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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 Boiler Tax to Rise to ?100 as Miliband Refuses to Back Down on Heat Pump Push Sat Nov 01, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Ed Miliband has announced an increase in?the 'boiler tax',?which will add an estimated ?100 to the cost of replacing a gas boiler, as he refused to back down from his hated heat pump push.
The post Boiler Tax to Rise to ?100 as Miliband Refuses to Back Down on Heat Pump Push appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Surge in House Fires Caused by Solar Panels Sparks Concern Over Miliband?s Rooftop Installation Driv... Sat Nov 01, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
A surge in house fires caused by solar panels and their batteries is sparking safety concerns over Ed Miliband?s plan for millions more rooftop installations.
The post Surge in House Fires Caused by Solar Panels Sparks Concern Over Miliband’s Rooftop Installation Drive appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Shocking Poll Shows Labour and Tories Behind Greens for First Time as Reform Rides High Sat Nov 01, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Labour and the Tories are behind the Green Party for the first time, a stunning poll has found, as Reform continues to ride high on 32%.
The post Shocking Poll Shows Labour and Tories Behind Greens for First Time as Reform Rides High appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link These Fractured Isles: Britain?s Drift Towards Civil War Sat Nov 01, 2025 09:00 | David Betz and Michael Rainsborough
If Britain's drift towards civil conflict continues, the next phase will be physical. When politics ceases to settle grievances, they are settled by other means, warn Prof David Betz and Prof Michael Rainsborough.
The post These Fractured Isles: Britain’s Drift Towards Civil War appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Meet the ?Anti-Racist? South African Politicians Who Blame Power-Cuts On Their White Opponents Being... Sat Nov 01, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
This Halloween, meet the 'anti-racist' South African politicians who blame power-cuts on their white opponents being witches who magically control the nation's electricity supply, says Steven Tucker.
The post Meet the ‘Anti-Racist’ South African Politicians Who Blame Power-Cuts On Their White Opponents Being Witches Who Magically Control the Nation’s Electricity Supply 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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Labour Capitulates on Reducing Low Pay

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | opinion/analysis author Thursday July 28, 2011 19:50author by Paddy Healy - United Left Allianceauthor email paddy.healy at eircom dot netauthor address 88 griffith Court, D3author phone 086-4183732 Report this post to the editors

Labours shame on Low Pay

Labour's Shame on Low Pay-Labour Party has capitulated to Fine Gael by agreeing to cut low pay

Labour's Shame

Not alone has the Labour Party agreed to the scrapping of the Sunday premium for low paid workers, it has also agreed to allow employers to claim inability to pay and ,if successful, to pay a lesser rate for normal working days. In circumstances in which demand is being continuously removed from the economy by government, this can only lead to continuous reduction in the direction of the minimum wage and the effective collapse of the system. Compliant employers will be progressively undermined by those paying a lower rate.

The scrapping of the Sunday premium will simply add to the profits of highly successful multi-national retail chains at the expense of their employees.

The 100th anniversary of the founding of the Labour Party in Clonmel by Larkin and Connolly in 1912 which will be held next year will be a in the nature of a wake.

The actions of the Labour Party are an insult to the memory of Larkin and Connolly. Larkin is rightly celebrated for his heroic battles on behalf of the low-paid. In addition, Connolly is celebrated for his heroic stand for Irish Independence and sovereignty. But the Labour Party is allowing internatonal financiers to suck the lifeblood out of Ireland and even allowing them to dictate cuts in low pay under the EU-IMF Deal. When it is considered that cuts in low pay will actually worsen the national finances by lowering the tax take, the capitulation of Gilmore on the JLC issue must be the most abject surrender of Irish sovereignty conceivable. Will Gilmore have the hard neck to give an oration at Arbour Hill next May?

Paddy Healy   086-4183732

Member of National Steering Committee, United Left Alliance    

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