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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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cork / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday September 25, 2008 09:24 by John Jefferies   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 28, 2008 20:14)
According to an article in today's Irish Examiner a Cork based company, Cubic Telecom, is supplying the US military with what it describes as "innotive mobile phone SIM cards" which the US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq are currently testing. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / news report Wednesday September 24, 2008 18:29 by westside   text 6 comments (last - wednesday october 01, 2008 15:42)   image 4 images
Whilst the solitaire is in for repairs, we'd thought we'd remind the government that activists haven't taken their eye off the ball. We also thought we would dedicate this action to Maura. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday September 24, 2008 18:05 by Con Carroll   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 30, 2008 12:22)
Photographic exhibition read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday September 24, 2008 16:46 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Seminar/ Seimineár

Is “social Europe” dead?
ECJ judgements and workers’ rights read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday September 24, 2008 15:35 by posted by F Espinoza   image 2 images
To all committees and friends of the Cuban Five

To all friends of the Cuban Revolution

To all honest and noble people of the world

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday September 24, 2008 13:31 by Simon McGuinness   1 attached file
Informal social to launch Camp Havana 2008 read full story / add a comment
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derry / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday September 24, 2008 11:45 by MAOR   text 4 comments (last - wednesday september 24, 2008 12:59)   image 15 images
Activists from Derry on Saturday traveled to Glengad in a gesture of solidarity with activists there. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday September 24, 2008 08:11 by Dublin Catholic Worker/Ploughshares   text 5 comments (last - friday october 03, 2008 00:38)   video 1 video file
Anti-War Vigil *GPO Monday September 29th. 4pm-6pm
"Stop Irish Participation in the War!"
"U.S. Military Out of Shannon, Iraq & Afghanistan!"
*Outside GPO, O'Connel St. Dublin read full story / add a comment
sermon on Shell
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday September 23, 2008 18:53 by crasher   text 3 comments (last - monday october 06, 2008 12:39)   image 1 image
I've always fancied a brief chat with an official in an out of the way registry office, while some think it needs an Elvis impersonator in a church in a Las Vegas. Others like hotels, marquees, beaches in the Maldives, even on the wings of a plane- but I don't think anyone can beat closing a petrol station with your wedding vows.

They even used D-Locks on the pumps instead of rings!

Check out more pictues and details of the ceremony here : http://chriskasza.blogspot.com/2008/09/week-25-best-not....html read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday September 23, 2008 18:52 by The Oh-Aissieux   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 02, 2008 18:40)
The storytelling club that "knows no boundaries and succumbs to few taboos" is delighted to offer another evening of innovative and international storytelling, featuring a new adaptation of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
With The Oh-Aissieux and guest performers, Adam Wilson and Michael Phelan.
Library Bar Extension, Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2.
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 only.
Doors 7.30. Show starts 8pm sharp.
Admission EUR5, concessions EUR2.
Book to avoid disappointment. Text names to 086 060 3818. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 23, 2008 17:22 by Johnjo
Lots of negative comment on McAleese' visit to Romania read full story / add a comment
Global Eco Forum (S22-O17)
international / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 23, 2008 17:14 by dunk   image 3 images   video 3 video files   audio 3 audio files
While many view these days with dread; the outset of climate crisis, political corruption and corporate manipulation blocking healthy change, lack of hope that things can change.

Others are starting to see something profound emerging; a re-awakening, an eruption of activity, new and intelligent ways of human interaction. Ecologist Paul Hawken sees this phenoman as "the immune system of humanity finally kicking in" and calls it Blessed Unrest.

As another bubble in all this, yesterday saw the first of 25 days of the first "Global Eco Forum"... read full story / add a comment
Mairead Maguire after being gassed and shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet by Israeli Occupation Forces in Bil'in, April 20th, 2007.
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday September 23, 2008 14:45 by TD   text 4 comments (last - friday october 10, 2008 00:33)   image 2 images
(LARNACA, 22 September 2008) - The Free Gaza Movement announced today that an international delegation of doctors, parliamentarians, and human rights workers will sail to Gaza aboard the SS Hope on Wednesday, September 24th. A press conference will be held on Wednesday at Larnaca Port prior to the ship's departure.

The passengers on board include:
- 5 physicians from 4 countrieS
- human rights lawyers and monitors
- Jamal Zahalka, a member of the Israeli Knesset
- Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council
- Mairead Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work in Belfast

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international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday September 23, 2008 13:18 by Cailean Bochanan
The latest editorial from Inthesenewtimes offering an opinion on the unfolding great bank robbery. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday September 22, 2008 21:55 by anarkitty
Thursday the 25th September starting at 8:30 sharp in the Victoria Hotel,
Patrick Street, Cork read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / press release Monday September 22, 2008 20:46 by Laura Broxson   text 24 comments (last - sunday november 02, 2008 17:40)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
***Press Release***

Misrepresenting Animal Rights: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).


Although Irish organisations and individuals have sought to care for nonhuman animals for many years, animal rights advocacy ~informed by rights-based theory~ is a very recent development in Ireland. Grassroots animal rights advocates in Ireland intend to defend animal rights from the threat of neo-welfarism. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday September 22, 2008 20:35 by Decwell's   text 7 comments (last - wednesday september 24, 2008 12:53)   video 1 video file
Ciaron O'Reilly discusses all your hardware needs in this three minute rough cut from a forthcoming film on activism in Ireland.

Hammers, mattocks and other pieces of equipment are all weighed up by this seasoned activist. A shears (or even a scissors) does not make it out of the bag, so perhaps the film will act as a timely reminder of the need to raise funds for anti-war causes (in ways other than sponsored haircuts). read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Monday September 22, 2008 16:17 by Soundmigration   text 21 comments (last - sunday september 28, 2008 13:28)
At this stage its unsurprising in the least to read Royal Dutch Shell propoganda being presented as "journalism" by the Irish Independent and its stable mate, the Sunday Indo. Most readers of this site will be only too aware that the paper's owner 'Sir' Tony O Reilly has a very practical and profitable interest in the vast amounts of oil and gas of the West coast of Ireland.

However even by the hack standards of journalism, and right wing opinions, that grace the paper, yesterdays piece by Maeve Sheehan suggest not just the usual biased and unnuaced 'presentation of facts' but has an almost willful ignorance of the facts on the ground. Combined with a willingness to present Shell and Police PR without any simple background checks or colloratory evidence over such an 'extensive' (read: its got a big word count) this article would be most useful for any who sought a practical example of what Noam Chomsky describes as the 'manufacturing of consent' read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday September 22, 2008 00:41 by kevin
Thursday 25th September, 8pm, Shamrock Pub (upstairs) Finglas Village
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday September 21, 2008 23:26 by Ciaron   text 2 comments (last - monday september 22, 2008 10:40)
Anti-War Vigil *GPO Monday September 22nd.. 4pm-6pm
"Stop Irish Participation in the War!"
"U.S. Military Out of Shannon & Iraq!"
*Outside GPO, O'Connel St. Dublin
Come join Mairitn, Colim, Damien, Ciaron, Steve, Emira & others at the vigil!
Drop by for a short time and get updated on the war on Iraq, Afghanistan & elsewhere!
Get updated on nonviolent resistance to war and war preparations in Ireland and elsewhere
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