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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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NSC board did not approve penalisation of children

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Thursday May 27, 2004 19:51author by Shane Foran - Irish Cycling Campaignauthor email galwaycyclist at yahoo dot co dot ukauthor address Dublin CC: http://www.connect.ie/dcc, Galway CC: http://www.eirbyte.com/gcc, Cork CC:http://indigo.ie/~woz/cccauthor phone 087 9935993 Report this post to the editors

NSC board did not approve the calls being made in its name for compulsory helmet laws. Serious questions have also arisen elssewhere as to whether such laws are in violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Cyclists are to hold a protest outside the Dail at 7pm on Friday 28th May, to call for the dismissal of individuals involved.

The ongoing public controversy over the activities of the National Safety Council has taken a new twist when it was revealed that the NSC board had not approved the calls being made in its name for compulsory helmet laws. On Thursday 13th of May, NSC Chairman Mr. Eddie Shaw and Chief Executive Mr. Pat Costello organised a media event where they called for the imposition of cycle helmet laws such as those seen in Australia, paticularly for children. It now transpires that the NSC board neither considered, nor approved, any such proposal at their meeting the week before on Wednesday 6th of May.

The helmet law proposals have provoked fury among cycling activists as the Australian helmet law is widely viewed as a disaster and is as a classic example of self-defeating and failed legislation. In Australia, the helmet laws created a situation where, among others, a 15 year-old girl was strip-searched and jailed, a pregnant woman, a 71 year old pensioner, a even a former Tour-de-France competitor were all jailed for not wearing cycle helmets. Australian courts rapidly became bogged down with cycle-helmet prosecutions. The Victorian Children's Court pleaded to the police to reduce the number of helmet fines being issued. As of 2003, the police in Victoria (population 4.4 million) still issue 20,000 penalty notices each year for failure to wear cycle helmets. This does not suggest whole-hearted popular compliance with the law. Serious questions have also arisen as to whether the helmet laws place Australia in violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The main effect of the Australian helmet laws was to put many people off cycling for no demonstrable safety benefit. Indeed, detailed analysis of the Australian data indicates that the helmet laws resulted in increased risk of accident and injury for cyclists.

According to an Irish Cycling Campaign spokesperson: "We have a curious situation where individuals working for state agency, set up under statute, apparently feel entitled to call for legislation that would incur significant amounts of Garda time while dragging young children into court and making them feel like criminals. This is being done for no demonstrable societal benefit that anyone can determine. Yet the individuals involved, though purporting to act on behalf of the state, apparently felt no need to obtain any prior approval from any higher authority beforehand." Irish Cycle Campaigners have previously called for the NSC to be scrapped on the grounds that it apparently functions as a front for commercial interests associated with the car lobby. The latest revelations are viewed as making the positions of the NSC staff involved increasingly untenable. Cyclists are to hold a protest outside the Dail at 7pm on Friday 28th May, to call for the dismissal of Mr. Shaw and Mr. Costello.

The Cyclists’ Experience of the Australian Helmet Laws
http://www.eirbyte.com/gcc/submission/oz_experience.html

David Maher (086) 347 5357 PRO of the Irish Cycling Campaign (Dublin)
Shane Foran 087 9935993 PRO of the Irish Cycling Campaign (Galway)
Darren McAdam-O’Connell 021 4899970 PRO of the Irish Cycling Campaign (Cork)

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