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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
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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 Fact-Checking Starmer?s Claim That Brexit Created the Small Boats Crisis Wed Oct 01, 2025 17:30 | Will Jones
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offsite link Why is ?Pandemic Preparedness? a Major Theme of the New US Global Health Strategy? Wed Oct 01, 2025 15:43 | Dr David Bell
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The post Why is ‘Pandemic Preparedness’ a Major Theme of the New US Global Health Strategy? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ed Miliband Pledges Legislation to Ban Fracking ?Forever? Wed Oct 01, 2025 13:22 | Will Jones
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New 10-minute film on Mayo, Policing The Pollution

category mayo | environment | news report author Sunday November 11, 2007 21:11author by Oscar Beard - Indymedia UK, Reel News, Freelance Journalist Report this post to the editors

View on Current TV

A new 10-minute film on Shell in County Mayo has just been posted on Current TV, entitled Policing The Pollution: "Don't Mention The Water."
Stills from the film: Broadhaven Bay
Stills from the film: Broadhaven Bay

http://current.com/items/87156551_policing_the_pollutio...water

In February 2007 I travelled to County Mayo, Ireland, to investigate allegations of police brutality against the local community who dared to oppose the construction of the Shell Oil Corrib Gas Refinery and pipeline.

Other than documenting horrific accounts of one retired local crippled for life by police, and others who had suffered broken ribs and noses, I met local blacksmith John Monaghan. He discovered the local water supply of 10,000 people was being polluted with aluminium coming from the Shell Gas Refinery site.

Despite laws in place to hold Shell to account for any pollution, the aluminium was coming from the site in dangerously high levels and neither Shell nor the local council seemed to be doing anything about it.

This documentary follows on from the More4 News report, “Irish Gas Plant Under Fire”, aired in June 2007, and looks at the policing and the pollution in County Mayo.

If you view the film, please register to Current TV (no, you won't get insanely spammed), then you can vote and get the film on their digital TV channels and get the story out further to a wider audience.

The June 2007 More4 News report, “Irish Gas Refinery Under Fire”:

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/environme...68972

An edited version of the Policing The Pollution Rough Cut was released on Reel News DVD Issue 6.

http://www.reelnews.co.uk/

http://reelnews.co.uk/back_issues/back_issue_6.htm

Related Link: http://current.com/items/87156551_policing_the_pollution_don_t_mention_the_water

Stills from the film: Sunrise in Mayo
Stills from the film: Sunrise in Mayo

Stills from the film: Baton Charge
Stills from the film: Baton Charge

Stills from the film: Strangling Pat O'Donnell
Stills from the film: Strangling Pat O'Donnell

Stills from the film: Willie Corduff
Stills from the film: Willie Corduff

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Fantastic piece of documentation     Starstruck    Sun Nov 11, 2007 23:08 
   high time     Chrissie    Sun Nov 11, 2007 23:08 
   Great piece of work.     Niall Harnett    Sun Nov 11, 2007 23:43 
   names     jd    Mon Nov 12, 2007 00:13 
   Very good film     JB    Mon Nov 12, 2007 00:30 
   Pollution     Pat    Mon Nov 12, 2007 21:31 
   Anonymous Pat     Maura Harrington    Mon Nov 12, 2007 21:42 
   HSE and EPA?     JB    Mon Nov 12, 2007 22:34 
   To Pat-Pollution     Oscar Beard    Tue Nov 13, 2007 00:51 
 10   A couple of examples     D    Tue Nov 13, 2007 06:08 
 11   It's the Pollution S......!     J    Tue Nov 13, 2007 08:32 
 12   more pollution     Ted    Wed Nov 28, 2007 19:04 
 13   to D     GasMan    Thu Nov 29, 2007 06:39 
 14   What eejit posted this on current?     Sternn    Sun Dec 16, 2007 07:10 
 15   Congrats     MacE    Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:47 
 16   assault     Jack    Fri Feb 01, 2008 21:32 


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