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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 News Round-Up Sun Nov 02, 2025 02:47 | Toby Young
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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Boiler Tax to Rise to ?100 as Miliband Refuses to Back Down on Heat Pump Push Sat Nov 01, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Ed Miliband has announced an increase in?the 'boiler tax',?which will add an estimated ?100 to the cost of replacing a gas boiler, as he refused to back down from his hated heat pump push.
The post Boiler Tax to Rise to ?100 as Miliband Refuses to Back Down on Heat Pump Push appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Surge in House Fires Caused by Solar Panels Sparks Concern Over Miliband?s Rooftop Installation Driv... Sat Nov 01, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
A surge in house fires caused by solar panels and their batteries is sparking safety concerns over Ed Miliband?s plan for millions more rooftop installations.
The post Surge in House Fires Caused by Solar Panels Sparks Concern Over Miliband’s Rooftop Installation Drive appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Shocking Poll Shows Labour and Tories Behind Greens for First Time as Reform Rides High Sat Nov 01, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Labour and the Tories are behind the Green Party for the first time, a stunning poll has found, as Reform continues to ride high on 32%.
The post Shocking Poll Shows Labour and Tories Behind Greens for First Time as Reform Rides High appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link These Fractured Isles: Britain?s Drift Towards Civil War Sat Nov 01, 2025 09:00 | David Betz and Michael Rainsborough
If Britain's drift towards civil conflict continues, the next phase will be physical. When politics ceases to settle grievances, they are settled by other means, warn Prof David Betz and Prof Michael Rainsborough.
The post These Fractured Isles: Britain’s Drift Towards Civil War appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

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

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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Eu-ler's identity.
international / arts and media / other press Sunday July 09, 2006 21:44 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 6 comments (last - monday july 17, 2006 01:50)   image 4 images
It has long been observed, that on Sunday the mass does different things.
Some go to church, some return from clubs and sleep, some read a book, some do the gardening, some catch up with their kids, some eat a lot, some practise yoga, some Vote.
It has long been valued that on their non-banking days people are pretty much the same as when they work, graft, toil and sweat. Except they have less money making opportunities. This facilitates their increased participation in their society as citizens and nationals of the Civilised World.
It has long been observed that the mass on their non banking days readily absorb shite.
This is why coups are most successful on the weekend, and elections as well.
It is on your non-banking days that you are presented with the most filagree woven tissues of spirit and lie, ghost and truth. It is through weekend that you allow others to have considerable space in your head. As a global and local movement truthfully based on ethical principles - we can indulge ourselves on Sunday every once in a while. And wonder why some of us are excommunicated. I do not wish to enter the theologically or anthropromorpholigically unknown. Big words scare me.

Less than a week ago, an insecure worker on temporary contract exceeded the speed limit of the metro train he was driving by exactly twice as entered the "Jesus" station of Valencia city. The tunnel was widest at that point, the subsequent derailing killed over 40 people - I may not ask what was he thinking??? nor where he is now.
In today's edition :- read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday July 09, 2006 21:10 by Radio Free Éireann
Yesterday, Radio Free Éireann highlighted the ongoing POW Protest in Maghaberry. Geraldine Taylor of Republican Sinn Féin phoned in, fresh from the RPAG White Line Picket in Belfast to describe the situation and to be interviewed, plus Patrick Williams of Cumann na Saoirse Náisiúnta/ National Irish Freedom Committee. read full story / add a comment
Indian Space Research Organisation
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday July 09, 2006 13:23 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 09, 2006 14:40)   image 2 images
Who cares anyway?
It's just a missile made by brown people
targeting brown people....

[do not expect cries of 'No Nukes' heard from the 'West' - either from the halls of power or from the streets] read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / other press Saturday July 08, 2006 16:50 by Kevin Higgins
You need to be an important bigot to obey this rule
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday July 07, 2006 21:49 by Robin Livingstone   text 10 comments (last - monday january 12, 2009 11:31)   image 6 images
Daily Ireland Friday columnist Robin Livingstone decides to highlight some lesser-known predilections of the Orange brethren. All in the name of mutual tolerance an understanding.

Shed loads of cash bring wondrous joy to brethren
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday July 07, 2006 12:52 by dingo   text 2 comments (last - sunday july 09, 2006 17:52)
A considered and balanced view of the media event presently saturating the airwaves, the “North Korean Missile Crisis”, would reveal an hysterical, farcical over-reaction! The Korean so-called long range ICBM explodes on launch – good one, Kim! But notice how quick the coalition of willing criminals are to utilise anything to distract the public attention away from the criminality of Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Camp Bond Steel (occupation base in the Balkans which utilises the services of East European child sex slaves to service American troops). THIS IS AMERICA, policeman of the world, welcome to ‘freedom’, exploitation and the pollution that is American culture. [The world needs the USA like it needs a hole in the head!] read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations / other press Thursday July 06, 2006 23:53 by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 11, 2006 22:18)
Today saw a historic joint venture into cyberspace by the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin who spent the day answering questions which had been put to him on the internet in a surprising joint project between the BBC and the Russian Government.

Amongst the questions put to Vlad, were the reason why he lifted the t-shirt of a 6 year old boy during a walkabout earlier this week & kissed his stomach. Putin replied ""He seemed very independent and serious... I wanted to cuddle him like a kitten and it came out in this gesture. He seemed so nice,".

Other human interest questions included one put by a 17 year old Russian girl who wondered at what age Mr Putin had lost his virginity. & of course some telly adicts had to ask about Korean missiles.
Vlad outlined his worries for Russia and his pride. The project comes amidst a concerted focus by the BBC on russian affairs in the lead up to this year's G8 conference which will be held in St. Petersburgh shortly.
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international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday July 06, 2006 14:04 by Surfer   text 3 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 02:19)
"North America's getting soft, patron, and the rest of the world is getting tough. Very, very tough. We're entering savage new times, and we're going to have to be pure and direct and strong, if we're going to survive them." - Videodrome

The Pentagon is co-parenting Pandemic with its unlikely - or possibly inevitable - same sex sugar daddy: U2's Bono. His Elevation Partners spent $300 million last November to bring the Studio together with Bioware "to create the world's best funded and largest independent game development house." Now there's a cause. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday July 05, 2006 19:57 by Phuq Hedd   text 5 comments (last - sunday july 09, 2006 03:04)
Legislation that would allow Ireland's DEFENCE forces to take part in "EU battlegroups" has been railroaded through the Dail according to an article in the Irish Independent, May 5th 2006 by Geraldine Collins and Michael Brennan. (As there's a login requirement at the Indo I repost the full story below this summary): read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday July 05, 2006 19:44 by Miriam Cotton   text 2 comments (last - monday september 18, 2006 02:20)
In an even more serious reflection of the experiences of the Pitstop Ploughshares in Ireland, Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith has been put through the ringer for his conscientious objection to the Iraq War. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday July 05, 2006 15:38 by finch   text 2 comments (last - saturday august 19, 2006 18:59)   image 1 image
It’s called distraction, shifting focus, drawing attention away from the real issues that beset the majority of humans on the planet. We are all anticipating another round of distracting emotive images on our televisions; things are not going well for the powers, it’s time for another ‘circuit’ of abuse awareness commercials, always topical and a guaranteed mind-shifter. The public consciousness is a well-managed resource – never doubt it! read full story / add a comment
LGBT Pride Parade Jerusalem 2005
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday July 05, 2006 14:40 by pat c   text 7 comments (last - thursday july 13, 2006 12:19)   image 1 image
Finally! Something that unites Muslims, Jews and Christians: Homophobia! Yes the great religions of the world have united to keep the Queers out of Jerusalem.

Read the full story at the link.

pat c read full story / add a comment
Limerick Republican Joe Lynch
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday July 05, 2006 12:29 by Joe Lynch   image 1 image
A provisional Councillors says that the Brit forces should be killed - but the paper that highlights this does not allow a response read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Wednesday July 05, 2006 11:22 by Stephanie
Last night the Dail passed the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill thereby giving the go-ahead to allow applications to go through a new Strategic Infrastructure Board within An Board Pleanala rather than the normal Local Authority planning applications. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday July 05, 2006 03:47 by Paddy
Strange way to fight poverty. read full story / add a comment
do they have a right to life?
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday July 05, 2006 01:40 by iosaf   text 31 comments (last - tuesday december 15, 2009 16:33)   image 4 images
A 41 year old woman began a case in the High Court of Ireland yesterday, represented by Gerard Hogan SC to have 3 of her embryos released from the freezer of a fertility clinic in Rathgar Dublin. Or.... 3 embryos made for her by a clinic out of her eggs and her estranged husband's sperm.

Her case hinges on her belief and the Irish Courts interpretation of the Irish Constitution's relevant clauses and amendments - that each of the 3 frozen embryos has a "right to life".
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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday July 04, 2006 21:12 by Staff Journalist
KAI on these marchers' drums doesn't mean 'Kill All Irish', says Orange Order. It's a tribute to Kai Johansen (you know, the 1960s Rangers defender) read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday July 04, 2006 12:45 by Completely Unmanageable   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 19, 2006 14:23)
Michael Parenti has written today of the Stolen Election of 2004. Confirming what many already suspected and has been reported elsewhere, Parenti's account of what happened to ballot papers, at voting centres and to US voters overseas makes stomach-churning reading. read full story / add a comment
Limerick Republican Graves treasurer Sean O'Neill at the memorial
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday July 04, 2006 10:51 by lris   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 04, 2006 21:16)   image 1 image
A national monument damaged by vandals is being repaired by Limerick Republican Graves because the Limerick City Council refuse to fund the work read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Monday July 03, 2006 18:40 by o as if
For almost 2 decades I have been aware of the awesome extent of Ivana Bacik's ambition.
Ivana Bacik has found the cash to put up a banner advertisement on the online version of the Irish Times, alledging that only 1 in 3 of TCD graduates voted in the last Senate elections.

It appears to me, that Ivana moving on from her failure to win a seat in the European Parliament is now setting her sights on the Senate. Oh dear - whose seat is she after?
Will it be David's or Shane's? For as a TCD graduate she can only seat on the education panel unless she wants to go on the rubber chicken circuit and find voters all over the country. read full story / add a comment
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