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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 Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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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.

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offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

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offsite link From The Junction to The Sea Sun Dec 21, 2025 17:15 | Tom Forrester-Paton
Sydney resident Tom Forrester-Paton reflects on the Bondi beach massacre and puts forward an eight-point action plan to combat Islamic terror and reclaim the Australia he knew in his youth.
The post From The Junction to The Sea appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Online Safety Act is Bad for Free Speech, says Substack CEO Sun Dec 21, 2025 15:10 | Jonathan Barr
?It pushes toward something much darker: a system of mass political censorship unlike anywhere else in the western world.??Substack CEO Chris Best explains why the Online Safety Act is bad news for free speech.
The post The Online Safety Act is Bad for Free Speech, says Substack CEO appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Appeasement 0, Jew Hatred 15 Sun Dec 21, 2025 13:10 | Ramesh Thakur
?Spare me the sermons on Islamophobia,? says Ramesh Thakur. ?We do need to have the difficult conversation on the numbers of immigration that is safe to protect and preserve Australia as a cohesive society.?
The post Appeasement 0, Jew Hatred 15 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Offensive? Christmas Songs Could Fall Victim to Labour?s Banter Ban Sun Dec 21, 2025 11:14 | Jonathan Barr
Festive revellers may have to be careful which tunes they pick for a Christmas sing-along down at the pub, as songs like ?Baby It?s Cold Outside?, ?Do They Know It?s Christmas??, and ?Jingle Bells? might offend the staff.
The post ‘Offensive’ Christmas Songs Could Fall Victim to Labour’s Banter Ban appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Podcasts are Making Us More Isolated Than Ever Sun Dec 21, 2025 09:00 | Joanna Gray
Podcasts are great. But by leading us to spend our time wearing headphones listening to others chat, they're leaving us more isolated than ever, says Joanna Gray. What we need are podcasts that bring us together.
The post Podcasts are Making Us More Isolated Than Ever appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 16, 2008 18:23 by thoughtful type who only sees meticulous planning   text 25 comments (last - wednesday december 24, 2008 14:11)   video 1 video file
Everyone knows that an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at GW Bush in Bagdhad in December 2008. It's a story which got its global media coverage with predictable attitudes and spin & could easily be forgotten, were it not for a few factoids & considerations as well as precedents. Which I'd like to share with people here without going into too much pseudo-analytic expertise.

It's all about how shoe tossing was immediately explained to "us" as having resonance with muslims in general and Iraqi's in particular. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday December 16, 2008 17:22 by Saoirse   text 9 comments (last - saturday january 03, 2009 17:43)   video 2 video files
Ógra Shinn Féin got active across Ireland in the past weekend to demand the immediate release of IRA Prisoners of War, some of whom qualify under the terms of the GFA for release and all because the leadership of Óglaidh na hÉireann formally called an end to their armed campaign over 3 years ago.

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international / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday December 15, 2008 20:57 by To the streets   text 4 comments (last - thursday december 18, 2008 14:32)   video 1 video file
"Today (Friday), the assembly of the occupied Athens Polytechnic decided to make a callout for European and global-wide actions of resistance in the memory of all assassinated youth, migrants and all those who were struggling against the lackeys of the state. Carlo Juliani; the French suburb youths; Alexandros Grigoropoulos and the countless others, all around the world. Our lives do not belong to the states and their assassins! The memory of the assassinated brothers and sisters, friends and comrades stays alive through our struggles! We do not forget our brothers and sisters, we do not forgive their murderers. Please translate and spread around this message for a common day of coordinated actions of resistance in as many places around the world as possible.

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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday December 15, 2008 12:54 by éirígí PRO   text 29 comments (last - thursday december 25, 2008 11:05)   video 2 video files
The accompanying video has been censored by various video hosting sites in quick succession since being uploaded on December 13. The video is now available for viewing at www.eirigi.org read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Saturday December 13, 2008 19:59 by Mark C   text 14 comments (last - tuesday may 12, 2009 18:13)   video 1 video file
Contact.ie, a website for contacting politicians in Ireland, went live today. Indymedia.ie caught up with Mark Conroy, the site's owner, to discuss the site with him.

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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday December 12, 2008 20:29 by Ronoc   text 22 comments (last - wednesday december 17, 2008 20:05)   video 3 video files
So you have voted incorrect, you must vote again. So the present Taoiseach tells us. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / news report Friday December 12, 2008 14:58 by ALiberation   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 13, 2008 03:17)   video 1 video file
Fur Free Activists asked Naomi Campbell some choice questions about her questionable choices in Dublin on Wednesday. She didn’t comment.
She did look briefly at the poster of a mutilated fox with the words “Ban Irish Fur Farms”.
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national / eu / press release Friday December 12, 2008 01:22 by O. O'C.   text 7 comments (last - thursday may 28, 2009 22:31)   video 1 video file
...Taoiseach Brian Cowen's hypocrisy in pretending to "respect" the people's referendum vote on Lisbon is now evident, for not a jot or tittle of Lisbon will be altered when he forces the people to vote on it a second time next year... read full story / add a comment
meath / animal rights / news report Thursday December 11, 2008 17:25 by ICABS   text 6 comments (last - saturday december 19, 2009 23:43)   video 1 video file
Witness the lengths to which followers of the Ward Union hunt will go to hide the suffering caused to deer during their cruel hunt. Our short film includes scenes in which hunt monitors from the Irish Council Against Blood Sports are verbally abused and harassed on public roads. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday December 11, 2008 16:54 by Timothy Danaos   text 21 comments (last - saturday july 11, 2009 16:26)   video 7 video files
News of the workers and student's uprising against the Right Wing Greek government is rapidly disappearing off the news reports. Here is a declaration from the uprising. read full story / add a comment
limerick / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday December 11, 2008 08:37 by seedot   text 7 comments (last - wednesday january 14, 2009 09:52)   video 1 video file
On strike for 7 weeks this video, in Polish with English subtitles was filmed in Limerick two weeks ago. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 10, 2008 16:14 by Educate to be Free   text 11 comments (last - sunday december 14, 2008 10:48)   video 1 video file
At their National Congress in Cork City, on Saturday 6 December, Ógra Shinn Féin launched a new national campaign on education. The campaign, titled 'Educate to be Free' was launched by ÓSF National Organiser Barry McColgan, and was endorsed by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams who was present.

Following the launch, the republican youth movement organised a No! Fees Protest on Cork's Patrick Street, which was well recieved by the public.

The following is the text from the launch:
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mayo / environment / news report Monday December 08, 2008 22:51 by Niall Harnett   text 18 comments (last - tuesday february 03, 2009 17:31)   video 3 video files
On Friday 5th December 2008, Ministers Eamon Ryan and Eamon O'Cuiv hosted a 'Forum' at the Broadhaven Bay Hotel, Belmullet, Erris, Co Mayo.

Set in the context of the Shell Corrib Gas Project, what the forum is about or what it's supposed to address is not clear. “It's not a decision making forum”, said the chairman, Joe Brosnan.

Meanwhile, in another room at the same venue, local residents and community activists hosted a parallel forum, the People's Forum, to address what the Ministers' forum will not address … the substantive issues, which are:

Health, Safety & the Environment.
The Great Gas Giveaway.
Community Consent

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national / miscellaneous / press release Monday December 08, 2008 16:53 by Richard Walsh   text 5 comments (last - friday december 12, 2008 14:14)   video 1 video file
The credibility of a recent announcement of a 'reduction' in British Crown Forces' personnel from January has been called into question by Republican Sinn Féin. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday December 07, 2008 22:32 by Paula Geraghty   text 5 comments (last - friday december 19, 2008 14:09)   video 2 video files
Rallies and protests against the education cuts have taken place in Cork, Donegal, Galway and now Dublin. The same unions which have accepted the National Pay Deal are not accepting the cuts, the same people who voted to accepted the pay deal are not accepting the education cuts. This unresolved contradiction is at the heart of this new protest movement. The ideology of the market which became entrenched under Partnership and the Celtic Tiger is unravelling. These images reflect the search for a new language of resistance and a confusion on taking it forward. Who can do it? Who will do it? read full story / add a comment
national / education / feature Sunday December 07, 2008 11:51 by Andrew: (layout seedot)   text 44 comments (last - friday january 09, 2009 17:01)   video 3 video files
Somewhere over 50,000 people took part in the INTO organised march through Dublin this afternoon in protest at the education cuts, The was the culmination of a series of regional marches called by the INTO. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday December 07, 2008 11:16 by Salvador Allende   text 8 comments (last - thursday december 11, 2008 10:10)   video 1 video file
THE Ryanair boss has made big mistakes, buying fuel at inflated prices, coming under pressure to cut in a company with the fat already peeled back to the bone.

What does he do to distract attention - he gets more and more hysterical and wants to finally destroy the former state asset, Aer Lingus by buying it up to sell it off. He wants to be the monopoly he said he was going into business to prevent.

O'Leary calls for "board members -- with a few notable exceptions -- to be 'taken out and shot' describing them as 'useless'." He is focusing in his Sunday Independent interview on trade unions and their representatives - this is the boss who says he can deal with trade unions - he will start by shooting them.

Now he want to sell off CIE and the ESB to himself and his rich pals at knock-down prices

We need a workers' solution - re-nationalise the lot and take over Ryanair - shoot O'Leary with publicly owned bullets if he resists. Sauce for the goose..... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Sunday December 07, 2008 00:04 by Evans   text 33 comments (last - thursday may 06, 2010 12:22)   video 8 video files
Athens, Greece. Cops shot against one 15-16 year old boy, right on the heart, murdering him in cold blood. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday December 06, 2008 11:59 by S.C.   text 7 comments (last - sunday april 05, 2009 20:15)   video 1 video file
An overview of the recent raids on Irish "Head Shops", and the current controversy surrounding legal alternatives to street drugs. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday December 06, 2008 01:01 by V. Ritas   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 28, 2008 21:26)   video 1 video file
Ben Mcintyre and Paul Orengoh reveal in the Times of London how President-elect Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was brutally tortured by the British during the Mau Mau freedom fighters uprising in support of Kenyan independence. read full story / add a comment
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