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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 British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
The post British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
The post Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.
The post Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
It's bad enough that all UK TV users are forced to fund the BBC via a TV licence. But it's worse than that, says Charlotte Gill: millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are handed to the corporation via backdoor channels.
The post Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran Sat Nov 22, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing against the acquittal of Hamit Coskun, who was convicted of burning the Quran in a protest, reigniting fears Britain could introduce blasphemy laws by the back door.
The post CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Eye Cinema strikers and youthful supporter
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Friday September 28, 2007 00:08 by Tribe 14   text 6 comments (last - thursday october 30, 2008 15:52)   image 1 image
Workers at the Eye Cinema, Galway, members of SIPTU’s Galway No 1 branch, are in dispute with their employer. read full story / add a comment
Doc Fiasco at the controls
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday September 27, 2007 23:40 by Ray   text 1 comment (last - friday september 28, 2007 11:47)   image 5 images
Last night at An Cruiscin Lan on Douglas St., the band Ilya K and Dj Doc Fiasco provided a great night's entertainment to an appreciative crowd composed of familiar faces and some new friends. It provided a timely boost to the local group's coffers, and thanks must go to organisers Gav and Tracy, and to the above-mentioned artists. Thanks lads! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday September 27, 2007 22:22 by Seán Ó Murchú   text 12 comments (last - thursday october 11, 2007 01:48)
The visit of the head of the British Colonial police in Ireland to Cork tomorrow (September 28) is part of the ongoing process of normalising British rule in Ireland. By bringing Hugh Orde to Cork, like his visit to Ballymurphy in Belfast and Crossmaglen in Co Armagh, an attempt is being made to suggest that British rule and its forces of occupation are now normal and acceptable. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday September 27, 2007 20:35 by Solidarity   text 1 comment (last - monday october 08, 2007 18:35)
Four years into the war on Iraq it seems more serious nonviolent resistance is coming from within the military, from veterans of the war and the families of the military war dead than any civilian anti-war movement in the western world. Lt Ehren Watada refused deployment to Iraq declaring the war illegal. His court martial earleir this year collapsed over a legal technicality. His second trial is due to start early October.
Moreinfo read link..... read full story / add a comment
Eye cinema strikers and young supporter
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday September 27, 2007 16:30 by Tribe14   image 1 image
Workers at the Eye Cinema, Galway, members of SIPTU’s Galway No 1 branch, are in dispute with their employer. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday September 27, 2007 16:14 by Dublin shell to sea   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 27, 2007 17:06)   image 1 image
Shell to Shell Benefit in Seomra Spraoi - Sat 29th September read full story / add a comment
national / housing / event notice Thursday September 27, 2007 16:09 by D_D   text 14 comments (last - wednesday october 17, 2007 09:37)
Critique of Policy and Provision
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international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday September 27, 2007 15:40 by Miriam Cotton   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 27, 2007 15:42)
Most people are prepared to kill on command. read full story / add a comment
Peter Preston not the focus
national / crime and justice / news report Thursday September 27, 2007 15:00 by Seán Ryan   text 6 comments (last - thursday september 27, 2007 21:04)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
Peter Preston begins second hunger strike outside the Dáil. read full story / add a comment
kerry / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday September 27, 2007 13:43 by sean moraghan   text 7 comments (last - sunday september 30, 2007 12:50)   image 1 image
A candlelight vigil will be held in Tralee this Friday in support of the people, monks, and nuns of Burma.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday September 27, 2007 10:26 by Eoghan Ryan, Branch Secretary
Information stall and leafleting read full story / add a comment
Banners at a protest
kildare / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 26, 2007 23:15 by Gosimeon   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 30, 2007 22:16)   image 5 images
White Water Shopping Centre is at the centre of an ongoing drama in Newbridge, County Kildare. The developer's, Ballymore Properties, have reneged on their promise to build a 6-screen cinema as part of the massive White Water Shopping Centre. Instead they have tried for over a year to change the cinema space to retail space. They have tried every trick in the book to do so. Here's an outline. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / press release Wednesday September 26, 2007 21:32 by Carmel   text 15 comments (last - sunday september 30, 2007 03:28)
Samhain Fires and Great Banquet read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Wednesday September 26, 2007 20:29 by Carmel   text 8 comments (last - thursday october 16, 2008 16:01)
Lighting the Fires, Great Banquet read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / press release Wednesday September 26, 2007 19:24 by Friend   text 5 comments (last - thursday september 27, 2007 20:32)   image 1 image
On the Thirty First of July Florian L, Axel H and Oliver R were arrested and detained for the
alleged attemmp to set fire to police vehicles in Brandenburg,They have been detained since that
date. On the same night a lecturer in sociology named Dr Andrej Holm was removed from his
apartment and taken to solitary confinement. his crime was guilt by association- three
academics were also arrested- the accusation against all seven is:-
Membership of a Terrorist Organisation -(129of the German Criminal Code) read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday September 26, 2007 19:20 by Paula Geraghty   text 40 comments (last - friday december 07, 2007 13:39)   image 20 images
'The planned industrial action will be the biggest strike in Northern Ireland in a generation. '
http://www.downdemocrat.com/news/printer.asp?j=3677 read full story / add a comment
SDLP Youth New Logo
national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday September 26, 2007 16:50 by SDLPyouth   text 7 comments (last - thursday september 27, 2007 13:05)   image 1 image
SDLP Youth is launching its new logo at Queen’s University Freshers’ Fair. The unveiling of the logo, which depicts a rose and a star, coincides with an upturn in activity by the group. read full story / add a comment
Los Internacionales
antrim / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday September 26, 2007 16:20 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin   image 1 image
On Saturday 13th October a memorial will be unveiled commemorating the role of the Irishmen from Belfast who joined the International Brigades and fought in defence of the Spanish Republic during the civil war of 1936-39, as well as the men and women who took a stand against the fascism and supported the Republic in whatever way they could. read full story / add a comment
kilkenny / environment / event notice Wednesday September 26, 2007 13:34 by O. O'Connell   text 1 comment (last - friday september 28, 2007 15:41)   1 attached file
Forest foliage is a growing business in Ireland. While it is still predominantly a Christmas time business, year-round uses are rapidly growing, particularly in the floral trade. Around the world, stems from trees and understorey plant species are profitably harvested from forests for such applications. While forest foliage has been traditionally used as a filler in bouquets and arrangements it is now growing in use in its own right, allied to the trend for all things natural. In fact, many floral artists now use forest foliage on its own to make attractive and saleable arrangements . read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday September 26, 2007 13:04 by FS
Since 10 July, 135 workers have been occupying a bicycle factory in east Germany. The factory is threatened with closure at any time, but the workers have decided not only to occupy it, but to attempt to manage it themselves. read full story / add a comment
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