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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 Kneecap Terror Case Thrown Out After Legal Blunder Sat Sep 27, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
The terrorism charge against a?Kneecap rapper over his 'support for Hezbollah'?has been dropped after police and prosecutors failed to get the consent of the Attorney General in time.
The post Kneecap Terror Case Thrown Out After Legal Blunder appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour Has Turned Britain?s Constables into Commissars Sat Sep 27, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
As yet another scandalous arrest over a tweet shows how Labour has turned Britain's constables into commissars, the public are right to draw a link between this clampdown on speech and 'two-tier Keir', says Laurie Wastell.
The post Labour Has Turned Britain’s Constables into Commissars appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Major Poll Finds Nigel Farage on Track for No 10 With 311 MPs Sat Sep 27, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
A major poll has put Nigel Farage on track to be Britain's next Prime Minister with 311 MPs as Labour is set to lose more than 250 seats and the Tories are pushed into fourth.
The post Major Poll Finds Nigel Farage on Track for No 10 With 311 MPs appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Why the Right Must Take the High Ground When it Comes to Free Speech Sat Sep 27, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
Tempting though it is, Donald Trump and his allies should refrain from trying to cancel their political opponents. Free speech is one of the core values that the defenders of Western civilisation should uphold.
The post Why the Right Must Take the High Ground When it Comes to Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Can the Radical Left Be Trusted With Free Speech? Sat Sep 27, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Can the radical Left ? increasingly wedded to violence to achieve its unpopular ideals ? actually be trusted with free speech, or will it just keep using it to call for and celebrate our deaths, asks Steven Tucker.
The post Can the Radical Left Be Trusted With Free Speech? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / environment / news report Saturday January 10, 2009 14:39 by robert
a call for solidarity action is coming from frankfurt/germany in support of the struggle against profit driven expansion of frankfurt airport read full story / add a comment
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clare / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday January 10, 2009 13:19 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 6 comments (last - thursday january 15, 2009 12:24)   image 2 images   video 2 video files
Nollaig na nBan, 6th January: in sub-zero conditions women (and some men) kept alive the tradition of the Shannon Airport Women’s Peace Camp. read full story / add a comment
kildare / politics / elections / press release Saturday January 10, 2009 00:32 by Des Dalton
Republican Sinn Fein Vice President Des Dalton is to contest the election to Athy Town Council in this years 26-County local elections. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Saturday January 10, 2009 00:22 by Des Dalton
Republican Sinn Fein suspend monthly picket in order to support Gaza protest. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday January 09, 2009 23:57 by Global Women's Strike Ireland   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 10, 2009 16:16)
A women's vigil and speak out called by the Global Women's Strike began Friday 9th January and will continue each day at the same time. All welcome. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday January 09, 2009 23:48 by Daniel Glesson   text 8 comments (last - sunday january 11, 2009 21:56)
Have the Labour party gone soft on Gaza? read full story / add a comment
US cop murder: 22 year old Oscar Grant in the back while he was lying face down on the ground on a subway platform
international / crime and justice / news report Friday January 09, 2009 21:51 by Tim   text 5 comments (last - monday february 23, 2009 18:28)   image 5 images   video 2 video files
US: OAKLAND : On January 1st, 22 year old Oscar Grant was executed by Officer Johannes Mehserle of the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police in plain view of a number of people while he was laying face down on the ground with his hands behind his back and reportedly handcuffed.

Cell phone videos show Mehserle pulling out a gun and shooting 22 year-old Oscar Grant in the back while he was lying face down on the ground on a subway platform. Grant worked as a butcher at an Oakland grocery store and was the father of a four-year-old daughter.

POLICE FATALLY SHOOT UNARMED MAN - Laying Face Down and Shot in The Back! CAUGHT ON VIDEO!
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHjhtYZpX0 read full story / add a comment
donegal / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday January 09, 2009 21:27 by Joe-Joe
A solidarity protest in support of the people of Gaza and the cause of Palestinian freedom and justice will be held in Donegal Town, Buncrana and Letterkenny tomorow. Starting at 2pm. All welcome. Bring flags and banners. Leaflets will be provided for distribution. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 09, 2009 21:01 by Carbon Town Cryer   text 3 comments (last - saturday january 10, 2009 21:58)   video 1 video file
Saturday January 3rd, Art Not Oil activists put on an impromptu
performance in the foyer of the National Theatre prior to the matinee
performance of Shell-sponsored 'Oedipus'. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / press release Friday January 09, 2009 17:45 by redjade   video 1 video file
Irish documentary about asylum seekers nominated for IFTA. [....]

'As far as documentaries go about asylum seekers and the immigration debate, no other is as human and evocative as Seaview' Sheffield Doc/Fest read full story / add a comment
national / housing / press release Friday January 09, 2009 17:34 by tasc   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 10, 2009 00:47)
Written by Dr. John Bissett, a key member of the St. Michael’s Estate Community Regeneration Team, ‘Regeneration: public good or private profit?’ puts the Public Private Partnership model – which collapsed so spectacularly in the summer of 2008 – under a critical microscope.

read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday January 09, 2009 17:19 by Maidhc Ó Cathail
Wall Street's successful lobbying of Congress led to the current financial debacle. But the bankers have no need to worry. The government have come to their rescue with taxpayers' money, raising serious questions about whose interests the politicians really serve. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday January 09, 2009 16:51 by A Meagher   text 3 comments (last - monday january 12, 2009 02:01)
I logged onto Reuters to see photo-reports that would inform me in-depth about the latest in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I was disappointed and wrote to the agency to complain, saying: Your war coverage (I viewed 56 ‘Crisis in Gaza’ photographs published on January 8th) is dishonest and factually incorrect in purporting to show that "both sides" are suffering greatly.

Instead of getting an insight, I got “balanced reporting”; 28 photographs focus on the Palestinian’s experience, while 27 feature the Israelis’. There are 8 photographs of Palestinians in mourning and 5 to 6 show Israelis in mourning. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday January 09, 2009 13:27 by Pete - 'observer'   text 33 comments (last - sunday january 11, 2009 13:01)
I have been at a few of the demos against the murders in Gaza, and rightly so... I deserve the right to go out on the streets and voice my opinion. There is one thing that bugs me though, the political parties are also out on the street and it doesn't seem they are there for the right reasons. Big banners bearing the names of political parties with no relevance to the situation. read full story / add a comment
Early morning at Raytheon Derry: End the Bombing of Gaza.
derry / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday January 09, 2009 11:37 by George Row   text 9 comments (last - sunday february 08, 2009 20:51)   image 8 images
A group of 70 -100 antiwar protesters staged a dawn blockade of Raytheon's Derry plant. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Friday January 09, 2009 10:49 by WS editors   text 1 comment (last - friday january 09, 2009 15:42)   audio 1 audio file
November saw WSM public meetings about anarchism in Cork and Dublin, with 40 people at one and about 60 at the other. With the crisis and a growing employers’ offensive on wages there is a greater openness to radical ideas, and we will be holding more meetings around the country over the next couple of months. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Friday January 09, 2009 10:41 by Chekov Feeney   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 14, 2009 00:21)
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett commented on the US financial crisis that “it’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked, and Wall Street now looks like a nudist beach.” Well when it comes to Ireland, the receding tide of the global economy has revealed that not only were our business and political elites swimming naked, they were engaged in a great big orgy as well. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday January 09, 2009 09:11 by Miriam   text 3 comments (last - saturday january 10, 2009 07:54)
Al Jazeera English have been reporting from the UN throughout the night about how the UN Resolution was adopted and how its terms are a capitulation to all of Israel's demands. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday January 09, 2009 02:54 by Fred Johnston   text 14 comments (last - wednesday january 14, 2009 13:33)
The laughingly-termed Israeli defence Forces have put up videos and propaganda news - and have turned off the 'Comments' provision to prevent anyone commenting on it read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday January 09, 2009 00:56 by Miriam   text 4 comments (last - friday january 09, 2009 15:43)
CNN anchors cite evidence from The Guardian, The Economist and others from back in November that Israel killed six Palestinians in Gaza - and accept that this action put the ceasefire 'in jeopardy' and was the reason why Hamas fired rockets into Israel. read full story / add a comment
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