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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 / eu / event notice Friday September 11, 2009 12:15 by Vote No To Lisbon Campaign
Street Stalls and leafletting read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Friday September 11, 2009 11:24 by Updater   text 19 comments (last - friday september 18, 2009 19:14)
The government of Gordon Brown have apologised about the treatment of
genius Alan Turing:

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571

The Universal Turing Machine, Bletchley Park, Enigma- utter genius, co-opted
brutalised and stolen from history by HMG and her wee pals in Intelligence. A
post-mortem apology is better than nothing but it does not amend damage. read full story / add a comment
Oughterard
galway / arts and media / event notice Friday September 11, 2009 01:25 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
As part of Oughterard’s Culture Night event the poets of the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre will take to the stage in the Lake Hotel Oughterard at 8pm on the 25th September.
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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday September 11, 2009 00:38 by Emma Clancy   text 1 comment (last - friday september 11, 2009 08:42)
The Don't Extradite the Basques Campaign has welcomed the news this week that the petition against the extradition to Spain of Belfast-based Basque pro-independence activists Iñaki de Juana and Arturo Beñat Villanueva now has more than 1,000 signatories from Ireland, Britain, the Basque Country, Spain and around the world, including elected representatives, human rights campaigners, lawyers, academics and community leaders.

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national / animal rights / news report Thursday September 10, 2009 22:54 by ARAN   text 1 comment (last - friday september 11, 2009 21:14)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Kicking off a visual demonstration outside Harold’s cross stadium and working our way with the help of local activists in Northern Ireland down through Cork city, campaigners and supporters of Animal Rights Action Network held peaceful protests and tabling events to highlight the cruel greyhound racing industry in Ireland. During a week of action from August 24 to 30 we worked hard to get the facts out to the general public about the cruelty and exploitation of greyhounds in the racing industry. Over the week and during the month of September ARAN will be working hard to raise awareness of the Irish campaign to abolish cruel greyhound racing and to educate people about the horrors of what gentle greyhounds endure before, during and after their racing lives. read full story / add a comment
national / education / event notice Thursday September 10, 2009 21:00 by Godot
USI is calling on all students to congregate outside Leinster House at 1pm, Next Tuesday (September 15) to protest against the reintroduction of third level fees. read full story / add a comment
ban hare coursing
tipperary / animal rights / news report Thursday September 10, 2009 20:24 by Bernie Wright   text 3 comments (last - friday september 11, 2009 15:08)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
An allegation that the offices of the Sporting Press in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, which describes itself as the “official organ of the Irish Coursing Club (ICC), has been raided within the past few days by the Garda Fraud Squad has been leaked by Coursing supporters. This allegation is contained on an Internet chat forum called the “Greyhound Knowledge Forum”.

In the course of an exchange of views and comments by forum members, mainly in relation to Minister John Gormley’s upcoming decision on whether to grant a hare-netting license to the ICC, a person calling himself “Vinny Grennan” refers specifically to the presence of the Fraud Squad in the Sporting Press offices in Clonmel.

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Climate Camp meeting
dublin / environment / event notice Thursday September 10, 2009 19:37 by campdublin   image 2 images
Dublin Climate Camp meeting - all welcome read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / press release Thursday September 10, 2009 16:56 by Daithi Byrne   text 3 comments (last - friday september 11, 2009 13:29)   image 1 image
Activists from Dublin Sinn Féin and Ógra Shinn Féin confronted Brian Cowen's entourage on Wednesday as the cabinet was due to sign off on the controversial National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) legislation. NAMA will make the taxpayer overpay for bad loans given by reckless banks to greedy developers. ÓSF members were protesting as part of a United Alliance Against Cuts demonstration. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday September 10, 2009 16:24 by Sean Matthews- personal capacity   image 1 image
A few years ago a comrade from Leeds introduced me to the life and times of this colourful figure, Dr John Creaghe who helped spread the flames of anarchism across three continents. In the words of the famous Italian anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti this pamphlet is dedicated to the ‘nameless in the vast crowd of nameless ones.’ read full story / add a comment
Criminalising a Community
mayo / crime and justice / news report Thursday September 10, 2009 14:38 by Rudiger   text 4 comments (last - friday september 11, 2009 12:01)   image 1 image
Yesterday in Belmullet District court, Maura Harrington was jailed for the fourth time this year over her opposition to Shell's plans in Mayo. Judge Mary Devins sentenced Ms Harrington to 3 months in jail for assaulting an employee of IRMS, and 3 months for trespassing in a farmyard close to the landfall site in Glengad on June 19 2008. Ms Harrington was also fined a total of €1000. This incident occurred shortly after Shell began drafting in security into the area and they had begun filming people in the locality (it hadn't been discovered these were working for IRMS at that stage).

Yesterday, marked one year to the day that Maura Harrington began her hungerstrike which lasted 11 days until the Solitaire left Irish waters. read full story / add a comment
Climate Justice Now!
international / environment / news report Thursday September 10, 2009 13:26 by one drop   image 3 images
As part of the global mobilisation for climate justice at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December 2009, young activists prepare for four days of action and media skill-sharing in Dublin this October read full story / add a comment
Join the Flood
international / environment / event notice Thursday September 10, 2009 12:19 by one drop   text 4 comments (last - thursday september 10, 2009 21:04)   image 3 images
Are you aged between 18-30?
Want to get action and media skills?
Want to join other young people in mobilising for climate justice at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December 2009? read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / event notice Thursday September 10, 2009 11:51 by Tracy W
Cork's follow-up Climate Camp meeting, September 17th read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday September 10, 2009 10:36 by Red Banner
Issue 37 of Red Banner is out now, available from bookshops or from the above address at €2 / £1.50 read full story / add a comment
The Sunday Independent reports major (though secret) editorial interference in the Irish Times - 26 Jan 2003 [CLICK TO READ]
national / arts and media / news report Thursday September 10, 2009 10:13 by Captain Green   text 5 comments (last - sunday september 13, 2009 17:02)   image 2 images
The Irish Times reports the death of former owner, Major McDowell, September 10, 2009:

Major Thomas Bleakley McDowell
Former Irish Times chairman dies, aged 86


Widely known as “The Major”, he kept clear of involvement in editorial content, insisting that that was the domain of the editor.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0910/1....html

The Irish Times changed during the Major era, from a newspaper reflecting the protected but significant interests of a distinct Protestant business class to one that reflected the moderninsing interests of Irish capitalism. It was not as smooth a transition as the Irish Times usually reports.

In 1969 Major McDowell was 'hot under the coller" about the Irish Times. So wrote Andrew Gilchrist, the British Ambassador in Dublin to Whitehall. He went on: read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Thursday September 10, 2009 10:03 by Vote No To Lisbon Campaign
national / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday September 10, 2009 03:01 by Johnfitz   text 10 comments (last - saturday september 19, 2009 22:44)
President Jacques Chirac, who campaigned hard for a "Yes" vote, accepted the voters' "sovereign decision", but said it created "a difficult context for the defence of our interests in Europe". read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / event notice Thursday September 10, 2009 01:48 by Over The Edge
Blue Stacks Festival, Co. Donegal

Literary Week-end by the Sea./ Poetry Sunday This intimate literary event is the last event of the Blue Stacks Festival 09 and is based this year at the Sand House Hotel Rossnowlagh, with its beauty, ambience and wild ocean waves, offering a wonderful setting for those who write and those who want to soak up the mixture of spoken word and music that Donegal has to offer. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / event notice Thursday September 10, 2009 01:41 by Over The Edge
Blue Stacks Festival, Co. Donegal

Literary Week-end by the Sea./ Poetry Sunday This intimate literary event is the last event of the Blue Stacks Festival 09 and is based this year at the Sand House Hotel Rossnowlagh, with its beauty, ambience and wild ocean waves, offering a wonderful setting for those who write and those who want to soak up the mixture of spoken word and music that Donegal has to offer.
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