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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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kildare / miscellaneous / event notice Friday July 17, 2009 12:53 by Joanne   text 1 comment (last - friday july 17, 2009 13:49)   image 1 image
Kildare Shell to Sea are having a protest on Sat 25th of July, 2-3PM, at the Topaz Garage (formerly Toughers) on Edward Street in Newbridge.

All Welcome bring placards, banners, leaflets etc

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday July 17, 2009 10:12 by PBPA   text 6 comments (last - monday july 20, 2009 13:36)
People Before Profit Alliance says 'Despicable SNIP Report Must Be Rejected'

Report Will Deepen Unemployment Crisis
Vigorous Campaign To Defend Public Services Must Be Launched read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday July 17, 2009 09:42 by Viva Palestina Cork
Information night & speakers. Date: Thursday 30 July. Time: 8 pm. Venue: Victoria Hotel. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday July 17, 2009 08:18 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 8 comments (last - monday july 20, 2009 10:14)   image 3 images

Michael Clifford's piece from The Sunday Tribune (12th July) is a serious misrepresentation of our 27th-June Shell2Sea street-meeting in Galway. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday July 16, 2009 23:34 by Socialism or Barbarism!
A brief snippet of a detailed analysis of the report of 'An Bord Snip Nua'. read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday July 16, 2009 22:57 by robert   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 22, 2009 16:16)
monday, 20th of july, shell to sea meeting in sligo read full story / add a comment
louth / crime and justice / news report Thursday July 16, 2009 19:22 by Alison Kelly   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 16, 2009 22:30)
This is an update to a previously published story from Alison Kelly, a woman who was misdiagnosed regarding Breast Cancer, and the subsequent twists and turns of trying to take a civil legal action against the HSE. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday July 16, 2009 19:13 by James Connolly   text 2 comments (last - monday july 20, 2009 14:45)   audio 1 audio file
On Morning Ireland this morning (16 July 2009) Cathal MacCoille asks Tom Geraghty of the Public Service Executive Union about some CSO statistics. Geraghty explains that they are bogus for the purpose MacCoile is using them - trying to argue that public sector workers get paid more than private sector workers. Geraghty also explains that the CSO recognise that fact. But MacCoille keeps asking the same question, oblivious of the fact that Geraghty keeps answering it.

For once a dense RTE bore gets his answer - listen and laugh (there are few of them about these days). read full story / add a comment
Protest 1 o clck at the Hilton Hotel in Charlemont Dublin2 (hotel marked by the H)
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday July 16, 2009 17:13 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 6 comments (last - wednesday july 29, 2009 15:46)   image 12 images
The Green party are holding a special convention on the Programme for Government and the Lisbon Treaty this Saturday. The convention is on in the Hilton hotel at Charlemont Place, Dublin 2.
Dublin Shell to Sea are holding a protest outside the convention at 1 o clock.

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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday July 16, 2009 16:30 by pat c   text 8 comments (last - tuesday december 08, 2009 21:08)
How low can they go?

Well the lowest I've found is a cutback of €2.6 million in funding to local groups which are fighting against the ravages of drug addiction. Just what you would expect from a smug upper middle class toadie of the ruling class like Colm McCarthy.

Colm McCarthy has declared War on the ordinary people of Ireland. The only suitable response is to declare War right back on him and his masters. read full story / add a comment
Breda with the support of her Siptu colleagues. She has been working at the Custom House for five years.
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday July 16, 2009 14:42 by Paula Geraghty   image 10 images
Pickets close Department of Environment for business to defend cleaning contract jobs. read full story / add a comment
Jaegerstaetter 3: Culley Palmer, Jim Dowling, Bryan Law
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday July 16, 2009 14:30 by MLK House   text 15 comments (last - monday july 27, 2009 11:07)   image 15 images   audio 1 audio file
Seven anti-war activists entered the Shoalwater Bay military training area in central Queensland during joint US-Australian Talisman Sabre exercises. The seven remain in the area and are presently moving towards the ‘live fire’ areas with the intention of shutting down the exercises. They remain undetected by Australian Defence Force Security and the Qld Police guarding the area. read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday July 16, 2009 12:27 by Joe Higgins MEP   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 16, 2009 13:20)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Here Joe Higgins, the Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, talks about the recent electricians´ strike, the disgusting attacks on it by the bosses and media, and how we can all learn from their suyccess of the electricians.

You would think from reading some newspaper articles and editorials that workers go on strike to deliberately wreak havoc on whichever sector they work in, or on society in general.

Take the 10,500 strong electricians strike last week. "Strike flies in the face of reason" pompously declared an editorial in a daily newspaper. An economic commentator went one better, calling the strike "insane and delusional". Former Minister of State and current Chief Executive of the Construction Industry Federation, Tom Parlon outshouted them all when he said that "we cannot let the lunatics be in charge." read full story / add a comment
L-R:  Deaglán de Bréadún (Chair) - Richard Boyd Barrett (IAWM) - Richard Waghorn (Daily Mail journalist) - Robert Faucher (Chargé d’Affaires, US Embassy).
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday July 16, 2009 01:30 by Michael Gallagher   text 5 comments (last - thursday july 16, 2009 18:47)   image 10 images
Images 1-9 © Michael Gallagher read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday July 15, 2009 23:01 by Mick Collins   text 4 comments (last - tuesday july 21, 2009 12:59)
Natalia Estemirova (50), has been found murdered in the North Caucasus, after having been abducted this morning (July 15th) shortly after leaving for work in the Chechen capital Grozny. read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday July 15, 2009 21:03 by Sligo leftie   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 16, 2009 12:04)
Sligo éirígí activist Gerry Casey has described as “shameful” the silence of the north-west’s TD’s and MEP’s over continuing human rights abuses being inflicted on those opposed to the giveaway of our natural resources to Shell in County Mayo. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Wednesday July 15, 2009 17:21 by Michael O'Brien   text 1 comment (last - friday july 17, 2009 11:27)
Speaker: Barry Finnegan (Researcher for Campaign Against the EU Constitution)
Date: Thursday 23rd July
Time: 8:00pm
Place: Kilnamanagh Community Centre, Tallaght
More Info telephone 086 1688050 read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Wednesday July 15, 2009 12:45 by Laura Broxson
Close down Huntingdon Life Sciences! www.shac.net read full story / add a comment
Siptu Official Strike
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday July 14, 2009 22:11 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 15, 2009 09:45)   image 4 images
On Monday 13th July at 1pm the People Before Profit Alliance organised a protest in support of 13 contract cleaners who were unlawfully dismissed by the private contractor in the Custom House. read full story / add a comment
Johnny Cash Tribute Night
dublin / animal rights / event notice Tuesday July 14, 2009 20:02 by Irish Vegan Society   text 3 comments (last - friday july 17, 2009 12:54)   image 2 images
A great night is in store on the 16th of July for all fans of Johnny Cash. 7 bands will play a number of Johnny Cash songs. Proceeds will go towards the Irish Vegan Society. read full story / add a comment
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