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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The Saker >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
Public Inquiry >>
Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/.
Last Retry Wednesday October 08, 2025 20:52
British Steel Industry Faces ?Existential Threat? as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer?s ?EU R... Wed Oct 08, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Britain?s Net Zero-ravaged steel industry is facing an "existential threat" as the EU threatens the UK with tariffs of up to 50% despite Keir Starmer's recent 'EU reset' giveaway on fishing rights and youth mobility.
The post British Steel Industry Faces “Existential Threat” as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer’s ‘EU Reset’ Giveaway appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Fightback Against Politicised Art Has Begun Wed Oct 08, 2025 15:27 | Ferro
The public's indifference to art has never been greater. No wonder, says Ferro: it's all just tired Left-progressive politics by another means. But the fightback for real art that moves the human soul has begun.
The post The Fightback Against Politicised Art Has Begun appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV Wed Oct 08, 2025 13:00 | James Alexander
Not until Leo XIV did we have a picture of a holy man staring at an ice cube with his hand on it, respectfully gazing as if imagining the whisky that could go with such a rock, says Prof James Alexander.
The post Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sir Lenny Henry Wants ?18 Trillion of Slavery Reparations Wed Oct 08, 2025 11:17 | Sallust
Sir Lenny Henry has called for Britain to pay ?18 trillion in reparations to black people, arguing in a new book that high rates of black crime and unemployment are "all because of the slave trade".
The post Sir Lenny Henry Wants ?18 Trillion of Slavery Reparations appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
How Representative is X of UK Public Opinion? Wed Oct 08, 2025 09:00 | Noah Carl
Britain's political class is addicted to X, but how representative Is the platform? According to recent YouGov polls, only 1 in 6 people uses X daily, and most people view it unfavourably.
The post How Representative is X of UK Public Opinion? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Lockdown Skeptics >>
dublin |
rights, freedoms and repression |
news report
Friday February 26, 2010 02:49
by Paula Geraghty
printable version
Digg this
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Technorati
Facebook
Gab
Twitter
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (3 of 3)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3The call for all international troops to leave Haiti is, at best, misguided.
At the moment, there are military forces from countries as diverse as Brazil, the US, Canada, Argentina, and some African countries in Haiti. They were helping to keep the peace before the earthquake (as part of the MINUSTAH force mandated by the UN Security Council), and they are even more necessary than ever in the aftermath of the earthquake, where the potential for looting and large-scale rioting remains high due to the devastation inflicted upon the Haitian Government and its institutions, including the national police force and the army. The Governments which sent additional troops after the earthquake - most of whom do not form part of MINUSTAH - have made clear that they are there for humanitarian purposes only, and are working closely with the UN, NGOs and others. Can anyone point to one single example of those troops doing anything which exceeds that mandate? I, for one, have not heard of any criticisms.
It is foolish, foolhardy and utterly misinformed to call for them to leave, as this would surely lead to chaos. More importantly, they are there at the request of the Haitian President and his Government and therefore have every right to be there. Who are we from the comforts of Ireland to pretend to know better than the democratically-elected President of Haiti. Better that people stop trying to mask their general anti-US sentiment, and not hijack the Haitian catastrophe to that end. It's really quite pathetic.
Great to see you folks in front of the US embassy - you seem really well organised with yr banners etc. I see a banner from LASC there - happy to see that - I seem to remember they did some pretty good work on Haiti around the time of the coup a few years back. Sadly as the last post shows there is a crying need for some intelligent analysis on the situation in Haiti.
I seem to rememer photoes of bloody corpses of dozens of supporters of the democratically elected government of Aristide who were killed by UN troops including Brazilians. The LASC website probably has something on this still. Sadly a UN mandate does not ensure that the interests of the majority population are served best by a military occupation. But I don't want to be labelled anti-American - if anyone thinks it is wrong to oppose a bloody coup and the toppling of a democratic government, just because it was organised and carried out by the US government, well, they need to look again at their values and at what has actually happened in the real world as opposed to their media-inspired fantasy.
The earthquake was terrible, and if the troops are helping and doing a good job, fair play to them. But looking at the big picture, a key reason people perish in such numbers when earthquake strikes a poor country is a lack of infrastructure and bad buildings, growing from the poverty the country has been kept in for 200 years, with international relations playing a big part in this, and with military occupation as the primary tool. And lets tell the truth, the US government (not the American peoples who are by and large positive and generous spirited) have constantly interfered in Haitian affairs (and across the whole of Latin America) to nip democracy in the bud and keep the majority in poverty. So I think it is not unreasonable to call for an end to foreign military occupation there.
As for the point about calling for this from the comfort of Ireland, well, I seemed to see a fair few Haitians there. I think they have a right to an opinion on their country. Actually I think everyone has a right and a duty to look at why children die of hunger each day and the root cause of Haiti's problems may not be as far removed as we would like to think from the root causes of some of our own problems.
I saw disaster capitalism referenced in the video - the use of crises to push through unpopular changes which benefit weathy concerns (many of them based in Europe and, yes, the USA!)- is in evidence in Haiti as after the Tsunami a few years ago in Asia, and after the many bloody coups in Latin America throughout the 70's and 80's. It has created misery and death for many millions. Is it anti-american to express concern about this? Are the Latin Americans somehow less American than their brothers and sisters in North America? Or is it that the poor are somehow less human?
As for the looting, how much evidence is there that Port au Prince will descend into a blood bath without the threat of weapons to hold the people back? From the perspective of reporters holed up in the best hotel in town and only let out for 3 hours a day with security guards hovering, no doubt it is a very frightening place. But there was little violence in the city as a whole considering people were starving and their kids dying.
I say top credit to the protestors for doing their best to alert the public to what is really happening and shame on the previous poster for criticising in such a facile and really uninformed way.
It is farcical to suggest that the Haitian political process is democratic. The continued exclusion and repression of Fanmi Lavalas, the country's most popular political party, with the collusion of the state, UN and domestic capitalists clearly disproves this assertion. Elections were scheduled to take place on Feb 28 2010, but these have been indefinitely postponed, with Lavalas once again excluded.
If you are particularly concerned about democratically-elected presidents, you should call for the return of Aristide, who was abducted in 2004 by US marines.