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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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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

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international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday August 02, 2007 20:33 by Global Women's Strike   text 1 comment (last - friday august 03, 2007 17:23)   image 1 image
An extraordinary community-teacher movement has been unfolding in Oaxaca, one of Mexico’s poorest, mostly Indigenous states. For months, 1.5 million people out of a population of 3.7 million have been on strike, have marched, held sit-ins and occupied radio and TV stations, to protest electoral fraud and the most violent repression Oaxaca state has ever seen. Women – teachers, housewives, students and others – have been prominent throughout. All sectors – priests, nuns, vendors, nurses, environmentalists and other professionals … are involved. .. read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday August 02, 2007 15:36 by TD   text 32 comments (last - wednesday september 12, 2007 12:59)   image 12 images
After our successful hijacking of the opening of the Woodie's DIY store in Limerick last week, the Limerick and Galway branches of the IPSC again combined forces, this time for an eight hour stint outside the boarded up Taffe's Sweater Shop in Shop Street yesterday. Fortunately, or unfortunately there was a coachload or two of Israeli tourists in town and a serious tranche of them were trigger happy and wanton with their spleen and denial when they chanced upon our Israeli Blood Diamonds petition/info table. read full story / add a comment
Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy
mayo / crime and justice / news report Thursday August 02, 2007 15:06 by IT Reader   text 15 comments (last - monday september 03, 2007 00:34)   image 3 images
The man who was awarded the accolade "Mayoman of the Year" at a recent ceremony at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin was branded "unsatisfactory in the extreme" by a report of the Garda Síochána Complaints Board launched yesterday.

The board's chairman, Dr Gordon Holmes, who is former State solicitor for Limerick City, drew attention to the fact that in more than half the cases where the Garda Commissioner's attention was drawn to breaches of discipline by Gardaí, absolutely no action was taken against the offender, meaning the exercise of complaining was rendered pointless.
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national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday August 02, 2007 10:56 by HMMMM   text 30 comments (last - monday october 01, 2007 05:38)
TWO Israeli-made robot spy planes are to be used by the Defence Forces for surveillance missions after the country won a tender competition to supply the hi-tech aircraft. read full story / add a comment
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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday August 02, 2007 00:18 by gan ainm   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 22, 2007 09:58)   image 3 images
The Belfast Anarchist Black Cross will be hosting a meeting during the West Belfast Feile, regarding the issue of prison deaths in the north.
Entitled 'deaths behind bars' the meeting will focus on prison neglect and brutality resulting in the deaths of prisoners either through suicide or as a result of staff actions.
We have been in touch with the families of some victems and hope to have them address the meeting as well as the author of a recent report on human rights abuses of female prisoners.
The meeting will take place in the Culturlann on the falls road, on August 9th at 7.30pm read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday August 01, 2007 17:42 by Porco Dio   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 02, 2007 11:05)
This is a benefit concert to raise money and awareness for those actively opposing an illegal and unprecedented Pipeline that Shell tends to build in Rossport . Support is needed to stop this illegal event . Please spread support , educate people about this and ACT against Shell ! read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday August 01, 2007 17:39 by Residents Against Racism
Protest
Garda National Immigration Bureau, Burgh Quay, Dublin (opposite Liberty Hall)
Tuesday 7 August
1.30 pm read full story / add a comment
Is this Special Area of Conservation safe and protected with or without the Rossport Solidarity Camp?
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday August 01, 2007 16:35 by Anthony O'Halloran   text 5 comments (last - thursday august 02, 2007 16:28)   image 4 images
Mayo County Council (MCC) came back before Judge Kenny on Tue 31st July, for a full hearing of their application for an order of injunction against the Rossport Solidarity Camp (RSC) to “cease the unauthorised development of lands between the foreshore and the Northern Boundary of the town land of Dooncarton/Glengad by erecting tents, buildings and other structures and ancillary facilities for camping or habitation”. On foot of an ‘ex-parte’ (without notice to the camp) application to Judge Donagh McDonagh on Fri 20th July, MCC were granted an ‘interim order of injunction’, claiming urgency that the camp was causing irreparable damage to part of the Glenamoy Bog Complex at Dooncarton/Glengad, a candidate Special Area of Conservation (cSAC). The camp dispute that any such damage is occurring and say that this cSAC is all the more protected by it’s presence, given Shell’s plans for the area, and where their unauthorised developments are allowed without planning permission, facilitated by MCC. read full story / add a comment
galway / animal rights / press release Wednesday August 01, 2007 15:27 by Berne Wright   text 80 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 15:24)   image 6 images
ILLEGAL Guns on sale OPENLY at the Galway Races while Bertie bets on the horses.

Illegal firearms in the form of pellet guns with plastic bullets were on sale openly today at the Galway Races. Up to 15 stalls were observed selling three different types of guns from Handgun size to Rifle starting at 15 euro. Others including children were observed selling the illegal items from the back of vans.

‘These guns will no doubt be used to slaughter innocent cats, dogs and birds. The plastic orange bullets could also take a child’s eye out. We are disgusted at the Race organisers who obviously are turning a blind eye to this activity, along with a total disregard for the growing number of cruelty cases and deaths involved in Horse Racing.

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Danny on Dozer - 9:00am - 01/08/07 - Tara
meath / environment / news report Wednesday August 01, 2007 13:23 by KOM   text 30 comments (last - monday june 27, 2011 19:26)   image 2 images
"A concerned active citizen, Danny, climbed onto the jib of a digger at approx 6.30am this morning on the M3 construction site off the N3, just opposite Soldier's Hill at Garlow Cross, Dublin Road going into Navan." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday August 01, 2007 12:28 by Solidarity
FAIRFORD DISARMER MARGARET JONES TO BE SENTENCED TOMORROW
10am, Thursday 2 August, Bristol Crown Court, Bristol Crown Court, The Law
Courts, Small Street, BS1 1DA. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / other press Wednesday August 01, 2007 11:04 by Greenie   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 02, 2007 14:38)
The government has announced a new tax for oil and gas finds read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 01, 2007 09:21 by Cathar   text 5 comments (last - wednesday august 01, 2007 22:39)
Is Ireland now considered part of Nato as an Irish General takes over a key NATO post in Kosovo read full story / add a comment
armagh / crime and justice / press release Tuesday July 31, 2007 22:52 by Kevin Murphy   text 3 comments (last - friday august 03, 2007 12:26)
Despite claims to the contrary a British police force will not and cannot deliver the rights of Irish citezens. read full story / add a comment
Minimalist Scales
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 31, 2007 19:47 by Time Elapsed...   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 01, 2007 15:35)   image 1 image

The Law Reform Commission has today in the height of the balmy Irish Summer
released a PDF doc. on the removing of conviction from personal record -after time lapse-
The time mentioned in the report http://www.lawreform.ie is seven years. The time
lapse being pertinent , but no mention of the the crime. Being Pernickety here but surely
the type of crime removed from record is important too. Some sexual offences, for instance
carry only six month sentences, such as custodial time for down-loading internet child
porn. The issue of paedophilia and its sentences does not come into the report but
constraints will be placed on the people who have been imprisoned for crime in sensitive
areas such as in 'The Care of Children' read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday July 31, 2007 17:06 by Green anti-Militarist   text 25 comments (last - sunday august 12, 2007 15:44)   image 1 image
There seems to be some principles left within the Green party, still.
Below is the text of a letter published in the Irish Times and Irish Examiner today. read full story / add a comment
Tony O'Reilly: appalled by 'gaping gulf in wealth'
national / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday July 31, 2007 16:50 by Clive Sullish   text 2 comments (last - tuesday july 31, 2007 21:53)   image 2 images
According to a report published by the Bank of Ireland, there are now more millionaires per head of the population in our little republic than in the USA. read full story / add a comment
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clare / environment / feature Tuesday July 31, 2007 09:50 by Tommy Fitzgerald & commentariat   text 23 comments (last - monday march 15, 2010 02:38)   image 3 images
Indigenous goats in Co.Clare saved for now from Illegal mass cull read full story / add a comment
The walk
international / arts and media / news report Tuesday July 31, 2007 04:07 by George Ramsey   text 4 comments (last - wednesday august 01, 2007 10:38)   image 1 image
Mr Frank Muldowney - The Irishman who began a 6,000 walk for World peace in April 2006, has captured the thoughts and minds of the Ambassadors of the Universal Peace Federation in Australia. Mr Muldowneys desire for a Global Pilgrimage for Peace, is now being discussed next Monday with Ambassadors from South Korea, Australia, China, Indonesia and New Zealand. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / press release Tuesday July 31, 2007 02:59 by AWALLS   text 3 comments (last - monday august 13, 2007 22:15)   image 10 images

Dear friend,

The mounting legal cost of the joint Palestinian-Israeli struggle
against the occupation is forcing us to send this urgent appeal for
funds. We are asking for your support to continue the work of the
Israeli group Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW). read full story / add a comment
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