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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 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.
The post In Defence of Cancelling the Left appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

offsite link Greta Thunberg Gaza Flotilla in Chaos After Queer Activist Comes Out, Prompting Organiser to Resign Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:24 | Will Jones
Greta Thunberg's Gaza flotilla has been thrown into chaos after one of its activists came out as queer, prompting the organiser to resign. Homosexuality, of course, is criminalised in Gaza.
The post Greta Thunberg Gaza Flotilla in Chaos After Queer Activist Comes Out, Prompting Organiser to Resign appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The End is Nigh for Net Zero ? These Polls Prove It Fri Sep 26, 2025 09:00 | Ben Pile
The end is nigh for Net Zero, says Ben Pile ? and these polls prove it. The public's appetite for ever-rising energy bills is fast being depleted. But it's not all good news for sceptics.
The post The End is Nigh for Net Zero ? These Polls Prove It appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 10, 2011 19:48 by Paddy Hackett   text 2 comments (last - monday may 16, 2011 23:10)
And yes, then, in a perverse way, I do think Vincent Browne has a point. In the short term there is no way out other than, more or less, what is being officially advocated by the establishment i.e. outside of revolution. At present neither Ireland nor Western Europe have the popular culture nor organised forms to develop social revolution into communism. In the absence of these conditions Europe can secure nothing more than the model of present day Iraq on a European scale --nihilism. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Monday May 09, 2011 23:02 by AC   text 4 comments (last - wednesday may 18, 2011 20:19)   image 1 image
DOZENS OF African migrants were left to die in the Mediterranean Sea after European and Nato military units apparently ignored their cries for help. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday May 09, 2011 00:44 by Truth seeker   text 2 comments (last - monday may 09, 2011 15:15)
Thoughts on the Queens visit. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday May 07, 2011 20:01 by Revolutionary Anarchist   2 attached files
Revolutionary Anarchist International Platform

The Anarchist Popular Union of Brazil, and the Revolutionary Anarchist Popular Organization from Mexico, presents the Revolutionary Anarchist International Platform, wich is an international call claiming for the union of the revolutionary anarchist of the world on the base of the Bakuninism. (document can be readed in this time only in spanish and portuguese.brasil, english and frensh translations will pe published in a few days)
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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday May 06, 2011 22:26 by Diarmuid Breatnach   text 4 comments (last - sunday may 08, 2011 15:38)
Some readers will be aware that for some time I have been advocating the construction of a cross-union grass roots network. A meeting has been convened tomorrow to discuss such a project. Unfortunately for me (and for any other with similar interests) a conference to discuss Republicanism & Socialism has been scheduled for some time now to take place on the same day. I publish these draft principles for discussion not to promote bureaucracy but with the intention that any such network formed remains a broad and militant organisation, the property of its members and not of one political party or another nor as a sectarian battleground. read full story / add a comment
Bin Laden Death Photo Update
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday May 05, 2011 15:26 by Declan Cullen   text 19 comments (last - monday may 23, 2011 22:47)   image 8 images   audio 1 audio file
Please examine the attached photos that I believe was used to in relation the Bin Laden death story that was published in the Evening Herald on the 2nd of May 2011.
Do your own research and then make up your own mind about what have been told by the mainstream media. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday May 05, 2011 03:38 by Adrian Boutureira   text 1 comment (last - sunday may 08, 2011 17:02)   image 4 images
Spain's Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court) has again politically capitulated to the pressures of its reactionary political establishment led by the Partido Popular (PP) and the Partido Socialista Obrero Espańol (PSOE), against efforts to allow for democratic participation of all political forces in Euskadi (Basque country). read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday May 05, 2011 01:31 by Declan Cullen   text 6 comments (last - thursday may 05, 2011 11:20)   image 1 image
Dear Indymedia

In the 2nd of May 2011 edition of the Evening Herald the paper had a story about Bin Laden's death under the heading 'Taken Out". The paper ran two photos, one file photo of Bin Laden, and one photo showing a bloodied and allegedly dead Bin Laden.
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national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 04, 2011 13:24 by Bernardo O'Reilly   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 04, 2011 13:53)
AFA Ireland has uploaded all 5 issues of their magazine 'No Quarter' and all 2 issues of their newsletter 'In The Area' onto Scribd.

Please share link widely. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 04, 2011 13:20 by Feudal Castrato   text 7 comments (last - thursday may 05, 2011 12:33)
In 2007 Sir David Frost interviewed Benazir Bhutto prior to her death. In this interview she stated clearly that Omar Sheikh was the man that had killed Osama Bin Laden. In light of recent events further discussion of this matter is in order read full story / add a comment
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national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Friday April 29, 2011 22:53 by Ardoyne Republican   image 1 image
A Chairde,

Over Easter, influential members of Sinn Fein were pretty vocal in assasinating the integrity of so-called Dissident Republican Groups. As such, I felt the need to respond.
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national / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday April 28, 2011 07:43 by m.m.mccarron   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 28, 2011 19:34)   image 1 image
It was with great shock and puzzlement that the Irish public was informed yesterday that subsidies were to be removed from wind and wave in this serious era of climate concern, environmental pollution... as advised by the ESRI. Unbelievable to dare to suggest it in bald terms. And to further suggest that Ireland's energy supply be focussed on one Shell non-producing gas well as the answer to Ireland's energy needs. This well is said to last for 15 years. Is the State still in the blind in spite of all the criticisms about our building and our banking policies. Something really wrong with policy makers minds When will we ever learn? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 27, 2011 19:28 by Giuseppe Conlon House   text 5 comments (last - monday august 01, 2011 11:22)
YOUTUBE (12 mins 2 secs) - Gareth Peirce Speaks on Bradley Manning: ' "Dispatches from the Dark Side"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hZPXZOnUQ
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 26, 2011 15:24 by Paddy Hackett
Both common sense knowledge and science involve belief. read full story / add a comment
A greyhound carcass in a butcher shop in China
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Saturday April 23, 2011 12:58 by Concern for Irish Greyhounds   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 26, 2011 02:17)   image 1 image
Greyhound exports to China may start up soon unless we can somehow stop this nightmare scenario... read full story / add a comment
Photographic display in Gladstone Street, Clonmel. Hare coursing lumped in with hurling
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 20, 2011 21:57 by True Sports Fan   image 3 images
A photographic display in a Clonmel shop window gives pride of place to the cruel sport of live hare coursing in a sports promotion... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 20, 2011 15:31 by Take her up to Monto   text 33 comments (last - saturday may 07, 2011 15:35)   image 3 images
Questions surrounding visits of war criminals/ imperialist scum read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 19, 2011 21:26 by Brian Flannery   text 15 comments (last - wednesday june 08, 2011 14:56)   image 1 image
Carpe Diem

Save the Day

It is only people who can make a change.

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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday April 14, 2011 19:14 by Fishy
Why is this story only covered in the irish times and havnt heard or seen it anywhere all day. Are they so paranoid over these two imperialists visits that they are not even covering this. Whether it was a pure freak of an accident or anything else. Anyone shed any light on all of this read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday April 14, 2011 12:29 by Paddy Hackett   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 16, 2011 22:27)
A critical review of the Hound of the Baskervilles. read full story / add a comment
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