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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

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dublin / politics / elections / event notice Wednesday October 27, 2004 19:26 by ?   text 2 comments (last - sunday november 07, 2004 13:31)
Saturday 30th 2pm Garden of Remembrance Parnell Sq Dublin or outside your nearest A&E Unit. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday October 27, 2004 18:06 by Terry   text 2 comments (last - tuesday january 17, 2006 11:01)
As of last week An Board Plenala has approved the on shore gas refinery and pipeline part of Shell’s 800 million euro Corrib gas project in North Mayo. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday October 27, 2004 17:58 by Ken   text 5 comments (last - wednesday october 27, 2004 19:48)
Kerry gets nowhere because he says he would do the same thing Bush did, only differently.

'What I want to do is change the dynamics on the ground,' Kerry volunteered. 'And you have to do that by beginning to not back off of Falluja and other places and send the wrong message to terrorists. You've got to show you're serious.' Right on, John!"

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=3760

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3713 read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / news report Wednesday October 27, 2004 17:54 by Women's Aid
Women's Aid today (Wednesday October 27th) announced details of calls to its Domestic Violence Freephone Helpline in 2003 in the Westin Hotel. The new figures show an increase in calls to the service. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday October 27, 2004 02:22 by Court Watcher   text 8 comments (last - thursday october 28, 2004 16:59)
Judge harrasses and badgers Anti-War defendant Mary Kelly read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday October 26, 2004 23:51 by Rathmines SWP
Portobello Hotel (Upstairs)
33 South Richmond
Street, Dublin 2 (facing the canal)

Monday Nov 1st @ 8pm

Speaker
Sinéad Ní Bhroin
Irish Anti War Movement read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday October 26, 2004 21:19 by Hilaal   text 21 comments (last - wednesday november 07, 2007 16:27)
When Colette McCarthy, solicitor, of Wolfe & Co., solicitors Skibbereen , West Cork took a family law case on behalf of Mrs Catherine Harnedy of Union Hall, she acted "appropriately", according to Irish Family Law but now a man is dead due to self-inflicted severe burns and bronchial pneumonia because, in his own dying words, because her office, "cost him his children". read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday October 26, 2004 20:45 by dustin langley
After the elections--no matter who wins--there needs to be a serious discussion about how to move the struggle forward. And that is exactly what hundreds of activists will be doing in New York City over the weekend of November 13-14 at a National Fightback Conference sponsored by Workers World Party. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday October 26, 2004 15:44 by Paul
Brenadan Ogle, the public face of the ILDA strike 4 years ago, will speek at a meeting titled "Social Partnership and the future of Irish Trade Unions" at 6pm on Wednesday the 27th of October in theatre R in the Arts Block in UCD. The meeting is hosted by UCD Labour and all are welcome to discuss the future of organised labour. Dubbed Mr Misery by some sections in the media for the aformentioned Train Drivers dispute, Ogle will bring considerable experience of Union Militancy in the modern world. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday October 26, 2004 13:08 by Education is not for sale
EDUCATION IS NOT FOR SALE
Our campaign is being launched on Tuesday 26th October 7.30 Liberty Hall.
The speakers at the meeting will be the heads of the three teaching unions, John Carr INTO, Susie Hall ASTI, Paddy Healy TUI, as well as Jan O Sullivan Edcuation spokesperson of the Labour Party, Rory Hearne from USI , Tom Creedon from Waterford School of Music and parent-activist Enid O'Dowd. The meeting is hosted by the Edcuation branch of SIPTU. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / press release Tuesday October 26, 2004 11:59 by Eoin Dubsky   text 6 comments (last - wednesday october 27, 2004 17:10)
A Scottish anti-nuke activist yesterday told the local court near Faslane nuke base that until the courtroom was accessible to all the public (people in wheelchairs included) it surely couldn't be said to be a place where fair and public tribunals are held. This press release reminds me, I don't recall seeing a ramp or lift at the entrance to Ennis courthouse, where Mary Kelly is on trial again today. Hmmm. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday October 26, 2004 04:06 by Dermot L
UCD Labour Youth will welcome former Irish Locomotive Drivers Association activist Brendan Ogle to Belfield this Wednesday.

Ogle, now involved in the ATGWU, was a major player in the recognition dispute at Iarnród Éireann in 2000. He has a unique insight into trade unionism and industrial relations in ireland and is the author of a recent book, "Off the Rails: The Story of ILDA," in which much of the dispute is summarised from a worker's perspective.

Ogle will speak on the topic "Trade Unionism and Social Partnership Today" and the event will comprise a brief introduction and a questions and answers session. The meeting will take place in Theatre R of the Arts Block at 6pm on Wednesday, October 27th.

All are welcome to what is bound to be a fascinating insight into the contentious world of Irish trade unionism and industrial relations.

Please contact ucdlabour@hotmail.com for directions or further info. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday October 26, 2004 00:25 by Donnacha O Briain
A Joint conference organised by The Instiute of Public Administration and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy in Ireland entitled: "MAKING PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS WORK"

Croke Park Conference Centre, Tuesday 30th November 2004 read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / other press Tuesday October 26, 2004 00:17 by John Meeehan   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 28, 2004 15:03)
This link :
http://lark.phoblacht.net/esf25101g.html
brings you to a useful analysis of the ESF by John O'Farrell published on the website of "The Blanket" read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday October 25, 2004 23:44 by Michael Hennigan   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 26, 2004 13:28)
The Guardian's Operation Clark County appears to misfire following publicity in the US that one of the paper's columnist advocated the assassination of President Bush. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 25, 2004 19:36 by sharer
Threat of prosecutioin in ireland. What can be done about these bastards who want to keep access to media a privelige? I should have put this under workers issues. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday October 25, 2004 18:09 by Joseph   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 26, 2004 00:11)
“Israel has the right to defend and to protect itself” is one of the empty phrases which Americans constantly repeat. What they really mean each time when they repeat this phrase is that they have abandoned all attempts to conceal the fact that they have become but a satrapy of Israel, and that they can do nothing to deny Israel the "right" to occupy the West Bank and Gaza, the right to "protect" the settlers and ITF occupation and the continued violations of human rights. Israel has the right to kill, to steal, to arrest, to demolish ... to do just anything. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 25, 2004 18:05 by Henk Ruyssenaars   text 6 comments (last - wednesday october 27, 2004 01:11)
Commanders of five separate guerrilla groups in Fallujah said they were not holding Mrs Hassan and had seen no evidence that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's organisation had kidnapped her. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday October 25, 2004 18:02 by art resistance
" TRACKS OF RESISTaNCE " POEM By RODRIGO GRION, LATIN AMERICA read full story / add a comment
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