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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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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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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.

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offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

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offsite link The Outgoing Tide of Freedom Mon Dec 08, 2025 13:00 | Dr James Allan
Britain's freedom is ebbing fast, with double standards on protests and jury trials under threat. James Allan warns it's a tide we must fight before it's gone for good.
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offsite link Right-Wingers Branded Danger to Children Mon Dec 08, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Cleared in court but still banned from coaching his daughter's football team, an ex-Royal Marine says safeguarding is being used to punish his politics over a Facebook post about illegal migrants.
The post Right-Wingers Branded Danger to Children appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link EXCLUSIVE: UK Office of Budget Responsibility?s Latest Climate Fear Mongering Claims Based on Junk F... Mon Dec 08, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
The OBR has been spouting climate doom based on a now-retracted, deeply flawed Nature paper, says Chris Morrison. After this scientific car crash, perhaps they should quit the climate catastrophising game altogether.
The post EXCLUSIVE: UK Office of Budget Responsibility?s Latest Climate Fear Mongering Claims Based on Junk Findings From Retracted Nature Paper? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Ritual Humiliation of Airport Security Mon Dec 08, 2025 07:00 | Dr Thomas Crew
Airport security is less about safety and more a ritual of humiliation that slowly chips away at our dignity and citizenship ? one awkward pat-down and trouser-drop at a time, says Dr Thomas Crew.
The post The Ritual Humiliation of Airport Security appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Dec 08, 2025 01:16 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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national / public consultation / irish social forum / news report Wednesday June 29, 2022 20:47 by WeThePeople   image 1 image
Join Rob De Salle in interview with David Chariot O'Reilly a well renowned activist and Fiona Bradley the spearhead of an information bombing initiative called Hold The Line which has cropped up all over Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday January 20, 2013 18:41 by Karl   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 22, 2013 13:03)   image 1 image
They are poisoning our communities and destroying Republicanism. They are anti- working class. They are anti-Republicans. The choice is yours.
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national / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday January 01, 2013 19:33 by PRO   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 01, 2013 23:58)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
As the hundredth anniversary year of the 1913 Lockout begins éirígí extends solidarity greetings to its members, supporters and all of those who have contributed to the struggle against imperialism and capitalism in Ireland over the last twelve months.

Agus an céad bliain ó cheann Fhrithdhúnadh 1913 ag tosnú cuireann éirígí beannachtaí dlúthpháirtíochta chuig ár mbaill, lucht tacaíochta agus chucusan ar fad a d’oibrigh ar son na streachailte in aghaidh impiriúlachais agus caipitleachais in Éirinn le dhá mhí dhéag anuas. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday February 18, 2010 16:43 by Paul Larkin   text 2 comments (last - friday february 19, 2010 14:55)
Article looking at the broadcasting ethics (or lack of same) of RTÉ and the slanted political make-up of personalities and news coverage read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday July 11, 2009 20:01 by Le Chéile saor   text 6 comments (last - tuesday july 14, 2009 01:24)
I.R.A Continue To Resist Occupation. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / feature Thursday July 09, 2009 20:29 by O. O'C.   text 10 comments (last - saturday august 29, 2009 16:28)   image 2 images   video 2 video files
The Lisbon Treaty will result in: A big-state power grab; copperfastening Laval; permitting direct EU taxes; exclusive power regarding foreign direct investment, & Court power to harmonise; abolishing right to propose Commissioner; establishing an EU Federal State; requiring citizen loyalty; power to decide our rights; abolishing veto, binding us in 32 new policy areas; reducing National Parliament power; a self-amending treaty; enabling politicians over voters and militarizing EU. Thats all we know about so far, there may well be even more. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / press release Monday June 29, 2009 19:57 by Le Chéile saor[P.R.O]
Le Chéile saor to attend Save Tara protest at Leinster House read full story / add a comment
kildare / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday June 27, 2009 22:52 by Le Cheile saor [P.R.O]   text 4 comments (last - tuesday june 30, 2009 18:24)
Le Cheile saor Launch Several Campaigns

Republican Socialism Today
Join Le Chéile saor
www.lecheilesaor.webs.com
Email: lecheilesaor@gmail.com
Contact:0852818681 read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday June 27, 2009 22:39 by Damien Dillon [P.R.O]
Le Chéile saor attend Our Ladys Childrens Hospital Protest.This was our first protest of many to come that we attended. read full story / add a comment
No to Lisbon
national / eu / feature Tuesday June 23, 2009 23:48 by O. O'C.   text 23 comments (last - monday july 06, 2009 19:13)   image 1 image
EU politicians cannot change the treaties, or their effects, just by signing a new agreement: the Court of Justice will always say that the provisions of a fully ratified European Treaty trump any attempt to modify the operation of the Treaty through an unratified agreement. read full story / add a comment
kildare / politics / elections / press release Saturday January 24, 2009 23:34 by Saorise
Statement by Athy Town Council Candidate and Republican Sinn Fein Vice President Des Dalton read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 10, 2008 16:14 by Educate to be Free   text 11 comments (last - sunday december 14, 2008 10:48)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
At their National Congress in Cork City, on Saturday 6 December, Ógra Shinn Féin launched a new national campaign on education. The campaign, titled 'Educate to be Free' was launched by ÓSF National Organiser Barry McColgan, and was endorsed by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams who was present.

Following the launch, the republican youth movement organised a No! Fees Protest on Cork's Patrick Street, which was well recieved by the public.

The following is the text from the launch:
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tyrone / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday November 12, 2008 16:26 by Saoirse   text 2 comments (last - monday november 17, 2008 22:01)   image 2 images
On the day that 1983 Long Kesh Escapee Pól Brennan will go to court in the USA to fight for his release, West Tyrone Ógra Shinn Féin have sent a message of solidarity and called for his “immediate freedom so that he can fight his deportation freely and fairly.”

Pól Brennan has been imprisoned in US jails from January this year, because when he was stopped at a routine road block, his work permit had expired. Pól is not undocumented and has a work authorisation permit in the system since 2006, but he has neither received or been refused the permit.

What began as a simple bureaucratic misunderstanding was soon escalated by the US Homeland Security who has also activated a deportation order for Pól. This completely ignores a US court ruling in 2000 which allowed Pól hearings for political asylum which are still ongoing.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday October 09, 2008 17:11 by Saoirse   image 1 image
The Irish Republican Youth Movement, Ógra Shinn Féin, have said that they are committed to campaigning for the immediate release of 1983 Long Kesh Escapee Pól Brennan, who has been incarcerated in a US prison since January this year.

They said they will be stepping up efforts to highlight his plight in the time ahead, which includes two ‘Free Pól Brennan’ vigils on Tuesday 14 October, one at 6.30pm outside the GPO in Dublin and the other at Queen’s Student’s Union in Belfast at 7.30pm.
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 13, 2007 00:22 by Robbie Sinnott / Saoririseoir   text 42 comments (last - thursday march 15, 2007 21:17)
Seachtain na Gaeilge atá ann arís, ach fós, níl ach scrídín Gaeilge le feiceáil ar www.indymedia.ie. Seo é a leannas, mo bhronntanas fágála tar éirí as an bhfoireann eagarthóireachta (an comharchumann féin mar dheá) ar ball.

B'fhéidir go mbeidh daoine eile ábalta an t-am a thabhairt chun aistriúcháin eile a dhéanamh le haghaidh na leathnacha eile am éigin arís. read full story / add a comment
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national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday August 12, 2006 02:01 by Kevin Murphy   text 19 comments (last - tuesday march 29, 2016 14:22)   image 10 images
As the hypocritical farce which was the 26 county states dishonest attempt to misrepresent and hijack the anniversary of the Easter Rising fades for another year the real work of reclaiming the republic for the people carries on in the background . The National 1916 commemoration Committee was founded in 2001 with the express purpose of commemorating and remembering the ideals , aims and sacrifice of the 1916 rising in a dignified and fitting manner as the 100th anniversary of this momentous event draws ever nearer . It is essential Irish people are made aware of the yawning gulf between the aims of 1916 and the reality of the corrupt, servile neo-colonial 26 county state , which stands in fundamental opposition to everything 1916 was about - the sovereign ownership of Ireland, its territory and resources, by the people of Ireland . With the ongoing foreign occupation of our northern territory , the theft of our national resources - gas , oil and the imminent privatisation of our water resources in the north , the use of Shannon to facilitate mass murder , kidnap and imperialist ventures throughout the globe it can be stated quite honestly that Ireland today remains a subjugated land , outside of the ownership of the Irish people . Irish sovereignty in all its forms has been cast aside by native capitalists in ignnominious servitude to foreign masters and landlords . The National 1916 Commemoration Committee urges all Irish citizens to stand against these multiple usurpations of our sovereignty , to reject the states hypocritical ceremonies in future and stand with them in commemorating the ideals and aims of 1916 . It is essential this debate is kept alive and as part of our attempts to do so we present this article examining the motivations and aims of the 1916 leaders . read full story / add a comment
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national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Sunday July 02, 2006 17:33 by James R   text 15 comments (last - friday june 26, 2009 18:19)   image 1 image
Just after returning from watching Ken Loach's Palm D'or reaping drama The Wind That Shakes The Barley and like most feel slightly compelled to add one or two words to the flurry of type and hype that has accompanied the movies release on these shores. The Wind That Shakes The Barley is a typical Loach movie betraying many of the core techniques of his previous outtings. Again he relies on plunging a shallowly crafted personal relationship, this time between two brothers, into a set of tragic circumstances. These circumstances provide an emotional cover for his overly didactic political approach to popularising alternative historical mythologies that challenge the authors of a victors' history. This time the contested historicity is the rabid nationalism of the Irish text book, that sweeps aside socialist and labour based movements in the process of consolidation of the free state. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / press release Wednesday May 31, 2006 21:27 by Saoririseoir for Integrating Ireland   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 21:57)
Statement made by Samander Khan Oriyakhal on behalf of the Afghan asylum seeker hunger strikers. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday May 05, 2006 16:09 by Sheikh Dr. Shaheed Satardien   text 1 comment (last - friday may 05, 2006 20:22)
Recent events in Iraq, Denmark, Paris and many other countries demonstrate the power of conviction as a motivator for action. When that conviction lacks the mollifying factor of “perspective” it can motivate actions that are destructive for the person and the community at large. read full story / add a comment
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