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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
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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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offsite link Britain?s Free Speech Crisis Only Gets Worse Mon Oct 13, 2025 19:00 | Alex Klaushofer
How did Britain, the cradle of liberal democracy, come to have one of the most authoritarian censorship regimes in the world? Alex Klaushofer looks at the horror of the Online Safety Act and where it came from.
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offsite link Nigel Farage Blames Starmer After Reform Council Leader, 19, is Physically Attacked in Street Mon Oct 13, 2025 17:42 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage last night accused Keir Starmer of "disgraceful" rhetoric after Britain's youngest council leader, George Finch, 19, was physically attacked in the street by a man calling him "racist" and a "fascist".
The post Nigel Farage Blames Starmer After Reform Council Leader, 19, is Physically Attacked in Street appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link NHS Nurses Who Refused to Share Changing Room With Man Now Face Misconduct Probe for Telling Story Mon Oct 13, 2025 15:44 | Will Jones
The four Darlington NHS nurses who refused to share a changing room with a male colleague now face a misconduct probe for telling their story and raising awareness of their treatment.
The post NHS Nurses Who Refused to Share Changing Room With Man Now Face Misconduct Probe for Telling Story appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize ? But He Won?t Mon Oct 13, 2025 13:34 | Ramesh Thakur
Trump may have missed out on this year's Nobel Peace Prize, but his stunning success in ending the Gaza conflict should mean he bags it next year, says Ramesh Thakur. But he won't ? the Norwegians will never allow it.
The post Trump Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize ? But He Won’t appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link All 20 Israeli Hostages Released After 738 Days in Captivity in Gaza Mon Oct 13, 2025 11:10 | Will Jones
All 20 living hostages were released today after 738 days in captivity in Gaza following?a Donald Trump-brokered deal between Israel and Hamas that aims to bring an end to the war.
The post All 20 Israeli Hostages Released After 738 Days in Captivity in Gaza appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Transcript of Pluto's Concession Speech

category international | sci-tech | other press author Thursday August 24, 2006 23:11author by redjade Report this post to the editors

and who elected the 'International Astronomical Union' anyway?!
an earthcentric point of view equals intelectual imperialism of the worst sort
an earthcentric point of view equals intelectual imperialism of the worst sort

Just before coming down to speak with you, I called Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus and congratulated them on their success today. As I see it, in this campaign, we've just finished the first half and the Classical Planet team is ahead, but in the second half, our team -- Team Pluto -- is going to surge forward to victory.

I am, of course, disappointed by the results, but I am not discouraged. I am not disappointed because I lost my planetary status, but because the old politics of scholarship and intellectual integrity won today.

I expect my opponents will continue to do in the future what they have done today: Belittle me instead of coming up with ideas to avoid having to rewrite science textbooks.

I will continue to offer the astronomers a different path forward to make my Solar system and orbit a better place to live and work, and that's what I want to do for another six million more years.

I know a lot of people in this system, and not just "classical planets", are angry about the direction in which the Solar system is moving, and so am I.

Tomorrow morning, our campaign will file the necessary petition with the International Astronomical Union so that we can continue this campaign for a new astronomy of unity and purpose. I will always do what is right for my orbit and Solar system regardless of what the political consequences may be.

Tomorrow is a brand new day. Tomorrow we launch a new campaign -- Team Pluto -- Asteroids, non-conforming celestial objects and planets.

more at
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/8/24/102112/777

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The Solar system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system

The International Astronomical Union (IAU)
http://www.iau.org/

author by Duinepublication date Fri Aug 25, 2006 14:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

A Phlútoin,

Bíodh is go bhfuil do stadás plainéadach bainte díot, níor chaill tú d'acmhainn grinn.

author by iosaf +publication date Fri Aug 25, 2006 15:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Lama Sanyei of the Russian association of Tibetan Buddhists issued a press statement to "interfax" on the new classification of Pluto early this morning. Seemingly Pluto has never been considered a planet by the buddhist astronomers of the Himalayas who according to Lama Sanyei consider it an aglomeration of gases or a comet. The monk (not just a bruddah) affirmed the sense of serene joy that the International Astronomers Union had come to their decision thus averting strike or industrial action which as we all well know often turns nasty.

I suppose it's the rising cost of petrol.

here's the link just in case you don't believe me.
http://actualidad.terra.es/ciencia/articulo/budistas_pl...8.htm

author by Duinepublication date Fri Aug 25, 2006 20:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Anois, níl ionam ach cloch!

http://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C3%BAt%C3%B3n_%28pl%C3%...ad%29

 
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