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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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An tAire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta Éamon Ó Cuív TD
national / arts and media / news report Friday October 30, 2009 17:13 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 03, 2009 17:20)   image 2 images
www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice
www.bebo.com/armuinnamuice
www.nearfm.ie/podcast
www.near.ie read full story / add a comment
2007 Garda surveillance & intelligence gathering of anti-war protests at Shannon
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday October 30, 2009 16:40 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 15 comments (last - friday january 17, 2020 20:59)   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Thanks to the publication of a British police intelligence "spotter card" issued to rank & file coppers for a climate change protest in 2007 this week by a British newspaper, many people regardless of whether they are activists in the UK or Ireland or indeed elsewhere in the EU are wondering about their constitutional and statutory rights in the face of the European wide creation of intelligence databases by police forces. Whereas those whose images appeared without prior consent in this week's British media may have recourse to legal action and a bit of chatter, Irish political activists, protesters & ordinary citizens thus far enjoy no public recognition of the existence of such databases in Ireland nor it would appear have any mechanism to ensure that their details if not guilty of any criminal offence are removed from the intelligence files of the Garda Siochana. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Friday October 30, 2009 16:25 by Contaminated Crow
An incinerator, a windfarm, CCTV cameras, four telemasts and a factory chimney read full story / add a comment
An IWW version of the class pyramid referred to in the talk
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday October 30, 2009 14:44 by Speaker Paul B recorded by Andrew   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
Recording of a WSM branch education that looks at 'what is class' and outlines many of the different classifications that have been used before asking whether this is right approach to the question at all. Followed by a brief discussion of class in relation to Joe Duffy phone ins demanding a public sector pay cut. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday October 30, 2009 14:07 by Paul Kinsella   text 5 comments (last - friday november 06, 2009 08:46)
I would like to start compiling a list of workplaces walking out, and services affected on the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Day Of Action next Friday, November 6th. This list to be updated regularly by anyone reading this between now and next Friday, including on the day itself, as workers come out, and services are affected. The format below is subject to change, in conjunction with requests I may be making to the editors. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Thursday October 29, 2009 18:19 by Liamo
The lecture will take place at 2.30 pm on Saturday, November 7th, at the JM Synge Lecture Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College, Dublin. Admission is 10 euros, or 5 euros for members of Feasta or the Carbon Cycles and Sinks Network and the unwaged. Please contact us at climate@feasta.org, (098) 25313 or (01) 661 9572 if you would like more information.
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Terryland Forest Park
galway / environment / event notice Thursday October 29, 2009 10:57 by Liamo   text 1 comment (last - monday november 09, 2009 11:40)   image 1 image
Volunteers are invited to help out in a major clean-up of Terryland Forest Park. This will start at 2.30pm on Sunday November 15 in the Terryland Forest Park. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday October 29, 2009 01:22 by Paul Kinsella
It would be great That, When Whole Workplaces Come Out on the Day Of Action on November 6th, if they March En Masse from their Workplace to the Protest venues. This has happened before on the PAYE Tax Marches for example. Of course, I'm not suggesting that those working far out in the suburbs such as Coolock or Tallaght, or those working outside the Provincial Centres March into town. They should charter buses and car pool, as it Seems Very Likely that Public Transport Will Stop At Least for Several Hours on November 6th. read full story / add a comment
kildare / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday October 28, 2009 23:41 by Republican Network for Unity Kildare
JUSTICE FOR GREEN ISLE WORKERS!
Saturday 31st October 2009

Assemble : Naas Courthouse, Main St Naas, Co. Kildare ay 2PM sharp.
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national / arts and media / news report Wednesday October 28, 2009 21:01 by Fred Johnston   text 3 comments (last - saturday october 31, 2009 18:42)
The Western Writers' Centre, Galway (Ionad Scribhneoiri Chaitlín Maude) have been gifted no fewer than 400 copies of books by eminent European authors, complete with display furniture and are the legal, documented owners of this immense and valuable library. But the Centre, eight years in existence in Galway, has nowhere to house it. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday October 28, 2009 19:43 by Cathal   text 5 comments (last - thursday november 12, 2009 15:02)   image 3 images   audio 2 audio files
Yesterday evening the Cork branch of the Worker’s Solidarity Movement hosted a talk by South African anarchist and ZABALAZA Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) member, Jonathan. The ZACF is an organisation of anarchist individuals from South Africa who identify with the communist tradition within Anarchism. The front is organised around the principles of theoretical and tactical unity, collective responsibility and federalism. Their activities include study and theoretical development, anarchist agitation and propaganda, and participation within the class struggle. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday October 28, 2009 16:17 by Dublin Masser   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 29, 2009 19:11)   image 3 images
It is impossible to give credit to one place, one time, one person for the starting of any social movement, as it takes the ideas, energy and enthusiasm of countless people to reach a 'Critical Mass', but San Francisco, September 1992, certainly marked itself clearly on the map as a launch-pad for the Critical Mass movement, going on from there to spread throughout the world to all nine(?) corners of the globe and taking place in an estimated 325 cities. Now after seventeen years it is still growing and currently takes place in four cities around Ireland (that we know of?).

In true DIY style Critical Mass co-incidentally returned to the streets of Belfast and Dublin simultaneously on Friday the 25th of September last after being sorely missed by many for a long time. To their credit Cork and Galway have been keeping it going for many years now (albeit in an on-off fashion). read full story / add a comment
kildare / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday October 28, 2009 16:12 by R.N.U Cill Dara P.R.O
Justice For Workers rally Naas read full story / add a comment
Charlie Byrne's Bookshop
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday October 28, 2009 12:42 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
On THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, from 6pm
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in association with Over The Edge
presents an evening of poetry to celebrate their new shop in Oranmore at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Oranmore Village (near the filling station!) read full story / add a comment
Limerick Protest Poster
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday October 28, 2009 12:30 by SIPTU Community   image 1 image
As part of the ongoing campaign against cuts to the Community Sector, a protest march will be held on:

Thursday 5th November, The Mechanics Institute, Pery's Square, Limerick, 12 noon

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international / arts and media / event notice Wednesday October 28, 2009 12:07 by the shed
30th OCTOBER 2009 @ THE SHED – REPTILE CABARET

8a Henrietta Lane (rear of King's Inn pub in Henrietta street)
Dublin 1 (top Capel Street)
Suggested Donations: 8,00 Euro @THESHED
DOORS @ 9:00 pm till late read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / event notice Wednesday October 28, 2009 11:19 by Liamo
The second meeting of the recently formed Transition Galway. All welcome. 8pm Galway Social Space, Middle Street, Galway. read full story / add a comment
national / education / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 27, 2009 22:08 by Emily Smith
In the Summer of 2008 it was confirmed that Ireland's economy was in recession. At the same time thousands of people received the results of their degrees. This article looks at how the recession has affected the graduates of 2008, a group whose struggles have been under-reported in the media and some of those graduates relate their experiences, within the last year, of jobseeking, social welfare and further education. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Tuesday October 27, 2009 19:44 by Irish Socialist Network

Statement from Irish Socialist Network on Lisbon treaty result. read full story / add a comment
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