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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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Voltaire, international edition

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international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday July 22, 2008 13:03 by Paul Bowman   text 1 comment (last - friday july 25, 2008 13:55)   image 2 images
The Turbulence crew who put together the best read at last year's G8 blockade in Heiligendamm are back with another thought-provoking and inspiring read. PDF online now. read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing / other press Tuesday July 22, 2008 09:58 by Paul D   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 22, 2008 23:36)   image 4 images

The recent collapse of 5 housing regeneration schemes in Dublin city has been a massive blow to the communities involved.
The group campaigning for regeneration in St Michael’s estate in Inchicore have set up an en excellent website. The site can be found at www.stmichaelsestate.ie.
Campaigners are appealing of continued solidarity and support. A petition can be signed on the site.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday July 22, 2008 09:19 by Mark C   text 2 comments (last - tuesday july 22, 2008 15:17)
Having been on the run for over ten years, Radovan Karadzic has been arrested in Serbia. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / other press Saturday July 19, 2008 20:26 by Recession Diaries   image 1 image
What a time we live in - recession time! Economic downturn, the onslaught of the Right, the unsettling quiescence of the Left, the besieging of the trade union movement; it's all coming at us so fast it's difficult to know which uttered untruth to dissect, which unstated truth to promulgate. So here's a diary - a recession diary - to keep up with the rapid-fire events and commentary - as rapid as the downturn itself. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Friday July 18, 2008 14:46 by by
Iñaki de Juana Chaos who is due to be released this Summer has informed both the Basque political prisoner network and the authorities of his prison that he is on hunger strike again.

He has offered as reason the concerted media campaign of vilification launched against him in the last days as it was revealed that upon leaving prison and completing his prison sentences he will take up residence in a flat owned by his wife, who he married whilst in prison, on the same street as several victims of ETA.

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international / environment / other press Thursday July 17, 2008 03:58 by .   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 17, 2008 04:08)
This is a frightening report and the 'demand destruction' it describes - due to unprecedentedly high prices of oil - explains the recent fall in oil price. Global misery.

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/45911 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday July 16, 2008 11:02 by Sean Crudden
Barack Obama outlines his key foreign policy ideas. Will the present administration adjust its policy in line with what Obama says he wants? Or is Obama merely playing ducks and drakes with the Bush government? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday July 13, 2008 13:08 by tomeile   text 4 comments (last - wednesday july 16, 2008 00:10)
A senior Pentagon official explained to the Sunday Times that : “Amber means get on with your preparations, stand by for immediate attack and tell us when you’re ready” read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday July 11, 2008 17:35 by rogy

Immigrant workers often find themselves involved in the jobs indigenous workers no longer want. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday July 11, 2008 14:27 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - friday july 11, 2008 14:45)
The Iranian Regime continues its persecution of trade unionists. Mansour Osanloo was brought to court instead of hospital.

Mansour Osanloo, the jailed President of the Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs (Vahed) Bus Company was taken to the Intelligence Court Branch 2 this morning to be arraigned, instead of being taken to the hospital for medical treatment.
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Friday July 11, 2008 11:55 by James
The July-August issue of Workers Solidarity is online at the WSM website. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday July 11, 2008 00:25 by Andrei Zhdanov   text 43 comments (last - thursday august 07, 2008 12:05)
Galway Branch of the Socialist Workers Party have strongly condemned a poem by Kevin Higgins. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday July 10, 2008 18:41 by pat c
Noam Chomsky writes on the oil robbery taking place in Iraq. No-bid contracts written by the oil corporations with the aid of U.S. officials, triumphed over offers from 40 other companies, including those in China, India and Russia. Chomsky also deals with the occupation and aggression towards Iran. Full text at link.

The deal just taking shape between Iraq's Oil Ministry and four Western oil companies raises critical questions about the nature of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq — questions that should certainly be addressed by presidential candidates and seriously discussed in the United States, and of course in occupied Iraq, where it appears that the population has little if any role in determining the future of their country. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday July 10, 2008 17:40 by Tara Finglas
Irish Aid is launching a Pilot Virtual Online Volunteering programme for 20 volunteers over 6 months. The purpose of this exercise is to increase awareness of online volunteering using experiences gained through this pilot programme. Virtual Online Volunteers will be linked with developmental NGOs through the UNV Online Volunteering Service to work for sustainable development on various projects around the world. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday July 10, 2008 14:35 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - friday july 11, 2008 08:54)
Yassamine Mather analyses the likely effects of any sanctions on Iran and makes it clear that ordinary Iranians will suffer rather than the regime. Full text at link.

In the next few days the US Senate will consider what has been labelled an ‘Iran war resolution’ calling on the president to “initiate an international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrichment activities ...” The resolution calls, among other things, for the prohibition of the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products and “stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran”. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / other press Thursday July 10, 2008 13:25 by BreakingNews.ie
More than two-thirds of Irish voters found the No campaign in the Lisbon Treaty referendum more convincing, according to a poll conducted by the European Commission. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday July 10, 2008 13:12 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 05, 2008 15:23)
Amnesty raises the case of four youths who face imminent execution in Iran. Full text at the link.

Iran executed 16-year-old Mohammad Hassanzadeh, an Iranian Kurd on 10 June 2008 for a crime committed when he was 14. Four other juvenile offenders are at risk of execution between 11 and 25 July. 24 international and regional human rights organizations called on the head of Iran’s judiciary to suspend these four executions immediately. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday July 10, 2008 11:01 by Miriam
Pilger discusses five different examples of the British military's savage inhumanity. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday July 09, 2008 17:09 by by   text 7 comments (last - friday july 18, 2008 14:33)
In one of the last cases which finally should put the "Madrid 11th Bombing conspiracy theorists" beyond the pale of credibility, a court in Madrid has cleared 4 police officers in the forensic division of manipulating evidence. Their evidence which was exposed as flawed during the M11 trial had contributed to a conspiracy theory supported by elements of the right and far right during many years. They were subsequently charged with falsification but now are free and have been termed "honest policemen".

The court has decided that an administrative error led to the inclusion of "boric acid" in their report on the explosives and the intention of the charged men was not to falsely implicate ETA in the supply or procurement of the explosives used. read full story / add a comment
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