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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 North Sea ?Has Three Times More Oil and Gas? Than Government Claims Sun Sep 21, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Britain's North Sea could have 14 billion barrels of oil and gas ? three times what the Government reckons ? but sky-high taxes and drilling bans are leaving it in the ground while jobs and cash go begging.
The post North Sea ?Has Three Times More Oil and Gas? Than Government Claims appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Met Office Staff Given Record Bonuses Despite String of Forecast Failures Sun Sep 21, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
The Met Office might struggle to predict the weather, but it seems staff can always count on a downpour of cash: they walked away with record bonus payments of ?8.1 million last year and ?31.5 million over five years.
The post Met Office Staff Given Record Bonuses Despite String of Forecast Failures appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link National Trust Sacks Volunteer Gardeners for Not Being Inclusive Enough Sun Sep 21, 2025 09:00 | Sallust
Thirteen volunteers say they have been forced out by the National Trust, which told them their "attitude and values" did not align with the charity's "respectful and inclusive culture".
The post National Trust Sacks Volunteer Gardeners for Not Being Inclusive Enough appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Now He?s Dead, the Truth About Purple Aki Can Finally Be Said Sun Sep 21, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Now he's dead, the truth about Purple Aki can finally be said, says Steven Tucker. A forerunner of all the sex-offending migrants that judges make excuses for, he targeted children in Liverpool for decades.
The post Now He’s Dead, the Truth About Purple Aki Can Finally Be Said appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Sep 21, 2025 00:05 | Will Jones
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.
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday April 29, 2004 16:08 by Dermo
Spacecrafts fine new production of a play by
Fergal Leddy entitled 'Bleeding the System'
at the Black Box Theater - 15-19 Essex West
St. Old City Temple Bar - D8 read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday April 29, 2004 15:48 by free faller
Big Boy Bertie deciced to deilght us with his presence today at ucg opening of a new laboratory read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday April 29, 2004 14:40 by Ciaron O'Reilly
The Catholic Worker Movement founded by French soapbox philospher Peter Maurin and New Yorker journalist activist Dorothy Day in NYC in 1933. A radical christian-anarchist-pacifist movement it compromises of approx. 90 autonomous communities in North America, a dozen in Canada, a couple in Mexico and also communites in Brisbane/OZ, Auckland & Christchurch/Aotearoa, Glasgow, London, Oxford, Amsterdam, Dortmund, Hamburg & Dublin.

The movements themes remain the practise of the Acts of Mercy, nonviolent resistance and intentional faith based community. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday April 29, 2004 14:15 by Harry Browne   text 14 comments (last - sunday may 02, 2004 22:12)
After a fortnight delay at the Pentagon's request, on last night's '60 Minutes II' CBS detailed some of the torture that has been taking place in the Abu Ghraib prison. read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations / news report Thursday April 29, 2004 14:05 by thestreetsarecomingalive   text 13 comments (last - wednesday may 05, 2004 12:35)
Points raised at a special meeting held in Store Street Garda Station through the Dublin City Centre Businessman’s Association read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations / event notice Thursday April 29, 2004 13:04 by 1 of DGN   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 29, 2004 21:49)
DGN is asking all activists to come and join the solidarity protest this evening at 6 outside the main gate of Mountjoy.

Of the 3 people arrested Tuesday night and remanded, 1 is in the Joy and the other 2 have been transferred to Clover Hill.

Harassment continues with 2 overseas activists held for 2 hours for "ID checks" today despite having passports and bank cards. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / press release Thursday April 29, 2004 11:46 by Sinn Fein   text 97 comments (last - tuesday may 11, 2004 00:58)
Sinn Fein Local election candidates. read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations / news report Thursday April 29, 2004 09:19 by Laurence Cox
At a DGN media group meeting last night we agreed (since nothing has been suggested so far) to name Mountjoy Square (NOT the Indymedia Centre) as a gathering point in case of real crisis.

Basically if everything goes pear-shaped people will need somewhere to go that is familiar, not easy to seal off, and not too isolated. The Square itself can of course be closed, but the streets are wide and there is little traffic.

Please circulate this widely. read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations / news report Thursday April 29, 2004 03:52 by concerned citizen of the fortress   text 3 comments (last - friday april 30, 2004 12:49)
02.14.am

2 Men have just been released after being detained by the Irish gardai for about 2 hours.
They were lifted on Dame st outside the central bank at about midnight. read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations / opinion/analysis Thursday April 29, 2004 01:39 by Orla Ni Chomhrai   text 11 comments (last - tuesday may 04, 2004 11:31)
I thought people might be interested in the following pieces which refer to the police infiltrating the Genoa protests to start trouble. They actually admited to doing this.
Orla

These are two sections from two articles on this subject. I have given the links so that people can read the full pieces.


Protesters Beware
Protesters Beware Italian Police Incited The Violence At 2001 G8 Summit, Official Inquires Reveal http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/7099
...'The word "Genoa" became virtually synonymous in the public mind with "violent protestors."

Now it turns out that U.S.-trained police were responsible for the worst of the bloodshed in Genoa but that is not making headlines -- at least not in the U.S.A.

In an official inquiry, police in Genoa have admitted to fabricating evidence against the G-8 activists, deploying provocateurs i read full story / add a comment
cork / summit mobilisations / press release Wednesday April 28, 2004 23:12 by Kevin Doyle   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 29, 2004 12:03)
The Government are running sacred of the protests that are happening in Dublin this weekend. They have overreacted to the fact that people are making a huge effort to show their opposition to the neo-liberal policies that are being foisted on us all. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday April 28, 2004 23:07 by David C.   text 6 comments (last - thursday april 29, 2004 13:04)
A new poll released today shows that a majority of Iraqis believe that attacks on US forces are justified. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday April 28, 2004 21:52 by Fintan Lane   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 28, 2004 22:39)
A brief report of latest Anti-War Ireland organising meeting held on Saturday, 28 April read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday April 28, 2004 17:24 by Cork Anarchist Conspiracy   text 8 comments (last - friday april 30, 2004 15:22)
A late report from Grassroots Gathering Seven held in the Real Capital sometime recently read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations / news report Wednesday April 28, 2004 15:56 by Gaz   text 21 comments (last - thursday april 29, 2004 11:43)
During heated exchanges in the Dail yesterday, Bertie Ahern called on Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party to ask anarchists not to travel to Dublin.

Deputy Higgins refused the request.

What planet is Ahern on if he thinks anarchists will bow down to Higgins' request! read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 28, 2004 14:33 by Rory Hearne   text 46 comments (last - thursday october 13, 2005 00:52)
Fellow activists,

Since the Zapatista declaration in 1994 and the French public sector
workers strike in 1995 we have witnessed and taken part in a new social
movement . The movement has grown exponentially and deepened from the
60,000 that shut down the WTO in Seattle 1999 to the millions that marched
across the globe on February 15th last year.

Our strength has been our unity together in our common outrage and desire to change this incredibly corrupt and unequal society. We are united in our desires for a world
without war a world where the resources currently spent on military will
be spent on schools and hospitals, a world without borders where all
immigrants are welcome and a world without poverty. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday April 28, 2004 12:48 by Rosie Meade
William Thompson Weekend 2004
Firkin Crane Centre, Shandon, Cork.

FRIDAY 30 APRIL, 7.30pm

The Annual William Thompson Lecture
Lynne Segal
‘Sparks of hope: political journeys’

Lynne Segal is Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, London University, and an internationally renowned feminist theorist and activist. Her books include 'Is the Future Female?' 'Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism'; 'Slow Motion': 'Changing Masculinities, Changing Men'; 'Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure'; 'Why Feminism? Gender, Psychology, Politics'. She is currently writing 'Making Trouble: Political Journeys.' read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Wednesday April 28, 2004 12:31 by mikael mounier
this is a link for a petition agaisnt nuclear energy in Europe read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday April 28, 2004 01:10 by Robert Looby   text 3 comments (last - friday august 06, 2004 15:20)
This is a (hurried) summary and translation of what I’ve picked up from indymedia Poland and some mainstream Polish press (i.e. web) coverage for the benefit of non-Polish speakers, though some of the http://poland.indymedia.org/pl articles have English translations too. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday April 27, 2004 23:00 by IPSC   text 5 comments (last - wednesday april 28, 2004 17:57)
Dublin IPSC will hold a demonstration tomorrow at 6.30pm outside the National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, where a concert is being held to celebrate Israeli Independence Day. read full story / add a comment
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