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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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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday July 23, 2003 13:57 by Pit Stop Ploughshares   text 11 comments (last - friday july 25, 2003 23:48)
Two Ploughshares communites are back before the courts this Friday July 25th.

Three Roman Catholic Dominican sisters - Ardeth Platte, Jackie Hudson, Carol Gilbert - of the "Sacred Earth and Space Plowshares" are to be sentenced in Colarado, USA, to 6-20 years after being convicted of "Injury/obstruction of national defense of the US" & "Injury to government of the property of the US Government" of an ICBM missile silo.

The Pit Stop Ploughshares - Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop,Karen Fallon, Damien Moran & Ciaron O'Reilly have a pre-trial appearance at the Four Courts, Dublin. They have been charged with 2 counts of criminal damage to a hangar (€400) and a U.S. Navy War Plane (€2.5 million).

At Friday's hearing, the judge will set a trial date and revisit bail conditions (the defendants are required to sign on at a specific Dublin garda station daily, banned from within a mile of the U.S. Embassy and banned from Co. Clare). read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / press release Wednesday July 23, 2003 11:53 by Focus Ireland   text 5 comments (last - friday may 19, 2006 12:45)
Launch of Focus Ireland Annual Report 2002
Release date: July 23 2003

FOCUS IRELAND CLAIMS THE GOVERNMENT STRATEGY TO TACKLE HOMELESSNESS IS FAILING AS IN THE STRATEGY’S FINAL YEAR THE CRISIS CONTINUES TO WORSEN
·Government has abandoned its own social housing targets
·Homelessness rising instead of falling despite Govt. promises read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 23, 2003 01:17 by Watchdog   text 11 comments (last - thursday august 07, 2003 01:22)
Anti-smoking groups protect the cigarette industry from the most serious indictments, revelations, charges and liabiliies. "Smokers' Rights" groups do the same. Big Oil (tobacco pesticides), for one, is ignored even as we oppose its oily invasion of Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / news report Tuesday July 22, 2003 19:34 by René
In the proposal for the first EU constitution there is a change in the clausel for trade-treaties like GATS for education and other public services. Time for a new campaign... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / press release Tuesday July 22, 2003 17:34 by microgreenie
The Green Party is to lodge an official complaint to the European Commission over the refusal by South Dublin County Council to request an Environmental Impact Assessment for the Adamstown development at Lucan, which is currently the subject of an An Bord Pleanala oral hearing. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday July 22, 2003 17:33 by Seán   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 23, 2003 15:51)
Speaking at Press Conference this morning, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Mitchel McLaughlin along with the four Lisburn City Councillors launched a campaign to expose discrimination on the Lisburn City Council. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday July 22, 2003 17:32 by padraic   text 6 comments (last - wednesday july 23, 2003 18:57)
This Saturday in Dublin (venue details to follow) there will be an activist first aid workshop held by a woman from Germany. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 22, 2003 17:30 by Ian   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 23, 2003 14:25)
War in Iraq was inevitable. That there would be war was decided by North American planners in the mid-1920s; that it would be in Iraq was decided much more recently. The architects of this war were not military planners but town planners. War is inevitable not because of so-called weapons of mass destruction, as claimed by the political right, nor because of Western imperialism, as claimed by the left. The cause of this war is car dependence. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / press release Tuesday July 22, 2003 12:55 by Spitfire Mk III   text 42 comments (last - thursday july 24, 2003 22:07)
On Friday July 25th 2003, StopEsso Ireland presents StopEsso Live!; at the Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin. This event has already attracted a diverse gathering of DJs to pledge their support, Including Drum and Bass DJ Goldie. In addition to the artists, VJs will create a mix of exciting images of direct actions by StopEsso groups from around the World. The StopEsso Live is a mix of music, dance, inspirational images and activism. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 22, 2003 02:03 by Caeoimhin Eachan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 22, 2003 15:48)
No political observer can afford to ignore or deny the fact that the Israeli government is still using all gimmicks manoeuvers to hinder the implementation of the international legitimacy resolutions concerning the Middle East problem. Observers and analysts do not need further evidence to find that Israel is still opposing all honest peace efforts being exerted by the Arabs in general and the Palestinian people in particular. By persisting in its intransigent policy Israel is not only standing against the international legitimacy resolutions, but also rejecting the very initiative, the roadmap, put forward by the US and other parties of the Quartet Committee, the UN, the EU and Russia. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday July 21, 2003 20:20 by Assyrian Delegation   text 3 comments (last - monday july 21, 2003 22:30)
As we are nearing a turning point in the history of our homeland Iraq, the below mentioned Democratic Assyrian political organisations would like to take this opportunity to highlight the plight and concerns of our people in Iraq.

Assyrian Christians are the indigenous people of Iraq, our history in that region spans 6000 years. Assyrians speak the Aramaic language, the language of our saviour Jesus Christ and indeed Assyrians were the first nation to accept Christianity in the first century A.D.

During the First World War, Assyrians allied with the British against the Ottoman Turks and as a consequence lost over half our population as well as our ancestral homelands.

There are approximately 1.5 million Assyrian Christians in Iraq today. Under the current dictatorial regime, Assyrian people have endured 35 years of systematic oppression, persecution and summary executions due to our distinct race and Christian beliefs. read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday July 21, 2003 17:41 by Tim   text 14 comments (last - friday july 25, 2003 19:40)
don't have time to report on everything individually so here's a quick-ish round up of What's happening at Shannon from an anti-war point of view. The military charters continue to go through, both passenger and cargo aircraft.
but here's some of the other news for a change. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday July 21, 2003 15:14 by Seán   text 61 comments (last - friday august 01, 2003 16:00)
Sinn Féin must play a key role in the emerging global movement for change to secure a global context for our national agenda for change and ensure that national independence does not arrive in a context that reduces it to corporate subservience, argues COUNCILLOR EOIN Ó BROIN read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday July 21, 2003 12:27 by Geoff   text 6 comments (last - tuesday july 22, 2003 15:34)
After a nine year wait The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has published
the 2nd edition of Know Your Rights. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday July 20, 2003 22:59 by Cork Anti-War Campaign
Following the Cork Anti-War Campaign public meeting on the Congo on 26 June, Dan Boyle TD put the following parliamentary question to Brian Cowen, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and received the answer reproduced below. CAWC has sent a separate letter also to the minister asking him to personally visit the Ituri region, and we await a response. read full story / add a comment
international / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Sunday July 20, 2003 18:41 by sunday   text 5 comments (last - tuesday july 22, 2003 15:50)
For the reasons are local, the solutions are local, the strategies are made far far away, and the poor they are everywhere. Relatively writing. read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous / news report Saturday July 19, 2003 17:52 by Ailín   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 19, 2003 18:36)
The site of the former Limerick Clothing Company factory at present up for sale should be purchased by Limerick City Council for social and affordable housing, the local branch of Republican Sinn Féin said today. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday July 19, 2003 15:43 by penelope   text 19 comments (last - wednesday july 23, 2003 22:26)
Since the Council for the women of status have balked at a miserable picket, let's get something else together. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday July 19, 2003 14:23 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 16 comments (last - saturday april 24, 2004 20:56)
including a short profile of the Mammy Harney presently leader of the Progressive Democrats and Assistant Premier of the Irish State.

for local and foreign readers.
(difficulty upper intermediate listening comprehension material linked advanced difficulty)
{there will not be a test. We are still on hols.} read full story / add a comment
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