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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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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday August 02, 2010 14:26 by JMC & YOD   text 30 comments (last - friday september 17, 2010 03:25)   image 1 image   1 attached file
This is a brief account of our travels to the West Bank in June 2010. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday July 31, 2010 16:28 by Thomas "TJ" Janak   audio 1 audio file
Listen to E-Wave host George Mulcahy and "electro-popper" TJ ... read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Saturday July 31, 2010 13:08 by éirígí Sligeach   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 05, 2010 14:33)   image 2 images
The massacre of three members of the Miami Showband Occurred 35 Years ago today. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday July 30, 2010 16:35 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
An interview with performance artist Kelly Frances McKenna read full story / add a comment
meath / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday July 29, 2010 14:12 by Farrelly57   text 12 comments (last - saturday august 14, 2010 16:47)   image 4 images
Here is a small wood, made smaller by the M3 Motorway and used obviously as a tip by locals now. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 28, 2010 20:48 by Tony Healy   text 4 comments (last - tuesday august 03, 2010 23:42)
A ban on trade union donations to the Labour Party will not benefit anyone other than the enemies of the working class and the organised working class in particular.

The Green Party leader John Gormley has announced that the ban is to be introduced, alongside a ban on corporate donations, so much for the Green Party’s veneer of radicalism. This “radicalism” has become very stale and particularly mouldy also. Of course the proposed legislation is designed to appear even handed.

But the truth of the matter is that the link between Labour and the working class is potentially very important and the bourgeois understand that very well.
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 27, 2010 17:19 by Catholic Worker   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 28, 2010 15:42)
VID (8 mins 30 secs) - (A slightly hungover) Ciaron O'Reilly on "Christian Anarchism & the Catholic Worker". Talk given at Christian - Anarchist gathering in England 2010.

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national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Monday July 26, 2010 17:17 by Paul McAndrew   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 27, 2010 14:48)
Urgent! Attack on vital health provision for trans people in Ireland
The Labour councillor making the call for cuts. is Colm Keaveney . I've already spoken to him on this mobile number. It works. Got it from Labour website.
colm@colmkeaveney.ie
087-6776812 read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday July 26, 2010 12:42 by indyjourno   text 9 comments (last - wednesday august 11, 2010 12:06)   video 1 video file
Today’s Irish Independent features a rather poor attempt at a hatchet job of left wing activism in Ireland. Will Hanafin decided to hang around several left wing protests at the request of the Irish Independent. What emerges is a tale of him meeting middle-aged women and humourless platitudes. Of course maybe “far-left protesters” are just humourless individuals or idiots, as Hanafin seems to suggest. read full story / add a comment
dublin / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Sunday July 25, 2010 15:22 by Declan Cullen
Gormley's mad proposals need to be halted.

Its amazing how mad Minister John Gormley really is. He says that local councils can save 500 million euros in new reforms proposed that will affect vehicle owners.Its going to get so complicated and costly to own a vehicle in this state that most people will probably give up the dream of owning a car and content themselves with the fact that they will have to walk, or cycle depending on the distance. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 20, 2010 11:42 by Sean Keir Moriarty   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 21, 2010 22:21)
Dear Prime Minister Cowen,

Over the course of the past three (3) years, I've written you, Mr. Gormley, the members of Dáil Éireann, the Meath County Council, archaeologists at NUI Galway, UC Dublin, UC Cork, The Heritage Council, The Discovery Programme and the OPW on numerous occasions regarding my research paper, 'Orthostat, the Mound of the Hostages'.

http://www.knowth.com/tara-pdf.htm

The purpose for doing so was to convince The Heritage Council, The Discovery Programme & OPW to complete the geo-physical mapping of Tara, which I have no doubt will confirm the hypothesis set forth in my paper, that the symbols carved on Orthostat L2 within the Mound of the Hostages, constitute a map of the Hill of Tara, as it existed during the Neolithic Age. ( ca. 3200 BC)

The response I received from The Discovery Programme was that "no one here is compet read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday July 19, 2010 15:55 by Paddy Hackett   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 20, 2010 16:23)
The left and the right are the same. They merely perform different political and ideological functions. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday July 18, 2010 16:35 by éirígí Sligeach   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 18, 2010 17:56)   image 5 images
A demonstration was held outside Castlerea Prison on Saturday July 17th to celebrate the release of jailed Shell to Sea campaigner and Human Rights activist Pat 'the chief' O'Donnell read full story / add a comment
Simon Bolivar's remains get disturbed yet again - today exhumed from the Venezuelan pantheon
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Friday July 16, 2010 23:20 by iosaf - o as if   text 5 comments (last - sunday july 18, 2010 19:38)   image 3 images
Today the Venezuelan state continued its riveting bicentinial celebrations of its war for independence from the Spanish empire led by the "liberator" Simon Bolivar by exhuming his remains in what has been officially termed a respectful and patriotic operation supervised by Venezuelan flags, Venezuelan military and no less than 50 Venezuelan scientific experts in forensic anthropology, archaeological preservation & such like if not so.

Even though dental records did not exist a little less than 200 years ago, there has been little doubt that the reliquary opened, so that it may be "preserved for posterity" in the words of state minister for Justice, Tarek El Aissami, did indeed hold the remains of Bolivar. read full story / add a comment
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galway / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday July 15, 2010 11:14 by JM   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 15, 2010 15:39)   image 1 image
A documentary covering practically a decade of turmoil faced by the community in Rossport, Co Mayo. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday July 15, 2010 10:59 by Peter Mulholland
NIPSA (Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance), the largest public service trade union in the North has responded to the Draft Bill on Public Assemblies saying that, rather than give the impression that the Bill is redeemable through detailing all their objections to it, they would rather see it scrapped:
The draft proposal is "fundamentally flawed and not capable of amendment."

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 14, 2010 18:11 by orangecitadel
The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) has deemed the Northern Ireland Assembly's draft Bill on Public Assemblies, Parades and Protests inadequate, inconsistent, unclear, and likely to 'create an unjustified restriction on the freedom of assembly and expression'. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 14, 2010 14:10 by Peter Mulholland
Garvaghy and Ormeau Rd. communities’ joint response to the First and Deputy First Ministers’ Consultation Paper on Public Assemblies, Parades and Protests in N. Ireland; July 2010.
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dublin / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday July 12, 2010 21:26 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
Four decades after seeing the French movie "The white Maine" ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Monday July 12, 2010 16:13 by Farrelly57   text 27 comments (last - saturday august 28, 2010 10:33)   image 7 images
A new problem is affecting our Chestnut Trees and felling these green giants with speed everywhere across Ireland. read full story / add a comment
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