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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 The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits... Fri Sep 19, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 51 of the Sceptic: Michael Murphy on Charlie Kirk, free speech and the scourge of ?anti-fascism?, and Ben Pile on how the British public are going cold on global warming.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits are Cooling on Global Warming appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:07 | 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 We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture Thu Sep 18, 2025 19:00 | Noah Carl
The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.
The post We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech Thu Sep 18, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump?urged?Keir Starmer?to deploy the military to stop the Channel small boats crisis that is "destroying" the country, drill in the North Sea and uphold free speech at a tense joint press conference today.
The post Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Egyptian Illegal Migrant Who Raped Woman While Living in Hilton Hotel is a Convicted Islamic Terrori... Thu Sep 18, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
An Egyptian asylum seeker who was jailed for raping a woman in?London's?Hyde Park while living in the Hilton hotel at taxpayers' expense?has been revealed to be a convicted Islamic terrorist.
The post Egyptian Illegal Migrant Who Raped Woman While Living in Hilton Hotel is a Convicted Islamic Terrorist 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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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday August 02, 2005 18:12 by M. Ní Sheighin   text 9 comments (last - wednesday august 03, 2005 16:08)
It has been announced that Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources Noel Dempsey has granted consent for work to begin on the offshore section of the Corrib Gas pipeline. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday August 02, 2005 17:21 by Joe
Keeping the pressure on Statoil who are 1/3 of the consortum building the Mayo pipeline that has seen 5 locals jailed there will be a picket of the Statoil garage on Ushers Quay at 6pm this Friday. See you there ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 02, 2005 14:45 by Coma
In respect of victims of brutal police attack. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 02, 2005 13:17 by Paul McAndrew   text 2 comments (last - thursday august 04, 2005 14:27)
We’ve just been celebrating Queer Pride in Cork 2005, We’ve won a lot of battles and these days it seems we’re feeling smug and respectable enough to ally ourselves with the forces of bigotry and intolerance, thinking it will strengthen our grip on our own rights read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday August 02, 2005 11:48 by Ciaron   text 2 comments (last - monday august 08, 2005 04:31)
Saturday 10am -12 noon

*Anti-Nuclear Weapons Vigil at U.S. Embassy
(cnr. Pembroke & Elgin) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday August 02, 2005 11:05 by Ciaron   text 4 comments (last - thursday august 04, 2005 13:51)
Last week in a U.S. military court, Sgt. Kevin Benderman was sentenced to 15 months for refusing redeployment to Iraq.

Benderman had previously been deployed to Iraq for 8 months before concluding the U.S. war on Iraq to be immoral and illegal.

As nonviolent resistance to this war grows, there will be a growing number of brothers and sisters facing the courts & court martial, in brigs and prisons.

*Consider sending a solidarity postcard or letter to the folks on this posting.
*Check out Benderman's web site below.... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 02, 2005 10:02 by Tom Lonergan
Leila Khalid, a member of the Palestinian National Council, which is the equivalent of the Palestinian Parliament, will speak in Buswells Hotel in Dublin on Thursday August 4th at 7-30pm. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 02, 2005 00:32 by Eoin Dubsky   text 13 comments (last - friday august 05, 2005 20:52)
Judge Macken appears to have put off returning a judgement for the Judicial Review I began the same week I spray-painted a USAF C-130 warplane at Shannon Airport until this autumn.

That'll make it four years since the day the President of the High Court granted me leave to seek a judicial review of Ireland's part in the Afghanistan war, 12 September 2002. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Monday August 01, 2005 22:05 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 04, 2005 10:50)
Ian Clarke (the inventor of, among many other things, Freenet) has been singled out by a notorious US journalist that helped take down the US cracker Kevin Mitnick. The Freenet Project, involves a way to organise the distribution of information anonymously across computer networks in order to ensure anonymity. Now Clarke is being set up by NYT journalist John Markoff as a target of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with claims that Freenet is not about freespeech and anonymity, but actually about trading copyrighted material. Slashdot also has a discussion on the matter which refutes this. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday August 01, 2005 21:12 by kalitara
Why does the world "hate" America? What is the base of the growing "anti-Americanism" in most countries? An American filmmaker talks to the citizens of the world to find out. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday August 01, 2005 19:29 by Davy Carlin   text 33 comments (last - thursday july 20, 2006 17:21)
Dear Friends.

Well, as stated, I am now to keep an online activist dairy. {This initial intro will be more extensive}. It will detail thoughts, political writings, poetry and much more, and at times it will be very heartfelt and personal.

Some detailing the past, while most being in relation to ongoing issues that I and others are involved in. It will also give the lighter side of life, and times and events as yet unaccounted for.

The dairy shall be updated on a monthly basis and will incorporate many issues of interest to activists, but also giving those personal thoughts and experiences

Therefore my first entry as attached. Davy Carlin. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday August 01, 2005 17:55 by bogoni
"Shell has said it is studying a letter
from the Minister for the Marine and
Natural Resources ordering the company
to dismantle three kilometres of gas
pipeline that it has assembled in north
Mayo.

The order was issued after it emerged
that the section of piping had been
welded together without ministerial
approval. " read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday August 01, 2005 15:57 by by email, from Liberty Hall
Details of SIPTU recgnition battle in Merck and adrresses for relevant websites. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Monday August 01, 2005 14:36 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 20:48)
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0801/mayo.html

The Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, has ordered Shell to dismantle three kilometres of pipeline it has constructed onshore in north Mayo.

It has emerged that the section of pipeline was welded together without Ministerial approval. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday August 01, 2005 14:07 by %   text 3 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 14:34)
87% of the world's opium grown in 2004 was grown in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has succeeded in growing more opium than in any other recorded year.

131,000 hectares of the country supplied the raw material for heroin addicts everywhere, this is an area a little smaller than the size of Leitrim, or if you prefer a little smaller than both counties Carlow and Louth together. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Monday August 01, 2005 04:56 by Geri Timmons   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 06:07)
Scream from the roof tops Freedom For Leonard Peltier!! read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday August 01, 2005 01:08 by Provo sellouts are done!   text 5 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 10:09)
The Irish Anti-Partition League, at home and abroad, have since the P-IRA statement of Thursday afternoon last, called for the "coming together" of all truly anti-imperialist elements in Ireland, so as to discuss the current situation and collectively formulate an agreed way forward. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday July 31, 2005 14:20 by Aidan McKeown
'Closeup', Anna Livia community radio's current affairs programme, features an interview with Kevin Keating and Dara Bineid of the Colombia Solidarity Delegation, on their recent visit to witness the trade union and human rights situation in Colombia.

TIME: 3pm - 4pm Monday August 1st
STATION: Anna Livia 103.2FM read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday July 31, 2005 14:12 by Aidan McKeown
'Closeup', Anna Livia community radio's current affairs programme, features an interview with Kevin Keating and Dara Bineid of the Colombia Solidarity Delegation, on their recent visit to witness the trade union and human rights situation in Colombia.

TIME: 3pm - 4pm Monday August 1st
STATION: Anna Livia 103.2FM read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday July 31, 2005 01:03 by Garbis Altinoglu   text 1 comment (last - monday august 01, 2005 20:25)
The killing on 22 July, of a 27-year old Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes at a tube station in south London is a blatant example of state terrorism. From what has transpired, any unbiased person could understand that, what happened that day was a pre-planned cold-blooded murder by the police or the military. read full story / add a comment
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