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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 / miscellaneous / other press Friday March 25, 2011 08:28 by Z Mag   image 1 image
I'm posting here, a very interesting article by Michael Albert of Z Space/Z Mag in which he looks at the idea of differences of opinion on the left and teases out the issues of should we aim to be "right" (as in correct) - which we should, but also if we have a difference of opinion with others or other groups on the left, should we have a "split" or disregard their past opinions also? And then, if it turns out the that other person/group on the left was correct in their analysis and action(s), should we be bitter that we weren't or should we be thankful that those who were right won out?

I'm posting the article in full, with a link to the article on Albert's blog. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Wednesday March 23, 2011 21:14 by Jolly Red Giant   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 23, 2011 21:54)
Following his recent election to the Irish Parliament Joe Higgins the Socialist Party / CWI MEP for Dublin was obliged to announce his replacement as MEP from the election substitute list.

Today the Socialist Party announced that Paul Murphy will be the new Socialist Party / CWI MEP to take over from Joe Higgins. Paul Murphy has been a Parliamentary Assistant to Joe Higgins since the 2009 Euro elections. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday March 20, 2011 21:23 by Leftblogger
As US President Barack Obama embarks on his latest tour, an El Salvadoran actists reports over on http://leftblogger.com/.

For background on the Obama trip to Chile, Brazil and El Salvador, see http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0319/....html read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday March 17, 2011 22:32 by Costas A.   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 19, 2011 14:55)   image 1 image
Please read and if you agree sign the petition and spread the word by all means possible. Among the first to signing it was Prof. Noam Chomsky. To cast your vote please log on at http://www.gopetition.com/petition/43171.html (greek and english version) Thanks in advance Costas. read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing / other press Thursday March 17, 2011 20:48 by John Scully
Parents died leaving Family home intestate. Mick, one of the sons took out a High Court administration form and sold the family without consulting with his brother and four sisters. The other son John took him to court and won the case. It was discovered in court that Mick had defrauded the form in order to sell the home. The case ended up in the Circuit Court and the High Court but both courts decided that John was right to bring the case and he was awarded his share of the family home proceeds plus costs. read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / other press Sunday March 13, 2011 13:52 by Namor   text 12 comments (last - sunday april 03, 2011 13:13)   image 2 images
Contrary to claims by Global Warming Deniers Polar iice is actually melting at an increasing rate. Full article text at url.

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The findings of the study -- the longest to date of changes in polar ice sheet mass -- suggest these ice sheets are overtaking ice loss from Earth's mountain glaciers and ice caps to become the dominant contributor to global sea level rise, much sooner than model forecasts have predicted. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Thursday March 10, 2011 09:49 by Prison Solidarity
On Thursday, a jury in Salt Lake City declared climate activist Tim DeChristopher guilty for his interference with an oil and gas auction held at the end of the Bush administration. He faces a sentence of up to 10 years, to be determined by a judge:
YOUTUBE (3 mins) Speech by Tim DeChristopher after guilty verdit delivered.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cae5Pr7CHgk&feature=play...at=10 read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday March 05, 2011 17:49 by Red Banner
Issue 43 of Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas
Out now from bookshops or the address above for €2 / £1.50 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday March 04, 2011 05:42 by Ciarn   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 05, 2011 06:35)
Full View
12-min TV program on Bradley Manning EXCELLENT! ... and usable
(thanx Ray!)
http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/media/panor165.html read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 27, 2011 10:29 by AC   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 27, 2011 18:45)
international / environment / other press Sunday February 27, 2011 00:39 by Ragerman   text 6 comments (last - sunday march 06, 2011 20:20)
An open letter appeared on the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance founded and run by Judith McGeary to save family farms in the US. The letter, written by Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University, to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, warns of a pathogen “new to science” discovered by “a team of senior plant and animal scientists”. Huber says it should be treated as an “emergency’’, as it could result in “a collapse of US soy and corn export markets and significant disruption of domestic food and feed supplies.”
This could be the worst nightmare of genetic engineering that some scientists have been warning for years:
the unintended creation of new pathogens through assisted horizontal gene transfer and recombination. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday February 26, 2011 02:36 by J. C. Phelan
Something funky is going on with our water. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 25, 2011 19:23 by Moshé Machover
Moshé Machover writes on the Wikileaks revalations, the emerging Arab revolutions and his fears that Israel could launch an attack on Iran. Full article at link.

For nearly 50 years I have been talking and writing about the prospect of an Arab revolution and only last year I said that, while I am confident this is going to happen, “don’t hold your breath”. What has been taking place has been a nice dress rehearsal, but we can see that the Arab revolution is not such a distant prospect. It is difficult to exaggerate its significance - not only for the region, but also for the whole world and for human history.

It is against this background that I would like to discuss the Wikileaks revelations. One whole section of Wikileaks has to do with the Middle East, and specifically with Israel and Iran read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / other press Friday February 25, 2011 12:31 by Andrew   text 13 comments (last - sunday february 27, 2011 20:43)   image 4 images   video 1 video file   1 attached file
Today, in an even more meaningless exercise then normal, a minority of the population of Ireland will choose between two almost identical options as to who will implement the ECB / IMF austerity plans for southern Ireland. Outside of this plan the wealthiest 1% will continue to set economic policy tomorrow as they did yesterday and have throughout the last decades. The electoral circus we are now going through provides the rest of us with the illusion of control even though deep down almost everyone acknowledges the ritual as having no real impact on what policies are actually implemented. read full story / add a comment
 Eamon Gilmore - Once a prominent "Official" Republican
national / politics / elections / other press Wednesday February 23, 2011 00:07 by Paul Larkin   text 10 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2011 23:01)   image 2 images   video 2 video files
During the election campaign, the media has singularly failed to put the hard questions to former members of the Workers Party read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday February 21, 2011 15:06 by Ruben Markarian   text 4 comments (last - monday february 21, 2011 19:50)   video 6 video files
Ruben Markarian of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran addressed the Hopi AGM in London on 12 February 2011. Here is an extract from his speech. The full text is at the url.

Before discussing recent political events in Iran, please allow me to commemorate a very significant event in modern Iranian history - the Siahkhal uprising, which took place 40 years ago. This event produced the Fedayeen movement after two decades of stagnation and reformism on the left. The Fedayeen initiated armed struggle against the shah’s regime. In so doing they revived the Iranian left and turned it into the main force in the struggle against the shah and against imperialism in Iran. We should commemorate our fallen comrades and their memory - they died for socialism and freedom and passed on militant traditions to the next generation of Iranians. read full story / add a comment
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international / animal rights / other press Saturday February 19, 2011 22:31 by Anonymous   image 5 images
The past World Week for the Abolition of Meat from 22 to 29 January 2011 - the very first WWAM of the year - was a success. Varied events (such as street actions, silent demonstrations, "human" meat tray actions, protest marches...) were organized in over 70 towns and cities, mainly in Europe, but also in South Africa, in both Americas, in India as well as in Japan (here's the list). These events were largely covered in the media.

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national / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday February 19, 2011 16:47 by McDorcha   text 1 comment (last - friday february 18, 2011 17:28)
"A man who once stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness was last night behind bars in Maghaberry Prison after being convicted for an attempted murder 30 years ago.

Gerry McGeough is the first republican to be jailed for historical crimes since the Good Friday Agreement. He was yesterday convicted of attempting to murder UDR member Sammy Brush in 1981 and of IRA membership in 1975."

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/n...EjbhH
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday February 19, 2011 11:45 by Joe   text 18 comments (last - sunday november 13, 2011 17:14)   video 1 video file

Mike Head on the wave of uprisings in the Middle-East and North Africa and the barbaric response from western- backed dictatorships. . Troops loyal to the Bahrain royal family have been using live ammunition against protestors resulting in many deaths . The article suggests that America , whose Fifth Fleet is based in the oil-rich state of Bahrain ,is acting in close collaboration with the royal regime .

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