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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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antrim / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday May 27, 2008 13:52 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 05, 2008 13:08)   image 5 images
Bhí slua mór daoine, cuid mhaith acu a tháinig ó Bhaile Átha Cliath agus ó Dhoire agus ó áiteanna eile, taobh amuigh de Chúirteanna Cois Lagáin i mBéal Feirste ar maidin ag léiriú a gcuid tacaíochta le Naonúr Raytheon a bhí os comhar na cúirte arís inniu. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 27, 2008 12:11 by Howard Holby   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 27, 2008 18:09)
In the former parts of this study it has been demonstrated that the pro-Lisbon European political class has transformed the system considered “parliamentary democracy” into constitutional dictatorship. The parliamentary offices of the elected have become ineffective as democratic institutions and are maintained for a purpose opposite of democracies: to serve the interests of a small political oligarchy.

In this part we examine how a "yes" vote on the Lisbon Treaty and the consequent loss of national sovereignty would determine our future.

Denying the loss of national sovereignty as the main implication of ratifying a treaty that is “to provide the legal basis for consolidating and further developing the Union’s action in the field of economic, social and territorial cohesion” is merely a dishonest act of arbitrarily omitting the appropriate dictionary definition of a given concept. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday May 27, 2008 09:44 by Edward Horgan   text 21 comments (last - tuesday june 03, 2008 02:15)   3 attached files
We must continue to connect up the dotted lines in the web of deceipt, mass murder, torture and militarisation that is being facilitated at Shannon airport.
The Lisbon Treaty, with its NATO entanglement is part of this growing web, as is Ireland's fraudulent neutrality.

Well over one million US troops have transited through Shannon airport since 20 March 2003.
CIA are still using Shannon as a refuelling stop for its torture rendition planes, usually at about 2 am in the morning. Torture is best hidden in the dark of night.
One million US troops fighting unlawful wars, also need millions of tons of military cargo including depleted uranium bombs, so that they can more easily kill innocent people. When one is engaged in an unlawful war, all the victims of such a war are innocent. The principal unlawful combatants in Iraq are the US military and US and other colaition of the willing mercenaries such as Blackwater. read full story / add a comment
O Devaney Gardens joins the protest
national / housing / feature Tuesday May 27, 2008 01:18 by Paula Geraghty   text 17 comments (last - saturday june 07, 2008 20:32)   image 20 images
'We'll be back', promised residents of St Michael's Estate, O'Devaney Gardens, Sean McDermott St and Dominic Street at a protest held outside Dublin City Council at a special meeting held on the evening of May 26th. Plans to redevelop the areas collapsed when wealthy developer, Bernard McNamara, cried off because he wouldn't make enough money. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday May 26, 2008 20:57 by Paula Geraghty   text 12 comments (last - sunday june 01, 2008 09:15)   image 20 images
Hundreds gathered to protest against the destruction and devastation caused by Cluster Bombs as part of an international series of events around a conference calling to make the banning of Cluster Bombs happen. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday May 26, 2008 18:18 by pat c
On Saturday - Sunday, 14-15th June 2008 Hands Off the People of Iran will hold a weekend school, in University of London Union, Malet Street to discuss issues regarding the threat of war, sanctions and various aspects of the opposition to the the rule of the theocracy, inside Iran.

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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday May 26, 2008 15:20 by Belfast WSM   text 14 comments (last - friday january 23, 2009 17:49)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
Workers Solidarity Movement read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday May 26, 2008 15:12 by Miriam Cotton   text 6 comments (last - friday may 30, 2008 14:41)
A surprise awaits John Bolton, one of the chief architechts of the illegal invasion of Iraq, at the Hay book festival this Wednesday. read full story / add a comment
Michael D. being interviewed for a forthcoming Indymedia posting
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday May 26, 2008 15:01 by TD   text 22 comments (last - wednesday june 11, 2008 01:48)   image 10 images
For the past two weeks the focus of the Free Palestine Campaign group in Galway has been harvesting signatures for our petition calling on the EU (and the Irish government to work towards effecting it) to suspend or terminate the Euro-Med Agreement, which economically privileges Israel with access to the EU market, due to that country's gross and willful trampling of Palestinian human rights, International Law, Geneva Conventions and Part 2 of the Agreement .

When it comes to Palestine, the moral rot of the EU in refusing to suspend the Agreement does'nt stop there, it's deep and pernicious and with the passing of the Lisbon Treaty will deleteriously effect and infect Palestine further?. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday May 26, 2008 14:43 by Belfast Anti War Movement   text 11 comments (last - wednesday july 09, 2008 23:58)   image 4 images
Over 200 people have signed a letter opposing the upcoming visit of George Bush to Belfast read full story / add a comment
Irish Passport But No Vote!
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday May 26, 2008 14:27 by No! 2 Lisbon   text 2 comments (last - monday may 26, 2008 19:41)   image 5 images
Ógra Shinn Féin activists protested outside Belfast City Hall this past weekend, to highlight the denial of democracy by Fianna Fáil and the Irish Government, in their desperate attempts to push through the Lisbon Treaty.

The youth wing of Sinn Féin held a protest with street theatre, and distributed 1,000s of leaflets posing the question, "Why can't you vote in the Lisbon Treaty?"; in reference to the denial of Irish Citizens in the 6 counties from voting in the upcoming referendum. read full story / add a comment
Vote No To Lisbon
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday May 26, 2008 12:06 by Kevin Doyle   text 15 comments (last - sunday june 01, 2008 01:26)   image 4 images
A series of anarchist posters in Cork have begun to make a dent on the deluge of Vote Yes posters that appeared in Cork just over a week ago courtesy of Fianna Fail and the small businesses organisation, IBEC. read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 26, 2008 11:43 by TD   text 4 comments (last - sunday november 02, 2008 03:20)   image 1 image
Professor of Anthropology, Jeff Halper, co-founder and Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) has been a leading figure within the Israeli peace movement for over thirty years. Jeff was nominated by the American Friends Service Committee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, together with the Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Andoni. He is also the recipient of the Olive Branch Award from Jewish Voice for Peace in the USA and the Rachel Corrie Peace Award from the Italian town of Ovada.

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down / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday May 26, 2008 00:34 by Mark Hewitt   text 8 comments (last - thursday may 29, 2008 16:26)   image 1 image
GEORGE BUSH – NOT WANTED HERE
We are appalled at the news that George Bush will visit Belfast next month. It is disgraceful that his visit is as a result of an invitation issued by the First Minister and Deputy First Minister.
This part of the world more than most places has an understanding of the deep damage and pain that war and conflict produces. George Bush is internationally regarded as a warmonger. The so called “war on terror”, now rebranded as the “war for democracy” that he has championed has inflicted that damage and pain on countless millions.
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dublin / housing / event notice Sunday May 25, 2008 18:25 by Housing is a right
Tenants angered that a multi millionaire developer has pulled out of regeneration plans for 5 marginalised communities because he wouldn't make enough money out of it. Join the protest Monday 6pm City Hall dame St. Be there and make some noise. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Sunday May 25, 2008 09:15 by Howard Holby   text 6 comments (last - saturday may 31, 2008 07:13)
The transformation of democratic rule of law into a law to support an EU-federalist oligarchy is however far from getting the whole picture of Europe’s current and projected political system. In this part we compare the main features of the political system of Ireland known as “parliamentary democracy” with the basic criteria of democracy identified by experts of political theory [11] by reconciling two complementary widely accepted democracy-indexes: of Polity and Freedom House. After matching the observations of the system in Ireland with the two essential features of parliamentary democracy, which fill the word “democracy” with its actual meaning - meaningful elections and political freedom -, we find that these are converging to a zero value in Ireland under the overwhelming pressure of Lisbon.
(In order to keep one reading unit within a reasonable length we would prefer to post the three parts of the article as separate publications.)
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international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday May 25, 2008 01:27 by D. Flanagan   text 5 comments (last - wednesday june 04, 2008 11:50)
A report in the Sunday Business Post links Libertas to Rettet Osterreich, an Austrian rightist political group. Rettet Osterreich held a rally in Vienna on March 12 which was attended by the neo-nazi National People's Party. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday May 24, 2008 12:03 by Paddy Meehan   text 9 comments (last - wednesday may 28, 2008 19:47)
Meeting to discuss organising against Bush's visit

6pm Wednesday 28th May
Socialist Party Offices
13 Lombard St read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday May 24, 2008 11:57 by nicola
Cork's third annual gay pride parade takes place today read full story / add a comment
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