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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 Fact-Checking Starmer?s Claim That Brexit Created the Small Boats Crisis Wed Oct 01, 2025 17:30 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has claimed that Brexit created the small boats crisis and the migrant boats should be called 'Farage boats'. This is nonsense, says David Barrett, and even Oxford University's Migration Observatory agrees.
The post Fact-Checking Starmer’s Claim That Brexit Created the Small Boats Crisis appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Why is ?Pandemic Preparedness? a Major Theme of the New US Global Health Strategy? Wed Oct 01, 2025 15:43 | Dr David Bell
Why is 'pandemic preparedness' a major theme of the US Government's new 'America First' Global Health Strategy, asks Dr David Bell. There are some sound public health principles in there, but the 'pandemic' con lives on.
The post Why is ‘Pandemic Preparedness’ a Major Theme of the New US Global Health Strategy? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ed Miliband Pledges Legislation to Ban Fracking ?Forever? Wed Oct 01, 2025 13:22 | Will Jones
With energy bills heading skywards and renewable energy investment on the ropes, Ed Miliband's conference crowd-pleaser was to pledge a law to ban fracking 'forever' ? and sabotage a future Reform administration.
The post Ed Miliband Pledges Legislation to Ban Fracking ‘Forever’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Lammy Backtracks on Claim Farage ?Once Flirted With Hitler Youth? Wed Oct 01, 2025 11:21 | Will Jones
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has been forced to row back on his bizarre claim that Nigel Farage "once flirted with the Hitler Youth", which Farage has denied.
The post Lammy Backtracks on Claim Farage “Once Flirted With Hitler Youth” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link I?m a Meteorologist. The Met Office Has Serious Questions to Answer Over the Accuracy of its Tempera... Wed Oct 01, 2025 09:00 | Andrew Sibley
Chartered Meteorologist Andrew Sibley says the Met Office has serious questions to answer over the accuracy of its temperature measurements. Instrument changes and urban growth cast major doubt on recent warming trends.
The post I’m a Meteorologist. The Met Office Has Serious Questions to Answer Over the Accuracy of its Temperature Measurements appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

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

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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international / crime and justice / other press Sunday December 16, 2007 23:43 by wageslave
New Jersey's state assembly yesterday voted 44-36 to abolish the death penalty - the first state to do so since Iowa and West Virginia scrapped the punishment in 1965. read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice / news report Sunday December 16, 2007 23:38 by Rudiger   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 18, 2007 10:19)   1 attached file
A summary of the Shell to Sea related cases from Belmullet District court last Wednesday the 12th of December. read full story / add a comment
Remembering murdered Colombian Coca Cola trade unionists
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday December 16, 2007 19:10 by Damien Moran   text 5 comments (last - thursday december 20, 2007 14:39)   image 1 image
"Ho, ho, ho - have some bloody Coke"

Murder, torture, kidnapping and illegal detention by violent paramilitaries, frequently aided by bottling plant management, has been the tragic reality for Coca-Cola's Colombian employees for 2 decades now. Members of the SINALTRAINAL trade union ordinary employees carry a death sentence around their necks. Yet an appeal from Javier Correra, president of their union - “We want justice. We want people to know the truth about what is going on in Colombia against Coke workers. Now that you know, will you please help us?” - has not fallen on deaf ears.

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100 Hundred Aspects of the Moon.
national / arts and media / other press Sunday December 16, 2007 15:53 by Ariko   text 4 comments (last - monday december 17, 2007 19:10)   image 7 images
The Rites of Passage religious exhibit is currently closed, which was mesmeric in it's
disection of the hypnosis of world religion, if one could avoid the big screens the bits of
the Nag Hammadi Gospel and huge Buddhist Mandalas were worth a visit.
'100 aspects of the Moon' is the current exhibition and every single print has a bit of moon
in it- on Helmets, behind women (!) and accomnpanying dark and scary warriors.
You could say there are many moons. The Chester Beatty is located in the Grounds of Dublin
Castle and is far better than the auction house that comprises the State apartments, where
Sarkozy will be welcomed to persuade the unsuae celts about his Reform Treaty.[2008] read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday December 16, 2007 15:40 by KAREN FALLON   text 6 comments (last - monday january 31, 2011 20:20)   image 3 images
I know its old news but it is actually interesting that this story was not screaming at us when it occured.
I guess this plane came through Shannon Airport a few times..............

A Florida based Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA crash landed on September 24, 2007 after it ran out of fuel over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula it had a cargo of several tons of Cocaine on board now documents have turned up on both sides of the Atlantic that link this Cocaine Smuggling Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA that crashed in Mexico to the CIA who used it on at least 3 rendition flights from Europe and the USA to Guantanamo's infamous torture chambers between 2003 to 2005. read full story / add a comment
Shoppers sign the petition to the Retail jewellers of Ireland
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday December 15, 2007 19:35 by Limerick IPSC   text 6 comments (last - friday june 06, 2008 16:59)   image 15 images
Mingling in the crisp chill air with the feint strains of a carol group down the street, chanting human rights volunteers in Limerick city centre alerted Christmas shoppers to the continuing clandestine trade in Israeli diamonds. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday December 15, 2007 12:12 by Margaretta D'Arcy
The West Bengal government is violently attempting to crush village resistance to the seizure of land by a multi-national company under cover of colonial-era legislation. read full story / add a comment
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national / animal rights / news report Saturday December 15, 2007 11:45 by Stephan Wymore   text 3 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 08:47)   image 6 images
Today a joint ‘Rabbit’ from the Animal Rights Action Network turned up outside of Brown Thomas’s flagship store on Grafton Street to celebrate the long awaited campaign victory of the up market department store going fur free from February 2008. Joined by other ARAN members the giant ‘rabbit’ uncorked a bottle of champagne to crowds of onlookers whilst cheering ‘Brown Thomas Now Fur Free’ another member also held a sign saying the same! Luckily the campaign event on Dublin’s busiest shopping street was being covered by Ireland’s top media outlets. read full story / add a comment
Bilal Hussein
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday December 15, 2007 11:35 by Michael Gallagher   text 6 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 08:12)   image 1 image
I was a bit taken aback to find that their is no coverage of this case on indymedia. Well here are the basics with some links, make of it what you will.

Bilal Hussein was employed by Associated Press to photograph events in Iraq. With no previous experience of photography, he went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for his efforts.

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mayo / environment / news report Saturday December 15, 2007 11:00 by Cllr Keith Martin
Westport Town Councillors call on Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan TD to protect area of great national and international significance as an environmentally sensitive, culturally and religiously important area with a massive intrinsic tourism value.
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Earthlings
international / animal rights / other press Friday December 14, 2007 23:33 by wageslave   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 12:49)   image 1 image
Pause for a while to contemplate our one sided abusive relationship with all the other inhabitants of this large spinning rock that we all live on. The other "Earthlings" read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Friday December 14, 2007 21:21 by The Fourth World War
The Fourth World War in Féile FM 103.2 and on line at www.feilefm.com. Mondays 6.30-7pm.

It’s 6 years now since George W.Bush started his own “war on terror”. read full story / add a comment
Tent at the front line of Rath Lugh
national / history and heritage / news report Friday December 14, 2007 13:44 by Madam K   text 8 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 22:59)   image 11 images
The NRA communications officer threatened the individual/s responsible for entering site to gather images with criminal damage and trespass while at the same time refusing media access .The soutterains were bulldozed that very afternoon.

Now Rath Lugh under threat.

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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday December 14, 2007 08:20 by Seán Ryan   text 15 comments (last - sunday january 13, 2008 16:37)
Bertie blames water framework directive for water charges in schools. read full story / add a comment
éirígí logo
international / eu / news report Friday December 14, 2007 08:11 by éirígí   text 37 comments (last - sunday may 11, 2008 09:24)   image 2 images
éirígí say NO to Lisbon Treaty

While European Union heads of state were gathering in Lisbon today, to sign away the sovereignty of their respective states, the removal vans were arriving in Dublin to cart off the last vestiges of the Twenty Six County state’s independence.

In a bold visual display éirigí launched its ‘NO TO LISBON’ campaign outside Leinster House today. The centrepiece of the launch was a mock-up ‘EU NO_TO_LISBON Removals’ van sporting the slogan ‘Experts in the Removal of Independence, Democracy & Neutrality’. The vehicle pulled up outside Leinster House to highlight the fact that ratification of the Lisbon Treaty will mean the end of the already limited form of national democracy within all EU states. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday December 14, 2007 01:28 by Uhuru Radio
UhuruRadio.com to broadcast Omali Yeshitela's keynote address on December 16 from "Africa and the West" conference in Huelva, Spain read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / press release Thursday December 13, 2007 21:39 by Richard Walsh   text 4 comments (last - monday december 17, 2007 12:48)
Aer Lingus have only self-interest at heart. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday December 13, 2007 19:56 by Counterpunch   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 06:01)
Blocking the Strykers
By SANDY MAYES
The US military will have to think twice before it ever again tries to use Olympia, WA as a launching point for war.

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Jamie Leigh Jones
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday December 13, 2007 19:12 by Joe   text 1 comment (last - friday december 14, 2007 19:27)   image 1 image
Jamie Leigh Jones claims she was raped by co-workers while working for a Halliburton subsidiary at Camp Hope, Baghdad, in 2005. After being drugged and gang-raped, she claims she was imprisoned in a shipping container without food or water and threathened with dismissal if she reported the incident. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday December 13, 2007 19:11 by Richard Walsh
RSF/RPAG have condemned the suggestion that segregation in Maghaberry be ended. read full story / add a comment
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