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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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Check out the new ISN site while you're at it.
national / politics / elections / other press Monday December 11, 2006 16:49 by Conor McGowan   text 71 comments (last - tuesday december 19, 2006 16:08)   image 3 images
A document outlining the basic principles of the ISN on the issue of elections is now available to download at the publications and articles section of the new ISN site.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 11, 2006 12:01 by pat c   text 34 comments (last - saturday december 16, 2006 16:16)   image 3 images
An unfortunate gathering, especially following Tehrans Holocaust cartoon competition. This is no Histography Conference; the Iranian Foreign MInister has said: The first question to be posed is: Did the Holocaust actually happen or not? No mistaking that agenda.

Conference participants include:

Australian Fredrick Toeben, jailed in Germany for incitement and insulting the memory of the dead

Frenchman Robert Faurisson, convicted in France under Holocaust denial laws

Frenchman Georges Thiel, convicted in France under Holocaust denial laws

American David Duke, a former KKK leader and white supremacist


Full story at link.

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galway / arts and media / other press Monday December 11, 2006 02:02 by Over The Edge
The Galway-based literary events organisation Over The Edge has launched a web-blog. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday December 10, 2006 04:54 by finch
Washington today is characterised by neo-cons running for cover as reality presses in on their delusional world. It’s every psychopath and criminal for him/herself as uncertainty grips the culpable. Neo-cons and their support networks are abandoning the new American century (delusion) for the hard reality of rapid American decline and the very real prospect of facing war crimes tribunals. The recent utterings of arch-neocon, Richard Perle, attempting to lay blame on the imbecile, Bush, reveals panic at the highest levels; but it’s far too late to evade responsibility, the world is very familiar with the criminal perpetrators of the whole neo-con fiasco. read full story / add a comment
Prof. Yakov Rabkin says "No" to virulent Zionism
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday December 10, 2006 01:51 by Naomi Horowitz   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 12, 2006 09:27)   image 2 images
Recently, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Israel from the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. As expected, the resolution passed by a large majority of 157. Seven countries voted against: Israel, the U.S., Australia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau. Ten members abstained read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday December 09, 2006 01:45 by Brigid Avnery   text 5 comments (last - sunday december 17, 2006 17:10)
Extract : "An invasion is not an invasion if “we” do it, regardless of the lies that justified it and the contempt shown for international law. An occupation is not an occupation if “we” run it, no matter that the means to our “positive ends” require the violent deaths of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, and an unnecessary sectarian tragedy. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Friday December 08, 2006 12:25 by Marie Stopes   text 10 comments (last - monday december 18, 2006 01:13)   image 1 image
More than half top-scoring pupils are girls, despite disadvantages. Discrimination against women is holding back economic and social development across the Arab World, a report by the UN's development agency says.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday December 08, 2006 03:16 by peptide   text 5 comments (last - friday december 08, 2006 17:18)   image 1 image
Is anyone surprised? When first we heard the simplistic binary logic of “wanted dead or alive” or “you're either with us or with the terrorists” and “mission accomplished” (no connection to the real world whatsoever); WE KNEW IT WOULD BE A DISASTER. Many intelligent articles were written at that time sounding a warning, testifying to the fact – peruse this site and read for yourselves! But let’s not stop with the above lest it HAPPEN AGAIN; the moronic comment of Wolfowitz, that the Iraqi people would welcome invaders with “bouquets of flowers”, signals either total lunacy or the worst criminal liar of all time? Not to be outdone by Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld offers his ‘poetry of insanity’ for idiots and Americans, quatrains of pathology expressed in the ‘known-unknown-knowns’ of criminal deception. Not to be excluded from the unadulterated INSANITY and INCOMPETENCE is the war-whore herself, Condoleezza (status quo) Rice, of Lebanon infamy who believes that peace equates with war! read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Thursday December 07, 2006 16:56 by aunty bertie   text 2 comments (last - friday december 08, 2006 13:26)
Congratulations to Lara Marlowe on drawing attention to this important debate in France on the future (rightward) direction of the EU. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Thursday December 07, 2006 16:01 by Mickey Mantle   text 4 comments (last - sunday december 10, 2006 00:06)
VETERAN campaigner Maura Harrington, who has been in the wars over her opposition to the controversial Shell pipeline, fell foul of a different bandwagon yesterday.
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Jamil Jabaji
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday December 07, 2006 05:53 by Cuileann MK   text 11 comments (last - monday december 11, 2006 14:18)   image 4 images
To whom it may concern,

I just heard today that a young guy, 15 years old, who I worked with in Nablus, Palestine this summer was shot dead on Sunday. His crime? To throw a stone. I wrote a few words and attached an article. If
you could stick it up that would be great.

Thanking you,

Cuileann

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Suffer the little children to come unto the talons of Israel
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 07, 2006 01:42 by Danny Kaplan   image 1 image
"Israel has never been such an international pariah in all its years."
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international / environment / other press Wednesday December 06, 2006 17:54 by Terence
There has been a great deskilling of the present and generation of people up to the mid 40s age or so and in a recent blog article Rob Hopkins asks:

Is Peak Oil Pessimism a Generation of Men Coming to Realise How Useless They Are?

In others we are all now so skiled in practical things, is that why Peak Oil scares to many people because they realize they no longer have the skills to go back to doing more practical skills. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / consumer issues / other press Monday December 04, 2006 21:14 by C Murray   text 5 comments (last - friday october 19, 2007 16:24)   image 2 images
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/792063.stm reports that there has been a spate
of heroin deaths in Glasgow, England and Wales, also. There is nothing on Indymedia
Scotland.In Ireland there have been six deaths, four people are currently being treated
in Beaumont for complications.

There have been 43 cases in Scotland resulting in 20 deaths.
16 in England and Wales. read full story / add a comment
The Mail leads the attack on British terrorism Nov 30 2006
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday December 03, 2006 20:12 by Harry Wells   text 14 comments (last - tuesday december 12, 2006 20:48)   image 14 images
Congratulations to the Irish Daily Mail, who have put the other newspapers to shame, by their initial story and follow up coverage of the story of British collusion with acts of unionist paramilitary violence.

As the stories are not on the Daily Mail website and just so the rest of the media can see the story it is ignoring – here is the story as laid out in the Irish Daily Mail.
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President of Bolivia Evo Morales [right]
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday December 03, 2006 20:11 by Bolivia watcher   text 18 comments (last - wednesday december 06, 2006 10:07)   image 3 images
Everybody wins. The people of Bolivia now have a share in the profits of their own natural resources. The President is now more popular, having championed the cause of the ordinary people of his country against rich foreigners and vested interests. The energy companies can now be certain of stability, and in the long run they will still make millions.

It's not magic, it's just the application of political sense and good judgement. Will we ever see it in this country? read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / other press Saturday December 02, 2006 21:08 by person   text 1 comment (last - monday december 04, 2006 10:54)
Its in the line of an announcement- having lived through the 'H' problem in the
eighties and nineties, sometimes a bad batch comes in-( in fact its not good
at all). BUT there have been six heroin related deaths in Dublin in seven
days.

The story is on http://www.ireland.com read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday December 02, 2006 12:00 by brumble B
Fiji prepares for Oz invasion by leaving blackhawk helicopters on its beaches. A kava intoxicated Commodore Frank Bullawayo has once again forgotten his coup deadline and Australia's Minister of Defence, Dr Brendan (studs) Nelson, faces hostile relatives over the latest cover-ups and military fiascos! Well done, ‘studs’, the record of Robert (suck harder) Hill will soon be under threat. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday December 01, 2006 21:28 by R. Isible   text 5 comments (last - thursday december 07, 2006 07:47)
We've all had the spectre of the simple, honest US soldier forced into fighting a war he doesn't want to be part of, doing his duty despite hostility all around him, invoked at one stage or another during discussions of the Iraqi Occupation. Often this figure is mistily conflated with other mythic figures: candybar dispensing US troops in the rubble of post-war Berlin, or US airplanes dropping crates of canned spam in the Phillipines.

Like other popularly held generalisations it's a lie. This video on youtube is a trivial example of the bestial inhumanity of some soldiers. read full story / add a comment
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