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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 Joey Barton Has Been Found Guilty of Breaching Woke Neo-Blasphemy Laws Sun Nov 16, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Joey Barton has been found guilty of 'malicious communications' offences. But on closer inspection, what he's really been convicted of is breaching woke neo-blasphemy laws, says Steven Tucker.
The post Joey Barton Has Been Found Guilty of Breaching Woke Neo-Blasphemy Laws appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Nov 16, 2025 01:29 | Will Jones
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 Boriswave Migrants Face 10-Year Ban on Claiming Benefits Sat Nov 15, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Millions of migrants who came to Britain as part of the Boriswave face a 10-year ban on claiming benefits as critics warn that giving the cohort indefinite leave to remain will cost Britain hundreds of billions of pounds.
The post Boriswave Migrants Face 10-Year Ban on Claiming Benefits appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Migrant Accused of Sex Assault Claims he Would be Attacked if Deported Sat Nov 15, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Pakistani migrant accused of sex assault in Britain has claimed he would be attacked if deported to his home country because of the allegations against him.
The post Migrant Accused of Sex Assault Claims he Would be Attacked if Deported appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link German Police Raid a Libertarian?s Home for the Crime of Calling Civil Servants ?Parasites? Sat Nov 15, 2025 13:00 | Eugyppius
German police have raided a libertarian's home for the crime of calling civil servants "parasites" before advising him to "think carefully about what you post in future, because you are now under observation".
The post German Police Raid a Libertarian’s Home for the Crime of Calling Civil Servants “Parasites” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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derry / history and heritage / event notice Friday December 04, 2009 09:17 by anti fascist
Relatives of several international Brigade veterans and members of the international Brigades Commemoration Committee will unveil a memorial to Bob Doyle in Sandino's Bar, Derry - Sunday 6th Dec. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Friday December 04, 2009 00:54 by eireanne   text 5 comments (last - tuesday january 26, 2010 08:20)   image 3 images

Ireland is not alone in having its children abused psychologically, physically, emotionally and sexually by the catholic hierarchy. It is particularly unfortunate because Catholicism was so closely linked to politics north and south particularly after 1922 and the de Valera constitution in 1937. No matter how horrified everyone is at this litany of abuse, any criticism of the church leaves one open to Loyalist triumphalism and resentment from practising Catholics who are obviously smarting from the deception and hypocrisy. However some questions have to be asked.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 03, 2009 22:33 by Anne Mc Shane   text 1 comment (last - friday december 04, 2009 04:44)
This article forcuses on the significance of the recent revelations in the Murphy Report for the left. Anne Mc Shane argues that the left needs to take up the struggle for democracy against the Irish state. With the church exposed once again for their sanctimonious hypocritical and abusive behaviour the time is right for such a challenge. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday December 03, 2009 22:18 by Republican Sinn Féin
Statement by Fergal Moore, Vice-President Sinn Fein Poblachtach read full story / add a comment
Dinny McGinley TD
national / arts and media / news report Thursday December 03, 2009 19:47 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   image 3 images
www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice
www.bebo.com/armuinnamuice
www.nearpodcast.org
www.near.ie read full story / add a comment
This is a table of what public sector workers in Ireland really earn based on the data given in the reply to a Dail question in Feb 09.
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday December 03, 2009 17:40 by Andrew   text 44 comments (last - saturday december 12, 2009 21:50)   image 2 images
The cancellation of today's strike is a blow to the developing movement against the cuts on the scale of the cancellation of the March 30th strike at the start of the year. The so called compromise ICTU have been negotiating for is a further blow, it seems designed to drive a wedge between workers and fails to answer the main problem public sector workers have, the inability to take further cuts. But the strike that did happen on 24th November has brought 250,000 workers into their first experience of the power we collectively hold and points towards an alternative read full story / add a comment
This is how they dress in the (western) factories when handling half the stuff you keep in your kitchen press or garden shed
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday December 03, 2009 15:20 by Feudal castrato   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 03, 2009 15:57)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Today is the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster . At the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh on December 3, 1984. Around 12 AM, methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins were released, resulting in the exposure of over 500,000 people. Estimates vary on the death toll - the official immediate death toll was 2,259, which rose greatly over time. read full story / add a comment
Landerneau, Brittany (c) Western Writers' Centre
national / arts and media / news report Thursday December 03, 2009 15:08 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
The Galway-based Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude - is hoping to create a literary link between Brittany and Galway. read full story / add a comment
limerick / crime and justice / other press Thursday December 03, 2009 14:57 by Tom
So now the truth is out there. This so called meeting of priests & lay people that issued the statement supporting Bishop Murray consisted of 65 priests and 15 invited lay people . So much for public consultation. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Wednesday December 02, 2009 23:57 by Ardoyne Republican
Throughout the past year or so, CFAD has taken a large amount of dangerous narcotics off the streets, highlighted the scourge of drugs in working-class communities and exposed dozens of drug barons to the wider public. Our record speaks for itself and people who live in Nationalist areas of North Belfast know only too well, the positive impact our anti-drug campaign has had.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday December 02, 2009 23:29 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Thursday 10 December, 7:30 p.m.
Public meeting
The budget: A response from the left read full story / add a comment
Bush First, Obama Second
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Wednesday December 02, 2009 23:02 by Gerard Horgan   text 5 comments (last - wednesday december 16, 2009 05:21)   image 2 images
After more than three months' deliberation, President Barack Obama has finally decided to commit more than 30,000 US troops to the Afghan war. The ‘Afghan surge’ is to be fast tracked over the next six months with a large bulk of the troops arriving before Christmas. The deployment will cost approximately $1 million dollars per soldier, per year, some $30 billion overall. This price tag is on top of the considerable costs (running into the hundreds of billions of dollars) of keeping over 100,000 US soldiers ‘in-country’, while maintaining other US global military operations as well as the on-going fiasco in Iraq. The combined deployment of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is close to 250,000 service personnel, which is augmented by the greatest number of private military contractors/mercenaries ever seen (some 100,000 in Iraq alone). read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 22:39 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Listen and see why some of the people came from around the country to take part in yesterday's protest read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 19:43 by Rudiger   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 03, 2009 17:09)   image 2 images
This weekend saw the annual Ken Saro Wiwa memorial weekend being held in Erris, Co Mayo. This was the 14th such memorial weekend, and is held in memory of the Ogoni leader who was hung along with 8 other men because of their opposition to Shell. The weekend was organised as Sr Majella McCarron, who told the assembled crowd during the weekend of how she had worked closely with Saro Wiwa for 18 months while she was in Ogoniland and continued to communicate with him up until the time he was detained and subsequently hung. read full story / add a comment
'no ifs, no buts- no education cuts!'
kildare / education / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 17:26 by Donal Ó Fallúin - WSM/FEE NUIM   text 13 comments (last - wednesday december 16, 2009 19:11)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
www.free-education.info read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday December 02, 2009 17:00 by Lycs
A free one-day training workshop on Wednesday 9 December 10am-4pm at Cassidy's Hotel, Upr O'Connell St, Dublin 1. The training will equip trainers with tools to explore the current economic crisis affecting Ireland and the world, with those they work with. This workshop also aims to contribute to empowering the participation of local communities in the debates arising from this crisis. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday December 02, 2009 13:21 by D_D   text 2 comments (last - wednesday december 09, 2009 11:44)
Dublin Council of Trade Unions

Budget Day Protest
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national / consumer issues / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 12:40 by cirrius   text 4 comments (last - monday december 07, 2009 23:30)   video 1 video file
People who used to get the Christmas payment include those on the blind pension, Invalidity pension, widows allowance, long term unemployed people, people on carer's allowance, state pension, and the families of those in prison. Contrast their treatment with the pensions paid every week to former government ministers like Ray Burke and Bertie Ahern, or the billions ploughed into the budgets of banks and developers.

This year, the Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition, backed by various Independents, has axed the Christmas payment to pensioners and those on the dole. Yesterday Sinn Féin held a protest outside Leinster Houses demanding that the payment be restored.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh said: “Economic recovery will not be achieved by driving people into poverty. The recession will deepen if the government persists in taking money from those who spend it on everyday necessities. If these cuts are not resisted we face a prolonged recession with more and more people living in poverty.”
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 02, 2009 12:25 by Gerard Horgan   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 12, 2009 00:13)
The political situation in Honduras and the lack of coverage in the Irish Media. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday December 02, 2009 10:58 by Andrew   text 11 comments (last - wednesday december 09, 2009 21:04)   image 2 images
The Budget is going to be a massive attack on ordinary working people and the poor across Ireland. Lets show our anger in huge number outside the Dail on Dec 9th as they waffle within. The Social Solidarity Network is joining the protests that day at 5pm to demand "Reverse the Cuts Make the Rich Pay" and "Tax the Greedy Not the Needy". read full story / add a comment
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