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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 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.
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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.
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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.

offsite link It?s Time to Admit That Christians Are Being Persecuted in Two-Tier Britain Fri Sep 26, 2025 13:40 | Belinda Brown
It's time to admit that Christians are being persecuted in two-tier Britain, says Belinda Brown. The flimsiest claims of 'offence' from normal expressions of Christian faith are getting people sacked and arrested.
The post It’s Time to Admit That Christians Are Being Persecuted in Two-Tier Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Greta Thunberg Gaza Flotilla in Chaos After Queer Activist Comes Out, Prompting Organiser to Resign Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:24 | Will Jones
Greta Thunberg's Gaza flotilla has been thrown into chaos after one of its activists came out as queer, prompting the organiser to resign. Homosexuality, of course, is criminalised in Gaza.
The post Greta Thunberg Gaza Flotilla in Chaos After Queer Activist Comes Out, Prompting Organiser to Resign appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

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The New Feudalism

category international | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis author Monday January 31, 2011 23:52author by Luke Eastwood Report this post to the editors

Our society is changing for the worse and it is no accident... here's why

In a capitalist system the continued existence and expansion of the system is fueled by profit. Those that avail of this profit are no longer satisfied with merely making a profit, they want more and more profit every year. As most commerce is now through public companies instead of private enterprise this profit is usually availed of in the form of higher share prices and larger dividends.

In order for the captains of industry to receive their enormous bonuses and the stockholders to receive their huge dividends it is necessary for profits to be made at someone’s expense. In capitalism there are winner and losers – the profit makers and the exploited – e.g. the staff, the customers and the providers of the resources.

In the past it was easy enough to over-charge customers, a monopoly always means that you can charge what you like. Staff were easy to exploit but as ‘democracy’ and civil rights have grown in the west over the last three centuries it has become increasingly difficult to make a dishonest buck by ripping off the humble employee. That being the case, the easiest way to continue making more money has been to obtain cheap resources from naïve or powerless people – generally speaking that means extracting raw materials from third world countries at rock-bottom prices.

As time has passed countries have wised up with regard to their precious natural resources – this process led to the OPEC oil crisis of the seventies and since it has become increasingly difficult for these hard-pressed corporations to find countries to exploit, expect where a little extra pressure could be applied in the form of military coercion.

However, the situation is getting even worse now for the poor old corporations, even with the might of western firepower to do the dirty work it is just not paying like it used to do - those foreign governments just won’t play ball and give over their natural wealth for coloured beads and hard liquor any more. So what is a struggling corporation to do to keep those stockholders from rebelling at the next AGM? The trend of the last few decades has been to export all of the low skilled jobs to the poorest countries – why pay ten dollars per hour when you can pay some ignorant foreigner ten cents per hour? In the last decade even the high skilled jobs are starting to migrate to the developing world.

That all seemed to be working a treat for a good while, but hey what’s this? The Asians and the Africans are getting sick of working for next to nothing and actually want realistic pay and to be treated like real human beings - how outrageous. All those CEOs must be going out of their minds with worry now that there are no new countries left to plunder and the workforces are final waking up to the reality of their inhuman pay and conditions.

So what happens to capitalism when there is nowhere new left to go rape and pillage, no people naïve enough to fall for the same old tricks? You see, capitalism is like a virus, it kills the host it lives off and without a steady stream of new hosts a virus will die out. Just like a virus, capitalism requires more losers to exploit so that the corporations and their investors can carry on winning.

It must have taken quite a bit of ‘out of the box’ thinking to figure out where do you go when you reach the very real physical limits of the system? Well the answer turned out to be quite simple really – start again at the beginning.

It is no accident that workers in America and Europe are getting annoyed that they can’t get a job anymore or that if they have managed to get a job it pays a pittance in comparison to previous earnings. It is no accident that the money in your pocket no longer seems to have any buying power and it is no accident that personal freedoms are diminishing and government intrusion in all aspects of life is increasing.

The western model, that gave rise to capitalism, was based on feudalism, which itself is an evolved version of the Roman model of commerce – trade, expansion, robbery and slavery. That basic model has not really changed that much, hell slavery only disappeared in 1860 and what has replaced it for many is no better than medieval serfdom, except for the provision of shoes and television.

Now that the capitalists have nowhere left to go, they have no choice other than to come back home and begin exploiting their own people once more. In order to be able to fully exploit the plebs (a roman term) we need to be reduced to the gutter once more: financially, educationally, morally and spiritually and that process is by now in its advanced stages!

If you find this hard to stomach you had better wake up and smell the coffee. If you are not one of the club or one of their henchmen then you are nobody. The elites of this world have an agenda, perhaps not even as sophisticated as a New World Order, it is simply this – to make as much money as possible regardless of cost to everyone else.

If like myself, you find this insidious, creeping neo-feudalism an offence against humanity and all that is good in the world, then you need to get up out of the armchair and begin demanding your rights as a human being. All over the world, the penny is beginning to drop – we have a choice, only by allowing these people to enslave us can we be enslaved. If you value your freedom and the opportunity to have any quality of life for yourself or your children then it is time to stand up and be counted. Join the marches, write letters, go to meetings, tell other sedated people what is going on before the shackles are put on all of us and it becomes too late to act.

This drama is now in the final act and it is up to this generation of adults to put an end to this stupid capitalist game, otherwise the majority of mankind will become serfs in a nightmarish neo-feudal future.

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author by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite partypublication date Sun Feb 13, 2011 14:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

'....will become serfs..in a neo-feudal future '.

I think sub-prime bondage just dragged that future home. Methinks shes gonna get durty.

 
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