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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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international / environment / other press Thursday March 26, 2009 00:26 by Diet Simon   text 3 comments (last - friday march 27, 2009 08:38)
The French government-owned power monopoly EdF and the German power giant E.ON have warned the British government they may be forced to drop plans to build a new generation of nuclear power plants in that country unless the government scales back its targets for wind power. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday March 25, 2009 22:57 by Shell to Sea   image 3 images
"The way we work is as important as the goals we reach," says Norwegian state company StatoilHydro's president, Helge Lund. "We want to be recognised as a company that combines high performance with high integrity," he says.

Naoise Ó Mongain, Maura Harrington's husband, is handing in a letter to the Norwegian ambassador on Thursday 26th March at 1.00PM at the Norwegian Embassy on Molesworth Street (just across the road from the passport office).

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday March 25, 2009 17:54 by Eugene Mc Cartan   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 25, 2009 19:11)
The decision by the ICTU to go back into talks with the Government has the potential to place the trade union movement in a position where it will become tied to Government policies, in particular to the consequences of the forthcoming budget and all future budgets. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday March 25, 2009 17:52 by Per
In the early morning of March 22th three disarmers were arrested at Saab Aerospace Systems’ weapons factory in Linköping, Sweden. Martin Smedjeback, Annika Spalde and Pelle Strindlund were on their way todisarm Jas 39 Gripen fighter jets, planes intended for export to India, Thailand and South Africa. The peace activists, who are all part of the anti-militaristic network Ofog, entered Saab’s industry area in Linköping by cutting holes in the barbed wire fence surrounding the area. Once inside they held a silent minute, dedicated to the twenty children that die every minute because of poverty in a world that invests more money in weapons than in fighting poverty. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Wednesday March 25, 2009 15:06 by Andrew   text 16 comments (last - wednesday april 01, 2009 15:37)   image 2 images
That the very threat of a national strike was enough to force government and IBEC to change their position demonstrates the power the working class holds when we threaten to withdraw our labour. For all the media attempts to convince us we are powerless and that class struggle is a thing of the past when faced with the reality of the organised working class standing up both bosses and state were keen to avoid any confrontation that could illustrate and encourage our collective power. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday March 25, 2009 11:16 by pat c   text 14 comments (last - saturday march 28, 2009 21:28)
The Dublin City Post Primary branch of the Teachers Union of Ireland has called for the resignation of David Begg and has passed a motion of no confidence in the ICTU Executive Council. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / news report Wednesday March 25, 2009 10:14 by Walter Goren   text 57 comments (last - friday april 03, 2009 03:53)   image 10 images   video 1 video file
Last Saturday a man added his own original artwork to the walls of the National Gallery's portrait collection. He placed his 'Portait of Brian Cowen' on the wall next to a work depicting Maeve Binchy. It hung for forty minutes, before being removed. read full story / add a comment
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antrim / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday March 24, 2009 22:19 by Grupo Raíces   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 25, 2009 13:23)   image 1 image
Public talk, Saturday 28th of March, 14:00 o’clock, Hotel Premier Inn four corner, Donegall Pass, to let the public know of the current situation on Colombia, of the efforts and struggle of social organisations to defend their rights and of ways to support and show active solidarity with the Colombian people. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday March 24, 2009 18:20 by Michael Gallagher   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 26, 2009 06:47)   image 2 images
Former AIB internal auditor Eugene McErlean has said the Financial Regulator knew about overcharging by the bank in 2001, but had later given the false impression that it only became aware of it in 2004.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0324/aib.html
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday March 24, 2009 18:12 by Final Nail Party   text 8 comments (last - sunday april 25, 2010 17:56)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
Exclusive pictures and footage from the head office of Irish Nationwide Building Society this morning, where Chief Executive, Michael Fingleton, was deciding how to spend the 1,000,000 euro bonus paid to him AFTER the hastily agreed government bank guarantee scheme was put in place last year. read full story / add a comment
Marx Meeting
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday March 24, 2009 17:12 by james o'toole   image 1 image
UCD sociology lecturer and activist Kieran Allen will give an introduction on the ideas of Karl Marx followed by a discussion of the relevence of Marx's ideas and the world today.
Hosted by the City Centre Branch of the Socialist Workers Party read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday March 24, 2009 16:09 by Richard Walsh
Republican Sinn Féin will be holding a press conference in relation to the countless raids – particularly in the North Armagh area – and the recent and ongoing detentions without charge in Antrim RUC Barracks.
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Stop The Pylons!
donegal / environment / press release Tuesday March 24, 2009 16:08 by Alternatives to Pylons, Donegal   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 26, 2009 12:54)   image 1 image
An Bord Pleanála to hold Oral Hearing on controversial ESB Networks Planning Application
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international / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday March 24, 2009 15:22 by Sean Oglaigh na hEireann
Easter Mass & Commemoration- largest in USA
12th APRIL 2009
Kelly Ryan's Restaurant- Bronx, NY read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday March 24, 2009 14:52 by Bazooka Joe   text 2 comments (last - wednesday april 29, 2009 08:26)   image 1 image
Chinese Communist Police on patrol in Tibetan community following attacks on police and other Communist Government agents by Buddhist monks. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 24, 2009 14:50 by PADDY HACKETT   text 6 comments (last - wednesday march 25, 2009 21:47)
Bad leadership within IMPACT is the cause of the failure of that union . read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday March 24, 2009 14:24 by Michael Gallagher   text 8 comments (last - thursday march 26, 2009 16:53)
Jerusalem – Ma’an – A woman and journalist were among those beaten by Israeli troops during a press conference held by the parents of critically wounded American peace activist Tristan Anderson Monday afternoon.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday March 24, 2009 13:52 by Ciaron   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 06, 2009 01:12)
As we marked the 6th. anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, we remembered the 1 million Iraqi dead. 2 million exiled, 3 million internally displaced, the multitude of wounded, the 5,000 coalition troops killed and 30,000+ permanently wounded - used as cannon fodder in the plunder and pillage. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday March 24, 2009 13:50 by Student
Whether you are a radical student or just an ordinary student, we all need to unite for one big push on M30 in solidarity with the workers.

Meet at the garden of rememberance at 11.00am on M30 read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday March 24, 2009 11:03 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   image 1 image
Merrion Square South, Dublin read full story / add a comment
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