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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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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday March 18, 2008 07:44 by Ciaron   text 18 comments (last - tuesday september 02, 2008 22:05)
“RIVERS OF BLOOD START HERE”
Zelda Jeffers and Fr Martin Newell of the London
Catholic Worker community were sentenced to
days in prison today, at Stratford Magistrates
Court, for pouring fake blood onto the gangway
entrance to the DSEi (Defence System Equipment
International) Arms Fair at Custom House DLR station
in east London in September. The entrance to one of
the world’s largest arms fairs was closed for at least
4 hours as a result.
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galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday March 18, 2008 01:51 by Over The Edge
Friday April 11 is the date for an evening of Polish poetry organized by Over the Edge at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, opposite St. Nicholas’s Church, with the help of Galway-based Polish journalist Magalena Szulc. The evening is being supported by the Polish Embassy in Ireland. The reading will start at 8pm. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Monday March 17, 2008 20:35 by Aontacht.org   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 16, 2009 09:57)
Aontacht.org exists for Republicans and Socialists activists come together online to discuss and debate which will hopefully transcend into the spheres were these activists fulfil their work to make real changes to the Ireland of today. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday March 17, 2008 19:34 by Brian   text 7 comments (last - tuesday march 23, 2010 12:04)   image 1 image
This article is just an attempt to speculate on how the Vatican intends to juggle the competing interests of the two streams of thought within the Catholic Church.
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MArathon own eighteen per cent of the Corrib Gas field- will Bord Gais snap it up?
mayo / environment / news report Monday March 17, 2008 15:15 by S.Cat   image 1 image
According to some sources in the business world, Bord Gais Éireann has expressed an interest in buying Marathon Oil's Irish operations, including an 18% interest in the Corrib field.

US company Marathon has indicated that it may sell off its Irish operations in an effort to streamline its portfolio.

BGÉ is currently completing a plan for submission to Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan, which will outline proposals for €750 million investment in energy related businesses.

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St Patrick's flag flutters in front of Limavady Orange Hall, Co Derry
derry / miscellaneous / news report Monday March 17, 2008 14:35 by Shane   text 9 comments (last - wednesday march 19, 2008 11:29)   image 2 images
This morning, the St Patrick's flag flutters in front of Limavady Orange hall in Co. Derry. The Irish flag of St Patrick, not often seen even in northern Irish Unionist districts, is a diagonal red cross against a white background. When combined with the English Cross of St George (a red cross against a white background, often seen at English football matches and on nationalist rallies in Georgia in eastern Europe) and the Scottish Cross of St Andrew (a diagonal white cross against a blue background) you get the British Union Flag, known colloquially as the "Union Jack". read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Monday March 17, 2008 12:44 by Laura Broxson
SAY 'NO' TO ANIMAL CIRCUSES!!! read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / event notice Monday March 17, 2008 01:27 by NIFC
Cumann na Saoirse Naisiunta's Easter Commemoration

Cumann na Saoirse Naisiunta will hold its annual Easter Commemoration at the grave of Joseph Stynes, an Oglaigh na h-Eireann veteran, in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx at 9.00am on Easter Sunday March 23, 2008 .

For more information contact nifcmem@optonline.net

Friends of Irish Freedom Easter Mass and Breakfast

The above commemoration will be followed at 10.00am by an Easter Mass and Breakfast hosted by The Friends of Irish Freedom at Kelly Ryan’s Restaurant, 5790 Mosholu Ave. in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Guest Speaker will be Ed Moloney Tickets are $25.00-- Children under 12 are free read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 16, 2008 23:20 by Fu Manchu   text 14 comments (last - wednesday march 19, 2008 21:32)
Firstly, I do not intend to exhonerate or belittle human rights abuses by the PRC in this piece. However, I feel it appropriate to provoke the thoughts of the readership & our horizontal media community on what exactly are the main issues & ethical social principles at the root of the recent violence in Tibet & other provinces of the PRC with ethnic Tibetan communities.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday March 16, 2008 21:22 by Anon
Olivier Besancourt the thirty year old mousturizer using Trotskyist who championed radical left hopes in the General Election last year & who did surprisingly well and winning 4.08% or 1,498,581 votes, & thus came fifth in Presidential candidates just behind Le Pen, & then rousingly called on French people to vote for Segolene Royal, has this evening called on French workers to a "General Strike".

The call has been made as the Socialist lead of the first round of local elections at 47% has risen to a victory of 49.5% when all candidates of the left are put in one category just as if they are, which of course they aren't. Less than twenty five minutes this brave & rousing call was made - your indymedia ireland site reports it to you. Which just goes to show how au fait the modern lefty of either Trotskyist or non-mousturizer variety is with new technology. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday March 16, 2008 17:09 by Paula Geraghty   text 22 comments (last - monday march 17, 2008 16:02)   image 32 images
Five years on from the invasion of Iraq by the US people still are taking to the street to say 'Not in Our name'.

The Irish Anti-war Movement along with PANA and millions of people all over the world joined together to say no to an imperial war, phoney arguments and greed for oil. Rain falls in Dublin while bombs, destruction and devastation rains down on Iraq. Another world is possible. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday March 16, 2008 14:32 by Nikita   text 6 comments (last - sunday june 08, 2008 21:21)   image 5 images
This Wednesday the 19th of March, the CYM will be holding a picket at the Dept Of Foreign Affairs on Stephens Green at 6pm to protest against the banning of our fraternal comrades, The Czech Communist Youth (KSM.) The CYM demands that the Irish government condemn this abuse of democracy in the Czech Republic and calls for an end to the suppression of the KSM. read full story / add a comment
Michael Strelow
galway / arts and media / event notice Sunday March 16, 2008 13:38 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
The March Over The Edge: Open Reading takes place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, March 27th, 6.30-8pm. The Featured Readers are Michael Strelow, Hedy Gibbons Lynott & John Corless read full story / add a comment
The viable crucifixion uses nails through the arms & holds the body in foetal position
international / arts and media / other press Sunday March 16, 2008 04:10 by fancy that   text 5 comments (last - sunday march 16, 2008 21:46)   image 3 images
Tonight the BBC will air the first part of their 2008 "Passion" drama in which Simon Elliott the production designer has chosen to depict a "historically accurate" crucifixion as possible. ""He was probably put on a crude wooden gibbet and made to stand in a loose, foetal position. It was fiendishly designed."" says Mr Elliott who admits his work might offend Christians who like the traditional nails through the hands & feet image of a muscular sort of chap who manages to just hang there without suffocation or his hands being ripped apart.

Pretty gruesome stuff you'll agree. You might even believe in it. In which case you ought jam the BBC switchboard tonight & write letters using the trusty name "disgusted". read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / other press Sunday March 16, 2008 02:22 by clstrfck
Concern is also growing that, after Northern Rock and Bear Stearns, another bank casualty is looming on this side of the Atlantic. Many are now focusing on Irish banks, which have lent aggressively during the property boom. Irish Nationwide, which was recently given a 'C' rating from Moody's - not a ringing endorsement - is at the centre of rumours. The bank, with assets of €16bn, had a reputation for offering 100 per cent loans on property, and took equity stakes in many deals. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Sunday March 16, 2008 00:02 by eeekkk   text 41 comments (last - sunday march 23, 2008 01:13)   image 5 images
Have heard from two reliable sources that Squeek has left the tunnel at Rath Lugh. She left with Gardai and some of her family present. The Gardai have taken her away from the site as far as I am aware.

Here's hoping for 100 to take her place. Tara is THE symbol of dead-end corruption and anti-democratic government in Ireland. The dictatorship of the developers. Pitting people against each other.

Well done Squeek. Takes a lot of nerve. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday March 15, 2008 22:56 by Loin_de_loeil
A filmmaker team propose to free the copyright of their documentaries about non-violent struggles in India read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday March 15, 2008 17:52 by John Dunne
1916 RISING COMMEMORATION CEREMONY

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Bigotry isn't Irish.....resistance is!
international / gender and sexuality / event notice Saturday March 15, 2008 16:26 by Irish Queers of NYC   image 2 images
The organizers of the NYC St. Patrick's Day parade, seeking to
legalize their discrimination against Irish lesbian, gay, bisexual &
transgender marchers, have redefined the parade as a private,
religious procession. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday March 15, 2008 16:17 by fnord   text 11 comments (last - monday march 24, 2008 23:35)
Western governments must talk to terror groups including al-Qaida and the Taliban if they hope to secure a long-term halt to their campaigns of violence, according to the man who for more than a decade was Tony Blair's most influential aide and adviser. Jonathan Powell, who served as Blair's chief of staff from 1995 to 2007 and is widely regarded as having been instrumental in negotiating a settlement in Northern Ireland, said his experience in the province convinced him that it was essential to keep a line of communication open even with one's most bitter enemies. Powell said: "There's nothing to say to al-Qaida and they've got nothing to say to us at the moment, but at some stage you're going to have to come to a political solution as well as a security solution. And that means you need the ability to talk." read full story / add a comment
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