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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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national / politics / elections / event notice Thursday July 12, 2007 13:44 by labour youth
Tom Johnson Summer School
Venue: Menlo Park Hotel, Galway
from Friday, July 13th - Sunday, July 15th
organised by Labour Youth
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galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday July 12, 2007 11:51 by Over The Edge
Friday Lunchtime Readings in Galway City Museum

Friday July 20th at 1pm.
with Poet and Performer Tamsin Kendrick from London read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday July 12, 2007 11:41 by Over The Edge
Tamsin Kendrick returns to Galway
at the invitation of North Beach Poetry Nights

ON WEDNESDAY 18th July at 9pm

Also: Last Open-Mic before the Slam returns in August!

BK's Winebar, Spanish Parade, Galway

Admission: 5 Euro read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Thursday July 12, 2007 00:32 by John Mc Anulty
Andrew Johnson

Prior to the recent Dail election, the one constant prediction had been of very large gains for Sinn Fein. In the event, the party made a modest gain in its vote share, from 6.5% to 6.9%, a credible gain in absolute votes from 120,000 to 140,000, but failed to win any new seats and suffered the high-profile loss of Sean Crowe in Dublin South-West. read full story / add a comment
cork / arts and media / event notice Wednesday July 11, 2007 15:33 by siobhan   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 12, 2007 10:06)
get down to this field in cork- cheap booze, bitchin kitchin eateries and music from 11 bands over the two days for €20.

Saturday= Sausage fest (the lads) 5 bands play
Saturday night- sleep in yer tent or WHOEVERS..
Sunday = Lady Picnic in the field + 6 bands play

Details of bands and phone number for more info on link below read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday July 11, 2007 14:48 by infoLASC
Club Sandino returns to White Horse Inn, Burg Quay, on the 21st of July, to celebrate the 28th Aniversary of Sandinista Revolution.
There will be World music by Dj Don R and Live Nicaraguan music by Jayro Gonzalez.

Entrance is a mere €10 (€5 concessions), doors open at 9pm and we have an extension til 2am.

Don't miss it! read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday July 11, 2007 13:27 by Paul Lynch
Sinn Féin are urging everyone to join with the Dun Laoghaire community
in a
March and Rally to 'Save and Upgrade St. Michael's Hospital'.

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international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday July 10, 2007 23:35 by Brian Wardlow
Video Discussion about Irish Republican issues censored, ignored, or misrepresented by the mainstrem media. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 10, 2007 21:11 by ipsiphi   text 3 comments (last - friday july 13, 2007 17:46)
In the last while attention on this site has been brought yet again to the suicide crises & adjacent mental health issues amongst our young. We've read much & been directed to yet other sites and resources who like most of us want to do our bit to tackle the problem. There seems to be growing concensus that the nasty hard approach just isn't working. Yet we've still got some work to do in appraising what that means & how it ought influence contemporary anarchist & friends activism, conversation, chit-chat & attitude. It goes without saying the judicial, penal & educational policies and frameworks of both the Irish state & Irish society have a role to play. But lest we get diverted into learning a list of "warning signs" & "indicators" of those dealing with the various psychological or emotional challenges which may lead to suicide I thought to bring it back to primary school. S-p-e-l-l-i-n-g. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday July 10, 2007 15:30 by io   text 8 comments (last - sunday november 04, 2007 14:38)
We don't know at what stage the branch davidian group of fundamentalist christians of mount Carmel in Waco, Texas crossed the line of extremism. Most people don't remember what the suspected crime was which brought the US federal agencies complete with tanks and psychological weaponry to lay seige to the compound & demand its leader David Koresh to surrender. Was the illegal fully automatic weapons which neighbours professed to hear or the rumours that Koresh had taken unto him as wives all the females (some barely adolescent) in the compound to mother his children? Few will tell you that the Oklahoma bombing of a Federal social security office by Timothy Veigh & others as revenge for the Waco massacre was first atttributed to Islamic fundamentalists. We now know the FBI regretted the crises as soon as the charred remains of the children were brought out of the rubble. Musharraf's attack on the Lal Masjid or Red Mosque of Islamabad is comparable. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Monday July 09, 2007 21:59 by Bernie Wright   text 43 comments (last - sunday february 28, 2010 14:30)
Surely a pet dog cannot be taken from someone purely because he is a certain breed, especially if he is under proper control and has not done anything wrong. If Dublin City Council can get away with this unfair proposition then what will come next?. This situation must constitute discrimination at the very least.

The very idea that DCC are responsible for dogs who bite people on council property is wrong surely?. It was my understanding that owners are responsible for the actions of their pets. If a person falls off a ladder in a Council house are the Council responsible for that too Besides being indiscriminate , this proposition is unenforceable. Where will the dogs be taken to and by whom?. Who will rehome them??? How long will they be kept and where?

There is already legislation already in place against dog fighting, if this law was enforced we would not have this problem.

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galway / arts and media / event notice Monday July 09, 2007 19:29 by Over The Edge
Readings by Margaret Cullagh, Susan Millar DuMars & Kevin Higgins will open the Westside Arts Festival/Over The Edge Summer Open-Mike on Wednesday 25th July at 7pm. Susan Millar DuMars will MC the event. Anyone who has a poem or story they want to share is welcome to take part. Each reader will have a three minute slot; but there is no limit on the number of readers. If you come along and sign up for the open-mike, you will definitely get to read. read full story / add a comment
down / environment / press release Monday July 09, 2007 11:16 by Florence Mutesasira
Christian Aid's Cut the Carbon 1,000 mile march from Northern Ireland to London will launch from Bangor Marina at 12 noon on Saturday, 14 July 2007. The march will highlight the devastating impact global warming is having on millions of poor people in developing countries. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday July 09, 2007 01:57 by Aoife Kavanagh   text 4 comments (last - sunday july 22, 2007 12:14)
In 1941 a bill was brought before the Dail which would make trade unions pay for licences to negotiate on behalf of their members. Without a licence workers and their unions could be sued by employers for loss of profits if they went on strike.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday July 09, 2007 01:06 by Joe King   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 12, 2007 00:48)
A recent WSM public meeting in Dublin about anarchism saw something a bit different; members of Fine Gael turning up to defend capitalism. We were told it’s a great system and the rich are simply enjoying the rewards of hard work. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday July 09, 2007 00:57 by Pat Garret
An Post workers have been on the receiving end of a series of substantial blows which have held down pay rates and undermined rights with regard to status.The late 1970’s and early 1980’s saw strikes and protests by the workers to improve conditions, but recent years have seen management back on the offensive. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Monday July 09, 2007 00:31 by D_D
Working women in Dublin and Belfast during the Second World war read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / press release Sunday July 08, 2007 23:51 by reabhloid dearg   text 3 comments (last - friday september 28, 2007 10:49)
Sunday World Dirty Tricks And Strabane Sinn Fein read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / news report Sunday July 08, 2007 15:48 by Maurice Ross   text 2 comments (last - monday july 09, 2007 13:32)
The Green Party leadership have requested all their Councillors and TDs to vote with an inspector present to make sure they vote for Fianna Fail candidates. read full story / add a comment
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