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Indymedia ireland

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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no sex please! we're polish.

category international | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis author Friday May 26, 2006 01:39author by king Herod Report this post to the editors

Pope Benedict XVI the supreme moral authority for most citizens of the Irish Republic has begun his 4 day visit to Poland, during which he will speak against feminism, gay marriage, abortion, liberalism, contraception, & sex education. For those of you who don't know who pope Benedict XVI is, or why he is newsworthy.... A long time ago the archangel Gabriel appeared to a teenage girl in Palestine commonly called Mary, she was most probably aged between 14 and 16 based on customs of the time. The archangel told her that she was pregnant but wasn't to get too uptight about it.... It wasn't going to be a crime.... Because she'd have a virgin birth without DNA samples and her baby would be called Emanuel / Jesus / Brian & he'd be really famous and end up starring in the first Good Friday Agreement, and Michael Mc Dowell the sinful capitalist liberal hadn't been accounted for in the divine plan.

Of course all the frothy stuff got removed over the centuries, and now we know better. Pope Benedict, the German Shepherd, Papa Ratzi, has been well prepared for by his hosts the former communist & bolshevik, Poland. The Polish government has banned adverts for items which might upset him or the memory of Mary the virgin teenager.
1) tampons.(+)
2) condoms.
3) beer.
4) lingerie (what Mary Harney wears underneath her suits)
Da Vinci's annunciation, when Gabriel visited the teenage Mary & told her it wasn't a crime, she'd be a virgin.
Da Vinci's annunciation, when Gabriel visited the teenage Mary & told her it wasn't a crime, she'd be a virgin.

In addition the Polish conservative government (which couldn't sway its neighbouring Bylerussian regime) has stopped all broadcasts of Pornography and Erotica.

We have 4 days to report on what the black pope has to say for himself, & we await the moment that he becomes the 2nd Roman Catholic pontiff to visit Auschwitz (and incidently the only current world leader to do so who served in 3rd Reich forces)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1779765,0....html

It will merit lots of attention & comment & over these 4 days, Ratzinger previously only important for his product placement or wondering about the double jeopardy question about his rumoured review of condom use and AIDS, will surely say nothing on the Da Vinci code movie, which thanks to modern sinful preference for entertainment over sensible popular pressure http://www.warsaw.com/p/59/3d0b55d1f47e99.html?id=WNAT4...e5e92 is still showing in Polish cinemas.

"Jesus was well over the age of consent when he shagged Mary the Magdalene."
:- so no worries there for the moral minded amongst you.

There will be updates on this important story, as some of you might have noticed Eire isn't really as catholic as it used to be, and you'll have to rely on indymedia ireland for your spiritual needs.


(+) interestingly the Roman Catholic Church asked previous Irish governments to ban tampons on the grounds they would introduce young women to the pleasures of vaginal penetration. But that was a long time ago, back in Mary Harney's convent school days when Michael Mc Dowell was still swotting hard for his points to be a boring lawyer.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   "the handmaid's tale"     +    Fri May 26, 2006 03:56 
   Here are links to the Pope's first speeches & Catholic Q&A on menstruation.     sanitary towel    Fri May 26, 2006 15:34 
   We are now well into a half century of this rubbish!     Coillte, and proud of it!    Fri May 26, 2006 18:21 
   Ice cream is also on the list of frivolities prohibited.     que??!!    Fri May 26, 2006 18:49 
   If Tampons & Lingerie Adverts & sale of Ice Cream have been banned - it raises a question.     hmmm    Fri May 26, 2006 19:38 
   That's a tough question hmm. There are a lot of Catholics, many of them must be Perverts...     expert    Fri May 26, 2006 20:36 
   Beer     Katolicki pijak    Fri May 26, 2006 22:13 
   oh well it turns out there is no Polish pervert before the Irish courts.     expert    Sat May 27, 2006 00:42 
   Depraved is too mild a word     excommunicated    Sat May 27, 2006 04:36 
 10   The Pope has asked the Polish to pray for the canonisation of JP2 & the sick of this world.     salome & magdalene & dorethea & sebastian & stephen & judas    Sat May 27, 2006 17:24 
 11   on the 19th of May 2006 the conservative coalition of Poland asked for a meeting with the Israeli's.     3rd secret    Sat May 27, 2006 22:07 
 12   Why is Islam exempt?     I. K. Paisley    Sun May 28, 2006 04:34 
 13   Ian: not true     Anarchist    Sun May 28, 2006 14:25 
 14   i am not guilty of mocking any religion.     +    Sun May 28, 2006 17:59 
 15   Speaking of sex...     Anon    Wed May 31, 2006 18:47 
 16   de-classified CIA reports show they hid Eichmann.     666    Wed Jun 07, 2006 23:00 
 17   Polish people see their first Pride day in 2 years.     yippeeee!    Sun Jun 11, 2006 00:10 
 18   Vatican gold targetted     Seán Ryan    Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:29 
 19   After Turkey....     traveller    Wed May 09, 2007 21:42 
 20   Boorring     this time only    Wed May 09, 2007 22:29 


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