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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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offsite link Rob Bates: ?Labour?s Asylum Plan isn?t ?Control? ? it?s an Amnesty!? Sun Nov 23, 2025 19:00 | Laurie Wastell
Labour's "tough" asylum crackdown? More like an amnesty that won't stop the boats or fix the Home Office mess, says Rob Bates of the Centre for Migration Control.
The post Rob Bates: ?Labour?s Asylum Plan isn?t ?Control? ? it?s an Amnesty!? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Lockdown Was a Public Health, Social and Economic Disaster Sun Nov 23, 2025 17:00 | Guy de la B?doy?re
Five years after warning where lockdown zealotry would lead, Guy de la B?doy?re looks back as the Covid Inquiry now claims Britain should have shut down harder and faster to save a mystic "23,000" lives.
The post Lockdown Was a Public Health, Social and Economic Disaster appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Freedom of Speech in the UK is Under Threat, US Ambassador Warns Audience Including Deputy PM David ... Sun Nov 23, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
David Lammy had a stark warning delivered by US ambassador Warren Stephens, who said free speech in the UK is seriously under threat from heavy-handed government rules and rising violence.
The post Freedom of Speech in the UK is Under Threat, US Ambassador Warns Audience Including Deputy PM David Lammy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Britain?s Public Inquiries ? Unaffordable and Unscientific Sun Nov 23, 2025 13:00 | Dr David Livermore
Britain's public inquiries are a money pit, chasing stories that suit them while ignoring the facts. David Livermore calls out the Covid Inquiry for spinning dodgy stats and brushing aside the huge harm lockdowns did.
The post Britain?s Public Inquiries ? Unaffordable and Unscientific appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thousands of Pakistanis Using Visa Loopholes for Asylum Claims Sun Nov 23, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
There are growing claims the UK's visa system is being openly gamed, with record numbers of Pakistani nationals arriving on student, work and visitor visas and then switching to asylum.
The post Thousands of Pakistanis Using Visa Loopholes for Asylum Claims appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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At the last Dublin demonstration
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Friday December 09, 2005 15:16 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 67 comments (last - monday december 19, 2005 16:46)   image 76 images
This is compiled coverage of the news about the protests and other events happening on Friday 9th Dec in reaction to the attempt by Irish Ferries to lay off their employees and replace them with people paid less than half the minimum EU wage. read full story / add a comment
Tearing up and "pulling down the pillars of the social order" and Sustaining Progress - Social Partnership Agreement.
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Friday December 09, 2005 01:06 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 64 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2005 20:33)   image 25 images
Indymedia Ireland - Irish Ferries background Coverage read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / feature Wednesday December 07, 2005 23:42 by Ireland From Below   text 3 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2005 15:35)   image 3 images
The "regeneration" of Ballymun Mick Burke reports on growing local resistance to the privatisation of Ballymun. This is the first in a series by community activists for Ireland From Below, a new newspaper reporting community struggles across Ireland (details below) read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Tuesday December 06, 2005 20:04 by BP   text 14 comments (last - wednesday july 19, 2006 06:28)   image 1 image
Report on a talk given by ex US marine Jimmy Massey at Trinity College while he was in Ireland to testify as a witness during the trial of the Pit Stop Ploughshares. read full story / add a comment
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national / history and heritage / feature Sunday December 04, 2005 01:04 by Barry   text 44 comments (last - sunday july 18, 2010 22:02)   image 1 image
I was going out with a girl from near Dolphins barn when josie dwyer was killed . I used to pass him quite frequently , he was always on the grass outside the flats or hanging around the railings on the bridge . A pathetic sight he couldnt have weighed more than 7 or 8 stone .

Before he was killed if you walked through Fatima chances are youd be approached maybe a couple of times and asked if you were looking gear . And it only takes a minute to walk through it . One guy even employed the Moore street selling technique of yelling " come get yer luvverly gear" while riding round on a mountain bike . The drugs thing was just out of control . The bird I went with attended many anti drug vigils and marches and even favoured shooting the bigger dealers dead . Last I heard of her years ago she was addicted to smoking the stuff herself - just gave up . Beautiful girl too , an awful waste .

Im not surprised to be honest Josie Dwyer got thumped even though it was w read full story / add a comment
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clare / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday December 02, 2005 00:01 by Tim Hourigan   text 108 comments (last - friday february 24, 2006 12:05)   image 14 images
Plane spotters at Shannon airport (Ireland) once again reveal evidence of Irish complicity with the US war machine and are harrassed by Gardai (Irish police). Tim Hourigan presents a detailed account and photographs. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / housing / feature Sunday November 27, 2005 13:47 by Elaine   text 25 comments (last - saturday july 22, 2006 14:30)   image 29 images   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
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dublin / consumer issues / feature Saturday November 26, 2005 19:32 by choking on the filthy froth of my double half-caf latte   text 50 comments (last - tuesday january 24, 2006 15:55)   image 10 images
Another multinational rolls into town unopposed. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Friday November 25, 2005 21:14 by SIPTU Activist   text 77 comments (last - sunday december 04, 2005 15:14)   image 5 images
The unoffical action and indeed the direct action taken by the SIPTU members on the two Irish Ferries Ships in Wales tonight should be commenended and supported wholeheartedly by the leadership of SIPTU and ICTU.Both leaderships should now publicly support in the strongest possible terms the action taken by the Irish Ferries workers without reserve.

Surely now these workers must now be facing criminal proceedings by the managment and the owners of Irish Ferries?.

While it is unfortunate and regrettable that the SIPTU members of Irish Ferries have been left with no other alternative but to resort to this desperate but principled and very admirable and brave stand, it must be causing the leadership and bueracracy of SIPTU an unwanted and untold headach of migraine proportions.

The direct action that the Irish Ferries workers have taken has shown that the Industrial Relations Act of 1990 should never have been even contemplated nor considered read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / feature Thursday November 24, 2005 18:00 by MUIREANN DE BARRA   text 3 comments (last - sunday november 27, 2005 00:53)   image 1 image
Public Meeting about community struggles in El Alto and Cochabamba, Bolivia against the private control of water services. Bolivian water activist Julian Perez (El Fejuve, El Alto) and Joe Higgins TD (Socialist Party) speak about the resistance to water privatisation locally and globally. read full story / add a comment
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national / arts and media / feature Wednesday November 23, 2005 23:09 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 22 comments (last - tuesday november 29, 2005 22:55)   image 1 image
Dave Lordan of the Socialist Workers Party has won the presitgious Kavanagh award for poetry. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / housing / feature Wednesday November 23, 2005 17:34 by kevin   text 4 comments (last - wednesday march 14, 2007 01:17)   image 5 images
Report from last night's well-attended meeting. read full story / add a comment
Dominick Street flats nearby - currently undergoing redevelopment/demolition.
dublin / miscellaneous / feature Tuesday November 22, 2005 17:24 by k   text 52 comments (last - monday february 06, 2006 21:00)   image 5 images
A brief interview with Maria MhicMheanmain, who is involved in the campaign against the opening on Parnell Street in Dublin of a new lapdancing club, owned by English businessman Peter Stringfellow. read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Sunday November 20, 2005 05:34 by eamprn cuubden   text 41 comments (last - monday november 28, 2005 10:29)   image 4 images
The dispute at Irish Ferries is about greedy bosses, very greedy bosses who want to replace their staff with modern day galley slaves. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday November 18, 2005 02:31 by seedot/eeekkkk   text 18 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 20:49)   image 4 images
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Thursday November 17, 2005 12:54 by Miriam Cotton   text 8 comments (last - monday november 21, 2005 12:48)   image 1 image
Once the Political and Communications Director of the Labour Party and now Chief Executive Officer of Barnardos in Ireland, Fergus Finlay speaks about the current situation with regard to the rights of people with disability in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
March sets off down to the Fine Gael Head Office
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Thursday November 17, 2005 01:12 by Sean   text 83 comments (last - sunday january 15, 2006 10:03)   image 4 images
Indymedia Ireland (Dublin, Nov 16th 2005) Hundreds demonstrated today against Fine Gael’s worrying proposal to make Irish language education optional, and no longer compulsory. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Saturday November 12, 2005 22:43 by K Barry   text 16 comments (last - saturday july 07, 2007 13:35)   image 3 images
Today the Taoiseach was once again doing what he does best –making meaningless but reassuring remarks. In an article in today's Irish Independent Bertie insisted that the US military’s use of Shannon does not make Ireland a potential target of Islamist terror. Whatever the truth of this is Bertie’s longstanding strategy of actively supporting the US military while attempting to portray himself as a neutral party is fooling noone least of all the Pitstop Ploughshares who are now facing yet another retrial. Below is an account of a chance meeting with the Taoiseach and his inimitable political style. read full story / add a comment
This is an Iraqi war victim. Irish children could be next. This is the reality of war and conflict. We are a part of this war with Shannon used as a US war base.
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Saturday November 12, 2005 21:46 by periodical progress towards something or other happening   text 66 comments (last - monday october 09, 2006 16:42)   image 3 images
Anjem Choudary (also known as Omar Bakri Muhammad), a Muslim cleric born in Syria and who participated in the 1982 revolution against the Syrian Ba'athist regime to be later given political asylum in the UK spoke at a debate in Trinity College on Thursday night. Choudary is well known for his extremist Islamic views and was leader of Al-Muhajiroun, an organisation whose eventual goal was to prepare the way for a global Islamic theocracy. read full story / add a comment
Remember this place?
dublin / crime and justice / feature Tuesday November 08, 2005 18:22 by Anon Court Reporter   text 71 comments (last - wednesday november 16, 2005 21:54)   image 10 images   video 1 video file
The CW5's 2 main statutory defences to the charges were ruled out as 'inadmissible' this morning by Judge Donagh McDonagh, who was then rather suddenly forced to 'pull the plug' and send the jury home after his relationship with a certain Mr. Bush was revealed to the Court by defence counsel. read full story / add a comment
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