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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 / opinion/analysis Thursday August 22, 2013 22:47 by Andy Archives
If Bradley Manning showed the U.S. Military’s indifference to arbitrary slaughter by U.S. personnel well that is how the Old Testament lays out the ground rules in the Middle East—it is NOT the Pentagon’s fault the New Testament had some other ideals that claimed all of mankind was part of God’s family. Still it seems apparent why there was so much adamant secrecy about sharing God’s State secrets—since it seems kind of obvious Eden was not the psychological paradise it was purported to have been by the propaganda powers-that-be back then. More importantly despite there being religious precepts too often leaders of countries do whatever they want irrespective of what legal or moral codes should apply—and this goes for both Israel and the United States—so maybe the the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is that leaders can act like arbitrary Gods while expecting their subjects to follow rules?
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Ray Burke jailed 2005 - his role in taking donation from Independent Newspapers company missing from Mahon Tribunal report
national / arts and media / news report Saturday March 24, 2012 19:13 by Randy Tail   text 8 comments (last - monday march 26, 2012 19:41)   image 8 images   audio 2 audio files   1 attached file
Another thread speculated that recent attacks on RTE by the Sunday Independent were due to a generalised attack on the public sector, on relatively independent journalism in the publicly owned RTE during a period of recession, on disappointment at the election of Michael D Higgins and defeat for the right wing entrepreneur, Sean Gallagher (and the part played by RTE in exposing Gallagher). That story is here:

Sunday Independent that defended Bertie Ahern - on anti RTE, President Michael D Higgins, crusade
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101574

There could be more to it than that. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Monday March 12, 2012 17:53 by Andy Logan   text 8 comments (last - tuesday march 12, 2013 16:41)   1 attached file
Following his Requisition for a Sworn Publin Enquiry into Corruption in Ireland on the 28 Jan 2012 Daniel Doherty was jailed on the 24 Feb 2012, once again without any summons or court hearing. This has happened to him on at least 7 occasions and has been done to keep him quiet.
Minister Shatter you have a lot of work to do to clear up the corruption in the legal and justice system. It is simply not good enough. read full story / add a comment
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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
Comment on Eoghan Harris in Independent Newspapers publication
national / anti-capitalism / news report Friday October 28, 2011 11:11 by Napper Tandy   text 9 comments (last - tuesday november 01, 2011 19:18)   image 1 image
Eoghan Harris destroyed Gay Mitchell's campaign by advising him to launch a reactionary blueshirt assault on Martin McGuinness. See:

Gay Blueshirt Mitchell becomes Eoghan Harris's candidate
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100648

Never a man to allow sentiment to delay him, Harris switched at the last minute to the one reactionary he thought would win, Sean Gallagher. Just like in 1997 when 'tribal time bomb' Mary McAleese won, the Harris touch turned to dust.

Higgins will win and Martin McGuinness will elect him on transfers - the worst of all Harris worlds. Higgins lifted Section 31 censorship restrictions on Sinn Fein in 1994 and paved the way for the peace process and Sinn Fein electoral advance. Harris hated all of that. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Thursday March 03, 2011 14:12 by Andy Storey
Over 200 activists, academic and others have today called for an audit of Greek debt to determine the uses to which it was put and the legitimacy (or not) of the demands for its repayment. There are arguments for initiating a similar exercise in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
 Cllr Ó Riordáin engaging in “legitimate political protest”.
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday May 07, 2009 16:33 by andyet   text 8 comments (last - monday may 11, 2009 06:33)   image 1 image
A Labour party councillor has attacked a group for picketing the clinic of a Fianna Fail TD.

Cllr Aodhan Ó Riordain said that in his view, pickets held outside the clinics of Fianna Fail public representatives are not a legitimate form of protest. Cllr O Riordain uses a picture of himself at a protest at the Store Street Garda station on his blog at www.aodhanoriordain.blogspot.com read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 26, 2008 12:27 by Andy Storey   text 2 comments (last - friday november 28, 2008 00:43)   1 attached file
This article looks at the EU intervention in Chad and argues that it is driven by the desire of the French government to shore up a dictator. The EU operation, which includes some 400 Irish troops, is essentially a fig leaf for the promotion of the foreign policy interests of the French state. The mainstream media ignores the geopolitical realities of this and other such interventions in Africa and thus ignores the potential negative consequences - for both Africans and Europeans. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday June 06, 2008 12:32 by Andy McNab   text 7 comments (last - sunday june 08, 2008 16:05)
Opponents of the Lisbon Treaty claim that Ireland will become part of a Pan-European Army.
However their hysteria betrays a profound ignorance of our military weaknesses and indeed the military weakness of the European armies even the big three, German, France and the United Kingdom.
None of the European armies shows any likelihood of being able to overcome nationalistic rivalries, duplication of resources, linguistic difficulties and a plethora of different weapons systems that would make a Pan-European army exist anywhere except in the fantasies of Brussels bureacrats even if a common defence treaty is made official. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday April 21, 2008 01:14 by Paula Geraghty / David Landy   text 29 comments (last - thursday june 19, 2008 12:24)   image 28 images
Photo essay and account from the IPSC march on the 12th of April: From Deir Yassin to Gaza - 60 Years of Israeli State Oppression
images (c) read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Thursday February 07, 2008 22:13 by Andy Martin
British rule requires political policing read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday September 18, 2003 14:02 by Rapper Tandy
Colombia's Communist rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), issued a communique late Tuesday denying any responsibility in the kidnapping of eight overseas tourists. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Monday September 08, 2003 16:54 by Rapper Tandy   text 3 comments (last - tuesday september 09, 2003 14:31)
The Plough
-E-mail newsletter of the Irish Republican Socialist Party
Number- 4 Date 5th September 2003
Contents
1. Loyalists attacks escalate in North Belfast
2. Message of solidarity with Chilean Hunger strikers
3. North East Irish Social Forum
4. The ideas of Frantz Fanon
5. What¹s on read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday September 08, 2003 14:54 by Rapper Tandy   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 10, 2003 00:23)
The British Government is to separate republican and loyalist prisoners in Northern Ireland's top security Maghaberry Prison.

The whole report can
be downloaded as a .pdf file from the NIO office site at http://www.nio.gov.uk/press/030908a.htm read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday September 01, 2003 13:12 by Mandy   text 10 comments (last - saturday september 13, 2003 22:16)
The truth about Mary Kelly read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday August 25, 2003 11:19 by Rapper Tandy   text 9 comments (last - friday august 29, 2003 23:33)
The Plough
Number 2 - 22 August 2003

E-mail newsletter of the Irish Republican Socialist Party
http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html

CONTENTS

+INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
+MAGHERA MEMORIAL CONTROVERSY
+SUNDAY WORLD-SUNDAY LIAR
+STATEMENT ON THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INLA CEASE-FIRE BY THE
LEADERSHIP OF THE IRISH NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY
+RESEARCH ON MIGRANT WORKERS
+FORTHCOMING EVENTS
+COMMENTS ON PLOUGH read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday August 17, 2003 19:03 by Rapper Tandy
The IRSP have accused the Northern Ireland Housing Executive of being
the political dupes of the SDLP, DUP, and others following the
smashing of a monument to two INLA volunteers due to be unveiled on
Sunday. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Thursday August 14, 2003 19:25 by Rapper Tandy   text 34 comments (last - wednesday august 27, 2003 18:38)
The latest edition of the Starry Plough, the newspaper of the Irish
Republican Socialist Movement, is now online in PDF format at:
http://www.morrigan.net/starryplough/aug2003/aug2003.pdf

Back issues can be found at: http://www.irsm.org/irsp/starryplough/

IRSM Website: http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday February 24, 2003 20:26 by randy reposter   text 3 comments (last - thursday february 27, 2003 01:27)
i heard this song and i'm passing it on for others to sing read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday October 27, 2002 22:48 by Andy mcknob   text 2 comments (last - monday october 28, 2002 00:57)
during the bloody sunday saville inquiry brit army intelligence officer Colin Wallace testified to the existence of a shadowy brit army unit in the 1970s which specialised in Psych ops. read full story / add a comment
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