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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 Sat Oct 25, 2025 01:18 | 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 Epping Migrant Sex Offender Accidentally Released From Prison Fri Oct 24, 2025 18:50 | Will Jones
A police manhunt has been launched after the Epping Hotel asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a woman and?a 14 year-old girl?was accidentally released from jail due to "human error".
The post Epping Migrant Sex Offender Accidentally Released From Prison appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Are Girls Really ?Masking? Their Autism? Fri Oct 24, 2025 15:45 | Mary Gilleece
Teenage girls are now being labelled as autistic even when they have no symptoms, with the claim they are 'masking' their condition. Isn't it more likely that the 'autism spectrum' is now just a racket, says Mary Gilleece.
The post Are Girls Really ‘Masking’ Their Autism? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour ?Nowhere Near? Hitting 1.5 Million New Homes Amid ?Devastating? Collapse in Construction, Say... Fri Oct 24, 2025 13:27 | Sallust
Labour is "nowhere near" hitting its pledge to build 1.5 million homes amid a "devastating" collapse in construction of new-builds across London, with excessive regulation to blame, according to experts.
The post Labour “Nowhere Near” Hitting 1.5 Million New Homes Amid “Devastating” Collapse in Construction, Say Experts appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour Humiliation as Party Loses By-Election in Key Heartland With Just 11% of Vote Fri Oct 24, 2025 11:30 | Will Jones
Labour has been humiliated in the Caerphilly by-election, losing its 100-year hold on a key heartland as its vote collapsed to just 11% while the Welsh nationalists romped home with 47.4% and Reform came second on 36%.
The post Labour Humiliation as Party Loses By-Election in Key Heartland With Just 11% of Vote appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Monday March 01, 2010 22:22 by SF   text 4 comments (last - wednesday march 03, 2010 21:41)
Members of Dublin City Council tonight (1 March 2010) voted unanimously to support an Emergency Motion from Sinn Féin backing the workers at the Green Isle Foods plant in Naas. One of the workers, Jim Wyse, has been on hunger strike since 17 February. read full story / add a comment
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clare / arts and media / press release Monday March 01, 2010 17:06 by Western Writers' Centre   image 3 images
Re Ó Laighleis and Fred Johnston present a reading at 3. 30pm, Saturday, March 6th, at Scéal Eile Bookstore, Ennis., Co. Clare. Free. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday February 28, 2010 14:08 by Michael O'Brien   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 21, 2010 20:47)
Joe Condemns Ongoing Criminalisation Of Decent People To Complete State Sell Out Of Natural Resources To Shell read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday February 28, 2010 12:00 by Handala   text 2 comments (last - sunday february 28, 2010 18:19)   1 attached file
Dr. Norman Finkelstein has cancelled his planned flight to Germany.
He wanted to speak in Munich, Milbertshofen and Berlin on February 24, 25 and 26. The scheduled title of his talk was: “One Year after the Israeli Assault on Gaza. The German Government’s Responsibility in the Ongoing Starvation of the Palestinian Population.” read full story / add a comment
kildare / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Saturday February 27, 2010 10:26 by Saoirse
During a visit to the striking Green Isle workers in Naas Co Kildare on February 26 -where he met with the two hunger striking workers Jim Wells and John Guinan (February 26)- the Kildare based President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton pledged the strikers the continued support of Republican Sinn Féin and repeated his call for a boycott of all Green Isle products while the dispute continues. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday February 25, 2010 09:49 by Fintan Lane
IRELAND-PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN

PRESS RELEASE, 25/2/10

IPSC WELCOMES MICHAEL MARTIN'S VISIT TO GAZA TODAY read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday February 25, 2010 02:19 by PRO
Preas Ráiteas ó RNU/RNU Press Release read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday February 24, 2010 15:56 by Jim Monaghan
What the Irish people need are jobs at home not war abroad. read full story / add a comment
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cork / consumer issues / press release Tuesday February 23, 2010 22:21 by anarkitty   image 1 image
Our guest speaker this month is Graham Strowts, who will be speaking about the concept of the Food Forest and Perennials read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday February 23, 2010 11:36 by Fintan Lane   text 35 comments (last - tuesday april 06, 2010 17:14)   image 12 images   video 6 video files
Following revelations that the address of a Dublin house owned by a brother of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds was used by the assassins who killed a Palestinian official in Dubai, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is calling on the Irish government and the European Union to take a more forthright position on the murder by Israel of its political opponents. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday February 23, 2010 02:25 by Volunteer G
One in three young people under 25 is now unemployed. The SpunOut.ie national youth organisation are today calling on young people to take a stand when it comes to ongoing job losses and the cuts being experienced in key health, education, transport and community services.

According to the Director of the SpunOut.ie organisation, which engages several thousand young people per week, it is time that young people get their voices heard and their ideas implemented. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday February 22, 2010 21:46 by Morbeg
UCD Student Union Council has called for a referendum in an attempt to repeal the boycott of Coca Cola products in SU outlets, which was put in place by referendum in 2003. When this referendum was passed it made UCDSU the first students union in the world to support the call for a boycott made by SINALTRAINAL a Columbian trade union whose members have been threatened and killed as part of a brutal campaign to stifle trade union activity in their bottling plants in Columbia since the beginning of the1990s.
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international / crime and justice / press release Monday February 22, 2010 18:07 by Mrs. Charity Sweet   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 24, 2010 15:36)
I have been further arrested on two separate occasions for public expresion of "bollocks" and "blair". Both cases were dropped on the date of trial under somewhat convenient circumstances, the CPS offering no evidence. The first case was dropped the week the Sex Pistols released their 3oth anniversay edition of the album "Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's the Sex Pistols". The second case was to be attended by Lady mary Warnock, picking up the torch of common sense from Professor Kingsley and QC John Mortimer who valiantly defended our right to use that Saxon Age old word of bollocks.
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Jackie Healy Rae meets the KPSWA
kerry / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Monday February 22, 2010 11:58 by Brendan Guilfoyle   image 1 image   audio 3 audio files
Deputy Jackie Healy Rae has told public service workers that he is powerless to prevent further cuts to services in Kerry. Healy Rae made the comments to 65 members of the Kerry Public Service Workers’ Alliance (KPSWA) who protested at his constituency clinic in Killarney on Saturday. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Sunday February 21, 2010 17:48 by Jim Monaghan
PANA welcomes the collapse of Dutch government over the Afghan War.

The Peace & Neutrality Alliance welcomes the decision of the Dutch Labour Party to collapse the Dutch Government because of Prime Minister Balkenende efforts to refuse to honour a commitment to withdraw Dutch troops from the occupation forces in Afghanistan. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Saturday February 20, 2010 20:56 by Timgos   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 21, 2010 17:36)
1000 Architects and Engineers call for new 9/11 Investigation. They cite evidence of demolition at three World Trade Centre Towers. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday February 20, 2010 15:34 by PBPA   image 1 image
To mark the showing of Michaels Moore’s new film Capitalism: A Love Story the People Before Profit Alliance today held a street theatre performance of Capitalism: An Irish Love Story outside the Savoy Cinema in O Connell Street.

Michael Moore’s film shows how the recession has led to a horror story for many American workers and their families. He highlights the issue of home repossessions. He also shows how the banks have been bailed out by the taxpayer. In the film Moore goes into banks asking for the return of the people’s money.
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Colette Wittorski (left) with writer and activist Margaretta D'Arcy  (c) LitPix 2010
galway / arts and media / press release Friday February 19, 2010 12:41 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
Charlie Byrne's Bookshp, Middle Street, Galway, played host to French poet, Colette Wittorski. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday February 19, 2010 10:07 by DS2S
Shell’s decision to suspend key parts of its work on the Corrib Gas project is the beginning of a recognition by the company that its experimental inland refinery project is “not going to work”, according to the Shell to Sea campaign. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday February 19, 2010 00:39 by Amnesty International - Ireland
Amnesty International today criticised Iran for rejecting important recommendations by the United Nations to improve human rights in the country. The Iranian Government was before the UN Human Rights Council this week to defend its track record on human rights and came in for tough criticism from Ireland.
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