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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Voltaire, international edition

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2004 20:53 by Nina Ni Cheallaigh   text 12 comments (last - friday october 22, 2004 12:37)
Intimidation and racism in Dunsink read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday October 20, 2004 19:44 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 14, 2005 01:58)
It's legal and free and based in Luxembourg the Skype company founded by Niklas Zennström last August offers users "free telephone calls". read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 20, 2004 13:55 by ARN   text 10 comments (last - friday october 29, 2004 12:22)
Dear friends,

the momentum for the ARN march - carnival rally is growing. Public endorsement and support already to date has come from, the Chinese Welfare Association, The Belfast Jewish community, The Indian Community centre, the Belfast Islamic centre, the Multi Cultural Resource Centre, The Latin American Support Group, Travellers organisations. Also from the trade union movement - to date - the Irish Congress of Trade Unions {ICTU}, as well as Unison, T&G, NIPSA and from the Belfast Trades Union Council. Support and endorsement also from the N.Ireland Human rights Commission, the N.Ireland Law Centre, The N.Ireand! Children’s Commissioner, as well as political parties, local community, writers, solidarity and women’s groups and organisations. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday October 20, 2004 12:43 by Slarti
"President Bush's special envoy, James Baker, who has been trying to persuade the world to forgive Iraq's crushing debts, is simultaneously working for a commercial concern that is trying to recover money from Iraq, according to confidential documents."

"Mr Baker's Carlyle Group is in a consortium secretly proposing to try to collect $27bn (£15bn) on behalf of Kuwait, one of Iraq's biggest creditors, by using high-level political influence"

"Yet Iraq continues to make regular reparations payments for Saddam's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. In the eighteen months since the US invasion, Iraq has paid out a staggering $1.8 billion in reparations--substantially more than the battered country's 2004 health and education budgets combined, and more than the United States has so far managed to spend in Iraq on reconstruction."

Selected highlights from
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041101&c=1&s=klein
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1326037,00.html read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday October 19, 2004 18:46 by R. Isible
An excerpt of an Amy Goodman interview with Noam Chomsky was carried on the Tue Oct. 19th. 2004 edition of DemocracyNOW! In it Chomsky comments on the furore over his endorsement of the VoteToStopBush petition. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday October 19, 2004 17:15 by mick
7. 30 Axis Centre Ballymun . Slide show , talks ,music ,poetry. Organized by Ballymun Palestine Support Group as part of the International day of Action against the Israeli Apartheid Wall. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / other press Tuesday October 19, 2004 16:35 by Anthony   text 32 comments (last - saturday september 10, 2005 19:00)
Two gardaí were acquitted of assaulting a participant in the Reclaim The Streets party held in May 2002. It's interesting to note that two years later, despite extensive video evidence of garda brutality not one garda has yet been convicted of any crime. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday October 19, 2004 11:50 by Mister Ed
Given the current escalation of Israeli depredations in Gaza and the daily US bombings of Falluja, it is interesting to examine Amnesty International's (AI) statements on the situation. AI is widely viewed as an authority on human rights issues, and thus it is of interest to analyze its output on these recent events. Careful scrutiny of AI's record reveals that, its typical response to the daily obscene deeds by either Israeli or US armies is a few barely audible ruminations with an occasional lame rebuke. The impotence of these responses raises many questions. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday October 19, 2004 11:24 by InterSteller Master Traders   text 17 comments (last - wednesday october 20, 2004 18:15)
This morning several activists succeeded in penetrating the salubrious confines of Ballsbridge's Berkley Court hotel - Fire alarms were activated.............read on read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday October 19, 2004 01:09 by Spokesperson   text 34 comments (last - saturday october 23, 2004 19:56)
Below is a proposed text for a 'No Platform Policy' for TCD. We will be circulating copies to the TCDSU and amongst the political parties over the next few days and are expecting their full support.

Also, we are confident that those who stood up to the fascists in UCD will support our campaign to deny the extremists the oppurtunity to use TCD as a recruiting ground for hate. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday October 19, 2004 00:59 by antibase
Pacifists stop the train with the equipment of Valencia's NATO headquarters, which was departing to prove its capacity to lead the new NATO Response Force (NFR). read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday October 19, 2004 00:46 by pc
judges rules out metal detectors for school of the Americas protest on Nov.19-21, Call to Action: Shut Down the School of the Americas! http://www.SOAW.org read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / news report Monday October 18, 2004 18:52 by John Johnson   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 19, 2004 18:17)
Indaver, a waste management company seeking to build two incinerators in the Cork Harbour area today received a visit from local activists keen to let them know they are not welcome if they persist with their plans. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 18, 2004 18:26 by pc
French and Spanish interior ministers today shot down a German proposal to set up transit camps in North Africa that would process asylum seekers before they reach Europe. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday October 18, 2004 15:56 by Jack Black   text 35 comments (last - saturday august 27, 2005 14:51)
With all the fuss over Justin Barrett not speaking at U.C.D. and then speaking at N.U.I.G. I decided to have a look at some of the websites frequented by fascists in Ireland and see what type of people hung out there. In one thread on the Irish Nationalist website someone identified themselves as having worked on Justin Barrett’s election campaign, another as a justin Barrett supporter and someone else gave the user name of the nazi skinhead who got into a fight at the back of the lecture theatre when Barrett tried to speak in U.C.D. By going through these sites i hoped to learn more about the kind of people who support Justin Barrett and the type of people who will turn out and watch him speak. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday October 18, 2004 12:15 by Michael Hennigan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 19, 2004 07:59)
Last week the Guardian launched Operation Clark County to help readers have a say in the American election by writing to undecided voters in the crucial state of Ohio. In the first three days, more than 11,000 people requested addresses. Here is some of the reaction to the project that it received from the US read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday October 18, 2004 01:43 by Tom Lonergan   text 5 comments (last - wednesday october 20, 2004 12:13)
Public talk given by 2 Israeli soldiers, who have refused to serve in Occupied Palestine and have suffered prison terms as a consequence.

The Public meeting is open to everyone and will take place this Thursday 21st Oct in Room 3074 (Arts Block) at 7pm. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday October 18, 2004 01:38 by Tom Lonergan
The book launch of 'Stolen Youth' and Adah's talk will take place at Buswells Hotel, Molesworth St. at 7pm on Wednesday 27th October. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday October 17, 2004 14:25 by bob dobbs   text 4 comments (last - tuesday october 19, 2004 12:38)
A group of us in Cork decided to do something to mark international anti-mcdonalds day, and so the day before we collected food to be thrown out from local supermarkets and bakeries. The next morning we met up at a friends house and struggled with our cooking skills, and managed to whip up sum vegetable soup, and vegi burgers and hummous, which we then distributed with with bread and fruit outside our local mcdonalds. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday October 17, 2004 00:38 by skafrican   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 19, 2004 07:51)
Racists blocking internet information about veteran two tone ska gigs.

Both Neville Staples/The Beat were due to play Belfast recently, both are Touring Ireland but no information about their gigs was available on the internet or even at the venues they were supposed to be playing at. read full story / add a comment
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