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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 / sci-tech / other press Monday June 25, 2007 14:09 by Terence
It is reported today that Algeria plans to start exporting solar power and using it domestically from a plant from a hybrid solar/gas plant in the Sahara desert due to come on stream in 2009, with exports of power to Europe due to start up by 2015. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday June 25, 2007 13:40 by John McAnulty
Review by joe Craig

The 2007 election has been a focus for the plans of the left for the last number of years and guided most of its activity. Almost universally the results have been regarded as disappointing. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / other press Monday June 25, 2007 10:11 by MaxKeiser.com
"If you don't do anything else this month, you need to go watch this special on how rigged the so-called "free" markets are.

It's clear, concise, amusing in a wry, quirky way...and terribly sad, as it shows that it is simple to explain all this in a comprehensible manner, and yet it isn't by the supposedly fair US media. Commentator Max Keiser does a remarkable job in describing how completely ugly this is, and arrives at the same conclusion I did - playing in a rigged game is a fool's errand."

- Bob O'Brien's Sanity Check
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meath / animal rights / event notice Monday June 25, 2007 01:33 by Bernie Wright   text 16 comments (last - friday august 24, 2007 20:26)   image 6 images
Demonstration at Meath Council Offices in Navan at 12pm.on Tuesday 3rd July. 2007
The Meath County Council's confusing system unnecessarily causes the deaths of innocent animals and also causes distress to those Meath people who cannot locate their lost animal companions.County Meath has no Dog Pound for Meath Dogs.

WE CALL ON MEATH COUNTY COUNCIL TO IMPLEMENT THE FOLLOWING TWO CHANGES:

HOLD THE MEATH DOGS AT A MEATH LOCATION (not in LOUTH )

How are caring humans to track down and locate a dog who has strayed or been picked up by a warden in County Meath if the dogs are moved to Collon Co Louth or to Dundalk Pound every Tuesday for killing on a Wednesday.

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A 10 Thunderbolt war-planes at Shannon 23 June 07
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday June 24, 2007 22:51 by Edward Horgan   text 55 comments (last - wednesday july 04, 2007 14:11)   image 3 images
Protest at Shannon on Sat 23rd June, Galway airshow on Sunday 24th and the shocking attempts to indoctrinate GAA underage players into the myths of US military just wars read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday June 24, 2007 22:17 by Wandering Reporter
Last Thursday 14th June in Asturias, Northern Spain I was present at an action where a Zombie Collective came back from the dead to support La Campana Asturiana e Contra el Expolio de las Petroleras and other Spanish solidarity organisations by staging a series of die-ins in a garage forecourt and elsewhere around the city of Gijon. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday June 24, 2007 22:07 by Gregori Chicherin   text 57 comments (last - wednesday july 25, 2007 16:21)
No, its not just the Great Satan - the USA who executes those convicted of crimes committed while they were under 18, Iran does so as well. The difference is that Iran actually executes children aged under 18. Not just murderers, if you have sex outside of marriage or are gay it doesnt matter what age you are: The Mullahs will hang you or stone you to death.

Iran’s highest judicial authorities have repeatedly upheld death sentences handed down to juvenile offenders charged with committing crimes when they were as young as 15. Such sentences violate Iran’s international treaty obligations, which prohibit the death penalty for crimes committed by people under 18. In some cases, the death sentences also violate Iranian domestic law requiring that children under 18 be tried before special juvenile courts. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday June 24, 2007 17:48 by The Green Flyer   text 2 comments (last - monday july 02, 2007 20:26)
Calling all Concerned environmentalists Unhappy Greens
An informal group discussion to take place at the Ross and Walpole Pub beside the Central Hotel Exchequer street Dublin on Saturday the 14th July at 9pm 2007.
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national / eu / news report Sunday June 24, 2007 14:28 by Brendan Young   text 10 comments (last - tuesday june 26, 2007 16:25)
CAEUC to meet Saturday July 7 at 11.00 at the WP offices in Hill St

We are now in the run-up to either a referendum or Dáil decision on a revised version of the EU Constitution. The EU Heads of Government agreed on changes to the failed Constitution over the weekend and a full IGC will begin in July to finalise a new treaty / constitution. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday June 24, 2007 08:21 by Caoimhe Butterly
As the siege of Nahr al Bared continues reports of the systematic abuse of Palestinian detainees have emerged. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday June 23, 2007 20:00 by Dublin 9   text 1 comment (last - wednesday january 18, 2012 00:53)
This is very serious and something has to be done about this hideous proposed Planning Application on the grounds of the Kilmardinny and Super Valu on Lorcan Avenue in Santry. Many of these apartments that they want to build are 6 storeys high in an area which has always been a 2 storey area. Naturally the residents of the area, especially those most effected by this proposed development, those on Lorcan Avenue and Lorcan Grove are vehemently opposed to this on a number of grounds; including; but not limited to; increased traffic, noise and pollution, reduced water pressure, loss of light and lack of privacy, and are preparing to fight this very strongly. Now this particular version of this Planning Application has been declared invalid, but from all the information available, they are going to reapply again very soon with the exact same plans. Click on the link below and read the full information on this Planning Application below as well and see for yourself the huge size of this. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Saturday June 23, 2007 10:18 by David Manning & Miriam Cotton   text 13 comments (last - wednesday june 27, 2007 15:35)
Free elections were held in Palestine in 2006 and the Hamas party were the Palestinian electorate's choice for government. The message was clear: if the UN, US, and Israel were to have any chance of negotiating a constructive outcome in the region, Hamas would have to be taken seriously. In a landslide victory, they had incontrovertibly become the legitimately elected voice of the Palestinian people.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday June 23, 2007 09:16 by peptide
The title refers to the band on the ‘Titanic’ playing until the ship sank beneath the icy waters. Metaphor or allegory for the assault on free speech and democracy, judge for yourself but don’t forget to remain passive, servile and fearful in the face of all assaults on hard won freedoms and civil liberties – liberties your fathers died in wars to protect! read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday June 23, 2007 00:18 by telly tubby twins   text 3 comments (last - saturday june 23, 2007 15:48)   image 2 images
Na polskie plaże, aby strzec bezpieczeństwa i porządku, właśnie wyruszyło kilkuset policjantów. Z dodatkowym zadaniem od szefów: zwracać uwagę na nudystów. - Opalanie nago w miejscach powszechnie dostępnych jest niedozwolone. Traktujemy to jako nieobyczajny wybryk, a to wykroczenie - mówi Paulina Grzesiowska z Komendy Powiatowej Policji w Nowym Dworze Gdańskim.

( Paulina Grzesiowska of the police in Nowy Dwor Gdanski which is the most popular stretch of Polish beach on the Baltic has announced new application of a law dating from the Communist regime. From now on topless sunbathers or people who bare any other bit of intimate flesh will face fines of 100 zlotys or 25 euros. Prof. Zbigniew Lew-Starowicz a noted sexologist was reported by Warsaw's "metro" newspaper as thinking they're repressed and "not winning any Blue Flags".) read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues / other press Friday June 22, 2007 20:07 by apophenia   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 06, 2010 13:25)
the current issue of eSkeptic tackles "Autism & Vaccination"

On June 11, 2007, nearly 5,000 parents of autistic children filed a lawsuit against the [U.S.A.] federal government, claiming that childhood vaccines (specifically the mercury-containing thimerosal in the vaccines) caused their children’s autism. The previous year The New York Times ran a column that was skeptical of the claimed link between autism and vaccines, which generated this comment on an internet message board that is typical of the anecdotal thinking that perpetuates this myth: "You say, ‘There is no proven link’ between mercury and autism. There also is ‘no proven link’ between going outside in the rain and cold without a hat or coat and getting the sniffles. Look at the data: the epidemic of autism mirrors the administration of vaccines with mercury. Now that they are off the shelves (more or less), the cases are going down."
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national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday June 22, 2007 17:51 by éirígí - For a Socialist Republic   text 4 comments (last - monday july 02, 2007 14:18)   image 1 image
Defend the right to protest free from state violence read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday June 22, 2007 15:20 by Coilín Oh-Aissieux
Following our sensational event of last month, which was totally sold out -
Beginning at the end: Dublin's Narrative Arts Club: http://tinyurl.com/2barxo
- we are delighted to announce another evening of innovative storytelling
with Coilín Oh-Aissieuz, Ciarán McMahon and Gerry MacGregor.

Library Bar Extension,
Central Hotel,
Exchequer Street, Dublin

Saturday 23 June
Show starts 9 pm sharp.

Admission EUR 5. Concessions EUR 3. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday June 22, 2007 15:08 by Erich Muehsam
Yes, once upon a time there was a Mass Anti-War Movement in Britain but it was destroyed. How did this calamity occur and who was responsible? Torab Saleth of Workers Left Unity Iran points the finger at the SWP for its pro-Tehran apologetics. The full article is available at the url below

Have you ever wondered what happened to the mass anti-war movement which in London alone brought out almost two million people before the invasion of Iraq in February 2003? How come no such huge response is at hand when we are faced with a similar plan for Iran?

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