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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 / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 06, 2008 14:07 by tomeile   text 7 comments (last - sunday august 17, 2008 12:38)
On the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima , John Pilger examines the lie of the “good war” which was used sixty three years ago to justify the mass murder of Japanese civilians . Pilger asks whether the world is today prepared to stand by as the American regime uses imformation supplied by discredited CIA-sponsored Iranian opposition sources to justify a possible nuclear attack on Iran.

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national / consumer issues / other press Tuesday August 05, 2008 13:04 by Shane McLoughlin   text 6 comments (last - friday september 19, 2008 11:49)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Lidl appears to have 'lowered the bar' by urging shoppers to 'don't spend your cash on trash' by shopping in Tesco. The question needs to be asked is whether such an advertising campaign can be justified? and what are the issues surrounding such a stark and attention grabbing ad campaign? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Sunday August 03, 2008 19:25 by Godot   text 10 comments (last - wednesday september 17, 2008 13:55)
A story in todays Sunday Tribune reveals how a stall at a Balbriggan market run by Co. Down based Paul Rea is openly selling Nazi flags, uniforms, and daggers along with anti-semitic DVDs and ash-trays. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / other press Sunday August 03, 2008 12:38 by IT Reader   image 1 image
Lorna Siggins in the Irish Times reports that Bord Pleanála has asked for extensive further information from Shell about their plan to install a production pipeline linking the offshore Corrib gas field with the refinery they are trying to build nine kilometres inland.

Many people fear that the planning procedure will be a simple "rubber stamp" exercise, since the original planning decision that the project was unsuitable for the area was overturned by the planning board on appeal. Since then, Shell has been supported at every step by all arms of the government, despite the fact that the project clearly lacks local consent. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday August 03, 2008 12:13 by anon
Lawyer for British resident held captive at Guantánamo Bay writes to Taoiseach Brian Cowen for information on transit through Shannon Airport of planes and personnel involved in the kidnap and torture.

On 22 July 2002, CIA crew landed in Shannon on the well-known rendition
jet, N379P, having – the previous day – rendered Binyam from Pakistan to
Morocco where he faced 18 months of torture.
 On January 16 2004 CIA crew, this time in N313P, stopped in Shannon en
route to rendering Binyam Mohamed from Rabat to the notorious ‘Dark
Prison’ in Kabul. The crew then went on to render another man, German
citizen Khaled el Masri before returning to Washington on 28 January 2004.
(Eventually released because the US admitted he was wrong guy.)

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international / crime and justice / other press Sunday August 03, 2008 12:02 by .   image 1 image
Someone on Indymedia Portland has published a set of photographs of a memorial for Andrew Hanlon, an Irish citizen who was shot dead by a police officer recently. A memorial gathering for Andrew is taking place there today. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Saturday August 02, 2008 14:33 by tomeile   text 1 comment (last - friday october 10, 2008 15:28)
On his recent visit to Jordan Israel and Ramallah US presidential candidate Obama Barrack insisted that nobody in his party should wear green because of the colour’s association with Islam and Hamas. At a June campaign rally in Detroit two women wearing headscarves were told to leave the area behind the podium where Obama was speaking from so as to prevent them being framed in the same shot by cameras covering the event. A Counterpunch article by Rannie Amiri on how Barrack Obama has moved from being a victim to a perpetuator of Islamophobia.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday August 02, 2008 08:49 by Loin_de_loeil
It's about a film that might interest all those who want to see non-violence not only in speeches, but also in action. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday July 29, 2008 21:26 by not 1 of
The Guardian reports it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/29/wto.eu

It didn't require the Irish Government to use their veto as the farmers have been demanding! Larger forces were at work. China and india don't want to be flooded by cheap food imports from the US. In other words they want to maintain their own small scale agriculture and their own food security. This is spelt out by Mandelson in his blog.

Walden Bello of Focus on The Global South, and a noted ongoing critic of the WTO and neo-liberalism more generally, sees the re-localisation of agriculture (that such a collapse may make possible) as central to the mitigation of climate change.

Extracts from and links to both below.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday July 29, 2008 08:32 by anti-war activist
An interesting story just gone up on Lenin's Tomb. What do people think: are Chomsky and Lenin's Tomb right? Are we too worried about not being seen to be puritanical? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Monday July 28, 2008 15:41 by Recession Diaries
Can it get anymore fun? The Right is turning the screws at every scrap of economic information coming out, ignoring the fact that it is their policies that have landed us in this mess. So the Recession Diaries continues – with comments, critiques and a few proposals. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday July 28, 2008 07:43 by Independent Media   text 1 comment (last - monday july 28, 2008 21:08)
A group of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) are planning to start
up a GI coffeehouse near the entrance of the Fort Lewis military base
in Washington State. Though the project is still in its planning
stages, the idea is that it will be a center for supporting GI rights
and war resistance in the region, as well as a place for GIs to get
coffee right off the base.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iOSDz6_iww
Length - 5.50)
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galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday July 27, 2008 02:20 by anti-war activist   text 13 comments (last - wednesday july 30, 2008 00:34)   2 attached files
This story seems to suggest a split between Amnesty and Galway Alliance Against War... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday July 26, 2008 18:43 by pat c
Ben Lewis argues that the threat to Iran from Imperialism is still very real. He also analyses developments within various anti-war groups. Full story at link.

Within the context of Barack Obama attempting to prove himself a reliable statesman by dropping in on occupying forces in Iraq, and with Gordon Brown’s speech to the knesset underlining his readiness to “stand firmly by Israel’s side” and call for “further sanctions and isolation” if Iran does not halt its alleged nuclear weapons programme, it is quite clear that the Geneva talks have not reduced the threat of a military strike. Things are precariously balanced and even the slightest incident, accident or diplomatic faux pas could trigger another bout of destruction and slaughter.

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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday July 25, 2008 14:23 by antifa
video of anti-Shell demo at Shell HQ London read full story / add a comment
oh so Retro!
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday July 24, 2008 14:03 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 24, 2008 14:09)   image 1 image
'...Russian military is thinking of flying long-range bombers to Cuba...'

I wonder if the Rep of Ireland will allow Russian troops to fly through Shannon on their way to Cuba? Wanna take bets? read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday July 24, 2008 10:34 by companero   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 24, 2008 10:52)
Anyone interested in the Left in Ireland and Latin American history generally should check out the nu edition of History Irteland. . read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday July 23, 2008 12:03 by Darren C
Farzad Kamangar could face execution in the near future, according
to the web site Human Rights Activists in Iran. On 11 July, the
Iranian Supreme Court confirmed the death penalty against Kamangar,
a 33-year-old Kurdish teacher and trade unionist.

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international / arts and media / other press Tuesday July 22, 2008 17:19 by Eugene Mc Cartan - Communist Party of Ireland   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 09, 2008 13:33)   image 1 image
For those interested in the future of the internet.

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