North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?
US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty
Anti-Empire >>
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The Saker >>
Judges Need Fewer Powers, Not More Thu Nov 20, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
The Hillsborough Law is well-intentioned, but its effect will be to transfer yet more power from Parliament to unelected judges ? the opposite of what is needed to restore public trust and democratic accountability.
The post Judges Need Fewer Powers, Not More appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Lockdowns Could Have Been Avoided Entirely If ?Stringent Restrictions? Were Imposed Earlier, Covid I... Thu Nov 20, 2025 17:03 | Will Jones
Lockdowns could have been "avoided entirely" during Covid had ministers?more quickly?imposed "stringent restrictions" such as social distancing and face masks, the COVID-19 Inquiry has concluded.
The post Lockdowns Could Have Been Avoided Entirely If “Stringent Restrictions” Were Imposed Earlier, Covid Inquiry Finds appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Majority of Public ?Does Not Want? Labour?s Islamophobia Definition Thu Nov 20, 2025 15:14 | Will Jones
Labour?s new definition of Islamophobia is not wanted by the majority of the public in any form, with just a fifth backing it, a poll has found, amid a free speech backlash.
The post Majority of Public “Does Not Want” Labour’s Islamophobia Definition appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Call Prostitutes ?Sexual Entrepreneurs?, Say Police Thu Nov 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Police chiefs have been accused of treating prostitution as a normal job and effectively decriminalising it by telling officers they should call prostitutes "sex workers" or "sexual entrepreneurs".
The post Call Prostitutes “Sexual Entrepreneurs”, Say Police appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Shabana Mahmood?s Asylum ?Fix? is Destined to Fail Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:23 | Will Jones
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's asylum 'crackdown' is not nearly enough to stop the flow, says Juliet Samuel in the Times. It still leaves Britain looking like a utopia for far too many.
The post Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum ‘Fix’ is Destined to Fail appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en
Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en
The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en
Voltaire Network >>
dublin |
anti-capitalism |
event notice
Monday November 10, 2008 14:28
by Dublin Catholic Worker
printable version
Digg this
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Technorati
Facebook
Gab
Twitter
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (4 of 4)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4-
A song to start ...
Cieron O'Reilly
Iain Attack
Martha Hennessey
Martha
-
Colm Roddy
VIDLINK - Martha Hennesey opens 75th. Anniversary Gathering Worcester, Mass. USA
http://www.pieandcoffee.org/2008/11/15/snow-ghost-commu...22043
N16 08 - Approx 50 folks gathered at Dublin's Teachers Club for a Sunday evening of reflection on the Catholic Worker movement.
The audience was primarily made up of folks who had accompanied the Pitstop Ploughshares through their 03 action at Shannon and three trials, as well as some folks with experience of the movement in the U.S.
Initial contribution from peace studies academic Ian Atack reflected on the Catholic Workers ploughshares action at Shannon Airport in 03 www.peaceontrial.com and its contribution and relation to the broader anti-war movement in Ireland.
Ciaron O'Reilly shared reflections on the Catholic Worker movement in England and Ireland over the past decade. The Liverpool Catholic Worker that sprung up in the wake of organising work around the 1996 Seeds of Hope Ploughsares (£2.5 million damage to a British Aerospace Hawk fighter bound for Inonesia's war on East Timor) trial and had a focus on long term hospitality to East Timorese refugees, a short term hospitality to families of Irish prisoners incarcerated in HMP Walton Liverpool and surrounding jails.
The Liverpool CW community kept a steady rhythym of resistance to Brisith Aerospace and its arms exports to Indonesia and solidarity with the occupied people of East Timor. BAe hit back with high court injunctions and the community was infiltrated by BAe agents. The Liverpool CW concluded around the time the Indonesian military left East Timor.
The Oxford Catholic Worker started in the early-90's and initially came out of Clive's experience volunteering with the CW in New York City. Oxford CW shifted its outreach from street homeless to facilitating assylim seekers release form nearby CamPsfield Detention Centre by providing a bail address. Sr. Susan Clarkson is now based at the Oxford house after living and working for several years with CW communities in the U.S.
A Catholic Worker support/reflection/action group that formed around the Jubilee Ploughshares 2000 action gave rise to CW communites in Oxford, Hackney and a Catholic Worker farm north of Watford. Maria from the CW farm community was at Sunday's meeting in Dublin. Like other Catholic Worker communities in Europe (Amsterdam, Hamburg, Gents) the hospitality is focussed primarily on refugees with a strong anti-war resistance focus. The Hackney community also runs a cheap cafe three days a week for marginalised folks and a free soup kitchen for info on farm and Hacney CW's see www.londoncatholicworker.org
The Catholic Worker in Dublin is not presently robust. It came together in 02 in response to Irish involvement in the war and closed its house following the acquittal and dispersal of the Pitstop Ploughshares www.peaceontrial.com Catholic Workers maintain a weekly anti-war vigil at the GPO and the past year has been mostly focused around anti-war events archiving the ploughshares action.
There have been several unsuccessful attempts to get a rhythym of liturgy and reflection going, but activity remains sporadic. Participants are involved in homeless shelter, child rearin', teaching, peace and justice work etc There remains a broad network of folks from various backgrounds who respect and feel comfortable with CW style of activity and have built up a high level of trust from the 02-06 years of DCW activism. These folks tend to lose orbit of each other in the absence of DCW organising, reflection and action.
The Catholic Worker is a radical tradition that may be unearthed and explored by anybody at anytime.The Catholic Worker is a movement of radical discipleship open to all regardless of faith or nonfaith backgrounds attempting to practise the acts of mercy, nonviolent resistance & solidarity and realise/build community. One can undertake these activities where ever one finds oneself located (ghetto, suburbia, prison, campus, etc.) The Catholic Worker is also specific projects often quite tentative experiments in truth...hospitality houses, soup runs, resistance communities etc. Check the community directory section of www.catholicworker.org
Martha spoke movingly about her grandmother Dorothy Day, her mother Tamar who passed away this year and the legacy of the Catholic Worker these women left. Here is some film footage of Martha opening the 75th. Anniversary of the Catholic Worker Conference in Worcester, USA this year.....
http://www.pieandcoffee.org/2008/11/15/snow-ghost-commu...ring/