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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.

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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
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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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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

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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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The Other America - MP3 Tales from the NE Anarchist Movement

category international | anti-capitalism | feature author Monday March 24, 2008 21:50author by Andrew - personal capacity Report this post to the editors

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American Anarchism is Full of Surprises

I spent the last month Greyhounding around the USA speaking about anarchism in Ireland. Fourteen cities, 20+ meetings in thirty days in cities with populations from thirty thousand to over eight million.

On my travels I used the opportunity to record interviews with many of the local anarchists who were organizing the meetings which I edited on the bus and posted to indymedia.ie once I hit my next wi-fi signal. I've collated these interviews below, over two hours of audio in all.All those interviewed are anarchists but apart from that they represent a section of the population of the North East ranging in age from perhaps 20 to nearly 70. Together they give an impression of 'the other America', that is the vast majority of the US population that is not visible in the election coverage or as characters on 'Friends' or 'Sex & the City'.

These interviews are a fragment of a picture, a selection of the hundred plus people I had conversations with, the ones where there was enough time and enough quiet to allow me to flip open a five year old laptop and hit record. I couldn't always do that so there are many fascinating conversations that are missing including one from a visit to one of the 100+ political prisoners still incarcerated in the US.

I spent four days in NYC but the shortage of both time and quiet spots in that city where many work three jobs just to pay the rent means no recording from there. And then there were also the overheard conversations, on the train to Providence I listened to two recently returned Iraq vets compare their terror of camel spiders, in the Greyhound station in Springfield, Mass another vet screamed at a Bush broadcast on the TV.

So for ease of access here are the six recordings with some 11 people already published to indymedia.ie and short summaries of each.

Interview 1: Providence, Rhode island
Providence was the second stop on my tour. Senia and Mark talked to me about (the new) Students for Democratic Society (SDS), the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), anarcho-feminism in Puerto Rico and the US primaries. The interview opens with ten seconds of chanting from an SDS demonstration that happened to be taking place when I was in town. 50 minutes
original post: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86424

Interview 2: Boston
An interview with four members of the Boston union of the North Eastern Anarchist Communist Federation (NEFAC). NEFAC were the organisers of the NE tour which is why quite a few of the interviews are with NEFAC members. We talk about NEFAC, the Boston Irish, housing organization around the foreclosure crisis, unemployed workers organising and political prisoner support in the USA today. 27 minutes
Original posthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/86424

Interview 3: North Hampton, Western Massachusetts
This was recorded on the morning after the Amherst meeting just after a visit to the local graveyard where the anarchist Dyer Lum is buried. Anne Marie tells me how she became an anarchist through reading her sons activist emails, the local anti-war movement and class struggle politics in a small town. We also talk about Dyer Lim. 27 minutes
original post: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86525

Interview 4: Washington DC
This was actually recorded in a parked car in Virginia but Alex talks about the Washington DC specific problem of building a popular anarchism in a city where there are several protests every day. 8 minutes
original post: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86696

Interview 5: Richmond, Virginia
Recorded on a sunny day in the park mentioned in the interview, hence the occasional wind noise. Sean tells me about the Richmond slave insurrection of 1800, anarchism in Richmond since 1995, homeless activism. 23 minutes
original post: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86696

Interview 6: Syracuse
This was the second last stop and found me once more in the snow and ice after my brief Virginia spring two days travel to the south. Sara and Stephen, two members of the Syracuse Solidarity Network, talk about anarchist organising, local anti war and feminist movements and activism in a rust belt town. The second half is Stephen talking about how the experience of working with Common Ground in New Orleans after Kathrina radicalised him and in many ways is the most interesting segment of the six interviews.
original post: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86741

Andrew's Blog: http://anarchism.pageabode.com

New Jersey
New Jersey

Dyer Lum, mentioned in the North Hampton interview
Dyer Lum, mentioned in the North Hampton interview

The Lucy Parsons anarchist bookstore in Boston
The Lucy Parsons anarchist bookstore in Boston

The community centre in Richmond which was the venue for my talk there
The community centre in Richmond which was the venue for my talk there

author by CHpublication date Mon Mar 24, 2008 21:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I've enjoyed listening to these Andrew, thanks for sharing.

author by dunkpublication date Tue Apr 29, 2008 17:24author email fuspey at yahoo dot co dot ukauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

really enjoying listening to these audio reports Andrew, well done, be interesting to get a recording of one of your presentations, both to hear what your report is and the audiences questions and feedback.

Ive sent this link to your audios onto friends from the US or in the US

related:
IMC-RADIO back online
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87224

author by weeler - wsmpublication date Tue Apr 29, 2008 22:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This is great work Andrew, must be tough being on the road so long.

author by Andrewpublication date Tue Apr 29, 2008 22:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Dipped my fingers in the Pacific today.

As to an audio of my talk I've recorded it at a few of the locations and intend to put it online with a collection of the questions and answers from a couple of dozen of the meetings when I've completed the tour. I'm holding off till then as obviously I want people to go to the meetings to hear it in person.

 
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