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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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Brad Manning & Going to see Laverty/Loach's "Route Irish" with my mate Ben an SAS Iraq War veteran!

category international | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Saturday March 19, 2011 09:46author by Ciaron O'Reilly Report this post to the editors

Last night I went to see Ken Loach/ Paul Lavety's latest effort, the film "Route Irish". I was invited along by a friend, Ben Griffin, who is an Iraq S.A.S. combat veteran.

For most of my anti- war activist life the word "veteran" would conjure images of older guys from my town who had fought in WW2 in New Guinea and also recenlty returned Vietnam Veterans. I grew up sharing a back fence with the second largest military base in Australia - "Gallipoli Barracks"/ Enoggera, Brisbane, Australia.

My mother had three uncles who went through Enoggera to the faraway imperial killnig fields of WW1. While my father's parents were busy fighting British occupation forces in Ireland, my mother's uncles were serving the British war effort in faraway (from Australia) Europe and Turkey. Go figure? When my mother's uncles were in the Australian Army it was named the "Australian Imperial Forces". It did what is said on the tin - went anywhere anytime to service Britisih imperialism, Forced British imperialism down the throats of the locals from its first away from home outing in the 1800's putting down the Maori in Aotearoa/NZ to turning up late for the scrap in Khartoum, the Boer War in South Africa, off to China to put down the Boxer Rebellion, failing in the invasion of the USSR at the tail end of WW1,

When I was growing up the Australian Army had changed gears and its name and and was busy servicing U.S. imperialsm in Vietnam, after doing one final gig for the British in the Malay counter insurgency. In recet years, when in Australia and staying with my mum at our old house I have conducted a weekly anti-war vigil outised the barracks, watching the latest crop of cannon fodder shipping out from Enoggera to Iraq and Afghanistan. Same old same old....same kids being lied to and exploited in their prime, same indifference from the average Aussie as the occasinoal body bag rolls home from Afghanistan.Australian Labor/Green or Liberal Party governments it makes no difference as we say at home "same shit, different flies!"

"Route Irish is a fine film here's a review by a Jesuit (the brains trust of the Catholic Chirrch...12 years of higher education before ordination, they must know something by now?) and a 3 min trailer..
http://thinkingfaith.org/articles/FILM_20101105_3.htm

Our crew of 11 at the cinema last niight included a few ex-military, also ambulance workers, West Ham, Tottenham, West Ham, another Man. United fan and enthusiastic cricketers. When we hit the pub after the screening, Ben was a bit limited in conversation, as he lives under a Ministry of Deefence (M.O.D.) gag order and will go to prison if he says anything about his experiences in Iraq or the British military. We know this about Ben thanks to wikipedia......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Griffin_%28British_Arm...er%29

So we talked footaball and cricket. I've just become an international sports agent securing my younger brother Brendan O'Reilly a spot on the "London Marshes Select". I sealed the deal with the clincher "My brother Brendan, soon to join us at the London Catholic Worker, bowled out Stuart Law at high school!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Law

Ken Loach and Paul Laverty are really decent blokes. You should track down everything they've done and watch it...."My Name is Joe" is a cassic! London Catholic Worker http://londoncatholicworker.org/ Zelda is one of Paul's first efforts with Robert Carlyle "Carla's Song" set in Nicaragua in the '80s!

Do yourself a favour go see "Route Irish", the movie. Be compassionate with and support military veterans exploited by our governments in their youth and abandoned on the streets and in the prisons by the state (8,000 of the 80,000 British prisoners are ex-military). More U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War commited suicide on retruning then were killed in Vietnam.

Support military resisters when they surface http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/ The mainstream British peace organisations exploited Ben and then abandon him to the HIgh Court, they didn't accompany him to trial and he was left with a 50 grand legal bill for speaking out. They are now abandoning Bradley Manning http://www.bradleymanning.org/ to torture. Find those serious about nonviolently resisting the war and pro-active solidarity with resisters rather than the "anti-war/peace" organisations who just see the war as another great marketing opportunity to make some cash, raise their public proile or push their marginal political agendas. You know who they are! You know who we are! Find us, accompany us, support us. I truly believe if 1% of the people who marched against the war went to jail for nonviolently resisting it and he other 99% proactively supported them - fed the cat, donated, dealt with the hysterical parents - we would have (can still do) stopped the war!

Sunday March 20 Ben and I will be going to the U.S. Embassy in London at 2pm to make a stand with Bradley Manning. Jeff Patterson and other U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans will be heading to Quantico Virginia where Bradley is being tortured, Paul Laverty is wearig his Bradley Manning badge and speaking out for Bradley at all his press conferences promoting "Route Irish". Do what you can, don't give up, don't settle down, don't get cynical, speak out, act up. Nonviolent resistance and solidarity with those resisting is what is needed now, the rest is decorative! We can stop this war! Watch "Route Irish" and keep on the streets!

One Love
Solidariy Ciaron. London
http://www.londoncatholicworker.org

author by AV I'view Laverty Loachpublication date Sun Mar 20, 2011 05:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ken Loach in conversation with Paul Laverty at the Toronto Palestnian Film Festival.
A rabble.ca exclusive video
By rabble staff
September 20, 2010

On September 16th, the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) hosted a conversation between director Ken Loach (Land and Freedom, Wind That Shakes the Barley, Route Irish) and author Paul Laverty (Looking for Eric, Sweet Sixteen, Carla's Song, Even the Rain). TPFF Festival Coordinator, Rafeef Ziadah, moderated the conversation with Loach and Laverty as they reflected on their recent works and the challenges they face in making films that tackle highly politicized issues in the Middle East.

Their conversation was filmed for rabble.ca by Anita Krajnc.

TPFF presented this panel as part of a Speaker Series in partnership with the Department of Film at York University, the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design, the Communication and Culture Program at Ryerson University, and the Ontario Public Interest Research Group at the University of Toronto.

AUDIO VISUAL (n 6 10 minute parts)
http://www.rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2010/09/fea...xclus

Related Link: http://www.rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2010/09/features/ken-loach-and-paul-laverty-6-part-conversation-rabble-exclus
author by M20 Updatespublication date Sun Mar 20, 2011 22:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

March 20 Updates from Quantico around the U.S. & World!
http://www.bradleymanning.org/16510/march-20th-events-u...date/

 
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