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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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Remembering murdered Colombian Coca Cola trade unionists
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday December 16, 2007 19:10 by Damien Moran   text 5 comments (last - thursday december 20, 2007 14:39)   image 1 image
"Ho, ho, ho - have some bloody Coke"

Murder, torture, kidnapping and illegal detention by violent paramilitaries, frequently aided by bottling plant management, has been the tragic reality for Coca-Cola's Colombian employees for 2 decades now. Members of the SINALTRAINAL trade union ordinary employees carry a death sentence around their necks. Yet an appeal from Javier Correra, president of their union - “We want justice. We want people to know the truth about what is going on in Colombia against Coke workers. Now that you know, will you please help us?” - has not fallen on deaf ears.

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100 Hundred Aspects of the Moon.
national / arts and media / other press Sunday December 16, 2007 15:53 by Ariko   text 4 comments (last - monday december 17, 2007 19:10)   image 7 images
The Rites of Passage religious exhibit is currently closed, which was mesmeric in it's
disection of the hypnosis of world religion, if one could avoid the big screens the bits of
the Nag Hammadi Gospel and huge Buddhist Mandalas were worth a visit.
'100 aspects of the Moon' is the current exhibition and every single print has a bit of moon
in it- on Helmets, behind women (!) and accomnpanying dark and scary warriors.
You could say there are many moons. The Chester Beatty is located in the Grounds of Dublin
Castle and is far better than the auction house that comprises the State apartments, where
Sarkozy will be welcomed to persuade the unsuae celts about his Reform Treaty.[2008] read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday December 16, 2007 15:40 by KAREN FALLON   text 6 comments (last - monday january 31, 2011 20:20)   image 3 images
I know its old news but it is actually interesting that this story was not screaming at us when it occured.
I guess this plane came through Shannon Airport a few times..............

A Florida based Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA crash landed on September 24, 2007 after it ran out of fuel over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula it had a cargo of several tons of Cocaine on board now documents have turned up on both sides of the Atlantic that link this Cocaine Smuggling Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA that crashed in Mexico to the CIA who used it on at least 3 rendition flights from Europe and the USA to Guantanamo's infamous torture chambers between 2003 to 2005. read full story / add a comment
Bilal Hussein
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday December 15, 2007 11:35 by Michael Gallagher   text 6 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 08:12)   image 1 image
I was a bit taken aback to find that their is no coverage of this case on indymedia. Well here are the basics with some links, make of it what you will.

Bilal Hussein was employed by Associated Press to photograph events in Iraq. With no previous experience of photography, he went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for his efforts.

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Earthlings
international / animal rights / other press Friday December 14, 2007 23:33 by wageslave   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 12:49)   image 1 image
Pause for a while to contemplate our one sided abusive relationship with all the other inhabitants of this large spinning rock that we all live on. The other "Earthlings" read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday December 13, 2007 19:56 by Counterpunch   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 06:01)
Blocking the Strykers
By SANDY MAYES
The US military will have to think twice before it ever again tries to use Olympia, WA as a launching point for war.

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Jamie Leigh Jones
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday December 13, 2007 19:12 by Joe   text 1 comment (last - friday december 14, 2007 19:27)   image 1 image
Jamie Leigh Jones claims she was raped by co-workers while working for a Halliburton subsidiary at Camp Hope, Baghdad, in 2005. After being drugged and gang-raped, she claims she was imprisoned in a shipping container without food or water and threathened with dismissal if she reported the incident. read full story / add a comment
Protesters in front of Shell truck at Bellanaboy Bridge
mayo / environment / other press Wednesday December 12, 2007 20:04 by Larry   text 3 comments (last - thursday december 13, 2007 18:32)   image 1 image
As these articles show, they have no clear plan for a pipeline route, and to say they lack community consent would be something of an understatement, to put it mildly.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday December 12, 2007 12:50 by Miriam   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 12, 2007 13:04)
'It was awesome - let's do it again' read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday December 11, 2007 14:12 by Roja Bamdad
This issue contains a special report from the International Labour Organisation on Iranian violations of workers rights.

ILO ANNUAL SURVEY OF VIOLATIONS OF TRADE UNION RIGHTS: IRAN.

Protest activity: Despite the ban on strikes, workers protests and other work stoppages are a daily occurrence throughout Iranian enterprises. They are often repressed. Most of these protests concern either low wages, the non-payment of wages, lay-offs or factory closures. The minimum wage set by the government is $US 140 per month, while the official poverty line stands at $US 300. Nearly two million workers have not been paid - some for nearly two years. read full story / add a comment
I wonder do they ever play presidential sashes in the bedroom?
international / politics / elections / other press Monday December 10, 2007 22:34 by seńora donzella morales chavez   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 01, 2009 09:49)   image 1 image
Something quite extraordinary has happened in Argentina. & to appreciate it, all you really have to do is wonder how many spouses see each other serve in the highest office of their land. Hilary obviously pops to mind, but the you get the absolutely extraordinary nature of the new Argentinian presidency - for not only is it legitimatised by one of the highest electoral margins in democratic history - there was no need for two terms of a Bush type (or to be completely up-to-oligarchy style) the son or daughter of a rival.

Yep - admit it you political experts & know-alls are hard put to remember any other state where a president has served his constitutional limitations then handed the sash & baton to his wife. Or indeed the other way round. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Sunday December 09, 2007 22:12 by Houzan Mahmoud   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 12, 2007 11:21)
This is an article on the situation of women in the Middle East. It was first published on open democracy blog for international day against violence against women.

The undeclared war on women continues to victimize women worldwide on a daily basis; the Middle East is no exception. Women in our region are amongst the most oppressed and terrorized in the world. The Islamic law upheld in many Middle Eastern countries has turned women into slaves with invisible chains.

In Saudi Arabia in March 2006, a woman was abducted with a friend and was raped by 7 men. In October, the men were sentenced to 2-3 years in prison, but the woman herself was sentenced to 90 lashes. Saudi Arabian Islamic law forbids a woman to meet with a man to whom she is not related. The woman and her solicitor appealed the sentence; the men's sentences were increased from 2 to 9 years in prison, but the woman's sentence was also increased as a result to 200 lashes and 6 months in prison. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday December 09, 2007 21:18 by Sean Melman   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 13, 2007 09:38)
A Galway company Composites Testing Laboratory does materials testing for Raytheon, Lockheed and Cessna. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday December 09, 2007 18:51 by Red Banner
Issue 30 of Red Banner is out now. €2 / £1.50 from bookshops, sellers or the address above.
Articles: read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday December 08, 2007 00:47 by Karl Quigley   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 09, 2007 21:48)
Bush's neocon Irish envoy, Paula Dobriansky, has hailed the N.I. solution as an exemplar for other world trouble spots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Dobriansky read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Friday December 07, 2007 17:27 by staring at goats   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 02, 2008 20:30)
The New York Times has run a story which immediately has been taken up globally on the destruction of video tapes by the CIA of an interrogation despite those tapes being potential evidence in Congressional inquiry, hearings or other such grand jury activity.

Thus, we see the issue of torture, CIA use of extreme interrogation techinques & the Bush regime allowance of said placed on the table of forthcoming review of that agency & the other 15 intelligence services of the USA during the next presidency.

But for the moment it's just a story about "Al Qaeda" suspect Abu Zubaydah being subjected to the notorious water boarding data extraction sicko kicks of the CIA in 2002. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday December 07, 2007 14:53 by Hamid Taqvaee   image 1 image
Here is a statement from the Worker-comunist Party of Iran which outlines the reality that the people of Iran face: a struggle against both US Imperialism and the Iranian Dictatorship.

The threat of a US attack and the devastating consequences of economic sanctions are looming over the people of Iran. US’s war with the Islamic Republic is not the war of the people. People of Iran and their interests are not represented in this conflict. They want neither the Islamic Republic, nor a military attack, nor economic sanctions. For years, they have been fighting the Islamic Republic and the unbearable conditions that this ultra-reactionary regime has imposed on society.
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Makwan Moloudzadeh
international / gender and sexuality / other press Friday December 07, 2007 12:10 by Mina Ahadi   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 08, 2007 09:49)   image 1 image
This brutal judical murder of a young man whose only crime was to be gay is further proof that Iran is ruled by a Fascist Dictatorship.

The news has just reached us. Makwan was executed last night (local time) in Dizel Abad Prison in the city of Kermanshah. Makwan's family have just collected his body and are on their way to the city of Paveh. Around 200 cars are following in procession the car carrying the body of a youngster murdered in cold blood by a bunch of criminal thugs.

This crime must be recorded in history. Not only that the criminals in power in Iran must be indicted through international courts. Makwan had not committed any crime. He was executed for a sexual relation with a class mate when they were both 13. He was executed for homosexuality.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 06, 2007 16:35 by rogy
Recently, there was a debate on the excellent and always lively Vegan Freak Forums between what may generally characterized as “postmodern feminists” and “radical feminists.” read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday December 04, 2007 13:55 by Yassamine Mather   text 3 comments (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 12:00)   image 2 images
Yassamine Mather writes about the US threats against Iran and about the developing resistance in Iran which opposes both the US and the Theoocracy.

Over the last week, the threat of an air attack on Iran has continued to be highlighted, while the US increased pressure on European and Asian banks and companies to follow its lead in imposing further sanctions. Of course, ordinary people in Iran are already paying the price for the policies of the warmongers in the US and EU. There are reports of new shortages every day and many workers fear that sanctions imposed on two major national banks - Bank Melli and Bank Saderat - will disrupt payment of their salaries (most major firms in Iran use these two banks to pay wages). read full story / add a comment
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