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Indymedia ireland

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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Voltaire, international edition

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

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Tax Payers Money Wasted on IBEC

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | news report author Sunday June 07, 2009 00:16author by Whistleblower Report this post to the editors

Disgust at the revelation that public sector bodies are WASTING TAX-PAYERS MONEY on membership of IBEC - this has got to be a scandal!

I work for a relatively small public sector organisation and yesterday some of my colleagues and I found out that our management pays over €15,000 (annually) of TAX-PAYERS MONEY assigned to the running of the organisation to none other than IBEC! To say that we, the employees, were aghast at this revelation is an understatement! Why, we wondered, would a public-sector body have funds to waste on the dreaded enemy of public services?! And not just any funds, but tax-payers hard earned funds, in a time when we're seeing cuts to health services, disability benefits, the unemployed, public transport and across the education sector!!

Apparently this is not unusual - many public service bodies claim allegiance to IBEC and pay considerable amounts of tax-payers' money to do so. I understand the amount paid is commensurate with the size of the organisation, so in some cases it's well in excess of the figure I mentioned. It'd be interesting to know if anyone out there, working for the HSE perhaps, might have access to similar information - I'd hazzard a guess that HSE boss Mary Harney would be only too happy to throw a fgood few quid in the direction of her cronies in IBEC!?

The excuse that our senior management offered for signing up - networking. Call me cynical but I'd imagine access to the IBEC industrial relations machine might have something to do with it. Senior managers within the public service should be absolutely ashamed of themselves with this disgusting waste of tax-payers money at a time when children go without decent education and health services!!

author by old codger - pensionerpublication date Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If there is a change of government we have to fight to stop Enda Kenny avoiding a lot of hard facts on Fianna Fails corrupt
governance of this country.The whole system needs to be changed. The Corrib gas issue has been carefully avoided by Kenny, he just states ( as do Labour) that a deal has been made and can't be changed. The fact that the deal was made by two criminals must be forced down his throat.
WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD CORRUPTION.
DONT LET A NEW GOVERNMENT COMMIT THE SAME CRIMES AS THE OLD ONE.

author by Felix V.publication date Thu Jun 11, 2009 09:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Whenever our financial institutions lower the credit limits, without the customer's consent or input, by the way, it isn't a happy thing for a lot of people. It leads to higher interest rates, and when those credit limits get lowered it isn't good for small businesses that depend on the corporate credit card to pay bills and get crucial supplies. Obama's stimulus and tax incentives haven't driven a lot of spending, banks won't lend, but the positive is that the personal saving rate is increasing, and some are taking the opportunity to get out of debt. Lowering credit limits leads a lot of people to look into a cash advance instead.

Related Link: http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/06/02/credit-limits-lowered-forcing-people-cash-advances/
 
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