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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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Can the radical Left ? increasingly wedded to violence to achieve its unpopular ideals ? actually be trusted with free speech, or will it just keep using it to call for and celebrate our deaths, asks Steven Tucker.
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offsite link In Defence of Cancelling the Left Fri Sep 26, 2025 17:00 | Dr James Allan
Should the Right take the moral high ground and refrain from cancel culture? Or should it give the Left a taste of its own medicine ? and try to teach it a lesson? It has to be the latter, argues Professor James Allan.
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offsite link Watch: Police Arrest Autistic Man in Middle of the Night for Posting ?F*** Hamas, F*** Islam? on Soc... Fri Sep 26, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Police officers have come under fire after they arrested an autistic man late last night over an X post which read: "F***?Hamas, F***?Palestine, F*** Islam. Want to protest? F*** off to a Muslim country and protest."
The post Watch: Police Arrest Autistic Man in Middle of the Night for Posting “F*** Hamas, F*** Islam” on Social Media appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link It?s Time to Admit That Christians Are Being Persecuted in Two-Tier Britain Fri Sep 26, 2025 13:40 | Belinda Brown
It's time to admit that Christians are being persecuted in two-tier Britain, says Belinda Brown. The flimsiest claims of 'offence' from normal expressions of Christian faith are getting people sacked and arrested.
The post It’s Time to Admit That Christians Are Being Persecuted in Two-Tier Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Boycott Israel- Boycott M&S

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Saturday January 10, 2009 21:53author by breather Report this post to the editors

Boycott Stickers placed in Dublin stores

Just before today's march in support of the people of Gaza, a number of activists marked the shelves of the Marks and Spencer's stores in Dublin with stickers bearing the slogan: Stop the Slaughter in Gaza- Boycott Israeli Goods.

Although not everything for sale in M&S comes from Israel, the company has a unique relationship with the Zionist state, judging support for the country as a fundamental business objective.

As Naomi Klein argues in her article from thenation.com (reprinted in the Guardian today), Israel's leaders can be comfortable that there is no economic cost to their genocidal actions in Palestine. The Israeli stockmarket has actually risen since the attack on Gaza began.
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The time for using a boycott as a strategic weapon against the Zionists is now- companies who support the Israeli nation in their attacks on Palestinians should be avoided. A small trade dependent nation like Israel is very vulnerable to a boycott campaign, she says. This argument is agreed by many on the Left, not least those in Israel itself. You can read Naomi Klein's article here: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090126/klein?rel=hp_curr...ently

Today's protest in M&S in Dublin ended when the security guards in the store called the Gardaí who arrived and forcefully arrested one of the demonstrators and charged him with damaging Marks and Spencer property.

Related Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/10/naomi-klein-boycott-israel

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   'every little helps'     Conor. M    Sat Jan 10, 2009 22:46 
   Thanks     michaelallora    Sat Jan 10, 2009 23:12 
   SOME PRODUCTS TO BOYCOTT     conor    Sat Jan 10, 2009 23:27 
   Conor thanks     Tagger    Sun Jan 11, 2009 00:16 
   Civil disobedience?     Celine    Sun Jan 11, 2009 00:43 
   M&S corporate support     moshe    Sun Jan 11, 2009 02:34 
   Boycott Israeli Goods     Gaza    Sun Jan 11, 2009 02:56 
   Where can we get stickers like that?     Shane    Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:34 
   Irelands past tales in the BOYCOTT story + More brands added to boycott list     dunk    Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:15 
 10   Available in the mail     postman    Sun Jan 11, 2009 13:04 
 11   forgot to add to this photo with above post.     dunk    Sun Jan 11, 2009 13:20 
 12   What better place than here, what better time than now?     Tim    Sun Jan 11, 2009 13:28 
 13   Futility     Futile    Sun Jan 11, 2009 14:40 
 14   belfast yesterday     kevin murphy    Sun Jan 11, 2009 15:07 
 15   Tesco plc     southern comfort    Sun Jan 11, 2009 15:41 
 16   Boycott is definately not a Futile act - try it     dunk    Sun Jan 11, 2009 16:03 
 17   Website and List - Boycott Israel Now     Bazooka Joe    Sun Jan 11, 2009 16:48 
 18   A Boycott Of Israeli Goods Is One Of The Mechanisms To Peace.....     Michael Gallagher    Sun Jan 11, 2009 18:03 
 19   Thanks for the stickers     gazasympathiser    Sun Jan 11, 2009 18:39 
 20   made in AMERRY KA     Michael    Sun Jan 11, 2009 18:56 
 21   BOYCOTT ISRAEL, SAVE GAZA     conor    Sun Jan 11, 2009 19:12 
 22   accident prone     butterfingers    Sun Jan 11, 2009 19:22 
 23   Boycott     tagger    Sun Jan 11, 2009 19:53 
 24   Vaseline immersed Boxing Gloves     Michael    Sun Jan 11, 2009 20:03 
 25   .........     ......    Sun Jan 11, 2009 20:29 
 26   your entitled to your beliefs over in england     kevin murphy    Sun Jan 11, 2009 20:49 
 27   yawn     Oisín    Sun Jan 11, 2009 22:01 
 28   Boycott Now and Forever     tagger    Sun Jan 11, 2009 22:56 
 29   Apartheid-Free Zones     Sean Clinton    Sun Jan 11, 2009 23:01 
 30   "A STORE"     butterfingers    Mon Jan 12, 2009 01:10 
 31   butterfingers     gazasympathiser    Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:27 
 32   RTE today covering heightened call for international Israeli boycott from Jewish author Naomi Klein     dunk    Mon Jan 12, 2009 17:37 
 33   israeli lack of foresight     ann mccabe    Mon Jan 12, 2009 18:44 
 34   Global BDS Movement - main BOYCOTT link from IMC-ORG     dunk    Mon Jan 12, 2009 19:28 
 35   Malaysia sets an example     Miriam    Tue Jan 13, 2009 02:16 
 36   'Action Alert for Gaza'     Miriam    Tue Jan 13, 2009 07:14 
 37   The movement has begun     Imran    Fri Jan 16, 2009 17:28 
 38   a rather strange way of running a boycott     Mike    Fri Jan 16, 2009 18:39 
 39   query on israel     shawney    Fri Jan 16, 2009 19:27 
 40   Israeli phone companies make great profit!     Fair is Fair    Fri Jan 16, 2009 20:34 
 41   A Passing Comment     Mr Man    Fri Jan 16, 2009 20:40 
 42   Great Idea Miriam     Mark C    Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:23 
 43   Israeli boycot     jacky    Mon Jan 19, 2009 14:36 
 44   Facts     Inquiring mind    Mon Jan 19, 2009 15:23 
 45   LIST OF FIRMS     Mr L    Mon Jan 19, 2009 19:31 
 46   Info for Shawney     Kathy    Thu Jan 28, 2010 17:52 
 47   Population stats for Palestine 1850-1885     Anti-Semanticism    Wed Jun 16, 2010 02:03 
 48   Land ownership Palestine 1945     Anti-Semanticism    Wed Jun 16, 2010 02:07 
 49   population of Palestine 1947     Anti-Semanticism    Wed Jun 16, 2010 02:20 
 50   Population of Palestine 2004     Anti-Semanticism    Wed Jun 16, 2010 02:23 
 51   Sources     Anti-Semanticism    Wed Jun 16, 2010 02:27 
 52   Seen it Before.     Nazi Watcher.    Wed Jun 16, 2010 13:00 
 53   As usual     Idiot-watcher    Wed Jun 16, 2010 14:40 
 54   Oh the Nasty Nazis     Anti-Semanticism    Wed Jun 16, 2010 14:55 
 55   Seen it before     Yawn    Wed Jun 16, 2010 14:57 
 56   Zionist bulls**t     Anti-Semanticism    Wed Jun 16, 2010 16:02 
 57   Gerrymander.     Seen it Before    Wed Jun 16, 2010 16:53 
 58   Dear Shawney     Anti-Semanticism    Wed Jun 16, 2010 17:18 
 59   Them-Versus-Us.     Saw it Before.    Wed Jun 16, 2010 17:47 
 60   Rule # 58 in the Zionist Hasbara Handbook     Anti-Semanticism    Wed Jun 16, 2010 18:23 
 61   Dear Shawney     Seen it all before    Wed Jun 16, 2010 18:35 
 62   Rule # 58(a) in the Zionist Hasbara Handbook     Seen it all before    Wed Jun 16, 2010 18:52 
 63   UN policy was and is still two states     Frank Adam    Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:56 
 64   ..another Arab dictatorship...     opus diablos    Tue Aug 17, 2010 13:35 
 65   odious     Tim Johnston    Tue Aug 17, 2010 15:53 
 66   of pedantry and punditry     opus diablos    Tue Aug 17, 2010 17:11 
 67   Facts?     Frank Adam    Tue Aug 17, 2010 17:36 
 68   And then there was One .     Sceptic .    Tue Aug 17, 2010 18:24 
 69   apologies.     opus diablos    Tue Aug 17, 2010 18:42 
 70   Look in your mirror     Frank Adam    Wed Aug 18, 2010 16:50 
 71   to: Hasbara-Bot #489213CF (a.k.a 'Frank' Adam')     Hu Bris    Wed Aug 18, 2010 16:58 
 72   hubris     Tim Johnston    Wed Aug 18, 2010 18:03 
 73   yes dear     Hu Bris    Wed Aug 18, 2010 19:13 
 74   uncordinated     problem with boycotting    Fri Aug 20, 2010 15:03 
 75   "Why not ?" said the Irishman..     Frank Adam    Sun Aug 22, 2010 16:20 
 76   ...make something of the part...     opus diablos    Sun Aug 22, 2010 21:18 
 77   Try Jordan - if you like silicon padding     Frank Adam    Wed Aug 25, 2010 22:49 
 78   M and S sucess ?     Sean Og    Thu Aug 26, 2010 01:04 
 79   nice herrings, boys..     opus diablos    Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:42 
 80   re:m & s success     mickeyG    Thu Aug 26, 2010 13:07 
 81   if you cant beat em...     opus diablos    Thu Aug 26, 2010 13:27 
 82   Fail your exams in fact - and pass in rabble rousing     Frank Adam    Thu Aug 26, 2010 14:55 
 83   calm down, frank     opus diablos    Thu Aug 26, 2010 19:24 
 84   Islamophobia     opus diablos    Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:41 
 85   muslimbretherns..etc     muslimhierarchy    Fri Aug 27, 2010 15:08 
 86   return to the homeland....?     zealot zionsactinglikenazis    Fri Aug 27, 2010 15:36 
 87   google up Haaretz...     opus diablos    Fri Aug 27, 2010 16:17 
 88   Re:slander     Adolph    Fri Aug 27, 2010 18:07 
 89   very true, Adolf...     opus diablos    Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:11 
 90   Very holed for legalists     Frank Adam    Sat Aug 28, 2010 22:25 
 91   gnaw away, frank     opus diablos    Sat Aug 28, 2010 22:41 
 92   you win.     Tim Johnston    Wed Sep 01, 2010 15:51 
 93   When to start....     opus diablos    Wed Sep 01, 2010 16:56 
 94   As Shamir said     Frank Adam    Sat Sep 04, 2010 21:14 


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