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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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national / eu / press release Wednesday April 30, 2008 19:18 by O.O'C.
Proponents of the Treaty of Lisbon insist there is nothing new with regard to tax harmonisation in this treaty; this is positively wrong - and we can show you the facts to prove it. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday April 30, 2008 19:09 by Justin Morahan   text 82 comments (last - thursday july 24, 2008 21:30)
ONE-SIDED REPORT OF CASE INVOLVING JUDGE

Yesterday, 29 April, the report of a case for defamation in several national newspapers failed to cover in a fair manner much of what happened in Dublin Circuit Court on Monday but gave a one-sided account which favoured the Plaintiff (a Judge) and denied the Defendant fair reportage.
Journalist Ray Managh wrote a lopsided piece pubished in most morning newspapers in one form or another. In all cases the reports make no mention of the case for the Defence but recount at length much of tthe Presiding Judge's remarks and the Prosecution's case. This report tries to redress the balance in the interests of fair reportage. Any errors are regretted and are entirely the reponsibility of this author read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 30, 2008 18:46 by Chekov Feeney   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 30, 2008 23:44)
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monaghan / eu / event notice Wednesday April 30, 2008 18:20 by No! 2 Lisbon   text 4 comments (last - friday may 30, 2008 10:47)   image 1 image
Ógra Shinn Féin are organising a ‘Rock Against The Treaty’ in McKenna’s Bar, Monaghan Town on Saturday 31st May to build up popular opposition to the upcoming Lisbon Treaty.

The ‘Rock Against The Treaty’ will host music from 4 upcoming bands, and the bar will be decked out in banners and posters with a clear message No! 2 Lisbon.
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IPSC National Demonstration - Belfast Sat 17th May
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday April 30, 2008 18:17 by Kev   image 1 image
On the 60th Anniverasy of the Palestinan Nakba, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign invites you to join us in a demonstration to mark the continuing catastrophe:

AL-NAKBA

60 YEARS OF DISPOSSESSION

SATURDAY 17TH MAY

ASSEMBLE : 1.30 PM ART COLLEGE, YORK ST. BELFAST
(departing for City Hall at 2.00 p.m. where there will be a rally with speakers)

BRING BANNERS AND PLACARDS.

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Bil'in Habibti
antrim / arts and media / event notice Wednesday April 30, 2008 17:57 by Kev   image 1 image
Palestinians George Rishmawi and Eyad Burnat will be showing the award-winning film 'Bil'in Habibti' (Bil'in My Love) in the Culturlann, Falls Road on Friday 2 May at 7.30 p.m. Entrance £5/£2.50.
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Kathleen Flowers
galway / arts and media / press release Wednesday April 30, 2008 16:47 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
Three prominent US women poets willl read from their work, courtesy of the Western Writers Centre, at Galway City Museum tomorrow, Wednesday, May 1st. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday April 30, 2008 14:24 by Sean Crudden
I have heard it said that our idea of home is a "socially constructed" one. So home could be a doorway in Hume Street with a few companions whose position in life is similar to one's own? read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 30, 2008 12:33 by pat c
This is the May Day statement from the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar). More information is available from the links below and Rahe Kargar may be contacted at public@rahekargar.net

International solidarity is our global capital to confront global capitalism
*Neo-liberal globalisation is nothing more than the globalisation of unemployment, insecurity, poverty, hunger, a bleak future and constant fear for the majority in this world.
*Under the flag of democracy capitalists spread the dictatorship of free markets on our planet.
*The rich are getting fewer and richer while the poor are getting more numerous and poorer.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday April 30, 2008 12:06 by Darren C   text 6 comments (last - friday may 02, 2008 19:09)
2008/04/29

The leaders of the Alliance for Workers Liberty (AWL) argue socialists should not fight for the withdrawal of US/UK troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. They claim that were the occupation to end immediately the Iraqi labour movement would be annihilated by reactionary Islamic forces. At a recent AWL day school, leading member Mark Osborne specifically claimed that the movement behind cleric Muqtada Al Sadr had a policy of "killing trade unionists". Curious to know whether there was any truth in this claim Simon Hardy contacted Iraqi exile and academic Sami Ramadani, from Iraq Occupation for Focus, for his thoughts. Sami replied quickly, exploding the argument of the AWL that the occupying forces provide any cover for the Iraqi labour movement. With thanks to Sami, we publish his reply here. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday April 30, 2008 10:19 by Justin Morahan   text 2 comments (last - wednesday april 30, 2008 11:35)
Members of a brave Christian Peacemakers team, hoping by their sleep-in to prevent the threatened eviction of the orphans in an Orphanage in Hebron, were helpless this morning as about 40 Israeli soldiers raided the workshop of the Orphanage, terrorising the children there and carrying away all of its equipment worth about €28,000. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday April 30, 2008 06:34 by Ploughshares   text 9 comments (last - wednesday may 14, 2008 20:49)
STATEMENT OF THE WAIHOPAI ANZAC PLOUGHSHARES

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift sword against nation; and there shall be no more training for war. Isaiah 2/4
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 30, 2008 00:24 by No One's Business by Mine   text 9 comments (last - thursday may 01, 2008 20:27)
A personal account of how my right to privacy was signed away by the act of simply signing my employment contract: read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 23:18 by CWAG
Celebrate International Workers Day over the May Bank Holiday Weekend read full story / add a comment
Workers protest BT discrimination
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Tuesday April 29, 2008 22:52 by A Workers' Strand Two   text 2 comments (last - wednesday april 30, 2008 13:05)   image 1 image
British Telecom is refusing to give collective bargaining rights to a large group of its staff simply because they are Irish. read full story / add a comment
Dead Elephant on Back of Trailer
international / animal rights / press release Tuesday April 29, 2008 20:40 by ALiberation   text 21 comments (last - tuesday april 28, 2009 23:46)   image 1 image
From May, South Africa will kill elephants by pursuing them in helicopters and shooting dead whole families. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 20:05 by Joe Moore
A public meeting marking the 40th anniversary of May 1968 will be held on Thursday 8th May at 8.00pm in the Victoria Hotel, Patrick St., Cork. The speaker is Paul O'Brien, author of "Shelly and Revolutionary Ireland." read full story / add a comment
You must remember this..
international / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday April 29, 2008 18:22 by Andrew   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
I'm now on the west coast on the final leg of the long trip and heading south towards LA. In Seattle In interviewed Rogue across a range of topics that included the legend of seattle, gentrification and public housing, prison abolition, left bank books, hoping freight trains, homeless at 15, punk v nazi fights in North carolina, IWW struggle to unionize Austin co-op, Class Action Alliance and Environmental activism, ACT-UP and condoms in prisons read full story / add a comment
Q & A: 'After Castro'
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday April 29, 2008 18:08 by M. Mc M.   image 1 image
Craobh Baile Muna: Cuba Support Group, would like to extend an invitation to individuals and organisation from all political backgrounds to come and partake in a Questions & Answers Session on Saturday 3rd May in Setanta GAA Club in Ballymun on the issue of 'Cuba: After Castro'. We would like a broad, cross the board based debate from all political identities on the issue of Cuba. The main participant at the Q & A session will be the Cuban Ambassador to Ireland; Noel Carrillo, and we would very much encourage and appreciate if any representative(s) or individuals can make it along. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday April 29, 2008 18:07 by Des Dalton
Statement from the Vice President of Republican Sinn Fein Des Dalton on the British Government's insistence on holding an inquiry under the restrictive British Inquiries Act 2005 rather than a full public and independent inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. read full story / add a comment
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