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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 Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Farms to Switch Off Whe... Tue Sep 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Suddenly, green activists have started getting outraged at the billions wasted paying wind farms to switch off when it's too windy. The hypocrisy and chutzpah beggars belief, says Ben Pile.
The post Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Farms to Switch Off When it’s Too Windy? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Sep 23, 2025 01:12 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Hamas Executes ?Israeli Collaborators? in Streets of Gaza Mon Sep 22, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Hamas?has executed three Palestinians accused of "collaborating" with Israel on the streets of Gaza, just hours after the UK, Australia and Canada announced their?recognition of a Palestinian state.
The post Hamas Executes “Israeli Collaborators” in Streets of Gaza appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong Mon Sep 22, 2025 17:35 | Dr David Bell
The Covid response was not an error, and it was not the result of rushing to counter an unknown pathogen. It was a lot of people, mostly professionals, systematically doing what they knew was wrong, says Dr David Bell.
The post The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link School Accused of ?Brainwashing? Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book ?Blaming Them for The... Mon Sep 22, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
A parent has accused a secondary school of "brainwashing" after?he learned that 14 year-old pupils were told to read a book that "blames them for their white skin" ? and his daughter was forced to read it out loud.
The post School Accused of “Brainwashing” Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book “Blaming Them for Their White Skin” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

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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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday January 20, 2005 15:33 by - -
Now more than ever, we are one. In the world of global economy and global media, it is possible to consume products from the other side of the planet on a daily basis and to understand something of far away places as our cultural input speeds thousands of miles in a split second to reach us. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Thursday January 20, 2005 15:08 by James R   text 18 comments (last - wednesday april 12, 2006 04:11)
The latest McDonalds’ ad is telling. A man rushes to the counter and proceeds to push a microphone into the face of some bewildered kid bedecked in a green smock. “So what’s in your burgers?” he asks, in pursuit of the sort of anti-corporate expose that has fuelled Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me. Pressed, the kid blurts “100% Irish Beef.” read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / event notice Thursday January 20, 2005 03:24 by p   text 5 comments (last - monday february 07, 2005 18:12)
Themes

1. Assuring and defending Earth and people’s common goods – as alternative to commodification and transnational control (E):

2. Arts and creation: weaving and building people’s resistance culture (C):

3. Communication: counter-hegemonic practices, rights and alternatives (D):

4. Defending diversity, plurality and identities (B):

5. Human rights and dignity for a just and egalitarian world (J):

6. Sovereign economies for and of people – against neoliberal capitalism (I):

7. Ethics, cosmovisions and spiritualities – resistances and challenges for a new world (K):

8. Social struggles and democratic alternatives – against neoliberal domination (F):

9. Peace, demilitarisation and struggle against war, free trade and debt (G):

10. Autonomous thought, reappropriation and socialisation of knowledge and technologies (A) :

11. Towards construction of international democratic order and people’s integration (H):

*Cultural and artistic events: read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday January 20, 2005 03:14 by IMC
Ideas for Change is being organised by the NUI Galway Ecology Society. Taking place on Saturday January 29th it will feature discussions, both practical and theoretical, on the environment and popular ecological struggles, and on feminism and the struggle for reproductive rights. read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday January 19, 2005 18:54 by Solidarity   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 25, 2005 21:12)
The peace Boat People, Ed Horgan, Aron Baker and Eibhlin ne Hir are on trial
at Ennis District court, Judge Mangan, on Thursday 27th Jan 2005. You are all welcome to attend, by special invitation from Joseph Mangan and cohorts.

The three were arrested on the water at Shannon Airport on the day Bush landed. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday January 19, 2005 17:08 by Alan   text 9 comments (last - monday december 12, 2005 21:21)
Aontacht.net is a new Republican website created by a group of young Irish Republicans with the intention of debating the future direction of Irish Republicanism and its relevance to modern society. It was felt that there needed to be a more detailed examination of the problems facing the ideology than has been carried out before but that there was no exisiting forum for this to be done in an impartial manner away from party political lines. The main area of debate will be the discussion forum which will become the nucleus of a much bigger website in time. The moderators have been handpicked for their political experience, knowledge and political diversity. Aontacht.net is an ambitous project to bring agreement from people of divided political backgrounds and to create better understandings of respective positions. Please read the mission statement below and join if you agree with its stated aims. read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 19, 2005 16:52 by Shane OCurry
This Year's Bloody Sunday week draws parallells between British State crimes in Ireland and British/US State crimes in Iraq and Israeli State Crimes in Palestine. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Wednesday January 19, 2005 13:57 by draoi   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 27, 2005 00:09)
The real life and land of Reilly emerges read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Wednesday January 19, 2005 00:58 by Bin Tax Activist
Wednesday Jan 19 at 8pm in Baker’s Corner Pub, Kill O’ the Grange. read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Wednesday January 19, 2005 00:17 by Wastewatcher   text 34 comments (last - friday february 04, 2005 16:40)
With the attempt of Dublin City Council to impose a policy of non-collection of bins of those who owe bin tax arrears the Bin Tax war has entered a phase of renewed conflict. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday January 18, 2005 22:10 by Phuq Hedd   text 7 comments (last - wednesday january 19, 2005 22:10)
The Guardian carries a quiet little story about how one of the UK soldiers being court martialled over abuse of Iraqi prisoners admits to being "ashamed".

This trial supposedly arose out of the discovery of "disturbing" photographs by a woman working in a photo-processing laboratory.

The soldiers are said to have (besides beating the prisoners) have forced their prisoners to simulate anal and oral sex. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday January 18, 2005 16:02 by krossie   text 8 comments (last - friday january 21, 2005 18:53)
Next DGN meeting is in the EENGO offices Camden street at 7 pm on Monday 24th Januray read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday January 18, 2005 14:32 by Davy Carlin
Dear friends, the Anti Racism Network site is updated with newspaper links and reports as well as new pictures of the ARN No excuses! rally {In Steering Group section}.

The ARN steering group has recently met and are now actively seeking to establish several new associations outside Belfast.

The ARN site can be accessed at www.arnni.tk

Also for those interested the new Street Seen site is updated and can be accessed at -

http://www.streetseennews.blogspot.com/ read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday January 18, 2005 14:25 by derryjournal.com
A Derry journalist has made legal history by successfully challenging an airport who took his photograph without his consent. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Tuesday January 18, 2005 14:20 by o as if   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 22, 2005 10:05)
Airbus has flown from Toulouse in France to Leonardo da Vinci in Rome

and updates on Ryanair's latest ruffianism.

lots of people were invited to have a look, at the biggest bestest tippy toppiest airplane ever ever which was intended solely for passengers.

Messrs Blair, Chirac, Shroeder and Zapatero clapped their handies in glee. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday January 17, 2005 21:26 by John McDermott   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 18, 2005 11:52)
Bertie and ordinary citizens pay for the massive expenditure to enrich Ireland,s fat cat hoteliers and golf course owners such as Oliver Barry(a Cork based Fianna Fail "soldier of destiny" whose name is linked to the corruption tribunals) read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday January 17, 2005 17:05 by pc
the brand spankin new south-coast indymedia is now online

South Coast Indymedia is now up and running. Our very own local extension to the IMC network, where news is not filtered and re-shaped by corporate media. Covers Brighton, Worthing, Southampton and beyond.

Post your own news on it! Find out what else is going on.
www.southcoast.indymedia.org.uk To get involved in helping run and promote it, go to

http://lists.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/imc-uk-southcoast and join the internal list read full story / add a comment

dublin / environment / news report Monday January 17, 2005 16:43 by Vincent
We need people in Dublin on Wednesday to assist the public in making submissions to the Environment Committee and the Minister, Dick Roche. read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous / press release Monday January 17, 2005 16:18 by Jennifer Hannon
The Third Annual Human Rights Conference is being hosted by the Irish Peace Society and being held in the University of Limerick from Jan 28th - 30th 2005.
This years conference is focusing on bringing Human Rights to the people and is open to all members of the community from grassroots activists to the retired senior citizen.
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