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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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dublin / racism & migration related issues / event notice Saturday October 03, 2009 11:20 by Memet Uludag
Turkish Association of Ireland Meeting: Information Session for Migrants
Presented by Immigrant Council of Ireland

Public Meeting -
Admission Free

Central Hotel, 2 Exchequer Street, Dublin 2
22 October 2009 - 18:00 (TBC)
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national / environment / news report Saturday October 03, 2009 09:33 by Tony Adams   text 5 comments (last - sunday june 06, 2010 13:27)   image 1 image
I am writing this article to draw attention to the fact that vegetable growers can no longer be sure that farmyard manure, (including horse manure), is safe to use. There have been huge problems since last year where contaminated manure has led to stunted and grossly deformed vegetables in thousands of gardens, allotments and farms across the UK and the US, and now Irish gardeners are starting to be affected too. Potatoes, tomatoes, peas, beans, carrots and salad vegetables are all vulnerable, and there have been reports of damage to onions, leeks, raspberries and even a newly-planted tree; though, worryingly, some vegetables such as courgettes appear unaffected when grown on the same contaminated manure.

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national / arts and media / news report Friday October 02, 2009 17:51 by Darren J. Prior / Mac an Phríora   text 1 comment (last - friday october 02, 2009 22:20)   image 2 images
www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice

www.bebo.com/armuinnamuice

www.near.ie/podcast

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Members of the public vent their anger at Minister O'Cuiv
galway / miscellaneous / news report Friday October 02, 2009 16:31 by Shane F   text 1 comment (last - friday october 02, 2009 17:05)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
Eamon O'Cuiv's plans to shake babies and kiss hands the day before the Lisbon poll came undone following spirited debate with members of the public and anti-Lisbon campaigners. read full story / add a comment
Staff, volunteer and child from Jobstown CDP on the march Sept 30th
national / miscellaneous / feature Friday October 02, 2009 16:25 by Allen Meagher   text 13 comments (last - saturday october 17, 2009 16:08)   image 37 images
12,000-15,000 people marched through Dublin yesterday (September 30th) to protest at big cuts this year to community resources and the threat of massive further cuts.
The marchers are people living and working on the ground and they see the harm done, with worse to come.
"People live in communities, not economies," read one of the thousands of placards.
If there was a general theme running through the march, it was that people saw the Government as helping out ‘fatcats’ and developer friends at the expense of poor communities.
The next big COMMUNITY march - bringing in people from all over Munster – is due to be held in Limerick on November 5th (fifth).

SOME GOOD LINKS
http://www.changingireland.blogspot.com/
http://www.changingireland.ie
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/93996#attachment1000049741
http://www.siptu.ie/community
http://www.eapn.ie
http://www.cwc.ie read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday October 02, 2009 15:42 by Yassamine Mather   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 17, 2009 19:58)
Yassamine Mather writes on how the Iranian Regime uses threats from the imperialists to justify the oppression of Iranian workers, students and womens rights activists. Full story at url below.

The dramatic statements by Obama, Brown and Sarkozy about Iran’s undisclosed nuclear enrichment plant, made on the first day of the G20 gathering in Pittsburgh, were clearly intended to prepare the world for a new conflict in the Middle East. But this is old news. US and UK secret services had known about it for at least 3 years - Israel and France also knew about it and delivered their finding to the International Atomic Energy Agency earlier this year. So what was the main purpose of the Obama-Sarkozy-Brown show on September 25? Could it be it was directed mainly to audiences in the US, UK and France, to convince them that, at a time of economic uncertainty, western leaders have to deal with a ‘major external threat’ posed by Iran’s nuclear development?
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday October 02, 2009 13:21 by Caoimhe   1 attached file
Front Line would like to invite you to “Defending Life With Life” a stunning exhibition
of photographs by Sunday Tribune photographer Mark Condren documenting the
lives of human rights defenders at risk in Honduras, Western Sahara, North East India
(Tripura and Assam), Serbia and Kenya.

These photographs illustrate the courage and commitment of human rights defenders
who every day put their lives on the line to defend the rights of others.
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Alf strikes again.
dublin / animal rights / news report Friday October 02, 2009 13:15 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
AFAR received news anonymously that the following action occured:

Ninety AUSTRALIAN SUPER CIRCUS SYDNEY advertising billboards were destroyed in Dublin 24 as the circus was performing there.
This circus ,formerly part of Circus Vegas is notorious for attacking protestors and for releasing animals on to major roads as advertising stunts. This action calls for the circus to give up using animals.

from ALF Ireland
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international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday October 02, 2009 11:28 by John Cornford   text 9 comments (last - friday september 28, 2012 23:51)   image 1 image
Taking advantage of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's appearance at the UN in New York, thousands of Iranians from all across North America and beyond held two days of spirited protests against this icon of hate for many millions of their countrymen. They included a wide range of people, including many veterans of the 1979 revolution driven into exile, and U.S. and Canadian-born youth of Iranian descent awakening – and sometimes reawakening their elders – to political life. They also represented a broad range of political opinion, with a strong showing of forces identifying with the pro-Islamic Republic "Green" reformist opposition of presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, as well as revolutionaries, communists and many others against both the Islamic regime and U.S. imperialism. read full story / add a comment
The Follower's Tale
galway / arts and media / event notice Friday October 02, 2009 00:49 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
North Beach Poetry Nights presents on (next) Monday October 5th at 9 pm in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, Galway

The North Beach Poetry Nights' October 2009 Slam and a double line-up with Guest Poets: Iggy McGovern (Dublin) and Stephen Powers (Madison, Wisconsin) read full story / add a comment
Even the anarchists are going to vote No to Lison, many for the first time in their lives.
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday October 01, 2009 23:32 by o as if   text 1 comment (last - friday october 02, 2009 00:51)   image 6 images
All good children are now washed and asleep in their cots and ought have little idea how their parents & elders intend to vote tomorrow in Ireland's 2nd referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty. Theirs is not the duty nor the concern to weigh local political and national debate with the long term consequences of a potential post-Lisbon European Union. For the most part they will have noticed the plethora of posters and the volume of bilge wash which the Irish voters have seen and been brought through since immediately after they voted No! in the first Lisbon referendum and which has continued unrelentlessly as a tsunami until this last evening of reflection.
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foto Bruno Derenne  Action  in front  European parliament Brussels
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday October 01, 2009 23:26 by Valentine Julien   text 1 comment (last - friday october 16, 2009 16:12)   image 1 image
A message from Brussels to the Irish people! PLease VOTE NO for us! read full story / add a comment
Caracas, Feb. 29 1989
international / miscellaneous / press release Thursday October 01, 2009 23:08 by El Libertario, Venezuela   image 1 image
* Different organizations and individuals from Venezuela with tradition in the social struggles linked to different anti-authoritarian and critical leftist approaches, with whom we have converged at the space called INSURGENTES, set position before the exhumations of the Caracazo. read full story / add a comment
Put the fun between your legs
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday October 01, 2009 22:49 by Critical Mass Dublin   text 5 comments (last - wednesday october 07, 2009 14:15)   image 1 image
The last CM was a success (look - http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94293), but together it can only get better.

We are meeting up in Seomra Spraoi (www.seomraspraoi.org), Wednesday 7th at 6pm. read full story / add a comment
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national / history and heritage / press release Thursday October 01, 2009 18:38 by TaraWatch   text 1 comment (last - friday october 02, 2009 13:36)   image 3 images
The Green Party has lost it's mandate to represent the people of Ireland, and in particular, the environmental movement in Ireland. The latest scandal involves Gormley's own promises as Minister, to strengthen legal protections for national monuments and landscapes. In 2007 he promised new legislation the following year. Then it was promised for 2009, and formally described as The National Monuments (Amendment) Act 2009. Last week we informed by the Taniste that the bill will now not be published until 2010, at least. This is a core Green Party issue, and there is simply no excuse for the delay, which is costing Ireland's heritage dearly because of the high destruction rate continuing under the Green watch. TaraWatch is calling on all environmental groups to protest at the Green Party Special Convention on Saturday 10 October at 9.00am. read full story / add a comment
Meeting up
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 01, 2009 14:07 by Conor. M   text 4 comments (last - saturday october 10, 2009 21:27)   image 12 images
The first critical mass in Dublin for years was a great success, but more importantly, it was great craic. In the doom and gloom of it all it was nice to take to the streets for a different reason. read full story / add a comment
Mia Gallagher
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday October 01, 2009 01:10 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
Over The Edge presents Ireland’s first ever fiction slam with Featured Reader, Mia Gallagher, at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, 14-16 Church Yard Street, Galway on Friday, October 16th, 8pm. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Wednesday September 30, 2009 23:00 by Fiachra Ó Luain
PRESS RELEASE - 30th September 2009

There has been a formal call for the OSCE to oversee the Irish Lisbon referendum amid growing concerns that the result of the Irish referendum may be manipulated by postal vote fraud. A source within the Dublin City Council has informed the former MEP candidate Fiachra Ó Luain of efforts by the head of the Franchise department to actively register residents of retirement homes, prisons and even the army.

The source has said that the head of the Franchise department has unsupervised and unregulated access to the postal votes and suggests that there may be concerted efforts to influence the outcome of the Lisbon referendum by manipulation of the postal vote system. This corroborates the fact that the ‘People’s Movement’, who are calling for a No vote, received notice from various county councils of the issue of postal votes the day after they had been sent out. read full story / add a comment
Voting for Lisbon and Xmas
galway / eu / news report Wednesday September 30, 2009 22:38 by TD   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Due to maximum effort in Shop Street, Galway, the past few days urging people to vote no on Friday and the consequent bony-weary tireness read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday September 30, 2009 22:31 by Kev   image 1 image
On the day of the General Strike of the Palestinians Citizens of Israel, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) expresses our support for your ongoing campaign for human, civil, political and national rights. read full story / add a comment
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