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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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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday July 18, 2003 12:21 by James McKenna   text 5 comments (last - friday july 18, 2003 17:24)   image 3 images
Foremost among those who pushed the "Power to Change" is Dun Laoghaire man Paddy Monaghan. Paddy recently accompanied a group of Christian Zionists to the headquarters of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem , which was mentioned below. This is a right wing group who believes in a New World Order based in Israel. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday July 17, 2003 23:32 by Anthony McCann
The Irish Music Rights Organisation, and organisations like it around the world, administers licences for performing rights. Developed from copyright theory, performing rights act as a justification for prescriptive control, making it legitimate for one person to prescribe the actions of another unless a fee is paid. Have you ever given performing rights a second thought? have you ever questioned the validity of performing rights? Have you ever thought about the role of persuasion and coercion in the politics of copyright and performing rights? read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday July 17, 2003 13:53 by ollie   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 17, 2003 22:57)
The following short quote is taken from Organic Bytes, a weekly mail out from the good ppl at the organic consumers website....and, with the new US offensive against (Good) old europe's desire to _label_ (and perhaps even... ban :-0 )genetically engineered products, its time to remind ourselves, once again, of what the bastards are at:

QUICK QUIZ: HOW U.S. DEMOCRACY WORKS

Question: How is it that every industrialized nation in the world has banned
Monsanto's rBGH as unsafe, but it's legal (and unlabeled) in the United
States? read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday July 17, 2003 11:38 by antrophe   text 11 comments (last - thursday august 14, 2003 20:49)   image 1 image
As part of our series on past social and political movements in this country we conducted an interview with Aileen O’Carrol who has been involved in the pro-choice movement since SPUC (Society For The Protection of the Unborn Child) moved against the distribution of information on abortion. In this interview she talks about that, the impact of the X-case and the pro-choice movement today. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 16, 2003 20:51 by Mike   text 3 comments (last - wednesday july 16, 2003 22:13)
Or, Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 16, 2003 19:06 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 17, 2003 10:51)
getting better all the time.... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 16, 2003 15:37 by Seán   text 5 comments (last - friday july 18, 2003 09:55)
AN DRAOI RUA discusses the merits of a citizen as opposed to the attitude of a consumer and the roles that people take within society. This piece was inspired by Scott Ritter, the American ex-arms inspector for the UN, who spoke in Galway recently. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 16, 2003 12:55 by Ailín
A Political status picket will be held outside the GPO in Dublin this Saturday to highlight the ongoing oppression of Republican POW's in Maghaberry prison. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 16, 2003 11:55 by King Mob   text 23 comments (last - thursday july 17, 2003 16:54)
Some theory about autonomous zones - seeing as how Dublin experienced its first one in recent times. read full story / add a comment
antrim / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 16, 2003 11:27 by Steven McCloskey
Below is an article about the social forum movement published in Index, the magazine of Comlamh. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 15, 2003 17:31 by King Mob   text 14 comments (last - saturday august 02, 2003 21:24)
If the CIE (Cycling Is Easier) 'workers' proceed with their illegal no fares day this Friday the 18TH, then the management of CIE should keep it's botle and do what it has threatened to do, namely sack all of the so-called 'workers' in CIE on the spot. The same also applies to the rest of the dossing, lazy over-paid 'workers' in the rest of the semi-states such as Aer Rianta, ESB, An Post and the rest if they hold to their threats to hold us hard working taxpayers to ransom in pursuit of their outdated marxist dogma. Bloody commie unions, they should be banned and all strikes made illegal. That way we will never, ever again ever be held to ransom by them. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday July 14, 2003 13:32 by Rebel Alliance   text 12 comments (last - tuesday july 15, 2003 17:15)
SINISTER ANARCHY PLAN FOR DUBLIN- anyone up for some media analysis? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday July 11, 2003 17:14 by depp   text 19 comments (last - monday july 14, 2003 11:06)
how about everybody who regularly reads or contributes to indymedia get together, and invite everyone else... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday July 11, 2003 15:11 by Seán   text 10 comments (last - tuesday july 15, 2003 00:08)
Is iad na teifigh seo agus a sliocht siúd a chuimsíonn an fhadhb teifeach is mó agus is leanúnaí ar domhan, le breis agus 3.2 milliún cláraithe ag na Náisiúin Aontaithe agus, gan dabht, go leor eile nach bhfuil cláraithe ach a bhfuil cónaí orthu i dtíortha cóngarach dá mbaile. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday July 11, 2003 12:01 by Pat C   text 6 comments (last - monday july 14, 2003 12:14)
Marvel Comics has scrapped an idea to portray Princess Diana as a comic superhero.
The company says "upon reflection" it will remove Diana and all references to the Royal family from its forthcoming X-Statix monthly comics, reports the BBC.
(I know its a cut and paste, but I had to share this. I know there are many Di fans here who will be happy that her memory is not sullied by such trvialisation. Di deserves her own live action feature. How about Tomb Raider III, Lara Croft accidently revives Di?) read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday July 10, 2003 17:02 by Paul Poulakis   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 10, 2003 18:36)
The Palestinians are unique among the world's nation wannabes in several ways. First, they have the backing of most of the world's oil wealth and thus the industrial nations that kowtow in lust of it. The Gulf Caliphs caught on long ago that in order to preserve their own corrupt, profligate, illegal regimes they needed some perennial distraction for their ignorant masses--why not the Jews? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 09, 2003 23:10 by Sean Mc Gearailt   text 9 comments (last - friday july 11, 2003 17:29)
Jean-Jacques Brophy
Department of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barbara O. S. Hamburger
Department of Peace Studies, Carnegie-Mellon University read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 09, 2003 16:36 by lish
Thanks to everyone who came to our independent 4th of July benefit party for Martin Shaw & the other G8 activists. Twas a great night. Raised 277 euro, great music, ta to all the dj's, & only one person had to be rescued from the roof. rock on. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 08, 2003 19:13 by paul cummins   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 08, 2003 19:52)
i saw this on boards.ie but tought it was very interesting from a jobs and human rights point of view and was acceptabelt to post here... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 08, 2003 17:08 by Richi   text 11 comments (last - monday july 14, 2003 12:31)
The Labour Party Spokesperson on Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Willie Penrose has said the latest report from the UN, which shows that Ireland has the second highest level of poverty in the western world, is proof that the present Government’s policies are bereft of equity and fairness. read full story / add a comment
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