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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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The Met Office might struggle to predict the weather, but it seems staff can always count on a downpour of cash: they walked away with record bonus payments of ?8.1 million last year and ?31.5 million over five years.
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Thirteen volunteers say they have been forced out by the National Trust, which told them their "attitude and values" did not align with the charity's "respectful and inclusive culture".
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offsite link Now He?s Dead, the Truth About Purple Aki Can Finally Be Said Sun Sep 21, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Now he's dead, the truth about Purple Aki can finally be said, says Steven Tucker. A forerunner of all the sex-offending migrants that judges make excuses for, he targeted children in Liverpool for decades.
The post Now He’s Dead, the Truth About Purple Aki Can Finally Be Said appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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.
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offsite link Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer ?From the Bottom of my Heart? After Winn... Sat Sep 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Somalian migrant living at the Bell Hotel in Epping has thanked Keir Starmer?"from the bottom" of his heart after winning the right to stay in Britain on human rights grounds as he prepares to settle in Yorkshire.
The post Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer “From the Bottom of my Heart” After Winning Right to Stay in UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Labour Party Do Not Call for Abolition of Bin Tax

category dublin | politics / elections | opinion/analysis author Monday May 24, 2004 11:27author by Patrick Report this post to the editors

The charges should be "changed"

The Labour Party is not calling for the abolition of the bin tax in these local elections.

The Labour Party are advocating pay-by-weight and for a "waiver scheme". There is no call whatsoever for the abolition of bin tax. There is alsoo no mention of what they did to oppose the tax other than vote against it. This position is likely to make it more difficult for the Labour Party as they come from pressure on the left from Sinn Fein, Socialist Party, and Independents in working class areas.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   What did you expect?     Martin    Mon May 24, 2004 13:47 
   Should be fun after the elections     Socialist    Mon May 24, 2004 13:57 
   Funny?     observer    Mon May 24, 2004 14:35 
   Funny observer?     Pedant    Mon May 24, 2004 14:40 
   Waste Management.     me    Mon May 24, 2004 16:06 
   Bin tax     Jonno    Mon May 24, 2004 16:21 
   Let's face it     Jim    Mon May 24, 2004 16:34 
   that ought be:-     :-)    Mon May 24, 2004 16:45 
   Facts?     Bob    Mon May 24, 2004 17:03 
 10   simple     hs    Mon May 24, 2004 17:12 
 11   Bob     Jonno    Mon May 24, 2004 17:14 
 12   Liberals such as Labour leader Pat Rabbitt and Ivana Batchic should join Their beloved Fine Gael     bugs bunny    Mon May 24, 2004 17:24 
 13   Facts?     Bob    Mon May 24, 2004 17:33 
 14   Bob     Jonno    Mon May 24, 2004 18:16 
 15   Bin Tax     CB    Mon May 24, 2004 20:02 
 16   Labour candidate lied to my face     Sallynoggin    Tue May 25, 2004 01:13 
 17   Dublin City Bin Tax     Insider    Tue May 25, 2004 09:36 
 18   Insider     Non-Payer    Tue May 25, 2004 10:03 
 19   Bin Tax in Sligo     Milk Bottle    Tue May 25, 2004 11:49 
 20   What Difference     Tim    Tue May 25, 2004 12:14 
 21   Hahahaha     Ultra left mentalist    Tue May 25, 2004 12:22 
 22   Reply to Tim     SP member    Tue May 25, 2004 12:23 
 23   No     Tim    Tue May 25, 2004 12:24 
 24   Madness but interesting     Bemused    Tue May 25, 2004 12:26 
 25   Quotes from manifesto     SP member    Tue May 25, 2004 12:34 
 26   Pure reformism     Tim    Tue May 25, 2004 12:38 
 27   Yeah     UltraLeft mentalist    Tue May 25, 2004 12:48 
 28   SY Site     Real Ultra Left    Tue May 25, 2004 12:52 
 29   Hold on! Stop it right there!     Sir Dr AJF    Tue May 25, 2004 16:04 
 30   Well Done Sir Anthony!     Mick Smurfitt    Tue May 25, 2004 16:11 
 31   Mick Smurfit needs to get facts straight     facts    Tue May 25, 2004 18:09 
 32   local branch     Amused    Tue May 25, 2004 18:17 
 33   Stop The falsehoods     MS    Tue May 25, 2004 18:34 
 34   they are doing it the right way     Chris Bond    Wed May 26, 2004 01:00 
 35   Joan jumping ship     Alan    Wed May 26, 2004 11:42 
 36   Alert! Spuppie At Work!     SPuppywatch    Wed May 26, 2004 11:53 
 37   getting old     sp'er - but not really    Wed May 26, 2004 12:02 
 38   SPuppywatch     Alan    Wed May 26, 2004 12:12 
 39   Alan     SPuppywatch    Wed May 26, 2004 12:30 
 40   Labour Party Call for more Gardaí on the Streets     Patrick    Wed May 26, 2004 14:41 
 41   Answer     Jonno    Wed May 26, 2004 14:53 
 42   reply to Jonno     Frank    Wed May 26, 2004 15:02 
 43   Hi Patrick     Jonno    Wed May 26, 2004 15:15 
 44   No Different From SP     Watcher    Wed May 26, 2004 15:48 
 45   "Labour Party Call for more Gardaí on the Streets"     observer    Wed May 26, 2004 16:08 
 46   Reply to "Watcher", even though it doesn't deserve one!     Sp member (personal capacity)    Wed May 26, 2004 16:14 
 47   Reply     Watcher    Wed May 26, 2004 16:34 
 48   SP member     Jonno    Wed May 26, 2004 16:48 
 49   Bridge     Watcher    Wed May 26, 2004 16:55 
 50   Classic trolling behaviour     Identifier    Wed May 26, 2004 17:26 
 51   Word Count Please     Counter    Wed May 26, 2004 17:37 
 52   ?     Watcher    Wed May 26, 2004 17:45 
 53   Learning to count (sorry about that)     Identifier    Wed May 26, 2004 18:15 
 54   You Are Damaging Yourselves     Watcher    Wed May 26, 2004 18:31 
 55   Dealing with trolls     Adrian A.    Wed May 26, 2004 18:46 
 56   Agree with Adrian A.     Franz Ferdinand    Wed May 26, 2004 19:00 
 57   Thread     Adrian Mole    Wed May 26, 2004 19:02 
 58   What?     Adrian A    Wed May 26, 2004 19:10 
 59   "Bin Tax"     Tufty    Wed May 26, 2004 19:19 
 60   Penalise Companies     Chris Bond    Thu May 27, 2004 02:40 
 61   re Tuffy     Joe    Thu May 27, 2004 12:37 
 62   Bin tax     Tufty    Thu May 27, 2004 14:43 
 63   Simply untrue     Ray    Thu May 27, 2004 15:16 
 64   Real v imagined     Joe    Thu May 27, 2004 15:24 
 65   "Tax"     Tufty    Thu May 27, 2004 15:42 
 66   Why not apply that reasoning to all public services?     Ray    Thu May 27, 2004 15:58 
 67   re: tax     Joe    Thu May 27, 2004 16:02 
 68   Incentive charges     Ray    Thu May 27, 2004 16:08 
 69   I agree with observer- sort of!     Solas    Thu May 27, 2004 18:05 
 70   Solas briste     D11 runner    Thu May 27, 2004 18:10 
 71   Reply to D11 runner     Solas    Thu May 27, 2004 19:06 
 72   Finglas     Fingallian    Thu May 27, 2004 21:14 
 73   a different kind of policing     chris bond    Fri May 28, 2004 02:38 
 74   Bin tax     Tufty    Fri May 28, 2004 13:01 


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