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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
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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
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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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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
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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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Should Israel be held accountable for war crimes in Gaza?

category international | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Tuesday January 20, 2009 15:31author by gazasympathiser Report this post to the editors

RTE poll shows "majority" believe it should not!

The poll currently running on the RTE webpage shows the "majority" believe that Israel was only defending itself !?

http://www.rte.ie/news/

Obviously the hasbaraniks are out in force voting early and often.

With Israel's foreign ministry organising volunteers to flood news websites with pro-Israeli comments, Propaganda 2.0 is here

Richard Silverstein
guardian.co.uk, Friday 9 January 2009

"The hasbara brigade strikes again! You always hear about Israeli attempts at media manipulation. Everyone knows it's going on but usually the process happens through cyber insurgents like those involved with Giyus (and its media monitoring software, Megaphone). Now, we know that the Israeli foreign ministry itself is orchestrating propaganda efforts designed to flood news websites with pro-Israel arguments and information.

A reader of my blog has received the following email which documents both the efforts and the agency that originated them.....

In some instances, western media may intentionally or unintentionally fall victim to manipulation. Tony Karon points out that pro-Israel journalist-historian Michael Oren has published several stories since the Gaza incursion began in US media outlets like the New Republic and Los Angeles Times. He is also on active duty with the IDF in Gaza serving as a public affairs officer liasing with foreign media. You will find nothing noting this in the Los Angeles Times op ed. In effect, the media is allowing advocates like Oren to pass themselves off as disinterested experts when they are anything but. It behooves editors to do some due diligence when they publish any piece that advocates for one side or the other to determine whether there may be conflicts of interest or other unacknowledged factors influencing a commentator's judgment.

It seems we are now well and truly in the world of Propaganda 2.0."

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   My guess...     Ciaran Gallagher    Tue Jan 20, 2009 22:11 
   woops...     Ciaran Gallagher    Tue Jan 20, 2009 22:16 
   Should Israel be held accountable for war crimes in Gaza?     tagger    Tue Jan 20, 2009 22:59 
   Or should Hamas be held accountable for war crimes in Israel?     Contrarian    Wed Jan 21, 2009 00:37 
   Contrarian     tagger    Wed Jan 21, 2009 01:28 
   Yes, they should.     Fred Johnston    Wed Jan 21, 2009 01:37 
   Double standards     Contrarian    Wed Jan 21, 2009 02:51 
   Armed Resistance is Lawful     Maquis    Wed Jan 21, 2009 08:24 
   Legal resistance     Israel lives    Wed Jan 21, 2009 08:50 
 10   War Crimes.     hold on a minute...    Wed Jan 21, 2009 08:58 
 11   "The law is the law, is the law, is the law"     Dimpna    Wed Jan 21, 2009 09:52 
 12   Israeli army to investigate its own use of illegal weapons     gazasympathiser    Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:46 
 13   WP used on Civilians: this is what it looks like     redjade    Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:51 
 14   Israel admits war-crimes in Gaza     gazasympathiser    Wed Jan 21, 2009 13:04 
 15   Can you do this in Irish courts?     redjade    Wed Jan 21, 2009 14:29 
 16   Great thinking     gazasympathiser    Wed Jan 21, 2009 14:49 
 17   no sympathy     shaun    Wed Jan 21, 2009 18:19 
 18   Ongoing war crimes     Miriam    Wed Jan 21, 2009 21:38 
 19   Hasbaranik commentators     George F. Ryan    Thu Jan 22, 2009 14:02 
 20   Technical point     George F. Ryan    Thu Jan 22, 2009 15:52 
 21   Point of law     gazasympathiser    Thu Jan 22, 2009 16:25 
 22   On Employment of WP in Gaza     George F. Ryan    Thu Jan 22, 2009 19:00 
 23   Again     gazasympathiser    Fri Jan 23, 2009 08:30 
 24   Conclusions on insufficient evidence     George F. Ryan    Fri Jan 23, 2009 15:59 
 25   Fact     gazasympathiser    Fri Jan 23, 2009 16:51 
 26   Not much sense     George F. Ryan    Fri Jan 23, 2009 20:40 
 27   Yes Israel should be made accountable for war crimes in Gaza     Justin Morahan    Sat Jan 24, 2009 03:14 
 28   If you don't want to see it, you won't see it.     openeyes    Sat Jan 24, 2009 15:22 
 29   dontbelievethemediapropogandaplants     dontbelievethemediapropogandaplants    Wed Jan 28, 2009 17:01 
 30   Correct     George F. Ryan    Fri Jan 30, 2009 01:11 
 31   Insulting the Injured.     Vincent    Fri Jan 30, 2009 16:29 


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