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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 The Devil?s Algorithm: Unplugging from the Climate Matrix Thu Oct 02, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
In a recent analysis of 1,500 Google search results, 98% aligned with the climate alarmist narrative, 2% were neutral and 0% were sceptical. This is the level of psychological warfare we're up against, says Tilak Doshi.
The post The Devil’s Algorithm: Unplugging from the Climate Matrix appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Oct 02, 2025 00:41 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Eurostar Unveils Gender-Neutral Uniform for Staff Wed Oct 01, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Eurostar has unveiled its first gender-neutral uniform, introducing a collection featuring skirts, trousers and Dr Martens boots designed to be "interchangeable and made to fit all genders".
The post Eurostar Unveils Gender-Neutral Uniform for Staff appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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international / anti-capitalism / press release Saturday November 10, 2007 16:47 by The Fourth World War
THE FOURTH WORLD WAR. MONDAYS 6.30-7PM FéILE FM 103.2 (www.féilefm.com) read full story / add a comment
Norman Mailer
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday November 10, 2007 15:35 by Obit [the second or third].   text 14 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 23:57)   image 3 images
[Due to limited time and breaking all the Obituary rules] :-

The death Of Norman Mailer has been announced:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer

and instead I want to focus on one issue about his writing and that is the Gilmore Case and the resultant book :-

'The Executioner's Song' which set a bar in documenting the issue of US capital Punishment
and also tied into the Timothy Mc Veigh Case in an interesting manner. read full story / add a comment
 Capitalisms Crooks and Clones: Royal Dutch Shell traders face $1M dollar fines
international / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday November 10, 2007 13:05 by Soundmigration   text 4 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2007 16:52)   image 1 image
Whilst we have come to expect little else for corporations like Royal Dutch Shell, yesterdays fines imposed on rogue traders trying to fix the price of natural gas clearly show that such companies are rotten to the core, solely driven by profits and greed and have little or no interest in social respondsibility.

These guys run cartels daily that effects all of us.

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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday November 09, 2007 22:28 by Marty McK   text 9 comments (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 15:40)
Should everyone return to the classroom and learn to count? Add up numbers published in press releases, is 7,000 classroom assistants a rounded up or down figure? Not by any stretch of the imagination are all classroom assistants members of a trade union.

I am disappointed this is not an election year. Can you imagine the squirming and questions left hanging in the air by the "can we have your vote" and move the earth for you campaigners. Imagine an election turnout like GMB ballot figures signify anyone notice how did the GPA fair in comparison to GMB? (footballers). I missed out not seeing ballot returns. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / news report Friday November 09, 2007 20:36 by Jolly Red Giant   text 10 comments (last - monday november 12, 2007 22:43)
On Tuesday, November 6th, over 6.5% of those who voted in Boston’s city council election cast their ballots for Matt Geary, the candidate of Socialist Alternative.

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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday November 09, 2007 20:21 by TD   text 63 comments (last - friday november 16, 2007 17:49)   image 27 images
Today, to commemorate Shell's judicial murder of the Ogonii 9 and a look back in anger at the Garda baton-fest a year ago, some 400 activists journeyed from all reaches of Ireland to voice our outrage outside and inside Shell's Bellanaboy site, I was with the section of protestors that first manned the front line at Bellanaboy bridge at 6AM at the request of S2S when it was rightly surmised that Shell and the Guards would attempt to steal a march by bringing the workers in early - for a while, before Garda weight of numbers prevailed, we were effective in blockading and preventing them from earning their 30 pieces of Mammon silver inside. read full story / add a comment
El Libertario, Venezuela, # 51
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday November 09, 2007 19:02 by El Libertario, Venezuela   text 7 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2007 10:27)   image 2 images

*This is the editorial of the latest edition of El Libertario(Venezuela, #51, November 2007, now available -in spanish- in www.nodo50.org/ellibertario) in which this mouthpiece of Venezuelan Anarchism set outs its position with regard to the Constitutional Reforms which the current Government seeks to impose on this country.
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cork / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday November 09, 2007 17:37 by Davo
Have just found out that Dunnes STORE staff, Ballvolane, will strike in Cork near Christmas because several staff have been bullied by some senior management. STAFF'
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday November 09, 2007 16:32 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 5 comments (last - friday november 09, 2007 21:11)
Well apparently they were serious when Bush Jr. stated "that if you're not for us, you're against us". Implying if you don't support the U.S./U.K. war machine shredding lives in the Middle East & Afghanistan, you must be with the Jihadists and their pathetic mimicry of car, backpack and body bomb responses to the B52's, F 16's and cruise missiles. These guys obviously have not heard of the old anarcho saying "If they give you two options - always choose the third!"

I was departing Ireland after a week of visiting friends and attending the "Route Irish" launch. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84775
I bought a copy of The Guardian at Dublin airport. I'm usually a daily communicant of the Guardian when living in Ireland or England, because we have such pathetic newspapers in Australia. Thursday's issue was full of the anti-terror hysteria sweeping the British state a tenfol read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Friday November 09, 2007 16:25 by Tara Rising
Diggers dived and Dempsey done read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday November 09, 2007 15:36 by solidarity seeker   text 1 comment (last - friday november 09, 2007 16:06)
Life is full of disappointments, Ms Ruane is "Disappointed" classroom assistants are returning to strike action. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday November 09, 2007 15:32 by lifespy   text 5 comments (last - saturday november 10, 2007 17:38)   image 5 images
Workers at the Duckmanton office seemed somewhat surprised this morning with the demonstration and they didn’t get much support from their neighbours either who also stated “they hate them” read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Friday November 09, 2007 14:00 by Tara Resistance
Road builders offices raided by cultural conservationists. read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-capitalism / event notice Friday November 09, 2007 13:30 by Kevin Doyle
Forthcoming meeting on anarchism ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / news report Friday November 09, 2007 12:53 by Adri Nieuwhof and Mieke Zagt
Early 2007 a group of Dutch consumers asked Udea, the importer for the organic supermarket chain Natuurwinkel and other organic shops in the Netherlands, if their Israeli organic products were grown in Jewish settlements. read full story / add a comment
derry / environment / event notice Friday November 09, 2007 09:58 by Susan
MAOR Derry is holding a solidarity vigil on Friday, 9th November, at 4pm in Market Street in Derry (between Richmond Centre and Foyleside Centre) to mark the 12th anniversary of the State execution of the Ogoni Nine in Nigeria, who were high profile opponents of Shell's environmental destruction in their country. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday November 09, 2007 07:51 by sms2web bot   text 30 comments (last - sunday november 11, 2007 11:21)
6.47: Gate 2 blocked since 6am

7.10: Situation tense for a group from Cork hemmed in near Gate 2 (gate nearest the bridge). On the road but the guards have half of it.

7.35: The refinery site has been occupied. One group of 30 people have entered and are now occupying the site compound. Meanwhile on the road between the bridge and Gate 2, a group of 90 protesters prevented a truck from from entering the site for about 20 minutes. The truck drove over one person's foot and an ambulance is on its way. One of the blockaders was arrested around the same time. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Friday November 09, 2007 01:59 by Nick Folley   text 11 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 07:25)   image 1 image
Those following the debate on the Hidden History programme about the shooting of the Pearson Brothers in Co.Offaly may find this transcript of Joe Duffy's Liveline programme broadcast on 5 November 2007 of interest . read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday November 08, 2007 23:39 by Edward Horgan   text 1 comment (last - thursday november 08, 2007 23:45)
Charges against peace activist Edward Horgan dropped at Ennis court when garda witness fails to appear. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday November 08, 2007 21:55 by London Catholic Worker   text 6 comments (last - monday november 19, 2007 07:31)
Longtime Catholic Worker and Irish/Australian Anti-War activist Ciaron O'Reilly was detained by officers from the counter terrorist squad at Luton Airport, England, today. O'Reilly was taken to a secure office at the airport. - warned, questioned and searched. He was later released. read full story / add a comment
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