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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 / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday May 21, 2009 19:56 by Eugene Mc Cartan   text 10 comments (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 16:43)
The publication of the long awaited “The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Report” into abuse suffered by children and young people at the hands of religious orders while detained in residential institutions has exposed as never before the deep class hatred of working people and the rural poor that permeated the state, government and its agencies as well as the Catholic Church itself. This whole horrible feature of Irish society cannot be understood if its class nature is not recoginsed.
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday May 21, 2009 17:36 by Seomra Spraoi   image 1 image
Awesome vegan food, this & every Sunday at Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvedere Court, off Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1. Food Served 3 to 4pm Suggested donation for food €4 /more/less as you can afford. Along with weekly Bike Workshops from 2 to 4pm, and Seomra Spraoi Cinema from 7.30 to 10pm.

See http://www.seomraspraoi.org for map directions.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday May 21, 2009 16:01 by D_D
Saturday the 23rd of May at 12 noon outside the hospital. read full story / add a comment
Marching Against the Education Cuts
national / education / feature Thursday May 21, 2009 15:17 by Mark C   text 3 comments (last - friday may 22, 2009 16:16)   image 1 image

“I am totally depressed as I believe a huge amount of work has been totally undone … support structures to assist the most vulnerable have been undermined, which will mean that discipline and pastoral care structures will be affected”

•  Principal, boys' secondary school, Leinster

The Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI) has published a report into the effects that the cuts to education, announced in Budget 2008 (and reaffirmed with the April Budget of this year), will have. Most of these cuts will not become noticeable until the new school year, when it may be too late to have them reversed.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 21, 2009 14:39 by Monuky
A vigil in support of theTamil people and against the human rights atrocities occuring right NOW in Sri Lanka will be held at Daunt Square in Cork City this Friday from 5.30pm read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / press release Thursday May 21, 2009 14:36 by Lee Welch   text 1 comment (last - friday may 22, 2009 12:33)   image 2 images
FOUR Presents: Ghosts of Mars by Mark Hamilton

Curated by Leif Magne Tangen

Opening: Thursday 21 May 2009 6-9 pm
Exhibition continues from 22 May–18 July 2009 read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday May 21, 2009 12:04 by Tom
Public Meeting: End The Seige Of Gaza.
Eye Witness Report from Gaza by Caoimhe Butterly, Irish Human Rights Activist.
The Victoria Hotel, Patrick Street at 8.00pm, Monday 25th May 2009. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday May 21, 2009 11:49 by tom
David Rovics a show not to miss from talented and socially active songwriter. Many of his songs speak of political issues and the struggle for peace and stability in the Middle East. It's not enough to say that Rovics writes protest songs. His music also seeks to inspire us to stand up against injustice and oppression in our own lives.

"LISTEN TO DAVID ROVICS" PETE SEGER read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Thursday May 21, 2009 09:55 by DublinS2S   text 2 comments (last - tuesday june 02, 2009 19:13)
Dublin Shell to Sea will be picketing Mountjoy prison from 3pm, Saturday 23rd May in solidarity with imprisoned Erris campaigner Maura Harrington. Come along and join us at the prison. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday May 21, 2009 03:48 by Ciaron   text 5 comments (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 01:12)
For those who knew him and knew of him we are shocked and saddened by the killing of Larry in Guatamela. Larry served the poor in the streets of the U.S. and at the bloody edges of the empire.....El Salvador, Brazil, Guatamela. His nonviolent resistance was steadfast from the draft board raids of the Vietnam War to the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning and many places between. read full story / add a comment
Over The Edge in association with the American Conference for Irish Studies
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday May 21, 2009 01:02 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
Evening of Creative Non-fiction with American and Irish Writers at Galway City Library read full story / add a comment
June Gathering Poster
mayo / environment / news report Thursday May 21, 2009 00:35 by C & E & S   text 3 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 22:43)   image 4 images
The summer in Mayo is under way and it's set to be a busy one. Come and be part of the resistance. So long as the work continues we will continue to resist it. We need as much help as we can get from anyone willing to offer it, therefore we will do our best to keep people up to date on the ongoing events. Below is a report on the ongoing illegal works in Broadhaven Bay and on Glengad beach, the Annual Solidarity Camp June Bank holiday Gathering, May 29th to June 1st, the courts, Maura Harrington's jailing and the oral hearing.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 20, 2009 23:35 by A Freeman   text 20 comments (last - saturday june 13, 2009 11:06)
No prosecutions of clerical child abusers? read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday May 20, 2009 21:48 by Used to be Snow White
Choice Ireland will be holding a demo outside the rogue crisis pregnancy agancy (WRC) at 50 Upper Dorset Street this Saturday at 1pm. We are handing out information leaflets and carrying out a demonstration throughout the Summer, with the purpose of shutting down the rogue agency. If you would like to help with these demos, come along on Saturday May 23rd at 1pm, or e-mail choiceireland@gmail.com to get in contact with us.

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national / politics / elections / news report Wednesday May 20, 2009 20:33 by PBPA   text 35 comments (last - saturday may 23, 2009 15:19)
At a press conference today a group of left, environmental and independent councillors and activists called on the public to vote for candidates in the local elections who offer a genuine alternative to the failed policies of the establishment parties.

They are confident of winning a number of seats around the country and are committed to working together to lay the basis for a new political force to emerge. read full story / add a comment
"little white dresses"
national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 20, 2009 20:12 by ipsiphi   text 3 comments (last - tuesday may 26, 2009 15:44)   image 3 images
This story comes without a summary. It is indeed such a lengthy story that it could deserve the soundtrack of the popular movie "never ending story".

& So are you invited to read the main text or simply skip an opinion with what might pass for analysis and simply peruse at the Irish commission into inquire into Child Abuse Executive Summary of May 2009 the gist of which is being read more than U2 lyrics throughout the catholic speaking world.
http://www.irishtimes.com/focus/2009/childabusecommissi...x.pdf
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday May 20, 2009 18:38 by pat c   image 1 image
A Chester Beatty Library Lunchtime Lecture:Thursday 21 May 2009 at 1:10pm

Dr. Debra Diamond,Associate Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC. read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / press release Wednesday May 20, 2009 14:49 by Irish Socialist Network

The Conference of Religious in Ireland (CORI) has taken a welcome stand against the culture of greed that has created the current economic crisis. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 20, 2009 14:34 by Roger Yates   text 5 comments (last - wednesday june 17, 2009 14:33)
Gary Francione, US law professor, animal rights philosopher and founder of Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach explains why human and nonhuman rights are perfect together. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday May 20, 2009 08:09 by Madam K   text 28 comments (last - monday july 27, 2009 22:03)   image 7 images   video 1 video file
Two years after their arrests fourteen anti M3 activists finally had their cases heard .With charges ranging from public order, trespass, housing and miscellaneous, to assault ,Trim district court was booked exclusively to hear cases from May 11 through to 15 May .

By Wednesday May 13 all charges had been dismissed ,dismissed with merit in the assault case or withdrawn .

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