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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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AI member as Guantánamo prisoner at the Spire
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday January 14, 2008 10:40 by Amnesty1   text 22 comments (last - thursday january 17, 2008 10:40)   image 11 images
Amnesty International members and supporters mobilised across Ireland read full story / add a comment
{redjade is jealous of whom took this photo - great shot!}
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday January 13, 2008 18:21 by Ciaron O' Reilly   text 16 comments (last - tuesday june 03, 2008 19:00)   image 11 images
The London Catholic Worker marked the 6th. anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo with a vigil at the U.S. embassy, located near Grosvenor Square in central London.

To vigil is stay awake; to stay awake to the mainstreaming of torture, to attacks on civil liberties, to our complicity with the CIA kidnapping and rendition flights refueling in England to the U.S. gulag that is Guantanamo. As we enter the 7th. year of the Bush initiated war without end, civil society remains asleep, sedated and silenced in the face of a war that escalates in Iraq and Afghanistan and expands into Lebanon, Somalia, Pakistan and who knows where next? read full story / add a comment
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dublin / animal rights / news report Sunday January 13, 2008 17:53 by Laura Broxson   image 3 images
New Target for Anti-Fur Protesters! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday January 13, 2008 14:59 by SY Online   text 2 comments (last - sunday january 13, 2008 16:01)
It seems like on the cusp of being real. For the first time in the U.S., a black man has a serious chance of being the next occupant of the White House. Barack Obama won the Democratic caucus in Iowa and finished a strong second to Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire.
The centerpiece of his campaign has been the claim that he is the candidate of “hope” and “change” as opposed to the establishment figure Hillary Clinton. He has crowned himself the king of post-racial and post-partisan politics. With the assistance of the corporate media machine, he’s been allowed to capture the imagination and hope of millions of voters, particularly new layers of politicized young people.

This includes hope that he has a “realistic” plan to end the Iraq War, that he is not beholden to big business interests and that he’s the candidate of universal healthcare. Obama wants us to believe that he’ll lift up the working poor and save the middle class. read full story / add a comment
Baskin's -Birdman
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Sunday January 13, 2008 14:40 by C Murray   text 4 comments (last - thursday january 24, 2008 14:55)   image 2 images
Dark tales of babies for breakfast and drugged up doctors on muscle -relaxants racing
in dark nights of Belfast operating theatres (in the nineties) provided an evening of food
for those inclined to Carteresque tales and shape-shifters of the Danish variety.

This evening of story-telling of shamanism and shrimps was brought by the good offices
of Coilin- the Oh-Aissieux, of the Narratvie Arts Club:-http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84746.
Backround to the Narrative Arts Club:- http://tinyurl.com/2barxo read full story / add a comment
galway / history and heritage / event notice Sunday January 13, 2008 12:18 by Anti Fascist   text 2 comments (last - thursday january 31, 2008 20:07)
The excellent exhibition of photographs of veterans of the SCW by Pablo Vazqaez Borragan, with extensive biographical information on each veteran by Harry Owens, continues its tour. Each exhibition also has a meeting organised with it. read full story / add a comment
galway / history and heritage / event notice Sunday January 13, 2008 12:04 by Anti Fascist
Photographic exhibition - The Defenders of the Spanish Republic exhibition
The excellent exhibition of photographs of veterans of the SCW by Pablo Vazqaez Borragan, with extensive biographical information on each veteran by Harry Owens, continues its tour. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday January 12, 2008 21:05 by June Kelly
A major security issue facing the Balkans, Russia, the
West, and elsewhere, is the future of the Serbian
province of Kosovo. Great Britain, as an ally of the
United States and a key member of the EU, is facing a
dilemma: read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday January 12, 2008 20:23 by Seán Ryan   text 13 comments (last - monday january 14, 2008 17:51)   image 18 images
Brief summary of the vigil held outside the Dublin embassy. read full story / add a comment
cork / eu / event notice Saturday January 12, 2008 19:53 by Joe Moore   text 12 comments (last - saturday march 22, 2008 08:03)
The Socialist Workers Party will host a public forum outlining the case against the EU Lisbon Treaty on Thursday 31st January in the Victoria Hotel, Cork at 8.00pm. Speaker Kieran Allen, author of "The Corporate Takeover of Ireland" read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday January 12, 2008 16:24 by Jonah   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 12, 2008 16:56)   image 2 images
WASHINGTON, DC – Friday afternoon (Jan 11th.), over 80 activists organized by Witness Against Torture delivered a message to the U.S. Supreme Court demanding the shut-down of the U.S. prison at Guantánamo and justice for those detained there. 35 activists were arrested inside the Court building and another 35 on the steps.
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday January 11, 2008 21:51 by éirígí   text 7 comments (last - saturday january 12, 2008 19:22)   image 1 image
Wednesday’s (January 9) trial of three men in Belmullet district court, county Mayo was a mixture of the farcical, the bizarre and the downright sinister. The article below features extracts from a more comprehensive piece which can be accessed in its entirety at

http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest110108.html
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international / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday January 11, 2008 21:43 by June Kelly

A major security issue facing the Balkans, Russia, the
West, and elsewhere, is the future of the Serbian
province of Kosovo - read full story / add a comment
Last remaining trees on Soldier Hill
international / history and heritage / news report Friday January 11, 2008 16:18 by tarapiXie   text 15 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 18:21)   image 11 images
Another successful day as the campaign continues, activists occupied one of the last remaining tree's on the route from 6.30am onwards on the compulsory purchase line at soldier hill. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday January 11, 2008 14:24 by paul o toole   text 25 comments (last - saturday march 29, 2008 22:02)   image 1 image
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday January 11, 2008 07:25 by Prison Solidarity   text 21 comments (last - tuesday june 03, 2008 08:30)
As the war escalates and expands and our movement grows, more resisters will be imprisoned. This can either be an experience of great solidarity and empowerment or demoralisation and defeat. A lot of it depends on us on the outside. Consider sending a postcard or solidarity letter to the following prisoners...... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Friday January 11, 2008 01:59 by Over The Edge
North Beach Poetry Nights

presents

North Beach Poetry Nights' first 2008 Slam

Upstairs at Richardsons. Nr1 on Eyre Square.

Thursday January 17th at 9. 15 pm

MC: Kevin Higgins

Guest Poet: Jarlath Fahy

whose first collection The Man Who Was Haunted By Beautiful Smells was published in November 2007 by WordsontheStreet. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Thursday January 10, 2008 23:47 by Richard Walsh   text 2 comments (last - friday january 11, 2008 22:05)
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday January 10, 2008 21:38 by Without Borders   text 12 comments (last - tuesday january 22, 2008 18:34)   image 3 images
European coverage of the arrest of the two Journalists in Niger on December the 17th
indicate that the French are not best pleased with Sarkozy's manner in handling the
Niger crisis.

Thomas Dandois is a freelance working with a Franco-German publication called
'Arte', and Pierre Cresson is a cameraman, they were arrested for talking with
Tuareg rebels and the sentence for so doing is punishable by death.

Reporters Sans Frontiers.
London Independent UK
Liberation.
Le Monde are calling for the Freedom of the Journalists. read full story / add a comment
Pat Boran
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday January 10, 2008 17:09 by Over The Edge   image 2 images
The first ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ of 2008 takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, January 24th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Peter Guy, Jenny McCudden & Pat Boran. The reading is sponsored by Poetry Ireland. This is a very special occasion as it is now exactly five years since Over The Edge was born in Galway City Library in January 2003. read full story / add a comment
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