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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 Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits... Fri Sep 19, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 51 of the Sceptic: Michael Murphy on Charlie Kirk, free speech and the scourge of ?anti-fascism?, and Ben Pile on how the British public are going cold on global warming.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits are Cooling on Global Warming appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:07 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture Thu Sep 18, 2025 19:00 | Noah Carl
The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.
The post We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday December 10, 2011 10:18 by Seomra Spraoi   image 1 image
Consisting of a tasty vegan main meal Served from 6 to 8pm Every Tuesday in Seomra Spraoi Suggested Donation €4 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday December 10, 2011 09:28 by Ciaron   text 3 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2011 17:56)
Fr. Martin Newell of the London Catholic Worker community was sentenced to 24 days imprisonment Friday Dec 9th 2011 at Highbury Magistrates Court. Martin was brought before the court for refusing to pay a fine arising from cutting into the Northwood Headquarters/ London. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/WhatWeDo...s.htm read full story / add a comment
African Night CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
dublin / racism & migration related issues / event notice Friday December 09, 2011 14:58 by Africa Centre Dublin   image 1 image
Venue: The Garda Club Time: 8 till LATE Who: DJ Spaqz read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday December 09, 2011 12:16 by Kieran O'Sullivan   text 15 comments (last - tuesday february 21, 2012 12:11)
Annual General Meeting (AGM) - Sat 28th January 2012 - Liberty Hall Dublin read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday December 09, 2011 09:45 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
The grim face of totalitarianism is emerging in the National Defense Authorization Act(NDAA) now before Congress. This bill is the last mile post on America’s sad, well-traveled road to the butcher shop of dictatorship. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday December 09, 2011 00:24 by Pól Ó Cionsalaígh
A Chara, Our 'leaders' are trying to wave through a terrifying Merkel/Sarkozy plan that would abolish our right to choose sane economic policies and that would permanently ban vital public spending - all to appease big banks. But we live in a democracy and we should have the right to vote on any permanent changes to how Europe operates, and together, we can stop our leaders trashing our democracy and our jobs. read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech / press release Thursday December 08, 2011 21:18 by Kevin O'Brien
Sanncus is being launched as part of the “The 12 Business Days of Christmas” running from 1st to 20th of December. The initiative, created by DCU Business School and LINK, the Leadership, Innovation and Knowledge Research Centre, is supported by AIB. read full story / add a comment
national / education / press release Thursday December 08, 2011 21:03 by Laurence Cox   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 14, 2011 23:09)   image 1 image
Practitioner masters for social movement activists and community / popular educators at NUI Maynooth read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday December 08, 2011 15:02 by Kev   image 1 image
Sat, 31 December 2011, 14:00 Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin To commemorate the third anniversary of the Israeli ‘Cast Lead’ attack on Gaza, in Dublin the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is calling on people to gather at 2pm at the Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin on New Year’s Eve. Please bring Palestinian flags if you have them. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday December 08, 2011 13:35 by pat c
An article outlining the devastation and mass murder caused by oil companies in Nigeria.

Current investment in exploring for gas and oil in Nigeria is expected to reach 45 billion dollars this month, according to a 30 November report in the industry newsletter Sweetcrude. By coincidence, in a statement cosigned by numerous European film stars and other public figures issued the day before, Amnesty International France called for the major oil companies to be "compelled" to fund a massive proposal to clean up the damage they have already caused during the last half-century of oil drilling in the Niger River Delta. The initial cost of this plan drafted by the UN Environmental Programme would be a billion dollars. read full story / add a comment
La Bocca della Verità
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday December 08, 2011 13:13 by Anon   text 3 comments (last - sunday december 11, 2011 23:55)   image 5 images   1 attached file
Erris’ – and Ireland’s – Bocca della Verita, in the form of Shell’s Begging Bowl represented by a humdrum toilet bowl, returned to take its place outside Dáil Éireann on 6 December 2011 to mark Budget Day where the script was read by the new Minister for Hardship Michael Noonan, a script of course written by the Troika puppet masters. While the Begging Bowl captured lots of attention and support outside the gates it didn’t thankfully have to capture the buinneach* produced by current and recent government parties within the House. *buinneach,f(gs.-nní), Scour, diarrhoea.ÓDónaill.FoclóirGaeilge-Béarla. AnGúm 1992 read full story / add a comment
Chaos Cabaret For Solidarity Books
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday December 08, 2011 12:22 by sb   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 13, 2011 14:12)   image 1 image
Come along and show your support for radical books, radical deas and good old fashioned plotting and subservion in Cork! read full story / add a comment
Saying no to hunting cruelty
national / animal rights / press release Wednesday December 07, 2011 19:09 by Hunt saboteurs   text 23 comments (last - saturday december 17, 2011 09:29)   image 12 images
The Association of Hunt Saboteurs is offering a substantial cash reward in our bid to help enforce the ban on the despicably cruel practise of carted stag hunting read full story / add a comment
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national / arts and media / news report Wednesday December 07, 2011 16:32 by Andrew   text 2 comments (last - wednesday december 07, 2011 22:38)   image 1 image
Shell to Sea has revealed that RTÉ is being compelled to broadcast an apology ahead of Wednesday's Six-One and Nine O’Clock TV news programmes, as a result of RTÉ's biased coverage of Shell's attempt to build an experimental gas pipeline and refinery in Erris. In this specific case, RTÉ chose to ignore the facts as explained to them by Shell to Sea around technical issues concerning the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) investigation into the conversation Garda had about threatening to rape two women Shell to Sea campaigners they had arrested in April this year. RTÉ instead reported as fact the false suggestions of Justice Minister Alan Shatter, that part of the recording of the arrest had been deleted read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday December 07, 2011 15:40 by Mclien
Join us at the Garden of Remembrance on Saturday the 10th of December 2011 at 2pm. We intend marching to the site of the ongoing #OccupyDameStreet occupation. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / animal rights / event notice Wednesday December 07, 2011 14:37 by Vegan Ireland   text 4 comments (last - monday december 12, 2011 17:34)   image 1 image
Bingo, Vegan Food, Prizes, Board Games, Poker, Christmas decorations, great fireplace and of course absolutely great company. “Vegan Ireland” is hosting another great event. This time it’s "Christmas Bingo" and it will take place on Sunday December 11th at 6.30pm read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday December 07, 2011 13:11 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
Meeting in the Donnycarney Community Centre (Lé Chéile) to plan a Campaign Of Resistance to the Household Tax (Poll Tax!) and the other cuts and tax rises in the Budget at 8 tonight. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday December 07, 2011 10:08 by Red Banner
Issue 46 of Red Banner is out now, available from bookshops or the address above for €2 / £1.50. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday December 06, 2011 23:47 by Diarmuid Breatnach
PROTEST CONTINUING REPRESSION OF SAHARAWI PEOPLE. POLITICAL ACTIVISTS A YEAR IN MOROCCAN PRISON WITHOUT EVEN A CHARGE. TORTURE A REGULAR OCCURRENCE. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday December 06, 2011 09:20 by Alan Gibson
Protest outside Cobh Town Hall from 3:30pm, Monday 12 Dec read full story / add a comment
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