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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 Beano Brain: Why Does the Beano Have its Own Special In-House Child Psychology Unit? Sun Dec 14, 2025 09:00 | Steven Tucker
In the good old days, children's comics had one purpose: to be funny. Now, the Beano sees it's mission as 'mental health' ? and has its own in-house child psychology unit to keep it on message, says Steven Tucker.
The post Beano Brain: Why Does the Beano Have its Own Special In-House Child Psychology Unit? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link America?s New Security Doctrine and the Reordering of Global Energy Geopolitics Sun Dec 14, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
Washington's newly released National Security Strategy has struck Europe with the force of a long-suppressed truth bluntly delivered ? and energy geopolitics is at the heart of the seismic shift, says Tilak Doshi.
The post America’s New Security Doctrine and the Reordering of Global Energy Geopolitics appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Dec 14, 2025 00:45 | Will Jones
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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Greens Plan to Punish Men Who Correct Women Sat Dec 13, 2025 17:38 | Will Jones
Men who correct women could face disciplinary action under plans being considered by the Green Party.
The post Greens Plan to Punish Men Who Correct Women appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Netflix Condemned for Gary Lineker Deal After BBC Antisemitism Scandal Sat Dec 13, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Netflix stands accused of "rewarding hateful rhetoric" by signing Gary Lineker in a lucrative deal after?he quit the BBC?over an antisemitic post he shared about Zionism with an image of a rat.
The post Netflix Condemned for Gary Lineker Deal After BBC Antisemitism Scandal appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

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Israel Kidnaps Two Brothers

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Monday June 26, 2006 14:44author by pat c Report this post to the editors

In an overnight raid into the Gaza Strip the IDF have abducted two brothers. The Israelis claim that the brothers are members of Hamas. Hamas denies this and states that the two brithers are merely the sons of a Hamas member.

The two captured men were brothers Osama and Mustafa Abu Muamar, sons of Hamas activist Ali Muamar.

The raid started at 0330 in the village of Umm al-Nasser, near the Rafah refugee camp and only one kilometre from the Israeli border, Palestinian sources say. An eyewitness, Ali Muamar told Reuters news agency he awoke to see Israeli troops scaling down his wall.

"They blindfolded and handcuffed me and started beating me up with the butts of their rifles and kicking me," said Mr Muamar, who was treated in hospital for wounds.

Mr Muamar said the soldiers seized his computer and left after about an hour.

Palestinian Commandos in a daring raid on Israelis positions on Sunday, killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded five others. THey also captured an Israeli soldier, Cpl Gilad Shalit. Shalit is now being held as a POW.

Three Palestinian Commandoes died in this action against the Israelis. The action was in response to the mass murder of Palestinian children by Israeli Forces. The Palestinian Commandoes showed they were true soldiers by attacking military targets.

Meanwhile, families of some 9,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails demonstrated to demand that the militants holding Cpl Shalit trade him for the release of their relatives.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has threatened to murder the Palestinian President, Prime mInister and the PA Cabinet unless Shalit is released.

I wonder if there will be any sanctions against Olmert foor these remarks and threats? Dont hold your breath.

The hypocrisy of the Israelis is breath-taking. They kidnap two non-combatants, they hold thousands of Palestinian Soldiers in prisons, yet when one of their soldiers is captured, they threaten mass murder.

Shalit is a POW and should be treated as such.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Photos     pat c    Mon Jun 26, 2006 15:39 
   Hypocrisy     pat c    Tue Jun 27, 2006 14:10 
   Some other unmentionables     Some News    Tue Jun 27, 2006 18:22 
   He's back!     Arthur Guiness    Tue Jun 27, 2006 18:51 
   some news     pat c    Tue Jun 27, 2006 21:10 
   War sucks, don't it?     Arthur Kennedy    Wed Jun 28, 2006 00:36 
   War Crimes     pat c    Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:53 
   Bombing Sderot     gordi    Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:52 
   Gaza: Working towards their own destruction     Arthur Kennedy    Wed Jun 28, 2006 17:17 
 10   Undead Kennedy     Arthur Guinness    Wed Jun 28, 2006 17:20 
 11   Old excuse, try something new     Arthur Kennedy    Wed Jun 28, 2006 17:24 
 12   Arthur's Right...     Mr. T.    Wed Jun 28, 2006 17:38 
 13   More about Gaza     Supporter of Palestinians    Wed Jun 28, 2006 18:12 
 14   Supporter of Palestinians,     eastern eye    Wed Jun 28, 2006 18:57 
 15   Give Iran 200 nukes too as much as Isre=ael stockpile     International Observer    Wed Jun 28, 2006 19:19 
 16   Idiots for palestine     Arthur Kennedy    Wed Jun 28, 2006 19:34 
 17   Now he wants genocide     Arthur Guinness    Wed Jun 28, 2006 22:23 
 18   Just make certain the wind is blowing east     Arthur Kennedy    Wed Jun 28, 2006 22:34 
 19   More nukes allowed to every big and rich nations     International Observer    Thu Jun 29, 2006 01:25 
 20   Sounds good!     Arthur Kennedy    Thu Jun 29, 2006 03:34 
 21   Eliyahu Asheri murdered     Noel    Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:30 
 22   Noel     Abu Nidal    Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:39 
 23   Release the French man!     The Cat    Thu Jun 29, 2006 13:02 
 24   Release The Muamar Brothers     pat c    Thu Jun 29, 2006 13:48 
 25   Wrong analysis     The Cat    Thu Jun 29, 2006 13:55 
 26   cat     the pat    Thu Jun 29, 2006 14:01 
 27   A glance at the situation of Palestinian refugees     pat c    Thu Jun 29, 2006 14:04 
 28   Amnesty International     pat c    Thu Jun 29, 2006 14:08 
 29   Typical reaction     The Cat    Thu Jun 29, 2006 14:09 
 30   cat     pat c    Thu Jun 29, 2006 14:19 
 31   Pat C     The Cat    Fri Jun 30, 2006 06:35 
 32   "Act of War"     Ali H.    Fri Jun 30, 2006 09:18 
 33   The Cat     pat c    Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:10 
 34   They don't treat Shalit like a POW     eastern eye    Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:42 
 35   Whose Standards?     Balar of the Baleful Eye    Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:46 
 36   Forgot to add     Balar of the Baleful Eye    Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:50 
 37   Eerie reminder     Froenx    Fri Jul 21, 2006 02:12 
 38   Video of Chomsky discussing the abductions and other facts about Lebanon and Israel     Tom Murphy    Fri Jul 21, 2006 02:41 
 39   peace     superman    Sun Aug 13, 2006 02:49 
 40   Register your objection to Israel's actions     Activist    Sun Aug 13, 2006 10:45 


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