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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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Sir Lenny Henry has called for Britain to pay ?18 trillion in reparations to black people, arguing in a new book that high rates of black crime and unemployment are "all because of the slave trade".
The post Sir Lenny Henry Wants ?18 Trillion of Slavery Reparations appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Representative is X of UK Public Opinion? Wed Oct 08, 2025 09:00 | Noah Carl
Britain's political class is addicted to X, but how representative Is the platform? According to recent YouGov polls, only 1 in 6 people uses X daily, and most people view it unfavourably.
The post How Representative is X of UK Public Opinion? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Hugh Grant Teams Up With Climate Activists Wed Oct 08, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Last week Hugh Grant, one of several celebrities behind press censorship campaign group Hacked Off, announced a joint campaign with 38 Degrees, a radical climate activist group. Charlotte Gill investigates what's going on.
The post Hugh Grant Teams Up With Climate Activists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Wed Oct 08, 2025 01:19 | 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 Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Students Sing Antisemitic Chants on October 7th Anniversary Tue Oct 07, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Hundreds of pro-Palestine students chanted "from the river to the sea" ? an antisemitic slogan calling for the destruction of Israel ? during protests on the second anniversary of?Hamas's October 7th attacks.
The post Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Students Sing Antisemitic Chants on October 7th Anniversary appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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The Yes Men Fix the World's a Riot, No Really

category international | anti-capitalism | press release author Tuesday October 06, 2009 20:57author by The Yes Men - The Yes Menauthor email admin at theyesmen dot org Report this post to the editors

October 6, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

U.S. screening finder
Film Forum screenings schedule
The Yes Men Fix the World trailer
Contact: people@theyesmen.org
This alert on the Huffington Post (to make comments)

The Yes Men Fix the World 's a Riot. No, Really.

We all know the facts.

Free-market capitalism is dangerous. It's run by a whole lot of bad, powerful people, and it hurts a whole lot of people who don't deserve to be hurt.

So much for the obvious. Now what?

Our movie, The Yes Men Fix the World , will help answer that question. It opens this Wednesday in New York City - and if it doesn't become the first film run shut down by the NYPD, it'll be the most action-packed week in New York film history.

The film's story is simple: two guys, armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, infiltrate the world of big business, where we make a lot of bad, powerful people really uncomfortable.

You'll see us knock $2 billion off Dow Chemical's share price, expose New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin for the corporate lackey he is, and show some of the most powerful free-market spokesmen to be C-level liars.

Around you in the theater you'll hear spontaneous cheering, multiple bursts of hysterical laughter, a few sniffles, and the occasional thud of an audience member rolling in the aisles. If past screenings at Sundance, Berlin, and many other places are any guide, you'll also see a standing ovation, and, as the lights go up, a room of people visibly eager to rise up and fight.

For five years, we worked hard to make a film that would make people feel that way. It worked, which makes us happy. The fact that Sunday's New York Magazine called it a "glorious testimony to the moral power of satire" and "outrageously entertaining" makes us happy too.

But WANTING to rise up isn't enough. A cinema isn't a town hall, popcorn isn't paving stones, and change doesn't come from people sitting together in a dark theater.

What matters is what happens when the movie is over, and the audience takes to the streets.

That's exactly what they're going to do after seeing our movie, this week in New York, and then, two weeks later, nationwide.

We can't tell you exactly what'll happen each night. But we can give you some hints, at least for the week ahead in New York.

Wednesday's premiere (October 7) will be the national launch of " Balls Across America ," the preview of which made a big splash on CNN thanks to New York's boys in blue. Assorted stars and starlets, fitted with their own custom " Survivaballs ," will waddle off to wreak havoc on unsuspecting climate criminals. (These things are remarkably hard to put handcuffs on!)

The next day (Thursday) we'll lead a rowdy-as-usual crowd from the 8pm screening across town to the " Hijinx " Premiere Party at the Delancey, hosted by some of New York's most revved-up muckrakers. Interestingly, a massive new Whole Foods sits smack dab in the middle of that crosstown march - providing a great opportunity to make Whole Foods CEO John Mackey continue regretting his recent reactionary comments on health-care reform. (Do big-box stores have stupidity insurance?)

Opening weekend kicks off with a Friday matinee screening hosted by the Raging Grannies , Granny Peace Brigade and Gray Panthers . These elders get arrested blocking access to recruitment centers and otherwise putting their bodies on the line against militarism and war profiteering. Who will bear the brunt of the Grannies' rage Friday? Come early to find out.

Friday's 8pm screening is hosted by Reverend Billy , the Green Candidate for mayor of New York City, and his ever-rambunctious choir. The Reverend, who's been arrested more than 40 times, has a stubborn habit of using humor, gospel, and civil disobedience to fight grave injustices. Only blocks away from the Film Forum theater sits one particularly blatant example of injustice. Is levitation really a myth? Buy tickets now to find out!

Saturday night the ruckus goes international, with simultaneous screenings in three foreign cities that are featured in our film: Bhopal, Calgary, and New Orleans. (OK, New Orleans isn't really a foreign city, but you wouldn't guess it from how the US government continues to treat Katrina's victims.) Each of these screenings, plus post-screening fracas, will be hosted by a group we either worked with in the film, or were inspired by: the Sambhavna Clinic (Bhopal), the Arusha Centre (Calgary), and Common Ground (New Orleans).

Back in New York, almost every remaining night of our two-week run we'll be sharpening pitchforks with an incredible list of activist partners: CODEPINK , Rainforest Action Network , Picture the Homeless , SEIU , Witness , the Center for Constitutional Rights , Corporate Accountability International ... The list goes on and on.

But New York is only the start. Beginning October 23, " Balls Across America " will visit dozens of cities across this great, weird land of ours. See www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/screenings.htm for full schedule.

Sweeping positive changes have only come to America when there's been a progressive President, pushed to do the right thing by large numbers of rowdy citizens. (Think FDR and the New Deal ; think LBJ and the Civil Rights movement. )

Today, we've got the progressive President. Now all we need is to vote with our feet, and enable him to do what we elected him for.

Our film is a small part of a movement to help make that happen. Another part is BeyondTalk.net - a website we recently launched in collaboration with a dozen direct-action activists. The idea is to get 10,000 folks to sign the " Climate Pledge of Resistance " and risk arrest to demand sane climate-change policy. On November 30, the tenth anniversary of the Seattle protests, and a week before the Copenhagen climate talks , those 10,000 activists will form the largest civil disobedience action in recent protest history.

Please join us on this big, crazy trip. And on the way, please see our film and learn how you too can have a riot while fixing the world.

Special note to our friends:

We've got no ad budget to speak of. Want to help our film do well regardless? Easy! Just Twitter, Facebook, and email your friends and let them know they should see it. Use our fancy HTML e-flier or the simple text version . Change your Facebook status, or your Facebook picture - either to the poster or a weird inflatable widget .

And as you leave the theater, Twitter your friends to tell them what you thought of the film. It won't fix the world, but if they do go see the movie as a result, and it helps them realize that things can change, you'll feel pretty proud!

And finally: in our quest to build an adequate Survivaball army, we're currently 20 short of our goal. Is there a Survivaball angel out there? If so, please write angel@survivaball.com .

Related Link: http://theyesmenfixtheworld.com/

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author by Diarmuid Breatnach - Personal Capacitypublication date Wed Oct 07, 2009 14:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I've heard about this film somewhere before (maybe even in Indymedia) and it seems to be a good contribution to the culture of resistance. When is it coming to Ireland? Shown in a non-excluding venue, I would certainly go to view and call on others to do so too.

author by Mark Cpublication date Wed Oct 07, 2009 15:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Diarmuid,

I'm not sure when it's coming to Europe, but I got an email from Andy Bilchbaum, one of The Yes Men, last night, about doing an interview with him, prior to its European release. I'll be posting it here on Indymedia as soon as I get it done.

 
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