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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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So much for music downloaders breaking the law!

category international | miscellaneous | news report author Monday June 23, 2003 16:32author by Declan Report this post to the editors

Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

[...] "No one is interested in destroying anyone's computer," replied Randy
Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles company that builds
technology to disrupt music downloads. One technique deliberately downloads
pirated material very slowly so other users can't.

"I'm interested," [Orrin] Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's
computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights."
The senator acknowledged Congress would have to enact an exemption for
copyright owners from liability for damaging computers. He endorsed
technology that would twice warn a computer user about illegal online
behavior, "then destroy their computer."

"If we can find some way to do this without destroying their machines, we'd
be interested in hearing about that," Hatch said. "If that's the only way,
then I'm all for destroying their machines. If you have a few hundred
thousand of those, I think people would realize" the seriousness of their
actions, he said. "There's no excuse for anyone violating copyright laws,"
Hatch said. [...]

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Sen. Hatch's statement today:
http://www.senate.gov/~hatch/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&Press
Release_id=205147

HATCH COMMENTS ON COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT

Washington - Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, today issued the following statement:

"I am very concerned about Internet piracy of personal and copyrighted
materials, and I want to find effective solutions to these problems.

"I made my comments at yesterday's hearing because I think that industry is
not doing enough to help us find effective ways to stop people from using
computers to steal copyrighted, personal or sensitive materials. I do not
favor extreme remedies - unless no moderate remedies can be found. I asked
the interested industries to help us find those moderate remedies."

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It's conceivable that Hatch is talking about the same kind of proposal that
Rep. Berman introduced last year:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04035.html

It's a complicated bill and worth reading for yourself, but one section
says "a copyright owner shall not be liable in any criminal or civil action
for disabling, interfering with, blocking, diverting, or otherwise
impairing the unauthorized distribution, display, performance, or
reproduction of his or her copyrighted work on a publicly accessible
peer-to-peer file trading network":
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.05211:






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author by Mikepublication date Tue Jun 24, 2003 16:18author address author phone Report this post to the editors

With CORRECT software.....

With a "correct" operating system in place, no application program running amok can damage the hardware.

With a "correct" application program, no bad data can crash the program or otherwise cause it to take illegal actions.

This proposed scheme requires taking advantage of "bugs" in the operating system and application. It might even work briefly since the majority of computer users currently are using unsafe operating systems and applications.

What do the Orin Hatches of this world imagine? That the existence of the bugs being taken advantage of would remain SECRET exploits? That this wouldn't induce computer users to switch to operating systems and applications in which these bugs had been fixed? Or for the vendor of the very popular (but bugged) operating system to finally fix their bugs -- if they don't simply use their muscle to kill this proposal.

author by aunty trotpublication date Tue Jun 24, 2003 16:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

They must be asleep, or have no interest in mere leisure interests such as music etc

 
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