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Indymedia ireland

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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international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday October 25, 2004 00:23 by STOP NYC Inc.   text 1 comment (last - monday october 25, 2004 18:49)
In the spirit of the financial campaign that liberated South Africa from the curse of apatheid, Ireland should join the World Bank bonds boycott! read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday October 24, 2004 21:18 by Anne Goggin   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 28, 2004 20:34)
Meeting with speakers who are peace activists - Ed Horgan, Helen Steven and Ellen Moxley. They will speak about why they have taken the route of peace. To be held in Friends Meeting House, Limerick on Saturday 30th October at 7.30pm read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday October 24, 2004 18:15 by pat c
Britain's largest civil service union has voted to stage a one-day strike on 5 November.
The Public and Commercial Services union polled its 260,000 members over government plans to cut 100,000 jobs. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday October 24, 2004 14:41 by cuba libre   text 5 comments (last - sunday october 24, 2004 17:02)
One of the biggest lies hardline stalinists tell us is that Cuba has exellent health care system. This is nothing but a lie and propaganda. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday October 24, 2004 14:14 by Al   text 2 comments (last - monday october 25, 2004 12:32)
The talk below was delivered at the Belfast Grassroots Gathering, October 23rd 2004 by a member of the Armagh and Down local of Organise!. Subsequent to this talk, discussion took place around the possibility of arranging a time and place for a future meeting.
To this end, it was agreed that a discussion group be set up where education workers in Ireland can continue the debate on where to go from here. To join this group, send a blank email to:

edworkers-subscribe@yahoogroups.com read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Saturday October 23, 2004 16:52 by JM   text 3 comments (last - friday november 05, 2004 11:42)
"Say No To Water Privatisation"

Speakers:

Cllr Mark Langhamer (Labour)

John McAnulty (Socialist Democracy)

Jason Brannigan (Anti-water charge activist N.Belfast)

John Nixon (Independent socialist, Armagh )

Tommy McKearney (Fourthwrite Magazine)

Venue: Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre

Time: 7.30pm

Date: Thursday 4th November 2004 read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday October 23, 2004 16:44 by Michael Hennigan   text 9 comments (last - wednesday october 27, 2004 22:25)
More than a decade ago, Leona Helmsley*, New York’s ‘Queen of Mean’ famously said that ‘only the little people pay taxes.’ She could have been talking about Ireland and yesterday’s announcement that 11 millionaires paid zero tax legally, can only add to the perception of inequity in our society. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday October 23, 2004 13:11 by John Carroll - International Secretary   text 3 comments (last - sunday october 24, 2004 13:09)
YEPP is the youth movement of the EPP and represents centre-right, Christian Democratic, conservative and populist political parties across the continent of Europe. Young Fine Gael is a member of YEPP. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday October 23, 2004 10:14 by ..
Below is an article by well known Indy media commentator Marc Mulholland. It is possibly the best and most honest explanation of a pro war stance that I have come across and raises many interesting points for debate.

Gambling on Revolution
For those who supported the Iraq War as a punt on the prospects of
detonating democratic revolution in the country and by extension in the region – sections of the Neocon Right and the Liberal Left – the question of realism is critical if we are not to be condemned as dilettante utopians. read full story / add a comment
mayo / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday October 23, 2004 02:57 by Keith Martin   text 3 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2004 01:37)
Cllr Keith Martin, an Independent Cllr on Westport Town council says it is time to "get real" about industrial jobs in the town. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / press release Saturday October 23, 2004 01:17 by International Secretary - Young Fine Gael   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 23, 2004 20:51)
Last weekend, Young Fine Gael (YFG) in co-operation with two youth political parties in the Ukraine, Young Rukh and the CDMU, expressed our concern with the manner in which the government of the Ukraine is carrying out the Presidential Election campaign due on October 31st and called for those elections to be carried out in a free and fair manner. There would appear to be widespread harassment of opposition election workers and abuse by the government of state facilities to support their candidate, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

A large number of international bodies have expressed concern with the manner in which the electoral process. It is imperative that these elections abide to general European practice, and that the attempts by the government to restrict opposition access to the media, hold rallies and canvass support must be ceased immediately. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday October 22, 2004 20:19 by Resources for Unemployed   text 8 comments (last - tuesday december 21, 2004 19:29)
To coincide with ‘European Safety Week’ (Oct 18-22)
the entitlement of the unemployed
to obtain a Safe Pass, free of charge, is highlighted. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday October 22, 2004 16:39 by k   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 16, 2004 12:48)
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday October 22, 2004 16:37 by k   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 16, 2004 12:43)
Square eyes by now... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday October 22, 2004 16:34 by k
Battleground: Dispatches from the Edge of Empire (82 Mins) + Trailer: Trespassers Will Be Severely Tortured read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday October 22, 2004 16:31 by k   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 16, 2004 12:50)
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