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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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national / miscellaneous / event notice Friday June 05, 2009 12:41 by Frafrallina
In Sanskrit, the ancient sacred language of India, Mandala means “circle". Mandala is traditionally a geometric projection of the world, it belongs to a symbolic universe representing two aspects of life, the material one and the divine, spiritual dimension. Nowadays, Mandala can be used and lived as an artistic expression that can guide us in the search for our Being. read full story / add a comment
The flotilla sets sail
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Friday June 05, 2009 12:04 by Jen Debender   text 17 comments (last - saturday june 06, 2009 11:17)   image 16 images
After the afternoon confrontation in Broadhaven Bay which resulted in one man’s arrest and a couple hours of halted work for the dredgers (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/92555), the Shell to Sea fleet of kayaks headed out on the water a second time around 6pm and two protesters managed to board one of the dredgers, climbing on to the neck of the crane, occupying it and halting work for 10 hours. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Friday June 05, 2009 11:42 by Seomra Spraoi
Awesome vegan food, this & every Sunday at Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvedere Court, off Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1, Map directions at link. Food Served 3 to 4pm Suggested donation for food €4 /more/less as you can afford. Including a Babel Café this Sunday from 3-6pm, where there'll be language exchange. Bike Workshops from 2 to 4pm, and Seomra Spraoi Cinema from 7.30 to 10pm. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday June 05, 2009 06:51 by Ciaron   text 3 comments (last - friday june 26, 2009 00:53)
Kathy Kelly is longtime U.S. nonviolent activist and anti-war resister. She has served prison sentences for nonviolent resistance to U.S. nuclear and interventionary war preparations. She was in the peace camp on the Iraq/Saudi border druing Gulf War 1, she initiated the sanctions busting "Voices in the Wilderness" movement in the mid-90's, was on the ground in Baghdad during the "Shock and Awe" bombardment of '03. She came to Dublin in '05 and '06 to testify at the 3 Pitstop Plougshshares trials and was recently arrested at the Nevada U.S. Air Force base where the U.S. drones have their firing mechanism pressed. She is presently in Pakistan...... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday June 04, 2009 23:22 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain   text 3 comments (last - monday june 08, 2009 16:37)
The fight to protect the Tara landscape from the destruction caused by the Double Tolled M3 Motorway took a surprising turn earlier this month. Some 14 protesters, some of whom had been subject to strict bail conditions for the last two years, had cases against them dismissed at Trim District Court. This was a matter of major public concern but it passed silently and without any interest from the mainstream media. read full story / add a comment
She's not Noemi, she's not a virgin, & she's on thirst strike with 72 hours to go before kidney collapse in Italian state TV's offices.
international / politics / elections / news report Thursday June 04, 2009 22:29 by prurience   text 1 comment (last - friday june 05, 2009 15:03)   image 1 image
Today Emma Bonino vice-president of the Italian Senate (since May 8th), former European Union commissioner for humanitarian affairs & currently leader of the "Italian radical party" went on hunger and thirst strike last night in the main offices of the state TV RAI to protest
(1) the unfair allottment of state media time to the electoral parties
(2) the utter farce which has been the EU elections in Italy. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday June 04, 2009 21:45 by Richard Walsh
A Republican prisoner was seriously assaulted in his cell in Maghaberry Gaol on Wednesday, 9th June. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday June 04, 2009 20:06 by CampDublin   image 1 image
Climate Camp National Meeting in Dublin

Venue: Seomra Spraoi, Belvidere Court, Off Gardiner St. Dublin*

Date: Sunday June 14th

Time: 10am - 3pm read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday June 04, 2009 16:57 by Ronoc   text 4 comments (last - sunday june 07, 2009 16:33)
"What do Nigeria and Ireland have in common? Shell, gas and trouble." By Miriam Cotton

"While Royal Dutch Shell are on trial in New York on charges of conspiring with the Nigerian government to have the activist and writer Ken Saro Wiwa hanged, Shell is also embroiled in a similar controversy in Co Mayo, Ireland, where its plans for a pipeline and refinery are meeting with determined opposition. A version of this article first appeared in the June 2009 issue of Village - an Irish current affairs magazine. " read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday June 04, 2009 16:48 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Economics For Workers

Speaker: John Foster (lecturer in economics; member of Communist Party of Britain)

Tuesday 16 June @ 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Pearse Centre, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2. read full story / add a comment
We have FF Worried - Now let's wipe them out! Vote Joe Higgins No.1
dublin / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday June 04, 2009 16:24 by Joe Higgins   text 10 comments (last - friday june 12, 2009 14:32)   image 1 image
The Evening Herald today joined the political establishment in a desperate bid to dig FiannaFail out of an electoral hole in Dublin by publishing a pathetic 'Red Scare' smear against me as the Socialist Party Euro Candidate by Fianna Fail Minister of Defence, Willie O'Dea. Resorting to the most illiterate of political abuse, O'Dea pathetically tries to associate me with the ghost of the monster Stalin to scare Dublin voters, thereby insulting their intelligence.

The Herald is guilty of sharp practice and contemptible and partisan pro Fianna Fail propaganda by publishing lies from both O'Dea and Eoin Ryan without, quite deliberately, having afforded me any opportunity to respond. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / politics / elections / other press Thursday June 04, 2009 14:53 by Joe Higgins   image 1 image
It is now clear that our campaign is the best placed to defeat Fianna Fail in the Dublin Euro Election.

People really appreciate the relentless opposition I mounted to the Fianna Fail/Progressive Democrat Government when they were inflating the property bubble and allowing property speculators and big bankers rake in billions of Euro on the backs of young people needing homes. People want the same commitment now as the FiannaFail/Green Party Government savage the living standards of working people and the unemployed while they salvage the reckless developers and bankers. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / press release Thursday June 04, 2009 13:31 by pat c   image 1 image
A new arts and literary publication featuring contributions by Francesco Clemente, Seamus Heaney, Nalini Malani, David Mitchell, Sean Scully, Colm Tóibín and a host of other leading art world figures, will be launched by the Irish Museum of Modern Art at 6.00pm on Thursday 11 June 2009. Boulevard Magenta is the brain child of IMMA’s Director, Enrique Juncosa, himself a noted poet, who has brought together a collection of works ranging across the visual arts, prose, poetry, music, film and architecture for the first issue of the biannual magazine. The launch coincides with the opening of a new exhibition at the Museum by the celebrated American artist Terry Winters, who has contributed nine drawings incorporating texts by the American writer Ben Marcus to the publication. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / politics / elections / news report Thursday June 04, 2009 12:05 by Joe Higgins.eu   text 3 comments (last - friday june 05, 2009 12:27)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
This is the final election broadcast of Joe Higgins, who is standing for the Euro elections in Dublin, with a chance of beating Fianna Fail's Eoin Ryan, and winning a seat.

In the video Joe summarizes why he wants people to vote for the Socialist Party in the Euro & Local elections. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday June 04, 2009 07:17 by Sean Crudden   text 52 comments (last - monday june 13, 2016 16:39)   image 1 image
The organisers are hoping the current good weather will last until 13 June 2009 so that this year's general meeting of IMPERO can take place in bright and optimistic atmosphere. read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday June 03, 2009 23:17 by Alan M.
Members of the Cork branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement will be travelling to Limerick this coming Saturday to do a stall. With the latest issue of our newspaper, our bookservice and magazines we hope to make a splash! read full story / add a comment
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dublin / politics / elections / news report Wednesday June 03, 2009 20:26 by Sparky   text 6 comments (last - thursday june 04, 2009 13:50)   image 3 images   video 2 video files   2 attached files
Ahead of Friday's poll, two election candidates have been facing quite different problems getting their message out through campaign posters. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday June 03, 2009 19:02 by Con Carroll
Four different groups of people's call read full story / add a comment
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national / politics / elections / news report Wednesday June 03, 2009 18:58 by Edward Horgan and Patricia McKenna   text 4 comments (last - friday june 05, 2009 23:05)   image 1 image
Edward Horgan Resigns from Green Party
Veteran UN peacekeeper and human rights activist Dr. Edward Horgan was a prominent Green Party member until he resigned and gave his support for the EU elections to independent candidate Patricia McKenna.

Mr Horgan who was a prominent member of the Greens for many years tore up his Green Party membership card during a Green Party press conference saying that the party had not only let their voters down but also members of their own party.

Patricia McKenna stated; “I welcome Edward’s support, he has a great track record on highlighting human rights abuses and I am honoured that he is supporting my campaign.” read full story / add a comment
Stop funding the Greyhound Industry
limerick / animal rights / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 03, 2009 16:36 by John Fitzgerald   text 10 comments (last - sunday september 26, 2010 18:50)   image 1 image
The finding of three mutilated greyhound carcasses this week at a popular seaside resort (Kilteery Pier in County Limerick) shows just how expendable these animals are deemed by their owners once their performance days are over.

The likelihood that they were greyhounds bred for hare coursing, judging from their build, should serve as yet another reminder that we are one of the few remaining countries that still permit this depraved and viciously cruel blood sport.

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