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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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Greta Thunberg's Gaza flotilla has been thrown into chaos after one of its activists came out as queer, prompting the organiser to resign. Homosexuality, of course, is criminalised in Gaza.
The post Greta Thunberg Gaza Flotilla in Chaos After Queer Activist Comes Out, Prompting Organiser to Resign appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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The end is nigh for Net Zero, says Ben Pile ? and these polls prove it. The public's appetite for ever-rising energy bills is fast being depleted. But it's not all good news for sceptics.
The post The End is Nigh for Net Zero ? These Polls Prove It appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 52: Why Family Policy Is Back on the Agenda, Anywheres vs Somewheres, Migratio... Fri Sep 26, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 52 of the Sceptic: David Goodhart on why family policy is back on the agenda, anywheres vs somewheres and migration, and Eugyppius on German media craziness and how he evades the woke Stasi.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 52: Why Family Policy Is Back on the Agenda, Anywheres vs Somewheres, Migration and German Media Craziness appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Sep 26, 2025 00:45 | Toby Young
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 Small Boat Migrant Takes Eight-Week Holiday Back to Afghanistan Thu Sep 25, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
An Afghan granted asylum after arriving in the UK on a small boat took an eight-week holiday in the country from which he had fled.
The post Small Boat Migrant Takes Eight-Week Holiday Back to Afghanistan appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Pamela Scott Animal Fur Demonstration

category national | animal rights | press release author Wednesday February 11, 2009 10:18author by ALiberation - ALiberationauthor email aliberationnow at gmail dot comauthor address www.vegaplanet.orgauthor phone 086 3203643 Report this post to the editors

“Worldwide Information Days Against Fur” this weekend

Before Christmas of 2007, the Flairline Fashions Group gave a verbal guarantee that they would become fur free by 2008 and would send confirmation in writing to ALiberation. Since then they have continued to sell animal fur.
ALiberation are now unsuspending their campaign to persuade the Flairline Fashions Group to become Fur Free.

This Saturday an event will be held outside of Pamela Scott on Grafton Street, Dublin to urge the Flairline Fashions Group to stop selling animal fur. This will coincide with the “Worldwide Information Days Against Fur” weekend.

A Fox or a Thing?
A Fox or a Thing?

Pamela Scott Animal Fur Demonstration

“Worldwide Information Days Against Fur” this weekend

When: Saturday, 14th of February, 2009
Time: 2pm
Where: Pamela Scott, Grafton St, Dublin 2 (Will move to Pamela Scott Ski, Claredon St. at 3pm)

The Flairline Fashions Group includes 24 stores nationwide. Outlets such as Pamela Scott, Pamela Scott Ski, Richard Alan, Ashley Reeves and Lisa Perkins are all owned by the Flairline Fashions Group.

The Animal Fur Industry is built on the violation of rights. Each year hundreds of millions of individuals are exploited for their skins. This industry treats animals as nothing more than things that grow fur. From foxes being caged for their whole life, to seals being clubbed, to dogs being skinned alive; the fur trade has a lot to answer for.

It is estimated that over 40% of new animal fur sales revenue comes from the use of animal fur in trimming on clothes or accessories (handbags etc) such as seen in Pamela Scott Ski.
http://www.pamelascott.ie/skistores

90% of foxes killed by the animal fur industry are to use their skins as fur trims.

A great deal of animal fur will not be labeled as coming from animals or it will be labeled in foreign language or will be mislabeled, helping to fool people into buying animal fur that they would not otherwise have bought.

Spokesperson for ALiberation, Jim Walsh said “ALiberation representatives have spoken to the Flairline Fashions Group on numerous occasions by phone, letters and emails. They continue to support the animal fur industry in spite of their verbal pledge to do otherwise.”

Please ask the Flairline Fashions Group to go Fur Free in all their outlets. Use the sample letter below or write your own letter or phone.

Express your opinions at the following contact details:
Contact Chief Buyer: Mr Richard Barron, richard@irishfashion.ie.
Pamela Scott email: info@irishfashion.ie
Pamela Scott Ph: 01-429 5888

If you choose to contact the Flairline Fashions Group please inform them that overall Rabbit fur is not a by product of the meat industry but is an industry in its self.
Quote www.rabbitfur.org
Please let the Flairline Fashions Group know that by selling fur they actively participate in a fur industry that directly kills 170,000 animals in 6 fur farms in the Republic of Ireland and a fur industry that directly kills hundreds of million animals worldwide for the skin on their backs.
How much exploitation may be avoided if the fashion world change their ways?

More info on “Worldwide Information Days Against Fur” weedend; visit;
http://www.antifurcoalition.org/

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Sample Letter
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Mr. Richard Barron (Chief Buyer)
Flairline Fashions Limited/Flairline Fashions Group,
Unit 27/28 Fashion City,
Ballymount,
Dublin 24.

Dear Mr. Barron,

I urge you to end all connection with the animal fur trade. The fur industry is built on exploitation and rights violations.

Please stop selling, advertising, storing and promoting animal fur through the Flairline Fashions Group.
The sale of fur from Rabbits and Foxes in outlets of the Flairline Fashions Group directly pays for the caging and killing of these animals.
By selling animal fur through your outlets and promoting it on your websites the Flairline Fashions Group is supporting an industry that kills hundreds of millions of animals each year, over 170,000 animals in Ireland alone.

These animals are caged and killed because retailers choose to sell animal fur and literally profit off their backs.

Over 40% of new animal fur sales revenue is accounted for by garments with fur trims or accessories (handbags etc). The type of trims used in the Flairline Fashions Group.

Rabbit fur is not a by product of the meat industry. Please see the website www.rabbitfur.org.

Yours,

Name

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