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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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international / crime and justice / news report Friday December 05, 2008 11:55 by Vendeval   text 6 comments (last - monday december 15, 2008 16:35)   image 1 image
1987 saw the French state arrest four members of the former libertarian communist armed group Action Directe who were then charged & sentenced to life imprisonment for a career of terrorist assassinations mostly targetted against business individuals during the period of '79 to '87.

Last year Jean-Marc Rouillan was allowed "semi-liberty" probation status outside of prison. Then he gave an interview to the French "L'Express" newspaper exalting terrorism and armed struggle. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / other press Friday December 05, 2008 11:54 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - friday december 05, 2008 17:02)
from RTE.ie
Ognir is offering via bittorrent... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday December 04, 2008 21:39 by Michael Murphy   text 46 comments (last - tuesday december 16, 2008 14:37)
Proposals by the Socialist Party for a Local Election Socialist Alliance have been rejected by the Socialist Workers Party, People Before Profit Alliance and the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday December 04, 2008 20:41 by Red Banner
Issue 34 of Red Banner is available now: €2 / £1.50 from bookshops, sellers, or the above address. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday December 04, 2008 18:52 by SeamusO'Rourke   text 11 comments (last - thursday february 11, 2010 12:26)
WE cannot Afford Incineration In Dublin or Ireland read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday December 04, 2008 18:27 by John Lannon   text 5 comments (last - wednesday december 10, 2008 13:39)
The Congolese community in Limerick and their Irish Friends will hold a demonstration march on Thursday 11th December to highlight the ongoing war, violence against women, and involvement of children in armies/militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday December 04, 2008 17:09 by Skeff
Humanist Association of Ireland Meeting
7 December
4pm - 6pm
Buswell's Hotel,
Molesworth Street
Dublin 2 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday December 04, 2008 15:52 by Maidhc Ó Cathail   text 16 comments (last - sunday december 28, 2008 18:55)
Despite rightwing media attempts to portray Barack Obama as a covert Muslim during the U.S. Presidential election campaign, his appointment of pro-Israel hard-liner Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff indicates that there will be no change in American policy toward Israel/Palestine. read full story / add a comment
national / education / news report Thursday December 04, 2008 14:54 by .
Protestors have locked themselves into the TDs constituency offices in Dublin and Galway to protest against government cutbacks in education read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / news report Thursday December 04, 2008 13:50 by Jay   text 23 comments (last - wednesday december 09, 2009 14:44)   image 5 images
Over 20 students from UCD have occupied the office of Paul Gogarty Green Party TD for Dublin Mid-West and Spokesperson on Education in Lucan Village. This is in protest at the increase in college registration fees to €1500 per year and the possible full re-introduction of fees.

The occupation is organised by the campaigning group, Free Education for Everyone (FEE), and is part of a national day of protest across the country against fees organised by FEE. Protests are also planned in Cork and Galway today. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday December 04, 2008 02:52 by John Fitzgerald   text 5 comments (last - wednesday january 07, 2009 19:30)   image 1 image

My book Bad Hare Days is generating a lot of controversy, not unexpected given the long running debate on the ethics of live hare coursing in Ireland. I can accept criticism, but not the bullying and the blind unreasoning hatred that my legitimate opposition to this so called sport has elicited from some coursing fans read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Wednesday December 03, 2008 21:55 by .   text 2 comments (last - monday december 08, 2008 00:03)
Speakers and Discussion
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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 03, 2008 20:24 by Nixie Boran   text 6 comments (last - saturday december 13, 2008 18:29)   1 attached file
Why did Eamonn Gilmore’s New Labour pre-Christmas jolly in Kilkenny (Nov 29 – 30) blow up in his face?

Who is the shadowy eminence grise behind Gilmore's Twenty First Century Commission?

Why were the party faithful reduced to discussing leaked extracts from the Twenty First Century Commission report in Kilkenny?
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national / education / news report Wednesday December 03, 2008 17:37 by Mark C   text 4 comments (last - monday december 08, 2008 20:00)
The recently launched "Doodle 4 Google" campaign is a slick method of promoting Google to school children, without their consent, and usually without the consent of their parents. It is a scheme that is heavy on Google brand recognition, but very low on curricular relevance; this is something that CCFE has come to expect from commercial schemes that are promoted in schools. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday December 03, 2008 16:38 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 19:50)
Here is an extract from an interview with Maryam Namazie who argues that Political Islam makes abolishing the Death Penalty more difficult. Full text at link.

IPS: Your organisation campaigns for the separation of religion and state. In Muslim countries, is it religion, more than anything else that prevents the abolition of the death penalty?

Maryam Namazie: The death penalty exists in quite a large number of countries and is a form of social control still exercised by states, not all of them ruled by Islamic laws (I wouldn't call them Muslim countries any more than I would call Britain and France Christian ones). The U.S. and China are good examples of this. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / other press Wednesday December 03, 2008 15:25 by mary and john
Veteran rights campaigner Peter Tatchell makes an impassioned plea in today’s London Independent for the rights of the thousands of animals languishing under the voyeuristic gaze of the gawping squawking horde that visits London Zoo each day. Cutting through all the prison/ Zoo’s PR spin , Peter points out that its primary concern lies in satisfying the prurience of these cash-cow visitors , and not in animal conservation .

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday December 03, 2008 15:19 by Laura Dowling
To mark the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, Front Line would like to invite you to attend “Defending Life with Life”, an exhibition of photographs illustrating the lives of human right defenders on the frontline.

These stunning photographs were taken by photographer Mark Condren to illustrate a series of five special features in The Sunday Tribune documenting the lives of human rights defenders at risk in Honduras, Western Sahara, North East India, Serbia and Kenya.

The exhibition will run from December the 8th until December 23rd, 9am-5pm, in European Union House, 18 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday December 03, 2008 14:39 by swp
With Speakers from the Congo, the Niger Delta and Zimbabwe.
Central Hotel, Exchequer St. @8pm read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday December 03, 2008 14:19 by LMHR
Madison Bar, Rathmines Doors 7.30pm read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday December 03, 2008 14:15 by NS   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 03, 2008 14:24)
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