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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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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday December 07, 2008 17:52 by Sorcha Daly
Over 10,000 people joined our facebook since Mary Harney announced her decision to scrap the Cervical Cancer Vaccination for 12 year old girls. We are holding a Rally+Vigil in Dublin and Cork to get Mary Harney to re-instate this vital vaccine.
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national / education / feature Sunday December 07, 2008 11:51 by Andrew: (layout seedot)   text 44 comments (last - friday january 09, 2009 17:01)   image 16 images   video 3 video files   1 attached file
Somewhere over 50,000 people took part in the INTO organised march through Dublin this afternoon in protest at the education cuts, The was the culmination of a series of regional marches called by the INTO. read full story / add a comment
Eat lead, eat cake, bring back PD clone McCreevy - the FF Ryanair solution to the crisis
national / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday December 07, 2008 11:16 by Salvador Allende   text 8 comments (last - thursday december 11, 2008 10:10)   image 1 image   video 1 video file   1 attached file
THE Ryanair boss has made big mistakes, buying fuel at inflated prices, coming under pressure to cut in a company with the fat already peeled back to the bone.

What does he do to distract attention - he gets more and more hysterical and wants to finally destroy the former state asset, Aer Lingus by buying it up to sell it off. He wants to be the monopoly he said he was going into business to prevent.

O'Leary calls for "board members -- with a few notable exceptions -- to be 'taken out and shot' describing them as 'useless'." He is focusing in his Sunday Independent interview on trade unions and their representatives - this is the boss who says he can deal with trade unions - he will start by shooting them.

Now he want to sell off CIE and the ESB to himself and his rich pals at knock-down prices

We need a workers' solution - re-nationalise the lot and take over Ryanair - shoot O'Leary with publicly owned bullets if he resists. Sauce for the goose..... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Sunday December 07, 2008 00:04 by Evans   text 33 comments (last - thursday may 06, 2010 12:22)   image 17 images   video 8 video files   audio 1 audio file
Athens, Greece. Cops shot against one 15-16 year old boy, right on the heart, murdering him in cold blood. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Saturday December 06, 2008 22:53 by Darragh Aiken   text 1 comment (last - monday december 08, 2008 12:53)
Much has been said over the Lisbon Treaty and the future direction of Europe under the heel of the emerging “European Soviet” (Reference to the EU by M. Gorbachev, London 2001). Yet there is little in the way of real debate on the more informative topics of nationhood, sovereignty and “que bono” (who benefits). This article sets out to stimulate such questions. The text of an informative Lecture called “The State of Individuals” by one of Americas most worthy Political Historians is provided for discussion. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday December 06, 2008 22:33 by big_ron   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 14:55)   image 8 images
Short report and some pics of the 5 aside soccer tournament held on 29th Nov in aid of Shell to Sea. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday December 06, 2008 22:30 by FAS Scheme   text 22 comments (last - saturday july 25, 2009 16:02)
For years fas neglected the welfare of scheme workers throught-out Ireland.
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national / environment / news report Saturday December 06, 2008 21:16 by Contaminated Crow
Wind turbines, a gas pipeline, a poweline, amarina, a Garda raid and a prosecutions over waste read full story / add a comment
international / eu / news report Saturday December 06, 2008 20:42 by O. O'C.   text 3 comments (last - friday december 12, 2008 22:15)
Brian Crowley MEP: With all respect, Mr. President, you will not tell me what the Irish think. As an Irishman, I know it best.
President Vaclav Klaus: I do not speculate about what the Irish think. I state the only measurable data which were proved by the referendum...
... If Mr. Crowley speaks of an insult to the Irish people, then I must say that the biggest insult to the Irish people is not to accept the result of the Irish referendum. In Ireland I met somebody who represents a majority in his country. You, Mr. Crowley, represent a view which is in minority in Ireland. That is a tangible result of the referendum. read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / other press Saturday December 06, 2008 14:21 by RTÉ
Gardaí estimate that up to 60,000 people have joined the protest against education cutbacks in Dublin city centre. read full story / add a comment
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national / history and heritage / other press Saturday December 06, 2008 12:10 by Jim Gibney   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 00:48)   image 1 image
RTE is this country’s national broadcasting agency for both television and radio.

I doubt it very much if a columnist writing in a mainstream newspaper in Britain would feel the need to write, ‘The BBC is this country’s national broadcasting agency’. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday December 06, 2008 11:59 by S.C.   text 7 comments (last - sunday april 05, 2009 20:15)   video 1 video file
An overview of the recent raids on Irish "Head Shops", and the current controversy surrounding legal alternatives to street drugs. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday December 06, 2008 01:01 by V. Ritas   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 28, 2008 21:26)   video 1 video file
Ben Mcintyre and Paul Orengoh reveal in the Times of London how President-elect Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was brutally tortured by the British during the Mau Mau freedom fighters uprising in support of Kenyan independence. read full story / add a comment
Christmas Party 08
dublin / environment / event notice Friday December 05, 2008 15:34 by Pepe   image 1 image
This event builds on the successful bicycle Christmas parties held over the last two years in POD. The evening will include lovely, tasty, healthy food and films, DJs and prizes for the most festively dressed bicycles and cyclists on the night. The party is a great opportunity to relax, eat, drink, chat and dance with fellow campaigners and others working in the area of sustainability.

Two episodes of Cultivate’s ‘Powerdown Show’ will kick off the night. This is a series of 10 twenty-minute programmes that aim to inform us on the context and responses to climate and energy uncertainty. 19.30 - The Challenges Ahead
19.50 - Getting Around (featuring members of the Dublin Cycling Campaign)
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national / eu / event notice Friday December 05, 2008 13:51 by MichaelY   text 1 comment (last - friday december 05, 2008 17:32)
Buswells Hotel - Wednesday Dec.10th 11.00 read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday December 05, 2008 13:02 by éirígí PRO   text 3 comments (last - friday december 12, 2008 03:58)
éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has called on the management of retail stores Aldi and Lidl to reverse their current policy of non-recognition of trade unions within their workplaces.

The companies are currently expanding in Ireland and have publicly stated their anti-union policies. read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Friday December 05, 2008 12:46 by seomra spraoi
Ladies & genderfuckers, deviant boi’s & grrrl’s, queers, queens, trannies, grannies genderqueers, dykes, fags, faeries, femme’s, crossdressers, crips, crutch’s, butterflies, Butch’s, bears, sissies, pansies, dandies, tom boi’s, poly chufters … insert yourself here: ______________ (you know who you are!) & our friends… are cordially invited to the first organising meeting of queer spraoi:

Regular queer events in seomra spraoi* opening space to explore queer issues, politics & identities, meet new people have some fun. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / press release Friday December 05, 2008 12:14 by Michael O'Callaghan   text 1 comment (last - friday december 05, 2008 14:31)   video 3 video files
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) stands accused of breaching EU law by recommending approval of GM crops, animal feed and food - based on risk assessments provided by the applicant companies. This week, Michael O'Callaghan of GM-free Ireland interviewed the agency's former boss, who speaks frankly about how EFSA can be reformed.

Watch the video interview: www.gmfreeireland.org/efsa/

Interview transcript: www.gmfreeireland.org/efsa/GMFI-PatrickWall-interview.pdf read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / press release Friday December 05, 2008 12:06 by Maureen Gallagher
Launch of poetry collection by poet Maureen Gallagher. read full story / add a comment
Lenin (or is it Sparks?)
national / anti-capitalism / press release Friday December 05, 2008 12:06 by Lenin12343   image 1 image
After analysing reports and leaks from the '21st Century Labour'
review of party structures headed up by Greg Sparks, the 'Labour
Leninists Faction' within the Party has strongly endorsed the
recommendations as a welcome return to sound organisational
principles.
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