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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 News Round-Up Sat Nov 22, 2025 01:24 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine Fri Nov 21, 2025 17:00 | Anonymous
Read what happened when an Extinction Rebellion meeting was disrupted by a protester. Seems they can give it out but have no intention of putting up with it themselves.
The post What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Are the Grooming Gangs a Muslim Phenomenon? Fri Nov 21, 2025 15:00 | Mark Durie
First they were 'Asian' grooming gangs, then 'Pakistani'. But the most important thing to grasp is that almost all of them ? 87% of convictions ? are Muslim, says Mark Durie. This must not be covered up.
The post Are the Grooming Gangs a Muslim Phenomenon? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Free Speech Documentary Cancelled by London Cinema Fri Nov 21, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
London cinema Rich Mix has banned a documentary by Spiked about free speech because it does not "align with our values and mission".
The post Free Speech Documentary Cancelled by London Cinema appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Inquiry Has Failed to Engage With the Evidence Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
The Covid Inquiry module two report fails to question faulty assumptions and draws conclusions without engaging with the evidence, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson in a damning assessment.
The post The Covid Inquiry Has Failed to Engage With the Evidence 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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Dr Wallace Says No To M3!

category national | environment | news report author Tuesday March 01, 2005 17:23author by Celt Report this post to the editors

Today Dr Patrick Wallace Director of the National Museum of Ireland met with Dick Roche and said no to the M3.

Today Dr Patrick Wallace Director of the National Museum of Ireland met with Dick Roche, Minister for the Environment Heritage and Local Government and made clear his opposition to the M3. Dr Wallace said that if the present route of the M3 was adhered to then it would be an act of vandalism against our National Heritage.

Will Roche act on this advice? Will he even make it public? Dick Roche has two weeks in which to consider the advice, two weeks in which the bye elections will take place.

Either way a lot of people will be annoyed.

If Roche agrees with the advice of Dr Wallace then a new route for the M3 will have to be chosen and the FF & PD land speculators will lose out. It will also result in delaying the start of the project by at least a year.

If Roche rejects the advice then he will face mass protests and legal action. This will also result in lenghty delays.

Lobby Dick Roche. Tell him he must follow the advice of Dr Wallace. Save Tara!

Home Address:
2 Herbert Terrace, Herbert Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow

Business Address:
Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Custom House, Dublin 1
Tel: 888 2403 Fax: 878 8640 Email: minister@environ.ie:

Constituency Office:
2 Herbert Terrace, Herbert Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow
Tel: 286 3211 Fax: 286 7666 Website:www.dickroche.com:
Email: dick.roche@oireachtas.ie:

Congratulate Dr Wallace on standing up to the FF/PD Junta:

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author by Setantapublication date Tue Mar 01, 2005 17:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Is Paddy Wallace allowed to make his opinion public or will Tricky Dicky Roche keep it hush hush until after the elections?

author by Celtpublication date Tue Mar 01, 2005 18:27author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I believe Dr wallace is officially silenced for the 2 weeks that Roche has to consider the advice. But now that its out in the public eye Roche might have to make a statement. This should also release Dr Wallace from his vow of silence.

author by taraskrynepublication date Tue Mar 01, 2005 21:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Great news! But my understanding is that today was just an informal meeting, and that the two week statutory consultation period has not yet begun. That would commence when a formal application is made in writing to the Director. Any way of confirming?

author by newly arrived non celtic immigrant - who would equally be appaled were my local sites of world heritage to be bombed.publication date Tue Mar 01, 2005 22:33author address formerly babalonauthor phone Report this post to the editors

this just goes to prove Oil is crap.

author by anarchaeologistpublication date Wed Mar 02, 2005 01:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

That's also my understanding of today's meeting. The two week period hasn't started yet (not that it's of any great importance in the greater scheme of things). Will the National Museum refuse to partake in the issuing of excavation licences though? Hardly likely.

I'd love to know how the new Monuments Act will impact on their monitoring of excavations in the country. Bertie seems determined to take the NMI out of the loop. It's now up to the individual archaeologists within the institution to get their act together. And while Bertie holds the purse strings, there's not likely to be much new blood in Kildare St., or at least a few heads willing to peep over the parapet. He doesn't like our type you see, we're holding things up for his friends (especially those developing the inner suburbs of Dublin).

At the end of the day though, the protests are belated. The statutary period has long passed (not that opposing views would be taken into account or anything) and the NRA point to this effect is a valid one.

It looks like Woodstown has 'survived' and your neck of the woods taraskryne will soon be overrun by viz-vested diggers and worse.

Well, I recommend that they all stay away from the Tara Na Riogh pub anyway. The cider was flat in '92 and I hear it hasn't got much better since.

Just watch who stands to profit when the valley becomes another well-lit, light industrial park, on the ugly edges of suburbia. Just as the new roundabout in Carrickmines was put there in the private interest, there are those out there who will profit big time from the destruction of this landscape.

author by aratpublication date Wed Mar 02, 2005 20:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

because if the developers and landlords take away their advertising - pop goes the times.

Anyone have complete info for here?

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