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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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dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday August 11, 2007 23:10 by maciej roszak   text 9 comments (last - thursday august 16, 2007 10:59)   image 4 images
Today, Polish group of Independent Workers Union picketed "Gospoda Polska" restaurant in Chapel Street, Dublin for several hours.
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national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday August 11, 2007 19:47 by Mark Dennehy   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 12, 2007 02:36)
The Irish Junior Shooting Team ended off a highly successful tour this week at the 15th Annual Great Britain Junior International Event, with Susan Cunningham (17, Kells, Co. Meath) winning the Gold Medal in the Junior Women's Air Rifle Grand Prix competition and Damien Fagan (20, Navan, Co. Meath) winning the Silver Medal in the Junior Women's Air Rifle Grand Prix competition. read full story / add a comment
offaly / environment / event notice Saturday August 11, 2007 16:31 by Tadhg O' Cruadhlaoich
The Environmental Film Night is part of the 39th Annual Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival

3 short films on the environment shown by activist Tadgh O' Cruadhlaoich. (In conjunction with Ionad and The Local Planet) The Last Penguin, animation by children from Sacred Heart School, Portlaoise. Peak Oil Imposed by Nature, documentary by Norwegians, in English. The Carbon Connection, a film by Norman Phillip. Refreshments and Free popcorn! (Booking advised: 057 9121818)
Tin Jug Studio •9pm • (Voluntary entry fee of €5 goes to Art Aid for various charities.)

More info
www.birrvintageweek.com
www.ionad.org
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Sean Crudden
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday August 11, 2007 15:42 by Sean Crudden   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 26, 2013 20:07)   image 1 image
Brendan O'Donnell died in the central mental hospital a young man (~ 23) about 10 years ago. Whatever happened him the event set alarm bells ringing in my mind. Is it too late now (or too soon?) to seek a transparent public account of his death and how it came about? He was a triple murderer, physically strong and, as far as I know, suicide was not a factor. read full story / add a comment
antrim / crime and justice / press release Saturday August 11, 2007 15:04 by Kevin Murphy   text 14 comments (last - saturday august 11, 2007 21:29)   image 5 images
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement condemn the latest despicable attack on the Grave of fallen Óglaigh na hÉireann Volunteer Joseph O Connor read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Saturday August 11, 2007 02:50 by gorkamorka
Info about tomorrow's direct action against unfair employer read full story / add a comment
Tony Wilson RIP
international / arts and media / news report Saturday August 11, 2007 01:36 by obit   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 12, 2007 03:08)   image 1 image
Tony Wilson had a heart attack this week & after suffering prolonged illness died comfortably yesterday in Manchester. He was a hoot. He played records, he did telly, he started record companies, he made glitzy crap, he started the Hacienda club, he play his part in so many roles. Most of them of such importance to our contemporary culture and media that at first it's just too easy to think he had the long difficult death coming and it doesn't matter if people don't make or do that sort of music or telly or if Manchester still isn't free.

He was 57 years of age. It is highly unlikely that such an entrepeneurial professional gobshite will ever arrive on the scene with such ironic affability.

May he rest in peace.

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international / environment / other press Friday August 10, 2007 20:48 by Moscow News Reader   text 3 comments (last - monday august 20, 2007 14:22)   image 1 image
In a story from the Moscow News today, the deputy head of Russia's environmental agency denied that Shell had tried to bribe him by offering him fifty million dollars.

He wanted to state clearly that he couldn't say for sure that it was Shell, only that "someone" had tried to arrange a meeting with him in Switzerland to discuss the possibility of suspending enviromental checks on the Sakhalin project. No actual amount of money was mentioned either. So that's clear then.

It all brings to mind our own Frank Fahy, a former teacher who has managed to amass a huge property portfolio. Didn't Frank have some Moscow links of his own at one stage? see also www.indymedia.ie/article/76360

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday August 10, 2007 16:12 by IndyHead   text 5 comments (last - sunday august 12, 2007 21:46)   image 7 images
Irish Kurds protested Wednesday against the handing down of death sentences against two compatriots. read full story / add a comment
offaly / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday August 10, 2007 15:31 by Mary P.
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger skewers "good 'ol Bill" (Clinton) where an "audience" with him during his forthcoming visit to London will cost up to £799 a head. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Friday August 10, 2007 10:52 by Laurence Cox
Anti-authoritarian kids / parents day this Sunday in Dublin read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday August 10, 2007 05:42 by Susan at Jonah House   text 17 comments (last - wednesday september 26, 2007 19:54)
Dear Friends,
We are just home from the August Faith and Resistance Retreat in DC.
It was an exciting retreat, with actions at the Pentagon, The
Department of Energy, Bechtel and the White House.
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national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday August 09, 2007 22:17 by David Byrne   text 14 comments (last - sunday august 12, 2007 18:52)   image 3 images
Meath Ogra Shinn Fein took to the streets and doorsteps of Navan Town to highlight the National Road Safety awareness campaign undertaken by Ogra Shinn Fein.
'Moilligh Síos!' translated as Slow Down will be the theme for the peer based campaign. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday August 09, 2007 21:44 by Seomra Spraoi   text 2 comments (last - saturday august 18, 2007 16:10)
Storytelling evening with the Oh-Aissieux

in the new Seomra Spraoi,

4 Mary’s Abbey

Friday 17 August.

Show starts 9 pm. Doors 8.30 pm. read full story / add a comment
Dockers' Strike commemorated
antrim / history and heritage / event notice Thursday August 09, 2007 20:16 by Ciarán   text 10 comments (last - monday august 13, 2007 01:07)   image 1 image
A mural commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1907 Dockers' and Carters' Strike in Belfast will be unveiled at the corner of the Falls Road and Northumberland Street, next to the International Wall, on Saturday 11th August at 2.00pm. read full story / add a comment
offaly / environment / event notice Thursday August 09, 2007 19:45 by June Kelly
If you are intending to visit the Tullamore Agricultural Show on Sunday 12th August watch out for members of the Westmeath Environmental Group who will be distributing literature
which explains the dangers and terrifying realities to GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS.
Anti GMO T shirts will be on sale from our members at the IOFGA (Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association) stand at the show . Join us in our campaign on Sunday.
SAY NO TO GMO -
Westmeath Environmental Group
weg1@eircom.net
www.weg.ie read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday August 09, 2007 15:38 by C.
Having had our bags stolen in Belfast many years ago, we got invited to Anderstown social club by
some fellas who had tried to stop the snatchers and we went to the club. It is a memory etched
onto my brain and says something important about community memory and retaining those
places for the upcoming generations of this Our Island.

Politically naive southerners like myself did not know the North of Ireland, nor where it was 'safe'
to go , back in the nineties; but you learn quickly enough. our hiking trip coincided with some
appalling tragedies and personal dangers that are largely gone. The London type taxis
Which were 50p were operating and some drivers were being sniped on call-out. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday August 09, 2007 14:12 by Residents Against Racism   text 10 comments (last - friday august 17, 2007 02:57)
Protest
Let Great's family stay!
11.30 am, Tuesday 14 August
Garda National Immigration Bureau, Burgh Quay, Dublin (opposite Liberty Hall) read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Thursday August 09, 2007 12:52 by Laura Broxson
ANTI-VIVISECTION DEMONSTRATION AGAINST HUNTINGDON LIFE SCIENCES CUSTOMER read full story / add a comment
oil soaked money
cork / miscellaneous / news report Thursday August 09, 2007 12:42 by mel- s2s cork   text 21 comments (last - thursday august 16, 2007 18:08)   image 3 images
Cork residents gathered on the banks of the river Lee to get an update on the situation in Mayo. read full story / add a comment
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