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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
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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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Save Majid Tavakoli. Political Prisoner In Iran.

category international | anti-capitalism | press release author Sunday May 30, 2010 13:30author by Mina Ahadi - International Committee against Executionsauthor email minaahadi at aol dot com Report this post to the editors

Majid Tavakoli, a 24 year old student activist at Amir Kabir University, must not become another victim of the Islamic regime of Iran. He has been arrested and tortured a number of times for his student activities. The last time he was arrested was in December 2009 for a speech about the ruling dictatorship and for criticising Khamenei. He has started a hunger strike on 23 May and is in very poor health.

On 26 May, Mina Ahadi of the International Committee against Executions briefly spoke to his mother. His mother is also on hunger strike in support of her son. She is very worried and concerned about his health. She said that no matter where she goes, she is given no information on him nor allowed to speak to or see him.
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Majid is currently in solitary confinement for writing a public letter in protest to the execution of ‘my big brother Farzad.’

Farzad Kamangar’s mother gave the following message to a memorial gathering in Germany: ‘Greetings to freedom loving people across the world that have supported us and raised our voices across the world. Today, as always, I ask you, I beg you to think of the political prisoners. Don’t let other mothers suffer. It is enough. Don’t let them lose their beloved. I lost my Farzad but I don’t want any other family to lose their beloved. I ask all mothers, students, people to think of the liberation of our loved ones enchained. The regime has still not handed over Farzad’s body. But Farzad is not dead. He is alive and can be seen in the millions worldwide who have not left us alone and will not leave us alone.

A cousin of Farzad Kamangar living in Germany says the mothers of the five executed have still not seen their bodies to say goodbye to them. She says 19 members of the Kamangar family have been executed by the regime.

Farzad Kamangar’s brave lawyer, Khalil Bahramian, has been arrested for speaking to the press about the fact that he and others should not have been executed.

At least nine people were executed in one week in the Islamic Republic of Iran. 5 in Rasht (four men and one woman) on Monday, two in Zahedan and two in Ahvaz. There is also the imminent executions of several others in the coming weeks according to the International Committee against Executions.

You can still take action to save the life of Majid Tavakoli:

Send emails, faxes and letters of protest to:

The embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran,
72 Mount Merrion Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin,
iranembassy@indigo.ie
Tel: 01 288 5881 / 01 288 0252. Fax: 01 283 4246.

Related Link: http://www.adpi.net/
author by A Freemanpublication date Wed Jun 09, 2010 21:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

My best wishes go to Majid and the other victims of the Ahmadinejad dictatorship, I will try calling the Iranian embassy in Dublin to raise his case and register my protest.

I was also disgusted to see the thuggish behaviour of the Iranian Foreign Minister's (Mr. Mottaki) bodyguards in Dublin this evening when peaceful protesters were violently assaulted by these thugs (one protester was thrown down a stairway). This mouthpiece of the Islamist regime was speaking at the Institute of European Affairs in North Gt George's St. and thankfully a substantial number of protestors turned out to confront him.

Of course, since it wasn't the Israeli FM there wasn't the usual horde of Irish leftist protesters screaming abuse - funny that!

author by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite partypublication date Wed Jun 09, 2010 23:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Thats interesting.This story does not surprise.It is almost forty years since I visited Iran and it has experienced much brutality,but I did think Ahmadinejad had at least a tenuous mandate,certainly one that could be interpreted as dubious,and I think the situation with regard to his personal dictatorial monopoly of power is not as secure as you imply. There is coninuing repression in Iran,on many fronts. Any country still allowing the death penalty has some considerable distance to travel,but Iran is not unique on that front.I'm not sure I understand the remarks regarding Israel.I fail to see your connection A. Are you a supporter of Israeli brutality, or do you not think the mothers in Gaza mourn for their children with the same pain as Majid's?
Or for that matter the mothers of Israeli kids caught up in the bullheaded stupidity of pre-human ignorance? And why was the Institute of Eiuropean Affairs hosting this man if he is as dispicable as you paint?

author by the diggerpublication date Thu Jun 10, 2010 09:10author address author phone Report this post to the editors

that the remarks about Israel were obvious.

Israeli brutality = Irish left whips up frenzy of protest

Iranian or (name country here) brutality = silence and shrugs from Irish left.

Why?

Only the Irish left can answer that.

author by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite partypublication date Thu Jun 10, 2010 09:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

So I can take it as a given then that you lads have your frenzies equally whipped up about 'Israeli brutality'.

Oh, one small question, does that mean that ye stand for the Irish right?

author by Well done.publication date Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ignore the topic, attack the writers(s).

author by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite partypublication date Thu Jun 10, 2010 16:16author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Is the topic not government brutality?I'm just curious as to the discriminatory approaches (also on the topic) of certain posters to their favourite hate regimes.I dont do attack.I do lance bullshit, and hope if I produce any inadvertantly it will be exposed(not least to myself)and I do ask for elucidation of unclear points. Is that not kosher?Shalom.

author by A Freemanpublication date Thu Jun 10, 2010 18:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I don't wish to ignore the fact that Palestinians are suffering in Gaza but I'm drawing attention to the fact that some posters on this site seem to have an obsession with vilifying Israel and frequently cite what they see as human rights abuses in Gaza.

However, the same people seem to have no interest in the gross human rights abuses in countries like Burma, N. Korea, Tibet or Iran or at least they never post their comments on this site as they constantly do about Israel. One might draw the conclusion that their commitment to human rights only stretches so far as Israel or Jews can be held up as the offenders and perpetrators of crimes.

The argument can easily be made that this obsessive focus on Israel/Palestine can be linked to an underlying anti-semitism in a country that refused to take in any Jewish refugees during the 1930s or WW2 but gave refuge to Nazis and their collaborators like Otto Skorzeny, Andrija Artukovic or Albert Folens in the years after the war.

author by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite partypublication date Thu Jun 10, 2010 19:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

When you phrase it like that. I have been trying to balance it a little myself.But there are also a lot of people who are simplifying it from the other side,many in outright denial of the accumulating evidence against Israel,which not least is exposing innocent Israelis to the vitriol you rightly condemn.Makes the local recent collisions up North seem to have a little relevance would you think?And Israel is a pretty blatant example of the general paradigm of bullying that the international power games produce at the expense of the powerless.Makes it easy to scapegoat,and Netanyahu and Co are delivering it into their hands.And our Minister,Michael Martin, by his inaction in reference to intrusions into our national pasport rights is collaborating in the stupidity.Same idle bystanding that represented Dublin's stance down through the years when there was an open door of international good will for the development of relations on this island that was left untapped till Albert got off his arse.Correct me if I misread.

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