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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 Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer ?From the Bottom of my Heart? After Winn... Sat Sep 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Somalian migrant living at the Bell Hotel in Epping has thanked Keir Starmer?"from the bottom" of his heart after winning the right to stay in Britain on human rights grounds as he prepares to settle in Yorkshire.
The post Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer “From the Bottom of my Heart” After Winning Right to Stay in UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Britain Can?t Deport Me?: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Migrants in Calais have vowed to cross the Channel "again and again", saying "Britain can't deport me", as Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal?with France faces a wave of legal challenges.
The post “Britain Can’t Deport Me”: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist Sat Sep 20, 2025 09:00 | Hannes Sarv
It's not CO2 that drives the climate, says astrophysicist Dr Henrik Svensmark. Its the Sun and cosmic rays. But you won't hear about this because only one viewpoint is now allowed in the pseudo-science of climate.
The post Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The ?Far Left? Finally Gets Its Comeuppance Sat Sep 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
For years the Left has smeared its opponents as 'far Right'. Now, the spike in Leftist political violence has led to a turning of the tables. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Guardian, says Prof James Alexander.
The post The ‘Far Left’ Finally Gets Its Comeuppance appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

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national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Sunday July 17, 2005 14:49 by pat lally   text 12 comments (last - wednesday july 20, 2005 19:24)
I just want other peoples opinions, my local mace store have promotions, e.g. two for a reduced price or whatever, but these goods are charged at full regular rate at check out. Most people don't complain so i guess it goes smoothly and profitably.

To my shock this morning I complained, having being overcharged on at least one item each weekend for three weeks now. I bought surf breeze 1.1 kg, marked 2.69 on shelf, but 3.80 at till, complained after going back and checking, received a refund for the difference, but , to my amazement, that was it, no changes were made to till system, so the next person who picks up a box will be charged 3.80.

In a time when many people don't check receipts for small items, it is these little, ongoing rip offs that frustrate me. So please let me know if this policy is being practiced elsewhere, or just here. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday July 17, 2005 14:47 by dan
18 Killed in Clashes Near Afghan Border By read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday July 17, 2005 10:20 by Palestine Solidarity
The Israeli army is preparing a broad ground offensive in the Gaza Strip read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday July 17, 2005 10:10 by Ma   text 2 comments (last - sunday july 17, 2005 16:31)
from english independent read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday July 17, 2005 10:02 by Al   text 2 comments (last - monday july 18, 2005 01:38)
Exclusive: Was It Suicide? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday July 17, 2005 09:58 by nnnnnn
11 U.S. soldiers charged for assault in Iraq read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Sunday July 17, 2005 08:33 by Phuq Hedd   text 9 comments (last - monday july 18, 2005 21:38)
The Sunday Independent (the weekend organ of the Independent Newspaper group, famously run by industry boss William Martin Murphy, leader of the attempt to break the unions in the 1913 Lockout immortalised in Strumpet City) has two copies of the same story sandwiching a fulminating opinion piece about the IRA. The two working titles show an indecision as to whether or not the IRA should be implicated directly in alleged threats against Shell/Statoil or not. Make up your mind editors. Do you dare to tell a blatant lie or not? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday July 16, 2005 22:25 by D Lynch   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 17, 2005 15:08)
OVER the past year the local people from the pretty little West Bank village of Bil’in have been holding protests every Friday against the planned building of Israel’s Wall (Apartheid Wall/Security Fence) right outside the northern section of the village. Each Friday villagers have been joined by left wing Israeli’s and international activists to march to the line where the wall is to be built. Two weeks ago (Friday 8, July) a Palestinian youth died from injuries he received while on the protest from a ‘rubber bullet’ fired by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). Below is a report from the latest protest at the West Bank town. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday July 16, 2005 18:28 by Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Latest issue of FRFI, newspaper of Revolutionary Communist Group.

Whats New :http://www.rcgfrfi.easynet.co.uk/about/whatsnew.html read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / event notice Saturday July 16, 2005 18:14 by Paul McAndrew
Blockade of the Shell depot in Cork.
Meet at city hall at 7.30am read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday July 16, 2005 18:07 by cearbhuil ni fhionnghusa   text 2 comments (last - sunday july 17, 2005 12:25)
San Jose de Apartado is the first peace community to be set up in Colombia. A massacre took place there last february 21st where 8 people were murdered. 2 leaders of the higher council of san jose are coming to ireland on august 5th to try and get Ireland to support their peace initiative. The humanitarian gig on July 29th at Riddlers bar, Sarsfield St. Limerick City hopes to raise the funds to bring these leaders of San Jose de apartado to Ireland . read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / other press Saturday July 16, 2005 17:31 by SouthSide People   text 8 comments (last - sunday august 14, 2005 21:51)
“They had SWP banners all over the place. A lot of people felt uncomfortable with it.” read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday July 16, 2005 16:12 by Dr. Majed Nassar
The disengagement plan:
The previous and present Governments of Israel knew for fact that they do not want to keep Gaza and the Palestinians in Gaza under their control. The question was always when, how and to what price would Israel withdraw from Gaza. In the Post-Oslo era there was for Israel no reason why it shouldn't have withdrawn from Gaza and evacuate the settlements. The Atmosphere was ready, the détente was at its peak and Rabin and Peres (and Arafat) won the Peace Nobel price. The question in deed is: Why didn't Israel between 1995 and September 2000 withdraw from Gaza and evacuated the settlements?

The Palestinians can then wait till "they turn Finns"? read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations / other press Saturday July 16, 2005 16:07 by Paul
Last night at the Eco Village in Stirling for the Irish barrio. We build and burn a Wickerman to celebrate.

Fire, music, poi and sacrifical teddy bears!

German flag burnt at the end, roll on G8 2007! read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Saturday July 16, 2005 05:03 by irish times observer   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 17, 2005 22:56)
(from the Irish times)
Una McCaffrey



A consortium fronted by former Emo Oil managing director Danny Murphy has won the takeover battle for Shell Oil's Irish retail and commercial business. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday July 16, 2005 04:44 by tourish watch   text 6 comments (last - monday july 18, 2005 15:22)
What turns an ordinary, unremarkable citizen into a suicide bomber? An examination of how cults work can give some insights, writes Dennis Tourish read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday July 16, 2005 03:28 by June Kelly
COMMITTEE TO DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC – UK


PUBLIC MEETING


THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL/SREBRENICA

AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW



CONWAY HALL

RED LION SQUARE

LONDON

TUESDAY 19th JULY 2005. 7.30p.m.

Speakers include:

Neil Clark |(Broadcaster & Journalist)

Misha Gavrilovic (British/Serbian Alliance & NedaIst Initiative)

Chair: Ian Johnson (CDSM-UK).
http://www.free-slobo-uk.org (ICDSM UK)

“THE AGGRESSORS SHALL NOT WRITE OUR HISTORY

For further information, please contact cdsm@free-slobo-uk.org
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PTO for "Manufacturing Enemies" read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday July 15, 2005 22:46 by IRSP   text 22 comments (last - thursday july 28, 2005 12:24)
In a statement issued by the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Political Secretary John Martin in condemning the attacks on ‘soft targets’ and hit out at Al-Quida for such attacks on ‘ordinary working people’. read full story / add a comment
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