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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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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

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The State of (Oz) Affairs

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Monday May 01, 2006 17:05author by dingo Report this post to the editors

No greater tragedy has beset the Australian nation than at the present time. Everything that is un-Australian masquerades as the leader of the nation; is it necessary to name John Howard as the personification of everything that is un-Australian? A cowardly, cringing, lying, weevil does not an Australian make! Howard is the most grotesque, obnoxious flea that has ever inhabited political office. A perfect coward and pathological liar has won the last two elections by default. The local population desperately sought a viable opposition but found NONE; a high school student could have beaten Howard but not the present opposition; no greater congregation of self-centred, self-destructive, inept fools has ever sullied the floor of parliament.

Who will save the nation? It is clear that the two party political system is a total failure. The rules in first grade sport were changed when it became obvious that existing rules were inadequate – it’s time to apply the same good sense and logic to government. Common and good sense came to the rescue of sport, we should surely expect a similar display of remedial action to save the nation.

If anyone stands for an Independent Republic with a coherent new constitution and modern Bill of Rights – one that embraces the best values the past with a clear vision for the future – then take that baton and run with it! Howard (and the Labor Party) follow Bush and the USA to oblivion. This region is under the Southern Cross in the South Pacific, US interests are not our interests. In fact, they oppose our interests.

In the meantime it is important to note those who support Howard and the dying US empire. Those who subscribe to the ideology of cowardice and possess a cringe mentality; those who have no Australian identity but seek American values instead; those who support the destruction of the egalitarian ideal, mateship, and a way of life that was the envy of the world. Make note so that this nation can be cleansed of the disease that would destroy two hundred years of heritage. America seeks irrelevance by choosing not to participate constructively in today’s New World; only bereft fools and cowards would follow.

It is time that every red-blooded Australian (from whatever background) started making a mental note of those traitors, those chicken-shits who admire foreign paternalism and cannot stand on their own two feet.

The treasurer, Peter (supercilious prick) Costello, recently attempted to redefine the Australian identity. He has based his criteria on racial grounds and conservative political values. Costello stated that those who do not fit into a (yet to be explicitly divulged value structure) will not be granted citizenship or permanent status. Whatever imbecilic criteria these right-wing clowns invent, it will spell deportation for the Prime Minister and his front bench. Do not be surprised!

Howard is a glaring example of one who denies his heritage and adopts a foreign value system – his is the leadership of an infant pursuing a father figure; the leadership of psycho-pathology, a person incapable of achieving full maturation; an infant seeking protection from bogey men. Howard’s personality problems will not become the values of the nation while red-blooded Australians live. We take great pleasure in reminding Howard that his government was elected by default and that his lies and deceit are not capable of eradicating two hundred years of Australian culture. Furthermore, today we have the ICC, which will become a people’s court in which (all) State leaders guilty of crimes against humanity will be held accountable; gone are the days when ex-prime ministers could rely on the protection of a succeeding corrupt regime.

We are extremely eager to implement Costello’s new criteria for defining an Aussie citizen. People who overtly display foreign values and have trashed the defining characteristics of what it is to be an Australian are free to emigrate to the nations whose values they hold more dear than our own. John Howard and his front bench are easily identified as those who have adopted American values and in consequence they will be deported to the nation that they serve – America can have them, and good riddance.

During his tenure in office, Howard has emulated and implemented American values and social policies, which are inferior to traditional Australian values and social policies. Nevertheless, Howard serves the ruling elites and wealthy, he is an obedient little deputy sheriff.

I could continue but that would not be in the Aussie spirit – it’s your go ol’ son!

Endnote:
I am completely unapologetic for this rabidly nationalistic paper – the values I cherish are universal brotherhood, the fair go, and the egalitarian principles that have made this nation the envy of the world. Howard will go down in infamy, as the most destructive traitor and criminal in our history.

I have always been a strong opponent of capital punishment, but in Howard’s case I could make an exception.

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