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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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dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday January 10, 2008 13:12 by Seomra Spraoi
UK approves new nukes
international / environment / other press Thursday January 10, 2008 12:18 by neighbourly   text 6 comments (last - friday january 25, 2008 21:04)   image 1 image
Despite the cost of building them, the delay in bringing them online, the cost of cleaning up the old ones, the cost of disposing of all the waste so far, the need to invest in carbon capture or at least print up colourful brochures for the next generation on climate change, the general un-Scottishness of a post-nuclear "chernobyl style" disaster UK (most of Scottish people & many Welsh ones too would peel & die) the government of the UK has decided to approve new nuclear power plants.

Because of the Scottish thing, their PM AlexSalmond has gone radge & insists not a single nuke will be build the Caledonian side of the border. Nobody remembers the name of the Welsh PM so all attention is on the Taoiseach to say something rousing.
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Walkers brave the cold for a good cause
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday January 10, 2008 11:33 by Old Head   text 2 comments (last - sunday january 20, 2008 22:36)   image 3 images
Last year, in January 2007 a group of brave souls undertook to clim part of the Galtee Mountains to raise funds for a key court challenge with regard to the blocking of public access at the Old Head of Kinsale, Co. Cork. This year, as the case approaches a hearing in the High Court, funds are badly needed and we need more hardy folks to take to the mountains again. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday January 10, 2008 11:08 by 4WW
This Monday's "The Fourth World War " radio program at Féile FM will be dedicated to the Third Encounter of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World and the 14th anniversary of the Zapatista Rising. read full story / add a comment
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national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday January 10, 2008 10:26 by C Murray   text 7 comments (last - monday january 14, 2008 20:58)   image 2 images
This is a short opinion and analysis based in an article written in December 2006
regarding the Press laws introduced by the then Minister for Justice, Michael Mc Dowell.
He published a Bill entitled 'The Privacy and Defamation Bill 2006'.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78780

The Bill did not get legislated for in the form introduced and the 'Defamation 'section was 'shelved'.
Last night at the Launch of the Press Council of Ireland, current Justice Minister , Brian Leninhan TD
threatened the re-introduction of the defamation section , which had garnered international criticism. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday January 10, 2008 10:17 by Irish Basque Committees
When the Gorka Lupianez rape at Spanish police hands was still fresh on people's memory two new terrible cases came up this week. read full story / add a comment
kerry / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 09, 2008 22:33 by marie
To mark the sixth anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to Guantánamo Bay, Amnesty International Tralee Branch is taking its part
in **Worldwide** events, rallies and meetings to seek the immediate closure of the detention centre and an end to all illegal detentions.

In Tralee you will find a lone participant dressed in an ORANGE JUMPSUIT with a white facemask.
Each 'statue' will highlight the issue of solitary confinement, and identify a specific individual in Guantánamo.

Other AI members will collect signatures on a petition to be delivered to the US Ambassador in Ireland.

VENUE: The Square, Tralee, Saturday 12th January @ 2PM

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday January 09, 2008 19:56 by wageslave   text 4 comments (last - tuesday january 22, 2008 07:43)   image 2 images
Former CIA agent Philip Agee, a critic of U.S. foreign policy who infuriated American intelligence officials by naming purported agency operatives in a 1975 book, has died, state media reported Wednesday. He was 72. read full story / add a comment
Noel Maguire Irish Political Prisoner
national / crime and justice / other press Wednesday January 09, 2008 19:14 by Concerned Group for Republican Prisoners   text 14 comments (last - wednesday november 26, 2008 19:34)   image 1 image
I wish through your media outlet to bring attention to a grave injustice being perpetrated against an Irish Citizen by his own government, Noel Maguire is seeking repatriation back to Ireland from an English jail to serve the remainder of his sentence in the country of his birth and to be closer to his family. The refusal by the Irish government in accepting Noel’s application seems to be stripping him of his Irish Citizenship and the civil rights that are associated with it.
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national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday January 09, 2008 18:16 by Des Dalton   text 2 comments (last - friday january 11, 2008 10:42)
A New Year statement out some of the key issues which Republican Sinn Fein will be campaigning on in 2008. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 09, 2008 16:37 by Dublin Shell to Sea
Boycott Shell!

Dublin Shell to Sea picket
Shell garage, South Circular Road, Kilmainham
6pm, Wednesday 23 January read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday January 09, 2008 15:21 by Setanta
Solicitors in Waterford and adjoining counties will be put under the spotlight at a meeting to be held in the Park Hotel Dungarvan. County Waterford on Tuesday 15th.January 2008. at 8.00 pm.

Are solicitors and the legal profession worthy of our confidence and trust ?
Is there a need for an ombudsman to investigate a legal profession that has seriously lost it's way.?
Do we have a corrupt Law Society? Do we have corrupt solicitors?

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international / politics / elections / other press Wednesday January 09, 2008 14:40 by tomeile   text 2 comments (last - friday january 11, 2008 18:44)
Another black American is running for President . Cynthia McKinney, a former Democrat from Georgia, was one of only three members of Congress to vote "yes" on a House Resolution in 2005 calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. One of her last acts in office was introducing Articles of Impeachment naming George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.

With thousands of Afro-Americans still refugees in their own country following Hurricane Kathrina three years ago , McKinney is running on a reconstruction programme . She is demanding that the billions currently being spent on war should be used to address " .......the conditions of poverty, racism, and neglect that have existed since America's first Reconstruction Period after the Civil War."

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national / arts and media / news report Wednesday January 09, 2008 14:28 by Willie   text 7 comments (last - thursday january 10, 2008 12:57)   image 1 image
A video posted on youtube by members of the Irish Defence Forces- self-styled "Oglaigh na hEireann" - has been removed from by government order.

It is believed by some that Willie O'Dea was informed that the video, combined with the clear indication of his mustache, may lead some to believe that the whole 26 county defence forces idea was "a bit gay".

In the interest of free speech, the video should be seen, but people of a nervous disposition should be warned, it contains graphic scenes of disco dancing, men in showers, toilets and weight-lifting. read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday January 09, 2008 12:49 by Sarah
The Galway One World Centre is running a series of monthly informal debates beginning next Tuesday 15th of January at 6.30.The debates will be held in the One World Centre headquarters on the first floor of the Bridge Mills, Dominic street.

For this first debate of 2008 we will have two speakers with great experience regarding international volunteering- Mr Titus Glavee from the Ireland African Internship Programme and Maryanne Wangari-Mullen of the Harambee Charity Shop in Galway which raises funds for the Dochas Nasamu children’s home in Kenya. They will both be speaking from their personal experience with international volunteers.
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international / environment / other press Wednesday January 09, 2008 12:01 by staring at rats   text 7 comments (last - thursday february 07, 2008 09:33)   image 2 images
Really quite a miscellany of human interest stories this one.

Naples is notorious throughout Europe for its rubbish problem, which for many is blamed on the intransigence of the Comora or Napolitan mafia who sabotage every attempt to provide the city with incineration facilities. Over the Christmas the Italian military were sent into the city to clean up mountains of household waste which quite simply has nowhere to go. Today the Italian state has appointed a "garbage czar" to sort it out. Meanwhile the Peoples' Republic of China is to ban plastic bags in an attempt to stop pollution in its land. Very thought provoking. & there is a spat in Italy between a bishop and family members over plans to exhume & display the body of Padre Pio the patron saint of "January blues". read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday January 09, 2008 06:16 by A   text 2 comments (last - friday january 11, 2008 21:56)
Shannon Airport has become a major refueling depot for CIA rendition flights http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85567

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cork / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday January 08, 2008 19:30 by one of CAZ
Interested in helping plan for the new year at CAZ?
Then try to get there on Monday evening next, Jan. 14.
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The board of MAYO POWER with Myles Staunton (ex Fine Gael TD) second from left
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday January 08, 2008 16:51 by mr blue   text 13 comments (last - thursday december 09, 2010 13:44)   image 2 images
Plans are fast progressing to redevelop part of the old Asahi chemical plant in Killala County Mayo with a power plant using the same type of technology that is used in incinerators. Although the company behind the scheme say they intend to generate electricity using a mixture of peat, wood, and imported coal, many fear that the huge facility will be converted to an incinerator in the future.

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(Big) Garda deals with Elaine
clare / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday January 08, 2008 16:08 by Seán Ryan   text 57 comments (last - wednesday february 13, 2008 15:50)   image 3 images
Banner action in Shannon that highlights the fact that the Gardaí are either unaware of the law or do not practice it. read full story / add a comment
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