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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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offsite link Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling as Union Boss Calls for Miliband to Be Sacked Tue Sep 30, 2025 17:36 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves has signalled support for drilling in the North Sea in a blow to Ed Miliband ? as the boss of the Unite union calls on Keir Starmer to sack the "disastrous" Net Zero Secretary.
The post Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling as Union Boss Calls for Miliband to Be Sacked appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Wes Streeting Says Nigel Farage is ?Racist? Tue Sep 30, 2025 15:30 | Will Jones
Health Secretary Wes Streeting?has said Nigel Farage is "racist", joining Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson in using the insult of the Reform party and its leader.
The post Wes Streeting Says Nigel Farage is “Racist” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the ?Friend-Enemy Distinction? Right-Wing Critical Race Theory? Tue Sep 30, 2025 13:00 | Noah Carl
Perfectly neutral institutions will never be attainable, argues Noah Carl, but that doesn?t mean that reasonably neutral institutions aren?t worth striving for.
The post Is the ‘Friend-Enemy Distinction’ Right-Wing Critical Race Theory? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Europe Has Never Looked More Pathetic Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:27 | Will Jones
With Trump's announcement of a peace plan backed by both Israel and Arab leaders, Europe, with its toothless alternative proposal to reward terror, has never looked more pathetic or weaker on the global stage.
The post Europe Has Never Looked More Pathetic appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Down The Tylenol Rabbitol Tue Sep 30, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
President Trump says Tylenol in pregnancy may cause autism. Wes Streeting says don't listen to Trump, he's a politician. But what does the science say? Professor James Alexander goes down the Tylenol rabbitol.
The post Down The Tylenol Rabbitol appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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

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dublin / animal rights / event notice Monday April 07, 2008 17:00 by Laura Broxson
Show your support for animal rights! Join us on Saturday! read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday April 07, 2008 16:40 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - thursday june 19, 2008 13:53)
The Committee in Defense of Mahmoud Salehi, have reported that Mahmoud Salehi, one of the most courageous labour leaders in Iran, was finally released on, Sunday, April 6, 2008 from the City of Sanandaj‘s central prison, where he had finished one-year jail term for his labour activities on March 23, 2008, but the authorities had refused to release him until today. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday April 07, 2008 15:44 by rcpi
Date: Wednesday 29th April 2008 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Venue: The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, No. 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2

The aim of this meeting is to increase awareness and look at the facts and myths surrounding childhood obesity. Speakers wil look at prevention and treatment, and discuss the roles of physical activity and nutrition. read full story / add a comment
Belfast airport workers occupy Transport House seeking jusice
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Monday April 07, 2008 14:36 by f   text 18 comments (last - monday may 26, 2008 20:05)   image 6 images
Please send protests to UNITE against the scandalous treatment of their members. read full story / add a comment
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday April 07, 2008 14:07 by gav   image 1 image
kev murphy - local cork singer songwriter along with band play a benifit gig in an cruicín lán, douglas street, cork city. read full story / add a comment
Subverting Democracy
donegal / politics / elections / news report Monday April 07, 2008 12:18 by No to Lisbon   text 3 comments (last - monday april 07, 2008 15:46)   image 1 image
The people of Donegal will be given a chance to get informed on and debate the Lisbon Treaty (formerly the EU Constitution) later this month.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday April 07, 2008 12:11 by tomeile   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 09, 2008 16:53)
Racists desecrated 148 graves in the Muslim section of a military cemetery in Lille France, last Sunday daubing anti-Islamic graffiti and swastikas on graves , and hanging a pig's head on one of the headstones. The widely condemned hate crime comes at a time of tension for Muslim communities throughout Europe , occurring in the same week that Deniz Ozgur Uzun ,a 17-year-old Muslim high school student , was beaten to death by Islamophobes in Copenhagen . read full story / add a comment
Ashanti
international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday April 07, 2008 01:05 by Andrew   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
Ashanti Alston Omowali is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party. He was a Black Liberation Army political prisoner for over 12 years, Last night while at the All Power to the Imagination conference in Sarasota, Florida I recorded his speech. read full story / add a comment
Shell To Sea newsletter
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday April 06, 2008 21:06 by JM   image 1 image   1 attached file
The U.S. Department of Justice is examining corruption allegations in the use of a freight-forwarding firm by Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the company said in regulatory filing published last week. read full story / add a comment
Betancourt unwell
international / environment / other press Sunday April 06, 2008 19:45 by Archiver   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 09, 2008 11:09)   image 2 images

President Sarkozy who in asking for the release of Ms Ingrid Betancourt from captivity
made a remark that shows his incredible lack of diplomacy and was probably why his
spouse led the march for her release in Paris today. He said that if she dies then FARC
will be 'responsible for the death of a woman'. Many government leaders are so responsible,
but to use the media to allow such a statement travel like a virus through our world
was badly judged and dangerous. Ms Betancourt has endured six years of separation from
her mother and her children and is unwell, being on hunger strike.

Everyone wants Ingrid freed.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76817#comment215048 read full story / add a comment
We the Peoples of Europe
international / eu / event notice Sunday April 06, 2008 19:36 by Eoin Ó Broin   text 1 comment (last - sunday april 06, 2008 19:39)   image 2 images
Internationally acclaimed author and global justice activist Susan George will be in Dublin and Belfast from Tuesday April 8 to Saturday April 12 to launch her new book, We The Peoples Of Europe. The book, published by Pluto Press outlines the authors critique of the present direction of the EU, her account of the French referendum campaign on the EU Constitution in 2005 and George’s distinctive vision for the future of Europe. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday April 06, 2008 15:23 by Roger Yates   text 1 comment (last - monday april 07, 2008 13:35)
174 horses have died on British race tracks in one year. Three deaths at the latest "Grand" National Race. This does not include those killed away from the racing arena. It is not clear how many Irish horses are killed every year. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday April 06, 2008 14:38 by almata
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The Rustbelt Radical
The Rustbelt Radical is a personal blog. It is revolutionary, socialist and internationalist. It comes straight from the ravaged middle of the post-industrial American Midwest. Topics might include politics, work, history, culture, war, a bit of theory, some sex, some drugs, some music and frequent tubthumping for the free association of producers.
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international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday April 06, 2008 14:29 by C Murray   text 3 comments (last - sunday april 06, 2008 18:45)   image 2 images
On a day when the UN released a report that 70% of women suffer poverty and only own 1% of the world's
titled land, which is a common inheritance of all people I decided to look at media coverage of the issues.
The Irish Times had the report in small paragraph without title or reference to the committee release.
And I could not find it elsewhere. Addressing the root cause of women's poverty is not a simple
prospect, afterall, National Governments do not listen to women. If they did they would hear what they say
to me everyday...
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday April 06, 2008 11:31 by tomeile
Deniz Ozgur Uzun a 17-year-old Turkish high school student was beaten to death last week by racists in the Amager district of Copenhagen . Muslim community leaders believe the racist attack is directly linked to an Islamophobic atmosphere in the Scandinavian country fanned by the recent reprinting of the prophet cartoon .

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday April 06, 2008 10:35 by tomeile
The British Army faces new allegations of torture and abuse over the arrest and detention of an elderly Iraqi Muslim and his family last year. Jabbir Hmoud Kammash, 70 , claims that twenty soldiers raided his home in the Al-Gzaizah district of the city , terrifying his family ,destroying furniture and stealing household money .The Muslim elder was hooded and beaten with rifle butts and driven with his son to the British military base in Basra airport where he was subjected to further abuse and interrogation while still hooded. Mr Kammash and his sons ,who are still recovering from injuries inflicted on them , say they intend to take legal action against the British government for the abuse they suffered.
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F209 Rheinland-Pfalz
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday April 06, 2008 09:28 by John Jefferies   text 9 comments (last - wednesday april 09, 2008 17:24)   image 2 images
The German Navy (NATO) are on their way to Cork and will arrive in the city next Thursday with a visit from FGS F209 Rheinland-Pfalz of the German Navy's 4th Frigate Squadron. read full story / add a comment
banner painting in seomra spraoi
national / history and heritage / feature Saturday April 05, 2008 23:33 by darren   text 11 comments (last - tuesday april 08, 2008 16:08)   image 13 images
Not exactly…
But there might be more than you’d think.

On the 11th -13th April Seomra Spraoi host Ireland's first Social Centre Gathering. What better excuse to have as look back at radical spaces in Ireland over the last 30 years.

Details on Gathering:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86848 read full story / add a comment
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