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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday September 13, 2006 17:50 by Nessa Ni Chasaide
This week, the Singapore government, due to host the annual meetings of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group from 14th - 20th
September 2006 banned several campaign groups from entering the country.
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international / environment / other press Wednesday September 13, 2006 17:28 by Ibis   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 14, 2006 18:46)
‘Siberia and today’s arctic regions of Canada will be the future breadbaskets of the world.’ I read this forecast in the sixties and immediately scoffed at the prediction. The guy who made these predictions is either nuts, a charlatan, or both, I thought. The regions referred to are renowned for their permafrost, and aside from some mosses, lichens and ‘summer’ grasses, there is no way those areas could yield a viable supply of food for “the world” – that was then! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 13, 2006 15:38 by socialist
Threats of sanctions or a military attack on Iran are having a worrying impact on the country’s domestic politics, writes Naz Massoumi
The next few months will be decisive ones for the “war on terror” as the US steps up its pressure on Iran. The Iranian nuclear issue is back on the agenda, with the passing of another United Nations (UN) deadline and another “negative report”. This external pressure has implications for politics inside Iran. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday September 13, 2006 11:25 by number 6   text 51 comments (last - monday june 10, 2013 17:59)
A very worthwhile site for victims of the legal cartel. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday September 11, 2006 20:34 by Tony o bush   text 13 comments (last - monday november 06, 2006 04:21)
The War Party has lied all through this murder spree, yet many seem to take their word that a war on terror needs to be faught. read full story / add a comment
photo of mine from years back just when she was about to go off to Iraq
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday September 11, 2006 12:47 by redjade   text 50 comments (last - wednesday september 27, 2006 15:50)   image 10 images
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galway / environment / other press Monday September 11, 2006 01:19 by Dunlo Tom   text 1 comment (last - monday september 11, 2006 01:25)
In the Lebanon, more people are expected to die from the effects of the toxic cloud released by Israel's deliberate bombings of the Jiyyeh power station on the 13th and 15th July than the 1,300 who died during the course of the vicious blitzkrieg.

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international / sci-tech / other press Sunday September 10, 2006 22:02 by R. Isible   text 16 comments (last - sunday october 01, 2006 23:34)
Alexander Cockburn (eminence grise of the most exciting US political magazine) has a good 9/11 piece pointing out that the simple venality and inefficiency of Rudy Giuliani's local administration and Bush's national administration are being hidden behind a smokescreen created by illogical conspiracy nuts. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Sunday September 10, 2006 17:41 by rt hon Dr o as if   text 9 comments (last - monday september 11, 2006 18:42)
Breaking news just in folks.

Michael Mc Dowell is to lead the Progressive Democrats.

or in plain english :- Big Swinging Mickey Mc Dowell will now lead the PD's.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday September 09, 2006 12:38 by budgie   text 3 comments (last - monday september 11, 2006 09:52)
Philip Ruddock, Australian Attorney General, announced today that a broader range of people in the Australian community (non-Muslims) are to be targeted as “terrorists!” Ruddock also stated that persons who are not ‘terrorists’ need not be alarmed as his new wider classification should not concern ‘them’(?)

Australian citizens are left to conclude that the determination of who exactly is a terrorist has become an arbitrary prerogative of the Attorney General and his gang of enforcers! Whatever happened to due process, innocent until PROVEN guilty? {God help that journalist who stepped on Ruddock’s toe, he will be the first to go!) It is not coincidental that the Bush regime also found due process to be an inconvenience. Ruddock’s logic and methods reek of neo-con methods, Guantanamo (Torture) Bay and Bush regime criminal methodologies have found expression in Oz. read full story / add a comment
Barry McColgan
national / miscellaneous / other press Friday September 08, 2006 20:40 by The Lark   text 9 comments (last - thursday september 21, 2006 17:32)   image 1 image
Recently appointed Ógra Shinn Féin National Organiser Barry McColgan talks to ELLA O'DWYER about himself, his political involvement to date and his plans for Ógra.

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national / crime and justice / other press Friday September 08, 2006 17:12 by Cormac Eile   text 2 comments (last - friday september 08, 2006 20:33)
Bruising some murderous scumbags ego led to an innocent man's brutal murder.

The scumbags who murdered him are known as the Coca-Cola gang, (which clearly demonstrates their level of intellectual and political prowess), and the reason they killed him was because he stood up against them and their plan to subdue the entire community under their jackboot. .

These are the representatives of a group who declare that they are representative of true Ireland, a 32 county republic, etc. What these peope really need is some Thorazine, in in my opinion, and perhaps some electro shock therapy.

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Loose Change Poster
international / crime and justice / other press Friday September 08, 2006 17:09 by David Grace   image 1 image
In this interview we review a few topics of the hundreds possible.
- The NY World Trade Center - The structure & collapse of the three buildings that fell that day
- Video Footage & Copyright - The legal restrictions and demands of holders of footage from that day
- 'Able Danger' and the Named Terrorists - Who knew more then, and whether they are disclosing the truth today
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international / animal rights / other press Friday September 08, 2006 14:34 by Educator
The Oxford Uni - We will find cures for Parkinsons by using primates - lie and why it a lie. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday September 08, 2006 14:29 by Bill Quigley   text 3 comments (last - saturday september 09, 2006 20:21)
A federal judge cleared the way for a priest and two veterans to be tried before a federal jury on September 13, 2006 for damaging a Minuteman III intercontinental nuclear missile in North Dakota. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday September 07, 2006 17:44 by poetry news
Remembering the desperate on 9/11

Nearly 90 poets from around the world, including Irish poets, Dave Lordan, Nigel McLoughlin, Kevin Higgins & Patrick Chapman, have contributed to Babylon Burning: 9/11 five years on, an anthology of poems on the Twin Towers atrocity and its consequences. But they aim for more than pious hand-wringing: the anthology will be free, but there will be a request to donate to the Red Cross.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday September 07, 2006 15:27 by finn   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 07, 2006 16:35)
It is becoming more evident each day; the real target of new draconian laws and policies is not the (fabricated) terrorist ‘threat’, it is the domestic population – the enemy is you! The initial indicator (for this writer) was Section 543 of the Australian Defence Forces manual, which describes attack strategies against civilians and local populations – it should not be forgotten that Australia is a micro version and imitator of the USA and to a lesser extent the UK. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Thursday September 07, 2006 15:07 by Chekov   text 4 comments (last - thursday september 07, 2006 22:43)
According to Norn Iron's top blog slugger O Toole, Daily Ireland have announced to staff that they are folding today. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday September 07, 2006 11:53 by Danny Morrison   text 19 comments (last - friday september 15, 2006 17:20)   image 1 image
When the IRA split in December 1969 the dissidents set up a Provisional Army Council until a proper IRA convention could re-constitute the organisation. That convention took place in September 1970 but by then the name 'Provisional' or 'Provo' had stuck and was used as shorthand by both supporters and the media, despite the distaste some veterans in the Movement had for that term. read full story / add a comment
battle reptiles & live & you get your 15 minutes of fame. That's reality TV.
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday September 06, 2006 23:35 by reptilian   text 14 comments (last - friday september 08, 2006 12:28)   image 2 images
Natascha Kampusch told viewers of Austrian television what it's like to be locked in a cellar for 10 years tonight. She's gone global. In fact she's top of the ratings. Natascha was all but forgotten about by Austrians a decade ago, but now reproduction and syndication rights of her interview have been traded worldwide. Each country & language giving it's own spin & peculiar title. I phoned my local television station which airs the interview tomorrow to complain at its choice of title which in English is "Natasha's confessions". read full story / add a comment
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