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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 Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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Zimbabwe counting the un-inked thumbs.

category international | crime and justice | other press author Saturday June 28, 2008 15:44author by - Report this post to the editors

Zimbabweans today flocked to the polls. Not to exercise a choice - for there was none. But to make damn sure that after the secret ballot they had a bloody red finger.

No bloody red finger tonight means no democratic duty done today.

When the flock is shepherded by wolves it seems it prefers a bloody red finger to whatever else is on offer. Tomorrow Dr Richard Mugabe will be sworn in as President of Zimbabe. As one of the most articulate and poshest voices in African post-colonial history he will not feel the need to say fuck when he is sworn in. He will not besmirch democracy by cursing during his oath.
this bloody coloured finger voted in a secret ballot
this bloody coloured finger voted in a secret ballot

It is good to know the power of profanity. Thus we may read that "cultural values" are stopping other African states and leaders from speaking their mind on this. They have stopped the F word. They have silenced the uncouth C word.
http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?are...m.php

international coverage
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN846191.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7478757.stm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aOi...=home
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/world/africa/28zimbab...login

Showing an incredible fucking progress in their counting skills Zimbabwean electoral officials who couldn't calculate the last ballots are now almost finished, done and dusted.
"Electoral commission officials said the first results from the 210 constituencies were expected to be declared in the afternoon and the final outcome was likely to be announced by Sunday at the latest. "Most of the counting has been completed," a senior commission official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP. "The first results should be between 1:30 and 3:00 pm (1130 and 1300 GMT) and we should have completed things by tomorrow at the latest."
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hzIPq5e_pRkRHT4Ah0e...ALeqM
5hzIPq5e_pRkRHT4Ah0eCQS9MJaPg

It is now just a matter of identifying the clean un-bloodied hands.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/28/content_84...6.htm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/06/200862....html

This is the website of the Zim Electoral Commission. It is their constitutional duty to inform citizens where the secret ballot boxes are, who the canidadates are, where there constituency boundaries are, to count their votes thereafter, but not to identify those who didn't vote merely indicate where you'd likely to find large numbers of them.
http://www.zimbabweelectoralcommission.org/zec.co.zw/

This was not an Election. This Farce and Evil does not merit publication in Election reports or sections of news or encyclopedias. This was and is an affront to civilisation. Not even in our worst feudal past or lowest subjection to alien powers were we obliged to vote.

author by -publication date Sat Jul 05, 2008 21:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The first task of a prison guard or screw every morning is to count their prisoners.
UK's "Guardian" # Duncan Campbell and Paul Lewis claimed a world media exclusive today with the video files of former Zimbabwean prison guard Shepher Yuda.

"A film that graphically shows how Robert Mugabe's supporters rigged Zimbabwe's election has been smuggled out of the country by a prison officer. It is believed to be the first footage of actual ballot-rigging and comes as Zimbabwe's president faces growing international pressure.

Shepherd Yuda, 36, fled the country this week with his wife and children. He said that he hoped the film, which was made for the Guardian, would help draw further attention to the violence and corruption in Zimbabwe.

Much of the footage was shot inside the country's notorious jail system. Yuda, who has worked in the prison service for 13 years, was motivated by the intensifying violence directed towards the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the murder, two months ago, of his uncle, a MDC activist."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/jul/04/elect...babwe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/04/zimbabwe1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/05/zimbabwe


""""The first task of a prison guard or screw every morning is to verify the night count of their prisoners and report or hide any deaths""""

 
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