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Indymedia ireland

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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

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Climate Justice Action during COP6 Climate Conference, The Hague December 2000
international / eu / feature Sunday February 08, 2004 12:44 by vlo   text 3 comments (last - monday february 09, 2004 14:14)   image 2 images
'One of the central, but not well known, direct goals of the Irish EU Presidency is to reach agreement with the European Parliament about the CO2 Emissions Trading Market. This market is to be launched in 2005. Ministers of the EU Member States are demanding a market full of loopholes, so companies can escape reducing CO2 and other greenhouse gases on EU-ground. Instead companies will be able to produce and trade the commodity “the right to pollute” by financing cheap efficiency projects in Eastern Europe and in the South. read full story / add a comment
Is this a national monument or what?
meath / history and heritage / feature Saturday January 31, 2004 16:50 by Vincent Salafia   text 7 comments (last - sunday april 11, 2004 16:27)   image 1 image

Statement by Vincent Salafia, Carrickminder, PRO Save Tara/Skryne Valley Campaign on the proposed motorway through Tara. read full story / add a comment

national / indymedia ireland / feature Thursday January 29, 2004 20:30 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 61 comments (last - saturday march 27, 2004 06:21)

In order to clarify the editorial guidelines used by the Indymedia Ireland collective, we are publishing them as we currently understand them to operate. This is a work in progress, which is the result of many arguments over the past few months on the Indymedia Ireland lists. Input, commentary and criticism from users of the site are welcome on this thread, and this will be taken into account before the guidelines are formalised.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Sunday January 25, 2004 18:52 by Support Team   text 24 comments (last - friday february 06, 2004 10:55)   image 1 image
Peace activist Mary Kelly, currently awaiting a retrial for her hatchet job on a US warplane at Shannon Airport last year, received a warm welcome when she spoke at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai (Bombay) last weekend, but was surprised by the refusal of Mary Robinson to support the "upholding of international law".

Kelly, who was invited to participate as a voice of resistance at the World Court of Women on US War Crimes at the WSF, returns to Dublin on Sunday 25th Jan 2004. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday January 21, 2004 17:54 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 10 comments (last - wednesday february 11, 2004 11:26)
galway / eu / feature Monday January 19, 2004 14:14 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group
The first major protests of Ireland's EU presidency took place this weekend in Galway, with a number of groups speaking out on issues ranging from racism to fishing in Connemara. read full story / add a comment
Cu Cullen:  "Fire. Fire..hehe..you show em Invader!"
cork / environment / feature Sunday January 18, 2004 00:06 by (Indy) Mick O'Toole   text 1 comment (last - sunday january 18, 2004 13:55)   image 1 image
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kildare / animal rights / feature Monday January 12, 2004 22:43 by joe   text 73 comments (last - thursday may 04, 2006 00:52)   image 8 images
'Two sad companions lay huddled in the corner. We thought they were dead as they did not move when we touched them.They seemed oblivious to us and propped each others heavy bodies up. We lifted the heavy warm bodies and gently carried them away to freedom, merely as a token of the thousands of others we were unable to save.' read full story / add a comment
Cu Cullen in his new troll-road building machine
international / history and heritage / feature Sunday January 11, 2004 16:46 by Mick O'Toole   text 7 comments (last - thursday january 15, 2004 17:54)   image 1 image
The self-described ‘Soldier of Destiny’, Waterford property developer Martin Cu Cullen (aka ‘Cu Cullen’) has big plans for himself and the Hill of Tara, which lies disgracefully underdeveloped in County Meath read full story / add a comment
derry / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday January 08, 2004 17:57 by Peter Doran   text 27 comments (last - thursday january 15, 2004 22:57)
Derry City Council has received a delegation from the Foyle Ethical Investment Campaign, which has led a campaign to expose the reality behind Raytheon's Software Development Centre in Derry. FEIC activists have long held the view that Raytheon - one of the world biggest defence companies - has no place in Derry. read full story / add a comment
Belgian SEcurity Officer removing one of the letters as evidence
international / eu / feature Wednesday January 07, 2004 21:52 by Anthony   text 55 comments (last - tuesday july 12, 2005 15:23)   image 1 image
EU officials across Europe are being targetted by a series of small letter bombs. A previously unheard of Italian anarchist group is being blamed for the attacks. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / feature Saturday January 03, 2004 21:34 by Ramor Ryan
Not the best of times, nor the worst of times : a subdued 10th anniversary celebration in Zapatista heartlands.

Oventic, Chiapas, 31st December 2003. read full story / add a comment
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international / crime and justice / feature Tuesday December 23, 2003 16:56 by Kev   text 17 comments (last - monday january 05, 2004 04:42)   image 1 image
Three people linked to white supremacist and anti-government groups are in custody. At least one weapon of mass destruction - a sodium cyanide bomb capable of delivering a deadly gas cloud - has been seized in the Texas area. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / feature Sunday December 14, 2003 00:05 by Chris Donoghue   text 6 comments (last - tuesday december 16, 2003 01:16)
The Irish Cabinet will decide in January on what type of press council Ireland should have. Given the Minister's history with the press it looks likely that witches being burnt alive by excitable townspeople will have been given fairer trials than the Irish media will get! read full story / add a comment
Taking back the packaging
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / feature Friday December 12, 2003 00:39 by seedot   text 16 comments (last - thursday december 18, 2003 23:34)   image 1 image
The Crumlin / Drimnagh / Walkinstown Anti-Bin Tax Campaign has started to return packaging to supermarkets under Section 29(i) of the Waste Management Act 1996.

Superquinn, Tesco and Dunnes all receive trolleyloads of packaging. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / feature Thursday December 11, 2003 09:50 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 9 comments (last - friday april 22, 2005 02:10)
The concept of the EU is still a popular one in Ireland as is shown by the detail of the results of a recent poll on the EU. It is a far less popular concept generally in Europe as is shown by the headline results of the self-same poll. This bodes ill for the ongoing negotiations on a draft EU constitution taking place at present in Italy. read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / feature Sunday December 07, 2003 01:24 by redflaremist/(i)   text 15 comments (last - wednesday january 14, 2004 14:03)   image 10 images
Feature version of grassroots report read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / feature Thursday December 04, 2003 19:04 by Paul Dillon / Antrophe / IMC   text 21 comments (last - wednesday january 28, 2009 16:15)
300 students are tonight occupying the main library in UCD. This is against the cutbacks which have been implemented in the library budget. Opening hours have been slashed, staffing levels have been cut and the materials avialble to students are in decline. UCD students Union are demanding that the college allocates the correct resources to the library and that the government reverses its programme of cuts.

The Students have vowed to continue the protest until their demands are reached. Tonights occupation is the 3rd time in three weeks that UCD students have occupied the main library. We reckon that around 600 students have taken part so far, if you include the numbers who attended the sit in in the Earlsfort Terrace library. Students in other colleges and ITs should consider similar actions to step up the campain against cutbacks. Pictures to follow! read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / feature Monday December 01, 2003 17:38 by hs   text 81 comments (last - friday december 12, 2003 16:20)
Elections are to be held soon in the Republic of Ireland following hard on the heels of the recent elections in Northern Ireland for the Assembly. An imc-ie newswire contributor raises the question of the value of partaking in the electoral process. read full story / add a comment
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