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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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national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday June 18, 2007 23:44 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
While journalists writing on the front page of the Irish Times have reproduced the Department of Foreign Affairs' official line that the US military traffic at Shannon is taking place under a mandate from the United Nations, a close look at UN Security Council Resolution 1483 shows that there is more plausibly a mandate for Ireland to opt out of the US war of occupation in Iraq, because this has created conditions of persistent instability and insecurity there.
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national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday June 16, 2007 23:16 by Guy de Cervens   text 17 comments (last - thursday june 28, 2007 10:04)
What is taking place as regards Tara is only the first act of deceit by the Green Party, SINCE starting to prop up Berties Government. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday June 15, 2007 18:12 by Sean Crudden   text 5 comments (last - saturday march 12, 2011 13:15)
We talked about our country and the way we were oppressed
The men we sent to parliament to have our wrongs redressed
"I have no faith in members now nor anything else you see
For we’re led by blooming humbugs," says The Turfman from Ardee.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday June 15, 2007 16:18 by Ógra B   image 1 image
Tá stádas na Gaeilge i dtuaisceart na hÉireann níos fearr anois ná a bhí ariamh ó aimsir an chríochdheighilt. Tá pobal Gaeilge bríomhar in iarthar Bhéal Feirste a bhfuil ag dul ó neart go neart comh maith le na mílte taobh amuigh den cathair mór a labhrann Gaeilge. Bunaíodh an chéad Gaeltacht uirbeach in iarthar Bhéal Feirste, is rud iontach é sin do Ghaeil san tuaisceart agus ba cheart go mbeidh misneach orainn uilig a bhfuil ag súil le todhchaí maith d’ár dteanga.

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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday June 15, 2007 13:57 by Conor   text 4 comments (last - saturday july 21, 2007 17:24)
The working class is the creative class: the working class produces what material wealth exists in a country. And while power is not in their hands, while the working class allows power to remain in the hands of the landlords who exploit them, in the hands of the speculators, in the hands of the monopolies, in the hands of foreign and national interest groups, while armaments are in the hands of those in the service of these interest groups and not in their own hands, the working class will be forced to lead a miserable existence no matter how many crumbs those interest groups should let fall from their banquet table.

- Fidel Castro read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday June 14, 2007 23:11 by Henry   text 2 comments (last - saturday june 16, 2007 09:48)
After ten years of gnawing and spitting regarding GM food/crops the Irish Green Party gave up on their main GMO policies to enter Government in Ireland.
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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday June 14, 2007 16:39 by paul o toole   text 4 comments (last - friday june 15, 2007 16:13)
What now for the government read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 13, 2007 13:03 by Bachelor of Arts   text 40 comments (last - monday march 14, 2011 11:34)
The University of Dublin constituency has 11 candidates and promises to be compeditive. The electorate consists of those with University of Dublin degrees (Trinity College mainly, but also a few DIT & Froebel College). The constituency shows how elitist the Seanad University seats are. Not only do graduates get more representation, but within graduates there is distinction between NUI and TCD and all others. Ballot papers are to be returned by 11am, 24 July 2007. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 13, 2007 10:42 by Angry with the Greens   text 38 comments (last - thursday june 21, 2007 20:20)
Future crebibility and sustainability of The Green Party now rests with the members. Is a split imminent?

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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 13, 2007 00:03 by jim travers   text 8 comments (last - wednesday april 29, 2009 13:24)
is youth the key to the spiralling increase in anti-social behaviour or has the youth of today just taken example from their peers and enhanced the problem to a modern 21st century process in destabilising society. Does the problem go back further than what we are prepared to accept and have we now come to a stage where we need to re-evaluate the way we cherish freedom and human rights.
We see AIDS as being a threat to human existence. We now see ASB as a threat to the stability of our society and subsequently human existence in itself. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday June 08, 2007 16:01 by Eoin O Broin   text 47 comments (last - sunday june 24, 2007 16:48)
In a personal assessment of Sinn Féin’s general election performance, EOIN Ó BROIN argues that the weaknesses and limitations of the party’s election campaign need to be corrected by an immediate return to community-based campaigning and radical republican politics. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday June 07, 2007 21:50 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 19 comments (last - thursday april 01, 2010 15:55)
As I watch with admiration the grass root activists in Helligendmm, Germany, yesterday - the young students protesting against world poverty and being cordoned off by heavy handed police. Well done to these young people who have no agenda but raw passing against global poverty.

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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday June 07, 2007 18:47 by Colm Breathnach   text 39 comments (last - wednesday june 13, 2007 17:18)
This article outlines an initial analysis of the general election results from the Irish Socialist Network. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 05, 2007 15:15 by Revolt Video Collective   text 1 comment (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 15:18)
Dublin Shell to Sea escalated its campaign against Shell’s command centre at Corrib house on Leeson Street with a blockade of all three entrances. After two hours only four Shell employees had been pushed through the blockade by the large force of Gardai on hand.

The action was called to "highlight the incredible theft of our natural resources that totals 51 billion euros in the Corrib field alone" while "each winter, up to 3,000 people die prematurely every year from fuel poverty". Upwards of 45 protesters had assembled with Shell being protected by around 30 Gardai and a number of private security. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 05, 2007 11:34 by media g8way   text 2 comments (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 20:29)
Media coverage of street battles distract public attention from the G8's unaccountable policies. read full story / add a comment
1 Free with every piss up
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday June 02, 2007 02:51 by seedot   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2011 01:29)   image 1 image
Putting on a reviewers hat and watching the revolt video volume 2 as promised. Apologies for style, I turn into AA Gill. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday June 01, 2007 19:50 by Bachelor of Arts   text 155 comments (last - wednesday december 03, 2008 22:04)   image 1 image
Below is discussion on the Seanad election under the National University of Ireland constituency. 3 Senators are elected from the following 24 candidates. read full story / add a comment
Sean Crudden
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday June 01, 2007 11:45 by Sean Crudden   image 1 image
Looking out on a balmy morning (1 June 2007) listening to a Haydn quartet on the hi-fi it seems churlish to question the concept of "consensus" for indeed, today, it appears as if God is in his heaven and all is right with the world. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 30, 2007 19:10 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 25 comments (last - thursday september 27, 2007 10:28)
I came back today from work, I passed through Town. I turned on the radio to listen to Drive Time by Mary Wilson. I could not believe what I was hearing - Beverely Flynn speaking about the formation of a new Government and her shopping basket for the people of Mayo. Is there anybody out there when any tiny bit of morality out there?
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