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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

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday February 04, 2010 12:55 by Amnesty International - Ireland
Israel’s latest response to the UN on its investigations into alleged violations of international law by its forces in Gaza a year ago is totally inadequate, Amnesty International said today. Crucial questions about the conduct of attacks in which hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands were made homeless are not credibly addressed in Israel’s update to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday February 03, 2010 15:33 by Kieran O'Sullivan
Start: 20/02/2010 - 14:00 End: 20/02/2010 - 17:00
Gresham Hotel, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1, Sat 20 Feb, 14:00
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national / crime and justice / news report Wednesday February 03, 2010 12:12 by Tom
Senator Eugene Regan tries to raise issue of Willie O'Dea's false evidence to High Court but Seanad Cathaoirleach blocks him. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday February 02, 2010 16:52 by Residents Against Racism   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 03, 2010 16:36)
11.30 am
Wednesday 3 February
Garda National Immigration Bureau
Burgh Quay, central Dublin (opposite Liberty Hall) read full story / add a comment
international / eu / press release Tuesday February 02, 2010 00:09 by Saoirse
Comments by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the Lisbon Treaty provides a platform for deeper ties between the EU and NATO confirms one of the main arguments against the Lisbon Treaty according to the President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton who in a statement said: read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Monday February 01, 2010 22:37 by Brian   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 14, 2011 11:30)
One of the ex No groups from the Lisbon campaign has launched a web forum that can be viewed entirely in old Irish script. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Monday February 01, 2010 15:24 by Laura Broxson
Protest Targets: Les Freres Jacques and the Pearl Brasserie - come join us! read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday February 01, 2010 15:14 by donkylemore   text 1 comment (last - monday february 01, 2010 21:23)
As Tony Blair's evidence to the Iraq invasion inquiry , Old Labour ' statesman said yesterday he didnt believe a word of his rambling fiction. Did he really get away with this with his lying by increments, his obscenely flawed rhetoric. His false claims re Saadam and WMD.. the notion of a rogue state ..- the real rogue stat in the region.
And do the Brits reall give a dam anyway, as integrity has only an inconvenience and only had £ shop currency.
The whole inchoate gibberish. - from the man who felt the hand of history on his shoulder.
Yo ! Blair- as GW Bush would have said.
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dublin / arts and media / news report Monday February 01, 2010 11:54 by DCTV
Our schedule for February 2010 is now out. You can see it as a PDF here and from the first of February it’ll be available in our new daily format over here. We really want to make a special effort to up the ante in how we promote our schedule and unique brand of programming. So, if you are a community broadcaster in radio, work in a newspaper, are involved in a local community group or just an individual that supports the vision that DCTV brings to the air waves, then why not get in touch so we can suss out some way of getting word out about the little media revolution that is taking place over on Channel 802 on the NTL network.

Full details at: http://www.dctv.ie/main/?p=1444 read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday February 01, 2010 09:25 by LASC   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 03, 2010 08:59)
Public Talk at the One World Centre, Bridge Mills, Mills Street, Galway @ 19:00, Wed February 3rd.
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dublin / crime and justice / event notice Monday February 01, 2010 09:04 by Michael Nugent
PZ Myers, author of the science blog Pharyngula and biology professor at the University of Minnesota, USA, will speak against the new Irish blasphemy law at an Atheist Ireland meeting at Buswells Hotel, Dublin, at 7.30 pm today, Monday 1st February. Admission is free, and members of the public are welcome. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday February 01, 2010 08:47 by Paul Larkin
Stephen Collins' attack on the GFA in Saturday's Irish Times read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday January 31, 2010 11:21 by Henk Ruyssenaars fwd. The Telegraph   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 02, 2010 13:56)
Not one word too much: those creatures are a living shame to humanity in which they not any longer take part.

They are not the solution: they are the problem! read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Saturday January 30, 2010 23:52 by Anti-Foxhunting
Farmers Against Foxhunting and Trespass (FAFT), representing thousands of farmers all over Ireland concerned about the havoc wrought by hunts on our land (ripping up crops, scattering livestock, knocking fences, tearing domestic pets asunder in farmyards) wish it to be known that we wholeheartedly support Minister Gormley's inclusion of hunt kennels in the proposed puppy farms legislation. We, the REAL voice of rural Ireland, say: foxhunting is anti-farmer and should be banned completely... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / news report Saturday January 30, 2010 21:32 by Marcopolo   text 25 comments (last - monday march 01, 2010 21:52)
People Before Profit Alliance Councillor Brid Smith has announced her candidacy for the new directly elected post of Mayor of Dublin. The new post will represent all of Dublin City and County. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Saturday January 30, 2010 15:49 by Martin O'Sullivan   text 10 comments (last - monday february 15, 2010 17:34)
Fianna Fáil and the Greens now seem determined to make another attempt at forcing domestic users to pay on the double for our water.

The Green Party leader, John Gormley, is leading the charge. He said recently that it would cost around €1bn to upgrade the water network and that the Government intended to raise the money from domestic users, leaving householders paying hundreds of euro a year in addition to the tax we already pay for public services.
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international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday January 30, 2010 15:09 by Catholic Worker   text 9 comments (last - friday july 16, 2010 22:08)
The Catholic Worker is 70+ year old radical anarcho-pacifist movement of some 180 autonomous communities (mostly in North America) combining the practise of the acts of mercy and nonviolent resistance. The CW houses and projects refuse all state funding. The Philadelphia Catholic Worker operates a free clinic and has a longstanding relationship with the "Mathew 25 -House of Hospitality" free clinic in Haiti.

The Catholic Worker delegation presently in Haiti includes CW nurse Joanna Berrigan, radical Detroit Bishop Thomas Gumbleton who has a long anti-war history and sanctios breaking in Iraq in the '90's and radical lawyer Bill Quigley who has longstanding involvement in Haitian human rights cases.

Background on the CW dlegation and Mathew 25 project (including a television news report) can be found on this link.....
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/95531&comment_limit=0&c...64761 read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday January 29, 2010 14:34 by Peter Mulholland
This article argues that the DUP's attempt to link policing and justice to Orange parades is a threat to human rights in Northern Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Friday January 29, 2010 08:35 by RSF
Cuts to minimum wage must be opposed

Statement from Fergal Moore, Vice-President, Republican Sinn Féin read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday January 28, 2010 22:00 by John Lannon   text 1 comment (last - monday february 01, 2010 13:36)
Rethink Afghanistan is a ground-breaking, full-length documentary focusing on the key issues surrounding the war in Afghanistan. read full story / add a comment
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