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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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national / eu / news report Tuesday January 15, 2008 16:28 by Voteno.ie   text 31 comments (last - saturday january 19, 2008 12:57)   image 2 images
A new website - www.VoteNo.ie - has been launched to garner a No vote to the Lisbon Treaty. read full story / add a comment
4 days of secularism & general pope-bashing - Thank Galileo.
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday January 15, 2008 12:08 by + "ora pro nobis"   text 12 comments (last - friday march 28, 2008 00:19)   image 2 images
67 members of staff at the university of Sapienza in Rome have joined their student body in rejecting a planned visit by Pope Benedict XVI this Thursday citing his position & opinion on Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) common era, who was placed under house arrest by the Roman Catholic church from 1633 onwards in a process which Joseph Ratzinger described as "reasonable & just" in 1990.
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galway / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday January 15, 2008 11:27 by PaddyK2
When: Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 @ 6.30pm
Where: Galway One World Centre, 1st Floor, Bridge Mills, Galway read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Tuesday January 15, 2008 10:18 by Mark C   text 12 comments (last - wednesday january 07, 2009 17:35)
Tom Hodgkinson has written quite an interesting article about Facebook, published in last Monday's G2. It begins:

I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?

And does Facebook really connect people? Doesn't it rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with my friends, I am merely sending them little ungrammatical notes and amusing photos in cyberspace, while chained to my desk? A friend of mine recently told me that he had spent a Saturday night at home alone on Facebook, drinking at his desk. What a gloomy image. Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday January 14, 2008 23:58 by Seamus Power.   text 7 comments (last - thursday february 14, 2008 18:10)   image 3 images
Institutionalised religion is concerned in retaining control: the reality of power is more important than the prospect of exploring multiple realities. Anything new or different raises the alarm bells.
The words of church officials come from dogma not from the heart, influenced by tradition, not intuition. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday January 14, 2008 23:49 by Seamus Power.   text 2 comments (last - thursday january 17, 2008 18:03)
Politicians are at the forefront in creating a new world, but will they slip further into their world of power and deceit ? read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Monday January 14, 2008 21:40 by Richard Walsh
Republican Sinn Féin have expressed concern that Low Copy Number DNA analysis is to be resumed in England and Wales. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / press release Monday January 14, 2008 21:32 by Richard Walsh
RSF have described the Aer Lingus' move to Aldergrove from Shannon as a cynical attempt to increase their own profits. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 20:23 by WSM   text 39 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2008 13:04)   image 1 image
international / miscellaneous / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 18:07 by Fleachta   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 26, 2008 23:54)   image 1 image
Come along and support us to highlight our protest against profit driven Globalisation. Be part of the Global Day of Action on Saturday, January, 26th 2008, 11:30 am outside the Central Bank, Dame Street, Dublin 1- for a Media Stunt and Information Stalls of Groups and Organisations read full story / add a comment
'Bloody Sunday' picket , Dublin , Saturday Jan 26 , 2008.
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 17:13 by Sharon .   text 65 comments (last - tuesday october 18, 2011 04:44)   image 14 images   3 attached files
A picket in memory of the 14 people massacred by the British Parachute Regiment on Sunday , January 30 , 1972 , will be held in Dublin on Saturday January 26 , 2008. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 16:38 by Laura Broxson
mayo / environment / news report Monday January 14, 2008 16:29 by AM   text 32 comments (last - monday january 21, 2008 14:36)   image 1 image
Paul Allen, Cheif Executive Officer of Serica Energy, has said that the company hopes to drill Corrib "look-a-like prospects" this year. He states that the tax and licensing situation in Ireland is very good for the oil industry (and thus not so good for the people of Ireland). read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 16:28 by PaddyK2   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 22, 2008 23:32)
Lecture 3: Meltdown? - Evidence of Climate Change from Polar Science
Speaker: Dr Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey, UK
Date: Tuesday 22nd January, 6.30 - 8.00p.m
Venue: The Round Room, The Mansion House,
Dawson Street, Dublin 2 read full story / add a comment
galway / eu / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 16:10 by PaddyK2
People's Movement/Galway Alliance against War
Public Meeting
Richardson's Bar (upstairs), Galway
Tuesday, 15th January, 8.30 p.m. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 15:47 by Johnny H   text 1 comment (last - monday january 14, 2008 15:51)   image 1 image
There will be a CYM Discussion Class on "The Ongoing Cuban Revolution" this Wednesday at 7pm in Connolly Books, East Essex Street, Temple Bar. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 13:53 by peacehq
The nuclear industry threatens us all. Today there is an urgent call for global action to break the cycle of mass destruction. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday January 14, 2008 12:37 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 1 comment (last - monday january 14, 2008 18:47)   image 2 images
The anti-war spirit is alive and active in a prison near Stirling in Scotland. On Thursday January 12th, at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, a pair of grandmothers, Georgina Smith (78) and Helen John (70), were sentenced by Sheriff Richard MacFarlane to jail for 45 days and 40 days respectively, for writing the truth on the outside of the Edinburgh High Court on Armistice Day November 11th 2006. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / news report Monday January 14, 2008 11:59 by N.A.R.C   text 12 comments (last - saturday january 19, 2008 18:13)   image 1 image
Ógra Shinn Féin will launch a major National campaign on Drugs and Alcohol this coming weekend in Dublin.

The launch will take place this Saturday 19th January at the youth movement’s National Congress in the ATGWU Hall, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin at 2pm. Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams will be attending the launch.

The campaign which will run for the next 6 months is called N.A.R.C, an acronym for not another ravaged community.

It will focus on many issues relating to drug and alcohol abuse, including youth and community action, gaining a more concerted effort from government, and rolling out a vigorous and broad based awareness programme. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday January 14, 2008 11:33 by Geoffrey Cooling   text 9 comments (last - wednesday january 30, 2008 19:24)
We need real and workable measures to deal with our drug problems, mandatory prison time for users is at least one option, while legalization is another. Let us at least start the debate. read full story / add a comment
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