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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Lockdown Skeptics

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.

offsite link The ?Far Left? Finally Gets Its Comeuppance Sat Sep 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
For years the Left has smeared its opponents as 'far Right'. Now, the spike in Leftist political violence has led to a turning of the tables. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Guardian, says Prof James Alexander.
The post The ‘Far Left’ Finally Gets Its Comeuppance appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Contest: Name the 'October Surprise' in the US Elections...

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Thursday September 16, 2004 13:17author by redjade Report this post to the editors

sure, its predictable, but what do you predict?

I invite readers to submit entries to the "Name the October Surprise" contest by answering this question: "What do you think is a possible October Surprise that Bush will announce in order to try to win a close election?"

This contest emerges out of history -- political history and Bush history.

[....]

Here's the deal: please send me your prediction of a possible and creative October Surprise. It must be described in 100 words or less and there is only one entry per person (also, please summarize it in up to five words in the Subject line). On Wednesday, September 30th, we'll announce preliminary results - e.g., several of the most interesting submissions as well as the volume of similar submissions per surprise. Then on Sunday, October 30, we'll announce the "winners" based on the submission(s) which predicted what actually happened.

[....]

The goal is to anticipate particular "surprises" in the hope, however small, that Bushies may shy away from what's widely anticipated because it reeks of a political ploy. That is, I believe in preventive wars politically, not militarily.

Is this contest cynical? No, just realistic. A governing elite which seems to embody Mark Twain's axiom that "a lie gets halfway around the world before truth puts on her boots" should be presumed capable of saying or doing almost anything to hold onto power.

Related Link: http://www.nametheoctobersurprise.com/
author by redjadepublication date Thu Sep 16, 2004 13:47author address author phone Report this post to the editors

sadly, this aint no joke....

Related Link: http://newpatriot.org/2004/09/more-kiffmeyer-antics.html
author by george barlecci - nonepublication date Tue Sep 21, 2004 09:12author email juliGjws at aol dot comauthor address 2316 zinowauthor phone 313 365 5386Report this post to the editors

The october surprise will be,George Bush will announce he will take the fight to the hurricanes overseas so americans don't have to fight them at home.

author by Barbara Rhodespublication date Thu Sep 23, 2004 16:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It will be discovered that the real reason Dick Cheney opposes abortion is that, as a Satanist, he needs a constant supply of babies for sacrificial and snacking purposes.

author by alexander toneorepublication date Thu Sep 23, 2004 16:46author email toneore at eircom dot netauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

will be that Indymedia will predict something correctly.

author by kenlay it onpublication date Fri Sep 24, 2004 23:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Apart from the arrest/death of old Osama or some of the other Bush bogeymen the most important announcement will be that Donald Rumsfeld is actually a woman and should henceforth be known as Donnaleeza.
This attempt to show that beneath the hideous megalomaniacal murderous facade lies a somewhat softer (although quite ugly) side will be a sure vote winner for those who actually get the opportunity to vote.

author by Tom - dyslexics untiepublication date Sat Sep 25, 2004 02:23author email olearys at oceanfree dot netauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

In an attempt to make the American people feel uneasy about a transition of leadership in the midst of war, Bush and co. will probably announce an invasion of Iran or North Korea and simultaneously perpetuate the illusion of fear by suggesting through a manipulative, hypnotic and well marketed campaign that Americans are in grave danger from terrorists.

...or something to that extent....I imagine.

...peace out...

author by Pamelapublication date Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Fuelled by Coke and Tennessee sippin' whiskey, George will fall off the sofa onto the sleeping dog below. The dog, startled, bites his face.

Having 'taken-out' that Pretzel factory (imminent threat) he announces that spousal rape 'should only be used as a last resort' - Laura has that hunted, far-away look again.

In the last debate he will take the body of a dead dog from behind the podium and slap Kerry across the face with it, saying, 'Now, who's tough'.

This action will endear him to the millions of Americans watching. A landslide.

author by redjadepublication date Sat Sep 25, 2004 15:10author address author phone Report this post to the editors

President Bush and his surrogates are taking their re-election campaign into dangerous territory. Mr. Bush is running as the man best equipped to keep America safe from terrorists - that was to be expected. We did not, however, anticipate that those on the Bush team would dare to argue that a vote for John Kerry would be a vote for Al Qaeda. Yet that is the message they are delivering - with a repetition that makes it clear this is an organized effort to paint the Democratic candidate as a friend to terrorists.

When Vice President Dick Cheney declared that electing Mr. Kerry would create a danger "that we'll get hit again," his supporters attributed that appalling language to a rhetorical slip. But Mr. Cheney is still delivering that message. Meanwhile, as Dana Milbank detailed so chillingly in The Washington Post yesterday, the House speaker, Dennis Hastert, said recently on television that Al Qaeda would do better under a Kerry presidency, and Senator Orrin Hatch, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has announced that the terrorists are going to do everything they can between now and November "to try and elect Kerry."

This is despicable politics.

link: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/25/opinion/25sat1.html
username: freenyt password:freenyt

author by redjadepublication date Sat Sep 25, 2004 16:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Critics of the Diebold touch-screen voting machines turned their attention Wednesday from the machines themselves to the computers that will tally the final vote, saying the outcome is so easy to manipulate that even a monkey could do it.

And they showed video of a monkey hacking the system to prove it.

In the minute-long video produced by Black Box Voting [ http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ ], Baxter the chimp is shown deleting the audit log that is supposed to keep track of changes in the Diebold central tabulator, the computer and program that keeps track of county vote totals.

Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris said the demonstration shows that the system — which will be used in more than 30 states, including Maryland — is dangerously inadequate when it comes to stopping election fraud.

Related Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133214,00.html
author by Freddypublication date Sat Sep 25, 2004 16:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I think you are on to something, Redjade. Not only could that monkey hack a computer. The monkey would probably do a much better job of running the country (and I don't just mean the USA).

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