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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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Voltaire, international edition

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national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday November 17, 2005 16:43 by Ógra B   text 4 comments (last - friday november 18, 2005 17:04)
Ógra Shinn Féin has announced this week that it is to hold its annual congress in Dublin from Friday 20 January to Saturday 21 January. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 16:00 by pat c
This time SOA watch are really going to give the grunts at Fort Benning a hard time. Its no more Mr Nice Guy. "We're close to shutting the school down," the movement's Outreach and Events coordinator Eric LeCompte said of the Fort Benning-based organization long known as the School of the Americas

You can read the full story at the link.

Pat C read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday November 17, 2005 15:47 by James McBarron   text 3 comments (last - friday november 18, 2005 11:21)
The recent spate of sectarian attacks in villages in Antrim and elsewhere are obviously not a reaction to the IRA as there is no longer anything resembling a war going on. In fact they are a product of the sectarianism deeply embedded in northern society. They're a product of hundreds of years of cynical use of same to maintain the privilge and position of the ruling class. read full story / add a comment
international / housing / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 15:43 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 17, 2005 21:10)
Prejudice against the homeless exists everywhere. Even in South Bend Indiana as the Catholic Worker Movement found out when they tried to open a shelter for the homeless. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Thursday November 17, 2005 15:33 by Kathy Sinnott   text 1 comment (last - thursday november 17, 2005 15:46)
There is a very active organic college in Drumcollogher, Co. Limerick. Everyone there obviously loves what they are doing, in pursuing not just a different way of producing food but a different way of life. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 15:31 by ollie
yep ,they are fighting and winning a war on drugs, a war on terror and don't do hypocracy.....

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GK16Ag01.html read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday November 17, 2005 14:37 by Catherine FitzGerald
On Saturday the 19th at 12:00 in Cineworld on Parnell St.,
Dublin 1 (formerly the UGC): a screening of a great kids dance film called

Mad Hot Ballroom

with all proceeds to Oxfam's Asian Earthquake Appeal.

Empire Magazine gave it 4 stars, and it really is a good little film. For more information on the film
(including the music, go to www.madhotballroom.com)

for tickets please buy them over the internet

http://www.oxfamireland.org/html/supportus/getinvolved.htm

or

you can buy them in the Oxfam Shop at 54 South King St., Dublin 2, by the Gaiety. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Thursday November 17, 2005 14:23 by pat c   text 6 comments (last - monday november 21, 2005 16:53)
The GAA museum at Croke Park will host a lecture to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when 13 people were shot dead in the stadium. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday November 17, 2005 14:04 by Friends of the Earth, Sweden and Attac in Sweden and Denmark
Connex is a threat to security and democracy -
Environmental and global justice movement call for global action against sacking of trade union chairman and the threat against democracy from privatisation.

You will find Protest stickers as jpg and pdf files at: www.folkrorelser.nu/connex read full story / add a comment
waterford / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday November 17, 2005 13:44 by WCTU
Thursday 24th, Granville Hotel, The Quay @ 8.00pm read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday November 17, 2005 11:51 by WP
Stop the Extradition of Sean Garland

Dublin: Public Meeting
Tuesday 22nd November 8 pm - Liberty Hall
Speakers Include: John Gormley TD
Joe Higgins TD
Roger Cole, PANA
Cllr John Halligan
Other Speakers to be confirmed read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday November 17, 2005 09:26 by Tom Lonergan
This conference is intended to launch a divestment campaign in Ireland, with particular emphasis on getting Irish pension funds to divest from the Irish company, CRH , which owns 25% of the only Israeli cement-manufacturing company, until/unless it can provide an absolute guarantee that it is no longer involved in the supply of materials used in illegal Israeli construction projects in the West Bank.
Keynote Speakers: Ilan Pappe, Diana Buttu read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 05:43 by R. Isible   text 4 comments (last - friday november 25, 2005 18:45)
(c) Irish Independent Nov 17th 2005, Tom Brady (security editor who never got off his arse to investigate prisoners being "rendered" at Shannon)

Freedom of speech crackdown

THE law is to be changed to deter radicals making inflammatory remarks that could put Ireland's security at risk.

The planned move was disclosed yesterday by Defence Minister Willie O'Dea who said the Government could not guarantee that other threats would not be issued against Ireland by fundamentalists prepared to abuse the freedom of speech.

But it was proposed to toughen existing legislation to act as a deterrent against a repeat of the comments made by Islamic lawyer Anjem Choudary in Trinity College in Dublin last week.

Mr O'Dea said he had received huge public reaction against the remarks which suggested Ireland could be attacked by international terror groups because US war planes were allowed to refuel in Shannon.

Many read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 03:56 by cleaves
US Secretary of Defence, Zionist and neo-con extraordinaire, Donald Rumsfeld, will visit Adelaide (of all places) to hold discussions with servile Australian politicians regarding Australia’s continuing involvement with the pariah nation of the world, the USA. Rumsfeld’s visit is timely, it coincides with nationwide dissent and protest against IR and draconian anti-terrorist laws recently implemented by leading US lackey and coward extraordinaire, John Howard. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 03:31 by Séan   text 33 comments (last - saturday november 19, 2005 12:28)
It was reported in today’s Irish Independent that SINN Fein has been booted out of Trinity College after the campus branch chairperson circulated a hate email containing threats to Margaret Thatcher.

The message urged Sinn Fein members to insult the late husband of the former British Prime Minister, and contained the statement: "We'll get the ******* yet." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday November 16, 2005 18:46 by Insurrection   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 16, 2005 18:52)
Insurrection Spreads Globally. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday November 16, 2005 16:57 by The Workers' Party (Cork Region)   text 1 comment (last - friday november 18, 2005 12:21)
A Public Meeting will be held tomorrow night (Thurs, 17th Nov) in Cork City in support of the campaign to Stop the Extradition of Sean Garland. President of the Workers' Party.

The Venue for the meeting is the Metropole Hotel, MacCurtain Street, Cork and the meeting begins at 8.00pm. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday November 16, 2005 16:25 by Ógra B   text 7 comments (last - thursday november 17, 2005 22:53)
A large crowd of Ógra Shinn Féin activists gathered outside Queen’s University in Belfast on Wednesday 16th November for a Demilitarisation and Anti- Collusion protest. The theme of protest was ‘End British Army/ OTC recruitment in our University’. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday November 16, 2005 15:42 by Residents Against Racism   text 3 comments (last - thursday november 17, 2005 20:13)
Residents Against Racism are organising a Demostration outside the Garda National Immigration Bureau(GNIB) on Burgh Quay Dublin 2 for tomorrow at 2pm.

Nigerian Asylum seekers from a Dublin Hostel have been taking in for deportation and also others from around Ireland have to present themselves .

On the 18/10 46 asylum seekers were deported to Nigeria we need as many people there tomorrow to support the demonstration and to try stop this brutality from happening again.

GNIB Burgh Quay ( Just up from Tara Street Train station) 2pm read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday November 16, 2005 15:42 by iosaf   text 15 comments (last - wednesday june 07, 2006 06:09)
Latest twist in the killing of De Menezes on July 22 in london at Kennington tube station.

The Daily Telegraph has revealed that the police who killed Jean Charles de Menezes used _illegal_ "dum dum" bullets.

["Modern hollow point bullets are descendants of the expanding "dum dum" ammunition created by the British in an arsenal of the same name near Calcutta, in India, at the end of the 19th century and outlawed under the Hague Declaration of 1899.

The bullets, which expand and splinter on impact, were available to officers taking part in Operation Kratos, the national police drive against suspected suicide bombers which has been described as a "shoot to kill" policy."] read full story / add a comment
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