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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 Climatism in Europe is Dying Tue Sep 30, 2025 19:00 | Eugyppius
Climatism in Europe is dying as its grassroots support evaporates and Left-wing activists move onto other concerns. Eurocrats are well-insulated from public opinion but they can't ignore it forever, says Eugyppius.
The post Climatism in Europe is Dying appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Blow to Miliband as Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling and Union Boss Calls for Him to Be... 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 Blow to Miliband as Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling and Union Boss Calls for Him 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.

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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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offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

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galway / environment / event notice Thursday March 06, 2008 14:09 by PaddyK2   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 11, 2008 11:28)
The Galway One World Centre’s monthly debate series continues next Tuesday 11th March at 6.30.Although water is absolutely fundamental for life to exist, over 1 billion people in the world lack safe access to clean water and 25 million people in the world die every year as a result of contaminated waters.is month’s topic concerns one of the most urgent problems facing global society -ensuring access to safe drinking water. Although water is absolutely fundamental for life to exist, over 1 billion people in the world lack safe access to clean water and 25 million people in the world die every year as a result of contaminated waters. Last years cryptosporidium crisis in Galway highlighted that water supply is an issue with universal effects. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / news report Thursday March 06, 2008 13:16 by netrebko   text 16 comments (last - monday april 07, 2008 02:56)   image 3 images
Yesterday, another four exploration licences were awarded to energy companies who want to exploit the natural resources off the west coast of Ireland. Estimates of the value of our resources vary, but the rising price of energy around the world would indicate that large amounts of money are at stake. The Department of Natural Resources released figures last May saying that there are at least 10 billion barrels of oil in Irish waters. There may be much more. Oil is currently valued at $104 per barrel. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday March 06, 2008 12:46 by Grace Walsh
We’re delighted to announce the official launch of a collection of photography entitled “24 glances”, which includes pictures taken by young people from VSI's Teenage Programme on the theme of Immigration.

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international / sci-tech / other press Thursday March 06, 2008 00:44 by Pollytix   text 4 comments (last - sunday march 09, 2008 12:57)
'The problem for the senior vice-president of technology at Phorm, an Aim-listed company which recently tied up a deal with the UK's three biggest internet service providers - BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, who between them have more than 10 million customers - is that it's not the privacy groups who he really needs to convince. It's the millions of people whose services will be affected by Phorm's scheme, because some are up in arms over what they see as an invasion of their privacy through Phorm's intention to categorise all of their web-surfing habits in order to target online ads at them.' read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 18:46 by Over The Edge
Creative Writing for Beginners with Kevin Higgins
Intermediate Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMars read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 17:35 by The Oh-Aissieux   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 30, 2008 15:50)
The Narrative Arts Club is proud to present an evening of storytelling in German, with the Algerian storyteller Naceur Charles Aceval.

Naceur Charles Aceval will tell tales from his soon-to-be-published novel, The Man Who Did Not Want To Die, in German.
Naceur Charles Aceval erzählt Geschichten aus seinem Märchen-Roman "Der Mann, der nicht sterben wollte".

Wednesday 12 March from 8pm (doors 7.30pm).
Mittwoch, 12. März 2008, 20:00 Uhr (Einlaß: 19:30 Uhr)
Library Bar Extension, Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2
Admission EUR 5. Concessions EUR 2.
Eintritt: 5,- Euro / 2.- Euro (Schüler, Studenten) read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 16:38 by Galway Socialist   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 16, 2008 00:43)
Upstairs, Richardson's bar Eyre Square, 1-4.30pm, Saturday 8th March

1pm: Iraq, 5 years on. How can the warmongers be defeated?

3pm: After Castro... Which way forward for Cuba and Latin America?

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kerry / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 14:46 by sean moraghan
Palestinian speaker Nidal Sardek will talk, informally, about the
different factions among the Palestinian resistance groups and the
history of the conflict.

VENUE: Imperial Hotel Bar, basement of, darkest part of, THURSDAY 6
March @ 7.30

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dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 14:04 by TaraWatch   text 1 comment (last - sunday june 01, 2008 12:49)   image 1 image
The M3 motorway is proceeding at a rapid rate. What can be done to stop it? read full story / add a comment
cork / eu / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 13:33 by Cork Sinn Féin   text 28 comments (last - thursday march 20, 2008 08:20)   image 1 image
Sinn Fein MEP Mary Lou McDonald will be in Cork Friday to launch the party's campaign against the Lisbon Treaty in the City read full story / add a comment
galway / eu / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 12:53 by Sarah   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 09, 2008 10:43)

Andy Storey - UCD Lecturer in Development Studies and board member of the Afri NGO will speak at a public meeting in the Harbour Hotel at 7.30 on the 19th of March. Mr Storey’s particular areas of expertise are the implications of the Lisbon Treaty with regard to international trade and militarisation of the EU. Andy has formerly held positions with Trocaire both in Rwanda and as a policy researcher.

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galway / environment / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 12:46 by Sarah Galway One World Centre
‘Water Rights and Wrongs’

The Galway One World Centre’s monthly debate series continues next Tuesday 11th March at 6.30.Although water is absolutely fundamental for life to exist, over 1 billion people in the world lack safe access to clean water and 25 million people in the world die every year as a result of contaminated waters.is month’s topic concerns one of the most urgent problems facing global society -ensuring access to safe drinking water. Although water is absolutely fundamental for life to exist, over 1 billion people in the world lack safe access to clean water and 25 million people in the world die every year as a result of contaminated waters. Last years cryptosporidium crisis in Galway highlighted that water supply is an issue with universal effects.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday March 05, 2008 11:35 by Edward Horgan, Conor Cregan   text 13 comments (last - monday march 17, 2008 19:08)   image 5 images   1 attached file
CIA Torture Plane N475LC was back at Shannon airport last night, 5 March 2008. read full story / add a comment
shell chun saile!
dublin / environment / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 11:21 by krossie   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 13, 2008 15:58)   image 1 image   1 attached file
Speakers on corruption, the pipeline and the environment and the campaign to move the refinery offshore... read full story / add a comment
Carbon Trading is Capitalist exploitation, and scientifically Bollox!!
international / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 05, 2008 10:09 by Soundmigration   image 1 image   1 attached file
Carbon trading and offsets distract attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Promoting more effective and empowering approaches to climate change involves moving away from the blinkered reductionism of free-market dogma, the false-economy of supposed quick fixes, the short-term self interest of big business.
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international / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday March 05, 2008 09:35 by Shocked
The Department issued a statement today confirming the employee's death on the premises after a newspaper reported it
yesterday morning. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 00:40 by Paul McAndrew
4pm,
The Cornerhouse Pub,
Coburg St,
informal get together over coffee or a pint,
for Pagans and Heathens of all traditions and of none

same time and venue on the 2nd Sunday of every month

look for the stag candleholder on the table :) read full story / add a comment
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cork / gender and sexuality / event notice Tuesday March 04, 2008 22:48 by CWRTC   image 1 image
Moonweave - Saturday 8 March, 11am - 11pm, Unitarian Church, Princes St. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday March 04, 2008 22:46 by solidarity
Picket in support of sacked migrant worker in Belfast City Centre read full story / add a comment
David Noone/Brian Wallace UCD 2003
cork / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday March 04, 2008 22:01 by Sirius Doyle   text 19 comments (last - saturday march 21, 2009 00:05)   image 4 images
Holocaust Denier and Neo-Nazi organiser Brian Wallace, a.k.a David Noone attempted to use UCC as a recruiting ground today, before being confronted by anti-fascist student activists in UCC. read full story / add a comment
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