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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 Why Aren?t Western Feminists Standing up for Iran?s Women? Tue Jan 13, 2026 11:19 | Will Jones
Why aren't Western feminists standing up for Iran's women? Activists who never miss a chance to condemn microaggressions are oddly silent as protesters bravely attempt to throw off the theocratic yolk, says Clarissa Hard.
The post Why Aren’t Western Feminists Standing up for Iran’s Women? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Matthew?Parris Calls for Ban on Smelly Hydrocarbons Whether Climate Emergency is Real or Not Tue Jan 13, 2026 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Matthew Parris has called for a ban on smelly fossil fuels whether the 'climate emergency' is real or not. God in Heaven save us from these dripping wets with their luxury beliefs, says Chris Morrison.
The post Matthew?Parris Calls for Ban on Smelly Hydrocarbons Whether Climate Emergency is Real or Not appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link If English Literature Courses Are Going to Be About Gay and Green Grievance Studies We Might As Well... Tue Jan 13, 2026 07:00 | Steven Tucker
What Britain's universities are doing to English Literature courses is a cultural crime, says Steven Tucker. What should pass on England's cultural heritage now indoctrinates young people in fashionable Left-wing causes.
The post If English Literature Courses Are Going to Be About Gay and Green Grievance Studies We Might As Well Pulp Them Now appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Jan 13, 2026 02:01 | Richard Eldred
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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Electric Car Blamed for Jumping Forward by Itself and Killing Five Year-Old as Driver Cleared Mon Jan 12, 2026 19:30 | Will Jones
An electric car has been blamed for jumping forward by itself and killing a five year-old as the driver is cleared by a court of causing the child?s death amid similar reports of malfunctioning vehicles.
The post Electric Car Blamed for Jumping Forward by Itself and Killing Five Year-Old as Driver Cleared 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

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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The Sarkozy Effect & Proletarian Unity

category international | politics / elections | news report author Monday May 07, 2007 11:39author by scorchio Report this post to the editors

Two days ago no-one accused Segolene Royal of scare-tactics, dirty electioneering, or any kind of pre-Uachtaran vulgarity when she remarked that riots would greet a Sarkozy victory.

Accordingly 3,000 riot cops were deployed in central Paris. All the riots where kids burned cars before were in the periphery. To the relief of the establishment the anger didn't leave the ugly quarters.

Then Sarkozy won. Overall on 85% of electorate with 50.19%. In posh central 16ème arrondissement where he will now live "in a certain insecurity" he got 80.81% but out in ugliesville 20ème arrondissement Paris he only got 35.37%.

What was ugliesville to do? Burn their buses and be ignored again?
Bingo! it took 3 years or was it 40? to riot the centre of Paris
Bingo! it took 3 years or was it 40? to riot the centre of Paris

The number of burned cars "voiture brulé" (as we say in French the langauge of the Alexandrine) reached the total last seen on the 14th of July 2006 which was French national day.....for all the French.

In total 367 cars have been sent to automobile heaven and 270 people have been arrested.
136 people were arrested outside of Paris, 88 in the greater Parisien area and only 46 in central posh Paris.

Obviously there are lessons to be learnt. It's easier to escape the cops in central posh Paris. Not that such a thought ought interest the readers of Indymedia Ireland who since their election fever began have clocked up "love Garda" references all over the site. Observe the young slightly effete Garda who most certainly uses mousturiser being our friend and escorting out a US consul -
http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/apr2007/img_2471.jpg
Giggle at the chirpy Gardai as they joke about sniffer dogs here -
http://indymedia.ie/article/82410


Let the Irish of all political classes be re-assured - their underclass haven't got such rage together yet, they still need something like a "love Ulster" march to get them going. But we will work on instilling a proper sense of underclass "racailles" united Irish proletarian rage in them.

Don't you worry.
Nous sommes touts de racailles.
= we are all scum. really we are. Just too many of us got uppity about it.

background :-
Paris Housing Hell (4) it is oppression & it is political
http://indymedia.ie/article/72995
Paris housing hell 1
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71693
Paris housing hell 2
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72013
Paris housing hell 3 the Clichey sous Bois riots
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72750
Callejera á la francaise
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72821
By Joe C. of UWU WCM "la haine est dans la rue" (with many update comments and links)
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72841
By Kay Velvet - The Glorious Revolutionary Federation of Fortune 500 Killers (M50/Blanchardstown Chapter)
"The Suburbs Are Ticking... Why The Nihilism Of The Paris Riots Is Not A Political "Insurrection" (with nightly burnt car counts and arrests)
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72857

& finally for those who would like to think Scorchio (iosaf) did his best to save the bad cars from Nihilist Automobile Hell the article "Saving the V republic" which brought you through it all over a year. How an unelected prime minister covered the largest financial scandal in European and allowed a once admirable society go completely to the dogs & then the dog got elected.
http://indymedia.ie/article/75208 and of course explaining the difference and similarity between Alexandrines and Racailles - http://indymedia.ie/article/74930

Allo Sarko!! Let them own Cars! be Equal & Free! & vote for their rulers. let us call it democracy!
Allo Sarko!! Let them own Cars! be Equal & Free! & vote for their rulers. let us call it democracy!

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   You are right, the guy does seem disturbed     Felix Quigley    Mon May 07, 2007 15:39 
   Algeria V Libya)     C Murray    Mon May 07, 2007 20:40 
   links     C Murray    Mon May 07, 2007 21:13 
   Only over dead bodies will Thatcher be compressed into 5 years. Who's going to start the death-list?     scorchio    Tue May 08, 2007 09:46 
   Scorchio     Observer    Tue May 08, 2007 09:59 
   It's a pity you think I'm getting off on it. But really you're just trolling & undermining a point.     scorchio    Tue May 08, 2007 10:35 
   french elections     Frank O'Phile    Tue May 08, 2007 11:27 
   misconceptions about "rioting" & the French Trade Union move to General Strike     left unity    Tue May 08, 2007 11:53 
   Rioters     Frank O'Phile    Tue May 08, 2007 12:21 
 10   Segolene Royal     pj    Tue May 08, 2007 12:28 
 11   spot on Frank. there are no quick fixes from only the trade union side.........nor 5 year Thatcher     :-)    Tue May 08, 2007 13:26 
 12   Healthy inclusive debate     Frank O'Phile    Wed May 09, 2007 15:21 
 13   Incitement     pj    Wed May 09, 2007 15:28 
 14   That's ok - I'm not good in human company anyway & am rarely seen in daylight.     chortle    Wed May 09, 2007 16:18 
 15   Sorbonne University Occupied & on strike - Pantheon Metro occupied - Paris     students barking    Wed May 09, 2007 21:07 
 16   Article on Sarko victory     ISNer    Wed May 09, 2007 21:33 
 17   Besancenot has made a statement for his type of socialist on his website     smiling.    Wed May 09, 2007 21:44 
 18   Sarko's 3 days cost 17 years of a minimum wage worker's salary with no tax paid.. at the very least.     Gráinne Mhaol    Wed May 09, 2007 23:20 
 19   "Orientation for next 5 weeks comment" - Left held - taking the centre - Hobbling Sarko.     .:.    Thu May 10, 2007 09:24 
 20   Sarko's been working hard up to holidays.     scorchio    Wed Aug 01, 2007 21:47 
 21   Every day I love him juts a bit more.     Don    Thu Aug 02, 2007 21:51 


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