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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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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 24, 2010 13:31 by Sean   text 7 comments (last - saturday march 20, 2010 11:20)
Cuba Dissident dies on hunger strike in Cuban jail. Amnesty prisoner of conscience Orlando Zapata Tamayo 'unrecognisable' after 85-day fast over beatings
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday February 23, 2010 18:37 by Socialist   text 15 comments (last - saturday february 27, 2010 06:21)
In a new three part article, Paul Murphy examines the claim that the worst is over for the Irish economy, highlighting some of the key pitfalls that will face the Irish economy in the coming years read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday February 22, 2010 15:24 by OrangeCitadel
Text of Nationalist residents groups' submission to the Northern Ireland Assembly working party on parading issues. read full story / add a comment
Professor Noam Chomsky
national / miscellaneous / other press Monday February 22, 2010 13:12 by Volunteer Team   image 1 image   video 3 video files
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." - Chomsky

Interview with Prof. Noam Chomsky January 2010

Venue: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Video interviews online at http://www.spunout.ie/action/Be-inspired/SpunOut.ie-cha...omsky

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national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday February 18, 2010 12:34 by P. Bowman   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 24, 2010 15:44)
Ireland faces the biggest crisis in world capitalism since the 1930’s and for that reason there’s never been more need for a socialist response to solve the problems workers face. With that in mind, how do the Labour leadership stand up to scrutiny? read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday February 17, 2010 19:02 by Ghurnet   text 4 comments (last - sunday february 21, 2010 14:42)
Press Statement from Joe Higgins MEP, Socialist Party read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday February 16, 2010 18:34 by reject   text 15 comments (last - monday march 01, 2010 21:06)
After the recent expulsion of Lindsey German... further leading members have had enough!! read full story / add a comment
national / education / other press Tuesday February 16, 2010 16:59 by LASC
LASC and Age Action invite you to submit photos for the Latin America Week Photo Exhibition 2010

This is an opportunity for LASC and Age Action members, volunteers and friends to exhibit photos of Latin America and Ireland related to Food Sovereignty and Older People during Latin America Week 2010.
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dublin / miscellaneous / other press Friday February 12, 2010 16:14 by hydroponic john
Firefighters tackled a blaze at the Nirvana Head Shop on Capel Street in Dublin city centre which broke out around 6.30 this morning. Oblivious to risk from smoke installation , onlookers have apparantly been flocking to the area in large numbers all afternoon . Gardai have appealed for calm . Five units of the Dublin Fire Brigade (pictured in report) were involved in today's operation . read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday February 11, 2010 00:42 by P. Bowman   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 27, 2010 21:01)
Paul Holmes is standing for election as General Secretary of UNISON. Paul has been active in the union for 36 years, he’s branch secretary of Kirklees Branch in Yorkshire. The branch has over 10,000 members and an 80% membership density. Paul agreed to be interviewed for Fightback which is the Journal of the International Marxist Tendency in Ireland.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 10, 2010 17:35 by Drew   image 1 image
Below are excerpts translated from a leaflet by the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) . Dated 5 February, it was put out on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the people's uprising that toppled the Shah in 1979. Full article text at the link.

As millions of Iranian people all over the country await 11 February their hearts are beating hard.. Brave women and men are planning to turn that date into a decisive day. The enemy is also planning to stay in the field and not lose its perilous balance. The chants of "Down with the Islamic Republic of Iran!" will come from the heart and find echo in other hearts.

Over the last eight months the Iranian people's anti-regime movement has significantly inspired the people of the Middle East and other parts of the world. They too are enthusiastically looking forward to 11 February. The Western imperialists and Russia and China who are all as reactionary as the Islamic Republic are already speculating about "Iran after 11 February" and expressing their concern about the "future of the Middle East and Iran" – which means concern about their interests in Iran and the Middle East! read full story / add a comment
YOur passport could now lead to you being suspected of being a Mossad Assassin.
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday February 09, 2010 03:11 by Anti-Zionist   text 20 comments (last - wednesday february 24, 2010 09:36)   image 9 images
Israeli use of 'third country' passports is widespread. They have been known to use Canadian, British, New Zealand, Austrailian and of course Irish, Passports in the course of carrying out their illegal murders around the world. What is the Irish Gov't doing to protect the reputation of it's citizens travelling abroad? read full story / add a comment
international / education / other press Sunday February 07, 2010 19:08 by John Cornford   text 6 comments (last - tuesday february 09, 2010 12:50)   image 1 image
Prof Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group really sticks the boot into Chomsky. He weighs Chomskys credentials in the balance and finds then wanting. Full text at link.

Chomsky was about to deliver a lecture in Delhi. Setting aside the usual niceties, his host - a certain professor Agnihotri of Delhi University - introduced the visiting speaker with a challenge. He was bewildered that a person “so deeply touched by human suffering” could ignore the roots of both happiness and suffering in his scientific work. Noam Chomsky, continued the professor, insisted on viewing language as a “purely biological cognitive system” unconnected with “sociological power-games”. But isn’t language a key tool used by the powerful to deceive, exploit and oppress? How can Chomsky turn a blind eye to such things in his linguistic research?[8] read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 05, 2010 14:31 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 2 comments (last - friday february 05, 2010 18:54)
VID 58 minutes - Howard Zinn was an American historian, social critic, and activist. He is best known as author of the best-seller A People’s History of the United States. In one of his last lectures before his death last week, he spoke at Boston University on November 11 2009, on the subject of American “Holy Wars.”

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/1/8/howard_zinn_t..._wars

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday January 31, 2010 11:21 by Henk Ruyssenaars fwd. The Telegraph   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 02, 2010 13:56)
Not one word too much: those creatures are a living shame to humanity in which they not any longer take part.

They are not the solution: they are the problem! read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday January 30, 2010 15:09 by Catholic Worker   text 9 comments (last - friday july 16, 2010 22:08)
The Catholic Worker is 70+ year old radical anarcho-pacifist movement of some 180 autonomous communities (mostly in North America) combining the practise of the acts of mercy and nonviolent resistance. The CW houses and projects refuse all state funding. The Philadelphia Catholic Worker operates a free clinic and has a longstanding relationship with the "Mathew 25 -House of Hospitality" free clinic in Haiti.

The Catholic Worker delegation presently in Haiti includes CW nurse Joanna Berrigan, radical Detroit Bishop Thomas Gumbleton who has a long anti-war history and sanctios breaking in Iraq in the '90's and radical lawyer Bill Quigley who has longstanding involvement in Haitian human rights cases.

Background on the CW dlegation and Mathew 25 project (including a television news report) can be found on this link.....
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antrim / arts and media / other press Friday January 29, 2010 21:17 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 07, 2023 23:23)   image 2 images
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international / consumer issues / other press Friday January 29, 2010 12:27 by Dr Doom   text 36 comments (last - saturday april 11, 2015 23:24)   audio 1 audio file
At last Wakefield has been exposed as the crook that he is. He spread scare stories about the MNR Vaccine knowing that his claims were false.

The doctor who sparked a worldwide panic over the MMR vaccine could be struck off after being found guilty yesterday of a series of misconduct charges related to his “unethical” research. Andrew Wakefield, who in 1998 claimed an unfounded link between the vaccination and autism, “showed a callous disregard” for the suffering of children, subjecting them to unnecessary, invasive tests, a hearing found. The General Medical Council (GMC) ruled that he abused his position of trust as he researched a possible link between the MMR vaccine, bowel disease and autism in children.

It found that Wakefield and two colleagues acted dishonestly and irresponsibly in carrying out research on children against their best interests and without official permission. read full story / add a comment
Safety First- the badge of Shell Security Guards in Ireland in 2008
national / environment / other press Friday January 29, 2010 11:21 by WMD   text 2 comments (last - friday january 29, 2010 18:42)   image 1 image

Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan today presented the Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Bill 2010 to the Oireachtas

The Bill confers responsibility on the Commission for Energy Regulation for the regulatory function for the safety of oil and gas infrastructure in Ireland. It also sets the framework for the development and implementation of a risk-based safety assessment for upstream petroleum activities and associated infrastructure. read full story / add a comment
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