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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 Friday November 25, 2011 22:43 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D. & David Landy   image 1 image
Cartoons have become explosive, underlining deep political fault lines in the new world order and more often than not, concealing bigotry and diverting debate from racism and imperialism to the much abused concept of “freedom of expression”. The latest episode was started by a cartoon published in Ha’aretz in which the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Minister of Defence Ehud Barak, say farewell to troops on the way to bomb Iran, while asking them to bomb the UNESCO offices in Ramallah on the way back. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Thursday November 24, 2011 20:09 by Declan Cullen
Kenny, Noonan, & Gilmore, keep saying ad - nauseam that everything on the table. This is a blantant lie........ read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday November 20, 2011 17:49 by socialist
The Dublin Occupy movement decided not to join the anti-austerity march on Sat 26th November. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday November 20, 2011 10:29 by Noiz   text 18 comments (last - monday november 21, 2011 10:02)   image 1 image
Often otherwise interesting threads on indymedia are derailed and destroyed by people bringing up the thorny topic of anti-semitism and fascism. Such conversations need a new home. This is that home read full story / add a comment
British Political Internment 2011 40 years later in Occupied Ireland Again !
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday November 18, 2011 18:37 by BrianClarkeNUJ   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Marian Price is a Republican who had been free on licence, from a life sentence for her part in Provisional IRA actions in London almost 40 years ago in the early 1970’s. Like Gerry McGeough and Martin Corey she has been politically interned without trial by the Queen's un-elected Englishman in Occupied Ireland, overturning a court ruling the same day, that there was no evidence to suggest, that she should not be free. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 16, 2011 15:57 by Samuel Albert
The euphoria has evaporated. While today's raucous political climate is very different than the years before Hosni Mubarak's ouster, when an enforced silence and stillness prevailed, it has also changed markedly since the period immediately preceding and following his 11 February forced resignation. Now, among the millions who participated in or supported that revolt and more broadly, there is a feeling that the situation is becoming increasingly complex, unsettled and dangerous. Marches, strikes, sit-ins and other protests happen every day, but many ordinary people are becoming more passive. There is a chill in the air that comes from more than the approaching winter. read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 15, 2011 21:11 by Sean Matthews
The sixty million payoff to prison officers in Northern Ireland could be much better spent on addressing the causes of crime such as poverty, social deprivation and prison rehabilitation. Prison officers who served during the Troubles could walk away from their jobs with packages of more than £120,000 plus pension as part of a £60m redundancy programme aimed at ‘modernising’ the service. read full story / add a comment
British Double Agents
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday November 14, 2011 06:33 by BrianClarkeNUJ   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 08, 2012 13:05)   image 1 image
Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by! Epitaph on the grave of Irish Poet William Butler Yeats, written by himself with careful directions ! Most people live lives, blissfully unaware of just how much secret Government agencies control their everyday lives. The Latin phrase 'scientia potentia est,' is a maxim claimed to mean "knowledge is power". This power in western societies like the U.S. and U.K. is centered in hugely resourced secret agencies that controls almost every facet of life of the modern citizen. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday November 13, 2011 16:04 by passer by   text 89 comments (last - friday january 06, 2012 09:42)
After the March there were some fantastic speeches on topics such as Ireland pulling out of the Euro and grassroots Democracy at Occupy Dame St yesterday shows up United Left Alliance and SWP lack of action on very important issues read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday November 11, 2011 13:36 by Paddy Hackett   text 12 comments (last - monday november 21, 2011 12:09)
Gurdgiev makes the false assumption that capitalism isa rational system that serves the interests of all citizenry if rationally organised. Like the reformists on the Left he believes that a reformed capitalist social system can advance the interests of the capitalist class, middle and working class. In this way he is an idealist reformist who mistakenly believes that reason (ideas) can determine social reality. To achieve economic recovery he argues that that there must be a massive reduction in state spending on a scale that makes past and present governments' reductions look lilliputian. He shows here his failure to understand the nature and function of state spending under capitalism. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday November 05, 2011 21:59 by John Throne and Richard Mellor.   text 10 comments (last - wednesday november 16, 2011 10:21)
How the movement can be expanded and taken forward

Oakland City Council's phony concerns exposed. How can we broaden the OWS movement? The most important achievement of the OWS movement so far is that it has shifted the national debate about the economic crisis. OWS has put the hedge fund managers, banks, speculators and other wasters who are responsible for the mess we are in on the defensive. The OWS movement has also reintroduced the tactics that built the Unions and the civil rights movement in the Apartheid South-----mass direct action and defiance of the law----and has brought the nature of the system to the front burner. Capitalism, the so-called free market and possible alternatives to its madness are being discussed by millions of Americans. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday November 03, 2011 13:24 by Costas A   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 08, 2011 20:43)   image 1 image
EU cheap substitute- ΕΕ φτηνό υποκατάστατο read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 01, 2011 14:59 by Costas   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 02, 2011 11:10)
Referendums,parliaments, Democracy.Greece-Ireland. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 01, 2011 13:59 by socialist   text 96 comments (last - sunday april 29, 2012 11:01)
Weak leadership, cowardice, duplicity, the faults of the SWP are symptomatic of a deeper problem. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 01, 2011 07:17 by London Catholic Worker   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 01, 2011 07:23)
On Saturday Oct 29th. London Catholic Worker was invited to take part in the "Sermon on the Steps" of St. Paul's Cathedral organised by Occupy London. Here's some youtube of "Sermon on the Steps".... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF9fIssJFQ4 Here's the Catholic Worker, christian @narchist sermon from Saturday............... read full story / add a comment
Hares in their natural habitat...Michael D tried to have them protected by law
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Monday October 31, 2011 17:32 by Protect our Hares   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 01, 2011 14:36)   image 3 images
Michael D Higgins, our new President, was the first member of Ireland's parliament to push for a ban on live hare coursing read full story / add a comment
The "sport" of fox hunting
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday October 28, 2011 18:01 by Ban fox hunting   text 8 comments (last - saturday february 03, 2018 16:07)   image 2 images
Foxhunting is set to shame Ireland yet again as animal baiters prepare to indulge in snob cruelty... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday October 27, 2011 20:16 by Tom   text 2 comments (last - friday october 28, 2011 10:16)   image 1 image
Reformists clash with the revolutionaries for years on the methods of struggle against capitalism. The first group is criticized for its strategy of building a new society step by step. Revolutionaries say that it will never happen because real liberation requires radical action and confrontation with the enemy. But reformists say that revolutionary methods are based on short-term changes that lead to violence and it is never possible to predict the outcome of the revolution. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday October 24, 2011 02:01 by Anarchist International
An article written presumably for a non-Irish audience but still relevant to the discussions regarding the Real IRA, nationalism, and capitalism. Food for thought, at least... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday October 23, 2011 14:05 by newsmedia   text 2 comments (last - monday october 24, 2011 18:41)
According to Enda Kenny, the Irish people are dumb, maleable and stupid. When asking people to support a referendum vote on something as important as changing the Irish Consitution, it is simply not enough to say “This is about fairness” and hope as he obviously does that people will simply sit back in satisfaction and accept his words. read full story / add a comment
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