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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.

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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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Irish Govt agency floats the case for Nuclear Power

category national | environment | other press author Thursday April 06, 2006 19:30author by Terence Report this post to the editors

Report suggest nuclear power in face of Peak Oil crisis

The State agency, Forfás, has warned Ireland will face a liquid fuel crisis in the next ten to 15 years and may have to develop a nuclear power station to supply its electricity needs.

This story was carried by RTE recently (2 days ago) after the recent publication of the report: "A Baseline Assessment of Ireland's Oil Dependence: Key Policy Considerations" by Forfás and as reported here: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75287

The RTE report is interesting, in that it chose to highlight this rather small section that makes this suggestion about nuclear power, although it is controversial. It so happened though that on PrimeTIme the other evening on RTE television that the question of Ireland's dependency on imported oil and other fuels was the topic of the programme. On it were various people, including Patrica McKenna from the Green Party and they also had a so-called export from UCG(?), who very actively promoted nuclear power on the programme. Indeed he was apparently a physicst and one would think maybe qualified to talk on the subject, but that does not neccessarily follow, because physicsts like anyone else are human and can be biased. And does a physicst know about the interactions of low-level radiation and microbiology down to the fine but important detail? No. But the idea is that he is the voice of scientific 'authority' and what he says goes and anyone else is not qualified to do so.

Old readers will remember that Ireland had planned to build a nuclear power station back in the 1970s in the South East at Carnsore Pt, but was defeated by the very large and unexpected anti-nuclear campaign.

Later the ESB said they decided against a nuclear power station, because when the reactor would have to be taken offline for maintence, since the power station would have provided up to 20% to 25% of the country's power, there would have been a gap in supply during that period. That is why an electrical inter-connector with the UK is now touted as a reason why this particular problem is no longer an obstacle.

It' s is likely the pro-nuclear propaganda campaign which has clearly started will now point out that the electricity we get from the UK, is probably nuclear derived electricity and that we therefore no longer have any moral right to oppose it. And since Ireland is very unprepared for Peak Oil and are thus vulnerable to our fuels supplies being cut off (aka Russian natural gas a la Ukraine style), then that will further weaken public opinion.

The full reported story from RTE can be found at the URL below:

Related Link: http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0404/fuel.html

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   RE: the nuclear expert     Nuke power    Fri Apr 07, 2006 13:21 
   Carnsore memories     MichaelY    Fri Apr 07, 2006 13:52 
   no nukes     h. simpson    Fri Apr 07, 2006 17:00 
   Preventing Nuke power and Incinerators in Ireland     Terence    Fri Apr 07, 2006 17:53 
   Figures for electrical power in Ireland and breakdown by energy source     Terence    Fri Apr 07, 2006 18:08 
   Sinn Fein response to Forfas' suggestion of nuclear power for Eire     Terence    Sat Apr 08, 2006 23:28 
   Pebble bed reactors     Nuke power    Sat Apr 15, 2006 16:48 
   Programme of interest depicting nuke accident at Sellafield     Terence    Thu Apr 20, 2006 14:03 
   Who is this Joker Ulster businessman's nuclear station plan     reader    Thu Apr 20, 2006 16:30 
 10   Sellafield     pat c    Thu May 04, 2006 12:31 


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