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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 / arts and media / event notice Tuesday August 30, 2005 15:04 by Robbie Sinnott
Featured this week:
Robyn Banks from California, and Nestor McNab from WSM discuss organization in anarchism, especially with regard to public education.

Dorene Groocock who has been a member of the active aid community for many years, gives her analysis of aid structures.

Other stuff too, but yet to be decided. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday August 30, 2005 14:44 by Fintan O' Toole
One of the myths propagated by left-wing agitators is that the development of the Corrib gas field off the Mayo coast will not benefit the ordinary citizen. This is wildly inaccurate, argues Fintan O'Toole. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / press release Tuesday August 30, 2005 14:14 by Connie   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 30, 2005 16:21)
A potentially landmark Human Rights case resulting from a year-long dispute between Belfast City Council and the free cultural newspaper The Vacuum is due to take place on Tuesday 13th September 2005. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday August 30, 2005 12:52 by Colm Stephens
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday August 30, 2005 01:49 by very persistent.
Raytheon, best-known globally for military electronics and weapons systems, saw sales rise 8 % in the first half of the year to US$10.4 billion.
But Raytheon (with an Irish operation) are small compared to Boeing (a partner to Ryanair) who had At the end of June, military orders of USS$85.7 billion.

Only 2 Arms companies of the US big ten of defence contractors presently engaged in the offence of Iraq.

Of the "10" -- Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Litton, General Electric, United Technologies, TRW and Textron -- six are among the world’s top 10 arms-producing companies. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday August 29, 2005 17:14 by Colmán Etchingham
Public meeting in support of Shell to Sea on Tuesday 30 August, Port View Hotel, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire. Speakers: Pádraig Campbell (Shell to Sea), Mary Lou MacDonald MEP, Ciarán Cuffe TD, Richard Boyd Barrett (SWP) read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday August 29, 2005 16:44 by Tadhg McGrath
Shell to Sea Campaign Leafleting outside the Royal Norwegian Embassy at lunchtime as part of campaign against Statoil. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday August 28, 2005 16:33 by Saoirse Daltun   text 4 comments (last - sunday september 04, 2005 21:47)
John McDonagh supports violence in Ireland and has deep and longtime connections with the extreme right. He has opportunistically latched on to the Cindy Sheehan movement read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday August 27, 2005 17:15 by Emma   text 5 comments (last - friday march 21, 2008 21:04)
The Irish government is currently trying to deport women and children under the threat of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which frequently results in death. Asylum in Ireland can be sought on grounds of religious or political persecution. However the government refuse to acknowlege FGM as a political act and therefore women and children cannot apply for asylum on the basis they have suffered or will suffer FGM if deported. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday August 27, 2005 16:30 by Residents Against Racism   text 19 comments (last - monday december 05, 2005 13:34)
On the second of September at 1.30pm asylum seekers from around Ireland have to sign on at the GNIB on Burgh quay for possible deportation. This is the Justice Departments new system of fast tracking asylum seekers back to Nigeria.

Women and children from Hatch Hall and Gardiner Street Hostels will be there to protest against their deportation orders and how they are being treated by the immigration authorities these women if sent back to Nigeria face Female Genital Mutilation, sexually slavery and living life as second class citizens. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday August 27, 2005 01:26 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 30, 2005 00:26)
This is part of the text of an article that appeared in the Meath Chronicle
on Tue, Jun 21st 2005 in an article by John O Donohoe.
(In response to this attack I sent him this letter and a copy to both the Taoiseach and the new CEO of the NRA. Needless to say I have received no response from any of them. As the mainstream media failed to cover a press release on my reply I’m including it here after the article.)

The Minister for the Environment and Local Government Dick Roche
launched a stinging attack on opponents of the M3 route at a Fianna
Fail business briefing in Athboy last week.

On his first visit to the county since giving the go-ahead for the
controversial archaeological excavations on the motorway route, which
began last week, he condemned the untruths campaigners aired against
the motorway and accused them of a lack of open-mindedness. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Saturday August 27, 2005 00:03 by One down...
By CHRIS WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer. Wed Aug 24,11:42 PM ET

MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota man considered one of the world's most prolific e-mail spammers was indicted on more than a dozen federal charges related to the operation of his business, Xpress Pharmacy Direct. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Friday August 26, 2005 22:40 by Barry McColgan   text 15 comments (last - friday september 02, 2005 14:07)
Free The Rossport 5 - Shell 2 Sea Protest
Organised by Ogra Shinn Fein
Saturday 3 September
Assemble 11:30am
Front Gates - Belfast City Hall read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Friday August 26, 2005 20:51 by Shell to Sea   text 6 comments (last - sunday august 28, 2005 21:02)
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday August 26, 2005 18:32 by Roger Cole
Vigil at the US Embassy, Balsbridge, Dublin 4
24th of September 2005 from 2.00-6.00pm
to protest against the war in Iraq read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Friday August 26, 2005 16:55 by Aidan McKeown
Dublin community radio station Anna Livia's current affairs program 'Closeup' features an interview with Cork Insitute of Technology lecturer Tom O'Connor on government plans for private hospitals. His recent letter to the Irish Times on the subject can be read here: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/letters/2005/0822/.
The program also features a report on Women in Technology and Science, and a review of the recent Pixies concert.

TIME: 3pm - 4pm Monday August 29th
STATION: Anna Livia 103.2FM read full story / add a comment
international / housing / other press Friday August 26, 2005 15:16 by iosaf   text 7 comments (last - sunday september 04, 2005 20:36)
Last nights fire in Paris which killed 17 people most of whom were children is just one in a series of incidents which bring attention to the appaling conditions mostly african migrants are being housed in.

The group "DAL (droit au logement)" estimates 50,000 people in the "migrants, illegal migrants, asylum seekers, refugee" category are housed dangerously in the city. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday August 26, 2005 15:11 by Brian Covert / Independent Journalist
On the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, an appeal for international action for peace through Article 9, the war-renouncing clause of the Constitution of Japan.... read full story / add a comment
antrim / racism & migration related issues / news report Friday August 26, 2005 13:12 by Gary Smith   text 7 comments (last - saturday march 25, 2006 15:50)
Below is a press release sent out yesterday following the picket. I'll try and put some photos up soon.

Thanks to everybody who joined the picket.

NO PLATFORM FOR FASCISTS!!!! read full story / add a comment
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