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offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

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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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offsite link Why the Right Must Take the High Ground When it Comes to Free Speech Sat Sep 27, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
Tempting though it is, Donald Trump and his allies should refrain from trying to cancel their political opponents. Free speech is one of the core values that the defenders of Western civilisation should uphold.
The post Why the Right Must Take the High Ground When it Comes to Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Can the Radical Left Be Trusted With Free Speech? Sat Sep 27, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Can the radical Left ? increasingly wedded to violence to achieve its unpopular ideals ? actually be trusted with free speech, or will it just keep using it to call for and celebrate our deaths, asks Steven Tucker.
The post Can the Radical Left Be Trusted With Free Speech? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Sep 27, 2025 00:54 | Richard Eldred
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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link In Defence of Cancelling the Left Fri Sep 26, 2025 17:00 | Dr James Allan
Should the Right take the moral high ground and refrain from cancel culture? Or should it give the Left a taste of its own medicine ? and try to teach it a lesson? It has to be the latter, argues Professor James Allan.
The post In Defence of Cancelling the Left appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Watch: Police Arrest Autistic Man in Middle of the Night for Posting ?F*** Hamas, F*** Islam? on Soc... Fri Sep 26, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Police officers have come under fire after they arrested an autistic man late last night over an X post which read: "F***?Hamas, F***?Palestine, F*** Islam. Want to protest? F*** off to a Muslim country and protest."
The post Watch: Police Arrest Autistic Man in Middle of the Night for Posting “F*** Hamas, F*** Islam” on Social Media appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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The Curse of Tara, Update

category international | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis author Wednesday January 05, 2011 16:36author by Carmel Diviney Report this post to the editors

Especially for the cynics...
One of Tara's Ancestors wrenched from the Sacred Burial Grounds at Tara. NRA photo
One of Tara's Ancestors wrenched from the Sacred Burial Grounds at Tara. NRA photo

In January 2009 I warned of how the Curse of Tara would befall Ireland because of the desecration of our heritage and sacred sites at Tara following the construction of the M3 Motorway. I wrote that this would be particularly in evidence in the second part of 2010 once the Motorway had opened. Few remain sceptic now after last year’s tumultuous events but if you are one of them, what do you imagine the Curse of Tara would look like, if it were real?

Would it look something like this?

An apocalyptic economic meltdown resulting in thousands unemployed, mass emigration, austerity budgets, tax hikes, cuts to social welfare and minimum wage, basic services struggling to be maintained, 1 in 8 in mortgage arrears and that being just the tip of the iceberg. The construction and business sectors were decimated, the Tourism industry on its knees and all sectors praying for divine intervention. The arrival of the IMF meant loss of national sovergnity and pride and guarantees the spectacular downfall of the FF/Green Govt. who will never again see power on this Island for their betrayal of Tara.

The wrath of Mother Nature was unleashed too giving us the coldest temperatures since records began. The River Boyne froze over for the first time in living memory, airports closed and traffic came to a standstill, whole cities were snowbound as Arctic weather heaved our shores. The weather impacted businesses even further, inflicting more economic ruin the extent of which can still be only guessed at. Frozen and leaking pipes resulted in many counties going without running water, in a country where water is plentiful, for now. Flooding only added to the woes while our road network crumbled into a pothole ridden trek of misery for motorists and pedestrians alike.

Against this background the skies were particularly active with eclipses, meteor showers, even hits and storms the likes of which had never been seen before. The skies became bizarrely illuminated with lightning displays of every colour and not a drop of rain. Portents such as these and the felling of the ancient tree at Ardbraccan by lightning left Meath in no doubt that Mother Nature had raised her hand.

If, as it is believed, the M3 was ordered from Brussels, then the EU will fall just like any other nation, group or race who dared to stand against Tara. This is what has always happened. Indeed it is estimated that the contagion from Ireland will spread resulting in the fall of the EU and its possible restructure by 2013.

You couldn’t make it up.

Carmel Diviney.

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Portents     Tara Tara Tara    Wed Jan 05, 2011 16:40 
   easy carmel.     opus diablos    Wed Jan 05, 2011 17:23 
   Backlash     W. Finnerty    Thu Jan 06, 2011 09:06 
   Musing     Fizz    Fri Jan 07, 2011 13:20 
   A Witch ?     Peadaar    Fri Jan 07, 2011 18:03 
   nah...not like mary harney     V for vendetta    Sat Jan 08, 2011 17:22 
   That's Mary.     Peadarr    Sat Jan 08, 2011 20:50 
   The Curse but the people can make a change if the find the will     Swift    Mon Jan 10, 2011 15:20 
   Follow de money...     opus diablos    Mon Jan 10, 2011 15:56 


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