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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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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday December 04, 2007 10:00 by tomeile   text 7 comments (last - tuesday december 04, 2007 16:08)
Today, two campaign groups are publishing their groundbreaking research on the extent of military involvement in British universities . Seventy per cent of the projects investigated were sponsored by three industry leaders: BAE Systems, RollsRoyce and the controversially privatised research group QinetiQ.
The report, Study War No More, has been produced by Campaign Against Arms Trade and the UK branch of the Fellowship for Reconciliation, a long-established interfaith peace group with headquarters in New York state.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday December 04, 2007 09:53 by tomeile   text 15 comments (last - tuesday november 17, 2009 12:29)   image 1 image
In 2003, BAE Systems - Europe's largest arms company - was accused of spying on a small group of peace campaigners. Mark Thomas refused to believe that his trusted friend and fellow activist Martin Hogbin could possibly have any involvement in the story. But then the doubts began to set in ...

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 03, 2007 20:03 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 10:30)
Aspects of living in Dublin 2002-07 reminded of my formative years in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. A marriage of police corruption with the denial of basic civil liberties and routine deaths in custody. Times that produced some pretty good music. "Pig City" was an '83 punk single by anarchist friend Tony Kniepp, recently it became the title of a book about the Brisbane music scene under Joh and a few months it was a reunion gig. Download the recent radio show on the link below.... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 03, 2007 12:07 by Navid Minayee   text 4 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 15:51)   image 1 image
More repression of student activations has taken place in Iran. A report below comes from the Communist Youth Organisation of Iran. Full text at link.

According to the news received by the Communist Youth Organisation of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran today, December 2, the Iranian Police raided the residences of Anoushe Azadfar and Elnaz Jamshidi, arrested them, and taken them to an unknown place. Elnaz Jamshidi’s brother, who was inquiring about his sister’s situation, was also arrested. Mehdi Garailou, Ehsan Azadfar, and Nader Ahsani have also been arrested by the police forces. Saeed Habibi, another student activist, has also disappeared. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday December 03, 2007 11:27 by tomeile   text 20 comments (last - friday january 04, 2008 20:10)   image 1 image
Ann Talbot from WSWS reports on the Amis-Eagleton controversy .
Ronan Bennett accused the British author Martin Amis of thinly disguised racism in a Guardian article last month . Bennett's article added to the controversy which began when literary theorist ,Terry Eagleton , criticised Islamophobic remarks made by Amis in 2006 .

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anti Chav students at private university (denied funds for being antiChav) celebrate 16 year olds remaining voteless..,
international / politics / elections / other press Monday December 03, 2007 10:19 by gurgle, ribbid, hmmmmmm   text 13 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 22:29)   image 2 images
Chavez has very narrowly lost the referendum on two proposed block reforms to the 1999 constitution of the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela. These being "block a" indefinite re-election & "block b" votes for 16 year olds.
It is too early to apportion blame or even theorise that the socialist project which is associated with Hugo Chavez is damaged by this. Though naturally that is what both sides (chav and antiChav) are doing. Hugo had in his closing speeches in the campaign railed against an alliance of Spain, its King, the USA and Colombia and then in a typical performance brought in the nazi's, but left out Farc (video attached) whereas the opposing side gurggled about dictatorships, pointed at Bolivia's worrysome crises of the last week & gleefully clapped their little handies when this time they won what Chavez curiously called a "Pyrrhic vicory".
That being a classical reference to a naval battle of the early Roman empire whose victory was had at such great cost as to be worthless. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / other press Monday December 03, 2007 10:18 by Motherschoice
We expect that a top Irish obstetrician with so much experience and training would have a firm understanding of what normal birth entails.

We should also expect that all maternity practices are based on the latest international clinical guidelines......are our expectations too high?

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international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday December 02, 2007 18:39 by Global Women's Strike
Today the people of Venezuela are voting on constitutional reform, amid renewed media attacks and assassination attempts against President Chávez..the advances which are being put forward and the process they come out of have been entirely hidden by the media. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Sunday December 02, 2007 11:50 by Miriam Cotton   text 11 comments (last - monday december 03, 2007 13:57)
Mainstream media see,hears and speaks no evil. Not in its own backyard at any rate. Funny how it manages to see all manner of halucinations in Venezuela. The New York Times has been screaming propaganda from the top of its lungs about today's referendum in Venezuela. The distortions and hypocrisies of its editorial is breathtaking.

Since he took office eight years ago, Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, has grabbed more and more power, exploiting his nation’s oil wealth to buy up popular support. Now there are hopeful signs that his plan to become president for life may be too blatant for the electorate to swallow.

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Iraq Freedom Congress
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday November 29, 2007 18:45 by pat c   text 14 comments (last - friday december 07, 2007 15:15)   image 2 images
Below is a statement from the Iraq Freedom Congress in which they condemn US aggression towards Iran.

Militarization and the use of force is a key element in the US administration ideology to impose its hegemony on the world. Beating the war drums is always part of US policy to contain its international competitors such as the European Union, Russia and China, and this policy is an extension to the one that is implemented in Iraq to wage the second Gulf War and the imposition of economic blockade, which lasted thirteen year then its occupation of Iraq. The US administration justified its inhuman policy with the pretext which is "possession of weapons of mass destruction". read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday November 29, 2007 16:02 by ISN'er   text 4 comments (last - friday december 07, 2007 11:50)
The latest issue of Resistance, paper of the Irish Socialist Network, has come out in the past week or so.

Produced to its usual high standards - full colour, solid content - it is free, and copies can be obtained (post free) by emailing irishsocialistnetwork@dublin.ie

Copies should be available in the usual outets soon. (Watch the comment space below this story) read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Thursday November 29, 2007 08:42 by Former Fan   text 3 comments (last - friday may 29, 2009 09:26)
In a transition reminiscent of the co-option of the Greens in Ireland, Midnight Oil's lead singer now finds himself as Australia's Minister of the Environment in a ministry now gutted by the right wing PM Rudd. Garrett has rapidly reversed his former radical poilitics to fast track to power and status. Here's a humourous clip, an analysis & an update! read full story / add a comment
The Socialist #30 - December 2007
national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday November 28, 2007 20:54 by SP Online   image 1 image
The December 2007 issue of The Socialist (#30) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 27, 2007 21:53 by Anne   text 10 comments (last - sunday december 02, 2007 23:19)   image 1 image
Despite an unforeseen clash with an Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) demo on the same day, the meeting attracted around 30 participants and was an interesting and informative event.

Deirdre Clancy, a leading anti-war activist, chaired the first part of the meeting. Deirdre became known for her role in an action that disarmed a US war plane in Shannon in February 2003. She and four other activists were arrested, imprisoned and later tried on counts of criminal damage that could have meant up to 10 years in prison. But after two collapsed trials the five defendants were finally unanimously acquitted by a jury in 2005.

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national / history and heritage / other press Tuesday November 27, 2007 21:01 by NIFC
Charlie Laverty of the Fenian Graves Association is the guest on the 10th segment of the National Irish Freedom Committee’s (NIFC) Free-form Video (FFV) Series. Charlie is also the principal historian for the Fenian Graves Project. This purpose of the project is to honor and record the activities of Fenians and other likeminded activists who lived all or part of their lives in the Americas, and who fought and worked in various ways for Ireland's freedom and also very often fought for the freedom of America. read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / other press Tuesday November 27, 2007 10:50 by Stephen O Regan   text 60 comments (last - saturday march 01, 2008 10:44)
Coverage of the Bin Tax Protest held outside City Hall last night (Nov 26 2007). read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday November 26, 2007 16:50 by Aragon   text 1 comment (last - monday november 26, 2007 17:05)
If predictions by Professor Nouriel Roubini, of the Stern School of Economics are correct - and some say he is the most accurate predictor of world economic perofrmance - then the world is in for a very rough ride for the forseeable future. The capitalist glutton fest of the last 15 years is about to catch up - and guess who is going to have to pay for it all? read full story / add a comment
Maryam Hosseinkhah
international / gender and sexuality / other press Monday November 26, 2007 16:50 by Dorothy Gale   text 8 comments (last - monday january 21, 2008 15:02)   image 4 images
Maryam Hosseinkhah wrote this article in Evin Prison. Maryam was arrested on November 17 in relation to her activities and writings in defense of equal rights for women. On the 18th, a very high bail order was issued in her case. Maryam couldnt meet it and she was committed to Evin Prison.

This is prison; the women's ward of Evin prison. This is not my first time here; not the first time I've come to Evin. The first time, I came here as a journalist. Alongside the warden, I walked from cell to cell to listen to the stories of women who were here on charges of addiction, prostitution and murder. read full story / add a comment
Reza Dehghan.
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday November 26, 2007 15:58 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 06, 2007 15:58)   image 1 image
This is an appeal for support for the imprisoned Iranian TU Activist Reza Dehghan. Messages of support should be sent to: s.naghashan@yahoo.com

Reza Dehghan, a labour activist and a member of the Founding Committee of the Syndicate of Building 's Painters and Decoration's Workers have been arrested and incarcerated since November 18, 2007. The following letter to international labour organization has been sent by the founding Committee on November 25, 2007.

This is to inform you that Reza Dehghan, labor activist and founding member of painters union in Iran has been detained by the Iranian security forces with no regard to legal procedures without producing any court summon nor informing him, his family or any one about his charges. read full story / add a comment
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