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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 Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose C... Wed Oct 08, 2025 19:36 | Will Jones
Two-tier justice was on full display as three Epping protesters received longer prison sentences than the asylum seeker whose sex attack on a child they were protesting about, says Laurie Wastell.
The post Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose Crime They Were Protesting appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link British Steel Industry Faces ?Existential Threat? as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer?s ?EU R... Wed Oct 08, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Britain?s Net Zero-ravaged steel industry is facing an "existential threat" as the EU threatens the UK with tariffs of up to 50% despite Keir Starmer's recent 'EU reset' giveaway on fishing rights and youth mobility.
The post British Steel Industry Faces “Existential Threat” as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer’s ‘EU Reset’ Giveaway appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Fightback Against Politicised Art Has Begun Wed Oct 08, 2025 15:27 | Ferro
The public's indifference to art has never been greater. No wonder, says Ferro: it's all just tired Left-progressive politics by another means. But the fightback for real art that moves the human soul has begun.
The post The Fightback Against Politicised Art Has Begun appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV Wed Oct 08, 2025 13:00 | James Alexander
Not until Leo XIV did we have a picture of a holy man staring at an ice cube with his hand on it, respectfully gazing as if imagining the whisky that could go with such a rock, says Prof James Alexander.
The post Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sir Lenny Henry Wants ?18 Trillion of Slavery Reparations Wed Oct 08, 2025 11:17 | Sallust
Sir Lenny Henry has called for Britain to pay ?18 trillion in reparations to black people, arguing in a new book that high rates of black crime and unemployment are "all because of the slave trade".
The post Sir Lenny Henry Wants ?18 Trillion of Slavery Reparations appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday January 25, 2010 21:33 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   image 1 image
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977 read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday January 25, 2010 10:28 by Margaretta D'Arcy
A Feminist International Solidarity Camp to help mobilize and transfer resources, and to open channels of communications directly with Haitian women will open next week on the frontier Jemaní between the Dominican Republic & Haiti. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday January 22, 2010 18:36 by Chicherin   image 1 image
As unrest continues in Iran, Yassamine Mather writes on the divisions within the ruling Theocracy and how the "Reformists" fear that that the revolt will result in genuine revolution. Full text at link.

More than two weeks after the demonstrations of December 27 2009, the political repercussions of these events, and the reaction to the anger and radicalism of the protesters, continue. Clearly now no-one, from the government to the ‘reformists’, to the revolutionary opposition, has any doubt that the current protests are no longer about who should be the ‘president’ of the Islamic Republic, but represent a serious challenge to the very existence of the religious state. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday January 22, 2010 16:39 by Andy Kershaw
Haitians have faced their tragedy with dignity and stoicism – not that you would know it from the way the disaster has been reported
Thursday, 21 January 2010 - The Independent read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday January 22, 2010 03:13 by campaigner   text 7 comments (last - wednesday january 27, 2010 23:18)
Couple of links highlighting the extent of repressive legislation in the North and the disparity with recent official reports

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international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday January 17, 2010 18:27 by I. Stone   text 7 comments (last - sunday september 04, 2011 12:03)
A PUBLIC inquiry has begun in the U.S. into the financial crisis. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday January 13, 2010 16:32 by Eugene Mc Cartan   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 20, 2010 06:22)
Influenza A: They Organized a Psychosis
Bruno Odent, L'Humanité
Wednesday 06 January 2010

Exposé: the president of the Council of Europe's Health Commission, German Wolfgang Wodarg, accuses pharmaceutical lobbies and governments. He has obtained the launch of an investigation by the official body he heads on the role played by laboratories in the campaign of panic around the virus. A no-holds-barred interview.

Former member of the German Socialist Party, Wolfgang Wodarg is a physician and epidemiologist. He garnered the Council of Europe's Health Commission members' unanimous consent for a commission of inquiry into the role of pharmaceutical firms in the management of H1N1 flu by the WHO and by governments ... read full story / add a comment
derry / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday January 13, 2010 11:35 by doopa   text 17 comments (last - wednesday may 05, 2010 21:55)   image 1 image
The BBC is reporting that Raytheon is to close its Derry Plant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/foy...5.stm read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday January 12, 2010 17:53 by Campaigner   text 4 comments (last - thursday may 12, 2011 16:07)
Spotted this on the eirigi website and it could have some possible and very welcome repercussions right across Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Sunday January 10, 2010 19:04 by Oswald Bastable   text 12 comments (last - tuesday january 12, 2010 21:38)
John Gormley may be striving to secure salt supplies from abroad but meanwhile salt is being exported from Ireland! read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / other press Saturday January 09, 2010 01:36 by Ronnie   text 19 comments (last - tuesday january 19, 2010 00:08)
The only place he is going is out of Sinn Fein. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday January 07, 2010 17:12 by pat c   image 1 image
Chris Strafford writes on how the Iranian people face a double danger: the possibility of a Bloodbath being launched by the Theocracy and threats of War and Sanctions from US Imperialism. Full article at link.

Further sanctions are being put in place, and Obama is holding back Israel for the time being, but has been promising “decisive action” if Iran does not halt all uranium enrichment. One Israeli diplomat was quoted in The Guardian as saying, “Obama has convinced us that it’s worth trying the sanctions, at least for a few months” (January 3). The imperialists seem to be moving towards military aggression this year - Washington has now dismissed the validity of the intelligence estimate which concluded that Iran was no longer trying to acquire nuclear weapons. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday January 05, 2010 13:34 by Geri Timmons   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 27, 2010 23:55)
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday January 03, 2010 20:43 by Shamus Cooke   text 1 comment (last - monday january 04, 2010 02:56)
Shamus Cooke writes on whats happening in Iran and compares the genuine struggle for real change in Iran to Obamas agenda for intervention. The full article is at the link.

In Iran, mass protests were drowned in blood by government authorities; at least ten reportedly have been killed with hundreds injured. The events have been given ample coverage in the U.S. media, with the intention of further demonizing Iran’s repressive government. Absent in the American media are the deeper implications of the protests, which, to anyone paying close attention, constitute a powerful revolutionary movement. This movement has grown exponentially in a very short period of time. Although only beginning in June over allegations of voter fraud, the movement is now endorsed by millions of combative Iranians, demanding “death to the dictator,” while they waive an Iranian flag that’s missing the Muslim insignia. Massive demonstrations in the streets and university campuses have directly confronted police repression and in some cases have overcome it. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday January 03, 2010 15:31 by Kev   text 1 comment (last - sunday january 03, 2010 15:34)
Below are links to the latest update from, and an interview with, the Derry to Gaza team, who are part of the Viva Palestina Convoy. Both articles are from today, 3rd January 2010.

Also included is an article about the progress of the Viva Palestina Convoy: read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday January 01, 2010 15:58 by Kev
On 6th December 2009 the third Viva Palestina international aid convoy set off from London. Over the next few weeks it traveled almost three thousand miles through 9 countries gaining support as it went. By 24th December, Christmas Eve, when it reached the post of Aqaba in Jordan it had grown to almost 500 people in 250 vehicles - carrying much needed medical aid for the besieged people of Gaza. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday January 01, 2010 15:07 by Kev   image 1 image
Over 1,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel and several dozen Jewish Israelis demonstrated this morning outside of the Erez Crossing, demanding an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Organised by the Arab High Monitoring Committee, the demonstration coincided with the one year anniversary of Israel’s military attacks on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in 1,400 deaths and thousands wounded. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 31, 2009 17:47 by Arnaldo Otegi
Arnaldo Otegi, the basque independentist left leader made this speech before entering prison. In it he talks about the new initiative held by basque left. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday December 31, 2009 16:13 by C. Antillon   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 31, 2009 16:16)
On the Irsheconomy blog, established by Professor Philip Lane, the good professor himself has begun to come under attack for his analyses. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Tuesday December 29, 2009 22:01 by Grapevine   text 6 comments (last - sunday january 03, 2010 20:30)
Two well made and free to download films on climate chaos. read full story / add a comment
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