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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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national / crime and justice / other press Thursday August 26, 2004 19:48 by Road fodder
There has been a dramatic drop in the number of speeders caught. This coincides with an increase in the number of road deaths. The Garda say it's because their manpower is spent minding Bush and EU leaders. The DoT says everything is fine and that speeding has decreased (when actually the DETECTION of speeding has decreased). read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / event notice Thursday August 26, 2004 19:45 by A Librarian   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 15, 2004 06:50)
Bad Thoughts is a community discussion group hosted by Bad Books Library.
This discussion will be hosted by Michael, a journalist up to date with Latin American politics.

Check out our website for more details. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday August 26, 2004 19:33 by David McCarthy   text 1 comment (last - monday march 07, 2005 16:42)
Many thanks to Indymedia for allowing space on your web site to raise awareness about this ongoing crisis.
Two days from now, August 27th, is Cork City Council's deadline for receiving submissions on the accommodation needs of Travellers over the next 4 years. Was it naivety or a calculated move to advertise seeking submissions at the one time of the year when Travellers (and Traveller organisations) are not around?
The following was submitted today by the Traveller Visibility Group.
If anybody else is in a position to make a submission, the person to write to is Jim Beecher, Housing Section, Cork City Council.
The e-mail address to use is jim_beecher@corkcity.ie and please copy your submissions to tvg@indigo.ie

Traveller Visibility Group
Submission to Cork City Council
Regarding the four-year Traveller Accommodation Programme 2005 – 2008


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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday August 26, 2004 18:52 by Donegal Travellers Project   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 01, 2013 14:53)
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday August 26, 2004 16:48 by paul c
who have committed no offence other than crossing or trying to cross a border without papers read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday August 26, 2004 16:32 by Terry   text 2 comments (last - monday october 11, 2004 00:22)
This essay argues that the conflict in the Persian Gulf is conditioned by the needs of American capitalism, and thus whether a Democrat or a Republican, a war hero or a draft dodger, sits in the Oval Office, it will make no difference to the propensity of the American state to commit acts of mass violence. An argument which is held up as a true by the record of Clinton, a man who recently received adulation in Dublin, yet whose administration slew far more than that of either Bush Snr. or Jnr. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday August 26, 2004 16:21 by pat c
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. agents have raided the homes of five people who allegedly traded hundreds of thousands of songs, movies and other copyrighted material over the Internet, Attorney General John Ashcroft says.

Agents raided residences in Texas, New York and Wisconsin early on Wednesday and seized computers that they suspect were involved in a nationwide file-trading network.

(Honestly this is not a joke. Can you imagine it? Armed Federal Agents kicking in your door because of this??? pat c) read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Thursday August 26, 2004 15:36 by pat c
ABUJA (AFP) Aug 25, 2004
The Nigerian Senate has ordered Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to pay 1.5 billion dollars (1.2 billion euros) compensation for damages caused by nearly 60 years of exploration in the Niger Delta, a Senate document said Wednesday. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday August 26, 2004 13:28 by Jim   text 6 comments (last - thursday august 26, 2004 15:34)
A representative of the Irish Coast Guard went on West Cork 103FM radio this morning and launched an attack on a long-running campaign to restore public access to the Old Head of Kinsale. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday August 26, 2004 13:08 by Eoin Dubsky
The American Conservative -- not a hippy zine -- includes a great article this issue about Bush's so-called "coalition of the willing".
"In short, Mr. Bush has done more to electrify the international Left and give it a sense of common purpose than anyone since Che Guevara. That’s true coalition building—just not the kind Washington had in mind." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday August 26, 2004 12:46 by pat c
Blair impeachment campaign starts

A campaign to use age-old powers to impeach Tony Blair for misleading the public over the Iraq war is being launched by a group of MPs on Thursday. US President Bill Clinton famously escaped an impeachment attempt over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday August 26, 2004 00:35 by Ladyfest
Ladyfest benefit gig with Life After Modelling, Tremors, Estel and Kid Blunt in the
Voodoo Lounge this Friday, 27 August. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday August 25, 2004 19:00 by Martin O'Sullivan
Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Tuesday 14th September 2004 at 8pm

Emer Mayock, Flute, Fiddle, Uilleann Pipes with Donal Siggins, Bouzouki, Guitar; Robert Harris, Percussion; Traditional and New Music. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday August 25, 2004 18:33 by Colombia solidarity
Like all things, the truth comes out eventually, although slowly. Uncle Sam’s leading exponent of the “War on Drugs and Terror” in the Western hemisphere is a blood thirsty fascist drug trafficker repressing political opposition in Colombia. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 25, 2004 17:54 by eekk
His aides say the Ayatollah is calling on Iraq's 60 per cent Shia majority to converge on the holy city, now in the 18th day of a bloody stand-off between militia loyal to the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and US and Iraqi forces at the Imam Ali mosque, one of Shia Islam's holiest places. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / press release Wednesday August 25, 2004 15:49 by Rick Lines   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 18, 2004 23:47)
The Irish Penal Reform Trust is pleased to announce the launch of its new website. www.iprt.ie is Ireland’s most comprehensive internet resource on prisons and prisoners’ rights read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday August 25, 2004 14:34 by pat c
BRITAIN’S leading black music awards were in disarray last night after two reggae stars under investigation for inciting homophobic violence were nominated despite assurances that such artists would be excluded. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday August 25, 2004 14:29 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 25, 2004 17:01)
A WOMAN who became the victim of a hate campaign after she was mistaken for Maxine Carr has threatened legal action against her tormenters. Irene Lyttle, 25, claimed that her ordeal began when she moved into a new house in East Kilbride last month.

Neighbours became convinced that she was Maxine Carr, the former girlfriend of the Soham murderer Ian Huntley. read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech / news report Wednesday August 25, 2004 10:34 by vinnie   text 6 comments (last - thursday august 26, 2004 21:01)
The site's just been updated with a new feature called "Other Press" to replace the weekly "Web / Press / Offsite Media Updates" story. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday August 25, 2004 00:30 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 30 comments (last - wednesday august 25, 2004 21:22)
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