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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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sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday January 03, 2005 19:35 by sean fleming   text 11 comments (last - thursday july 06, 2006 12:41)
'anti-psychotic' drugs continue to be prescribed to the elderly in Ireland despite the knowlege of the Irish Medicines Board concerning their fatal effects read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday January 03, 2005 17:03 by R. Isible   text 7 comments (last - tuesday april 26, 2005 12:52)
Larry Sanger has published a fairly strong criticism of the Wikipedia encyclopedia which relies upon a complete Open Publishing model. He calls for a rethink of what he characterises as a "lack of respect for expertise" and a "radical anti-elitism" because he sees that knowledgeable people are driven away from the project by trolls. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday January 03, 2005 16:26 by Alban
Pirate Puppet Company present their second show: "Drovers".
In the Liberty Hall, basement.
Until the 09/01/05 for general public. Two shows daily: 3h30pm and 8pm.10 euros
From the 10th/01/05 on for school performances. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / press release Monday January 03, 2005 01:10 by peru   text 5 comments (last - wednesday january 05, 2005 22:01)
ARTICLE 89º OF THE PERUVIAN CONSTITUTION.

democracy please.
no more soldiers on coke.
no more media games.

"The leader of the armed faction will surrender his weapon at 12h00 local time tomorrow." said President Toledo named after the famous spanish inquisition torturer. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday January 02, 2005 13:15 by Anon   text 2 comments (last - wednesday december 07, 2005 11:43)
The RAGS
GEORGE MURPHY
JOVE
Q(COLM QUEARNEY read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Sunday January 02, 2005 12:37 by Séamus Ó Cadhain   text 24 comments (last - friday march 11, 2005 20:35)
A report in today's (2 Jan's) Sunday Business Post shows that the British government was faltering under the pressure of the IRA's armed struggle in 1974. It also shows senior ease with, if not sanction for, the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday January 02, 2005 12:11 by Michael Hennigan   text 5 comments (last - monday december 12, 2005 01:15)
Why did great civilisations of the past collapse, and how likely is it that ours will, too? University of California at Los Angeles geography professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond begins his 575-page book with a response to this query by quoting Percy Bysshe Shelley's haunting poem on the faded glories of an Egyptian pharaoh, 'Ozymandias':

And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Sunday January 02, 2005 06:38 by Ross Getman   text 3 comments (last - sunday january 02, 2005 22:54)
Soda should be eliminated from public schools. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday January 01, 2005 17:12 by ared dred
Reuters Newswire [UK]
December 31st, 2004

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was slightly injured Friday when a tourist threw a camera tripod at him in a packed Rome square, an official from the prime minister's party said. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday January 01, 2005 14:50 by Justin Morahan   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 04, 2005 13:43)
Summary: Mairead Corrigan has passed on her Amsterdam peace prize to the two captives read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Saturday January 01, 2005 11:51 by -
the Ignalina nuclear reactor has long been considered by experts on both sides of the European Russian friendship to be unsafe.

Unit 1 has succesfully gone off line. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Saturday January 01, 2005 11:30 by Carolyn Fry
Governments should be exploring the potential of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) which could actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere and stabilise atmospheric concentrations of the gas at much lower levels. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday January 01, 2005 11:09 by -
Aid pledges to SE Asia have now topped a billion dollars, but for many the assistance will have come too late.

President Chirac of France has suggested the setting up of an international mechanisms to alert to natural dangers which are equitable and efficacious for rich and poor regions of the planet alike. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday January 01, 2005 02:17 by Jack Russell   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 12, 2005 22:15)
Let's Go Back to 2004......

One morning the Pimpernel woke up and decided 'I am going to be a socialist'........ read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday December 31, 2004 20:30 by Ploughshares   text 3 comments (last - monday march 07, 2005 17:05)
They're on Trial For Us, We're on the Loose for Them!

*Please download "Join Us In Dublin" poster
on the following link
http://allotherplaces.org/etc/cw5/update/

....photocopy and display wherever possible read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Thursday December 30, 2004 20:46 by i mac d.   text 1 comment (last - friday december 31, 2004 18:23)
As you know putting a "word" through "goo" is how most people enter the cybernetic matrix.
Thanks to the fine minds of CERN we have had the internet for years now, and millions oh yes millions of people use it everyday.
Most just use it a little bit. Many people upload thier photos, or download music, many more pay their mortgage and food bills by adding to the code.
Some people abuse it, that really has to be said.

Very few people understand it.

I'd wager a guess that less than 1000 people on this planet understand it.
But i'd probably be wrong. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday December 30, 2004 20:32 by SP member   text 70 comments (last - tuesday may 24, 2005 00:06)
The island of Diego Garcia, apparently as vulnerable as many other islands in the Indian Ocean escaped without any casualties. It just happens to have a US Air Force base on it, which is directly linked to the US Pacific Command in Hawaii which knew about the earthquake hours before the tsunamis hit the islands shores. Even half an hour’s warning gives enough time to get away from the wave. As An expert on hazard research wrote in the Independent: “Forethought and practical action can make the difference between a natural event and a natural disaster”. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday December 30, 2004 17:48 by pc
Although Simon Chapman was released, there are still many people in jail in Greece since the Thessaloniki anti-capitalst protests. At the eu summit in thessaloniki in 2003 130 were arrested for their part in the demonstrations. 7 are still facing charges (including carlos, one of the 8 hungerstrikers jailed in the period immediately following the summit) & are due to go to trial on 13th january 2005. A day of action is being called for the 8th january 2005. You can find your local Greek embassy/consulate here: http://www.greekembassy.org.uk/pages_en/honorary_consulates.html read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 30, 2004 13:43 by mac d   text 4 comments (last - thursday january 19, 2006 20:52)
:2005
-1984
=21 you get the key to the door now.

Lord Falconer, the minister in charge of freedom of information, emphasises that the act is not solely for the media and researchers to prise secrets out of Downing Street but will give ordinary members of the public a greater chance to get information from the public sector.

But many are sceptical that officials' secretive habits, and this government's reliance on spin and control, will melt away.

Whitehall has taken a long time to get to this position. A freedom of information act was first promised by Labour in 1974, but nothing happened. The Blair government eventually passed the act in 2000, then delayed its introduction for five years.

More than 50 other countries have passed such legislation before now, the first being Sweden in 1766. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Thursday December 30, 2004 13:16 by Edward Horgan   text 2 comments (last - monday january 10, 2005 21:33)
The Unlawful war in Iraq has killed over 100,000 people, and injured up to one million. Disease related to the war will kill even more. Who should pay for this huge liability? Given the level of human suffering it may seem pointless discussing compensation, but financial penalties may be one way of forcing the perpetrators of mass murder for greed and financial gain to reconsider what they have done. read full story / add a comment
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