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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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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.
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Steve Reed, the Communities Secretary, has made it clear he?s unsympathetic to his predecessor's plan to roll out an official definition of Islamophobia, telling newspapers he'll block it if it stifles free speech.
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Imprisoning Palestinian Children

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Monday April 12, 2010 15:43author by pat c Report this post to the editors

Stephen Lendman writes about the ongoing Zionist campaign against Palestinian Youth. Every year, approx 700 West Bank children, are arrested, detained, interrogated, and prosecuted in Israeli military "courts". About 6,500 since 2000. Full text at link.

In June 2009, Defence for Children International (DCI)/Palestine Section published a report titled, "Palestine Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities."

DCI/Palestine "is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children," according to international law principles.
Israeli soldier uses Palestinian boy as Human Shield.
Israeli soldier uses Palestinian boy as Human Shield.

Since the 1967 occupation, an estimated 700,000 Palestinian men, women, and children passed through Israel's judicial system, over 150,000 tried in military courts from 1990 - 2006, the remainder handled through plea bargains for lighter sentences. On average, over 9,000 Palestinians a year are affected, including 700 children treated the same as adults.

For nearly 43 years, Israeli military justice operated "almost completely devoid of international scrutiny," giving authorities license to violate human rights and humanitarian law with impunity. As a result, due process and judicial fairness don't apply under a system denying them.

Related Link: http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman100410.htm
author by Kev - IPSCpublication date Mon Apr 12, 2010 22:34author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Don't forget the Palestinian Prisoners Day demo this Saturday 17th April at 2pm outside the Israeli Embassy (122 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4).

More info: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/96236

Related Link: http://www.ipsc.ie
author by pat cpublication date Fri May 14, 2010 20:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yes, the Zionist Aggression Forces continue to use children as human shields. Full text at link.

In the old city of Nablus, while searching her house, Dua’a (16) was ordered by Israeli troops to open closets and lift beds, while the soldiers remained metres away: “They moved three metres backward towards the door while aiming their weapons at me… They ordered me to search the closets and other items in the room.”

Sabri (14) was forced to walk in front of Israeli soldiers while stones were being hurled at them, during protests on the Palestinian Prisoner’s Day: “They were hiding behind me so I could cover them from the stones. They were shouting and saying in Hebrew ‘Throw! Throw!’ to the young men who were throwing stones.”

According to an article published by Maan News Agency, the Israeli army said it would investigate the allegations.

Related Link: http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1397
author by HBpublication date Fri May 14, 2010 21:06author address author phone Report this post to the editors



http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-human...68535

Anonymous self-described Israeli human rights activists have set up an Internet site detailing alleged war crimes committed by senior government officials and Israel Defense Forces officers. No known human rights organization is behind the site, whose founders refuse to give their names.

http://www.wanted.org.il/ -
Web site explains how to inform Hague of when 'suspects' are outside Israel, hence vulnerable to arrest.

Suspects listed are:

* Defense Minister Ehud Barak,
* Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,
* Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni,
* Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai,
* Public Security Minister Avi Dichter,
* National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer,
* IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and his two predecessors,
* Dan Halutz and
* Moshe Ya’alon,
* Former air force commander Eliezer Shkedy and others.

Wanted!! FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - Tzipi Livni - Ex-Mossad Agent and Ex-F.M. of the Criminal  and Racist Entity kkknown as 'Israel'
Wanted!! FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - Tzipi Livni - Ex-Mossad Agent and Ex-F.M. of the Criminal and Racist Entity kkknown as 'Israel'

Wanted!! FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY  - Ehud Olmert - a convicted  financial criminal and Ex-P.M. of the Criminal  and Racist Entity kkknown as 'Israel'
Wanted!! FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - Ehud Olmert - a convicted financial criminal and Ex-P.M. of the Criminal and Racist Entity kkknown as 'Israel'

Wanted!! FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY  - Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi -  a.k.a.: 'The Buthcher of Gaza' and Cheif of Staff  of the Criminally Murderous  and Racist Gang kkknown as 'IDF'
Wanted!! FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi - a.k.a.: 'The Buthcher of Gaza' and Cheif of Staff of the Criminally Murderous and Racist Gang kkknown as 'IDF'

Wanted!! FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY  - Ehud Barak - Ex-P.M. of the Criminal  and Racist Entity kkknown as 'Israel'
Wanted!! FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - Ehud Barak - Ex-P.M. of the Criminal and Racist Entity kkknown as 'Israel'

Related Link: http://www.wanted.org.il/
author by pat cpublication date Mon May 17, 2010 14:49author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Its not just the Zionist Aggression Forces that murder Palestinian children. There are also the fascist Zionist Colonosts who massacre Palestinian children with impunity.

Slain Ramallah Youth; Shot By A Settler, Left To Die

Palestinian medical sources reported that Aysar al-Zaben, 16, who was killed on Friday, was shot by Israeli settlers in Wad Al Haramiyya area near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, apparently bled to death as a bullet struck him in the heart. Al Zaben, from Al Ma'sara Al Sharqiyya village, was shot and by a Jewish settler and was left to die.

Palestinian medics who were informed of the shooting by local residents searched the area and located his body three hours after he was wounded. After the body of al-Zaben was located and autopsy revealed he was shot by one live round.

The Israeli army only stated that "there was shooting in the area after stones were hurled at a settlers’ vehicle" on Friday evening at settler road number 60.


Meanwhile, Palestinian eyewitnesses confirmed that a settler stepped out of his vehicle carrying an assault rifle and chased several children while firing at them.

Related Link: http://www.imemc.org/article/58686
 
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