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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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international / arts and media / other press Saturday January 24, 2009 18:05 by Miriam   text 1 comment (last - sunday january 25, 2009 15:14)
Many people posting here are aware of the more subtle form of trolling that goes on at times. The Mr or Ms Reasonables who claim to be neutral on a given issue but who are clearly anything but. Israel has an army of such people it calls on to promote its actions. It has been working at fever pitch during the war on Gaza. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday January 24, 2009 17:37 by Breather   text 4 comments (last - monday january 26, 2009 17:51)   image 5 images
A group of anti-zionist activists distributed leaflets and picketed the Liffey Street Marks and Spencer store in central Dublin today. Marks and Spencer's is unusual in that as well as selling Israeli goods, the company has a corporate relationship with the Israeli state.

The response from the majority of people was very positive, with a great many people refusing to pass the picket. After a while the management of M&S called the gardaí, but since there is no crime in leafleting, they left the protesters in peace. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Saturday January 24, 2009 16:29 by SOB
New series of films at the New Theatre (43 East Essex Street) read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Saturday January 24, 2009 15:55 by SOB
New series of films at the New Theatre (43 East Essex Street) read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Saturday January 24, 2009 15:45 by SOB
New series of films at the New Theatre (43 East Essex Street) read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Saturday January 24, 2009 15:40 by SOB   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 05, 2009 11:10)
To mark International Women’s Day we will be showing a number of films by and about women, beginning at 11 a.m. and continuing all day. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Saturday January 24, 2009 15:32 by SOB
New series of films at the New Theatre (43 East Essex Street) read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Saturday January 24, 2009 15:14 by SOB
New series of films at the New Theatre (43 East Essex Street). read full story / add a comment
Bob Doyle in Madrid last year
international / miscellaneous / feature Friday January 23, 2009 23:37 by anarchaeologist   text 35 comments (last - wednesday april 01, 2009 22:48)   image 7 images   video 4 video files
The death has occurred of Bob Doyle, the last surviving Irish soldier of the XV International Brigade of the Spanish Republican Army.
The death has occurred in London of Bob Doyle, the last surviving Irish soldier of the XV International Brigade. Bob, whose health had been failing for some time had survived a recent double heart attack, before passing peacefully last night surrounded by his family. He was a few weeks short of his 93rd birthday.

Bob's career as an political activist has been recorded in his book Brigadista, which recounted his early life in Dublin as a Republican volunteer and later as a member of the Republican Congress, prior to his abortive first attempt to fight against Franco in July 1937, which saw him stow away on a ship to Valencia.

On his return to London (which he was to make his home for the remainder of his life) Bob contacted the CP and arrived in Spain by the more usual route, walking over the Pyrenees in a group o read full story / add a comment
Fighting for the Right - in Ireland and internationally - no 'narrow nationalism' here
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday January 23, 2009 22:18 by Harry Wells   text 19 comments (last - wednesday february 18, 2009 16:36)   image 7 images   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
The recent attacks on Gaza by the Israeli state have brought strange bedfellows out of the Irish woodwork. Almost to a man, and woman, those who were vitriolic in opposition to the Irish Peace Process have been four-square behind the slaughter in Gaza.

Eoghan Harris, Kevin Myers, Tom Carew, Ruth Dudley Edwards, please take a bow.

A short report on the role they played in support of the IDF – Israeli Defence Forces – is in order. Here is what they said and how it relates to their Irish politics. read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday January 23, 2009 21:46 by TD   text 2 comments (last - monday february 02, 2009 20:09)   image 1 image
Same as last Saturday (see link) another flying picket is planned for today starting at 12AM, assembling outside Woodies DIY - along with Atlantic Homecare, both Grafton Group PLC owned, this chain stocks and sells Israeli Keter plastic products. in order we'll be picketing Woodies, Tesco, Lidl, Argos, Marks & Spencer's, Debenhams, Dunnes Stores (Eyre Square branch) and finishing outside McDonalds in Shop Street. Each picket will be of short duration; around 15 minutes. read full story / add a comment
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kerry / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday January 23, 2009 21:40 by Marie & Sean   image 1 image
"Welcome to Hebron" is a documentary about Leila Sarsour and her daily life under Israeli occupation.

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Sit Down Protest
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday January 23, 2009 21:10 by éirígí PRO   text 7 comments (last - sunday january 25, 2009 09:32)   image 4 images   audio 1 audio file
Judgement was finally reached today in the case of three éirígí activists who had been charged in connection with an anti-war protest at Stormont in May 2007. read full story / add a comment
carlow / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 23, 2009 20:32 by Saoirse
Republican Sinn Féin have established a Cumann in Carlow Town as the organisation in Leinster continues to grow. Named the Myles Shevlin/Tony Ruane Cumann its aim is to gon on a recriting and development drive over the coming weeks.
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When their not twiddling their thumbs, what else is there to do
mayo / environment / feature Friday January 23, 2009 18:55 by S2S   text 11 comments (last - wednesday february 04, 2009 14:18)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Yesterday (January 22nd), Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin stated that it is "extraordinary" that gas from the Corrib field has not yet been brought onshore. Shell to Sea feels that what is really "extraordinary" is that the Government is still trying to force this experimental project through given the local community concerns regarding their health, safety and local environment. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday January 23, 2009 14:25 by Marie O'Connor   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 24, 2009 13:08)
Privatisation is at the heart of the Government's so-called 'reform programme' in health. Now cloaked by the current economic crisis, the present 'slash and burn' approach to public health services, has been in preparation since the mid-90s. 'Transformation' is a code for marketisation. read full story / add a comment
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international / politics / elections / other press Friday January 23, 2009 09:52 by redjade   text 11 comments (last - sunday february 01, 2009 02:14)   image 6 images   video 4 video files
Change We Can Believe In.
(or not) read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday January 23, 2009 00:56 by reject   text 1 comment (last - friday january 23, 2009 12:39)
22-01-2009 16:37 IMC UK Server seized (again)! This time Kent Police have a warrant and are removing an Indy server from a Manchester colo. This is believed to be related to posts on the SHAC trial. IMCs UK, London and docs sites affected.
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national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday January 22, 2009 23:47 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 27, 2009 08:02)   image 1 image
Obama picks George Mitchell as Mideast envoy 'to make Gaza truce last' read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday January 22, 2009 22:24 by Democratic Programme   text 9 comments (last - monday january 26, 2009 05:00)   video 4 video files
Sinn Féin Gerry Adams delivers a keynote address at the Mansion House Dublin, 90 years to the day when Sinn Féin TD's established the First Dáil Éireann in open defiance of British tyranny and laid out a progressive egalitarian document, the democratic programme, which stands as a cornerstone of republican beliefs. read full story / add a comment
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