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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 Wed Nov 12, 2025 01:19 | Richard Eldred
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 Reform?s ?Racist Rhetoric? is Tearing Britain Apart, Says Starmer Tue Nov 11, 2025 19:51 | Will Jones
Reform UK?s "racist rhetoric" is tearing Britain apart and such talk should have been "dealt with" decades ago, Sir Keir Starmer has said.
The post Reform’s “Racist Rhetoric” is Tearing Britain Apart, Says Starmer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ed Miliband to Make Two 12,000-Mile Trips to COP30 in Two Weeks Tue Nov 11, 2025 17:28 | Will Jones
Ed Miliband is set to make the same 12,000-mile round trip twice in two weeks to attend COP30 ? a climate conference to discuss reducing global CO2 emissions ? at a cost to the taxpayer of ?22,000.
The post Ed Miliband to Make Two 12,000-Mile Trips to COP30 in Two Weeks appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour?s New School Curriculum: Where Education Goes to DEI Tue Nov 11, 2025 15:03 | Dr Nicholas Tate
Labour's new National Curriculum is dripping with DEI and Left-wing dogma. Teaching Britain's national story is out, pushing more multiculturalism is in. It's the last thing Britain needs right now, says Dr Nicholas Tate.
The post Labour’s New School Curriculum: Where Education Goes to DEI appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Asylum Seekers Can Continue Being Housed in Bell Hotel, Judge Rules ? As He Denies High Crime Rate A... Tue Nov 11, 2025 13:19 | Will Jones
The Bell Hotel in Epping can continue to house asylum seekers, a judge ruled today, as he said the change of use from a hotel was "not flagrant" and denied there is evidence of a high crime rate among asylum seekers.
The post Asylum Seekers Can Continue Being Housed in Bell Hotel, Judge Rules ? As He Denies High Crime Rate Among Asylum Seekers 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

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UL Coke Boycott falls short

category limerick | worker & community struggles and protests | news report author Sunday April 17, 2005 20:03author by St.John Report this post to the editors

Last Thursday the referendum on Boycotting Coke in the University of Limerick fell short.

The required quorum of 20% of the students, or 1,776 wasn't reached, with roughly 1,100 turning out. We also lost the vote, from 443 Yes votes to 659.
In the aftermath, this loss was put down to the fact that many of the biggest sports clubs in the University get up to €20,000 per annum from Coke or other products owned by the company. Unfortunately, they chose to put this ahead of the issues the human rights abuses in Colombia which served as the basis for the Boycott.
Nevertheless, we feel that raising the debate in the University at least got people thinking a bit, and brought the issue to the fore in the minds of the student body in arguably one of the more conservative campuses in the country. So, onwards and upwards, hopefully we can run the referendum again at a future date, and convince the students of the value of life and liberty over cash and cola :-)

Related Link: http://www.killercoke.org

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   excellent     david    Mon Apr 18, 2005 00:41 
   OK Dave you lost me after "excellent"....     Ciaron    Mon Apr 18, 2005 01:06 
   Where did it all go wrong?     know152    Mon Apr 18, 2005 13:32 
   down but not out     sad ul student    Mon Apr 18, 2005 13:51 
   i concur     juan pablo (UL student)    Mon Apr 18, 2005 14:13 
   atypical     UCD Limerick    Mon Apr 18, 2005 14:16 
   ......     juan pablo    Mon Apr 18, 2005 14:45 
   ....     didnt have a vote    Mon Apr 18, 2005 14:57 
   dirty campaign     Sad ul student    Mon Apr 18, 2005 15:09 
 10   Clubs and Socs in UL     know152    Mon Apr 18, 2005 15:18 
 11   ...     didnt have a vote    Mon Apr 18, 2005 15:25 
 12   Dirty Campaign!!!!     Major Fraser    Mon Apr 18, 2005 15:26 
 13   Reply to Major Fraser     sad ul student    Mon Apr 18, 2005 15:38 
 14   re Reply to Major Fraser     Major Fraser    Mon Apr 18, 2005 16:02 
 15   ...     didnt have a vote    Mon Apr 18, 2005 16:05 
 16   Paid to campaign     know152    Mon Apr 18, 2005 16:21 
 17   reply to "didnt have a vote"     sad ul student    Mon Apr 18, 2005 16:29 
 18   reply to know 152     sad ul    Mon Apr 18, 2005 16:32 
 19   I suspect you are making people up!     know152    Mon Apr 18, 2005 17:01 
 20   know 152     sad ul    Mon Apr 18, 2005 17:04 
 21   you're silly     know152    Mon Apr 18, 2005 17:09 
 22   enough already     Major Fraser    Mon Apr 18, 2005 17:15 
 23   your'e silly     Sad UL    Mon Apr 18, 2005 17:15 
 24   We're all silly     know152    Mon Apr 18, 2005 19:12 
 25   Replies to a few comments...     St.John    Tue Apr 19, 2005 01:53 
 26   Conservative SU     Sad UL    Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:47 
 27   Why Referendum failed     Annoyed UL student    Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:58 
 28   reply to annoyed ul student     sad ul    Tue Apr 19, 2005 13:17 
 29   Just for a bit of light relief...     St.John    Tue Apr 19, 2005 17:58 
 30   gfjlvh     Annoyed UL student    Tue Apr 19, 2005 18:06 
 31   annoyed ul     sad ul    Tue Apr 19, 2005 18:13 
 32   another way is possible, just not your way     know152    Tue Apr 19, 2005 18:34 
 33   know 152     sad ul    Tue Apr 19, 2005 19:00 
 34   lies and damned lies.     joe    Wed Apr 20, 2005 14:23 
 35   reply to sad     john    Wed Apr 20, 2005 14:39 
 36   Perplexing     UCD Limerick    Wed Apr 20, 2005 16:46 
 37   Dear Perplexed     know152    Wed Apr 20, 2005 20:12 
 38   Okay.     UCD Limerick    Thu Apr 21, 2005 14:44 
 39   But it wasn't student representatives calling for the vote     know152    Thu Apr 21, 2005 15:13 
 40   Legally dubious?     St.John    Thu Apr 21, 2005 18:22 
 41   Taking a stand     know152    Fri Apr 22, 2005 19:26 
 42   You must be so proud!     know152    Wed Apr 27, 2005 19:30 
 43   To whoever is spamming this thread     1 of IMC    Mon May 02, 2005 03:24 
 44   Have irish people lost their concept of solidarity     Chris Bond    Sat May 14, 2005 20:24 
 45   When you're all quite done...     toneore    Sat May 14, 2005 21:40 
 46   yeah     Hack    Sun May 15, 2005 05:22 


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