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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 Monday October 08, 2007 22:18 by Miriam Cotton   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 09, 2007 11:40)
The UK government's attempt to ban a march in support of bringing troops home from Iraq is scuppered by strength of popular resistance. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday October 08, 2007 14:24 by indyjourno   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 10, 2007 14:01)
An Irish woman, Ciara Durkin, was shot in suspicious circumstances in Afghanistan. She was shot in the head inside Bagram air base in Afghanistan. She had previously warned her family to investigate if she was killed. read full story / add a comment
Could this be what Al Qaeda has in store for the US
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday October 07, 2007 16:03 by Guy de Cervens   text 17 comments (last - wednesday november 07, 2007 20:53)   image 1 image
All over the US hysteria is rising that they are going to be nuked and invaded by Al Qaeda agents posing as Mexicans. Are they just paranoid or could they be catching a glimpse of their future? Remember, just coz they’re paranoid doesn’t mean we’re not out to get them! read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / other press Saturday October 06, 2007 09:40 by C Murray   text 4 comments (last - monday october 08, 2007 18:53)
Last night two men were shot dead in Greenhills Road in Dublin. The story with attendant media-speak is hitting the headlines in the form of : "Two Men Shot dead In Gangland Attack". The details are that: A car carrying two gunmen pulled up to a garage and shot the owner and salesman, between nine and ten bullets were fired. http://www.ireland.com[frontpage]
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Aleida Guevara
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday October 04, 2007 14:30 by pat c   text 31 comments (last - monday october 15, 2007 08:30)   image 7 images
The Iranian Junta attempted to use the daughter and son of Che to whip up support for the Islamists and to do down Socialism. This backfired spectacularly when Aleida Guevara made it clear that Che was a Communist and an Atheist.

An attempt to rope in the son and daughter of the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara to forge a parallel between Iran’s Islamist revolution and the socialist revolution in Latin America through a four-day conference has ended in fiasco. After Aleida Guevara protested from the podium against perceived distortions of her father’s ideology by the first Iranian speaker, Haj Saeed Ghasemi, the four-day ‘Che Like Chamran’ conference, that started Sep. 25, was aborted and the Latin American guests whisked away. read full story / add a comment
they didn't go away you know.
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday October 03, 2007 23:55 by guild of assassins   text 4 comments (last - thursday october 11, 2007 13:21)   image 2 images
Last week the out of the way website "Damn Data" picked up on the latest buzz amongst those for whom fear of hermetic or allegorical secret societies on the Western model has waned in recent years perhaps due to unsurmountable silliness or maybe just solving all the secrets. For in truth not even 911 or the current legal attemps by Mohamed Fayed to bring Philip Mountabatten to an unlawful death verdict relating to the death of his (fayed who prefers to be known as alFayed) son's lover Diance Spencer [who was the ex-wife of course of Mountabatten's son (who prefers to be known as the prince of Cymru & Wales)] can really get us SEEING THE TRUTH read full story / add a comment
Still going a year on.
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday October 03, 2007 11:11 by C Murray   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 04, 2007 10:37)   image 4 images
On the Third of October 2006 there was a alert here and on the IMC Networks that there
was going to be a suppression and violent putdown of the APPO and the Popular movement
in Oaxaca. Narconews had been sending out alerts since the 30th of September, reporting
troop gathering of up to 5,000 men and reporting that only one radio station was working.
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78757
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/ read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday October 02, 2007 20:14 by Maluka   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 06, 2007 14:02)
Democracy Now is reporting that : "In his latest article in the New Yorker magazine, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_...=true investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports there has been a significant increase in the tempo of planning for war with Iran inside the Bush administration. Hersh says the White House recently requested the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw longstanding plans for a possible attack. Hersh also reports the Bush administration's rationale for bombing Iran has shifted from Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program to Iran's role in Iraq". read full story / add a comment
Movements Within
international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday October 02, 2007 19:19 by Chris Murray   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 17, 2008 11:05)   image 2 images
The monthly Isis Women e- newsletter is just released with its focus on International
Women's Rights and Issues. Generally these are related to trade and its effects on
indigenous communities as well as journalism that encompasses huge regions
around the Pacific Basin and further afield. This Month's blog section is studying the
Japan-Chile, Japan-Thailand FTAS (Free Trade Agreements) and how Japanese
corps are buying legal rights over biodiversity in developing nations- or 'biopiracy" read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday October 02, 2007 15:21 by Indyjourno
In this essay on the anniversary of Gandhi's birth (Oct. 2, 1869), writer Pablo Ouziel recalls Gandhi's enduring message about the evils of violence and the hope for human redemption read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Tuesday October 02, 2007 12:28 by Headser54   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 13, 2007 18:18)
In an amazing redefinition of 'GM free' and contrary to Green Party policy, Green Junior Minister Trevor Sargent has now stated GM free is 'not about banning imported GM feed' according to the Irish Independent (Oct 2, 2007) (see below). read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage / other press Tuesday October 02, 2007 05:20 by Susan Isabella Sheehan-Repasky   text 13 comments (last - saturday october 20, 2007 18:13)
international / crime and justice / other press Monday October 01, 2007 20:24 by o as if   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 02, 2007 20:03)
Catalan independence news these days seems to be focussed on a prison sentance passed on a protester who burnt a photo of the King of Spain last September 13th whilst Juan Carlos Bourbo y Bourbo was in Girona to open the science park there. A crowd of protesters had attended the event as part of the wider "300 years" movement which aims to raise independence hopes on the anniversaries of the beginning and end of the war of Bourbon succession between 1707 and the 11th of September 1714. That of course was the war which saw the European alliance supporting the Catalans (& British by they way) lose to the Bourbon dynasty (& the Basques by the way) which still holds the crown today. & that was when they lost their powers to raise tax & sundry other privelages.

Yesterday a bomb was difused in the headquarters of the Catalan Green party ICV-EUA which is a sister party of the Spanish state's IU or reformed marxists (who are linked to the SWP by the way)
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 01, 2007 11:56 by pat c   image 1 image
Robert Tait reports on the latest crackdown on dissidents in Iran, in particular on students who oppose the regime. He also illustrates the warm welcome Ahmadinejad received from students who physically drove him out of a University.

Mansouri, a student activist, was arrested due to the circulation of campus commentaries on Iran's Islamic system. Includeing the "incendiary "statement that neither Mohammad nor Imam Ali who is the most revered figure in the Shi'ite branch of Islam, were 'innocent'. It also argued that no figure in today's Iran should be considered 'sacred'. One publication said the highest number of prostitutes in Iran could be found in Qom, which is home to the country's religious establishment. In the cloying religious atmosphere of Iran's ruling theocracy, making such statements can be almost suicidal. Mansouri was one of eight students arrested. Five were released. He remains in custody along with Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghasaban.
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international / arts and media / other press Sunday September 30, 2007 13:53 by quang duc
Great news for people who like Youtube, which I suppose are those who never actually become dismayed by reading the comments or want to wander out of their macro-cultural or sub-cultural niche.

Start again -

If you go to Youtube today, you can watch or upload vids of Police Brutality on the brand spanking new "police brutality channel"..........."oh but it's not snuff!" they complain. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday September 29, 2007 08:53 by Miriam Cotton & David Manning   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 29, 2007 16:41)   image 1 image
All the collapses in US democracy that have occurred over the last fifty years well summed up by Sheehan. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday September 28, 2007 10:46 by VP   text 5 comments (last - thursday october 11, 2007 00:49)
Jeremy Scahill, former member of the New York Catholic Worker and Jonah House, U.S. mercenary corpotaion Blackwater most recently responsible for killing 11 Iraqi civilians last week. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday September 27, 2007 20:35 by Solidarity   text 1 comment (last - monday october 08, 2007 18:35)
Four years into the war on Iraq it seems more serious nonviolent resistance is coming from within the military, from veterans of the war and the families of the military war dead than any civilian anti-war movement in the western world. Lt Ehren Watada refused deployment to Iraq declaring the war illegal. His court martial earleir this year collapsed over a legal technicality. His second trial is due to start early October.
Moreinfo read link..... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday September 27, 2007 15:40 by Miriam Cotton   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 27, 2007 15:42)
Most people are prepared to kill on command. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday September 26, 2007 13:04 by FS
Since 10 July, 135 workers have been occupying a bicycle factory in east Germany. The factory is threatened with closure at any time, but the workers have decided not only to occupy it, but to attempt to manage it themselves. read full story / add a comment
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