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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 Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
The post Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of “Misguided Attempts at Equality” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 19, 2011 22:09 by Seán Ó Murchú
Cork Protest against Queen of England visit
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday May 19, 2011 19:34 by Yassamine Mather
Stranger and stranger. Cabinet ministers fired, the number of ministeries reduced. Accusations of sorcery, jinns (genies). But as Yassamine Mather writes:

...however, for all the references to supernatural beings, the conflict has its roots in a good, old-fashioned power struggle between, on the one side, landed old money, senior ayatollahs and their periphery and, on the other, what they call tazeh bedoran ressideh ha (the nouveaux riches or new rich) in the Ahmadinejad camp.

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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday May 19, 2011 18:12 by Conor   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 25, 2011 15:36)   image 1 image
The IPSC is hosting a 'Palestinian Night' in Seomra Spraoi. The event will take place on Saturday 28th May, from 7pm in Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvedere Court (near Mountjoy Square), Dublin 1. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday May 19, 2011 18:02 by Declan Cullen   text 3 comments (last - sunday june 19, 2011 10:31)   video 1 video file
Citizen's Rights Suspended Because of Queen's Visit

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international / crime and justice / feature Thursday May 19, 2011 01:57 by Reminder   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 19, 2011 12:55)   image 5 images
Christina O'Loughlin Marie ButlerThomas Campbell Edward O'Neill Anne Byrne John O'Brien Marie Phelan Simone ChetritGeorge Williamson Siobhan Roice John Dargle Anna O'Brien Maureen Shields Patrick FayPatrick Askin Breda Turner Breda Grace Ann-Marie O'Brien Josephine Bradley Mary McKennaColette Doherty Elizabeth Fitzgerald Ann MasseyJacqueline O'Brien Archie Harper Ann MarrenThomas Croarkin Peggy White Dorothy Morris Concepta Dempsey Jack Travers Antonio MaglioccoJohn Walshe

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Dublin Food Co-op
dublin / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 18, 2011 22:40 by Dave   text 21 comments (last - sunday march 16, 2014 11:57)   image 1 image
After 28 years of operation, Dublin Food Co-op is chronically sick: divorced from its founding principles and acutely dysfunctional. Following a deeply troubling incident in March, this author – until recently one of its most committed volunteers – has found it necessary to part ways.

So, what’s gone wrong with the city’s pioneering consumer wholefood co-operative?
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday May 18, 2011 21:59 by T   text 15 comments (last - friday july 01, 2011 14:59)
Two recent articles make the strong case that IMF chief Strauss-Kahn has been caught up in a palace coup as it were from the extremist side of the IMF.

While it is easy to hate the IMF and row in with the corporate media and pronounce him guilty we have got to remember to step back from this story and examine the context. What is also interesting is the way that this is the same media that so eagerly brought us the Afghan War, Iraq war, bailout of the rich and austerity and impoverishment for the rest of us, here they are now attacking one of the key figures in this global institute. It is all rather strange read full story / add a comment
A "sport" that will now hopefully be weakened...
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 18, 2011 19:22 by Battling Bloodsports in Ireland   text 3 comments (last - thursday may 26, 2011 21:52)   image 3 images
Great news from the Commercial Court today (May 18th) re the case of Greenband Investments v Irish Coursing Club! read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday May 18, 2011 13:52 by Dave Donnellan   text 3 comments (last - monday april 30, 2012 15:43)   video 1 video file
The walking tour of Dublin, on the eve of the visit of Queen Elizabeth, was led by an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the slogan: "No queen but Mary Queen of Heaven -- single mother, refugee, role model for a revolutionary!" read full story / add a comment
Puns glorious puns..
international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday May 18, 2011 12:58 by KatyB   image 1 image
Reclaim the fields Camp 2011

21.-30. September

in Rosia Montana in Romania read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday May 17, 2011 23:35 by Republican Network for Unity   image 1 image
7.30am..
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday May 17, 2011 23:31 by KatyB   image 3 images   video 1 video file
In response to Shell's AGM today in The Hague and London, the Shell to Sea campaign have shut down the Belmullet Shell office in protest against the on-going controversial Corrib Gas project which has no local consent or benefit to the people of Ireland. Shell will attempt to begin construction on the high pressure raw gas pipeline shortly despite a legal challenge by An Taisce and two local residents.

This protest is also to highlight the fact that every hour Shell accumulates another £1.6 million pounds sterling ( 1.83 million Euro) by destroying communities across the globe, from the Niger Delta to the Canadian Tar Sands. Shell's appalling record of human rights abuses, oil spills, gas flaring and accidents forces people to protect their communities and their environment.

We call on all shareholders to disinvest.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday May 17, 2011 16:18 by Trade Union TV   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 17, 2011 21:31)   video 1 video file
Watch the video report from the protest held at the Tallaght offices of SDCC Monday 16th, 2011. read full story / add a comment
Come help us get ready!
mayo / environment / press release Tuesday May 17, 2011 15:10 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   image 1 image
We are calling out for folks to come & help prepare the camp for Party against the Pipe.
No experience or skills needed, just come along and get stuck in, there's loads to do! read full story / add a comment
antrim / gender and sexuality / press release Tuesday May 17, 2011 00:09 by Danielle Ni Dhighe   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 17, 2011 12:37)
IRSCNA's statement for the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 16, 2011 22:09 by Saoirse
WHEN: May 17, 2011 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: Great Hunger Memorial - 290 Vesey Street and North End Avenue, Battery Park City
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international / animal rights / press release Monday May 16, 2011 13:03 by CB   text 3 comments (last - saturday june 23, 2012 00:53)
A week-long series of events have been organised (16 May - 21 May) to mark The ARZone Tom Regan Week, including the release of rare and exclusive questions and answers with the scholar/activist, a full transcript, and an ARZone member’s “workshop.” read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday May 16, 2011 12:46 by Saoirse
A Uachtaráin, a chara,

On behalf of Republican Sinn Féin I wish to place on record our opposition to the invitation which has been extended to the Queen of England to visit Páirc an Chrócaigh.

We object to this visit on the grounds that a visit to any part of Ireland by the head of the British State is inappropriate while that state continues to occupy part of Ireland
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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday May 16, 2011 06:41 by ws   text 29 comments (last - friday november 04, 2011 11:44)   image 1 image
We all rely on large companies to safeguard our health and we allow them to control and direct much of our science. Is this trust really justified? read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 16, 2011 00:01 by éirígí PRO   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 18, 2011 05:28)
On the afternoon of Tuesday May 17th Elizabeth Windsor is due to lay a wreath in the Garden of Remembrance on Dublin's Parnell Square. read full story / add a comment
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