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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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offsite link In Defence of Cancelling the Left Fri Sep 26, 2025 17:00 | Dr James Allan
Should the Right take the moral high ground and refrain from cancel culture? Or should it give the Left a taste of its own medicine ? and try to teach it a lesson? It has to be the latter, argues Professor James Allan.
The post In Defence of Cancelling the Left appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Watch: Police Arrest Autistic Man in Middle of the Night for Posting ?F*** Hamas, F*** Islam? on Soc... Fri Sep 26, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Police officers have come under fire after they arrested an autistic man late last night over an X post which read: "F***?Hamas, F***?Palestine, F*** Islam. Want to protest? F*** off to a Muslim country and protest."
The post Watch: Police Arrest Autistic Man in Middle of the Night for Posting “F*** Hamas, F*** Islam” on Social Media appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link It?s Time to Admit That Christians Are Being Persecuted in Two-Tier Britain Fri Sep 26, 2025 13:40 | Belinda Brown
It's time to admit that Christians are being persecuted in two-tier Britain, says Belinda Brown. The flimsiest claims of 'offence' from normal expressions of Christian faith are getting people sacked and arrested.
The post It’s Time to Admit That Christians Are Being Persecuted in Two-Tier Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Greta Thunberg Gaza Flotilla in Chaos After Queer Activist Comes Out, Prompting Organiser to Resign Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:24 | Will Jones
Greta Thunberg's Gaza flotilla has been thrown into chaos after one of its activists came out as queer, prompting the organiser to resign. Homosexuality, of course, is criminalised in Gaza.
The post Greta Thunberg Gaza Flotilla in Chaos After Queer Activist Comes Out, Prompting Organiser to Resign appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The End is Nigh for Net Zero ? These Polls Prove It Fri Sep 26, 2025 09:00 | Ben Pile
The end is nigh for Net Zero, says Ben Pile ? and these polls prove it. The public's appetite for ever-rising energy bills is fast being depleted. But it's not all good news for sceptics.
The post The End is Nigh for Net Zero ? These Polls Prove It appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

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'Bringing The Blood Back Home'
national / arts and media / feature Thursday February 19, 2009 16:57 by arrimletinrip   text 10 comments (last - saturday july 04, 2009 11:06)   image 3 images   video 3 video files
Amidst the collapse of the Irish economy, the inhabitants of a rural hinterland begin to feel the touch of the dead hand of the housing market.

Set in the notorious ghost estates of post 'celtic tiger' Ireland, Wallets Full of Blood features Dennis Hopper as the voice of Brian (Brains) Ahern.

'Brains' is a developer and a 'big man' in politics. He's also the overseer of a particularly gory property price collapse on 'Fiddler's Green'. He reckons he can clean up as a result of the creeping zombification all around him but his plans take on a zero-sum logic of their own.
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday February 19, 2009 16:46 by KJH
James Kelman visits Dun Laoghaire read full story / add a comment
international / education / other press Thursday February 19, 2009 14:54 by pat c
Its not just in Ireland that teachers have to strike for their basic rights. But in Iran its a lot more dangerous: unions are banned and strikes are illegal. Strikers are often flogged.

Support the Iranian Teachers! Full text at link.

According to reports from teachers in various towns and cities in Iran most teachers are solidly behind the broad-based strike on 21-23 February. The lack of access to the press and the media in general for publicising the strike has meant that news about the country-wide strike has been passed on using SMS, email, personal weblogs and telephone conversations.
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday February 19, 2009 14:47 by Final Nail Party   text 4 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 22:49)   image 6 images   video 2 video files
In a desperate bid to raise more money for the starving Irish bankers, activists from the Final Nail Party took to the streets this morning to collect money from people on their way to work.

On top of cuts in wages and conditions of employment, a reduction in services such as public transport and education, and various spurious "levies" and increased taxation; this morning's collection was an opportunity for ordinary workers to contribute directly to help the bankers, some of whom will earn less than two million euro this year. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / event notice Thursday February 19, 2009 14:41 by Rebecca Galbraith
International Solidarity for Women's Liberation,

London 6 March

7:00 to 9:00 pm

Location: Room 3A University of London Union (ULU) Malet Street London WC1 7HY Nearest Tube station( Russel Square)

Description: A public meeting to celebrate International Women's Day read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday February 19, 2009 12:09 by Jay   text 2 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 23:20)
Do you think strikes by drivers are an appropriate response to proposed cutbacks at Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus? read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday February 19, 2009 09:13 by Teachers United   text 3 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 12:48)   image 1 image
As FF/Green protect the 'Golden Circle'- workers are being asked to take the 'pain' for the reckless profiteering and greed of developers and bankers... read full story / add a comment
Launch of 'Away With Words'
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday February 19, 2009 08:42 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
national / crime and justice / news report Thursday February 19, 2009 00:35 by Nostradamus   text 21 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 17:14)   video 1 video file
Father and son, Patrick and Jonathan O'Donnell, Porturlin Shore, Ballina; and Enda Carey, also of Porturlin, appeared before Castlebar Circuit Court to appeal a three-month prison sentence imposed at Belmullet District Court.
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national / environment / news report Wednesday February 18, 2009 23:44 by Contaminated Crow
Two landfills, two incinerators, a sewage plant, two telemasts, a windfarm, a metal recycling plant, an industrial site, Tara and a county council depot read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday February 18, 2009 21:18 by Helen T   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 19, 2009 09:59)
There was standing room only in UCC last night as Dr David Prentice and Wesley Smith addressed a seminar on embryonic stem cell research. Although UCC academics who had supported the proposal to introduce embryonic stem cell research were asked to debate, they didn't seem up to the challenge.

More than 300 people heard from Dr David Prentice, an internationally recognized expert in stem cell research who tracks the success of adult stem cell treatments across the world. Last year the prestigious magazine Science published his work in this area. He was joined by Wesley Smith, a renowned ethicist who is a lively and much-sought after debater and commentator on many life issues. Last night, Mr Smith received sustained applause when he told a packed theatre in UCC that embarking on embryonic stem cell research would degrade the university. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday February 18, 2009 19:11 by Joe Moore
The Cork SWP will hold a day school entitled, "Socialism and the World Today" on Saturday 7th March 2009 in the Victoria Hotel, Patrick St between 2pm and 5pm. It will consist of two sessions, " Capitalism isn't working....What's the Answer" introduced by Kieran Allen and "Imperialism, Islam and Resistance" introduced by Marnie Holborrow. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday February 18, 2009 17:55 by Sarah
March 4th The O' Flaherty Theatre NUIG Galway 8pm. Tickets 6/8 Euros available from Amnesty International Fair-trade shop 2-3 Middle St., Galway 091 533637 or on the door.
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national / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday February 18, 2009 17:42 by Sarah
JUST DESSERTS’ Annual dessert making competition with public tasting to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight.
Hosted by Galway City Fairtrade Committee, Amnesty International and Oxfam Ireland. This lovely event will take place in the Galway City Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway City at 4pm on Thursday 5 March 2009. read full story / add a comment
Why raise your child a killer?
dublin / animal rights / press release Wednesday February 18, 2009 16:29 by Bernie Wright   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 04, 2009 23:21)   image 1 image
Another Ward Union Hunt fundraiser is on Thursday the 19th February at the Coolquay Lodge in the Ward at MAYS CROSS. County Dublin .It is the WARD UNION JUNIOR HUNT BALL.

We will demo from 7-30 outside the pub which is facing on to the N2 (next turn after WARD CROSS and just past the White House).We say to the parents of these young people ‘WHY RAISEHIM A KILLER’. WHY WOULD YOU WANT YOUR CHILD TO BE AN ANIMAL ABUSER??????
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday February 18, 2009 14:34 by Kev
Sun 22nd Feb
Connolly Books, Essex St, Temple Bar
6pm (Talk)
7.30pm (Film Screening)

The IPSC is proud to host Prof. As’ad Abdul Rahman an Executive Member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). Prof. Rahman is also Minister for Palestinian Expatriates and Diaspora in the State of Palestine and Chairman of the Palestine International Institute (http://www.paldiaspora.org/).

Prof. Rahman's talk will begin at 6pm at he will speak about the latest political developments in Palestine in the aftermath of the onslaught on Gaza and the recent Israeli elections.

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dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday February 18, 2009 14:10 by Loki
“Europe in Popular Literature” Symposium
National Association of English Studies

Saturday 28th February, A019, Dun Laoghaire IADT

9.30am Registration opens.

This is a free event and is open to all. Contact aoife.leahy@ireland.com for more information. read full story / add a comment
Fundraiser
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday February 18, 2009 14:09 by Kate Hartley   image 1 image
St Patricks Day Harbour to Harbour Walk.

Tuesday 17th March at 10.30am. From Dun Laoghaire Harbour to Howth Harbour OR Howth Harbour to Dun Laoghaire Harbour.

Registration €10.00 on www.aware.ie or 01 661 7211 read full story / add a comment
Protest in Canada, Nov. 5th.
international / education / feature Wednesday February 18, 2009 13:06 by Mark C   text 3 comments (last - sunday may 03, 2009 08:20)   image 1 image
The loose network of struggling groups from around the world calling itself the International Students Movement has called for a Global Week of Action this coming April (20/04 - 29/04). read full story / add a comment
Poster for Public Meeting
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday February 18, 2009 12:21 by Alan M.   image 1 image
Venue: Bowen Room, Metropole Hotel, MacCurtain Street, Cork.
Date: Thursday, 26th February
Time: 8pm read full story / add a comment
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