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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 Hallett Inquiry Report: Of, By and For Lawyers Mon Dec 01, 2025 11:00 | Ramesh Thakur
The Covid Inquiry is an inquiry of, by and for lawyers, says Ramesh Thakur ? just a carefully staged political whitewash with no real search for the truth and no hope of accountability.
The post Hallett Inquiry Report: Of, By and For Lawyers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link New Scientific Findings Expose the Hoax Behind Meat Eating Climate Alarm Mon Dec 01, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
New science has blown the meat-eating climate scare wide open, showing methane's impact is massively overhyped ? so go ahead and enjoy your steak guilt free, says Chris Morrison.
The post New Scientific Findings Expose the Hoax Behind Meat Eating Climate Alarm appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link If UK Health Authorities Think ?Climate Nostalgia? is a Profoundly Depressing Mental Malady Worth Ad... Mon Dec 01, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
The UKHSA warns of climate change causing 'solastalgia' ? nostalgia for how the countryside used to look. But what about the gut punch Brits feel seeing their country transformed by mass immigration? asks Steven Tucker.
The post If UK Health Authorities Think ?Climate Nostalgia? is a Profoundly Depressing Mental Malady Worth Addressing, Why Not ?Demographic Nostalgia?? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Dec 01, 2025 01:04 | 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 The Real Monster Raving Loony Party Sun Nov 30, 2025 19:00 | Sallust
In a comical scramble to revive British Left-wing politics, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's new "Your Party" can't agree on leadership or policies ? but at least they've nailed down a name...
The post The Real Monster Raving Loony Party 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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international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 30, 2008 12:33 by pat c
This is the May Day statement from the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar). More information is available from the links below and Rahe Kargar may be contacted at public@rahekargar.net

International solidarity is our global capital to confront global capitalism
*Neo-liberal globalisation is nothing more than the globalisation of unemployment, insecurity, poverty, hunger, a bleak future and constant fear for the majority in this world.
*Under the flag of democracy capitalists spread the dictatorship of free markets on our planet.
*The rich are getting fewer and richer while the poor are getting more numerous and poorer.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday April 30, 2008 12:06 by Darren C   text 6 comments (last - friday may 02, 2008 19:09)
2008/04/29

The leaders of the Alliance for Workers Liberty (AWL) argue socialists should not fight for the withdrawal of US/UK troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. They claim that were the occupation to end immediately the Iraqi labour movement would be annihilated by reactionary Islamic forces. At a recent AWL day school, leading member Mark Osborne specifically claimed that the movement behind cleric Muqtada Al Sadr had a policy of "killing trade unionists". Curious to know whether there was any truth in this claim Simon Hardy contacted Iraqi exile and academic Sami Ramadani, from Iraq Occupation for Focus, for his thoughts. Sami replied quickly, exploding the argument of the AWL that the occupying forces provide any cover for the Iraqi labour movement. With thanks to Sami, we publish his reply here. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday April 30, 2008 10:19 by Justin Morahan   text 2 comments (last - wednesday april 30, 2008 11:35)
Members of a brave Christian Peacemakers team, hoping by their sleep-in to prevent the threatened eviction of the orphans in an Orphanage in Hebron, were helpless this morning as about 40 Israeli soldiers raided the workshop of the Orphanage, terrorising the children there and carrying away all of its equipment worth about €28,000. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday April 30, 2008 06:34 by Ploughshares   text 9 comments (last - wednesday may 14, 2008 20:49)
STATEMENT OF THE WAIHOPAI ANZAC PLOUGHSHARES

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift sword against nation; and there shall be no more training for war. Isaiah 2/4
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 30, 2008 00:24 by No One's Business by Mine   text 9 comments (last - thursday may 01, 2008 20:27)
A personal account of how my right to privacy was signed away by the act of simply signing my employment contract: read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 23:18 by CWAG
Celebrate International Workers Day over the May Bank Holiday Weekend read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 20:05 by Joe Moore
A public meeting marking the 40th anniversary of May 1968 will be held on Thursday 8th May at 8.00pm in the Victoria Hotel, Patrick St., Cork. The speaker is Paul O'Brien, author of "Shelly and Revolutionary Ireland." read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday April 29, 2008 18:07 by Des Dalton
Statement from the Vice President of Republican Sinn Fein Des Dalton on the British Government's insistence on holding an inquiry under the restrictive British Inquiries Act 2005 rather than a full public and independent inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday April 29, 2008 17:06 by Stuart
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 are available in a searchable online database. A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

Trials from major Irish figures to the unknown masses prosecuted for petty offences are an important resource relevant to the formation of modern Irish society. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 16:49 by Sarah Lundberg
American Poets in Ireland
from the
Chapters and Verse Reading Series
Cassidy’s Westmoreland St
On Sunday 11th May 2008 at 3.30pm

The readers at this event are three Californian poets – Alanna Alter, Kathleen Flowers and Amber Coverdale Sumrall who are traveling around Ireland in April and May and three American poets – Susan Millar DuMars from Philadelphia, Quincy R. Lehr from Oklahoma and Raven from Philadelphia who live in Ireland and are a vibrant part of the Irish poetry scene.
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday April 29, 2008 12:27 by tom eile   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 30, 2008 15:59)
The Basra Development Commission (BDC) , a panel consisting of six Iraqi businessmen ,and officials ,plus one Briton , is to visit the North of Ireland this week to speak to officials there . They hope to learn during their two day visit from community and business leaders about how the Irish peace process has transformed the six county economy. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 11:15 by Nessa Ní Chasaide
When?
Wednesday May 14th, 7pm to 9pm and
Wednesday May 21st, 7pm to 9pm
Where?
Cois Tine, St Mary’s, Pope’s Quay, Cork [access via St Mary’s Church]

Why not take this great opportunity to get up to speed on the injustice of the debt problem in the Global South?

This training course is divided into two sessions and will provide participants with a detailed understanding of the debt problem in the Global South, including a full update on the current situation and lots of ideas of what can be done from Ireland to tackle the problem. The course will equip participants to analyse responsibilities in the debt crisis, learn about the current focus of the global debt cancellation movement and discuss what activists in Ireland can do to tackle the problem.
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cork / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 11:10 by Nessa Ní Chasaide
When?
Wednesday May 14th, 7pm to 9pm and
Wednesday May 21st, 7pm to 9pm
Where?
Cois Tine, St Mary’s, Pope’s Quay, Cork [access via St Mary’s Church]

Why not take this great opportunity to get up to speed on the injustice of the debt problem in the Global South?

This training course is divided into two sessions and will provide participants with a detailed understanding of the debt problem in the Global South, including a full update on the current situation and lots of ideas of what can be done from Ireland to tackle the problem. The course will equip participants to analyse responsibilities in the debt crisis, learn about the current focus of the global debt cancellation movement and discuss what activists in Ireland can do to tackle the problem.
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galway / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 11:03 by Nessa Ní Chasaide
When?

Saturday May 10th, 10.30am to 1pm (lunch provided)
Harbour Hotel, New Docks Road, Galway City

Tuesday May 20th, 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Galway One World Centre, Bridge Mills, Dominick St., Galway City

Why not take this great opportunity to get up to speed on the injustice of the debt problem in the Global South?

This training course is divided into two sessions and will provide participants with a detailed understanding of the debt problem in the Global South, including a full update on the current situation and lots of ideas of what can be done from Ireland to tackle the problem. The course will equip participants to analyse responsibilities in the debt crisis, learn about the current focus of the global debt cancellation movement and discuss what activists in Ireland can do to tackle the problem.
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 10:48 by Martin O'Neill
7pm
Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre
41-43 Lower Donegall Street
Side Entrance, Top Floor read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday April 28, 2008 17:52 by Ronan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 29, 2008 16:11)
Tuesday 29th- May 5th 2008.

Filmbase, Curved St. Temple Bar (across from the old Temple Bar Music Centre – now called The Button Factory read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday April 28, 2008 17:17 by Larry Connolly   text 18 comments (last - thursday may 01, 2008 23:27)
A brief look at the state of the Republican movement. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Monday April 28, 2008 17:06 by Laura Broxson
national / environment / other press Monday April 28, 2008 16:21 by Indyjourno   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 29, 2008 18:07)
At the Cúirt literary festival’s annual forum in Galway, in a debate entitled Can capitalism save the planet from climate change? RTE's environment correspondent, Paul Cunningham noted that the Irish Media is being challenged by Indymedia on the publics desire for action on climate change. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Monday April 28, 2008 15:41 by Howard Holby   text 1 comment (last - friday june 13, 2008 20:25)
The purpose of the Lisbon Treaty research is to offer the voters of Ireland objective arguments on the Lisbon Treaty, with facts and evidence with substance, and an objective discussion of the legal, political, economical and social considerations of the Treaty.

So far it has been only the No groups who presented quotes of the Lisbon Treaty, and only their arguments stand valid on the basis of the text itself and on the grounds of scientific facts.
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