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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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Climatism in Europe is dying as its grassroots support evaporates and Left-wing activists move onto other concerns. Eurocrats are well-insulated from public opinion but they can't ignore it forever, says Eugyppius.
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The post Blow to Miliband as Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling and Union Boss Calls for Him to Be Sacked appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Wes Streeting Says Nigel Farage is ?Racist? Tue Sep 30, 2025 15:30 | Will Jones
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The post Wes Streeting Says Nigel Farage is “Racist” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the ?Friend-Enemy Distinction? Right-Wing Critical Race Theory? Tue Sep 30, 2025 13:00 | Noah Carl
Perfectly neutral institutions will never be attainable, argues Noah Carl, but that doesn?t mean that reasonably neutral institutions aren?t worth striving for.
The post Is the ‘Friend-Enemy Distinction’ Right-Wing Critical Race Theory? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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With Trump's announcement of a peace plan backed by both Israel and Arab leaders, Europe, with its toothless alternative proposal to reward terror, has never looked more pathetic or weaker on the global stage.
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category national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Tuesday September 07, 2010 10:07author by Ardoyne Republican - Republican Network for Unity (RNU) Report this post to the editors

In recent weeks, there have been a host of news reports, columns and internet blogs seeking answers to the growth of dissenting Republicanism. Much of which has focused on the morality surrounding armed actions.However, what many have failed to grasp has been the shift in ideological terms between mainstream and dissenting republicans. A much better description would be contemporary and socialist republicans.
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In recent weeks, there have been a host of news reports, columns and internet blogs seeking answers to the growth of dissenting Republicanism. Much of which has focused on the morality surrounding armed actions.However, what many have failed to grasp has been the shift in ideological terms between mainstream and dissenting republicans. A much better description would be contemporary and socialist republicans.

Throughout the past two centuries, the Republican Movement has been defined by its Nationalist and Socialist political ideology. While the military and political sides often worked in tandem with one another to secure a British withdrawal from Ireland. At various stages in its history, the Movement spilt into separate camps due to the pertinent social and political conditions at the time.

Consequently, it should be of little surprise that crucial changes to Sinn Féin policies enabled the Party to become the largest Nationalist Party in the North. Some of which included the primacy of nationalism, accepting the Unionist Veto and support for British policing. Many socialist members including myself, felt were a step too far.

Today, Sinn Féin is an integral part of a Stormont Coalition who practices a conservative economic policy with privatisation, water charges and public sector cutbacks high on its agenda. The sight of Martin McGuinness, a declared socialist in Wall Street gleefully banging a hammer brought little relief to disadvantaged communities across Ireland.

The Good Friday Agreement has not delivered social and economic freedom. Nor has it ended the British occupation or eradicated sectarianism. It has actually institutionalised it with Nationalist and Unionist communities vying for better resources. The ‘peace dividend’ has not yet arrived in working-class areas like Ardoyne and the Creggan.

There is a growing need for socialist republicans to learn from British sponsored agreements, strengthen existing partnerships and unify once more. Only then can we effectively challenge contemporary Republicans. Political opposition to Sinn Féin is quite legitimate, as is the pursuit of a 32 County Socialist Irish Republic. Progressive republicans do not need lectures about Irish history from Politicians who should know better and a compliant Media.

Related Link: http://ardoynerepublican.blogspot.com
author by declan christ - an irish republican - the fake irapublication date Tue Sep 07, 2010 22:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

we must constantly counter this negative ideology.....irish republicanism does have genuine and admirable achievements...it also has a history of sending young people to their deaths in the "cause of Ireland"

got to any of the republican museums in belfast, and have a look around......and you realise that you come be in any war museum....

war is war my friends....and there are many similarities between the people who justify it.....

I will kill you to achieve equality and freedom.....interesting that....

its the romanticism that's most dangerous.....the idea that killing people is actually to be celebrated....all armies do it....

republicans complain constantly about british revisionism....but they too invent and twist and contort their own history.....go into any irish republican book store, and you'll hardly find any mention of michael davitt....you see he is someone who does'nt fit their revisions, as a physical force republican who renounced violence, and actually led a very progressive and successful political movement....the land league....

give over this militant nonsense lads....and give your brothers and neighbours a dream worth living for, as opposed to dying for...

author by francis hughespublication date Fri Sep 10, 2010 19:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Some very good home truths mentioned by previous poster but lookin in a historical perspective i think we have to look on republicans with a little more empathy than armies of states etc. Unfortunately as a reaction to the propaganda and portrayl of resistors or activists (armed or otherwise) suffer through out the world but particularly the IRA as amateur, a gang, even gangsters, sometimes they take on routines, rituals etc that mimic a states 'army'. Having studied and talked to many, they share the belief that it was a bulwark against that that they went along with some of the trappings, remember many volunteers were students, workers, family men and had no time for pomp and ceremony. Further a lot it was pure publicity, what media coverage would a standard funeral of a volunteer get as oppposed to lets say a defiant one with volley of shots etc. When you are struggling against 'a power ' you aim to undermine every single aspect of its system. Also any serious or respected republicans i encountered in my days never claimed to glamourise the hardship of armed conflict. Anyway im not havin a go at last comment just mentioning a few things, it is a good debate to have within all social movements

author by nemo528publication date Sun Sep 19, 2010 22:23author email nemo528 at hotmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

It is strange to think that today our nation is one of the oldest but in the eyes of the world the south has been a legitimate political entity for less than one hundred years.
Michael Collins singed the Anglo Irish agreement in 1921, a stepping stone people believed like many before it in which Ireland had slowly taken back it's independence.

So how have we gone from then to now? still with a divided country, albeit a much more peaceful divide but evidently in some minds no less painful.

I agree that Nationalist of the north and south, if they wish for unity and complete independence, should find some unity among themselves or it will be a very long time until we see a united Ireland, that is if we ever see it.

Yet we should consider the possibility that a united Ireland will raise a number of issues which will be difficult to deal with, the least of which being that in the north the shoe will be on the other foot in terms of a minority who are hostile to the current situation. It is also true that we should not allow the minority to govern the majority and therefore this new unionist minority would have to be dealt with in which they are not victimised but treated fairly and equally as a citizen of Ireland. Too simplistic are the idea's which consider only one side of this argument. In a united Ireland it would the responsibility of the people to deal with integrate and accept a unionist faction of the population. If we want a united Ireland, in my mind this should include a unity not only among republicans but also allow for unity among all people of Ireland.

We can't repeat the same mistakes as we have in the past. We let momentum slip away among the people when we were closest to achieving our aims. Hopefully when the time comes and we have another chance for a united Ireland we will have a better more inclusive idea of the future. Sectarianism is what has ruined Ireland it's about time we stopped it.

 
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