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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.

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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

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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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NGO Alliance Anti-Racism Report Launch.

category national | racism & migration related issues | news report author Friday January 28, 2005 17:26author by Maria - NGO Alliance Report this post to the editors

“The Government has not done enough to accept multicultural society”, said Benedicta Attoh, Louth African Women’s Support Group representative
at the Anti-Racism Report release last week in Dublin. The Non Government Organisation (NGO) Alliance Shadow Report has been launched in response to a perceived failure of the Government to address immigration issues.

It makes a number of recommendations to protect
ethnic minorities in Ireland from racism and it is a commentary on Ireland’s First National Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). There is “defacto apartheid / segregation” aimed at the Traveller Community as well as at other ethnic groups, claimed David Joyce, representative of the Irish Traveller Movement and speaker at the report launch. The NGO Alliance report highlighted what it says is government’s refusal to recognise the Traveller Community as an ethnic group thereby depriving it of protection under the International convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Low financing for organisations such as the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism (NCCRI) has been criticised by the NGO Alliance report. Some groups working with ethnic minorities may have to close down due to budget cuts, the report says. Lack of transparency in immigration and asylum system and the absence of a clear legal framework, have been criticised by the NGO Alliance Shadow Report. It also refers to a lack of communication between the government and minority groups which it says resulted in misleading statistical information on Black and other ethnic communities in Ireland.

The joint report took 18 months to complete and was signed by 44 NGOs working in the area of racism.


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author by dodgy foreignerpublication date Fri Jan 28, 2005 19:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Minister announces National Action Plan Against Racism grant scheme to help tackle racism and highlight Ireland's cultural diversity
http://www.justice.ie/80256E01003A02CF/vWeb/pcJUSQ693HYN-en

In making the announcement the Minister said "The roll out of this scheme coincides with the launch of the National Action Plan on Racism.  The projects that have been granted funding are excellent examples of the initiatives being organised at local level which will have a real and sustainable impact in the area of anti-racism and will assist in giving practical effect to the aims of the Action Plan".

author by eeekkkpublication date Fri Jan 28, 2005 20:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This place has acres of space

author by Maria - GCDpublication date Sat Jan 29, 2005 14:41author email mariaoleinik at hotmail dot comauthor address Dublin 8author phone 087 6985722Report this post to the editors

The NGO Alliance Report has been handed out to everyone present at the launch. As far as I know they have sent it to Geneve. I have a copy if you are interested (087 6985722).Immigrant Council of Ireland may help as well. They took part in the launch organisation.

Maria

author by eeekkkkpublication date Sat Jan 29, 2005 14:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Meant is it online or can someone from NGO alliance publish it on here? Stuff can be put here with a copyright notice if worried about it being spread around too much.

author by Mariapublication date Sat Jan 29, 2005 15:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Report is quite big. I don't think it would be published online. Although, I'll make a few inquiries in relation to that. In the meantime, I think the NGO Alliance might have done a good job, but they failed in making general public aware about it. I received my launch invitation from the Immigrant Council of Ireland. I worked there a bit. That's it really. There was a camera man and a lovely lady with a mike, but I doubt it was RTE.

author by eeeekkkkpublication date Sat Jan 29, 2005 15:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

in this issue would read it and it would be available for researchers etc. let them know that. It's not such a big deal to do if it has already been typed basically. Just use the publish button.

Even the ansbacher report is on here somewhere

author by pcpublication date Sun Jan 30, 2005 17:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

statewatch, watching when even we aren't :)

Related Link: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/jan/ireland-ngo-alliance.pdf
author by redjadepublication date Sun Jan 30, 2005 18:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

that report says 'November 2004'

the report above is (i assume) more recent.

i emailed her to see if we can publish it

author by Mariapublication date Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I had a look at the report attached to the website. It seems to be the same. They finished this report in November, but there was no public presenttaion or anything like that. I'll check if it is any different from the one presented at the launch.
The cover is different for sure, though.

author by Mariapublication date Mon Jan 31, 2005 18:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The NGO Alliance Report is available on the website of the Immigrant Council of Ireland.

http://www.immigrantcouncil.ie/CERDfull.pdf

It is the very same one as posted above.

author by Aoife - Immigrant Council of Irelandpublication date Mon Jan 31, 2005 18:57author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Hi all, I got a query from Maria re this report and thought I'd check out all this interesting discussion re the NGO Alliance report!

To answer your various queries:

The Immigrant Council of Ireland organised the launch on behalf of the of the Alliance of 44 NGOs who put the report together. Some members of the Alliance will be bringing the report and its recommendations to Geneva in March to present them to the UN Committee which monitors the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (when the Irish Government presents its report). The aim of the NGO report was to shadow the Government's report on racism in Ireland and to give a more realistic, on the ground picture of the reality of racism in Ireland today.

The report was completed in Nov 04, but by the time it was proofed, designed, published etc (along with the Christmas holidays) the soonest the launch could take place was January. It was also decided to launch it around the time of the Government's National Action plan against racism on purpose for strategic reasons.

Regarding public awareness of the document. A huge variety of local and national media were informed of the event and it got good coverage, including RTE TV news and radio, as well as other national and local radio and newspapers. We are also delighted to see the Indymedia article about the report too. Also, as there are 44 NGOs all over the country involved in the Alliance, which would have informed their members about the report, we hope it will get wide exposure.

Finally the PDF version of the report (minus the outside cover which is only on the hard copy) is available on ICI's website, as well as the sites of other NGO Alliance members if you'd like to download it - no problem. Also if you would like a free hard copy of the report, you're welcome to contact the Immigrant Council of Ireland to request one: aoife@immigrantcouncil.ie.

Hope all this info is helpful and thanks for the interest in the report and its recommendations.

Related Link: http://www.immigrantcouncil.ie
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