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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 Ben & Jerry?s Needs to Butt Out of UK Democracy Fri Nov 14, 2025 10:25 | Charlotte Gill
Ultra-woke ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's celebrated this week as Parliament responded to its latest campaign ? which was far from its first. It's time for Ben & Jerry's to butt out of UK democracy, says Charlotte Gill.
The post Ben & Jerry’s Needs to Butt Out of UK Democracy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic: Kathryn Porter on the Lies of the Green Zealots Fri Nov 14, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In the Sceptic this week, Kathryn Porter on just how much Net Zero is costing us, why Ed Miliband's claims about renewables are so laughable and how the Green Crusade is putting us at risk of blackouts this winter.
The post The Sceptic: Kathryn Porter on the Lies of the Green Zealots appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Nov 14, 2025 01:44 | Will Jones
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.
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offsite link Heat Pump Grants to Be Cut in Budget Thu Nov 13, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Funding for heat pump grants is set to be cut by billions of pounds at the Budget in a fresh blow to Ed Miliband's green agenda as the Government tries to lower bills amid sky-high energy costs.
The post Heat Pump Grants to Be Cut in Budget appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link French Stopping Even Fewer Small Boats Since Deal With Starmer Thu Nov 13, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
French police are preventing even fewer small boat crossings since Sir Keir Starmer struck a deal with President Emmanuel Macron to?tackle the crisis, the success rate dropping from 38% to an abysmal 28.7%.
The post French Stopping Even Fewer Small Boats Since Deal With Starmer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday June 17, 2007 08:30 by nano
As the Middle East explodes in factional and sectarian conflict the neo-cons gloat, John Bolton and Condi Rice revealed U.S. policy during the South Lebanon conflict, their non-interventionist policy encouraged the slaughter of children and civilians by Israeli forces – peace is clearly of no use to American interests! What does it matter if most of the Middle East tears itself apart, America stands to gain from the mayhem and bloodshed. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday June 16, 2007 23:16 by Guy de Cervens   text 17 comments (last - thursday june 28, 2007 10:04)
What is taking place as regards Tara is only the first act of deceit by the Green Party, SINCE starting to prop up Berties Government. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Friday June 15, 2007 23:20 by Casement Fan   text 16 comments (last - sunday june 17, 2007 23:02)
The Justice section of the new program for government as published by the greens includes some choice encroachments on civil liberties. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday June 15, 2007 22:27 by eugene
Two representatives from the Six Nations on the Grand River community in Ontario, Canada will speak in Cork on Saturday June 23 as part of an 8-date speaking tour of Ireland and Britain.
Venue : Metropole Hotel, MacCurtain St., Cork
Time : 3pm

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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday June 15, 2007 18:12 by Sean Crudden   text 5 comments (last - saturday march 12, 2011 13:15)
We talked about our country and the way we were oppressed
The men we sent to parliament to have our wrongs redressed
"I have no faith in members now nor anything else you see
For we’re led by blooming humbugs," says The Turfman from Ardee.
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday June 15, 2007 17:10 by anarkitty
on Sunday the 24th of June from 8pm until close, at The Other Place, 6/8 South Main Street, Cork, there will be a fundraiser for the C.A.Z. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Friday June 15, 2007 17:01 by ISNer   text 1 comment (last - monday june 18, 2007 14:21)
Green Fig Leaf: the weakest link. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday June 15, 2007 14:40 by Absalom
The Assyrian International News Agency has produced a deeply troubling Genocide report regarding the Assyrian (Chaldean) Christians of Iraq. The report: Incipient Genocide: The Ethnic Cleansing of the Assyrians of Iraq portrays a systematic campaign of massacre and destruction of this indigenous population of Iraq.

Through intimidation, forced conversions, murder, kidnapping, beheading of Church leaders, rape, and daily threats against their security and lives, the Assyrian Christian population in Baghdad and other major cities has dwindled from a once-thriving community to almost nothing. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday June 15, 2007 13:57 by Conor   text 4 comments (last - saturday july 21, 2007 17:24)
The working class is the creative class: the working class produces what material wealth exists in a country. And while power is not in their hands, while the working class allows power to remain in the hands of the landlords who exploit them, in the hands of the speculators, in the hands of the monopolies, in the hands of foreign and national interest groups, while armaments are in the hands of those in the service of these interest groups and not in their own hands, the working class will be forced to lead a miserable existence no matter how many crumbs those interest groups should let fall from their banquet table.

- Fidel Castro read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Friday June 15, 2007 10:25 by jimbob   text 4 comments (last - friday june 15, 2007 18:25)
Following Dick Roches final act as minister, to shaft Tara, and give the Greens their first lesson in the realities of FF led government, RTE are asking if the public think that the M3 should be built over Lismullen. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday June 15, 2007 00:54 by Galway Alliance Against War   text 5 comments (last - friday june 22, 2007 19:20)
The Galway Alliance Against War is organising a “99 Red Balloon Peace Event” at Galway’s Spanish Arch at noon on Sunday 24th June, the same day as the Salthill War Show. The Galway peace group is calling on people not only to attend, but to bring along their own balloons and kites. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday June 14, 2007 23:11 by Henry   text 2 comments (last - saturday june 16, 2007 09:48)
After ten years of gnawing and spitting regarding GM food/crops the Irish Green Party gave up on their main GMO policies to enter Government in Ireland.
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national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday June 14, 2007 21:33 by reabhloid dearg   text 2 comments (last - sunday june 17, 2007 13:59)

In response to the decision taken by The Educational Institute of Scotland to ban the recruitment by the British army in Scottish schools the Republican Socialist Youth Movement have called on trade unions here to adopt a similar policy. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday June 14, 2007 16:39 by paul o toole   text 4 comments (last - friday june 15, 2007 16:13)
What now for the government read full story / add a comment
down / crime and justice / press release Thursday June 14, 2007 09:27 by Gerry Rice
In Northern Ireland we must pay rates - by law. The rates payments go to pay for government services. When corrupt government authorities refuse to provide those services which have already been paid for, the ratepayer has a right to refuse payment. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday June 13, 2007 15:56 by Graham Ó Maonaigh   text 2 comments (last - saturday june 16, 2007 17:51)
Make sure the first thing the new Taoiseach hears is the cry:
"Free the Weed" read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday June 13, 2007 15:53 by scorchio   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 14, 2007 15:27)
As far as I know this story hasn't really broken in Ireland - and it certainly has a human interest dimension to it.

As you can see in this youtube video between the 52nd second and the first minute and 4 seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKDdF6vfjoo the watch (Timex) which Bush was wearing disappeared during a hand-shaking session with Albanians (the only Europeans who like him). read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / other press Wednesday June 13, 2007 15:20 by himself

Playing with the future in Seomra Spraoi

Words: Jane Ruffino / Pictures: Maria de la Iglesia read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday June 13, 2007 13:43 by Niall Farrell   text 5 comments (last - monday june 25, 2007 11:54)
The Galway Alliance Against War is organising a “99 Red Balloon Peace Event” at Galway’s Spanish Arch at noon on Sunday 24th June, the same day as the Salthill Air Show. Last year the Galway peace group ran a similar event, which ended in controversy when the Gardaí burst most of the red balloons. At the time the authorities claimed that the warplanes would be endangered if the balloons “collided” with them. Such claims were greeted with incredulity and the Gardaí were left with what resembled egg on their faces. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday June 13, 2007 13:05 by Red and Black   text 3 comments (last - wednesday june 13, 2007 17:51)
Confidential letter shows 'belt tightening' ordered in Cork hospital. read full story / add a comment
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