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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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Number of strike days each year - the 2009 is just for Thursdays strike, in fact the final figure would include the many small disputes that have gone on this year
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday November 30, 2009 11:35 by Andrew   image 5 images
On the 24th of November something extraordinary happened. Some 250,000 workers acted together in a day-long strike against the public sector wage cuts planned by the government. The vast majority of these workers had never gone on strike before, yet across almost all workplaces the strike involved 90% or more of those working. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday November 30, 2009 10:05 by Social solidarity Network
Social Solidarity Network Meeting on Tuesday 1st December at 8pm in Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvidere Court

The Social Solidarity network is a grouping of people who have come together to provide a forum for workers and communities to unite to resist the attacks and to build links across the many struggles which will break out over the coming months. read full story / add a comment
not really just about incoming minarets - the swiss have a few missiles outgoing too.
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday November 30, 2009 01:37 by iosaf   text 7 comments (last - friday december 18, 2009 13:59)   image 2 images
A referendum was held in Switzerland on 29 November 2009. Three questions were put to the voters:

* a ban on the construction of new minarets;
* a ban on exporting weapons and war materiel;
* a prescription that money raised from taxes on aviation fuel should be used for aviation matters.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Sunday November 29, 2009 23:48 by Kev S & Freda H   text 6 comments (last - wednesday december 02, 2009 20:48)   image 4 images   video 4 video files
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign took part in this year’s International Week of Solidarity called by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (http://www.stopthewall.org).

An international call to activists was put out to launch a week of global mobilisation against the walls of apartheid in Palestine from November 9th to 16th 2009. The IPSC used this opportunity to highlight the necessity of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, with specific reference to the ongoing role of Irish construction company CRH (formerly Cement Roadstone Holdings) in the building of the Apartheid Wall and illegal colonial settlements in the West Bank. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday November 29, 2009 23:24 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - monday november 30, 2009 21:40)   video 1 video file
Hear Public Sector workers give their side of the story from the picket lines last Tuesday 24th November 2009 read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday November 29, 2009 21:45 by Cork Socialist Workers PArty
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday November 29, 2009 20:50 by Paul McAndrew
Fabulous hat party fundraiser for the Independent Workers Union,
Saturday 5th Dec, upstairs in the Spailpín Fánach, 9pm onwards, read full story / add a comment
OPIM men at the meeting in their headquarters, Jane Jones from Tlachinollan in the foreground and two Peace Brigades accompaniers who are delegated to OPIM on the far right
international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Sunday November 29, 2009 20:31 by Sarah C   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 02, 2009 03:49)   image 1 image
David Salgado was a seasonal agricultural worker who died in the course of his work as a 'jornalero', that is a seasonal migrant worker on an industrial farming operation. His death occurred in Sinaloa state in northern Mexico in January 2007. Deaths in farming are all too frequent worldwide but this case was different, David , who hailed from Guerrerro one of Mexico's poorest states, was eight years old. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Sunday November 29, 2009 20:00 by Gregor Kerr   text 3 comments (last - wednesday december 02, 2009 22:37)
Strike Day
Thursday 3rd December
Protest Rally
Assemble at Department of Education & Science, Marlborough St. at 10:30a.m.
March to Dáil Éireann, leaving Marlborough St. at 11:30a.m. read full story / add a comment
limerick / crime and justice / other press Sunday November 29, 2009 19:51 by Tom   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 06, 2009 15:46)
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday November 29, 2009 18:24 by Ray
This Thursday 3rd December at 8pm in the Spailpín Fánach on South Main St. Cork Shell to Sea will hold a pub quiz unlike any you have met before! A quiz for those who hate quizzes! Expect the unexpected! Fascinating questions, laughs, stand up, surprises and fabulous prizes. Don't miss it! read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday November 29, 2009 18:05 by Laura Broxson
Hi,

We'll be having 2 anti-foie gras demos on Saturday 5th December. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 29, 2009 14:56 by Chas D   text 8 comments (last - saturday april 02, 2022 00:45)   image 3 images
Initial results in this week’s referendum to ban construction of new minarets in Switzerland suggests a small minority in favour of the prohibition. As in other democracies , the minaret is seen by many Swiss as the power symbol of political Islam and Sharia law.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 29, 2009 13:08 by TaraWatch   text 7 comments (last - sunday november 29, 2009 19:08)   image 1 image
Matt Schwoebel wanted to take statements from protesters objecting to the construction of the M3 motorway through the Hill of Tara.
He is drafting a complaint to the UN Commission on Human Rights about the way the government has handled objections and treated those who made them. But when he arrived at Dublin Airport, officers from the Garda National Immigration Bureau informed him he would not be allowed into the country. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday November 29, 2009 10:49 by TD   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Last Friday, same as on all the preceding Fridays the past five years, Bil'in villagers marched to the nearby Apartheid Wall to protest against the theft of over 60% of their land to facilitate the construction of a monstrous affront to international and humanitarian law and the illegal Israeli colonies skulking behind it.
Last Friday, same as on all the preceding Fridays for the past five years, the peaceful protestors were assaulted, this time, with unremitting blizzards of tear gas and percussion "sound" bombs with dozens of the marchers severly distressed from tear gas inhalation - thanking the good lord for small mercies, as it were, there were no high velocity tear gas projectiles used, "rockets" of the lethal kind that was fired point blank into the chest of Bassem Abu-Rahma last April 17th smashing three of his ribs one of which punctuted his heart thus killing, murdering him. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday November 29, 2009 10:11 by Residents Against Racism
A reggae and ska gig to raise funds for the work of Residents Against Racism

Thomas House, Thomas Street, Dublin
Friday 4 December, 8 pm read full story / add a comment
KIBERA SLUM
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Saturday November 28, 2009 23:09 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   image 1 image
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday November 28, 2009 21:00 by Eugene Mc Cartan
There is an alternative
Discussion of the economic crisis and presentation of the CPI publication An Economy for the Common Good. read full story / add a comment
Maghaberry Protest
antrim / miscellaneous / press release Saturday November 28, 2009 17:15 by Richard Walsh   image 1 image
Around sixty protesters attended the Republican Sinn Féin picket outside the maximum security Maghaberry Gaol in County Antrim on Saturday. read full story / add a comment
Ehsan Fattahian R.I.P.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday November 28, 2009 16:42 by pat c   image 1 image
Saeed Valadbaygi writes about the execution of Ehsan Fattahian and of how other Kurds languish on Iranian death rows. Saeedd makes it clear that the Iranian Theocracy will not be able to kill the revolution: Even if the executions continue, they will not only fail to succeed in keeping the people back, but rather will drive stronger nails into the Islamic Republic’s coffin.
Full text at link.

Ehsan Fattahian, a poltical activist in Kurdistan was executed on Wednesday last week. Shirko Moarefi and Habib-Allah Latifi, two other political activists are in danger of execution now. One woman and 11 more men, also in Kurdistan languish in prison with the burden of a death sentence. These executions are designed to create an atmosphere of terror in society and hold back the people from the streets in an effort to stabilize the system after the electoral coup d’etat. The Islamic Republic that today faces a big challenge by the name of the people’s revolution against their rulers, has no choice but such encounters. This way of suppressing for us who remember as a lesson for the current revolution, the first years of the 1357 (1979) revolution, is very familiar. In those years too, the Islamic Republic went to war with people with the same vast wave of imprisonment and execution of political prisoners in order to take control of social and political conditions in Iran. read full story / add a comment
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