government.

The Italian story thus, you will be interested to learn, was broken from the Qatar offices of Al Jazeera.

(is that muddy enough?)

If I were one of the "indymedia journalists" reporting on a union, I would use more punctuation.
"I am not one of those however and paratactic prose will do for me".
Adorno.

author by R. Isiblepublication date Wed Sep 08, 2004 20:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

AMY GOODMAN: What about the two 29-year-old Italian women, along with two Iraqis, who were kidnapped, part of A Bridge to Baghdad, the group, perhaps the longest standing foreign peace group in Iraq since the Persian Gulf War more than ten years ago?

PATRICK COCKBURN: Yes, well, this was particularly shocking, partly because the people targeted had done nothing except good to Iraq, and secondly, this was in broad daylight in the center of the capital near the national theater. That's the nearest big building. They turned up in heavily armed -- people thought they were government security forces -- swept around the guards and kidnapped these two women. While it was they were quite well known here, they aren't people whom anybody thought would be targeted by kidnappers.

Related Link: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/08/1422239
author by Correctorpublication date Sun Sep 12, 2004 09:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Hello there. Actually, Patrick Coburn is not your pin-up counterpunch writer, Isible, that would be Andrew Coburn. I can't imagine him writing for both Independent newspapers (those naughty capitalists!) and that online online paranoia-rag, Counterpunch. You silly moo!

author by iosafpublication date Wed Sep 29, 2004 15:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

and flown back to Italy in a small fast jet where they touched down wearing looks of relief and expensive traditional silk arabic dresses and holding each others' hands.

The French journalists "are still expected to be imminently released", and there are almost 100 hostages in Iraq.

free.
free.

author by Attention to Correctorpublication date Wed Sep 29, 2004 16:56author email berk at berkshire dot co dot ukauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

There is no such writer as Andrew Coburn on Counterpunch. It is Patrick Cockburn: http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick09272004.html. He writes for the London Independent, not Independent Newspapers.

Roll on the usual boring conspiracies about this being an inside job/publicity stunt, etc by the usual tiresome suspects - N. Klein (tm), etc.

author by Updaterpublication date Wed Sep 29, 2004 17:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

His name is Alexander and has written a book with Patrick

author by eeekkkpublication date Mon Oct 04, 2004 18:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Italy's adoration of the "two Simonas", the women aid workers abducted in Iraq, began to sour yesterday, as the extent of their sympathy for the Iraqi fight against the allied occupation became clear.
 
In their first big interviews given since their release in return for a reported $1 million ransom on Tuesday, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, both 29, gave their backing to insurgents opposing the allied forces.

Related Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml;sessionid=DTC5ZXO5CV1MBQFIQMFCM5OAVCBQYJVC?xml=/news/2004
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