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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 Real Reason Academics Keep Cancelling Each Other Tue Oct 14, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
A new book by Steven Pinker offers a fascinating explanation for why academics keep trying to cancel heretics for wrongthink even though, in private, they share exactly the same views.
The post The Real Reason Academics Keep Cancelling Each Other appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump is Winning in His Battle Against the Green Blob Tue Oct 14, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
One of the UK's largest climate-related grant makers, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, is withdrawing from the US amid Trump's clampdown on foreign funding of NGOs. The Green Blob is shrivelling, says Ben Pile.
The post Trump is Winning in His Battle Against the Green Blob appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Oct 14, 2025 01:28 | Richard Eldred
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 Britain?s Free Speech Crisis Only Gets Worse Mon Oct 13, 2025 19:00 | Alex Klaushofer
How did Britain, the cradle of liberal democracy, come to have one of the most authoritarian censorship regimes in the world? Alex Klaushofer looks at the horror of the Online Safety Act and where it came from.
The post Britain’s Free Speech Crisis Only Gets Worse appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Nigel Farage Blames Starmer After Reform Council Leader, 19, is Physically Attacked in Street Mon Oct 13, 2025 17:42 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage last night accused Keir Starmer of "disgraceful" rhetoric after Britain's youngest council leader, George Finch, 19, was physically attacked in the street by a man calling him "racist" and a "fascist".
The post Nigel Farage Blames Starmer After Reform Council Leader, 19, is Physically Attacked in Street appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Saturday November 19, 2005 14:23 by SP Member   text 61 comments (last - tuesday november 22, 2005 17:26)
editor's note: the following disscusion was seperated from the original article to which it was a response when indymedia stole the jam jar and re-plagiarized the story into a front page feature

The following is an article from the October edition of the Socialist (newspaper of the Socialist Party) on Irish Ferries. If you read this article and then read the above article by the WSM you will clearly see that the WSM article has been plagiarised from the Socialist!
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday November 19, 2005 03:53 by cleaves
Activists asserted their democratic right to protest Rumsfeld’s visit outside the heavily guarded Adelaide Town Hall regardless of Dr. Bob Such granting ‘permission’ to protest outside South Australia’s Parliament House. Let’s not miss a ‘subtle’ point; the right to protest is fundamental to a democratic society, let that right act as a barometer in any society that purports to uphold democratic values. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday November 18, 2005 17:42 by Socialist
The latest issue of The Socialist is now online at www.socialistparty.net read full story / add a comment
antrim / environment / other press Friday November 18, 2005 11:02 by gentle jesus meek and mild   text 3 comments (last - friday november 18, 2005 18:43)
Ballymena DUP councillor Maurice Mills has said that the Hurricane Katrina (which caused homelessness for millions, devasted three US gulf states, killed around 1,300 people and left an estimated clean up / rebuilding bill of 125billion$)

was an Act of God to punish Homosexuals. He is currently advising people on how to avoid such tropical storms. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 16:00 by pat c
This time SOA watch are really going to give the grunts at Fort Benning a hard time. Its no more Mr Nice Guy. "We're close to shutting the school down," the movement's Outreach and Events coordinator Eric LeCompte said of the Fort Benning-based organization long known as the School of the Americas

You can read the full story at the link.

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international / housing / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 15:43 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 17, 2005 21:10)
Prejudice against the homeless exists everywhere. Even in South Bend Indiana as the Catholic Worker Movement found out when they tried to open a shelter for the homeless. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 15:31 by ollie
yep ,they are fighting and winning a war on drugs, a war on terror and don't do hypocracy.....

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GK16Ag01.html read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 14:50 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 19, 2005 15:46)   image 1 image
I reckon this is wishful thinking on the part of the CIA. No concrete evidence to back it up. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 05:43 by R. Isible   text 4 comments (last - friday november 25, 2005 18:45)
(c) Irish Independent Nov 17th 2005, Tom Brady (security editor who never got off his arse to investigate prisoners being "rendered" at Shannon)

Freedom of speech crackdown

THE law is to be changed to deter radicals making inflammatory remarks that could put Ireland's security at risk.

The planned move was disclosed yesterday by Defence Minister Willie O'Dea who said the Government could not guarantee that other threats would not be issued against Ireland by fundamentalists prepared to abuse the freedom of speech.

But it was proposed to toughen existing legislation to act as a deterrent against a repeat of the comments made by Islamic lawyer Anjem Choudary in Trinity College in Dublin last week.

Mr O'Dea said he had received huge public reaction against the remarks which suggested Ireland could be attacked by international terror groups because US war planes were allowed to refuel in Shannon.

Many read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 03:56 by cleaves
US Secretary of Defence, Zionist and neo-con extraordinaire, Donald Rumsfeld, will visit Adelaide (of all places) to hold discussions with servile Australian politicians regarding Australia’s continuing involvement with the pariah nation of the world, the USA. Rumsfeld’s visit is timely, it coincides with nationwide dissent and protest against IR and draconian anti-terrorist laws recently implemented by leading US lackey and coward extraordinaire, John Howard. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 03:31 by Séan   text 33 comments (last - saturday november 19, 2005 12:28)
It was reported in today’s Irish Independent that SINN Fein has been booted out of Trinity College after the campus branch chairperson circulated a hate email containing threats to Margaret Thatcher.

The message urged Sinn Fein members to insult the late husband of the former British Prime Minister, and contained the statement: "We'll get the ******* yet." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday November 16, 2005 18:46 by Insurrection   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 16, 2005 18:52)
Insurrection Spreads Globally. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday November 16, 2005 15:42 by iosaf   text 15 comments (last - wednesday june 07, 2006 06:09)
Latest twist in the killing of De Menezes on July 22 in london at Kennington tube station.

The Daily Telegraph has revealed that the police who killed Jean Charles de Menezes used _illegal_ "dum dum" bullets.

["Modern hollow point bullets are descendants of the expanding "dum dum" ammunition created by the British in an arsenal of the same name near Calcutta, in India, at the end of the 19th century and outlawed under the Hague Declaration of 1899.

The bullets, which expand and splinter on impact, were available to officers taking part in Operation Kratos, the national police drive against suspected suicide bombers which has been described as a "shoot to kill" policy."] read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 21:08 by Insurrection   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 16, 2005 11:13)   image 2 images
Timur was an active member of St. Petersburg's hardcore punk and anarchist-community. On the evening of November 13, Timur became the victim of an attack by nazi scum. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 21:05 by Insurrection
Former special-branch member Frank Hayes has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Gordon Geary. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 19:35 by R. Isible   text 13 comments (last - wednesday november 16, 2005 21:10)
George Monbiot (Guardian Nov 15th 2005) comments on the Italian TV documentary supposedly showing that the US used phosphorous in Iraq. He points out at least two newspaper reports by embedded reporters which clearly state that US forces used "shake-n-bake" phosphorous weapons. He also points out that the Labour MP Ann Clywd who was part of the UK government's disinformation campaign on the related issue of the use of napalm has been played for a patsy. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 19:22 by R. Isible
Harry Browne in Counterpunch reports on the latest shenanigans of Ireland's judicial establishment and the continuing trial by ordeal of the Catholic Worker 5 / Pitstop Ploughshares/ Shannon 5 for their disarmament of a USAF warplane illegally present in Shannon. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 16:21 by Dr. Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha   text 11 comments (last - saturday november 19, 2005 15:00)   image 2 images
A selection of items about CIA aeroplanes:
1. Stockholm, Tuesday — Sweden’s security police, Säpo, does not wish to comment as to whether chartered CIA aeroplanes have landed on Swedish soil with prisoners from the base at Guantánamo in Cuba.
2. MADRID, Spain Nov 14, 2005 — A court in Spain said on Monday it has received a prosecutor's report on allegations that the CIA has used a Spanish airport on the island of Mallorca for covert transfers of Islamic terror suspects.
3. CHART, TABLE: CIA Secret Prison Planes--What the MSM Won't Tell You
Clayton Hallmark | 14.11.2005 18:07 |
A LIST OF THE 28 PLANES, 8 SHELL COMPANIES, AND SEVERAL CIA-RELATED COMPANIES. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 13:17 by finch
There are two types of Australian today, the pre-Howard traditional Aussie and the Howard infected diseased group of cringing cowards. Take note you gutless wonders. If you think the Howard disease will endure and you’re safe, then think again. Howard’s survival depends on the degree to which the consciousness of the people has been permanently altered. What residual or lasting effects do you think Howard will leave on the consciousness of the people? Almost none, if history is consistent! read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 00:31 by Michael Hennigan
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair warned in a speech in London on Monday night that rich countries should see "past a narrow view of self-interest" in the current Doha Round trade talks and not allow "differences over support for agriculture...to block an agreement that could give renewed hope to the 1 in 5 people in the world living on less than $1 a day."

French President Jacques Chirac has threatened to veto European Union concessions and his stance has been supported by Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern. read full story / add a comment
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