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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 Mon Oct 13, 2025 00:43 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Baffled Residents Claim LTN Road Markings That Look Like ?Giant Wotsits? Are Wreaking Havoc Sun Oct 12, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Bemused residents say "giant Wotsits" painted on a Birkenhead street are causing chaos during a council trial to create a one-way Low Traffic Neighbourhood.
The post Baffled Residents Claim LTN Road Markings That Look Like ?Giant Wotsits? Are Wreaking Havoc appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Anonymous Conservative?s Letter Exposes Deep Unease With Liberal Consensus in Church of England Sun Oct 12, 2025 17:00 | Julian Mann
While Canterbury Cathedral flaunts its "disruptive" graffiti, a sharp-minded Church of England conservative was too afraid to put their head above the parapet to defend the Unite the Kingdom march, writes Julian Mann.
The post Anonymous Conservative?s Letter Exposes Deep Unease With Liberal Consensus in Church of England appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?70 Million Spent Every Year for ?Diversity Officers? in NHS and Police Sun Oct 12, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Britain's public sector is splurging ?70?million a year on 'woke' diversity officers while NHS waiting lists soar, police are understaffed and councils hike taxes.
The post ?70 Million Spent Every Year for ?Diversity Officers? in NHS and Police appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link More Than ?10 Billion of Universal Credit Went to Non-UK Citizens Last Year Sun Oct 12, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Shocking new figures reveal that foreigners received ?10 billion ? one in every six pounds ? of Universal Credit, fuelling claims Britain's welfare system has become a cash machine for the world.
The post More Than ?10 Billion of Universal Credit Went to Non-UK Citizens Last Year 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

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dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Monday July 28, 2003 17:47 by Colm   text 13 comments (last - tuesday july 29, 2003 16:21)
PD councillor exposes the inactive and unimanigative Green Party by suggesting a novel approach to solving dublins traffic problem and to creating a better envirnment. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday July 28, 2003 12:28 by Fine Geal Member   text 15 comments (last - tuesday july 29, 2003 22:46)
Royston Brady symbolises all that is permissive and dangerous in this morally bankruptFianna Fail government government. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday July 28, 2003 10:25 by Salah
This recent report outlines the reality of the plight of Palestinian prisoners. The draconian measures Israel is perpetrating make any comparison with British internment of Irish activists tragically laughable.

The media is currently holding the line that Israel is making serious concessions by contemplating releasing a small number of prisoners. Reports by Amnesty and Stop the Torture shed light on the list of human rights abuses Israel has been carrying out for decades and which have led to the recent Intifada.
July 2003 read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday July 27, 2003 10:02 by Ailín   text 13 comments (last - tuesday july 29, 2003 23:07)   image 1 image
Picket for political status

British tourist office, Dame Street/College Green, Dublin

Saturday August 9th 12:30-2:00pm read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday July 26, 2003 22:14 by Irish   text 8 comments (last - tuesday july 29, 2003 02:38)
Is there no law or court in the world that can really protect innocent civilians from being killed and injured by the US and UK military? The US and UK government and military are unaccountable for the tens of thousands of innocent lives they destroy so they will continue to do so. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday July 26, 2003 20:16 by Kevin   text 54 comments (last - tuesday july 04, 2006 20:46)
Why Damien Dempsey Never went to Socialist Youth Festival? Because he was never asked! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday July 26, 2003 15:27 by rooster   text 5 comments (last - monday july 28, 2003 15:58)
I'm talking about US forces working hand in glove with a paid informer who led them to the sons of Saddam. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday July 26, 2003 13:26 by Meryem
The DHKC (Revolutionary People's Liberation Front) from Turkey issues a statement commemorating the attack on the Moncada barracks in eastern Cuba which started the revolution in Cuba. The statement notes that Moncada and the Cuban revolution has inspired revolutionaries elsewhere in the world and continues to do so. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday July 25, 2003 19:09 by Tim Hourigan   text 9 comments (last - thursday july 31, 2003 02:02)   image 1 image
I originally wrote this for a group in Canada who are trying to prevent the US military from gaining access to the airport on Prince Edward Island in Canada.
I guess now is as good a time as any to publish it here. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Friday July 25, 2003 03:32 by billbo   text 5 comments (last - friday july 25, 2003 23:26)   image 1 image
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday July 24, 2003 11:33 by Dr. Franz-Josef Stummann   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 24, 2003 12:27)
The Final Draft of the EU -Constitution published 18 July 20003 by the Convention eliminates exemptions for Education, Health and Social Affaires in the Common Commercial Policy.
Interventions of national governments in order to protect Public Services are seriously threantened.
Partisans of unlimited Liberalizationof Trade in Services gained major victory. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday July 24, 2003 11:15 by Meryem   text 8 comments (last - saturday july 26, 2003 13:38)
This is Statement 308 by the DHKC (Revolutionary People's Liberation Front) from Turkey. Dated July 5, it looks at the recent detention of Turkish troops in Iraq by US authorities and notes that the helplessness of the Turkish army and government when confronted by their imperial master. The statement says only the revolutionaries genuinely defend national interests. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 23, 2003 15:34 by Robby   text 26 comments (last - monday july 28, 2003 11:14)
IF someone changes the name of a nationality to make it fit better into a slogan (eg: from Pakistani to Paki) is this an indication of racism? Most of us would agree.
If someone wants to get foreigners to leave this country, if they commit violent acts against foreign nationals in an attempt to make them leave, is this an indication of racism? Again, most of us would agree. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 23, 2003 15:01 by Chekov   text 117 comments (last - saturday august 16, 2003 16:30)
This is the text of a talk given last weekend at the Socialist Youth Summer camp in Co. Monaghan during a debate between Brian Cahill of the SP and James O Brien of the WSM. I am posting it here as, although there have been many anarchism vs. Leninism debates on Indymedia, they have rarely risen above simplistic distortions and slagging. Perhaps Brian could post his talk here as well and we could both sides of the debate. Maybe it’ll be different this time, or maybe that is extreme wishful thinking. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 23, 2003 01:17 by Watchdog   text 11 comments (last - thursday august 07, 2003 01:22)
Anti-smoking groups protect the cigarette industry from the most serious indictments, revelations, charges and liabiliies. "Smokers' Rights" groups do the same. Big Oil (tobacco pesticides), for one, is ignored even as we oppose its oily invasion of Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 22, 2003 17:30 by Ian   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 23, 2003 14:25)
War in Iraq was inevitable. That there would be war was decided by North American planners in the mid-1920s; that it would be in Iraq was decided much more recently. The architects of this war were not military planners but town planners. War is inevitable not because of so-called weapons of mass destruction, as claimed by the political right, nor because of Western imperialism, as claimed by the left. The cause of this war is car dependence. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 22, 2003 02:03 by Caeoimhin Eachan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 22, 2003 15:48)
No political observer can afford to ignore or deny the fact that the Israeli government is still using all gimmicks manoeuvers to hinder the implementation of the international legitimacy resolutions concerning the Middle East problem. Observers and analysts do not need further evidence to find that Israel is still opposing all honest peace efforts being exerted by the Arabs in general and the Palestinian people in particular. By persisting in its intransigent policy Israel is not only standing against the international legitimacy resolutions, but also rejecting the very initiative, the roadmap, put forward by the US and other parties of the Quartet Committee, the UN, the EU and Russia. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday July 21, 2003 15:14 by Seán   text 61 comments (last - friday august 01, 2003 16:00)
Sinn Féin must play a key role in the emerging global movement for change to secure a global context for our national agenda for change and ensure that national independence does not arrive in a context that reduces it to corporate subservience, argues COUNCILLOR EOIN Ó BROIN read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday July 19, 2003 15:43 by penelope   text 19 comments (last - wednesday july 23, 2003 22:26)
Since the Council for the women of status have balked at a miserable picket, let's get something else together. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday July 19, 2003 14:23 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 16 comments (last - saturday april 24, 2004 20:56)
including a short profile of the Mammy Harney presently leader of the Progressive Democrats and Assistant Premier of the Irish State.

for local and foreign readers.
(difficulty upper intermediate listening comprehension material linked advanced difficulty)
{there will not be a test. We are still on hols.} read full story / add a comment
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