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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 News Round-Up Wed Sep 24, 2025 01:05 | 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 Britain?s Judiciary is Biased to its Core Tue Sep 23, 2025 20:08 | Dr David McGrogan
The Court of Appeal overturned the closure of Epping's migrant hotel because Britain's judiciary is biased to its core, says Dr David McGrogan. The Right must get to grips with this problem ? and fast.
The post Britain’s Judiciary is Biased to its Core appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Muslim Who Attacked Koran Burner Hamit Coskun With Knife Spared Jail as Judge Says He ?Lost His Temp... Tue Sep 23, 2025 17:08 | Will Jones
The Muslim man who attacked Koran-burning protester Hamit Coskun with a knife has been spared jail after the judge said he "lost his temper". Hamit, meanwhile, remains in hiding, as concerns about two-tier justice grow.
The post Muslim Who Attacked Koran Burner Hamit Coskun With Knife Spared Jail as Judge Says He “Lost His Temper” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Exaltation of the Cross Tue Sep 23, 2025 15:00 | Chris Larkin
Church leaders are too quick to condemn Tommy Robinson and the Unite the Kingdom march, says Chris Larkin. We don't know what Jesus would have made of our politics, but we can?t just assume he?d have been a Lib Dem voter.
The post The Exaltation of the Cross appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Council Insists Women Be Called ?People With Ovaries? Tue Sep 23, 2025 13:27 | Will Jones
Bristol City Council has been accused of offending women with "virtue-signalling madness" after insisting that women be called "people with ovaries" and claiming that defining sex as biological "misgenders trans people".
The post Council Insists Women Be Called “People With Ovaries” 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

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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national / eu / event notice Friday October 29, 2004 17:45 by Donnacha   text 1 comment (last - monday november 01, 2004 18:01)
DAPSE ( Democracy and Public Services) - the civil society group campaigning against the liberalisation and privatisation of public services throughout Europe are having their first planning session since the Irish and European Social Forums.

The Agenda will include:

- discussion of EU-wide campaign against the draft European Constitution
- how to raise awareness re EU's proposed Internal Market Directive
- getting DAPSE website up and running
- funding

All are welcome.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 2nd, between 7-9pm. To find out details of the location write to dapse@eircom.net or ring 085-7131903 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday October 29, 2004 17:36 by Michael Hennigan
More than 100,000 civilians have probably died as direct or indirect consequences of the US-led invasion of Iraq, according to a study by a research team at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Friday October 29, 2004 15:03 by Eoin Dubsky
Six ‘Trident Ploughshares’ anti-war activists from Leicester, London and Norwich, who this June entered Burghfield, one of Britain’s WMD bases, and put it out of action for over an hour -- left Reading Magistrates’ Court this afternoon disappointed that the Magistrate had found four of them guilty of criminal damage (the other two had accepted ‘bindovers’ and so the charges against them were dropped), but pleased that their arguments about why their actions were valid under international law were at least heard sympathetically by the Court. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / news report Friday October 29, 2004 14:55 by Lasc   text 1 comment (last - monday november 01, 2004 11:51)
The IUF which has been to the forefront in attacking Sinaltrainal and the boycott is to testify on behalf of Del Monte in Guatemala against its own affiliates. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Friday October 29, 2004 12:52 by ohdear
Clergy in the news. Brother convicted, and priest cleared (and guest which priest!)
http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/1028/abuse.html
http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/1028/horann.html read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Friday October 29, 2004 12:09 by Michael Hennigan   text 9 comments (last - tuesday november 16, 2004 19:07)
'The Irish poet Brendan Kennelly once described Bewley's Café in Grafton Street as the 'heart and the hearth of Dublin'. Dublin, he said, would not be Dublin without Bewley's. These sentiments have been echoed by generations of Irish people since Joshua Bewley first introduced tea to the Irish public in 1835.

Bewley's is a name synonymous in the history of Dublin and more recently of Ireland as a whole. Bewley's itself has a rich history of growth and survival which has proved it to be one of the last bastions of tradition in a changing Ireland.' read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday October 28, 2004 23:55 by ipsiphi .:.   text 1 comment (last - friday october 29, 2004 00:19)
Oh is it Fir Bholg or Milesians?
- I know the answers to this one.
but I can't publish it, it has too many F and C words. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday October 28, 2004 19:50 by Observer   text 28 comments (last - saturday october 30, 2004 20:02)
The jury in Mary Kelly's trial have just returned after three hours with a "guilty" verdict, ten to two. Sentencing will be tomorrow. The judge had directed the jury to ignore anything Mary had tried to say about the US military and Iraq. To further ensure a conviction he told them that a threat would need to be "immediate" for someone to have a lawful excuse to damage property. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 28, 2004 19:02 by Global Action   text 5 comments (last - saturday october 30, 2004 16:49)
On Wednesday the 3rd of November there will be a ceremony in University College Dublin to celebrate the college’s 150th anniversary. Students calling themselves “Global Action” are determined to use the occasion to raise serious questions about the current state of higher education. Three days of teach-ins are planned which will discuss a wide range of topics from the threat of privatisation, inequality of access and democracy in education. The events will culminate in what has been billed as a ‘Reclaim the Campus’ party. The event is timed to clash with the celebrations of the college authorities and is modelled on the ‘Reclaim the Streets’ carnivals that have been popularised world wide by the anti-globalisation movement. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday October 28, 2004 14:03 by Anton Ludvik
The consequences of the theoretical division between Bakunin and Marx have been huge. Historically we have seen, not a unified labour movement, but in fact three main components of the movement – Labourism, as well as Marxism/socialism and anarcho-syndicalism.

There have been sporadic attempts to link the two main components:
• Joseph Dietzgen’s turn to assist the victims of the Haymarket "bomb.
• Daniel Guerin’s anarchist publications.
• The German council communists’.
• The Friends of Durruti Group’s.

But these are a few exceptions, and the barriers of division are continually being erected with scares, smears and misinformation. If we are to even think of winning the common struggle, some unity will have to be reached and the truth about past events, beyond Marx and Bakunin, both clarified and placed firmly in the history books. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday October 28, 2004 13:10 by Peter Ravenscroft   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 18, 2004 16:59)
This is a request for support in asking the International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes in Iraq read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 28, 2004 13:05 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 28, 2004 21:12)
For the First year ever, Ireland has achieved position one which it shares with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia and Switzerland.

Congratulations to all journalists, editors and media workers who have finally brought Ireland into the fold! read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday October 28, 2004 10:19 by Anonymous   text 10 comments (last - friday october 29, 2004 00:22)
international / miscellaneous / news report Thursday October 28, 2004 08:15 by zapatist   text 4 comments (last - sunday october 31, 2004 18:18)
60.000 to 80.000 people celebrated the victory of the "Red Sox" in Boston. However, police went crazy and shot a 22-year old girl with a "non"-lethal weapon in the eye. She died.
There was no specific action she did, there were no "riots" around her, nothing. She was just celebrating and chanting with others.

Meantime police is trained to see the enemy in us, the people: this is what we learn from this murder.

Here are some reports and links: read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday October 28, 2004 00:38 by pc
UK: Harm on Removal: Excessive Force against Failed Asylum Seekers - report by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (pdf) read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday October 28, 2004 00:37 by never trust the rich   text 10 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2004 04:51)
For as long as time immemorial, the greedy rich, have been waging war against the poor/working class/peasants, all over the world.

From the shanty towns of africa, to the slums of brazil and sprawling run down council estates of the developed world. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 27, 2004 23:51 by Michael Hennigan   text 3 comments (last - monday november 15, 2004 17:12)
Some years ago, when I worked in a Swedish multinational, it issued a communication from HQ which read: 'Mr. X has asked to be relieved of his position as President of Y Division (the biggest in the group)..We wish Mr. X well in his future career.'

Mr. X of course go a pay-off to keep his trap shut and agree to a 2 yr non-compete clause. He was soon forgotten and the usual self-serving tripe about 'Group culture' continued to be peddled as if nothing had happened. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday October 27, 2004 22:42 by pc
The creators of Wikipedia are considering creating WikiNews.

Read about it here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday October 27, 2004 20:13 by eeekkk   text 3 comments (last - saturday december 04, 2004 19:04)
http:// http://www.gnn.tv/content/eminem_mosh.html read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday October 27, 2004 19:47 by Niamh O'Keeffe
A muslim author makes the point that social change in the Arab world can only come from treating women better. The warfare, technological backwardness and relative poverty that many Arab countries is suffer is due to the maltreatment of women. read full story / add a comment
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