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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 News Round-Up Sun Sep 21, 2025 00:05 | Will Jones
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 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.

offsite link Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Britain Can?t Deport Me?: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Migrants in Calais have vowed to cross the Channel "again and again", saying "Britain can't deport me", as Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal?with France faces a wave of legal challenges.
The post “Britain Can’t Deport Me”: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist Sat Sep 20, 2025 09:00 | Hannes Sarv
It's not CO2 that drives the climate, says astrophysicist Dr Henrik Svensmark. Its the Sun and cosmic rays. But you won't hear about this because only one viewpoint is now allowed in the pseudo-science of climate.
The post Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist 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

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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Greg Palast Before US Civil Rights Commission Regarding Fraudulent 2000 US Presidential Elections

category international | politics / elections | news report author Thursday July 15, 2004 18:31author by Barry Finnegan - personal capacity Report this post to the editors

Mr. Palast Is Appearing In Front Of The US Civil Rights Commission Today, Thursday July 15th.

Greg Palast the investigative reporter and author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, carried this story for the BBC television show Newsnight and The Guardian newspaper in the UK back in 2000 and goes as far as to have in his possession two computer discs contains the 97,000 names of mostly Democrat-voting African-Americans which were illegally removed by the office of the Secretary of State of Florida from the Florida electoral roll. The list was so faulty that Mr. Palast even interviewed an conviction-free electoral returning officer whose name was purged from the electoral roll.

Palast will also be revealing the details he has uncovered regarding precisely how Governor Jeb Bush [Bush The Younger’s brother] managed to swing Florida for the NeoCons when he appears as a panellist on a joint Minority Outreach Forum sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus and Senator Hillary Clinton.

A number of newsworthy points can now be made regarding this issue:

1. The structural inefficiencies, oligopolistic ownership and ideological bias of the media meant the story went uncovered in the USA when it mattered - during the dodgy Florida recount in late 2000.
2. Those who say Bush won because Nader ran in 2000 are wrong. Bush won because of massive electoral fraud.
3. As a result of the outrage (muted, as it was) caused by the US Civil Rights Commission it looks like they [the Bush Junta] might not be able to pull it off again for this coming November; see ‘Florida Scraps Felon Vote List: http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/11/State/Florida_scraps_felon_.shtml.

You can read all the details of the current news story - Appearing In Front Of The US Civil Rights Commission Today - and the background and details of how the fraud was committed, at the following weblinks:

Palast to testify at US Civil Rights Commission Thursday July 15th:
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=347&row=0

Florida's flawed "voter-cleansing" program - Salon.com's politics story of the year:
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=55&row=2

A Blacklist Burning For Bush (The London Observer, Sunday, December 10, 2000)
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=4&row=2

FLORIDA'S 'DISAPPEARED VOTERS': DISFRANCHISED BY THE GOP, (The Nation):
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=27&row=2

"THEFT OF THE PRESIDENCY"; BBC-TV Newsnight; Thursday Feb 15, 2001; This is the transcript of Gregory Palast's appearance on BBC News' Newsnight on February 16, 2001:
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=29&row=2

author by paul o toolepublication date Sat Jul 17, 2004 02:12author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Katherine Harris, Floridas Ass.Sec. to u know who (Jeb) and also G.W's presidential campaign manager for Florida paid a company called 'Data Com Technologies' to remove the names of 'suspected' felons.
How much?... 4 million.

author by Tom Ridgepublication date Sat Jul 17, 2004 21:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Now there's a novel idea.
Tom Ridge and his compadres at "Homeland Security" have been investigating the idea of postponing the Presidential elections in November in case there is a threat of terrorist attack...

And what is illyad allawi (MI-6 and CIA agent, and,,, new 'prime minister' of Iraq) has been floating with the idea of martial law and postponing elections in Iraq.

There some people who say say... "Democracy is best taught by example, not by war." I guess they don't like that in Washington,,, and it's an idea they don't want in New York during their national convention read about that... and think about free expression in the US.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/9150003.htm?1c

 
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