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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
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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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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

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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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Martin Cullen off Sunday Independent front page

category national | arts and media | opinion/analysis author Sunday August 10, 2008 10:00author by Jim O'Brien Report this post to the editors

Firs class minister, second class athletes story gone from web edition

Maybe it is not the sort of anti government story Sir Anthony would want. Minister Martin Cullen padding around in his first class pajamas on his first class flight to China has vanished, replaced by:

"Cabinet opposed to across-the-board pay rises
By RONALD QUINLAN

ACROSS-the-board pay rises look like an increasingly unlikely outcome from the national pay talks as the Government attempts to rein in inflation and protect employment as the economic downturn continues."

The story not on Sunday Independent website - click to read
The story not on Sunday Independent website - click to read

Or was it regarded as a breach of the Minister's 'privacy'. If so, no such luck for gay gardai, who suffered a homophobic attack, masquerading as the public interest, from Jim Cusack last week. Looks like Cusack might be reported to the Press Council......

Angry at 'gay garda' article

Sunday August 10 2008

Sir -- The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors wishes to complain in the strongest possible manner at the contents of an article called 'Garda's gay club visit shows new face of the force' (Sunday Independent, August 3, 2008).

We have received complaints from our members about the article and we believe it is not only offensive to members of the garda organisation who are gay, but also to the entire gay community. This article was clearly intended to stir up anti-gay feelings in general, within the Garda Siochana and, in particular, amongst Garda Headquarters personnel and I will expanded on this point later in this letter.

The Association also condemns the article in the light of the garda organisation's good record in developing policies to prevent harassment and bullying. The article is a serious setback to the organisation where a great deal has been achieved over recent years in developing policies to ensure that minorities and individuals are not bullied or harassed because of race, colour, nationality, religion, ethnic or national origins, membership of the travelling community or sexual orientation.

In the opinion of the association, the article is in breach of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Periodicals which forms the basis for adjudications by the Press Ombudsman and Press Council of Ireland.

The particular breaches are:

Breach of Principle 3.1 -- Fairness and Honesty.

It is not fair or honest to publish an article that refers to the private life of any citizen, to how they were dressed or where they were in their own time when there is no legitimate public interest served by the publication of such details. It is not fair or honest in the course of such an article to introduce such derogatory terms as 'Garda Hindquarters' or to refer to a "'pink circle' in Phoenix Park depot".

Breach of Principle 5.1 -- The Right to Privacy.

It is a breach of the privacy of the person involved, who is obviously identifiable to at least some of his colleagues, to publish details of how they were dressed or where they were during their own time. The article has been written in a most intrusive and offensive manner about a member's behaviour that is totally unrelated to their professional role. Describing a garda member as "coming out of one of the country's best known gay bars dressed in what were described as 'tight black leather pants'" is both unnecessary and un-newsworthy. We cannot accept that what gardai legitimately do while off duty is fair game for any press reporter. A garda member's family status, marital status, sexual orientation and religious behaviour are private. They are not matters of public interest. In an organisation like An Garda Siochana it is not always necessary to name names. We believe that the article will have inevitably resulted in a great deal of speculation as to who is the officer concerned with the resultant loss of privacy.

Breach of Principle 5.2 -- Respect for Privacy

There has been a total lack of respect for the privacy and the sensibilities of this individual member and for the privacy and sensibilities of his gay colleagues. The damage is done to a small number of gay members in difficult personal domestic circumstances. It will have negative emotional and psychological consequences for these people who have done nothing wrong. We feel that members of the gay community will have been both upset and distressed by the publication of this article.

The association is particularly concerned by the intrusion into the lives of gay and lesbian members of An Garda Siochana and the homophobic insinuations in the article about 'Garda Hindquarters' and a 'pink circle' in the Phoenix Park Depot.

Joe Dirwan,
General Secretary, AGSI


The rest of the Sindo is traditional reactionary fare, save for Gene Kerrigan on the back page of course.

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The story in an early (?) edition
The story in an early (?) edition

Top story on the web - pay cuts for all (except 'Sir' Anthony of course)
Top story on the web - pay cuts for all (except 'Sir' Anthony of course)

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author by Paulpublication date Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:58author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Considering how the Sindo got the last 'politician abroad' story wrong - claiming Liam Lawlor was with a 17 year old prostitute - maybe this one is simply wrong too. If so, equally typical of the Sindo. Lawlor couldn't sue, being dead.

 
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