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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.

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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.

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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 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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Threat To Fishing Communities is Laid Starkly Bare in New Film - Atlantic

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | other press author Sunday April 10, 2016 20:04author by 1 of Indymedia Report this post to the editors

This article which appeared in the Southern Star was reposted by Shell To Sea and is now reposted by Indymedia because it recounts the plunder of our fishing resources by foreign countries and how just like our Oil and Gas resources, these were given away by our own politicians. These politicians are the direct ideological descendants of the right wing counter-revolutionaries who completely over turned the ideals of 1916 and have ruled this country ever since.

This whole area of how our fishing resources have been taken away from us needs to be highlighted more and a campaign is needed to take back this resource and ensure it is managed sustainably.
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Threat to fishing communities is laid starkly bare in new film
By: Siobhán Cronin - The Southern Star

Irish director Richie O’Donnell tells Siobhán Cronin why his earlier film on the Corrib gasfield led him to document the struggles of Irish fishermen in his fascinating new movie.

CASTLETOWNBERE features in a new Irish movie which examines the threat to our fishing industry and the battle for our natural resources.

Atlantic, a movie by award-winning director Richie O’Donnell, has already won the Best Irish Documentary at the recent Dublin International Film Festival.

Richie has form in documenting the struggles of coastal communities – having directed the much-respected film on the Corrib Gas controversy in Mayo, The Pipe.

Atlantic – which will be shown in ‘cinemobiles’ around West Cork in April – has been narrated by actor Brendan Gleeson. ‘Atlantic is an engrossing piece of truth-seeking, visually stunning and crafted with clarity and insight. It was an honour to be involved,’ said Gleeson of the 75-minute documentary.

The movie visits communities in three countries along the Atlantic coast – in Newfoundland, Norway and Ireland.

Fishermen in Castletownbere, Galway and Donegal talk about how the EU policy on fishing rights has decimated their livelihoods, as they watch ‘supertrawlers’ from other European countries scooping up tonnes of fish practically alongside them.

‘You are made to feel like a criminal when you go out and do this,’ Arranmore fisherman Jerry Early, seen setting off on his modest fishing boat, tells the camera.

The film shows how Newfoundland stood up to the Canadian government after a particularly divisive cod fishing moratorium, when Canada sold fishing rights to Europe in exchange for grain markets. But now a lot of former fishermen there are finding work on the oil rigs instead.

Contrast this with Norway, where a forward-thinking government spotted the value of its oil resources long before any deals were made with big business.

Statoil was established, with 100pc State ownership, and is now a major player in the world oil industry.

As well as keeping the rights to its own fishing waters, Norway has developed into one of the world’s wealthiest countries, thanks to keeping a tight rein on its own resources.

The film cleverly juxtaposes this with the situation in Ireland. A progressive Industry Minister, Labour TD Justin Keating, saw the potential of Ireland’s resources in the 1970s and introduced strong laws which would mean there would be a 50/50 share of any profits with the oil companies. In an interview, recorded with Richie during the filming of The Pipe, Mr Keating jokes about how his plans were not very popular with the oil industry.

But they weren’t too popular with some Irish politicians, either, because once FF minister Ray Burke got into government, he overturned the deal, and handed more control to the resource companies.

This, combined with Ireland’s virtual ‘handing over’ of fishing rights to Europe once it joined the EEC in 1973, has seen the gradual devastation of our coastal communities, argues Richie in Atlantic.

He reveals how his work on The Pipe led him to the story of the Irish fishing industry. ‘When I was filming The Pipe, I started to see a pattern – not just about oil and gas. But about the State’s attitude to the sea. We turn our back on it. It has never been respected, or valued or utilised – property has, yes, and land, but not sea,’ explained Richie.

‘It has been used as a bargaining chip in favour of other interests. Of course, there are more votes in farming, and the farming groups are stronger.’

Richie was particularly taken by the story of a Norwegian fisherman, Bjornar Nicolaisen, who arrived in Rossport in Co Mayo, having seen his film The Pipe, wanting to know more about the Shell to Sea campaign. He was interested to hear about the role of big oil and gas in the area, including Norway’s State-controlled Statoil, a company he was very familiar with back on his home territory.

As a result of this connection, the wives of the Rossport 5 travelled to Norway to tell their story and a second group of Irish campaigners also visited the country, along with Michael D Higgins, now President Higgins.

‘There was a lot of support from the people of Norway at the time,’ recalled Richie, who was intrigued to discover how they appeared to get it so right in their country.

The very charismatic Bjornar has long been campaigning against the damage caused, and potentially bigger threats, to fishing stocks by big business, including seismic drilling in Norway.

He plays a big role in Atlantic, explaining how we must value our role as custodians of the sea for future generations.
‘I was fascinated to get the Norwegian perspective,’ said Richie, whose meeting with Bjornar in Mayo prompted him to travel to Scandanavia and see the situation there.

Richie also wanted to see what was happening on the far side of the Atlantic – and chose Newfoundland, which has so many Irish links – and accents – along its shores.
There he met with two generations of the Kane family – one having made their living off fish, the second off the oil rigs – struggling to survive in the rough North Atlantic. ‘In the short term,’ Richie observed, ‘the oil allows young people to come back and work in their native towns, but if the oil industry ends up damaging the fish, and if the stocks run out, and the oil price collapses, what then?’

Richie said Atlantic was four years in the making, attracting funding from such diverse sources as the Norwegian and Canadian TV firms, individuals who ran music gigs and other fundraisers, and a crowd-funding website. The site raised €56,000 and this was then matched by the Irish Film Board. ‘But it’s a pity we don’t have our own national broadcaster on board,’ he said, referring to RTÉ.

John D O’Sullivan of the Ronan Ross trawler in Castletownbere was also a big supporter of the documentary.

‘The Castletownbere Fisheries Co-op gave us €5,000,’ Richie explained, ‘but what is happening to the local fishermen down there is awful. These supertrawlers are landing their catches on the pier, it’s being loaded into lorries and off they go back to Spain by road.

‘And they are not even spending any money there – just a fill of diesel. They are evening bringing their own cigarettes with them.’

The film also shows the huge amount of waste that the supertrawlers are creating, with several thousand tonnes dumped overboard by ships when they deem large sections of the catch to be undersized.

‘They only pick the best, and dump the rest,’ former fisheries officer Kevin Flannery says in the movie.

‘And the quota is not with the boat, it is with the origin country, so even if our authorities board a boat, it is very hard for them to know what the quota is, and if the boat has exceeded it. With the Irish boats, the quota is with the boat,’ explained Richie.

‘Fishing isn’t done at sea anymore, it’s done at tables in Brussels and these places,’ says Máirtín Éanna Ó Conghaile in Atlantic, skipper on the Iúda Noafa, out of Galway, as he watches a supertrawler hawling in its massive, bulging, nets.

There is a very poignant moment in the movie when fisherman Jerry Early is summonsed to court for fishing with a net that has the ‘potential’ to catch salmon. Jerry is watching supertrawlers rape his shore of its finest fish, every day of the week.

And while the situation is clearly unfair, a frustrated Richie sees himself as more messenger than campaigner.

‘I wanted Atlantic to be informative, balanced, and not about preaching. ‘The film is about learning lessons. All I can do is highlight it and tell the story. But, to be honest, I see no political will to change things.’

Atlantic will be shown in a ‘Cinemobile’ in the following towns: Kinsale (Saturday 16th April); Union Hall (Sunday 17th April); Castletownbere (Monday 18th April); Caherciveen (Tuesday 19th April), and Dingle (Wednesday 20th).


Originally appeared at:
http://www.southernstar.ie/news/roundup/articles/2016/0...film/

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