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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 The Left-Wing Bias of World Mental Health Day is Enough to Drive You Insane Sat Oct 11, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Alan Partridge is back to promote World Mental Health Day. At least, that's how it appeared to Steven Tucker when he saw the 'Printable Affirmation Cards' produced by the Mental Health Foundation.
The post The Left-Wing Bias of World Mental Health Day is Enough to Drive You Insane appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Oct 11, 2025 00:29 | Toby Young
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 National Trust Puts Vegan Tampons in Men?s Toilets Fri Oct 10, 2025 17:28 | Will Jones
The National Trust is under fire for putting vegan tampons in men's lavatories, dispensing them from a large box fixed to the wall near the urinals with the message: "Got a period situation going on? We got you."
The post National Trust Puts Vegan Tampons in Men’s Toilets appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BREAKING: Hamit Coskun?s Conviction for Burning Quran Overturned by Crown Court Fri Oct 10, 2025 14:13 | Will Jones
Hamit Coskun's criminal conviction for burning a copy of the Quran while shouting "f*** Islam" in a protest outside the Turkish consulate in London has been overturned by the Crown Court in a victory for free speech.
The post BREAKING: Hamit Coskun’s Conviction for Burning Quran Overturned by Crown Court appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link It?s Time to Make Judges Accountable Again Fri Oct 10, 2025 13:26 | Dr David McGrogan
Nearly 80% of Britain's 'Establishment' is Left-wing. No wonder our 'independent' judges keep making lunatic decisions. It's time they were made accountable to voters once again, says Dr David McGrogan.
The post It’s Time to Make Judges Accountable Again appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / arts and media / other press Tuesday March 11, 2008 11:19 by Equalizer1948   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 11, 2008 11:44)
Break the Silence ! Check out this music video by the Palestinian musician Doc Jazz. Contains highly graphic images, so be warned! read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday March 10, 2008 21:57 by ec   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 11, 2008 20:30)
Interesting news. This is a first of a kind legal case in Europe. Originally from RTE I think.
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meath / history and heritage / other press Monday March 10, 2008 18:06 by Tom Dick and Harry   text 5 comments (last - thursday april 17, 2008 09:05)   image 1 image
Alternative uses for Tara tunnel system (if the NRA give up on destroying the Tara valley) :

Bertie Ahern could stash mooney in the tunnels for a while, until he gets his bank accounts sorted. Dermot Ahern could be looking up the trees.

Storage of E-voting machines

Carbon Capture

Place for the Labour Party to dump the weapons they inherited from the Workers Party

Westlife CD's could be buried in the tunnels

Paintballing dungeons and dragons style

Underground electricity cables

natural gas pipeline

Westlife could be buried there

(that's enough uses for Tara tunnels- Ed)

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday March 08, 2008 18:22 by Seán Ryan   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 09, 2008 05:25)
When presented with a Bill from Congress today, a bill that would have outlawed waterboarding amongst other criminal acts, President Bush simply vetoed it. read full story / add a comment
Parvin Ardalan
international / gender and sexuality / other press Friday March 07, 2008 14:33 by pat c   text 14 comments (last - tuesday april 08, 2008 21:46)   image 1 image
Here is an Amnesty International article on Parvin Ardalan and how she was prevented from leaving Iran.

Iranian feminist and journalist Parvin Ardalan was prevented from leaving Iran on Sunday to travel to Sweden where she was to receive the 2007 Olof Palme Prize in Stockholm. She said that after she boarded a plane at Tehran airport she was told that she was not permitted to leave the country. "They took my passport and said I could get it back after 72 hours," she said. "The only reason for this move is to prevent me from taking part in the ceremony."
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday March 07, 2008 12:20 by Sean Crudden
Does psychiatric back-up improve the effectiveness of an army? Will it help to mitigate the effects of war? Is all war madness? Are psychiatrists and mental health professionals colluding in a chaotic and destructive adventure? read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Thursday March 06, 2008 00:44 by Pollytix   text 4 comments (last - sunday march 09, 2008 12:57)
'The problem for the senior vice-president of technology at Phorm, an Aim-listed company which recently tied up a deal with the UK's three biggest internet service providers - BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, who between them have more than 10 million customers - is that it's not the privacy groups who he really needs to convince. It's the millions of people whose services will be affected by Phorm's scheme, because some are up in arms over what they see as an invasion of their privacy through Phorm's intention to categorise all of their web-surfing habits in order to target online ads at them.' read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday March 04, 2008 11:40 by Drew
The latest edition of THE RED STAR, Nepal's National Magazine is now available on line.

There are articles on

the upcoming election,

Indian Expansionism, read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday March 04, 2008 09:13 by OZ   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 14, 2009 23:24)
Satirical clip (very funny) on Peter Garrett former lead singer of radical rock group "Midnight Oil now Australian government minister does yet another backflip on U.S. bases, uranium etc etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIsJCR6w1Vg
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Haft Tapeh Workers Protest.
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday March 03, 2008 15:57 by pat c   text 6 comments (last - saturday march 22, 2008 14:57)   image 1 image
The lead articles in this issue are about Mahmoud Saleh; and the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company workers. Full text at link.

Mahmoud Salehi
Mahmoud Salehi, the founding member of the Committee of the Trade Association of Bakery Workers, Saqez - Kurdistan, and founding member and spokesperson of The Coordinating Committee to Form Workers Organisations is still being held in
prison despite a serious deterioration in his health.

Haft Tapeh Workers
The workers of state-owned Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company have issued a statement detailing their on-going struggle and resolution to form their own independent labour organisation. read full story / add a comment
Pamplona style
international / arts and media / other press Saturday March 01, 2008 18:02 by Feminist Polemix   text 7 comments (last - sunday march 02, 2008 20:58)   image 3 images
This being a leap year, anyone who wants to jump the broom and get the Alpha
male should have proposed last night... Today, was the annual (instituted in
1947) Filene's 'Running of the Brides' .

Thousands of young brides go haywire trying to buy a wedding gown in the bargain
basement of a huge Department store. It's a blood sport where the winners are
those that can squeeze their figures into a knock-down Vera Wang or some such
label. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday March 01, 2008 17:07 by Asqar Karimi   text 11 comments (last - monday march 03, 2008 16:54)   image 1 image
Asqar Karimi of the Worker-communist Party of Iran appeals for solidarity to isolate the Iranian Dictatorship and to to help the Iranian People to overthrow this brutal regime. Full text at the link.

To the people of the world! To trade unions, student unions, women’s rights organisations!
3 Labour activists were flogged in Sanandaj and 8 others are to be flogged for taking part in a May Day rally! The Islamic Republic has taken another step against the working class and all the people in Iran. Their aim is to silence, crush and dehumanize. Its what the slave driver did 20 centuries ago. This time, however, they are dealing with a working class that has no intention of submitting; a working class whose struggles and leaders are known to the whole world.

·Official figures say, in the past 10 months,1 million women have been arrested, fined and/or flogged for not being dressed as demanded by the Islamic government and for courtship with the opposite sex; read full story / add a comment
Shell To Sea newsletter
international / environment / other press Saturday March 01, 2008 14:14 by JM   image 1 image   1 attached file
Neighbours of Norfolk's giant gas terminal are today pondering how close they came to disaster after a blast rocked the seaside complex. read full story / add a comment
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national / housing / other press Saturday March 01, 2008 00:30 by Belfast WSM   image 1 image
New housing poster produced by Belfast WSM read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Friday February 29, 2008 19:01 by reabhloid dearg   text 28 comments (last - wednesday march 05, 2008 20:28)
Founding IRSP member Jim Daly argues in his presentation at the RSYM Winter School that Green and Orange are incompatible, and that the traditional failure of Republican leaderships left and right to recognize this is part of the reason for the present debacle. Jim argues that only Republican socialist leaders such as Connolly and Costello were free of the illusion of their compatibility. read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / other press Friday February 29, 2008 17:03 by blur   image 1 image
At the video platform now a mobilization clip for the Revolutionary 1st of May 2008 in Berlin-Kreuzberg is puplished. Will there be also a virtual riot like in the last year at the second-life newBerlin at first of may? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday February 29, 2008 16:28 by Red Banner
Issue 31 of Red Banner is out now, available at €2 / £1.50 from Red Banner sellers, good bookshops, or from the address above. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday February 29, 2008 14:43 by Joe   text 21 comments (last - tuesday april 01, 2008 01:47)
Five boys and a 6 onth old baby ere killed in in Jabalya, a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip and two in the West Bank on Thursday. Witnesses said the children were playing soccer when they were killed by an Israeli missile. The baby was killed when Israeli jets bombed a government building
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Patricia Verdugo RIP
international / gender and sexuality / other press Friday February 29, 2008 13:21 by Obit   text 3 comments (last - saturday march 29, 2008 20:39)   image 1 image
" We should preserve in adults the confident and Joyful attitude of children"

Patricia Verdugo has died. She helped form in Chile 'The Women's Movement for Life' ( 1983), which comprised
women politicians, activists and writers;a cauccas of women opposed to the Pinochet regime. The WML
organised protests against Pinochet .

She was a journalist , an activist and an academic, who in the immeadiate aftermath of her father's assasination
began her career to expose the Pinochet Regime.

She founded 'Hoy' , established 1977. The Publication operated throughout the dictatorship and retained an
independent critical position against the dictatorial regime.
Her books included; 'Bucharest 187' and 'The Claws of the Puma' (1989) read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday February 28, 2008 15:54 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - friday february 29, 2008 14:38)
Yet another Iranian Trade Unionist is threatened with flogging by the Iranian Theocratic Regime. His "crime"? Participating in "illegal" Mayday demonstrations. Here is an appeal from Iranian Trade Unionists, support them in their struggle against the Iranian Dictatorship.

A summons for the administration of a flogging has now been issued for Tayyeb Chatani for participating in the May 1st event last year. Mr Chatani works at Par Rees factory, where he is an active shop steward. Eleven of the workers arrested for taking part in the May 1st event last year in Sanandaj were sentenced to 91 days in prison and 10 strikes of the lash. The Appeal Court changed the sentences to fines, but upheld the sentence of 10 lashes. So far, the lashing have been carried out in the case of 3 workers: Seddigh Amjadi, Habibollah Kalekaani and Faares Gaviliaan. The only crime of these workers is having participated in the May Day ceremony in Sanandaj. read full story / add a comment
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