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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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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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international / environment / news report Monday November 03, 2008 14:30 by F   text 5 comments (last - wednesday november 05, 2008 20:47)
Something is wrong. We grow enough food to feed the planet, yet people starve everyday. Now, as companies look to crops as a fuel source to further feed our energy demands, and food prices continue to rise, Agriculture is very much back on the agenda. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / event notice Monday November 03, 2008 14:08 by Roger Cole   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 18, 2008 00:35)
The Peace & Neutrality Alliance Annual Conference will be held
on Saturday 29th of November at the Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 read full story / add a comment
"Chronicles of Islamic Political Thought"
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday November 03, 2008 12:59 by Omar Abdul Shakoor   text 1 comment (last - friday november 07, 2008 11:04)   image 1 image
"Chronicles of Islamic Political Thought" one day course on saturday 8th November 2008 at 9am in Robert Emmet theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College. read full story / add a comment
Islamic Revivalism in the 20th Century
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Monday November 03, 2008 12:50 by Omar Abdul Shakoor   image 1 image
Lecture on Islamic Revivalism in the 20th Century this friday 6pm in Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday November 03, 2008 12:12 by Martin O'Sullivan
PROTEST Against EDUCATION CUTS
THURS 6TH NOV
@ 7:30PM
SEAN HAUGHEY’S
CLINIC
(BESIDE THE GOBLET)
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday November 03, 2008 12:10 by Rage mildly against the machine
Choice Ireland invites you to join them leafletting against the WRC Door to Door in North Inner City.
The WRC is a rogue pregnancy counselling agency operating in North Dublin. Choice Ireland continues their campaign to shut down this agency by leafletting door to door in the local area on Saturday the 8th of November.

Meet us outside the WRC at Number 50 Upper Dorset Street at 12.00pm.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday November 03, 2008 10:24 by Jim   text 12 comments (last - tuesday november 11, 2008 20:53)   image 1 image   video 2 video files
In a speech in July, Barack Obama stated that he wants to "re-deploy" American troops in Iraq "carefully" with their safety in mind and "responsibly" leaving behind a "sovereign" Iraqi government that can "take responsibility for its own future."

In doublespeak that means Barack Obama is as committed as George W. Bush was to the imperialist American project in the Middle East - toppling anti-American elites and replacing them with pro-American elites to administer the American agenda.

Obama is a wolf in sheeps clothing.
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international / crime and justice / news report Sunday November 02, 2008 20:42 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 11 comments (last - wednesday july 21, 2010 12:04)
I was born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The city evolved out of the brutal British penal colony of Moreton Bay. It was built on aboriginal genocide and Irish and other convict slavery. The original tribe that occupied the area had been totally liquidated before I got there!

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At Divis
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday November 02, 2008 20:06 by éirígí PRO   text 42 comments (last - tuesday november 11, 2008 08:44)   image 4 images
Upwards of 400 republicans marched in defiance of the British Parades Commission and the British Government. read full story / add a comment
Limerick Regeneration: Everything is "Excellent" - Mural at the gable end of Weston Gardens
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday November 02, 2008 19:01 by Cathal McCarthy   image 1 image
At last our long wait is over and a new era for Limerick city has begun, at last the Master Plan. read full story / add a comment
The ongoing degeneration of Moyross must stop!
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday November 02, 2008 18:45 by Tommy Daly   image 1 image
The Moyross Residents’ Alliance is representative of both homeowners and tenants living in Moyross and was formed to ensure that all residents have their rights upheld during the regeneration process. The local regeneration committees seem to be failing in this regard and are not representing our views. So far over 140 households are affiliated, with more joining everyday. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday November 02, 2008 17:48 by Laura Broxson
END IRELAND'S FUR TRADE!!! read full story / add a comment
Gerry kelly MLA addresses Rally @ Dunville Park
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday November 02, 2008 16:32 by Youth 4 Truth   text 16 comments (last - wednesday november 12, 2008 17:18)   image 13 images   video 1 video file
Thousands of people turned out to the Sinn Fein rally/march today (Sun 2 Nov) which opposed the 'home coming' parade by the notorious RIR regiment of the British Army.

There was a large Ógra Shinn Féin presence on the day, with young republicans travelling from across Ireland.

The rally/march was calling for an end to the ongoing illegal occupations in Ireland, Iraq, and Afghanistan and also to demand the truth for the hundreds of families who have been bereaved through the official British state policy of collusion and state murder. The UDR/RIR themselves where part and parcel of the murder machine.
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Breaking the Barcodes
national / education / feature Sunday November 02, 2008 12:16 by Mark C   text 5 comments (last - saturday march 15, 2014 16:26)   image 1 image

Nov. 5th sees the world's first attempted co-ordinated action against commercialisation in education (including against fees for education). So far, activists in 22 countries have signed up to have mass co-ordinated events. This essay seeks to look at some of the issues involved in commercialism in education.

Since we have not reached the level of commercialism in our schools that pervade an education system such as the American one, perhaps now is the time to begin the fight against the commercialism that is present, before it becomes too much to be countered.

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international / environment / other press Saturday November 01, 2008 22:12 by Diet Simon
Anti-nuclear activists in Germany are gearing up for another transport of highly active nuclear waste to run through France and Germany from 7 to 9 November for dumping at the north German village of Gorleben. About 20,000 police will be deployed to guard the consignment against thousands of demonstrators. At http://www.castor.de/ticker/index_en.html is a newswire run by the protest movement. It already has some run-up stories on it.
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Saturday November 01, 2008 20:52 by Sarah Lundberg
Chapters and Verse Poetry Reading
at 1.15 on Wednesday 5th November
Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1
Featuring

David Murphy

Fulltime writer David Murphy is well known for his award winning science fiction writing and for his role as a founder-editor of Albedo 1. Before becoming a full time writer David worked in a variety of jobs- including postal sorter, library assistant, worker at a Pfizer chemical plant, a traffic controller, bar man and teacher. His two publications include Akron Chronicles, Lost Notes and Longevity City, David was born in Cork and now lives in Lusk in North Dublin.

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Studs
leitrim / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday November 01, 2008 15:36 by Sandra F.   text 1 comment (last - sunday november 02, 2008 08:39)   image 1 image
"Unabashed leftist", Studs Terkel who was blacklisted during the McCarthy has died. Born in 1912 to Russian Jewish parents, he got the nickname Studs as a young man from the character Studs Lonigan, the protagonist of James T Farrell's trilogy of novels about an Irish-American youth from Chicago's south side ... Born in New York, Terkel became synonymous with Chicago, the city where he moved at age 10 and rarely left. His parents ran a boarding house and a men's hotel during the Great Depression, giving the young Terkel a steady diet of the struggles of ordinary people whose stories became his life's work" http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/1101/...3.htm read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / news report Saturday November 01, 2008 15:00 by Sean Crudden
The program at The National Concert Hall last night gave the audience an unusual experience of a great range of sounds - some of them up to ear-drum-shattering volumes. This music presented was in various styles - some of which were contrasting and some of which were complimentary. On the whole, the concert was exciting and more interesting than I thought it would be a few weeks ago when I booked two tickets on the internet. read full story / add a comment
Alex Gibney, director of the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature; Taxi to the Dark Side outside Galway Town Hall during last Summer's Film Fleadh with Peoples Inspection Team and GAAW activist, Laurent.
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday November 01, 2008 14:50 by TD   text 6 comments (last - monday november 03, 2008 16:48)   image 5 images
Criminally complicit in facilitating the transit of CIA torture flights via pit stop Ireland, it's reported that the Government is shaping up to do a cap-in-hand spineless slither to "the incoming US administration on the issue of extraordinary renditions and on the US military's use of Shannon Airport ... (and a) Cabinet committee will examine and strengthen legal provisions to ensure that gardaí and airport authorities have adequate legal powers for search and inspection of aircraft. This may involve strengthening the provisions of the Air Navigation and Transport Acts." (Irish Times).
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday November 01, 2008 08:35 by Ciaron
Fr. Bill Bischel SJ has dropped by Ireland to accompany both the Pitstop Ploughshares to court in Dublin and the Raytheon 9 to court in Derry. Bill was ordained in Berlin before the wall went up, carries some of Joe Hill's ashes and has spent a number of years in jail for nonviolent resistance. One jail was in view of one of the seminaries he attended! read full story / add a comment
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