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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 The Sceptic | Episode 58: The Rise of Muslim Sectarianism in Birmingham, Bill Gates vs Net Zero and ... Fri Nov 07, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 58 of the Sceptic: Chris Bayliss on Aston Villa vs Maccabi Tel Aviv and the rise of Muslim sectarianism in Birmingham, and Ben Pile on Bill Gates vs Net Zero and the BBC's climate misinformation.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 58: The Rise of Muslim Sectarianism in Birmingham, Bill Gates vs Net Zero and the BBC?s Climate Misinformation appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Nov 07, 2025 01:03 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Reaction of My Mental Health Nursing Students to Being Shown an Image of a Black Murderer and Wh... Thu Nov 06, 2025 19:01 | Dr Niall McCrae
The reaction of my mental health nursing students to being shown an image of a black murderer and white victim shows why 'anti-racist' ideology is putting us all at risk, says Dr Niall McCrae.
The post The Reaction of My Mental Health Nursing Students to Being Shown an Image of a Black Murderer and White Victim Shows Why Ideology is Putting Us All at Risk appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BBC Rebukes Newsreader Who Corrected ?Pregnant People? to ?Women? Thu Nov 06, 2025 17:52 | Will Jones
The BBC newsreader who went viral after she changed "pregnant people" to "women" during a live broadcast has been rebuked by the BBC after being found to have breached impartiality rules.
The post BBC Rebukes Newsreader Who Corrected “Pregnant People” to “Women” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Southport Inquiry?s Sinister Censorship Agenda Thu Nov 06, 2025 15:23 | David Shipley
The Southport Inquiry summoned X this week to lecture it on the wonders of the Online Safety Act. It shows a sinister willingness to use the worst kind of tragedy to advance a censorship agenda, says David Shipley.
The post The Southport Inquiry’s Sinister Censorship Agenda 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

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Waste campaigners target debt collection company

category dublin | bin tax / household tax / water tax | press release author Thursday October 23, 2003 15:54author by pat cauthor phone 086 2594158 Report this post to the editors

Waste campaigners target debt collection company

Members of the Dublin Campaign Against the Bin Tax are today holding a symbolic
picket of a debt collection company which has been employed by Dublin City
Council in an attempt to force non-payers to paying the Bin Tax.

Campaigners will also hand in a letter to the company, Legal & Trade Collection (Ireland), asking them to cease sending intimidating letters to non-payers.

Campaign Secretary Joe Mooney said:
"Legal & Trade Collection (Ireland) is the Irish branch of a major American multi-national debt collection agency with branches throughout the world. Dublin City Council has passed some Bin Tax debts on to the company and ordinary residents have received letters from the company demanding payment.

Legal & Trade Collection (Ireland) are doing the dirty work for Dublin City Council. It is important that people who receive letters from the company realise that the agency has no more legal rights than the City Council. There is no legal obligation to allow debt collectors into your home and they have no right to seize property in "payment".

The Dublin Campaign Against the Bin Tax is asking Legal & Trade Collection (Ireland) to refrain from sending out threatening letters, on behalf of
Dublin City Council, in another underhand attempt to force people to pay the unjust and undemocratic Bin Tax.

The symbolic picket and handing in of the protest letter will take place at the offices of Legal & Trade Collection (Ireland) at Block C, Ashtown
Gate, Navan Road at 4pm on Thursday 23rd October.

More information:
Cieran Perry Mobile 086 2594158

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Oh dear.     Joe B    Thu Oct 23, 2003 16:49 
   debt collectors are scum     random input    Thu Oct 23, 2003 16:56 
   thanks for the idea joe     pat c    Thu Oct 23, 2003 17:15 
   Debt Collectors     doobie doo    Thu Oct 23, 2003 17:46 
   debt collectors cant do anything to your credit rating     pat c    Thu Oct 23, 2003 17:50 
   Please do it.     Joe D    Thu Oct 23, 2003 17:55 
   alphabet joe you are a moron     pat c    Thu Oct 23, 2003 18:37 
   OH Yes they can     Lone Gunman    Thu Oct 23, 2003 22:15 
   Here's the deal...     Big John    Thu Oct 23, 2003 23:14 
 10   Picket?     Pablo Montana    Fri Oct 24, 2003 10:21 
 11   lone gunman     pat c    Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:17 
 12   we know where they live     dooby    Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:36 
 13   Report from Newstalk     Canteen Kevin    Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:50 
 14   threats     pace    Fri Oct 24, 2003 13:56 
 15   Debt collectors     Dave D    Fri Oct 24, 2003 13:57 
 16   to the trolls     pat c    Fri Oct 24, 2003 14:05 
 17   Name and Shame     lets see how brave they really are    Fri Oct 24, 2003 16:11 
 18   Bad idea     Chekov    Fri Oct 24, 2003 16:17 
 19   chekov is right     pat c    Fri Oct 24, 2003 16:45 
 20   council over play their hand again     conor (wsm personal capacity)    Fri Oct 24, 2003 16:50 
 21   liberate the wheelie bins!     ce    Fri Oct 24, 2003 16:53 
 22   A scenario for lazy journalists     Joe    Fri Oct 24, 2003 16:54 
 23   I agree     agree    Fri Oct 24, 2003 17:07 
 24   People power     Lone gunman    Sat Oct 25, 2003 02:04 
 25   lone gunman     pat c    Sat Oct 25, 2003 17:56 
 26   Clarification     P. O'Neill    Sat Oct 25, 2003 18:38 
 27   republicans and bin tax     avalonian    Sat Oct 25, 2003 22:03 
 28   feelings     wheelie barrow    Mon Oct 27, 2003 20:29 
 29   Avalonian     Janus    Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:45 
 30   members and "supporters"     NotaProvie    Tue Oct 28, 2003 18:51 


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