 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 >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony Public Inquiry >>
Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/. Last Retry Thursday October 02, 2025 05:15
|
Search words: amnesty
Cluster Bomb Ban Campaign Accepts Peace Prize in Ireland
The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) on 1 May 2009 accepted the 2008 Tipperary International Peace Award in recognition of its successful five-year campaign to outlaw cluster bombs.
“We are grateful to the Tipperary Peace Convention for recognizing the coalition with this award, but our success banning cluster bombs was the result of the strong partnership forged between likeminded governments and civil society and not the CMC’s work alone,” said CMC coordinator Mr. Thomas Nash. “Ireland was a crucial partner in the movement to ban cluster bombs and we urge the government to continue its strong engagement to ensure that the new treaty takes effect as quickly as possible.”
Ireland hosted the diplomatic negotiations of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which was adopted on the final day of the conference on May 30 2008. The Convention was opened for signature on 3 December 2008 and to date a total of 96 countries have signed, of which six have ratified (Austria, Holy See, Ireland, Lao PDR, Norway, Sierra Leone). A total of 30 ratifications are required for the Convention to take effect.
“We are only now beginning the really challenging work with respect to cluster munitions,” said Mr. Branislav Kapetanovic, a Serbian cluster bomb survivor and former deminer who accepted the award on behalf of the CMC. “We now need to ensure that the Convention on Cluster Munitions is fully implemented and respected by all.”
The Convention on Cluster Munitions comprehensively prohibits cluster munitions, sets strict deadlines for clearance of contaminated land and destruction of stockpiles, and includes groundbreaking provisions for assistance to victims and affected communities.
“We urge Ireland and other clearance donors to recognize that the cluster bomb problem will not disappear just because we now have a treaty,” said Ms. Lamis Zein, a cluster bomb clearance site supervisor with Norwegian People’s Aid in south Lebanon. “Increased funding commitments are also urgently needed to ensure that countries that are heavily affected by cluster bombs, such as mine, can quickly clear contaminated land and provide long-term assistance to victims.”
The Tipperary International Peace Award was accepted by CMC representative Branislav Kapetanovic at a special ceremony held in Tipperary, Ireland on 1 May 2009. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the award. Previous recipients include US President William J. Clinton, Live-Aid organiser Bob Geldof, South African President Nelson Mandela, and Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The CMC is a global coalition launched in November 2003 to stop cluster bombs from harming civilians. Comprised of 300 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in more than 80 countries, the CMC is co-chaired by representatives of three member NGOs (Human Rights Watch, Landmine Action UK, and Norwegian People’s Aid) on behalf of a Steering Committee of 14 NGOs. A small London-based staff ensures implementation of the campaign’s activities to universalize and ensure adherence of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
A cluster bomb or munition is a weapon containing dozens or hundreds of small explosive submunitions or bomblets. Dropped from the air or fired from the ground, cluster munitions break open in mid-air releasing submunitions over a wide area. Their widespread dispersal causes civilian casualties when the weapon is used in populated areas. Many submunitions fail to explode as intended, leading de facto landmines behind that that threaten communities for years, often decades after their use.
***ENDS***
For more information, please contact:
Jean-Marc Jacobs, +447515575174
Spokespersons:
- Branislav Kapetanovic, CMC
- Thomas Nash, CMC Coordinator
- Colm O’Gorman, amnesty International Ireland, Director
|
national |
rights, freedoms and repression |
press release
Friday May 01, 2009 11:13
by Jean-Marc Jacobs - Cluster Munition Coalition
jean-marc at stopclustermunitions dot org
printable version
Digg this
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Technorati
Facebook
Gab
Twitter