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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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Dooncarton, looking from Rossport
mayo / environment / feature Thursday March 27, 2008 22:28 by Hud Hastings   text 39 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 19:55)   image 2 images
Shell recently announced the names of local groups in Erris who they are going to fund, as part of the deal they arrived with government appointed mediator Peter Cassels in 2006.

Cassells, who admitted that there was no basis for mediation while Shell insisted on an onshore production pipeline and refinery, recommended that the company should pay money into the local community in an effort to turn public opinion in favour of the scheme.

Of the groups favoured with grants, only a handful were from the local parish of Kilcommon, which would bear the brunt of the environmental disaster that Shell's scheme would entail. Of these, local people laughed at some of the more obviously silly and fictional "groups", but people were genuinely puzzled by the inclusion of the Dooncarton Landslide Committee. This group, which is widely respected in the local area, has been working to rebuild the local cemetery which was badly damaged in 2003, when heavy rains swept part of the hillside down into the bay.
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Special Branch caught photographing Shell to Sea at a recent garage protest
dublin / crime and justice / news report Thursday March 27, 2008 22:25 by SJ   text 8 comments (last - saturday november 22, 2008 17:22)   image 3 images
Garda Special Branch pressure on Shell to Sea in Dublin, and attempts to harass supporters of the campaign , are seen as part of a pattern of the police protecting the interests of big business before the rights of people to protest.
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday March 27, 2008 20:42 by History Ireland   text 2 comments (last - friday march 28, 2008 09:56)
The March/April issue of the magazine History Ireland contains a major article on Irish anarchists in the late nineteenth-century that should be of interest to today's anarchist activists.

The title is '"Practical anarchists, we": social revolutionaries in Dublin, 1885-7'

In Ireland and Britain in the 1880s, the Fenians occupied the demonic role of 'terrorists' in the recesses of the bourgeois mind, and less attention was paid to terrorists of the radical left. Historian Fintan Lane relates how anarchists, though scarcely noticed, were nevertheless active in Ireland and argued openly for social revolution, though not for 'individual terror'.

History Ireland is on sale in Eason's across the country. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday March 27, 2008 20:06 by Frank Keoghan
Pub Quiz
The Red Parrott
(O'Mara's Public House)
Dorset Street,
Dublin1
10 euro per person + prizes to be won read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Thursday March 27, 2008 19:22 by Brian Bourke   text 15 comments (last - tuesday april 08, 2008 12:02)
A 68 year old pensioner from Cabra is been brought to court by Dublin City Council for putting rubbish into the back of a bin truck. DCC are seeking substantial legal costs off this pensioner if he loses his case. The local anti-bin tax campaign, comprising Cabra/Dunard/Navan Rd. and the Dublin anti-bin tax campaign are fully supporting this pensioner. We have organised a fundraising pub-quiz on the 11th April in Eamonn McGraths pub, Fassaugh Avenue, Cabra. Any support will be appreciated.

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derry / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday March 27, 2008 17:34 by events@lasc.ie   1 attached file
LAW 2008 aims to focus attention on the issue of the private exploitation of water, and the impact of this on human development. It will have a further emphasis on the Association Agreement currently being negotiated between the European Union and the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) - to be approved by summer 2009 read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Thursday March 27, 2008 17:20 by pat c   text 25 comments (last - sunday april 06, 2008 13:34)   image 2 images
In this article, Peter Tatchell deals with the latest lies and homophobic outbursts from George Galloway. In this case Galloway is supporting the Iranian Regiome even when it comes to the execution of gays using any lies to cover for them.

George Galloway, the Respect MP, has made allegations that border on paedophile smears and play to homophobic prejudice. He claims the boyfriend of gay Iranian asylum seeker Mehdi Kazemi was executed (1) for "committing sex crimes against young men". The insinuation of such a claim is that Mehdi's boyfriend was a rapist or a child sex abuser and also stigmatises Mehdi as he was his partner. He will suffer this stigma when he is returned to the UK and could face personal hostility from people who believe these allegations . Galloway made his astonishing allegation on Channel Five's The Wright Stuff. He has been asked to explain the source of his claim, but has so far failed to do so. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday March 27, 2008 16:48 by events@lasc.ie   1 attached file
LAW 2008 aims to focus attention on the issue of the private exploitation of water, and the impact of this on human development. It will have a further emphasis on the Association Agreement currently being negotiated between the European Union and the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) - to be approved by summer 2009.

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CCTV guards against theft, pilfering and un-scheduled menstruation at LIDL.
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday March 27, 2008 15:18 by shapeshifting reptile   text 20 comments (last - sunday september 05, 2010 11:57)   image 3 images
The German magazine "Stern" published a report on the supermarket LIDL in the last week which alledged the corporation had been spying on its employees. The story is now being taken up across Europe, where indeed workers shop in & work for the LIDL chain. The allegations are being supported daily by more and more evidence as can be seen by perusing the original articles at "Stern" complete with photos, a vid, extracts from internal memos, et cetera, so long & so forth.

Included in the internal memos were suggestions that menstruating women employees wear a coloured headband so managers could allow them extra "toilet time", time which would be denied male or non-menstruating employees. It gets worse.., "tattoos"........."wants higher wages"........"junkie friends"......... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday March 27, 2008 12:23 by James   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 15:19)
The latest edition of Workers Solidarity is available online. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday March 27, 2008 12:19 by Justin Morahan   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 27, 2008 23:03)
A vigil has been arranged for 12 noon Friday outside the Polish Embassy, 5 Ailesbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin in solidarity with Polish anti-war friends who, this weekend, are opposing the siting of US Army "defence" bases in Poland.. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday March 27, 2008 12:04 by Dr. Spock   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 22:27)
When I first heard about this march a couple of weeks ago I began thinking about what people hoped to achieve. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 27, 2008 12:04 by paul o toole   text 6 comments (last - sunday march 30, 2008 19:36)
Well done to TG4 for breaking Media Silence
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Nicholas of Myra map
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Wednesday March 26, 2008 23:13 by RAGbot   text 1 comment (last - monday april 07, 2008 01:31)   image 1 image
Why Anarchafeminism? A women-only discussion.
7.30pm, Mon 7th April, St. Nicholas of Myra Parish Hall, off Francis St.
All women welcome, whether you feel you have a lot to say on this topic or you just want to find out more. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday March 26, 2008 21:11 by ISN'er   text 5 comments (last - tuesday april 08, 2008 10:32)
The latest issue of Resistance, the ISN's free national paper, has come out in the past few days. Copies should soon be available from the usual outlets in Dublin, Cork and Galway (details will follow). Meanwhile, anybody who wants a copy can get one, or as many as are wanted, post-free, by emailing irishsocialistnetwork@dublin.ie

Articles in Resistance, March/April include: read full story / add a comment
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international / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 26, 2008 20:06 by José Antonio Gutiérrez   image 1 image
This is a brief article on our position as Latin American Solidarity Centre regarding the "free trade" agreements of the EU with Asia, Africa and Latin America, disguised as Economic Partnership Agreements and Association Agreements. On the series of events organised for Latin America Week (April 7th-12th) we will bring some speakers from Italy, Holland, Colombia and Ecuador who will speak on the impact of such agreements over basic services such as water. To find more information on Latin America Week, you can go to our website www.lasc.ie or contact us directly. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday March 26, 2008 17:53 by IPSC   image 1 image
What: IPSC Discussion: Zionism In Ireland
When: Thursday March 27th @ 7.30 PM
Where: Upstairs in Connolly Books, Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday March 26, 2008 17:19 by events@lasc.ie
The IX IRISH-LATIN AMERICA FILM FESTIVAL will focus on short films and documentaries about Latin America made by filmmakers from Latin America, Europe and Canada. The festival is aligned with LATIN AMERICA WEEK 2008, which this year takes place from 5th to 12th April. The theme this year is private exploitation of water and its impact on human development in Latin America.

All films in Spanish have English subtitles.

Free admission !!!
Everybody is welcome
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday March 26, 2008 16:47 by events@lasc.ie   1 attached file
LAW 08 aims to focus attention on the issue of the private exploitation of water, and the impact of this on human development. It will have a further emphasis on the Association Agreement currently being negotiated between the European Union and the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) - to be approved by summer 2009.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday March 26, 2008 16:01 by IPSC   text 9 comments (last - saturday april 19, 2008 09:47)   image 10 images   1 attached file
National Demonstration, Sat April 12th 2008 @ 2PM, Central Bank, Dublin.

Voice your opposition to the brutal and racist policies of the Israeli State over the past six decades and show your solidarity with the besieged and occupied people of Palestine, come along to the demonstration and make some noise!. read full story / add a comment
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