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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 RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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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.

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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.
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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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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday June 19, 2007 11:43 by Seán Ó Murchú
The finding of the BBC's “State of Minds – The Children” programme that sectarianism is rife amongst children is unsurprising within the context of continuing English rule in Ireland. The English government has always sought to divide and conquer, and this has been no different in Ireland. Furthermore the 1998 Stormont Agreement served to institutionalise sectarianism. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 19, 2007 11:34 by paul o toole   text 8 comments (last - wednesday june 20, 2007 12:04)
RTE(Refuse to Tell the Electorate ) do it again read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 19, 2007 00:51 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 2 comments (last - monday june 25, 2007 18:03)
In a recent interview published in the Washington Post, former US secretary of state Colin Powell said that the US "didn't have enough troops" in Iraq to restore order following the ill-fated US-led invasion. In saying this, Powell is not revealing anything, but in fact concealing plausible accounts of American soldiers actively inciting Iraqis to plunder public buildings at the time of the invasion. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday June 18, 2007 23:44 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
While journalists writing on the front page of the Irish Times have reproduced the Department of Foreign Affairs' official line that the US military traffic at Shannon is taking place under a mandate from the United Nations, a close look at UN Security Council Resolution 1483 shows that there is more plausibly a mandate for Ireland to opt out of the US war of occupation in Iraq, because this has created conditions of persistent instability and insecurity there.
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Greek police torturers!
international / crime and justice / news report Monday June 18, 2007 17:48 by IMC Athens   text 4 comments (last - tuesday october 23, 2007 21:22)   image 1 image
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On the 24th of June 2006, at least four policemen tortured two migrants in the police station of Omonia in central Athens. They forced them to beat each other, beat them both and captured the torturing on a mobile phone camera. For nearly a year, that footage was circulated amongst policemen via mobile phones. On the early hours of the 16th of June 2007 the video was uploaded to a commercial video sharing service and from there, to Athens Indymedia. A few hours later it featured as breaking news in Greece's major media outlets, forcing prime minister Karamanlis to issue a statement condemning the incident. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday June 18, 2007 15:58 by dingo
The person/s (activists, perhaps assassins) the agencies seek in relation to the approaching APEC summit may be known to the activist and broader political community; it is therefore with extreme prejudice that we cite government failures in relation to security and policing matters. The APEC summit may become the greatest security failure in Australian history. Infiltration/undercover operations are a two-edged sword; however, that sword has been broken by anti-corruption zealots in NSW. The State now faces gaping inefficiencies and a lack of urgently required expertise. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday June 18, 2007 15:25 by Coilin ÓhAiseadha
Monday evenings in Herbert Park, Ballsbridge,
throughout summer from 25 June.
Sign up now to meet the closing date of Thursday 21 June.

Ultimate frisbee is the ideal sport for grassroots activists: a non-contact amateur sport with mixed-gender teams, where beginners are welcome. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / press release Monday June 18, 2007 14:27 by Brian Guckian
Direct intervention by EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas to be sought in relation to breaches of EU law by the Irish roads programme, including M3 motorway; legality of M3 and other road schemes, and National Development Plan, challenged read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday June 18, 2007 14:11 by Over The Edge
Poetry at BK's Wine Bar and Galway City Museum read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Monday June 18, 2007 10:07 by Caoimhín Ó Maolallaigh   text 37 comments (last - friday july 20, 2007 14:41)
In Future Shock: End of the Oil Age, RTÉ's Chief Economic Correspondent George Lee brings us to the heart of one of the biggest challenges that Ireland faces in the future - life after Peak Oil. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday June 18, 2007 00:14 by gan ainm   text 1 comment (last - monday june 18, 2007 11:33)
On Saturday June 23rd Belfast ABC will be hosting an evening in support of Mumia Abu Jamal who's fate hangs in the balance amid colliding appeals by both prosecution and defence the outcome of which could see either the quashing of his bogus conviction for the shooting dead of a Philadelphia policeman 26 years ago or indeed the reinstatement of his death penalty which was dropped in 2001.
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international / anti-capitalism / feature Sunday June 17, 2007 18:52 by Starstuck   text 23 comments (last - wednesday june 27, 2007 23:30)   image 22 images
Indymedia.ie: Dublin, June 2007. A member of the WSM traveled to last week's protests against the G8 in Heilegendamm, Germany. He reports on the actions that were taken and then on his arrest and mistreatment. read full story / add a comment
The Franks
national / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday June 17, 2007 18:48 by Info   text 1 comment (last - monday june 18, 2007 13:52)   image 1 image
Funded by and in partnership with Console, Turning the Tide on Suicide (3T's) and the National Office for Suicide Prevention, the 'Tough Times' campaign aims to de-stigmatise mental health issues and promote help seeking behavior whilst signposting young people to appropriate support avenues through www.spunout.ie.

The campaign will be based on the 'Tough Times' TV advert, researched and produced by Kairos Communications, and airs for 2 weeks from June 19th. It will also involve a postering and online marketing campaign. read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday June 17, 2007 18:36 by TD   text 41 comments (last - saturday september 29, 2007 09:01)   image 6 images
Yesterday, Galway IPSC activists did their customary seven hour stint outside Lynch's castle in Shop Street gathering signatures for the Israeli Blood Diamonds petition and, generally, bearing witness to that torn country, read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Sunday June 17, 2007 16:42 by L.A. Correspondent
Sherman Austin was arrested prior to 9/11 for operating the website RaiseTheFist.com. An anonymous poster had added a link in a comment to commonly availble information on bomb making. While Sherman was in pre-trial custody 9/11 occured and he foolishly struck a 3-month plea bargain with the prosecutor. The judge ignored the prosecutor's recommendation and tripled the sentence.

Now Sherman is released and has returned to direct action activism in downtown LA involving the videotaping of cops. Yahoo!News covers the story with two video clips. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / news report Sunday June 17, 2007 14:31 by John McDermott
Various goings on, re the Soldiers of Destiny and their new Broccoli Brotherhood. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday June 17, 2007 08:30 by nano
As the Middle East explodes in factional and sectarian conflict the neo-cons gloat, John Bolton and Condi Rice revealed U.S. policy during the South Lebanon conflict, their non-interventionist policy encouraged the slaughter of children and civilians by Israeli forces – peace is clearly of no use to American interests! What does it matter if most of the Middle East tears itself apart, America stands to gain from the mayhem and bloodshed. read full story / add a comment
Public Meeting 7:30 Thursday, Riddlers Bar
limerick / environment / event notice Saturday June 16, 2007 23:43 by Limerick Socialist Youth & Party   text 15 comments (last - tuesday june 19, 2007 17:05)   image 2 images
Greens Betray the Environment:
PLANET BEFORE PROFIT!

7:30 Thursday, June 21st
Riddlers Bar (backroom), Sarsfield St.

All welcome read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday June 16, 2007 23:16 by Guy de Cervens   text 17 comments (last - thursday june 28, 2007 10:04)
What is taking place as regards Tara is only the first act of deceit by the Green Party, SINCE starting to prop up Berties Government. read full story / add a comment
Eamon Ryan TD at a Shell to Sea protest at Leinster House on January 31, 2006
national / environment / feature Saturday June 16, 2007 21:30 by William Hederman   text 28 comments (last - friday june 29, 2007 20:23)   image 9 images
Following several years of campaigning with the Shell to Sea campaign, Green Party TD Eamon Ryan has been appointed to the ministry with responsibility for the Corrib Gas project in Co Mayo. On Thursday (June 14th), Taoiseach Bertie Ahern appointed Ryan to the new portfolio of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, where his brief will include overseeing the controversial Corrib Gas project.
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