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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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galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday June 04, 2010 09:30 by donkylemore   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 05, 2010 17:09)
Obama , crippled with an unfortunate triple legacy must make reality of his Cairo Rhetoric to sustain any Arab credibility.
- Israel bites the Hand that Fed read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 03, 2010 23:16 by Raymond Deane   text 21 comments (last - wednesday june 09, 2010 16:09)
At a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs on 3d June, über-Zionist Alan Shatter TD (Fine Gael) caused some jaws to drop when he expressed some unexpected opinions on Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday June 03, 2010 22:42 by Latif Serhildan   text 4 comments (last - friday june 04, 2010 21:19)   image 1 image
Both Turkey and Iran have accused Israel of state terror against the activists on the high seas. From a Kurdish point of view I salute the brave peace activists and I sympathize with the situation of the Palestinian people in the face of oppression by the Israeli state. Yet we cannot forget that both Turkey and Iran continue to commit atrocities against the Kurdish population. read full story / add a comment
Front cover of the irish Anarchist Review
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 03, 2010 17:09 by Andrew, Dara, Ronan   text 1 comment (last - friday june 04, 2010 19:38)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
The first copies were distributed as Gardai attacked the Anglo Irish bank occupation and then attempted to stop the anti-capitalist bloc march but this was the formal launch of the new WSM magazine Irish Anarchist Review much of the content of which looks at the fight against the capitalist crisis in the workplace. Authors & editors introduce the articles followed by some questions about the new format. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday June 03, 2010 00:56 by Michael   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 03, 2010 19:55)
Launching of International Aid Convoy for the humanitarian relief of Gaza. read full story / add a comment
The speaker with a megaphone on Monday following the flotilla massacre
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 02, 2010 16:24 by Freda   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
This is the audio of the 'Israeli Apartheid, BDS and Grassroots Resistance in Palestine' from Saturday's anarchist bookfair. The speaker is Freda Hughes from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday May 31, 2010 18:06 by donkylemore   text 14 comments (last - thursday june 03, 2010 19:46)

Is this attack on an Aid ship Israel's taking advantage of an erstwhile preoccupied and unfortunate American President ? Or is it just more of Israel doing what Israel does best ..taking murderous and disproportionate action against civilians to further subjugate the Palestinian people - and doing all of this under the pre configured ideation imprinted on the Israeli mind that Europe 'owes' her because of the Holocaust - and therefore whatever would be deemed unacceptable by another country is Ok for Israel ? read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday May 24, 2010 13:23 by john throne   text 30 comments (last - friday august 13, 2010 20:37)
The death of Peter Hadden, leading member of the Socialist Party has generated many speeches and obituaries. Here is my general response. read full story / add a comment
Standing Stone
meath / environment / opinion/analysis Monday May 24, 2010 12:56 by farrelly57   text 21 comments (last - saturday may 29, 2010 16:50)   image 8 images
Here is the TSV on Sunday. We are told that destruction will not happen in this valley anymore, we are told that our heritage is safe but my walk yesterday shows that things have simply got worse.
Please become involved and stop the rape of our old green land. It is reaching appoint that soon it will be too late. We look set to lose all our old mysterious, wild and fallow places.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday May 23, 2010 13:17 by Lazy   text 27 comments (last - monday may 31, 2010 11:58)   image 1 image
This story was blacked-out by the media for a year and involves
two men whose lack of personal scruple has enriched them at
the cost of lives.

*Only* 7 million has been seized of a estimated 100 million
in profligacy which has destroyed lives, truly rats in sewers
comes to mind :

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/art...1.ece read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday May 20, 2010 20:48 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
In conversation with Sharon Valencik read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday May 20, 2010 19:51 by Gavin Gleeson   text 17 comments (last - sunday may 23, 2010 12:03)   image 1 image
Joe Duffy invited two protesters, Holly, and Leah, who were at the protest at the Dáil on Tuesday the 18th of May, on to his Radio show on RTE. These two protesters were contacted because they had been wearing fake blood, in an attempt to highlight that the Gardaí had taken quite violent action, including bludgeoning protesters with steel batons, against people who were fighting against public service cuts - indeed fighting against the very cuts that the Gardaí themselves will suffer. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday May 20, 2010 13:38 by Paddy Hackett
The proletariat provides the socio-ontological conditions for emancipation from ideology and exploitation. This is based on the proletariat’s unique relationship to the production process as source of wealth, value and capital–the very material basis for the existence of capitalist society. This peculiar oppression of the proletariat is what gives it its truth conditioning property. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday May 20, 2010 13:14 by Ed   text 3 comments (last - tuesday may 25, 2010 11:40)
The current 'Gulf Spill' is only one of scores of such disasters in recent decades. The same pattern of reckless failures; drip release of information; cover-up and collusion between operators and statutory agencies is evident throughout. Protesters are invariably vilified or criminalized so that attention may be directed away from the really criminal irresponsibility. Read the following quotes from highly credible sources and remember Pat's 100 days in jail today. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 19, 2010 23:24 by Justin Morahan   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 20, 2010 19:47)   video 1 video file
(The May 9th executions of 5 political activists in Iran after secret trials and torture has sparked outrage in Human Rights and Trade Union circles.
The letter below was sent by e-mail to the Iranian Ambassador on 15 May 2010)
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 18, 2010 20:29 by LATIF SERHILDAN
The old saying goes “my enemy’s enemy is my friend”; however if it involves the Kurds that does not apply. When George W. Bush was in power in the US his administration declared Iran as part of an “axis of evil”, because of their rogue nuclear programme and belligerent rhetoric. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Saturday May 15, 2010 21:48 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
WILD TIME caught up with Bruce Friedrich on his mobile phone read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 15, 2010 15:11 by GARC
The following text was distributed to every household in the Greater Ardoyne area on Thursday past...

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international / eu / opinion/analysis Saturday May 15, 2010 01:49 by Craig McInerney
Foreboding forecasts of a wave of financial instability consuming the Euro zone have prompted E.U Commission to take a drastic stance encompassing a potential inflammatory budget review process. read full story / add a comment
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