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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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Voltaire, international edition

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galway / environment / event notice Monday February 18, 2008 21:39 by PaddyK2
Public event organised by Trócaire to provide people with an opportunity to hear from Dr Dominic Walubengo (Director of Forest Action Network, Kenya) and Martha Yvette Aguilar (El Salvador’s official Rapporteur to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), who have a powerful insight and expertise on the real impact of climate change. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / event notice Monday February 18, 2008 21:27 by PaddyK2   text 1 comment (last - monday february 18, 2008 22:13)
Is the care of the earth a burning question for people of faith? Should it be? Does the Christian gospel speak to the crisis of climate change? Does loving God and ones neighbour call also for love and reverence of planet earth? Are Christians too heavenly minded to see the dangers threatening the beauty and balance of God’s creation? read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Monday February 18, 2008 19:42 by Gardener
This meeting will establish Dublin Food Growing, an organisation dedicated to food security, advocacy, research, policy, networking and education. read full story / add a comment
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clare / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday February 18, 2008 18:53 by Conor Cregan   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 20, 2008 18:21)   image 10 images
Yesterday, Cosantori Siochana hosted what is now a monthly vigil at Shannon Airport to highlight Ireland’s participation in a war raging around the globe. This dignified witness was supported by Amnesty International and several Quakers from Limerick City.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday February 18, 2008 18:04 by Fiachra Ó Luain   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 24, 2008 17:16)
‘Winter Soldier’ (1972) is a film that has suffered from de facto censorship for most of its thirty six years. Its recent screening as part of the ‘War at Home’ category in the Berlinale Film Festival affected people in Berlin’s Filmpalast theatre as it did when first screened in the early seventies. It is harrowing viewing. Perhaps never before have words, simple spoken words, had such an affect on a society as this film did in the United States of America in 1972. This was because of the undeniable integrity of the U.S. servicemen articulating the extent of the genocidal operating procedure of the U.S. Armed Forces in Vietnam. It has since effectively been erased from the public memory. In the eighties and nineties the era of the Vietnam War underwent a full-scale reconstruction with the likes of Hollywood facelifts of the Vietnam veteran with such films as ‘Rambo’, ‘Hamburger Hill’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket’. Many people in Berlin were moved by the film as it is once again so relevant to all of us.
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international / gender and sexuality / other press Monday February 18, 2008 16:47 by Gender aware
While many Indymedia readers are probably not fans of any of the prospective presidential candidates in the US, I thought this analysis of the coverage was quite interesting and worth putting up. While I don't agree with all the points made, it does provide some interesting and disturbing commentary on the media coverage, and the way in which feminisation of the candidates is seen as a way of degrading them (particularly in relation to Clinton, of course). While I'm not her greatest fan, I do think some of the points made here and the examples given show how deep the distrust of female leadership still goes in Western society. Obama has faced some ethnocentric bias too, but it seems his charisma and gender are saving him from the worst of it. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday February 18, 2008 15:09 by pat c   image 2 images
This is part of the ITUC/ITF campasign to secure the realease of Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi and to demand rights for Iranian workers.

The ITUC and the ITF are organising a global action day on 6 March 2008 to express our solidarity with Iranian workers once again. We want Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi released immediately and unconditionally from prison. Their health conditions are deteriorating.
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national / miscellaneous / event notice Monday February 18, 2008 14:17 by Jason Brannigan   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 27, 2008 09:28)
The second annual Belfast Anarchist Bookfair will take place on Saturday 12 noon until 6.00 pm. Hosted by the Just Books Collective and Organise! in the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday February 18, 2008 13:54 by Cork Basque Committee
University College Cork Thursday 21st February 6pm read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Monday February 18, 2008 12:52 by Joe   text 3 comments (last - friday february 22, 2008 04:34)
Raymond Gilmour who served as a British agent inside the IRA and who has now been left, penniless, homeless with a heart condition and post traumatic stress disorder by his handlers is now giving free advice to other potential rats. Don't do it! read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday February 18, 2008 12:01 by Dublin Basque Committee
Dublin 26th of February 7pm Teacher’s Club, 36, Parnell Square West, D 1
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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday February 18, 2008 11:13 by Belfast Basque Committee
Belfast: 21st of February 7pm Felons Club, Falls Road. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday February 18, 2008 10:55 by Irish Basque Committees   text 3 comments (last - monday february 18, 2008 18:00)
SUPPORT DEMOCRACY FOR THE BASQUE COUNTRY. STOP REPRESSION. read full story / add a comment
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national / history and heritage / news report Sunday February 17, 2008 23:48 by TaraWatch   text 4 comments (last - tuesday march 11, 2008 21:00)   image 5 images
Campaigners are called on to lobby and help build an alliance that can assure this motion will succeed. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday February 17, 2008 23:39 by The Oh-Aissieux   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 19, 2008 09:25)   image 1 image
To kick off St. Paddy’s festival, the storytelling club that “knows no boundaries and succumbs to few taboos” is pleased to offer a night of Irish storytelling with a difference.

Library Bar Extension, Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2.
Thursday 13 March. Doors 7.30. Show starts 8pm sharp.
€5, concessions €2. read full story / add a comment
Protest her presence : Saturday February 23 , 2008.
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Sunday February 17, 2008 19:08 by Sharon .   text 32 comments (last - friday february 29, 2008 18:43)   image 6 images
A protest to mark the presence of British 'royal' , Anne Windsor , in Dublin, has been organised. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Sunday February 17, 2008 19:08 by Abkhazian Basque with a South Ossetian granny.   text 12 comments (last - wednesday october 15, 2008 08:44)   image 3 images
Here are some useful links so you and your family or friends can follow the recognition of Kosovo.
This will help you recognise Kosovars in your local community and avoid embarassment should you find yourself in the awkward situation of distinguishing between an Albanian and a Serb.

Their government http://www.kuvendikosoves.org/
Their "thank you site" http://www.kosovothanksyou.com/
Their newspapers http://www.kosovapress.com/ http://www.newkosovareport.com/
Their Telly http://www.rtklive.com/ http://www.rtv21.tv/site/?id=1,0,0,1,a read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday February 17, 2008 15:06 by Philip   text 36 comments (last - monday march 30, 2009 14:53)   image 3 images
North American readers of indymedia.ie who are in the north east should be interested in this speaking tour by the Irish anarchist Andrew Flood. In the next month he is speaking at NEFAC arranged events in 15 cities including Boston, New York, Baltimore and Washington DC. The list below is not yet complete as the later dates in Virginia and upstate NY are being finalised. read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / other press Sunday February 17, 2008 14:12 by JM   image 1 image   1 attached file
The sale of licences to drill for oil and gas rights in Alaska will threaten the future of the region’s polar bears, conservationists warned today. read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday February 17, 2008 14:08 by Paddy F.   text 24 comments (last - friday january 16, 2009 04:06)   image 11 images
Yesterday, Galway IPSC took to the street to protest against the collusion of a spineless and conscienceless EU with Israel and to encourage shoppers to boycott Israeli goods.

Belfast based, David Morrison, who writes for the Labour & Trade Union Review puts the pertinent question in a Electronic Intifada article: "How is Israel able to strangle the Gaza Strip when there is supposed to be an international crossing between Gaza and Egypt not controlled by Israelis?" and then goes on to answer with telling detail that: "It was primarily through the good offices of the European Union (EU), which had a formal role in managing the Rafah crossing, that Israel always had a veto on the opening of the crossing. In practice, whenever Israel didn't want the crossing open, the EU obligingly kept it shut". http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9303.shtml
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