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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 / other press Thursday March 13, 2008 13:34 by tomeile   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 13, 2008 15:58)
The resignation of the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, Admiral William J. "Fox" Fallon, on Tuesday has sparked a new round of speculation that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are planning to attack Iran before Bush leaves the Whitehouse. Reports such as the two linked to here suggesting that the Admiral was forced to resign because of his cautious attitude to war with Iran have been denied by the Bush administration and Fallon himself .

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meath / crime and justice / news report Thursday March 13, 2008 12:57 by Rob Henderson   text 21 comments (last - tuesday march 18, 2008 15:48)   image 2 images
Ferrovial/Siac Construction with the support of An Garda Shiochána are today engaging in the reckless endangerment of the life of an Irish Citizen. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday March 13, 2008 12:29 by Don
Taken from a press release from Billy Timmins TD to pull public funds from businesses helping to build cluster bombs. Thus proving Fine Gael are main party campaigning on human rights issues. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday March 13, 2008 12:18 by pat c   image 1 image
Peter Tatchell writes below on the case of Yaghub Mehrnehad and others under sentence of death in Iran.

An Iranian Baluch journalist and civil rights campaigner, Yaghub Mehrnehad, aged 28, has been sentenced to death for an unknown offence, after torture and an unfair trial conducted behind closed doors, according to Amnesty International. His execution is imminent. He is likely to be hanged in public, using the barbaric slow strangulation method favoured by the Tehran regime. It is deliberately designed to maximise the pain and prolong the suffering of the victim.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday March 13, 2008 12:07 by Health Working Group   image 2 images
Radical health reform, in terms of creating equality and accessibility, and stopping the agenda of privatisation and for-profit medicine, is one of the great challenges facing Irish society. In this pamphlet, anarchists explain the reasons why such change is needed, give examples of important first steps in creating change, and describe the type of struggle that is necessary if we are going to win.

PDFs of this pamphlet can be downloaded:

A4 version - http://www.wsm.ie/attachments/mar2008/health_pamphlet_1...1.pdf
A5 booklet version (for double sided printing) - http://www.wsm.ie/attachments/mar2008/health_pamphlet_a...1.pdf read full story / add a comment
Pearse Doherty
mayo / environment / news report Thursday March 13, 2008 11:56 by leinster house   text 5 comments (last - saturday january 24, 2009 22:04)   image 4 images
Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty yesterday met with representatives of Shell and Statoil to clearly outline his and Sinn Féin’s opposition to the terms and conditions under which gas exploration companies operate in Ireland and in Irish Waters.

Speaking after the meeting Senator Doherty said, “Today I met with representatives of Shell and Statoil to clearly outline my and Sinn Féin’s complete opposition to the terms and conditions under which gas exploration companies operate in Ireland and in Irish Waters. These conditions have not been properly negotiated by the Government and do not offer a fair return to the State and its people. This is one of the reasons why Sinn Féin opposes the Finance Bill 2008 as it maintains these very conditions for gas exploration companies.
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international / history and heritage / news report Thursday March 13, 2008 11:08 by tarapixie   text 29 comments (last - sunday march 16, 2008 01:26)   image 4 images
Today the front line is being evicted by unqualified members of the road company and the fire brigade. there are no safety measures in place read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday March 13, 2008 11:00 by D_D   text 1 comment (last - monday march 17, 2008 14:16)
This new site compiles the documents and debate around the split in Respect and provides a forum for the politics of non-sectarian left renewal and regroupment.

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Rath Lugh Defence Fort
international / environment / press release Thursday March 13, 2008 08:28 by TaraTaraTara   text 8 comments (last - friday march 14, 2008 12:17)   image 3 images
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday March 12, 2008 23:00 by Progressive Film Club   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 16, 2008 15:52)   image 1 image
The Progressive Film Club presents:

FAST FOOD NATION

Sunday March 16th @ 7:30pm in The New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Entrance: 5euro read full story / add a comment
Manchester Chief Constable Michael Todd
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 12, 2008 22:49 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - thursday march 13, 2008 23:35)   image 1 image
Pedro Iñaki Pérez Beotegui (alias "Wilson") 1948 - 2008
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 12, 2008 22:04 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi   text 9 comments (last - friday november 03, 2017 22:37)   image 1 image
Pedro Iñaki Pérez Beotegui (alias "Wilson") died yesterday, on the fourth anniversary of the Al Qaeda M11 bombing of Madrid, in Vitoria in the Basque Country at 60 years of age. As "Wilson" he led the group who in 1973 rented a flat on at Calle Claudio Coello 104, Madrid overlooking the road which Franco's prime minister & expected successor Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco used every morning to travel to work after mass in an armoured car. For several weeks the four members of the team, codenamed "Ogre" tunnelled under the street and then placed 80kg of explosives which they detonated on the 20th of December 1973. The car in which Carrero Blanco travelled was sent 20 metres into the air & over a five storey building in the blast. The assassination is cited in almost every account of how the Spanish state passed from an authoritiarian military dictatorship to the process of "transition" upon Franco's death without named successor to the European social democracy it is today. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday March 12, 2008 18:58 by pat c   image 1 image
workers in struggle is a new publication which brings together trade unionists, socialists and other activists in solidarity with the workers movement in the Middle East.

Articles in this issue include:

strike wave rocks egypt
On Sunday 16th February, more than 10,000 workers
from the Spinning and Weaving Company textile mill in
the Nile Delta city of Mahalla el-Kubra staged a mass
demonstration against low wages, price rises and Hosni
Mubarak’s authoritarian regime. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 12, 2008 18:32 by rogy   text 11 comments (last - thursday march 13, 2008 23:12)
Chicken is one of the most popular meats in Ireland. Consumers tend to know little of how it is produced intensively. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / event notice Wednesday March 12, 2008 18:32 by Middle East Workers' Solidarity   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 13, 2008 15:49)
Action to defend Mehdi Kazemi March 22nd

On Saturday March 22nd at 2pm Middle East Workers' Solidarity will be staging a protest opposite Downing Street in defence of Mehdi Kazemi, a gay Iranian asylum seeker who the British government plans to send back to Iran on the grounds that if gay Iranians are "discreet about their sexuality", they will not get in trouble.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday March 12, 2008 17:01 by events@lasc.ie
The Latin America Week Conference will be a unique opportunity for activists in Ireland to exchange view and experiences with international activists. This year's theme will be the struggle against water privatization and the threat posed by European Trade Agreements. The Conference closes Latina America Week: a week of educational and solidarity events focused on the issue of the private exploitation of water and the impact of this on human development in Latin America with public debates, seminars, workshops, photo exhibitions, documentaries, fundraisers, Club Sandino in Dublin, Derry, Limerick, Belfast and Galway.

LAW Conference will take place on Saturday 12th April from 10:00 to 16:15 at the Auditorium, Park Inn Hotel, Smithfield Village, Dublin 7.
Free Admission.
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Poster for the event
dublin / gender and sexuality / feature Wednesday March 12, 2008 16:00 by bot   text 5 comments (last - friday march 14, 2008 14:51)   image 9 images
On International Women's Day this year, women took to the streets of Dublin, in celebration of Dublin's feminist history and in realisation of what still needs to be done. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 12, 2008 15:45 by Anonymous   text 11 comments (last - saturday march 15, 2008 15:21)   image 1 image
As Project Chanology continues, thousands of people worldwide will stage a protest on the 15th of March against the Church of Scientology's corruption, and its abuse of its members and critics. From 11am (local time) onwards, the group Anonymous shall picket over a hundred of the Church of Scientology's headquarters worldwide, including Mission of Dublin Ltd on Middle Abbey Street. Anonymous has also been working to increase awareness for the cause, whilst simultaneously acquiring and spreading new information about the Church of Scientology obtained from its increasing number of informants within the organization, as part of its campaign to "systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in it's present form". read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday March 12, 2008 13:32 by SDLP
SDLP Youth are angry that the University of Ulster Students’ Union cancelled a cross-party meeting minutes before the meeting was due to take place without notifying political parties. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 12, 2008 11:04 by John   text 7 comments (last - friday march 14, 2008 11:35)
Dali Jeyran a poliitical activist in Iran was invited by Parents Alone Support Service to speak at a series of meetings in Finglas on the 6th of March about the current situation in Iran and, particularly, the plight of women in Iran struggling against the regime. The meetings were organised by PASS as our celebration of International Womens’ Day. read full story / add a comment
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