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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 Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits... Fri Sep 19, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 51 of the Sceptic: Michael Murphy on Charlie Kirk, free speech and the scourge of ?anti-fascism?, and Ben Pile on how the British public are going cold on global warming.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits are Cooling on Global Warming appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:07 | Richard Eldred
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 We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture Thu Sep 18, 2025 19:00 | Noah Carl
The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.
The post We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture 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

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday January 31, 2005 22:19 by Tommy Donnellan   text 1 comment (last - monday february 07, 2005 23:33)
Posted on behalf of Margaretta D'Arcy, Galway section of Global Women's Strike and Selma James, International Co-ordination, GW'sS. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday January 31, 2005 17:51 by Socialist Party   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 03, 2005 15:08)
fundraising social - Saturday 5 February - 8.30pm - Bohemians FC, Phibsboro read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday January 31, 2005 17:18 by Cork Anti-War Campaign
This Tues 1st Feb Mr. Tony D'Costa of Pax Christi will address a meeting hosted by the Cork Anti-War Campaign. The meeting will take place in Tigh Fili at 8pm and is free.

Mr. D'Costa is an internationally renowned campaigner against landmines. He will update people on the movement towards a Mine Ban Treaty which has been ratified by dozens of countries and has been a major victory for grassroots campaigns.


All are welcome to attend! read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday January 31, 2005 12:45 by Lasc
This is a chance for activists to meet and excange ideas on how to build the campaign against killer Coke read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Monday January 31, 2005 11:52 by pandabear
Save The Children is a global practising non governmental organisation based in the USA.

It works to safeguard the rights of the child globally.

Challenges which are very different from the tsunami zone of SE Asia, to Mozambique, to Darfur, to Brazil, children face different threats from desiese, war, natural disaster etc.,

Save the Children estimates that 14.5% of children in North America and Europe almost of all of whom can read and write and have got their vaccines and many of whom are guaranteed minimum levels of nutrition have arranged to meet a stranger through the internet. Often the stranger is not another kid, its an adult even if not a bogeyman michael jackson type, it could just be a sci tech war recruiter in a gamesroom.

Scary stuff. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday January 31, 2005 01:06 by hs   text 2 comments (last - monday january 31, 2005 15:46)
On the morning of January 19th, in the Ayacucho room of the Presidential Palace in Caracas, and with the presence of Venepal workers and trade union leaders, Chavez signed decree number 3438 which expropriates Venepal. From now on it will be co-managed by the workers and the state.

full article


http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/venepal_nationalised.htm read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Monday January 31, 2005 00:30 by Eavan Buckley
What: UCD Arts Fashion Show 2005
When: 4th March 2005
Where: The Point Theatre
Tickets: 20 Euro Student/ 40 Euro Adult/ 100 Euro Corporate - www.ticketmaster.ie read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday January 31, 2005 00:19 by Hilda ogden   text 3 comments (last - monday january 31, 2005 16:54)
Senior member of NF kills himself during bizarre sex act.
Kristian Etchells 29 was found dead in a store cupboard in his oldham flat with black kettle flex round his neck and with a picture of a woman dressed as a school girl on the floor. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Monday January 31, 2005 00:09 by hs
By OLIVIA McGILL

TEGUCIGALPA — Indigenous people are probably the most marginalized in Honduran society. Many communities live under constant fear of losing the land they live on, despite obligations under national and international law, the government has failed to provide them with deeds to protect their right to live on and use the land. Disputes with landowners, multinational logging companies and tourist enterprises over the recognition of land rights have led to abuses against indigenous leaders, including violence, intimidation, death threats and assassinations. The authorities have consistently failed to properly investigate such abuses or to offer adequate protection against them.

full article:
http://www.marrder.com/htw/special/environment/114.htm read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday January 30, 2005 22:02 by Yoshie Furuhashi
Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is now betting against the dollar. "I'm short the dollar," says Gates. "The ol' dollar, it's gonna go down." Will the dollar be one day the target of attacks by hedge funds? Recently the dollar rallied a bit, but short-term fluctuations aside, the dollar has nowhere to go but down. Gradually or suddenly and precipitously? It may be possible to engineer gradual devaluation of the dollar and stimulate US export, shrinking the US trade deficit, but it turns out that "the US does not have adequate manufacturing capacity to eliminate the external deficit," according to David Hale. That means that the US power elite will demand that the US working class reduce consumption to haul the multinational ruling class out of the abyss of the US current-account deficit, at the same time as forcing the US working class to make greater and greater sacrifices as IED fodders, sinking further into the quagmire in Iraq. Can American workers fight back? read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday January 30, 2005 14:34 by Certain Death   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2005 16:56)
The cafe opens its doors on the 20th of Feburary at half five. Apostles play an exclusive set to mark the even! read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / press release Sunday January 30, 2005 14:32 by Certain Death   text 5 comments (last - monday october 16, 2006 21:58)
Vegan Cafe! Serving super veggie grub and Zapatista Coffee! Opens the 20th of Feburary! read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday January 29, 2005 22:20 by Charlie Nolan   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 01, 2005 18:28)
Ballyfermot anti-war meeting Ballyfermot Civic Centre Wed. 2nd Feb 8pm Speaker Richard Boyd Barrett (chair I.A.W.M.)
Build for March 19th global day of action against the war in Iraq & Palistine read full story / add a comment
louth / racism & migration related issues / other press Saturday January 29, 2005 18:24 by A Student   text 6 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2005 18:39)
FOR years it was the dream of every self-respecting Irish student: after a year denouncing British oppression in the college bar, the only way to spend the summer was sipping Guinness surrounded by plastic leprechauns in a Boston pub. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Saturday January 29, 2005 14:30 by eeekkkk
Billmon sketches out the reasons why. See the related link. Great Blogger and the website Moon of Alabama is where his acolytes hang around
http://www.moonofalabama.org/ read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday January 28, 2005 21:09 by Tom Lonergan
Dr Jamal Zahalka, a Palestinian Arab member of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) and a co-founder of Balad, the National Democratic Alliance will speak in the Arts Block, Trinity College, Dublin on Monday evening January 31st. The talk will take place at 7-30pm, in the Arts Block, in Room 3074.

Dr Zahalka primarily campaigns for the rights of Palestinians within Israel. In 2003 Dr Zahalka and his party strongly opposed the introduction of Israeli law prohibiting the granting of residency or citizenship status to Palestinians from the Occupied Territories who were married to Israeli citizens. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Friday January 28, 2005 17:53 by WSM   text 6 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2005 20:54)
Next Sunday, the 30th of January the president of the
World Bank is due to visit Dublin. The President Mr.
James Wolfensohn is here to talk to the World Council
of Churches. The Meeting is part of the on going talks
between the bank and the council of churches about
'faith and development' in the third world. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / news report Friday January 28, 2005 17:26 by Maria   text 11 comments (last - monday january 31, 2005 18:57)
“The Government has not done enough to accept multicultural society”, said Benedicta Attoh, Louth African Women’s Support Group representative
at the Anti-Racism Report release last week in Dublin. The Non Government Organisation (NGO) Alliance Shadow Report has been launched in response to a perceived failure of the Government to address immigration issues. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday January 28, 2005 14:16 by Dundrum Anti War   text 4 comments (last - sunday january 30, 2005 12:49)
Thursday 3rd February in Main Reception building, DFRC read full story / add a comment
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