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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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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 Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

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offsite link Olympics Set to Ban Transgender Athletes from All Women?s Events Mon Nov 10, 2025 17:34 | Will Jones
The Olympics is set to ban transgender athletes from all female competition following a science-based review of evidence that reportedly showed there are irreversible physical advantages to being born male.
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offsite link Trump Threatens BBC With Legal Action as Chair Samir Shah Fails to Apologise to Him Mon Nov 10, 2025 15:13 | Will Jones
President Trump has threatened the BBC with legal action ? as its Chair Samir Shah insists the corporation is not institutionally biased and fails to apologise to him.
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offsite link Trump to Deport Boss of Starmer-Linked Censorship Organisation Centre for Countering Digital Hate Mon Nov 10, 2025 13:06 | Will Jones
Donald Trump's White House is poised to deport the boss of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, an internet censorship organisation founded by Sir Keir Starmer?s Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney.
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offsite link Prince Philip?s Brave Highlanders to be Evicted From Barracks to Make Way for Asylum Seekers Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
War heroes are being booted from their historic Inverness barracks to make way for asylum seekers, sparking outrage over the lack of respect shown to veterans and their legacy.
The post Prince Philip?s Brave Highlanders to be Evicted From Barracks to Make Way for Asylum Seekers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Shock COP Dirty Secret: At Least Half the Balsa Wood in Wind Turbine Blades is Illegally Logged in A... Mon Nov 10, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Half the world's balsa wood for wind turbines is illegally logged from Ecuador's Amazon, destroying protected rainforest. Chris Morrison reveals wind power's dirty secret.
The post Shock COP Dirty Secret: At Least Half the Balsa Wood in Wind Turbine Blades is Illegally Logged in Amazonian Rainforests appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday January 03, 2012 23:48 by T   text 3 comments (last - sunday september 23, 2012 17:33)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law on New Year’s Eve. The bill provides a massive $662 billion for the US war machine and makes unprecedented inroads into democratic rights, authorizing the US military to seize individuals anywhere in the world and hold them in a military detention facility indefinitely, without a trial or any other legal recourse. read full story / add a comment
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cork / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday January 03, 2012 13:15 by No Platform for Nick Griffin   image 1 image
British National Party leader Nick Griffin has been invited to speak this February in University College Cork by the Politics and Government Society. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday January 03, 2012 00:52 by Justin Morahan   text 5 comments (last - friday january 06, 2012 10:30)
The monstrous crimes committed by President George W Bush (US) and Prime MInister Anthony Blair in their unjustified invasion of Iraq has not resulted in any action against them in the Hague. In a tribunal in Malaysia, however, they have not been so lucky. read full story / add a comment
Hares in their natural habitat...before a twisted coursing club reaches them
national / animal rights / press release Monday January 02, 2012 23:13 by Ban Hare Coursing in Ireland   text 4 comments (last - tuesday january 17, 2012 09:23)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
Protest against vile 3-day “National Hare Coursing” event. Location: The Department of Agriculture, Kildare Street, Dublin. Date: January 30th 2012. Time: 1 pm to 2 pm. read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous / event notice Monday January 02, 2012 16:42 by Joe Hickey   text 4 comments (last - friday january 06, 2012 21:11)
antrim / anti-capitalism / other press Monday January 02, 2012 09:55 by Jimmy McPseudonym
Below is the full text of an email sent to all MLA's on Christmas day. Sorry I'm putting this up a bit late. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday December 31, 2011 20:26 by RSF
The coming year will be a challenging one for working-class people in Ireland and across Europe. The threats facing us are manifold. Economically people are faced with the consequences of the austerity programme imposed on them by the EU political and financial elite. For Irish Republicans increasing repression highlights the reality of the old imperialism of British rule in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday December 31, 2011 14:36 by KSI
We strongly condemn Thursday’s massacre at Sirnak in which 36 civilian Kurds were killed by Turkish air strikes. This year more than 4,500 people have been arrested under nebulous “terrorism” charges in Turkey, including dozens of journalists last week. This AKP-directed pogram, known as the KCK Case, began in 2009 against any Kurdish dissent in Turkey. Mayors, local councillors, journalists, human rights activists and Kurdish party workers are targeted. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday December 31, 2011 14:04 by Kevin   4 attached files
The tunnel boring machine(TBM) planned to tunnel under Sruwadducon Bay has been named ‘Fionnuala’ after one of the children of Lir. The 4 children of Lir were turned into swans for 900 years by their jealous step-mother. They spent the last 300 years in the seas off North Mayo.

‘Fionnuala the TBM’ is 140 m long and weighs almost 500 tonnes. It is painted with the Mayo colours and is to be transported to Erris for early next summer. Shell plan to bore a 4.5 m diameter, 4.9 km tunnel up Sruwadducon bay. This is Shell’s gift to Sruwadducon - ‘bod nimhneach an ghaill dhaill’ (the poisonous penis of the bitter and the blind ). read full story / add a comment

dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday December 31, 2011 01:32 by Connolly16   text 19 comments (last - wednesday january 04, 2012 23:14)   video 3 video files
An independent anti-fascist protest outside the British Embassy, Dublin, Jan 3rd, 10am read full story / add a comment
EX Battery hens need forever homes
national / animal rights / press release Saturday December 31, 2011 00:59 by Bernie Wright   text 1 comment (last - sunday january 01, 2012 17:10)   image 2 images
AFAR offers to find ‘forever homes’ for condemned hens. TEN farmers across the country say they will be forced to cull hundreds of thousands of hens next week to comply with an EU directive which the IFA claims could cost them their livelihoods. A directive issued back in 1999 to phase out so-called battery cages to house hens and replace them with a more humane version known as "enriched" cages has apparently led to this situation. The Alliance for Animal Rights have already spoken to IFA National Poultry Chairman Mr Alo Mohan and have made an offer to find ‘forever homes’ for some of these hens to allow them live out their natural lives. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday December 30, 2011 17:29 by Edward Horgan   text 3 comments (last - monday january 02, 2012 15:37)   image 4 images
Three OMNI air troop carrying warplanes at Shannon on 30 Dec 2011, are now under heavy guard by a combination of Shannon airport security, Gardai and the Irish Defence Forces. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday December 30, 2011 01:19 by InternationalistGroup
Ports up and down the West Coast were blockaded, from Seattle to San Diego. The blockade was called in solidarity with longshore workers fighting a union-busting assault in Longview, Washington and port truckers seeking union recognition in the ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach. This support should have been greeted. But now the class war on the West Coast docks is coming to a head, and it can't be waged from the outside. Bay Area labor has called for a caravan to Longview. The goal should be a real occupation of the terminal by the workers to prevent the loading of the scab cargo. Longshore militants have called on the longshore unions to shut down every port on the West Coast, and the East and Gulf Coasts, to smash EGT's union-busting. Can it be done? Yes, but only though sharp struggle against the pro-capitalist labor bureaucracy. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / feature Thursday December 29, 2011 15:09 by wageslave   text 77 comments (last - thursday january 05, 2012 21:07)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
Belated merry xmas and happy new year to all our contributors and readers read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday December 29, 2011 15:07 by thecatholicworkerfarm   image 5 images
16 Catholic Workers closed and occupied the Main Entrance of Northwood Military Headquarters. Scott and Maria Albrecht, Henrietta Cullinan, John Lynes and Rachel Wood pitched tents, knelt and prayed in front of the main gate for 2 hour while others vigiled holding signs. read full story / add a comment
The "sport" backed by some leading FG ministers and TDs
international / environment / press release Thursday December 29, 2011 00:07 by Anti Hare Coursing   text 2 comments (last - friday december 30, 2011 03:06)   image 5 images
With the FG-Labour coalition set to introduce an animal welfare bill in the new year, no government TD or Senator can answer the question: will hare coursing be included in the bill? FOI reports show that the cruelty of this so-called "sport" continues despite the muzzling of greyhounds... read full story / add a comment
Fergal O' Hanlon Commemoration , Sunday 8th Jan 2012 , Monaghan.
monaghan / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday December 28, 2011 17:36 by Sharon.   image 1 image
Fergal O'Hanlon Commemoration , Monaghan. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 28, 2011 15:59 by Luke Eastwood
Revisiting the effect of pesticides 50 years after Rachel Carson's expose of their terrible impact on all living organisms read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / event notice Wednesday December 28, 2011 02:51 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
We are starting the new year as we mean to go on. Come celebrate with us this Friday the 13th and show solidarity with the community in Erris who have been opposing Shell for the last 11 years. Saturday the 14th will be another Shell-stopping day, so come spend the weekend! read full story / add a comment
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