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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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John O'Dowd MLA Stands in Solidarity with Palestine
armagh / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday January 06, 2009 16:22 by Free Palestine   text 2 comments (last - saturday january 10, 2009 12:47)   image 2 images
On Monday 5th of January members of Sinn Féin youth took to Lurgan Town Centre to protest at the conflict currently raging in the middle east. Protesting in the town centre, Ógra Shinn Féin flew the Palestinian flag and carried posters calling for an end to Israeli military action in Gaza. They also distributed over 500 leaflets and engaged with the general public.
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday January 06, 2009 12:52 by swp   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 07, 2009 17:52)
Organised by the SWP- Speakers include Richard Boyd Barrett (Chair Irish Anti War Movement); Ali Selim (Muslim Academic) and a speaker from the Palestinian community read full story / add a comment
trying to be creepy
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday January 05, 2009 22:58 by scorchio   text 8 comments (last - sunday may 10, 2009 21:44)   image 1 image
Obama who we note is not upsetting the inter-regnum by being presidential change boy when it comes to Gaza, has today named his future head of the CIA. That chap will get articles in the commercial press tomorrow and be assured a really high tech version of google earth after january 20th. But this article being of a tongue in cheek variety wishes to bring readers attention to Obama's appointee to be the director of national intelligence, a post created by Bush for Negreponte after Iraq which in theory allows one bloke or name to oversee the 16 US secret services.

Only one name could do that. yep it's another Blair. read full story / add a comment
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down / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday January 05, 2009 20:36 by Free Palestine   image 1 image
Ógra Shinn Féin Newcastle will be hosting a torch light vigil in solidarity with the Palestinian People of Gaza currently enduring sustained brutality from Israel.

The vigil will take place at 8.30pm on Friday 9th January, on Main Street in the County Down town.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday January 05, 2009 19:43 by Tom Cooper   text 18 comments (last - sunday january 18, 2009 13:22)
The Irish State, by way of government indifference, is moving stealthily towards rejoining the British Commonwealth. This must be confronted and reversed before it is too late. We can and should be on friendly and neighbourly terms with Great Britain, but as equals, not as a lesser or subservient state. We are a sovereign Republic, not a British council. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Monday January 05, 2009 18:48 by Ireland Branch   text 10 comments (last - tuesday january 13, 2009 12:24)   video 1 video file
Ian O'Doherty tells the nation why Israel simply had to kill civilians, among his many reasons was the very sad tale of a Sderot woman who hadn't had a good nights sleep in two years - yep, a valid reason for good ole massacre. read full story / add a comment
Free Gaza!
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday January 05, 2009 18:00 by Kev   text 20 comments (last - friday march 11, 2011 19:12)   image 3 images
"Today marks 40 years since the slogan You Are Now Entering Free Derry first adorned 22 lecky road during the Battle of the Bogside, today 2009 the wall has again been transformed as an act of solidarity with the citizens of Gaza." read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday January 05, 2009 15:44 by Aragon   text 6 comments (last - tuesday january 06, 2009 22:28)
Given the education cuts to traveller centres in the recent budget which have left the community reeling, this anti-traveller propaganda suggests further cuts in support may be in the offing. read full story / add a comment
Workers Party members at the Cathal Goulding seminar
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday January 05, 2009 15:39 by Workers' Party   text 8 comments (last - wednesday january 07, 2009 21:16)   image 4 images
Around 150 members of the Workers' Party attended a seminar over the weekend of 3rd January to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of veteran socialist republican Cathal Goulding who died on 26th December 1998. read full story / add a comment
al-Manara Sq, Ramallah
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday January 05, 2009 15:18 by TD   text 20 comments (last - thursday january 08, 2009 20:52)   image 9 images   video 1 video file
Following widespread anecdotal reports and some media reports of the Palestinian Authority unleashing its security goons in the West Bank to suppress the spontaneous demonstrations in support of Gaza following the Israeli attack - I experienced a smidgeon of this in Hebron last Sunday week when a uniformed PA person attempted to stop my videoing - I decided to attend yesterday's demo in Ramallah organised by Fatah and the Peoples Committees to delve further.
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cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday January 05, 2009 14:44 by Paul McAndrew
Palestine Solidarity Protest at UCC, 1pm tomorrow, Tue, outside the Student Centre

There was already a protest today at UCC, and it was decided to repeat it tomorrow at the same time. read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / other press Monday January 05, 2009 14:05 by Phier
Irish site proposes direct democracy through a web forum read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday January 05, 2009 13:57 by Layla   text 1 comment (last - monday january 05, 2009 16:00)   1 attached file
It is easy to get bogged down in the details of the Gaza crisis and who said what. The underlying truth that anyone educated about the conflict knows is that the Palestinians are the true victims here and have been for decades. The Israelis know this better than anyone else. read full story / add a comment
Chris Andrews in a Gaza Hospital
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday January 05, 2009 13:41 by *   text 20 comments (last - thursday january 15, 2009 17:51)   image 1 image
Fianna Fail TD Chris Andrews in a letter to the Irish Times today, called for the Irish Government to expel the Israeli Ambassador from Ireland. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday January 05, 2009 13:10 by Ciaron   text 5 comments (last - friday january 09, 2009 17:46)
Sunday January 11th
- 7th. Anniversary of Guantanamo Torture Chamber
2pm-4pm
Vigil Outside U.S. Embassy, Dublin
42 Elgin Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
to
"Shut Down Guantanamo
End Torture, Renditions/Kidnapping"

More info on Dublin vigil Ph. 087 918 4552 read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues / other press Monday January 05, 2009 13:00 by redjade   text 2 comments (last - saturday march 28, 2009 15:41)   image 2 images
'However, the most chilling aspect of the film is that the footage appears to be shot from the upstairs room of a neighbour's home across the street.' read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday January 05, 2009 12:22 by Hugh Murphy
Lest we not forget, Trade Unionists of Jack O'Connor's ilk SACKED LARKIN from the Union he founded, for wanting what passive Trade Unionism has not achieved in 100 years.

Is it not time that rampant capitalism was curtailed? Is it not time that people with a social conscience were elected, both to run the country and to run trade unions? Is it not time that people who care about the welfare of other's are not branded by capitalists and their willing henchmen, the gutter press, as the loony left?

Is it not time that the people of Ireland stopped seeing wealth as Principle? Is it not time, the sick, the old, the infirm and the children of Ireland were cared for and treated equally? Only a Trade Union decicated to these values will achieve anything, other than being a Puppet of Boom and Bust. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday January 05, 2009 12:03 by Claudia
I sent this letter this morning to:

Minister Mícheál Martin
Department of Foreign Affairs
80 St Stephen's Green,
Dublin 2

Feel free to do the same. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday January 05, 2009 09:14 by Cracow’s Anarchist Federation
The next NATO defence ministers meeting in Krakow is on 19-20 February 2009. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Monday January 05, 2009 03:04 by Contaminated Crow   text 2 comments (last - monday january 05, 2009 12:46)
A slightly busier week -a quarry, a marina and a landfill read full story / add a comment
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