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Indymedia ireland

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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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

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offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent

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

offsite link China?s CITY WIDE CASH SEIZURES Begin ? ATMs Frozen, Digital Yuan FORCED Overnight Wed Jul 30, 2025 21:40 | 1 of indy

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international / arts and media / feature Saturday November 21, 2009 10:49 by Paula Geraghty   text 4 comments (last - sunday november 22, 2009 13:31)   image 22 images
The 21st of November marks the United Nations ‘World television Day’.

Television can be a tremendous force for good. It can educate great numbers of people about the world around them. It can show us how much we have in common with our neighbours, near and far. And, it can shed light on the dark corners, where ignorance and hatred fester.

The television industry is also in a unique position to promote mutual understanding and tolerance -– with content that tells the stories not just about the powerful, but about the powerless, and not just about life in the world’s richest pockets, but also in the developing countries that are home to the majority of the world’s population’. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday November 20, 2009 23:37 by Diet Simon   text 2 comments (last - sunday november 22, 2009 11:46)
"In the heart of this first world I found scenes more reminiscent of the third world.."
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday November 20, 2009 20:43 by The Oh-Aissieux
Adventures and Misadventures
Featuring Adam Wilson and The Oh-Aissieux
Library Bar Extension, Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2.
Thursday 3 December. From 8 to 10.30 pm. Doors 7.30
Admission EUR 6 / Concessions EUR 2. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Friday November 20, 2009 20:33 by The Oh-Aissieux
Scéalaíocht le Máirín Mhic Lochlainn cois tine
Club Áras na nGael, 45 Sráid Dominic, An Gaillimh
5 Nollaig óna 2-4 iarnóin
Saorchead isteach. (Glacfar le deontais.)
Fáilte roimh chách. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Friday November 20, 2009 20:22 by Laura Broxson
Hi,

We'll be having 3 protests on 27th Nov., as part of this year's "Fur Free Friday" - for more info see: http://www.antifurcoalition.org/. We'll also be having our regular information table on the 28th, as it's the last Saturday of the month. read full story / add a comment
Meet IRMS - at the Shell compound in June this year - after the events in Bolivia
mayo / environment / news report Friday November 20, 2009 16:29 by Andrew   text 7 comments (last - saturday november 21, 2009 23:08)   image 2 images
A leader of the Bolivian Confederation of Peasant Workers (CSUTCB) is in Ireland this weekend to visit the local people who continue to resist Shell's experimental gas pipeline in Rossport and to demand that the Irish government investigate the role of Shell's security company IRMS in the attempt to start a civil war in Bolivia. Meanwhile in the wake of the An Bord Planala decision Shell's dangerous experimental pipe has been exposed as just that and many people are starting to question the wisdom of giving the energy corporations 420 billion of oil and gas for next to nothing.
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international / arts and media / news report Friday November 20, 2009 16:03 by ADM Delegate   text 4 comments (last - tuesday november 24, 2009 11:20)
The national Union of Journalists have voted to support Indymedia. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / news report Friday November 20, 2009 15:24 by FCTV
FCTV is a new station for the Fingal area that is currently airing on the web at www.fctv.ie until such time as their broadcast licence is obtained. The aim of FCTV is to provide high quality community based programming of which is of interest to the people of Fingal. FCTV will look to showcase Fingal talent, events, businesses and anything that is of interest to the people it serves. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday November 20, 2009 12:13 by Anne Mc Shane   text 7 comments (last - monday december 14, 2009 15:03)
Dave Isaacson criicises leading SWP members who have undermind and sabotaged attempts to forge rank and file organisation in the CWU. Now SWP member Jane Loftus has actually endorsed a sellout deal. Full text at link.

There was one significant omission in Jim Moody’s article on the sell-out of the postal strike by the Communication Workers Union leadership, which allowed CWU president Jane Loftus to come out of it looking rather good, when actually she has been an utter disgrace (‘Militants condemn sell-out’, November 12).

Loftus, a long-standing member of the Socialist Workers Party and therefore supposedly a revolutionary, is also a member of the CWU’s postal executive committee (PEC), which voted unanimously on November 5 to accept the interim agreement and call off the strikes, just as the strength of the postal workers was starting to be realised. This goes completely against the position of Loftus’s organisation. Socialist Worker has rightly stated that “Leaders of the postal workers’ union were wrong to suspend strikes at Royal Mail last week … There was no reason for the union to sign up to the agreement. The proposed escalation of strike action - that would have seen two 24-hour strikes in close succession last week - had widespread support within the union” (November 14). read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday November 20, 2009 10:04 by Witness Against Torture   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 21, 2009 14:23)
Justice Delayed, Justice Denied
Witness Against Torture Responds to Obama’s Statement that Guantanamo
Will Not Close by January 2010. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Friday November 20, 2009 09:47 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 21, 2009 14:00)
Bolivian citizens request Irish Government to investigate Irish security firm, IRMS, due to its links with mercenaries operating in Bolivia.

11 a.m., Friday, 20th November 2009
Department of Foreign Affairs, 82 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2. read full story / add a comment
kildare / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Friday November 20, 2009 08:40 by R.N.U Cill Dara - P.R.O
Green Isle Solidarity Picket read full story / add a comment
 Feachtas do Choláiste Ghlór na Mara, Baile Brigín
national / arts and media / news report Friday November 20, 2009 00:01 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 21, 2009 17:33)   image 2 images
www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice
www.bebo.com/armuinnamuice
http://nearpodcast.org/podcast
www.near.ie read full story / add a comment
Protest against CDP / JI / CE cutbacks , Monday 23rd November 2009 , 3.30pm ,Clondalkin , Dublin.
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday November 19, 2009 22:32 by Sharon.   text 75 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2018 16:48)   image 12 images
Protest march in Clondalkin by CDP / JI / CE workers .
CDP / JI / CE 'savings' needed to pay for the financial bonus to the political 'elite'. read full story / add a comment
kildare / education / other press Thursday November 19, 2009 22:01 by Aidan Rowe   text 10 comments (last - saturday november 21, 2009 12:53)
The Student's Union of NUI Maynooth has confirmed, via email correspondence, that they will not be encouraging NUIM students to support the strike on Tuesday. The full text of the email correspondence is presented below. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday November 19, 2009 21:35 by candlelight   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 01, 2009 11:19)
Franco Claretti, Mayor of Coccaglio, near Brescia in Northern Italy said” Our objective is to clean the town out”. Claudio Abiendi, Northern League Councillor for Security stated “Christmas isn’t a Welcome Festival, it’s Christian tradition that celebrates our identity” And two neighbouring towns Castelcovati and Castrezzato are copying the initiative. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Thursday November 19, 2009 20:43 by Laura Broxson
***NATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION PRESS RELEASE***

ACTIVISTS TO RETURN TO CHARLES RIVER ANIMAL TESTING LABORATORIES

WHEN: Tuesday 24th Nov. First protest from 12noon - 2.30pm outside Charles River in Carrentrila, Ballina. Second protest outside Charles River in Glenamoy, from 4pm - 6pm approx.

Contact N.A.R.A. spokesperson: Laura Broxson - 086 8729 444 - www.naracampaigns.org

2 months after they organised Ireland’s first ever protests outside these laboratories, activists from the National Animal Rights Association are returning, as promised. They will be joined by other groups this time, such as Donegal Veg and Animal Rights Northern Ireland, as well as activists travelling all the way from the U.K.
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tipperary / animal rights / event notice Thursday November 19, 2009 19:21 by John Carmody   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 07, 2010 19:55)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
ARAN will be protesting the annual hare coursing finals in 2010 - Please join the protest against this barbaric 'sport'

When: Wednesday, February 3rd 201 @ 12 noon sharp to 3p.m
Where: Powerstown Park, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary (Front Entrance)
Contact: John Carmody, Stephan Wymore 087-2391646 read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday November 19, 2009 18:53 by Emma Clancy
A report from Iñaki de Juana's extradition hearing which was held in Belfast last week, during which the defence argued that the extradition attempt was an abuse of process and would be 'grossly inhumane'. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday November 19, 2009 18:37 by Emma Clancy
The Don't Extradite the Basques Campaign has welcomed the ruling by a Belfast judge that the Spanish extradition warrant against Belfast-based Basque activist Artruro Benat Villanueva was “invalid” and calls for the dropping of charges against Iñaki de Juana read full story / add a comment
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