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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Human Rights in 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 Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

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offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

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offsite link Freedom of Speech in the UK is Under Threat, US Ambassador Warns Audience Including Deputy PM David ... Sun Nov 23, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
David Lammy had a stark warning delivered by US ambassador Warren Stephens, who said free speech in the UK is seriously under threat from heavy-handed government rules and rising violence.
The post Freedom of Speech in the UK is Under Threat, US Ambassador Warns Audience Including Deputy PM David Lammy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Britain?s Public Inquiries ? Unaffordable and Unscientific Sun Nov 23, 2025 13:00 | Dr David Livermore
Britain's public inquiries are a money pit, chasing stories that suit them while ignoring the facts. David Livermore calls out the Covid Inquiry for spinning dodgy stats and brushing aside the huge harm lockdowns did.
The post Britain?s Public Inquiries ? Unaffordable and Unscientific appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thousands of Pakistanis Using Visa Loopholes for Asylum Claims Sun Nov 23, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
There are growing claims the UK's visa system is being openly gamed, with record numbers of Pakistani nationals arriving on student, work and visitor visas and then switching to asylum.
The post Thousands of Pakistanis Using Visa Loopholes for Asylum Claims appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link 30 Left-Wing MPs Call on Ofcom to Censor X Under the Online Safety Act. Of Course They Do Sun Nov 23, 2025 09:00 | Laurie Wastell
Thirty Left-wing MPs have written to Ofcom to press it to censor X under the Online Safety Act. The evidence of 'hate' on the platform is threadbare, but it's obvious why they want to clip its wings, says Laurie Wastell.
The post 30 Left-Wing MPs Call on Ofcom to Censor X Under the Online Safety Act. Of Course They Do appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Exposed: How Green ?Philanthropy? Writes Scripts for Ulez ?Clean Air? Activists Sun Nov 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile highlights the work of Charlotte Gill exposing how green 'philanthropy' gives scripts to activists pushing 'clean air' schemes like Ulez as blatant proxies for the climate agenda.
The post Exposed: How Green ‘Philanthropy’ Writes Scripts for Ulez ‘Clean Air’ Activists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Blue Bloc Starts a riot

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Monday May 06, 2002 22:46author by HairyActivist - Disorganisation Report this post to the editors

Today, on the streets of Dublin, a number of known troublemakers converged on a street party.

These know trouble makers were intent on turning a peaceful, party featuring music, dancing, twister, drum playing, face painting into a riot.

Unprovoked they began to attack people peacefully sitting on the ground, dancing, filming and partying. A number of these known trouble-makers had previously been spotted at protests on Car Free Day and otuside the Burlington.

They have a track record of turning peaceful protests violent.

Teenagers and even children were amongst those brutally attacked by blue bloc members. Members of this group were even seen driving a van into pedestrians. Others kicked and punched peaceful people who they through to the ground.

We can all sleep safely tonight, knowing that our money is paying for the these trouble makers to attack us in a concerted attempt by the Gardaí Siochána (Guardians of the Peace) to start a riot.

author by Phuq Heddpublication date Mon May 06, 2002 23:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Who are these depraved villains? How is it that they've been able to get away with it for so long? And not only that, they're a known organized gang. Something should be done about them.

To all the RTS participants: good party! pity it was spoiled by the criminals.

author by potlatchpublication date Mon May 06, 2002 23:57author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ho, ho, very funny. How about posting something sensible.

Could someone please tell me whether that blue Fiesta was just some random car or was it brought there by some protesters deliberately?

author by Phuq Heddpublication date Tue May 07, 2002 00:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Why is what was posted "not sensible"? It points out that the violence that happened was initiated by a group of people that initiate violence regularly at public events: the Gardai.

I think that's very sensible to point that out.

So what is it that you disagree with about the report?

author by potlatchpublication date Tue May 07, 2002 00:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I thoroughly support RTS but it turns my stomach to read uninformative crap like that. Uh huh huh, "blue bloc" - hilarious.

author by ripped trouserspublication date Tue May 07, 2002 00:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I think the article had a point and it was mildly ironic, which is fine. The Gards were well behaved right up until the Dame Street incident and their use of violence has to be highlighted. But yeah, this comment or whatever was just totally uninformative and dumb - if anyone's gonna post anything like that here, please actually inform people of something. After all, it's a news website but boards.ie.

author by 8denpublication date Tue May 07, 2002 01:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The blue fiest was a banger purchased with the intention of being trashed, by the RTSers.

It wasn't some passing punters car, but a symbolic gesture.

That being said, the gesture was fucking moronic and it sparked the violence, it was a bleeding stupid thing to do....

author by turferinopublication date Tue May 07, 2002 02:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

a report on irish independent online describes the crowd as nasty and violent.
however in reality the gardai were swinging in response to the singing of "peaceful protest".

they obviously got the nod from above and rallied each other to "put manners on the hippies", they were on a rampage to achieve maximum bragging rights amongst themselves.

my friend went to help the first poor fella they got on the ground and clubbed, he wasnt violent just trying to clam the mob of gards, he got a club to the head for his efforts, i went in to drag him away and got clubbed, if my granny at 90 years of age had been there she would have got it.
the guards wore no numbers or had any form of i.d they all looked just the same to me. young lads straight out off templemore, with the taste for blood, they were well pumped up and all seemed to be enjoying the rampage.
sleep well
feargal

author by monkeybombpublication date Tue May 07, 2002 03:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It was interesting to overhear the head Gard's telephone conversation today. Him and his ilk simply don't understand, and were completely incapable of comprehending, what was going on. I'm quite sure they were genuinely ill informed about what the RTS event was.

All I can remember the guy saying (even after talking to IMC heads): "there was a bit of a situation earlier on ... there's some kind of an event here, or something". That's 40 years of brainwashing, folks.

Related Link: http://www.monkeybomb.com
author by yoker the toker - kraken gaat door!publication date Tue May 07, 2002 12:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors


maybe 'potlatch' should stop reading hakim bey and lighten up a bit:

I think 'blue bloc' is a funny play on words:

good to hear the rts thing still happening in dublin and quite typical to see the templemorons vying for a ruck: hows about holding the next one in sheriff street though???

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