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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

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

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

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO 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

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

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

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran Sat Nov 22, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing against the acquittal of Hamit Coskun, who was convicted of burning the Quran in a protest, reigniting fears Britain could introduce blasphemy laws by the back door.
The post CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link World Kindness Day is Just Another Way of Grooming Schoolchildren into the Climate and Open Border C... Sat Nov 22, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
World Kindness Day may have passed you by. But it won't have passed by your children, whose school will have been sure to teach that climate action and open borders are essential elements of 'kindness', says Steven Tucker.
The post World Kindness Day is Just Another Way of Grooming Schoolchildren into the Climate and Open Border Cults appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Nov 22, 2025 01:24 | Toby Young
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 What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine Fri Nov 21, 2025 17:00 | Anonymous
Read what happened when an Extinction Rebellion meeting was disrupted by a protester. Seems they can give it out but have no intention of putting up with it themselves.
The post What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Are the Grooming Gangs a Muslim Phenomenon? Fri Nov 21, 2025 15:00 | Mark Durie
First they were 'Asian' grooming gangs, then 'Pakistani'. But the most important thing to grasp is that almost all of them ? 87% of convictions ? are Muslim, says Mark Durie. This must not be covered up.
The post Are the Grooming Gangs a Muslim Phenomenon? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Christie to give up council seat

category dublin | politics / elections | news report author Thursday July 15, 2004 15:54author by Sinn Fein Report this post to the editors

Christie to give up council seat
Martin Christie announced yesterday evening that he will resign his Sinn Féin seat on Fingal County Council at the request of the party's Ard Chomhairle.

Councillor Christie told An Phoblacht: "Following the election I gave a full and frank interview about a mistake in my past. This mistake was a moment of stupidity, which was completely out of character and which I have regretted ever since. Naïvely, I believed that this was something that was over and done with and that I could get on with my life.

"Despite my desire to continue to represent the people of Mulhuddart, it is clear that my position is untenable. Therefore, I will now resign my seat on Fingal County Council and support a Sinn Féin co-option in my place.

"This has been a very difficult time for my family, particularly my wife and children, and I want to thank them for the support they have given me. I also want to apologise for any embarrassment I have caused Sinn Féin.

"My desire was, and still is, to work with Sinn Féin. I intend to do this and hope this regrettable incident is now behind me."

Chairperson of Dublin Sinn Féin, Justin Moran, said: "We realise that this has been a difficult matter for Martin and his family and it is a credit to him that he dealt with the issue in an up-front and commendable manner.

"Martin has played and will continue to play a key role as a community and Sinn Féin activist in Mulhuddart.

"This issue is now behind us and we look forward to continuing the work of representing the people of Mulhuddart on Fingal County Council

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   tough one to call     anarchist    Thu Jul 15, 2004 16:41 
   Why?     Intrigued    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:10 
   Martin Christie     Pat Breen    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:13 
   Bollocks     Cynic    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:18 
   M. Christie     Ali Baba    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:23 
   Unfortunate.     Shinner    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:24 
   "this whole episode has been stage managed"     curious    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:27 
   To Cynic     Pat Breen    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:28 
   Cynic that I am you have just confirmed to me that this whole episode has been stage managed.     gMCg    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:28 
 10   Brown paper bags     TT    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:31 
 11   Thanks     Cynic    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:33 
 12   Not a legal issue.     brenners    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:40 
 13   Christie's case     Justin Moran    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:41 
 14   Ooooohhhhh     Cynic    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:43 
 15   What exactly did he do?     Stephen Daedalus    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:45 
 16   Lies and innuendo shows why he had to go.     shinner    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:53 
 17   Didn't take the SFuppie long to tell Justin. Are they all based in the one office?     brenners    Thu Jul 15, 2004 17:54 
 18   Which part of bourgeois law is acceptable?     Confused    Thu Jul 15, 2004 18:02 
 19   MOments of Madness     sOCIALIST    Thu Jul 15, 2004 18:08 
 20   strong stuff     .    Thu Jul 15, 2004 21:10 
 21   squeeky clean     iosaf    Fri Jul 16, 2004 13:11 
 22   Can Martin help?     Do It Yourself Woman    Fri Jul 16, 2004 13:16 
 23   there you have it.................     tom    Fri Jul 16, 2004 15:54 
 24   Gerry Kelly to resign his seat     Ardoyne Republican    Fri Jul 16, 2004 16:26 
 25   Question     mulhuddart resident    Fri Jul 16, 2004 16:58 
 26   Anarchist criticises worker for stealing money from his boss!     bakunin    Fri Jul 16, 2004 23:14 
 27   How much did SF leadership know about candidates?     Chris Barry    Sat Jul 17, 2004 18:12 
 28   the obvious reason     john    Sat Jul 17, 2004 20:10 
 29   christie to give up seat     non political party citizen    Sat Jul 17, 2004 22:07 
 30   replying to justin     flabbergasted    Sat Jul 17, 2004 22:31 
 31   replacement     sf non voter    Sat Jul 17, 2004 22:37 
 32   Petty crime doesn't pay .....     milk of amnesia    Sat Jul 17, 2004 22:52 
 33   Champagne for my real friends, and Real pain for my Sham Friends     Tom Waits fro no man    Sat Jul 17, 2004 23:00 
 34   champagne     flabbergasted    Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:52 
 35   well         Tue Jul 20, 2004 13:23 
 36   sf seat     dublin 15    Fri Jul 23, 2004 11:04 
 37   sf seat     dub    Fri Jul 23, 2004 20:11 
 38   sf seat     mary    Sat Jul 24, 2004 17:13 


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