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Indymedia ireland

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 Labour Will Regret Defending the Boriswave Tue Sep 23, 2025 09:00 | Laurie Wastell
When Nigel Farage announced on Monday that Reform would end benefits for migrants and abolish settled status, Left-wing MPs rushed to denounce him. Labour will regret defending the Boriswave, says Laurie Wastell.
The post Labour Will Regret Defending the Boriswave appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Farms to Switch Off Whe... Tue Sep 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Suddenly, green activists have started getting outraged at the billions wasted paying wind farms to switch off when it's too windy. The hypocrisy and chutzpah beggars belief, says Ben Pile.
The post Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Farms to Switch Off When it’s Too Windy? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Sep 23, 2025 01:12 | 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 Hamas Executes ?Israeli Collaborators? in Streets of Gaza Mon Sep 22, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Hamas?has executed three Palestinians accused of "collaborating" with Israel on the streets of Gaza, just hours after the UK, Australia and Canada announced their?recognition of a Palestinian state.
The post Hamas Executes “Israeli Collaborators” in Streets of Gaza appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong Mon Sep 22, 2025 17:35 | Dr David Bell
The Covid response was not an error, and it was not the result of rushing to counter an unknown pathogen. It was a lot of people, mostly professionals, systematically doing what they knew was wrong, says Dr David Bell.
The post The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong 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

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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday October 04, 2003 21:11 by Jimbo
RAINBOWS Ireland are celebrating 15 years in Ireland with a Charity concert in the National Concert Hall. read full story / add a comment
kerry / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday October 04, 2003 20:16 by Laurence Vize
Demands
US Military out of Shannon
No Irish troops for the occupation of Iraq
Drop all charges of civil disobedience read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday October 04, 2003 18:25 by Sian Muldowney   text 4 comments (last - friday october 17, 2003 15:30)
Social and Political unrest escalates in Bolivia as a result of proposed plans to sell the country´s natural gas to US and Mexico. Protests and blockades continue and the government defends the use of military force. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday October 04, 2003 18:09 by vinnie   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 07, 2003 18:01)
After many requests from the sites readership Indymedia Ireland now has its own event calendar. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday October 04, 2003 12:54 by Joe Craig   text 4 comments (last - monday october 06, 2003 22:51)
Report on the meeting to launch a united left campign for possible Stormont elections. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday October 04, 2003 12:41 by James McKenna   text 45 comments (last - monday april 17, 2006 17:13)
The Late Late Show on Friday night became a spectacle of sectarianism and set-piece television. Not for the first time Pat and his "team" betrayed their middle class Cathoilc backgrounds in this Islamophobic production. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday October 04, 2003 11:59 by Aron
Events from Sat 4th Oct. A shooting in Balata camp in Nablus and general humiliation and detentions, by IOF soldiers, of civilians. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday October 04, 2003 02:07 by The VOICE Refugee Forum   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 04, 2003 03:58)
I appeal to human rights groups and organisations to support our commitment to continue our political and social engagements for our right to be present here, and to provide security and safety for refugees in Germany. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday October 04, 2003 00:18 by berniebird   text 5 comments (last - tuesday october 07, 2003 18:09)
Without a hint of irony, Arnold chooses Twisted Sisters’ “We’re Not Gonna Take It” as campaign song. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday October 03, 2003 23:04 by Rocketman   text 3 comments (last - friday october 10, 2003 01:01)
This excellent article below from the Eaton T. Fores Research Center Against Psychiatry gives a great insight into how psychiatry has manufactured 'illnesses' whose etiology and underlying pathology cannot be proven enabling the drug companies to make tremendous profits while all the time lying to the people. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday October 03, 2003 22:43 by Jay Shaft   text 3 comments (last - monday october 06, 2003 23:26)
Our combined voices have been heard around the world by many nations and widely separate and diverse cultures. We have all raised our voices against war in a chorus of many languages and tongues. We have cried out in one unified voice against the governments massing the greed filled, profit driven war machine of corporate enrichment. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Friday October 03, 2003 20:05 by An Mangaire Sugach
Last weekend I managed to make it up to Leitrim to catch the last of the Green Festival that was going on there. I missed many of the walks, talks, films and sessions of the previous week but still managed to go to a few interesting workshops and get a sense of what was going on. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday October 03, 2003 18:50 by john francis   text 4 comments (last - saturday october 11, 2003 23:21)
This is a reminder to come out to IQ's Immigrant Freedom Ride contingent, tomorrow (Saturday) -- and to make sure everyone knows that Wyclef Jean is a headline performer at the event! (So is local homophobe Cardinal Egan, but whatever.)

We'll have signs that identify us as Irish community members and queers supporting the demands of immigrant workers: legalization, fair rewards for work, and civil and human rights. Our signs will also demand that queer immigrants -- not just traditional, heterosexual immigrant families -- be included in that struggle. Bring your own signs if you can...

Meeting-up info:
9:45 am
111th St. and 45th Ave. (corner of the park)
Take the 7 train to 111th St. read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday October 03, 2003 18:50 by CAWC   text 6 comments (last - friday october 10, 2003 14:55)
The following article was published in the latest edition of the Limerick Leader, 4th October 2003. read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Friday October 03, 2003 17:15 by axe the bin tax!   text 18 comments (last - monday october 06, 2003 16:28)
Sinn Féin Cllr. Mark Daly tells residents to pay the bin tax - its only a bill in an interview with the Tallaght echo local newspaper. read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Friday October 03, 2003 16:42 by Oscar The Grouch   text 23 comments (last - monday october 06, 2003 12:31)
Picket Dublin City Council. Anti Bin Tax Demo, City Hall, Dame Street, Monday, 6 October, 6.30 pm. Let the councillors know what you think of them. Lets have a mass demonstration. We faced them down last night in Grangegorman but Dublin City Council are seeking to have 25 anti bin tax campaigners imprisoned.

Contact the following councillors who support the Bin Tax and the imprisonment of protesters:

Cllr. Ryan Meade,
93 Clonmacnoise Road,
Dublin 12
(Green)
086 817 6657(M)
email:
cllr_ryan.meade@dublincity.ie
Electoral Ward: Rathmines
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Cllr. Claire Wheeler,
27 Oaklands Park,
Dublin 4.
(Green)
Ph. 660 8582
Mobile No. 086 3831335
Email: cllr_claire.wheeler@dublincity.ie
Electoral Ward: South East Inner City read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Friday October 03, 2003 14:28 by Sean   text 3 comments (last - saturday october 04, 2003 11:56)
A representative group from the Cork Householders Against Service Charges Campaign will visit Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins in Mountjoy Prison tomorrow (Saturday).

The group are are all activists in the Cork Campaign and have all been jailed on the water / bin tax issue . read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Friday October 03, 2003 12:29 by Robert Walgate
According to a report in the British broadsheet The Guardian yesterday (October 2), the UK's extensive field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops show that "two out of three…oil seed rape and sugar beet, appear more harmful to the environment than conventional crops and should not be grown in the UK."
But the trial results have not yet been published. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday October 03, 2003 05:09 by Sam Hananel   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 07, 2003 13:59)
Nader called the Texas Republican Party's platform the most radically conservative he has ever seen, calling for: withdrawing from the UN, retaking the Panama Canal, repealing the minimum wage, and abolishing the Department of Education and the IRS. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Friday October 03, 2003 01:58 by Ronan Stenson   text 18 comments (last - friday october 03, 2003 22:10)
From about 5pm thursday evening a blockade was placed on the Council waste depot at Grangegorman on the north side of Dublin. This was to disrupt the evening rubbish collection in the city centre. More than eighty people took part.

I came down the Grangegorman Road about 4.30 this evening. As I passed the depot all was quiet so I went a further couple of hundred yards until I met between seven and ten people waiting at the corner of a side street. I only recognised a couple of them. A couple more seemed to be members of the media, one of them had a video camera. Someone else had a sack with some placards.

We waited there until close to 5pm, then began to make our way up toward the depot. As we arrived more people were also arriving, some in small groups and others on their own. Some of the people were from nearby houses. We began to walk around in a circle in front of the depot gate. The placards had words to the effect "How to defeat this tax" and had sp read full story / add a comment
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