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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 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.

offsite link World Kindness Day is Just Another Way of Grooming Schoolchildren into the Climate and Open Border C... Sat Nov 22, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
World Kindness Day may have passed you by. But it won't have passed by your children, whose school will have been sure to teach that climate action and open borders are essential elements of 'kindness', says Steven Tucker.
The post World Kindness Day is Just Another Way of Grooming Schoolchildren into the Climate and Open Border Cults appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Nov 22, 2025 01:24 | Toby Young
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.
The post News Round-Up 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

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dublin / summit mobilisations / event notice Thursday September 20, 2007 14:30 by Comhlamh
Five Wednesday evenings starting on the 14th of November, 7.00pm to 9.00pm

International trade rules have a massive impact on people in developing countries, whether they are farmers, workers or families just trying to make a living in the context of globalisation. Yet the rules of the global economy have been set up to serve the interests of big business, not people’s needs. Since around ten years a global movement is campaigning for trade rules that put people and the environment before the interests of big business. read full story / add a comment
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday September 20, 2007 14:04 by Labour Youth   text 10 comments (last - monday october 01, 2007 12:04)
Ten students who are SIPTU members working in Eye Cinema at Wellpark in Galway have been suspended after voting for industrial action. The SIPTU shop steward has been sacked following the ballot.
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A quiet afternoon (using WiFi and computers) at the new Seomra Spraoi social centre
dublin / miscellaneous / feature Thursday September 20, 2007 13:28 by Social Gaff   text 46 comments (last - saturday september 29, 2007 14:47)   image 29 images
As Seomra Spraoi prepares for the official launch of its big new social centre off Capel St in Dublin this weekend, we look at how far the project has come since the collective formed three years ago. read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 20, 2007 13:23 by Adrian Nally   text 5 comments (last - sunday october 07, 2007 12:50)
Open letter to Minister John Gormley TD. The letter outlines how Limerick County Council's motor tax office have forced me off the road and are now failing to take responsibility for my plight. It is a complaint to the Minister, in the hopes that he may help to resolve the situation. I have not had an acknowledgement from the Minister's department yet in relation to my email. I have circulated my letter to a number of newspapers and it remains to be seen if they publish its contents. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday September 20, 2007 12:24 by Organised Ideas   text 2 comments (last - thursday september 20, 2007 12:35)   image 1 image
Armed Ambitions Bio:

Armed Ambitons // Organised Ideas was started a few years ago when the first communique was made to audiences via promoting DIY gigs in the form of "Organised Ideas"; who has since organised benefit gigs for such causes as Shell 2 Sea, Indymedia and The Brains Collective. Organised Ideas is also a part of the Porco Dio collective.
The other side of the project is Armed Ambitions which is an independent record label and publisher. The aim of Armed Ambitions is to support and release Independent bands and to help promote their music both nationaly and internationaly, fully involving artists in all aspects of this process . Armed Ambitions is currently working with a few different bands from varied genres and has two releases to date plus many more on the way . read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday September 20, 2007 10:57 by robert hamm   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 27, 2007 16:49)
Staff in the Thuringian town Nordhausen hold occupied their factory 'Bike-Systems' for two months now in an attempt to prevent the factory being closed down. Met with remarkable solidarity from their wider community the workers now decided to kick-start production of bicycles in self-management. To be able to do so however they need a guaranteed number of 1800 orders in advance for their 'city-bike'. These orders need to be in by 2nd of October.
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2007 20:50 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 2 comments (last - sunday september 23, 2007 14:46)
Shell to Sea is holding a public meeting on Tuesday, 25th September at 7:30 pm in the Teachers Club, Parnell Square West.

Speaker
John Monaghan, Rossport Resident and Shell to Sea national spokesperson

All supportive individuals, organisations and political parties are strongly encouraged to attend.
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dublin / housing / other press Wednesday September 19, 2007 19:39 by biggles   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 19, 2007 21:09)
Anyone going down to RTE news today will see how they've put a little "interactive" twist on the news that a flight from Lisbon almost crashed in Santry. A thumbnail picture accompanies the story http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0919/air.html of the hotel which is reported as being a 16 storey building at Santry Cross at night with the caption "you be the judge". Then you get to see another picture of the building during the day. Cool. You be the judge. Relax now.

You are presently at the controls of a DC 9-83 passenger jet with 4 other crew members and 112 passengers slowing down on your cruise speed of (504 mph, 811 km/h) beginning a standard descent of no more than 2% declination. Feel good? Confident? Skittish? Not worrying about the 72,600 kg weight you could wallop? Now do those lights which look like an airstrip on the big hotel just in front of hte airstrip confuse you?? read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday September 19, 2007 19:16 by Barra   text 18 comments (last - saturday september 22, 2007 12:53)   image 3 images
Following a huge demand for the first Ógra Shinn Féin film ‘Irish Republican Youth in Struggle’ with over 1000 DVD’s sold throughout Ireland, they have now released the film online at: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-704349414765...47240

The quality of the online edition is lesser than the official copy, so if anyone would like the official ‘Irish Republican Youth in Struggle’ it is available to buy priced £5 or 8Euro. Send payment + £2.50 (postal and packaging), name and address to: Ógra Shinn Féin Merchandise 4 - 5 James Street Omagh County Tyrone Ireland. For more information contact osfnational@yahoo.ie
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Routes for Shell high pressure pipeline
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday September 19, 2007 17:54 by Corridor Watcher   text 26 comments (last - monday september 13, 2010 03:21)   image 6 images
Since the arrival during the summer of Garda patrol boats on the Sruwaddacon inlet in Broadhaven Bay, many local people have been convinced that Shell's plan was to force their high -pressure pipeline under water, up the bay and reach the refinery site without having to cross very much privately owned land.

Today, the company has shown three different routes, but the shortest is up the bay and it would be difficult to find anyone in Erris who does not believe that the inlet is Shell's preferred route.
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international / arts and media / other press Wednesday September 19, 2007 17:40 by Miriam Cotton   text 24 comments (last - wednesday september 26, 2007 14:19)
The Youtube video link below shows a student being arrested and tazered for asking John Kerry, among other things, why he conceded the presidential election when he allegedly would have known it was rigged. The student was doing nothing other than asking questions which Kerry did not want to answer. He was not violent in any way, nevertheless he was bundled off by security men in front of a large audience not one of whom responded to his cries for help - despite having been clapped by a number of them just moments earlier. He was handcuffed and then tazered while completely defenceless. The only apparent attempt to help him on the video is the sound of a lone woman screaming at the police to stop what they were doing. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday September 19, 2007 15:24 by Jay Dooling   image 1 image
For many years, the ‘peace dividend’ was held out as an incentive to engage in the process which ultimately resulted in the current peace in Ireland.

The United States Government, in pursuing the McAllister family's deportation, is undermining the concept of the peace dividend, and is sending out a message that is driven by a desire for retribution that is dangerously irrational and anachronistic.
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Cork shell to sea benefit gig.
cork / environment / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2007 13:36 by gav   image 1 image
If bertie can get by with a little help from his friends, then so can we! read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2007 12:30 by SPDC   text 3 comments (last - saturday september 29, 2007 23:45)   1 attached file
An evening of debate hosted by the Socialist Party read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday September 19, 2007 11:02 by Martin O'Sullivan   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 19, 2007 11:32)
Siemens were ordered by the Labour Court to pay €12,000, to a Vision impaired person who they discriminated against,
when he sought employment as an IT Support Specialist. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2007 10:03 by William James Walker Connolly
Dublin City Libraries in association with SIPTU are holding 5 lunchtime talks in Dublin City Hall, Dame St, Dublin. The talks take place on Tuesday 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 Oct from1.10pm to 1.45pm. Admission is free and all are welcome. read full story / add a comment
Nuon Chea
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday September 19, 2007 07:38 by Gwen   text 5 comments (last - saturday september 22, 2007 04:13)   image 1 image
Nuon Chea(82), "brother number two", has been arrested at his home in Cambodia. He was second in command to Pol Pot, one of the greatest Communinst killers since Stalin and Mao. The Khmer Rouge regime were responsible for the imprisonment, torture and murder of an estimated 1.5 million of their own people. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2007 06:29 by Sean Ramsey   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 22, 2007 07:09)
The remarkable Irishman, Frank Muldowney, will complete his walk for peace across Australia at 1pm, 29th September, at the Lighthouse in Byron Bay. (Australian Time)

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international / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday September 19, 2007 02:03 by Destroysystemdestroy
An international call out for solidarity with our anarchist comrades
Gabriel and Jose who are currently imprisoned in Germany read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2007 00:14 by seomra spraoi   text 2 comments (last - friday september 21, 2007 17:46)   image 1 image
Ever find yourself asking ‘holy funk batman who are these evil Cuppocraft fiends?’
‘and just what does WSM stand for?’
Well here’s your chance to find out… read full story / add a comment
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