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

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international / crime and justice / news report Friday May 18, 2007 14:54 by Edward Horgan   text 17 comments (last - friday june 01, 2007 09:50)
Please come to Shannon tomorrow 19 May 2007, or any other day of your choice, to protest against the human rights abuses being facilitated on a daily basis at Shannon airport.

In January 2006, I formally requested the Irish Human Rights Commission to investigate the use of Shannon airport for the purposes of facilitating the US Rendition for Torture programme and the transit of US troops to unlawful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On 17 May 2007, 17 months later, I received a reply from the IHRC saying that they had decided not to investigate any of the issues I had raised with then.
The IHRC has just decided that it "was not EXPEDIENT to investigate torture and for the abuse of Shannon airport to facilitate the US war against the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan.

I call on all the Human Rights Commissioners to resign from the Commission because of your failure to investigate the abuses of Shannon airport and Irish territory for the purposes of committing and facilitating gross human rights abuses. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday May 18, 2007 11:01 by Anne Mc Shane   text 1 comment (last - friday june 22, 2007 16:01)
Anne McShane gives a report here on how meetings in Cork, Dublin and Belfast resulted in the succesful launch of Hands Off the People of Iran, in Ireland. Full article and links to more material at the url below.

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Genuine solidarity

The launch of the Hands off the People of Iran campaign in Ireland last week was an important success. It showed the potential of Hopi to draw others in and give real solidarity to left and progressive forces in Iran. Yassamine Mather put forward forceful arguments against many misconceptions. She explained the political realities in Iran and the struggles that are ongoing against the theocratic regime. She argued against the idea that the development of nuclear power by Iran was the impetus behind any US intervention. The true reason is that the Iranian state is far too influential in Iraq for the liking of the Bush administration.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday May 18, 2007 10:07 by John O'Shea   text 1 comment (last - friday may 18, 2007 10:30)
Last Friday Zimbabwe was elected to chair the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. This week the presidency of the Council of Europe will pass to Serbia. And later this month, Belarus is expected to join the United Nations Human Rights Council. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Thursday May 17, 2007 14:36 by Bob and Eve   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 17, 2007 17:11)
Account of the Shell AGM in the Hague by Shell to Sea shareholders. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday May 16, 2007 21:15 by The Diogenes Club   text 5 comments (last - wednesday june 20, 2007 14:09)
Yet more bad news if you're a serviceman or servicewoman with the US armed forces. The Pentagon have drawn up a list of sites which their employees will no longer be allowed access from company computers. Though facing off advocates of freedom on the web, the Pentagon were quick to clarify the ban will only apply to US base computers. A regular soldier or officer in Iraq or Afghanistan will still be free to log on to the "banned list" from any internet café they can find in Baghdad or Kabul that are still occupier friendly. The news is sure to overshadow the other little titbits of news from the hive this wednesday evening ; Sarkozy's wife didn't vote in the second round and wants a divorce & Prince Harry of the half-blood Windsor is not afterall to be allowed join his regiment of squaddies in Iraq or active service. Too many threats - too much danger. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday May 16, 2007 18:05 by Dorothy Gale   text 1 comment (last - friday may 18, 2007 13:49)
Human Rights Watch provides an update on the Iranian Juntas war on women. This puts things in the context of human, civil and gender rights.

Iran’s arbitrary arrests of thousands of men and women in recent weeks under the banner of “countering immoral behavior” threaten basic rights to privacy, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called for the immediate release of all those detained as part of this campaign, including more than 80 people seized in a raid on a private gathering in the city of Esfahan on May 10, 2007.

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national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday May 16, 2007 15:10 by observer   text 71 comments (last - monday may 28, 2007 18:33)
This is taken from a local radio station in Sligo called ocean fm read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday May 16, 2007 14:57 by San Jose Peace Community   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 16, 2007 23:09)
Francisco Puerta, a former coordinator of Humanitarian Zone Miramar ,and member of San Jose de Apartado Peace Community is shot dead by paramilitary soldiers in the bus station in Apartado.

The Peace Community once again ask the International Community to support them in their struggle to live in peace, in their quest to continue denouncing human rights abuses committed by the the paramilitary right-wing groups in Colombia.

Please contact Alan Cummins at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Americas Section, alan.cummins@dfa.ie and ask him to immediately contact the Colombian authorities in relation to the murder of Francisco and in relation to the security of the lives of all the members of the San Jose Peace Community.

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dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Wednesday May 16, 2007 12:40 by siobhan   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 24, 2007 10:27)
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday May 16, 2007 11:21 by Admin
Christy Moore & Friends present a Concert in the National Concert Hall on 23 June next in aid of Console: Bereaved By Suicide Foundation.

It promises to be a memorable evening, at a great venue and in a very worthy cause.

For tickets, call National Concert Hall ticket office on 01-417000 or online on www.nch.ie. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday May 16, 2007 06:09 by Seán Ryan   text 4 comments (last - wednesday may 16, 2007 21:41)
The meeting went ahead on Monday 14th May with about 30 in attendance. Only one politician showed up - Patricia McKenna of the Green Party. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday May 15, 2007 22:51 by SDLP Youth   text 8 comments (last - thursday may 24, 2007 20:56)
SDLP Youth Member Clare Muldoon has responded to new figures released by Save the Children showing how desperate poverty is facing our young people. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Tuesday May 15, 2007 18:21 by Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth has launched a campaign urging election candidates to support a law to reduce Ireland's climate pollution. A new website, http://www.actforclimate.ie/, enables the public to email their local candidates asking them where they stand on climate change and will they support a climate protection law if elected to the Dail. In the short time since the site went live, voters in 38 of the state's 43 constituencies have contacted their candidates to say that climate change is an important issue to them. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday May 15, 2007 13:01 by Roger Cole   text 5 comments (last - saturday may 19, 2007 14:11)
The Peace & Neutrality Alliance is organising a anti-war protest at Shannon Airport on Saturday 19th of May, assembling at the security barrier at the entrance to the Airport at 2.00
For more information Tel. 087-2611597 or e mail pana@eircom.net read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / news report Tuesday May 15, 2007 12:22 by Galway Water Crisis   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 17, 2007 21:29)
A motion was put forward at last night's city council meeting to allow Galway City officials to address the public at a seminar being organised by Galway Water Crisis. City Manager, Jo McGrath stated that he would not attend such a seminar nor would he allow his staff to attend. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday May 15, 2007 11:14 by Jemmy Hope   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 29, 2007 00:44)
THE ROBERT EMMET ASSOCIATION

NOTICE

This event has been postponed from June 10th to June 17th -Ed

Annual St. Werburgh's Commemoration Service for Lord Edward FitzGerald.

A Chairde,

The annual Commemoration Service for Lord Edward FitzGerald will take place at St. Werburgh’s Church, Dublin on Sunday, 17 June, at 10.00 a.m., the anniversary of Citizen-Lord Edward’s death. The Service will be conducted by the Revd. Canon David Pierrpoint, Archdeacon of Dublin, who is Vicar for St. Werburgh’s, St. Michan’s and All-Saints Church.

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galway / environment / news report Tuesday May 15, 2007 10:38 by Galway S2S   text 3 comments (last - thursday may 17, 2007 15:05)
Yesterdays meeting of Galway City Council did not dwell on Ireland’s Eurovision defeat, instead the Council chose to recognise a recent Irish triumph. Members of the council congratulated Willie Corduff of the Rossport Five on his receipt of the Goldman Prize for the Environment.
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international / arts and media / other press Tuesday May 15, 2007 10:37 by Miriam Cotton & David Manning   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 15, 2007 11:00)
Carol Coleman, RTE's Washington correspondent, interviewed George Bush in 2004, but while the tone and manner of her interview appeared coarse and combative, the questions she posed were not the critical words one might expect for a man, at the time, responsible for 100,000 Iraqi deaths. The context remained, not that the invasion of Iraq was illegal, as Kofi Annan had stated, but that it was a mistake - a far more friendly term.
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national / miscellaneous / news report Monday May 14, 2007 23:33 by paul o toole   text 3 comments (last - tuesday may 15, 2007 19:47)
Shannon, the great Corrib gas giveaway and civil rights. 'CRAP' according to one Northside politician read full story / add a comment
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