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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 / politics / elections / event notice Tuesday May 26, 2009 16:45 by Socialist Party   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 26, 2009 23:20)
Blues Musicians Don Baker and Dermot Byrne will be performing a fund raising gig for Joe Higgins' European Election Campaign read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Tuesday May 26, 2009 16:23 by depressed pixy   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 11:11)
This Thursday Pamela Izeubekhai is appealing against her imminant deportation to Nigeria. A mass deportation is expected from Dublin airport later that afternoon. read full story / add a comment
tipperary / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday May 26, 2009 16:01 by Alan M.
They got us into this mess but now they want us to pay the price for it too! With the economic crisis now in full swing, anarchists are arguing for fundamental change and an end to capitalism. How can we achieve this and how should the new society be organised?

Thursday 8th June 8pm
Spafield Resource Centre
Cashel read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday May 26, 2009 15:48 by Kev   image 1 image
Public talk by Caoimhe Butterly : Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin 2 - Thursday 4th June, 7pm.

Now Free Gaza Movement co-ordinator, as part on a nationwide speaking tour, Caoimhe will be speaking at a public meeting.
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Poster for the Forum
dublin / politics / elections / event notice Tuesday May 26, 2009 13:57 by Joe Higgins.eu   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 21:48)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Joe Higgins is hosting a forum for young people this Saturday, 3:30pm in the Central Hotel. There will be a Q&A session discussing the elections, the EU, Lisbon and the economic crisis. It will focus in particular on how these issues effect young people. All young people interested in these issues, thinking of voting for Joe Higgins or who want to find out more about socialist ideas should come along.. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday May 26, 2009 07:55 by TD   text 7 comments (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 09:14)   image 9 images   video 1 video file
Today, in a Manhattan Federal District Court in New York, Royal Dutch Shell with a long history of colluding with the Nigerian government to ruthlessly crush popular opposition to its ecological destruction and exploitation of the river Niger delta has to answer charges of complicity in human rights abuses, including the judicial murder of internationally renowned poet, writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his Ogoni tribesmen on November 10th 1995 - other charges include torture, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday May 25, 2009 22:21 by Grainne Quinn   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 14:10)   audio 1 audio file
Upcoming launch for Pathways To Palestine, affiliated with MAP [Medical Aid Palestine ] this Wednesday. The 4000 mile cycle aims to raise money for humanitarian aid and awareness of the plight of ordinary civilians in Gaza.

4 Students.
4000 miles.
14 countries.
40 days. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 25, 2009 21:31 by Joe Moore
A protest in support of the Boycott Israel Campaign will take place on Saturday 30th May at 1.00pm in Daunt's Square, Cork. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / other press Monday May 25, 2009 20:22 by erudite type   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 14:53)
Reuters and other newswires are carrying an Iranian story in the last hour that the revolutionary guard have arrested 114 "devil worshippers" and seized drugs and alcohol during a party in a southern city.
"Cutting (their own) skin and sucking up the blood was among the indecent behavior of the group," Mehr News Agency quoted Colonel Abbas Hamedi of Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the city of Shiraz as saying. He said a Guards intelligence unit launched an investigation into the all-male group about one year ago, leading to their arrest Sunday evening. "The group's aim was to promote irreligious behavior," Hamedi, adding they had posted footage of their parties on the Internet. The Islamic Republic, which bans alcohol and narcotics, last year said it would launch a crackdown on "indecent Western-inspired movements" such as rappers and satanists.

Which all sounds dandy to the general public who probably don't know about the Melak Taus read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / press release Monday May 25, 2009 15:56 by Michael Murphy   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 06:00)
10,000 leaflets to be delivered in Cork attacking the Green party sellout read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / event notice Monday May 25, 2009 13:56 by Rónan Nolan   text 1 comment (last - friday june 05, 2009 09:11)
Break For the Border, Stephen Street (beside the back of the Stephens Green Shopping Centre).Wednesday 3rd June 2009 at 7:30PM. Entry €10. Teams of 5, i.e. € 50 per team. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Monday May 25, 2009 12:38 by Paul Dunphy
Oxfam Ireland needs 10 million of your unwanted goods!
Give goods a second life
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dublin / politics / elections / press release Monday May 25, 2009 11:27 by Irish Socialist Network   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 10:02)

The shabby treatment of people living in the Ballymun flats shows what's wrong with town planning and local government in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 25, 2009 11:01 by Debt and Development Coalition Ireland

Colombian activist Carmen Luisa Castro and Irish journalist Michael McCaughan report on the latest developments in Colombia. read full story / add a comment
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national / animal rights / opinion/analysis Monday May 25, 2009 10:48 by Bernie Wright   text 26 comments (last - tuesday june 09, 2009 10:13)   image 1 image
The animal liberation movement has the mammoth task of exploding the myths behind so-called "humanely produced" animal products, such as cage-free and free-range eggs or meat that is "certified humane."
We try to expose the truth behind the marketing of food products that supposedly cause less harm to the animals used to produce them--foods that are meant to assuage the guilt of people who are concerned about animals (sort of) but who stop short of not eating them. Of course this eases their consciences about causing suffering to animals. It is a half measure. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday May 25, 2009 10:11 by Dublin Shell to Sea
Shell to Sea stands in solidarity with Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta in their fight against Royal Dutch Shell who sustained a systematic campaign of human rights violations in the Niger Delta. Saro-Wiwa's trial against Shell starts in New York on Tuesday 26th of May 2009. Dublin Shell to Sea are holding Solidarity Vigils at 1PM and 5PM at Shell HQ, on Adelaide Road, Dublin today, Monday 25th May 2009. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 25, 2009 09:46 by Michael Nugent   text 10 comments (last - friday june 26, 2009 20:49)   video 2 video files
Public meeting, 8-10 pm Monday 25 May, Wynns Hotel, Abbey Street, Dublin 1. Speakers include: Michael Nugent, chair of Atheist Ireland and co-author of I Keano; Ian O’Doherty, columnist with Independent newspapers; Dick Spicer, chair of the Humanist Association of Ireland; and Robbie Bonham, comedian and cartoonist. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday May 25, 2009 09:06 by CWI   text 1 comment (last - monday may 25, 2009 11:18)
Following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka by the army, the govt is using this victory as an opportunity to remove all and any opposition to their hold on power and have drawn up a death list of people they want to get rid of.

One of those is the United Socialist Party leader who has been put on death list read full story / add a comment

national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday May 25, 2009 01:28 by Private Sector Worker   text 1 comment (last - monday june 15, 2009 20:38)
Saturday June 20th
Unite Hall, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1, 2.00 – 5.00pm read full story / add a comment
Over The Edge in association with the American Conference for Irish Studies
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday May 25, 2009 01:20 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
Writers visiting Galway for the ACIS conference at NUIG will be reading alongside local poets at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, Church Yard Street on Friday, June 12th. The reading will start at 9pm. read full story / add a comment
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