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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.

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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

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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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Ne Plus Ultra

category international | bin tax / household tax / water tax | news report author Sunday July 20, 2003 18:41author by sunday Report this post to the editors

where were you born? why are you poor?

For the reasons are local, the solutions are local, the strategies are made far far away, and the poor they are everywhere. Relatively writing.

Minister for Environment Martin Cullen was interviewed today for RTE's weekly news programe by Róisín Duffy who reported his plans to change regulations within the rental sector
28k - http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0720/thisweek/thisweek5a.smil

Many of us will remember Deirdre De Burca was one of the first to lead a charge on Cullen's cutting of the housing allocation in Dec 2002.
http://www.wicklowgreens.org/press/developers.htm
she had earlier accused him of a "cop out".
http://www.wicklowgreens.org/press/cullencopout.htm

It was a phrase which resounded...
Mr Cullen has been attacked on everything from housing to environmental issues. Understandable he is the Minister of Ireland's environment. But he has a constitutional edge too... He is facing a legal action from county Mayo FG TD concerning something called "dual mandate".
http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0603/dualmandate.html

Mr Cullen is not really the man to help either or housing or our environment. But I am drawn to him today not only because of the Róisín Duffy interview but because of the term "dual mandate".

It popped out yesterday in several places.

Italy uder the leadership of Burlosconi this week marked two years since Genoa, and the murder of Carlo Guiliani, a week that has seen Italy meet with Greek and Spanish ministers to discuss forthcoming plans for "tightening" Europe's borders.

July 16 a joint minsterial statement on immigration concerns and €U amplification from Greece and Italy.

July17 several hundred Roma travelers amongst the oldest nomadic ethnic communities of Europe were prevented in crossing the border to Greece.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/07/274506.html

July19 in the northern Sardinian town of Alghero, the ministers of Spain and Italy meet and make a joint statement "we may not long continue to be responsible for the borders of the community as the borders of the community".
The town of Alghero within sight of Corsica is proud of it's connection to Catalan culture, street names are still in Catalan and till comparatively recently residents spoke Catalan or Sardo.

This last week after being adrift at Sea 23 days a boat of west african immigrants were landed in starved condition in this province of Sardinia.
They were landed at Lampedusa. In the group were counted 34 children apparantly of age 5-10 years and 25 women.
http://www.unionesarda.it/unione/2003/19-07-03/ITALIA/ITA01/index.html

This happens every week.
Italy-España-Malta-Greece-

Burlosconi will now go to Texas.
Where tomorrow he shall hold discussions with George Bush 2º on USA/Italy relations, trade, matters relating to G8, GM food and controlling the Mafia who send 184 people and 34 children to Sea without food and water at the cost of 4000€ a body.

I REPEAT:
BUSH AND BURLOSCONI will inform us how to control the MAFIA that put these victims to Sea.

Spain and Italy must not be allowed to facilitate the creation of a unitary €uropean civil guard as appears to be their intention in 2005-2007.

This will be discussed in Dublin 2004.
The borders of €urope are also the borders of Dublin, Wicklow, they are MR Cullen's borders, this next week, as Burlosconi joins with his master in Texas, no discussion shall be made of the cause of african poverty, only how to sell them GM food.
No discussion shall be made of the nuclear waste that threatens both Spain and Italy in the mediterranean sea.

We ought discuss these things, then, so @ least they are given words. Perhaps even words that work.

author by -publication date Sun Jul 20, 2003 21:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

can go to:
http://www.sardu.net/

or italy.indymedia.org
which has a Sardegna section.

Sardinia is presently upset about Australian gold mining operations interests in digging out the gold from Sardinia that Phoenicians, greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Catalans and Sards themselves didn't manage to get out in the lst three thousand years. Sardinia also has concerns with migration many of those entering the €U do so by landing on Sardinian or Sicillian beaches.
Nuclear waste and the attitude of the US naval forces whose Atlantic fleet is based on the island also figure highly.

Related Link: http://www.sardu.net
author by -publication date Sun Jul 20, 2003 21:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Corsica recently by a very small amrgin rejected Paris minister Sarkosy's plan for increased autonomy.

In Nice sixteen people were injured yesterday in a car bomb believed to have been detonated by supporters of the Corsican seperatist group Front de libération nationale corse (FLNC)

The last time anyone claimed responsiblity for murder in the name of the FLNC was 5th May 2002.

those with French (lower intermediate) may like to visit Le Monde Newspaper's online Forum which hosts IrishTimes style discussion of French regionalism at
http://forums.lemonde.fr/perl/postlist.pl?Cat=&Board=paris

author by Mave binchey Fan. - the Dublin 1 set,publication date Sun Jul 20, 2003 22:58author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I'm taking time out from writing a new reality series for TV over in the States to visit home, and I thought I'd leave a little something with you, I had hoped to see it published in Ireland's Own in July, but the riots over in Thessalonika took precedence.

ne plus ultra = stralupun.

she was a sort of strulapun girl, when we went to the covent together back in oh, twas the late fifties, I had just had my first orgasm that summer with help of my uncles teething calf out behind the sheds in north county Kilkenny. It was an experience I can tell you I would never forget, and years after over in London once I gone to work and grown up a bit, I used to find myself searching phone boxes night after night for that little card that would offer me the "special relief". I'm not ashamed to say that I found a new life, new friends and even a new indentity and sure there were no needs for the suckling calves over in Kilburn. I hope that similar young boys and lads in today's Kilkenny and further afield perhaps even in the midlands will heed my simple story of self-discovery and exploration.

Related Link: http://www.uniquemagazines.co.uk/html/Magazine%20Web/IRELANDSOWNMAGAZINE.htm
author by Ralfpublication date Mon Jul 21, 2003 18:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

What is an orgasm mammy?

author by the not so angry now "mr finnerty".publication date Tue Jul 22, 2003 15:50author address author phone Report this post to the editors

An Orgasm is when the Holy Spirit works through a man's temple of the divine, and sends tinglings sensations throughout his body cuasing the seed to be sent to the world. Now this is not always how it occurs... If the tingling sensations were caused by another man, or by the man himself alone, we can not ascribe the intervention of the Holy Spirit, we would look at that as being in breach of the 6º. And I suppose we ought to treat brefly upon the "woman's orgasm", now some of the readers might believe in such a thing, but ask yourself, if God Almighty and the Holy Spirit in all their wisdom had wanted things to be just right, would they have faclitated women with orgasmic potential? Exactly.
And just before you come back I'll anticipate the next questions.
Q. does golf help your orgasm?
A. oh Yes. a good round of golf in a men only course does wonders for your tingling.
Q. if a woman thinks she has had an orgasm is she in a state of sin?
A. well this is difficult, generally we would have to say yes, look at her eyes, lips and reddened chest, no state of grace nor splendour there.
Q. Where do the calves come into the orgasm?
A. oh, wherever the Holy Spirit does His work, you'll find the divil doing his.


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