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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 / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday October 15, 2009 16:12 by Batasuna   text 1 comment (last - friday october 16, 2009 10:42)
On the 13th of October 2009 the Spanish National Police arrested 10 members of the Basque pro-independence movement. Among them Arnaldo Otegi, leader and spokesperson of Batasuna during the last peace process in the Basque Country, Rafa Diez, former National Secretary of the Trade Union LAB and Rufino Etxeberria, member of the Negotiation Committee during last peace process. read full story / add a comment
the hunts are still out....
national / animal rights / press release Wednesday October 14, 2009 22:06 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
Contact:
Sean Gifford (Lush press office): +44 (0)207 434 3948; sean.gifford@lush.co.uk

LUSH’S FABULOUS MRS FOX CHALLENGES FOX HUNTING
Lush Cosmetics Launches Campaign Against Fox Hunting; in Support of the Association of Hunt Saboteurs

Ireland—This week Lush Cosmetics is launching an in-store campaign to highlight that hunting with hounds continues throughout Ireland. Although hunting foxes with hounds has been banned in Scotland since 2002 and England and Wales since 2005, this blood sport remains legal in Ireland. During the week of October 12th the windows of Lush’s four Irish shops will be emblazoned with the words ‘THE HUNTS ARE STILL AT IT’. Customers will be encouraged to sign petitions asking for hunting with hounds to be made a criminal act. Lush’s Irish shops are located in Dublin, Belfast and Cork.

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international / miscellaneous / press release Monday October 12, 2009 12:59 by Richard Walsh   text 13 comments (last - sunday october 18, 2009 15:52)
The appearance of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Stormont is an unwelcome one, a spokesperson for Republican Sinn Féin has said.
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international / anti-capitalism / press release Monday October 12, 2009 03:33 by CIBCH   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 14, 2009 15:28)   image 2 images
we are promoting a world campaign to boycott Chiquita which supports the Coup d'Etat in Honduras. It is very important to spread the word in these critical moments and to try to help the Resistence to defeat coup participants. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Sunday October 11, 2009 21:16 by Saoirse
The Vice President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton addressed the Centenary Biennial National Conference of Ireland’s largest trade union SIPTU on October 9 in Tralee Co Kerry. The subject of his address was the murder of trade union activists by the US-backed regime in Columbia read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Sunday October 11, 2009 01:06 by Laura Broxson   text 35 comments (last - friday october 16, 2009 23:27)   image 1 image
CAFT Ireland - Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade

*****PRESS RELEASE*****

3 YEAR PHASE-OUT BAN FOR FUR FARMING IN IRELAND


Contact CAFT Ireland spokesperson: Laura Broxson, 086 8729 444.

Saturday 10th October marked an historical victory for anti-fur campaigners across Ireland. Green Party members voted in favour for a new programme for government, which will see fur farming banned in Ireland within 3years. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Saturday October 10, 2009 17:02 by Mairead Maguire   text 2 comments (last - sunday october 11, 2009 20:42)   image 1 image
Press release averring disappointment with the award of this prize to President Barack Obama read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Friday October 09, 2009 22:50 by vincent / blast furnace radio   1 attached file
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday October 09, 2009 18:51 by Nazanin Afshin-Jam   text 10 comments (last - monday november 16, 2009 15:56)
Behnoud Shojaee and Akram Mahdavi are scheduled to be executed in Evin prison this Sunday October 11 which falls one day after the International Day Against Execution. Some reports say that they may be executed tomorrow. Another juvenile,Safar Angooti is scheduled to be executed on October 21st. The Supreme Court is also deciding the fate of another minor on death row, Ali Mahin Torabi. This sad news is worrying the families of these youngsters, NGO's and human rights activists internationally.
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dublin / animal rights / press release Wednesday October 07, 2009 12:58 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
A controvercial exhibition starting tomorrow alerted the public to call AFAR when a photo of a live Greyhound wired up to act as a 'live medical device' was publicised. people feared the dog was to be confined to a plinth to display this possible future scenario at Dublins science Gallery for the next two months.
We contacted the organisers and have been assured that no live dog will be used. It was just for the photoshot.
However we urge people to express their strong opposition to the use of animals as medical devices or for experimentation. The expo facilitates and provides for comments to be displayed during this event.
A letter from the organisers follows.We in AFAR are glad that they are not using a dog in this instance. read full story / add a comment
national / education / press release Tuesday October 06, 2009 22:04 by Godot   text 5 comments (last - tuesday october 13, 2009 18:12)
The Union of Students in Ireland will hold a succession of protests on college campuses around the south of Ireland as part of its campaign against the reintroduction of fees.

Protests will be held by University College Cork, the Limerick School of Art and Design and the Institutes of Technologies in Carlow, Limerick Tralee and Waterford from October 7 – 14. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday October 06, 2009 20:57 by The Yes Men   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 07, 2009 15:29)   video 1 video file

October 6, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

U.S. screening finder
Film Forum screenings schedule
The Yes Men Fix the World trailer
Contact: people@theyesmen.org
This alert on the Huffington Post (to make comments)

The Yes Men Fix the World 's a Riot. No, Really.

We all know the facts.

Free-market capitalism is dangerous. It's run by a whole lot of bad, powerful people, and it hurts a whole lot of people who don't deserve to be hurt.

So much for the obvious. Now what?

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kildare / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Sunday October 04, 2009 00:33 by Republican Network for Unity Kildare   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 24, 2009 14:14)   image 1 image
national / racism & migration related issues / press release Saturday October 03, 2009 15:28 by PLF   text 4 comments (last - monday october 05, 2009 17:03)   image 1 image   1 attached file
Youth Against Racism has organised a protest against the BBC's invitation to the far-right, racist BNP to participate in Question Time. The protest will take place at 5.30pm on Thursday 15th October outside BBC Broadcasting House, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / press release Thursday October 01, 2009 23:08 by El Libertario, Venezuela   image 1 image
* Different organizations and individuals from Venezuela with tradition in the social struggles linked to different anti-authoritarian and critical leftist approaches, with whom we have converged at the space called INSURGENTES, set position before the exhumations of the Caracazo. read full story / add a comment
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national / history and heritage / press release Thursday October 01, 2009 18:38 by TaraWatch   text 1 comment (last - friday october 02, 2009 13:36)   image 3 images
The Green Party has lost it's mandate to represent the people of Ireland, and in particular, the environmental movement in Ireland. The latest scandal involves Gormley's own promises as Minister, to strengthen legal protections for national monuments and landscapes. In 2007 he promised new legislation the following year. Then it was promised for 2009, and formally described as The National Monuments (Amendment) Act 2009. Last week we informed by the Taniste that the bill will now not be published until 2010, at least. This is a core Green Party issue, and there is simply no excuse for the delay, which is costing Ireland's heritage dearly because of the high destruction rate continuing under the Green watch. TaraWatch is calling on all environmental groups to protest at the Green Party Special Convention on Saturday 10 October at 9.00am. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Wednesday September 30, 2009 23:00 by Fiachra Ó Luain
PRESS RELEASE - 30th September 2009

There has been a formal call for the OSCE to oversee the Irish Lisbon referendum amid growing concerns that the result of the Irish referendum may be manipulated by postal vote fraud. A source within the Dublin City Council has informed the former MEP candidate Fiachra Ó Luain of efforts by the head of the Franchise department to actively register residents of retirement homes, prisons and even the army.

The source has said that the head of the Franchise department has unsupervised and unregulated access to the postal votes and suggests that there may be concerted efforts to influence the outcome of the Lisbon referendum by manipulation of the postal vote system. This corroborates the fact that the ‘People’s Movement’, who are calling for a No vote, received notice from various county councils of the issue of postal votes the day after they had been sent out. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday September 30, 2009 22:31 by Kev   image 1 image
On the day of the General Strike of the Palestinians Citizens of Israel, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) expresses our support for your ongoing campaign for human, civil, political and national rights. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday September 30, 2009 18:38 by pat c
Sheida Jahanbin, a former member of the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran, is facing deportation from the Netherlands where she resides in exile. Sheida is twenty seven years old. She was a student of Architecture and Graphic Design at the Azad University of Tehran before she was forced to abandon her studies and flee Iran following her arrest for holding a left-wing meeting. If Sheida is deported, she will face arrest, prison, torture and even death.
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national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday September 30, 2009 07:37 by SpunOut.ie   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 30, 2009 11:06)   image 1 image
The results of the SpunOut.ie Facebook Poll: What way will you vote in Lisbon 2?

* Yes: 50.67%
* No: 41.63%
* I’m undecided: 3.33%
* I don’t understand it: 4.37% read full story / add a comment
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