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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 Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East Fri Oct 10, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump was today snubbed by Nobel Peace Prize judges ? who instead awarded the prize to a Venezuelan politician ? despite the President bringing peace to the Middle East.
The post Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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The technocrats are falling across the West as their ideology founders on reality. The cracking of the Net Zero consensus, like the end of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, is a moment of hope, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
The post The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 54: Alexander Adams on Dissident Art, the Tyranny of the Arts Council and His ... Fri Oct 10, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 54 of the Sceptic: Alexander Adams on dissident art, the tyranny of the Arts Council England and his new exhibition: Power and Intimacy.
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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Oct 10, 2025 00:47 | 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 Teenagers Must Be Warned About the Dystopia Being Built Around Them Thu Oct 09, 2025 19:00 | Mike Fairclough
Mike Fairclough was a nationally feted headteacher before he was cancelled during Covid for speaking out against the tyranny. Now he has written a novel to warn teens about the dystopian world being built around them.
The post Teenagers Must Be Warned About the Dystopia Being Built Around Them appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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SIPTU protest against Irish Ferries outsourcing draws thousands

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | feature author Friday November 04, 2005 01:24author by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group - Indymedia Ireland Report this post to the editors

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SIPTU called a protest against the decision by Irish Ferries to attempt to force current employees to accept a "voluntary redundancy package" with the aim of replacing them with outsourced workers earning approximately €3.50 an hour (less than half the minimum Irish wage).

The Nov 3rd 2005 protest in Dublin attracted a turnout of between 8,000 to 10,000 people and included members of French unions.

According to SIPTU's Justice for Seafarers campaign this is

providing us with a glimpse of the future labour market if neo-liberal zealots succeed in pushing through their Services Directive in Europe

Link to original Event Notice with discussion of protest:here

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   siptu organising a protest?     Seamus    Fri Nov 04, 2005 08:43 
   Pat O'Reilly     Pat O'Reilly    Fri Nov 04, 2005 14:42 
   Why are foreigners a cheap workforce?     Mago    Fri Nov 04, 2005 15:21 
   ar muir is san aer     Duine    Fri Nov 04, 2005 15:54 
   Duine     Curious    Fri Nov 04, 2005 16:10 
   Aistriúcháin     Duine    Fri Nov 04, 2005 16:31 
   I think the vast majority of people have an idea what duine's comments mean in english.     linguist    Fri Nov 04, 2005 16:32 
   Jobs     John    Fri Nov 04, 2005 17:05 
   Howabout     maybe    Fri Nov 04, 2005 17:13 
 10   and why     me    Fri Nov 04, 2005 17:18 
 11   moladh?     Duine    Fri Nov 04, 2005 17:21 
 12   Linguist     Curious    Fri Nov 04, 2005 17:21 
 13   SFA (what an aptly named body) support the race to the bottom     DV8    Fri Nov 04, 2005 17:21 
 14   a message to the 'Linguist'     Padraig    Sat Nov 05, 2005 00:01 
 15   4% unemployment John -wonderful     Des Derwin    Sat Nov 05, 2005 00:12 
 16   Padraig     Padraig    Sat Nov 05, 2005 00:18 
 17   big crunch     arthur    Sat Nov 05, 2005 02:22 
 18   Padraig     Padraig    Sat Nov 05, 2005 14:33 
 19   Well done!     Paul Kinsella    Sat Nov 05, 2005 19:35 
 20   Patrick McDowell     Patrick McDowell    Sun Nov 06, 2005 18:37 
 21   John Connor     John Connor    Sun Nov 06, 2005 18:44 
 22   Habitual Residence Condition     Mago    Sun Nov 06, 2005 19:20 
 23   Patrick McDowell     Patrick McDowell    Mon Nov 07, 2005 00:33 
 24   Patrick McDowell     Patrick McDowell    Mon Nov 07, 2005 00:40 
 25   Equality for all     Mago    Mon Nov 07, 2005 15:12 
 26   Patrick McDowell     Patrick McDowell    Mon Nov 07, 2005 15:29 
 27   Scandalous - Probe after 13 workers left stranded     Reader    Mon Nov 07, 2005 16:43 
 28   Second class citizens     Mago    Mon Nov 07, 2005 17:01 
 29   Sure we're a Grand Little Nation     Marie Byrne    Mon Nov 07, 2005 20:54 
 30   Irish, non Irish     Mago    Mon Nov 07, 2005 23:03 
 31   Mininmun wage     tootrue    Tue Nov 08, 2005 06:34 
 32   A key point worth noting     Dave    Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:36 
 33   actually.....     ger    Tue Nov 08, 2005 18:03 
 34   Ignorance, by Patrick McDowell     Patrick McDowell    Tue Nov 08, 2005 21:51 
 35   Is your "ignorance" comment self-referential?     R. Isible    Tue Nov 08, 2005 22:02 
 36   You're getting me wrong, Patrick     Mago Merlin    Wed Nov 09, 2005 15:03 
 37   Ireland is not a Money Tree     Marcin    Wed Nov 09, 2005 20:21 
 38   I was talking Unemployment Assistance     Mago    Thu Nov 10, 2005 14:20 
 39   Ireland is not a money tree     Mago    Thu Nov 10, 2005 15:19 
 40   [A] rational opposition to my views     Mago    Thu Nov 10, 2005 17:30 
 41   Patrick McDowell     Patrick McDowell    Thu Nov 10, 2005 17:38 
 42   Patrick     Mago    Thu Nov 10, 2005 17:56 
 43   Ireland is not a Money Tree     Marcin    Fri Nov 11, 2005 15:49 
 44   However     Mago    Fri Nov 11, 2005 17:41 
 45   Mago, your wishes are granted -- no more equality, welcome to Irish Ferries!     R. Isible    Sat Nov 26, 2005 21:59 
 46   Globalisation of Labour     vngelis    Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:58 
 47   from latvia     janis berzins    Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:05 
 48   Sell Out     Irish Worker    Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:59 


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