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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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international / consumer issues / other press Tuesday November 22, 2005 12:53 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - wednesday november 23, 2005 17:53)
this morning the italian police started raiding Nestle warehouses throughout italy seizing a number of product ranges amounting to 30 million litres of treated dairy products marketed to nursing mothers.

The reason being they have been found to contain chemicals assocaited with embalming processes, which is unsurprisingly illegal in both Italy and the EU.

Nestle, known to some as the "famine corporation" though Swiss owned, takes over 85% of its profits from sales of "food" in other countries.

The corporation has been long been directly linked to famine, ironically considering it sells sweeties. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday November 21, 2005 18:12 by Aunty War
Last allied witness of WWI Christmas truce dies
By Peter Graff
LONDON (Reuters) - The last known surviving allied veteran of the Christmas Truce that saw German and British soldiers shake hands between the trenches in World War One died Monday at 109, his parish priest said. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday November 21, 2005 17:17 by SP   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 22, 2005 13:04)
The Socialist Party, Socialist Party T.D. Joe Higgins and Socialist Party Councillors are hosting a speaking tour next week for a prominent socialist activist from Brazil, André Ferrari. André Ferrari is a member of the National Executive of the Party for Socialism and Liberty, P-SOL. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Monday November 21, 2005 16:53 by Aisling Walsh
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada is symbolically served with the legal documents the US Government has failed to serve him with for 4 months, demanding his return to Bolivia. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday November 21, 2005 16:28 by Hugh Harkin
One World presents: bonus Palestine Awareness event!
Dr Ilan Pappe, Professor of Politics at Haifa University, Israel
Speaking on:
“The Peace Charade in Palestine”
Thursday 24th at 7.30pm
Walton theatre (2039), Arts Block read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Monday November 21, 2005 16:22 by Laurence Cox
Ireland from Below, the new monthly paper reporting community struggles, is holding an informal launch at 4 pm in the North Star Hotel (opp. Connolly Station in Dublin 1), followed by a short get-together.

The first issue of the paper covers the conflict over the Ringaskiddy incinerator, the Rossport Solidarity camp, struggles over privatisation in Ballymun, community gardens, the riots in France, and more.

All welcome. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Monday November 21, 2005 15:20 by diet simon   text 4 comments (last - monday november 21, 2005 21:30)
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday November 21, 2005 14:38 by Paddy Rua
In Dublin, we were visited by a Haitian activist, Obed Alexis, who participated in the picket organised by the Latin American Solidarity Centre, joining the international protest against the occupation and Latortue’s dictatorship of 30 September. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday November 21, 2005 13:57 by Repeater   text 6 comments (last - friday november 25, 2005 12:22)
The children die at the hands of the suicidists one day, regular military the next. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday November 21, 2005 13:36 by cnwp   text 12 comments (last - thursday november 24, 2005 17:06)
THE FOLLOWING declaration for a new workers' party was launched by the Socialist Party at Socialism 2005, a weekend of discussion and debate attended by hundreds of young people, trade union and community activists.
Initial signatories include 21 trade union national executive committee (NEC) members and four councillors.
The campaign for a new workers' party will be collecting thousands more signatures over the coming months in support of the declaration. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Monday November 21, 2005 12:42 by Robert Hamm
A sports club in Sligo has published a booklet to provide a necessary counterpoise to the reactionary tendencies that are part of the demand on sports clubs to adopt the Irish Sports Councils 'Code of Ethics'. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday November 21, 2005 12:35 by canal ti zef
Next march an activist irish video festival in Brest ! read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday November 21, 2005 00:28 by Josephine Hayden
Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance at 1.30pm to commemorate the founding of Sinn Fein in 1905. March to Ambassador Cinema. Speaker: RuairI O Bradaigh, Sinn Fein Poblachtach. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday November 21, 2005 00:03 by Pax   text 5 comments (last - friday november 25, 2005 21:00)
On Nov 16th 1989, six Jesuits (one a graduate of Milltown, Dublin) were slained be elite Salvadoran troops trained at the School of the Americas, Ft. Benning, Georgia, USA. Around the anniversary of these deaths human rights activists gather to march on SOA chanting the names of Latin American dead slain by SOA graduates, some trespass facing 6-18 months in prison.

Thousands of Latin Americans have been killed by the gradiates of SOA. 10,000 Colomban troops alone have been trained at Ft. Benning (USA) in the past ten years. read full story / add a comment
FGM
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 20, 2005 20:51 by awombofherown   text 18 comments (last - monday june 11, 2007 11:12)
I had to write a critical reflection paper this week for my Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health class, and the topic this week is female genital surgeries. I'm only allowed to write 2 pages double spaced, which is incredibly frustrating because I have way more to say on the subject and I had to cut out a lot. So I'm posting a longer version of my paper here: read full story / add a comment
galway / politics / elections / event notice Sunday November 20, 2005 18:30 by Kerry E'lyn Larkin   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 26, 2005 16:23)
Buy Nothing Day 2005 to be celebrated in Galway on Saturday with street theatre, a mini film fest, art installations, and a barter fair. read full story / add a comment
antrim / history and heritage / event notice Sunday November 20, 2005 18:26 by Ciarán
The James Connolly Debating Society is a forum for republicans and socialists to meet, discuss and debate the works of some of Ireland's greatest political thinkers, from the United Irishmen to Connolly and Pearse, right up to the present.

The first meeting will address the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and the Democratic Programme of the First Dáil.

We will be meeting in the Felons' Club, Falls Road, Belfast on Thursday 1st December at 7.30pm read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday November 20, 2005 18:13 by CÓB
Shell to Sea activists will be meeting at the Castle Junction (Black Taxi depot) at the top of Castle Street at 1pm to leaflet shoppers and to raise awareness about the campaign and the case of the Rossport 5. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Sunday November 20, 2005 09:55 by cearbhuil
Since the founding of this Peace Community in 1997, San Jose has suffered assassinations, kidnappings, forced displacements and tortures by The COlombian Army. The President of Colombia wants to exterminate this peace community as they offer alternatives to slavery, poverty and dictatorship. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Sunday November 20, 2005 06:47 by Brian   text 22 comments (last - monday january 16, 2006 11:18)
A short account of the meeting on Garda, legal and state corruption chaired by Frank McBrearty at the Mansion House Dublin 20 Nov 2005.

(My apologies in advance for any errors and omissions.) read full story / add a comment
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