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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 Fury as Algerian Migrant Sex Offender is Accidentally Released From Wandsworth Prison But Police Wer... Wed Nov 05, 2025 15:13 | Will Jones
Police have launched an urgent manhunt after an Algerian migrant prisoner was mistakenly freed from HMP Wandsworth amid fury that police weren't told for a week.
The post Fury as Algerian Migrant Sex Offender is Accidentally Released From Wandsworth Prison But Police Weren’t Told for a Week appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Driver ?Shouting Allahu Akbar? Ploughs Into Crowd on French Holiday Island Wed Nov 05, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
A driver "shouting Allahu Akbar" has ploughed his car into a crowd of pedestrians on a French holiday island leaving four people critically injured. Authorities said the attacker's motive has not been confirmed.
The post Driver “Shouting Allahu Akbar” Ploughs Into Crowd on French Holiday Island appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Socialist Zohran Mamdani Becomes First Muslim Mayor of New York Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:12 | Will Jones
Socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected the first Muslim Mayor of?New York in a political?earthquake?that puts the far Left in charge of America's largest and wealthiest city.
The post Socialist Zohran Mamdani Becomes First Muslim Mayor of New York appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Ban on Ricky Gervais?s Billboard Saying ?Welcome to London, Don?t Forget Your Stab Vest? Shows W... Wed Nov 05, 2025 09:00 | Lee Taylor
The ban on Ricky Gervais's billboard saying "Welcome to London, don?t forget your stab vest" shows we are no longer free, says Lee Taylor. It turns out you can be stabbed on your commute but not joke about it.
The post The Ban on Ricky Gervais’s Billboard Saying “Welcome to London, Don’t Forget Your Stab Vest” Shows We Are No Longer Free appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The BBC?s Top 50 Pieces of Climate Misinformation Wed Nov 05, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood
As the BBC comes under renewed scrutiny for bias and spreading falsehoods, Paul Homewood compiles his top 50 pieces of BBC climate misinformation from the last couple of years.
The post The BBC?s Top 50 Pieces of Climate Misinformation 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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category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Wednesday June 02, 2010 13:18author by Citizen X Report this post to the editors

Israel abducts 9 Americans and Ex-US Ambassador... Australian Citizen shot dead, Mossad agent recently expelled... Could Turkey invoke NATO?... Ex-Mossad agent - raid ’so stupid it’s stupefying’ ... recalls Israeli 'Exodus' ship 1947... Vatican condemns occupation as unjust...

http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/02-329/
News you may have missed #364 (Gaza flotilla edition I)
June 1, 2010

Israel abducts nine American citizens on Gaza flotilla... It is said that among them is former US Ambassador Edward Peck.
US blocks Security Council criticism of Israeli raid.
Australian citizen shot in Israeli raid... Australia recently expelled the Israeli Mossad representative in Canberra, after confirming that the Israeli spy agency had illegally forged at least four Australian passports.

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http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/03-160/
News you may have missed #365 (Gaza flotilla edition II)
June 1, 2010
Palestinian Authority to send delegation to Gaza.
Egypt lifts its side of Gaza blockade for aid... The key word is “temporarily”.
Palestinian Authority to continue talks with Israel.

http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/01-477/
Could Turkey invoke NATO clause over Israeli attack on flotilla? [updated]
June 1, 2010

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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0601/exmossad-agent-gaza-fl...ying/

Ex-Mossad agent: Gaza flotilla raid ’so stupid it’s stupefying’

By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
The former Mossad agent is Victor Ostrovsky, who enlisted in the Israeli Defense Force at age 18 and has since written two books highly critical of Israel's war-fighting apparatus. His first book, "By Way of Deception," illustrates the brutal and often confusing nature of the Israeli spy service's covert operations, casting the agency as a villain that engages in the drug trade to further their ambitions over the good of Israel. His other book, "The Other Side of Deception," speculates as to Mossad's greater agenda. The book is available online in its entirety.

If one were to ask him, he'd say that Israel's raid on the Gaza aid flotilla was "so stupid it's stupefying" -- exactly the words he used speaking with Washington Post "Spy Talk" columnist Jeff Stein.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/27175886/Other-Side-of-Decept...ovsky

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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/06/former_....html

washingtonpost.com
SpyTalk
Jeff Stein

Former Mossad agent ridicules Gaza ship raid

The Israeli commando attack on a civilian flotilla was “so stupid it is stupefying,” says former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky.

Ostrovsky spent six years in the Israeli navy, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander before Mossad recruited him in 1982. He quit after four years and in the 1990s he wrote two highly critical, first-person books about the intelligence service.

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“The mistakes were on every level,” said Ostrovsky, “from the order to forcefully board outside the territorial waters to the actual attack.”

Responsibility for the raid, which has provoked widespread condemnation and a diplomatic uproar, should be laid at the feet of “the shoot-from-the-hip prime minister,” Ostrovsky said -- Binyamin Netanyahu, whom he blamed for two previous messy intelligence operations in Dubai and Jordan.

Flotilla 13’s typically careful planning, he speculated, was supplanted by orders from Netanyahu or his ultra-conservative foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, to “do something now.”

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In any event, the episode has become a public relations debacle for Israel, Ostrovsky said.

“We look like the British stopping the Exodus,” he said.

The 1960 blockbuster movie, based on a best-seller by the same name, dramatized the efforts of 611 Jewish refugees to defy a British blockade of occupied Palestine after World War II.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053804/

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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0601/leaked-vatican-documen...just/
Leaked Vatican document: Israeli occupation ‘unjust’
Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
A Vatican document leaked on Tuesday calls the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories a "political injustice", Italy's ANSA news agency reported.

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June 2, 2010

- Israel insists Hezbollah members were on flotilla.
- “[t]he Israeli threats against Iran will be seen in a different context, and Israeli portrayal of Iran will hold less sway over the world”, says StratFor.
- Turkey compares flotilla massacre to 9-11.

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