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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

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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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Pope breaks limp wrist & Vatican praises Oscar Wilde

category international | gender and sexuality | other press author Friday July 17, 2009 22:42author by + "ora pro nobis" - = iosaf - "i may not be gay but some of my best friends are and ancesters were" Report this post to the editors

Those interested in Roman Kathurlick affairs will this last week have noted how the pontiff and german shepherd, Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI snubbed Berlusconi during the G8 bash in Italy but managed to give Obama a cuddle despite the former being anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-cell-stem research (& simply into good looking young girls) & the latter being a protestant.

Then the Pope went off on holidays to get out of Rome which is a smelly and oppressive place during the summer months & broke his wrist, an incident reported throughout the global catholic interest press. But at the same time the official Vatican newspaper decided to "rehabilitate" Oscar Wilde.
For years it was thought Alice Guszalewicz posing as Salome, Wilde's religious play was in fact Oscar being a girlie
For years it was thought Alice Guszalewicz posing as Salome, Wilde's religious play was in fact Oscar being a girlie


Let us not forget that in the face of death Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde converted to Roman Catholicism - with possibly rather more sincerity than Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair

Robert Ross, in his letter to More Adey (dated 14 December 1900), stated "He was conscious that people were in the room, and raised his hand when I asked him whether he understood. He pressed our hands. I then sent in search of a priest, and after great difficulty found Father Cuthbert Dunne ... who came with me at once and administered Baptism and Extreme Unction. - Oscar could not take the Eucharist". : source the book written by Oscar's grandson Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (2000): The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. pp. 1219-1220, New York: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 0805059156

it's best to be on the safe side when you die beyond your means - perhaps buggers can be choosers after all ;-)

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the Holy Father's wrist is in plaster so we may not cast aspersions on its limpness

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/17/pope-fall-h...pital

reaction to the Vatican rehabilitation of man supposedly absolved of supposed sin almost 109 years ago :-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul...atore

this week's Vatican news is getting really interesting perhaps thinking it will attract a new readership looking for the rehabilitation of Wilde. They're tackling the evils of unfettered capitalism, the political rights to protest of Iranians and the corruption and moral decadence of Berlusconi's Italy.

original Italian text : http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_quo/text.html

great stuff I'm sure you'll agree & expect the Pope to go on a mission to Wall Street as soon as he can to preach the gospel just like he made the effort to go to Africa and remind them condoms were bad.

Of course Dorian Grey never needed condoms.


St Sebastian, defiant of the Mithras cult martyed Roman Soldier, Gay icon & I do my best.....
St Sebastian, defiant of the Mithras cult martyed Roman Soldier, Gay icon & I do my best.....

author by john 3: 16publication date Sat Jul 18, 2009 09:01author address author phone Report this post to the editors

i am not a Catholic but it seems that the Catholic church is the fall-guy for all the modern world's problems. the writer of this mocking piece proves my point.

in regards to Oscar Wilde & the Catholic church, Wilde had a lifelong association with the Catholic Church. if you look at The Picture of Dorian Gray it shows that when you kill your conscience, you kill your soul. Wilde's art was always overtly moral & he entered the Church on his deathbed.

for the few INDYMEDIA readers that may be interested this link may be of interest on the above theme:

http://www.amazon.com/Unmasking-Oscar-Wilde-Joseph-Pear...70260

Related Link: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/93212
author by + "ora pro nobis" - (iosaf)publication date Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Dorian Gray opens with an invocation to an Egyptian God and a clear paradox - (the month does not see the flowers in bloom which are mentioned) thus this aesthetic detail must be read as a symbolic of a ritual. One which belonged to the order of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in which Wilde was an initiate. It is at this point that Dorian is granted his "wish" immediately after observing an un-named book being read - which is quite probably the edition known to London society of the time of Huysman's A rebours .

Dorian Grey may be read as a tryptich autobiography - the snobbish lord, the tortured artist and the youngster within - but it may not be read in any sense as a RC or Christian text until you have parsed it for its clear references to other belief systems.

And no - I repeat again - Dorian Gray didn't need condoms. Just as he didn' t need antibiotics for gonorrhea, treatment for syphilis, creams for cold sores or lotion for fecking gout.

My story is not mocking Roman Catholics but merely wishes to bring attention yet again to the sheer hypocrisy of the RC state which is the Vatican, a state with full diplomatic status and immense media resources which is so terribly selective in its preaching.

But I reckon most people got the point.

 
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