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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 Sat Oct 18, 2025 01:58 | Toby Young
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 Afghan Migrant Who Arrived in UK With ?Protruding Adam?s Apple? Wins ?25,000 After Judge Rules He Wa... Fri Oct 17, 2025 17:05 | Will Jones
An Afghan migrant who was deemed an adult by UK authorities because he?had a "protruding Adam's apple", bags under his eyes and skin that "did not appear youthful"?has won ?25,000 after a judge ruled he was a child.
The post Afghan Migrant Who Arrived in UK With “Protruding Adam’s Apple” Wins ?25,000 After Judge Rules He Was a Child appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Tolkien ?Demonises People of Colour?, University Teaches Students Fri Oct 17, 2025 15:07 | Will Jones
A university is teaching students that?J.R.R. Tolkien?demonises "people of colour" in the Lord of the Rings books, claiming that orcs and other dark-skinned characters are victims of "ethnic chauvinism".
The post Tolkien “Demonises People of Colour”, University Teaches Students appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ex-Met Police Chief Tables Amendment to Abolish Non-Crime Hate Incidents Fri Oct 17, 2025 13:06 | Will Jones
The Government could be forced to abolish non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) after a former head of the Metropolitan Police tabled a widely supported amendment to axe them in the House of Lords.
The post Ex-Met Police Chief Tables Amendment to Abolish Non-Crime Hate Incidents appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Israeli Fan Ban Could Be the Spark that Ignites a Political Powderkeg Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:15 | Will Jones
The "disgraceful" ban on Israeli fans attending a football match at Aston Villa in Birmingham could be the spark that ignites a political powderkeg, says Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
The post Israeli Fan Ban Could Be the Spark that Ignites a Political Powderkeg 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

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offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

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national / anti-capitalism / event notice Friday February 12, 2010 12:38 by Sara   text 3 comments (last - friday february 19, 2010 14:14)
A day of meetings and film showings on topics ranging from Avatar to the Zapatistas. Speakers include a student from the occupation of an Austrian university. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Rooms 3051 and 3071 read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / event notice Friday February 12, 2010 11:57 by Mick
Better Questions presents the third in its four part seminar series, in which Paddy Bresnihan and Alessandro Zagato discuss the insights of Badiou and Ranciere read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday February 11, 2010 00:42 by P. Bowman   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 27, 2010 21:01)
Paul Holmes is standing for election as General Secretary of UNISON. Paul has been active in the union for 36 years, he’s branch secretary of Kirklees Branch in Yorkshire. The branch has over 10,000 members and an 80% membership density. Paul agreed to be interviewed for Fightback which is the Journal of the International Marxist Tendency in Ireland.
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 10, 2010 00:14 by Paddy Hackett   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 10, 2010 07:22)
The little piece below touches on the materialist conception of history. And it hints at how it renders relativism and positivism unjustifiable as philosophies of science.

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galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday February 09, 2010 19:25 by Fred Johnston
Friday May 26th at 10pm sees a late-night performance by Marty Mulligan read full story / add a comment
donegal / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday February 08, 2010 23:37 by Donegal Alternatives to Pylons
Donegal Alternatives to Pylons are holding a Public Meeting in the Dungloe Library building (Ionad Teampall Chroine) on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 7.30pm. read full story / add a comment
cork / gender and sexuality / event notice Monday February 08, 2010 18:01 by Paul McAndrew   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 11, 2010 21:49)
Open meetings to organise International Womens Day celebrations, this
Thu, 6pm at Loafers, Douglas St and next Tue 6pm at Loafers, Douglas
St read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / press release Monday February 08, 2010 09:07 by Noel Duffy
Noel Duffy, Director Path To Freedom, Letter Regarding Recent Events

Dated: 08 February 2010

I am writing this personal message to all of you who have given your support to our feature length documentary Path To Freedom.

As many of you know we had the official launch of the national fundraising campaign for Path To Freedom, in Wynn’s hotel on Wednesday, 3rd of February. Where the Collins 22 Society officially announced the commissioning of S.W.V Studios to produce Path To Freedom. However on Friday, I was told via a number of phone calls that:

The Collins 22 Society could no longer support the project and in effect it was now “parked”.
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dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday February 07, 2010 20:00 by Laura Broxson
Support our fight to get Fur out of Dublin! read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday February 06, 2010 22:02 by Republican Network for Unity Dublin   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 10, 2010 11:42)
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national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday February 06, 2010 18:44 by Saoirse
On February 6, Republican Sinn Fein Vice President Geraldine Taylor said that the agreement at Hillsborough is just a further indication of the depths that
Unionised Provisionals will go to uphold British rule in our country:
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Saturday February 06, 2010 17:42 by The Oh-Aissieux
While the tellers tell tales of love, you are invited to listen and to sketch as the inspiration takes you.

Library Bar Extension, Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin, Ireland
(From Dame Street, walk up South Great George's Street. About 100 metres up, turn left into Exchequer Street. The Central Hotel is on your left. Upstairs, follow the signs for the Narrative Arts Club.)

Thursday, February 18, 2010. Doors 7.30 pm. Show starts at 8 pm sharp.
Admission: EUR 6. Concessions: EUR 2. ... Can't pay? Don't pay! But be there! read full story / add a comment
international / eu / press release Friday February 05, 2010 14:52 by Amnesty International - Ireland
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a violation of human rights affecting an estimated 500,000 women and girls in Europe and putting another 180,000 girls at risk each year. In advance of International Day of Zero Tolerance on FGM on 6 February, Amnesty International Ireland-led END FGM European Campaign has called on European leaders to support its strategy to protect young girls and women affected by FGM. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 05, 2010 14:31 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 2 comments (last - friday february 05, 2010 18:54)
VID 58 minutes - Howard Zinn was an American historian, social critic, and activist. He is best known as author of the best-seller A People’s History of the United States. In one of his last lectures before his death last week, he spoke at Boston University on November 11 2009, on the subject of American “Holy Wars.”

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/1/8/howard_zinn_t..._wars

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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday February 04, 2010 17:29 by LASC
All funds raised go to provide medicines, diagnostic and surgical supplies to Cuban Medical Brigades currently working in Haiti. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday February 04, 2010 16:45 by Dublin Republican
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dublin / miscellaneous / news report Thursday February 04, 2010 14:18 by Rita Fagan   text 3 comments (last - friday february 05, 2010 18:57)
A describtion of the protest held outside the Dail on Wednesday 03rd February 2010 to highlight the unjust closures of 14 community development projects the majority of which are in the city of Dublin. read full story / add a comment
kerry / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday February 04, 2010 13:15 by Brendan Guilfoyle
The Kerry Public Services Workers' Alliance (TUI, SIPTU, PSEU, GRA, PNA, CPSU, IMPACT) has called for a demonstration outside Deputy Tom McEllistrim's constituency clinic in Tralee to protest at the public sector cuts this Saturday. read full story / add a comment
kerry / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday February 04, 2010 13:10 by Brendan Guilfoyle   text 1 comment (last - friday february 05, 2010 16:06)
An alliance of public service representatives call on Kerry government TDs to choose who they support – the providers and users of public services or the wealthy elite interests that in pursuit of selfish gain are happy to destroy our community. read full story / add a comment
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