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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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no one ever expects the spanish inquisition
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Sunday January 30, 2005 13:23 by "He is was and always will be the letters"   text 2 comments (last - sunday january 30, 2005 19:01)   image 2 images
Iraqis vote to re-establish the institutions of government.
Africans, South americans and Asias die for want of vaccines, food, clean water, and in bloodshed caused by the warmongers active and passive of western economics.
Plague is everywhere.
clean water is only found in the West and they complain about it's quality. read full story / add a comment
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sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday January 29, 2005 15:49 by sean fleming   text 6 comments (last - friday january 05, 2018 15:16)   image 1 image
Over the course of the past few months I have written to the various divisions of companies that are based in Ireland and who manufacture what are known as ‘anti-psychotic’ drugs. What I have found in the course of this research and the responses I received is that there is a serious lack of information concerning the health risks provided in the patient information leaflet (PIL) or package leaflet that a patient receives with these drugs. The response of the Irish Medicines Board, as I will show, in all of this has been very disappointing given that they claim to exist in order to monitor and ensure that medicines are safe for patients. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday January 28, 2005 13:00 by paul o toole   text 13 comments (last - sunday january 30, 2005 20:34)
Shannon ;Two Years After Mary Kelly Disarmed A Warplane read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday January 27, 2005 22:31 by Kevin Walsh   text 12 comments (last - friday april 08, 2005 21:49)
Justice........Promises forsaken.......Corruption

Answers need.

60 years today commemoration Auschwitz - 'knowledge is no load' a wise old Judge once said...... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday January 27, 2005 19:47 by Michael Hennigan   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 05, 2005 11:18)
Marginalisng racism will take time and its the young generation will make the difference read full story / add a comment
learn. remember. make better.
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Thursday January 27, 2005 00:25 by iosaf   text 15 comments (last - friday february 25, 2005 14:51)   image 1 image
In today's world, the Irish are amongst the ten richest societies, and no-one dies from malnutrition.

In today's world one billion children are estimated by UNICEF to be at risk from malnutrition. read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 25, 2005 15:56 by James R   text 14 comments (last - sunday june 26, 2005 02:45)   image 1 image
Mike Leigh’s ‘Vera Drake,’ is set in Islington, 1950. Surprise, surprise, this ain't no nostalgia trip. It’s a world not far removed from Orwell’s 1930’s ‘Down and Out In Paris and London’ with his amazement at an English working class ability to subsist on regular doses of bread and tea. The dry taste of soda bread, the smell of dampness and the comfort of a 'cuppatay' is as palpable as the scars of war staring blankly from the eyes of shell shocked characters like Reg (Eddie Marsan) who having lost his mother to the blitz lives a bachelors life on ‘bread and drippings’. Rationing is still a reality, nylons are traded for smokes and parasitical black marketers and creditors make a fortune door to door, in neighbourhoods perpetually clouded in grey. read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 25, 2005 12:24 by Tim Hourigan   text 8 comments (last - thursday march 03, 2005 14:09)   image 2 images
Troops through Shannon up 26% on previous year. Workforce is down 50%.
That's the same workforce who were force- fed the story that their jobs depended on US military use of the airport.
Other lies surround the economic arguments of US Military use of Shannon Airport. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday January 24, 2005 02:32 by Kevin Walsh   text 12 comments (last - friday february 04, 2005 20:56)
Reflection......Priorities.....Values......

The Peace Process......... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday January 22, 2005 17:38 by Sean Crudden   text 3 comments (last - monday january 24, 2005 15:53)   image 1 image
The tough guy (or the tough girl) is the accepted norm in politics and public affairs generally - particularly since the days of Margarer Thatcher. We have heard seductively in the past of the efficacy of "tough love." But what is toughness? Is it just cowardly bluster? Is it a real virtue in sport or in our personal lives, for example? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday January 21, 2005 17:10 by Soundmigration   text 5 comments (last - thursday january 27, 2005 08:36)
The difference between altruistic human responses and ‘political’ responses to continuing human misery. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday January 21, 2005 15:19 by Laura Synnott   text 5 comments (last - friday january 28, 2005 14:59)
Irish media is following the British tabloids in its coverage of celebrity lifestyle, little realising that people are growing tired of being bombarded with 'famous' peoples lives. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday January 20, 2005 19:21 by Media_Matters   text 17 comments (last - wednesday january 26, 2005 21:14)   image 1 image
A query to users of this website, regarding the 'openess' of a self-styled open media forum. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday January 20, 2005 15:33 by - -
Now more than ever, we are one. In the world of global economy and global media, it is possible to consume products from the other side of the planet on a daily basis and to understand something of far away places as our cultural input speeds thousands of miles in a split second to reach us. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Thursday January 20, 2005 15:08 by James R   text 18 comments (last - wednesday april 12, 2006 04:11)
The latest McDonalds’ ad is telling. A man rushes to the counter and proceeds to push a microphone into the face of some bewildered kid bedecked in a green smock. “So what’s in your burgers?” he asks, in pursuit of the sort of anti-corporate expose that has fuelled Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me. Pressed, the kid blurts “100% Irish Beef.” read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday January 17, 2005 21:26 by John McDermott   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 18, 2005 11:52)
Bertie and ordinary citizens pay for the massive expenditure to enrich Ireland,s fat cat hoteliers and golf course owners such as Oliver Barry(a Cork based Fianna Fail "soldier of destiny" whose name is linked to the corruption tribunals) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday January 17, 2005 11:40 by Henk Ruyssenaars
To those who consider the war a mistake but still fear the consequences of military withdrawal, we ask these questions: when will enough be enough? If not now, when? read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday January 16, 2005 21:58 by NorthStar Anarchist Collective   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 26, 2005 01:03)
(a response to Beyond Voting, by Chris Crass - Clamor Communique 42) read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday January 15, 2005 23:10 by Barry   text 28 comments (last - thursday november 03, 2005 02:38)   image 1 image
In the middle of his current visit to Tanzania, British chancellor Gordon Brown has claimed that "the days of Britain apologising for its colonial past are over". Some of us may beforgiven for wondering when we ever heard any of these apologies, but I suppose that would be unfair to the chancellor and highly cynical.

Especially when one considers his follow up comment that it was time for Africans to start talking about "the enduring British traditions of liberty and tolerance".

ANC leader Thabo Mbeki, for some strange unearthly reason, isnt highly impressed by the British chancellor. He claims that British imperialists have simply treated the African peoples whose lands they occupied as savages. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday January 15, 2005 21:48 by Paul Kinsella   text 11 comments (last - monday april 07, 2008 17:43)
Residents of the Lorcan Estate in Santry have expressed their complete opposition to plans which have been submitted to Dublin City Council to demolish the existing Kilmardinny Inn on Lorcan Avenue, Santry, which is a single storey pub, and construct a five storey apartment development containing 23 two bedroom apartments, 26 one bedroom apartments, with a public house at ground floor level. read full story / add a comment
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