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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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Voltaire, international edition

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Defence industry dominates EU’s security research programme

category international | eu | press release author Saturday September 26, 2009 15:59author by Citizen X - The Warren Oates Brigade Report this post to the editors

The NeoConOpticon report, released today by the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Statewatch,
reveals the extent to which Europe’s largest defence and IT contractors are benefitting from a €1.4
billion EU “security research” programme that has the explicit aim of fostering a European Homeland
Security industry to compete globally with the USA in a fast growing market.

“The whole process appears to have been designed by lobbyists, for lobbyists“, says Ben Hayes, TNI
associate and author of the report. “In its desire to increase ‘industrial competitiveness’, the EU has
effectively outsourced the design of the security research agenda to the some of the corporations that
have the most to gain from its implementation”.

Defence giants including Thales, Finmeccanica, EADS, Saab and Sagem Défénsé Sécurité are
amongst a host of corporations to which the European Commission has turned to help set the agenda
for security research, develop Homeland Security strategies for Europe, and bring the relevant
security technologies ‘to market’. Of 46 security research contracts awarded in the first year of the
EU’s Framework Programme (FP7, the Union’s research programme for 2007-2013), 17 (or 37%) are
led by defence sector contractors.

The report also reveals the extent of Israel’s participation in the EU security research programme,
which is controversial in the light of widespread criticism of Israel's human rights record. Israeli actors
or entities are participating in 10 of the first 46 projects, leading four of them. The Counter Terrorism
Bureau of Israel’s National Security Council, the Israeli Defence Force and the Israeli emergency
services are among the security experts selected to advise the working groups of the European
Security Research and Innovation Forum (ESRIF).

There has been only minimal democratic scrutiny of the programme and very little monitoring of its
implementation. The design of the ESRP has been outsourced through sub-contracting and the
creation of ad hoc EU groups comprised of government officials, security ‘experts’ and companies
selling homeland security products.

“There is, of course, nothing new about governments consulting about policy, particularly at the EU
level, but while corporations have been embraced by the ESRP, parliaments and civil society have
been largely excluded. The process has been wholly undemocratic,” says Hayes.

The ESRP is promoting the development of a range of technologies that could engender systematic
violations of fundamental rights, according to the report. They include militarised border controls,
surveillance and profiling technologies, the widespread collection and analysis of personal data,
automated targeting systems, satellite and space-based surveillance, and ‘crisis management’ tools.
While these high-tech systems can be used for ostensibly positive purposes such as environmental
observation and traffic control, they also represent an unprecedented state intrusion into every sphere
of daily life.

“It is not just a case of “sleepwalking into a surveillance society”, concludes Hayes, “it feels more like
turning a blind eye to the start of a new kind of arms race, one in which all the weapons are pointing
inwards.”

The research examined all 85 of the projects funded under the EU security research programme to the
end of 2008, together with several thousand related EU-funded R&D projects from other thematic
programmes.

Transnational Institute (TNI) +31-20-6626608
Nina Brenjo +31 (0) 63 484 2129 (nina.brenjo@tni.org) or
Ben Hayes +44 (0) 20 8802 1882 (ben@statewatch.org)
Download the NeoConOpticon report here:
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/neoconopticon-report.pdf and http://www.tni.org/reports
For more information visit: http://www.tni.org or http://www.statewatch.org

Related Link: http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/neoconopticon-report.pdf
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