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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 Britain?s De Facto Blasphemy Laws Have Been Decades in the Making Tue Oct 14, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
The overturning of Hamit Coskun's conviction for burning a Quran shows Britain doesn't have blasphemy laws. But in truth a fear of violent reprisals has created a de facto blasphemy law for decades, says Clarissa Hard.
The post Britain’s De Facto Blasphemy Laws Have Been Decades in the Making appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Climate Lunatics in Hamburg Pass Referendum Committing Germany?s Leading Industrial City to Deindust... Tue Oct 14, 2025 17:34 | Eugyppius
Hamburg ? Germany's leading industrial city ? has just committed to deindustrialise completely in 15 years after a referendum on Net Zero by 2040 passed with 53.2% of the vote. This is utter insanity, says Eugyppius.
The post Climate Lunatics in Hamburg Pass Referendum Committing Germany’s Leading Industrial City to Deindustrialise Completely in 15 Years appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Miliband Approves UK?s Biggest Solar Farm on 3,000 Acres of Prime Farmland Tue Oct 14, 2025 15:28 | Will Jones
Ed Miliband has approved the UK?s largest solar farm to date, covering 3,000 acres ? that's 2,000 football pitches ? of prime farmland in a "mass industrialisation" of Britain's countryside.
The post Miliband Approves UK’s Biggest Solar Farm on 3,000 Acres of Prime Farmland appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ban on Trans People Using Female Lavatories ?Risks Breaching ECHR Rules?, Says Council of Europe Tue Oct 14, 2025 13:15 | Will Jones
Implementing the Supreme Court's gender ruling by banning transgender 'women' from female lavatories risks breaching the European Convention on Human Rights, the Council of Europe has warned.
The post Ban on Trans People Using Female Lavatories “Risks Breaching ECHR Rules”, Says Council of Europe appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Parents Being Banned From School Sports Over Their ?Bad Behaviour? Shows What is Wrong With ?Safegua... Tue Oct 14, 2025 11:18 | Mary Gilleece
The banning of parents from their children's sports events by a London school over the parents' 'bad behaviour' shows what is wrong with our officious safeguarding culture, says Mary Gilleece.
The post Parents Being Banned From School Sports Over Their ‘Bad Behaviour’ Shows What is Wrong With ‘Safeguarding’ 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

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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international / consumer issues / other press Friday August 12, 2005 16:00 by Jerome a Paris
"The Financial Times publishes this morning the straight propaganda from the "voodoo" supply siders that fill up so many positions in the Bush administration. It is interesting to see their arguments so nakedly expressed." read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech / other press Friday August 12, 2005 13:23 by triffid protection eye wear.   text 17 comments (last - thursday august 18, 2005 15:57)   image 8 images
the Swift Tuttle comet's debris annually colides with the planet Earth in mid August giving us all shooting stars which are called the Perseids.

You may approach this simple cosmic fact with awe and superstition, gasping and pointing and mkaing little wishes for world peace or higher wages or you may choose to be scientific about it and simply record time, brightness and suspected location of the drop. Its up to you.

The last time the comet itself was visible was in 1992, someday that comet will collide with us but not yet. read full story / add a comment
monaghan / sci-tech / other press Thursday August 11, 2005 12:34 by Jedi master   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 11, 2005 12:36)   image 1 image
A humourous piece about Zidanes return to football read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday August 11, 2005 01:05 by Arthur McBride   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 11, 2005 09:37)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army, hard pressed to attract new soldiers amid the Iraq war, exceeded its July recruiting goal but seems doomed to miss its target for the year, while the Army Reserve and National Guard fell short of their goals again.

See: read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday August 11, 2005 00:26 by feckoffmary   text 2 comments (last - thursday august 18, 2005 19:56)
RTE 10 August 2005 19:32

A legal expert has said she believes that the three Irishmen convicted of terrorism offences in Colombia may have no case to answer under Irish law.
...the director of the Council for Civil Liberties, Aisling Reidy, has said gardaí would have to have evidence that someone possessed a false document in Ireland before officers would want to talk to that person.

Full story: read full story / add a comment
Breaking The Seals Of Mass Destruction: Image - dervishes camped outside isfahan in May or June of 1909
international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday August 10, 2005 15:33 by o!   text 3 comments (last - saturday august 13, 2005 21:27)   image 2 images
Mr Bush is uneasy, Iran has only twice taken the headlines from him since he got the job of the great white chief of the USA.

You remember, there were two earthquakes in Bam a little more than a year apart when he went on holidays. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday August 10, 2005 13:04 by Dave
Acclaimed film director Ken Loach spoke to Socialist Worker about the latest anti-terror proposals read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday August 09, 2005 23:51 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 10, 2005 14:30)
5 members of the Cuban state government, which has stretched since its resplendent days of thrashing hotels and being squeezy hugged by Kruschev, hae had their court rulings annuled.

They have been held by the US since 1998

Since March 10, 2004, the three US magistrates assigned by the Atlanta Appeal Court"s 11th Circuit to revise the case of Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez.have been doing their thing and their decision today to reverse the convictions was unanimous.

The "Red Avispa" or "red bee" spy ring story is a source of gathering solidarity and interest in both the USA and the Spanish speaking Americas. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Tuesday August 09, 2005 05:59 by JEFF
Jeff is in USA prison for 22 years for burning a couple SUVs
This is a dispatch from prison. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday August 09, 2005 02:59 by Scales_of_Justice
High Court Asked to Take Guantanamo Case

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee asked the Supreme Court on Monday to consider blocking military tribunals for terror suspects, and overturn what they called an extreme ruling by high court nominee John Roberts.
Roberts was on a three-judge federal appeals court panel that last month ruled against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who once was Osama bin Laden's driver.
Hamdan's attorneys said in their filing with the justices that the appeals court had rejected long-standing constitutional and international law.

Full story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050808/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_military_tribunals

Military tribunals: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/commissions.html read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / other press Monday August 08, 2005 00:08 by mms   text 4 comments (last - wednesday august 10, 2005 12:17)
A short summary of the above article in Spanish.
more or less what Bertie Ahern said about the extradition to Colombia, that there is not such as treaty between countries.
That Bertie didn't know that there were back until he listened to the news...
full translation available if requested read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / other press Sunday August 07, 2005 13:14 by redjade
Dr Mark Garavan, John Beasant and John Donovan interviewed read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / other press Sunday August 07, 2005 13:12 by mms   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 16, 2005 14:52)
Reading this morning the Spanish newspapers I came across the news that an Irish citizen died yesterday. He had suffered from ashma. It was a natural dead.
below the spanish text read full story / add a comment
down / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday August 06, 2005 20:00 by S. Jones   text 13 comments (last - wednesday august 10, 2005 01:23)   image 1 image
Seems the way C4 are talking about it. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday August 06, 2005 11:38 by ms. informed   text 12 comments (last - wednesday august 10, 2005 12:47)
"For although it founds its ideology on religious references and speaks a language overwhelmed by religious symbols, al-Qaida falls largely within the modern tradition of revolutionary anarchists ..."
writes Soumayya Ghannoushi, a researcher in the history of ideas at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, in an opinion piece in Aljazeera. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday August 06, 2005 07:05 by peptide
Since the London bombings the Australian mass media has been serving up a steady stream of garbled diatribes from local radical Muslim clerics. One wonders why these fanatics have been kept ‘on tap’ by local security agencies. But after a week of media ‘interviews’ with these unrepresentative Muslims, all becomes clear! Conservative (government) political strategists and media consultants are behind these latest ‘media events’. These relatively easy to locate (moron) fundamentalists are utilised to good advantage by the Howard government and some local political commentators as a means of distracting the public’s attention away from sensitive issues for which the government is directly responsible. It is hoped that public anger, in the likely event of a terrorist strike, will be vented on the local Muslim community rather than Howard and his stooge government. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday August 05, 2005 23:35 by hanging out on my blog for a few days till damage's properly
in the last 48 hours we have seen yet again the strength and depth of US / Colombian relations, as president Uribe spent time at the Crawford bunker of George Bush junior. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / other press Friday August 05, 2005 12:56 by Irish Times Subber
Shell would "use this time to address remaining public concerns and is fully committed to delivering the Corrib project, which will address Ireland's urgent need for an alternative indigenous natural gas supply", it said. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Thursday August 04, 2005 18:10 by Twiggy   text 3 comments (last - friday august 05, 2005 16:33)
Wed Aug 3,11:08 PM ET

MOSCOW, Idaho - A University of Idaho graduate student believes the answer to the world's crude oil crisis grows on trees. Juan Andres Soria says he has developed a process that turns wood into bio-oil, a substance similar to crude oil. read full story / add a comment
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