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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

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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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday January 28, 2005 13:00 by paul o toole   text 13 comments (last - sunday january 30, 2005 20:34)
Shannon ;Two Years After Mary Kelly Disarmed A Warplane read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Friday January 28, 2005 11:45 by 30 Years Ago   text 23 comments (last - tuesday september 16, 2008 23:03)
Interesting story about how British repeatedly denied they used the gas Dibenzoxazepine (10 times stronger than tear gas) in Long Kesh in 1974.

(Posting it here as the original site containing the report is subscription based) read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Friday January 28, 2005 09:28 by Yoshie Furuhashi   text 1 comment (last - monday january 31, 2005 17:59)
According to Peter Lagerquist, only 28% of eligible Palestinian voters voted for Mahmoud Abbas. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Thursday January 27, 2005 23:22 by tracey
an invitation to take part in the tree walk

this years tree walk will take place from monday jan 31st to saturday feb 5th.
we are walking from drumcollegher in co. limerick to ringaskiddy in co. cork. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / news report Thursday January 27, 2005 23:20 by reclaim the planet!   text 5 comments (last - friday february 04, 2005 18:55)
Today President Lula addressed thousands of activists in social movements in Brazil, and through them millions more across the globe.
And he got jeered by the impatient. You'll get that.

We live in the time of soundbytes.
& translators.
& interpreters.
& thinktanks.
& billionaire philanthropist pacifists with major stock in arms corps and undeclared interests in narcotic routes and the fine post-graduates who work for them spinning tissues of deceit and benovelance. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday January 27, 2005 22:31 by Kevin Walsh   text 12 comments (last - friday april 08, 2005 21:49)
Justice........Promises forsaken.......Corruption

Answers need.

60 years today commemoration Auschwitz - 'knowledge is no load' a wise old Judge once said...... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday January 27, 2005 19:47 by Michael Hennigan   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 05, 2005 11:18)
Marginalisng racism will take time and its the young generation will make the difference read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday January 27, 2005 18:19 by Global Women's Strike
The Strike's theme this year:

End Poverty and War Now! - Invest in Caring Not Killing!
A Living Wage for All our Work and Pay Equity in the Global Market read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday January 27, 2005 17:48 by Shinner   text 8 comments (last - thursday february 03, 2005 22:52)
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has been participating in the opening of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil (26 January/27th January). Ms de Brún along with fellow MEPs, joined hundreds of thousands who marched through the streets of Porto Alegre carrying the message of the World Social Forum - that another world is possible. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday January 27, 2005 14:07 by D Lynch   text 3 comments (last - monday january 31, 2005 09:38)
Socialist Forum

The Politics of Privatisation

Speaker: KIERAN ALLEN
(Author: The Celtic Tiger: The Myth of Social Partnership)

Red Parrot, Dorset St
Monday 31st January
8pm

The government has suggested privatizing the ESB even though the experience in California has shown that privatization leads to black outs and dearer prices.
A present it is trying to impose bin charges Dublin. Once they get through it will lead to privatisation – and the removal of the waiver system.
Everywhere the same arguments are used to justify privatization. It is supposed to lead to more efficiency. It is supposed to be better for the customer.
At this meeting, Kieran Allen looks at the experience of privatization internationally and argues that the opposite is the case.
Privatization leads to a worse service, under-investment in vital resources, corruption and super-profits. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / press release Thursday January 27, 2005 10:47 by ppp
From Jan 20 to Feb 27, an open workshop will be located beside the Project Art Centre on East Essex street, Templebar. Abandoned bikes from rails around town will be brought here and available for people to work on and fix. If you have an old bike or spare parts, or bring them along for someone else to use, if you have bike knowhow and would like to help out drop in. Like i said its an open workshop so there are tools available, for people to put stuff together with. Any questions contact wheelsmobiles@hotmail.com read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday January 27, 2005 00:36 by D O Briain   text 2 comments (last - friday june 22, 2007 05:38)
Anti-WTO activist Walden Bello is fearing for his life after the Communist Party of Phillipines brands him a "counter-revolutionary" read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / press release Wednesday January 26, 2005 22:01 by Liz McIntyre   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2005 10:19)
CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering)
has launched a worldwide boycott of Tesco in response to the retailer's
escalating use of RFID on consumer products. CASPIAN Founder and
Director Katherine Albrecht made the announcement to millions of viewers
watching BBC Newsnight, the popular UK news program, on Tuesday. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday January 26, 2005 21:31 by Cork Anti-War Campaign/Anti-War Ireland   text 11 comments (last - friday january 28, 2005 23:46)
Public meeting: Towards a Landmine Free World

Speaker: Mr. Tony d’Costa (Pax Christi)
Mr. d’Costa is an internationally renowned campaigner for a world-wide ban on landmines.
When: Tuesday 1st February
Where: Tigh Filí, Mac Curtain St. Cork.
Time: 8pm
Organised by the Cork Anti-War Campaign read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday January 26, 2005 21:05 by eeekkkk
"In recent memory, nothing could be done without the US. Today, however, practically all new international institution-building of any long-term importance in global diplomacy and trade occurs without American participation." read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday January 26, 2005 16:29 by Jon Glackin   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 05, 2005 22:20)
The Rachel Corrie Rebuilding Campaign in Gaza has been nominated for a GlobalGiving.com competition.

http://www.globalgiving.com/cb/gpf/...0/proj929a.html read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 26, 2005 15:28 by ppp   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 26, 2005 22:28)
Many people will now be aware that Padraigin Drinan, the committed human rights lawyer is being shut down by the Law Society.
A campaign has now been launched by some of us who are deeply deeply concerned about the actions of the Law Society. We aim to pull together those who are clients of the office and those who have worked with Padraigin over the years and more importantly those who are committed to the same rights and freedoms and principles that Padraigin has been defending for the last thirty odd years.
This decisision to close Padraigin's office is a disgrace and an indictment of a cowardly, vindictive body who have long had the knife out for the human rights solicitor. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / event notice Wednesday January 26, 2005 09:43 by ppp   text 1 comment (last - friday february 04, 2005 17:34)
there will be a meeting next Saturday, January 29, at 2.00 in the Teachers
Club to launch a NO campaign for the coming referendum on the EU
Constitution.

The meeting is being convened by PANA, The Peoples' Movement, and DAPSE -
representatives of which will speak briefly at the start of the meeting. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday January 26, 2005 01:40 by Globalise Resistence   text 3 comments (last - friday january 28, 2005 23:30)
Globalise Resistence are calling on all groups to support the protest called for Sunday 30th Jan 6pm at the Shelbourne Hotel where the Wolfensohn will be attending a reception! It'll be up to all of us to give him the welcome he really deserves. Bring lots of noise! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday January 25, 2005 15:47 by jamie
Here’s the latest ”official” casualty figures for U.S troops in Iraq as 1380 GI’s are now said to have died in that illegal war. Please spread the news and the dramatic report on DU that follows. read full story / add a comment
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