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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 Heat Pump Grants to Be Cut in Budget Thu Nov 13, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Funding for heat pump grants is set to be cut by billions of pounds at the Budget in a fresh blow to Ed Miliband's green agenda as the Government tries to lower bills amid sky-high energy costs.
The post Heat Pump Grants to Be Cut in Budget appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link French Stopping Even Fewer Small Boats Since Deal With Starmer Thu Nov 13, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
French police are preventing even fewer small boat crossings since Sir Keir Starmer struck a deal with President Emmanuel Macron to?tackle the crisis, the success rate dropping from 38% to an abysmal 28.7%.
The post French Stopping Even Fewer Small Boats Since Deal With Starmer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sweden?s Pension Funds Face Eye-Watering Losses After Investing Heavily in Net Zero Projects Thu Nov 13, 2025 15:36 | Will Jones
Sweden's pension funds are facing eye-watering losses after they invested heavily in Net Zero projects that are now going bust, leaving the retirement savings of millions at risk.
The post Sweden’s Pension Funds Face Eye-Watering Losses After Investing Heavily in Net Zero Projects appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Too Woke to Save Sara Sharif Thu Nov 13, 2025 13:02 | Will Jones
Woke attitudes have been blamed for the failure to save Sara Sharif from being tortured to death by her father, with officials failing to check under her hijab for injuries and neighbours afraid to report concerns.
The post Too Woke to Save Sara Sharif appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Shamima Begum Should Be Allowed to Return to Britain as Her Human Rights Are Being Violated, Review ... Thu Nov 13, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
ISIS bride Shamima Begum and other Britons in Syrian camps should be allowed back into the UK on human rights grounds and because many will come back illegally anyway, an independent review has found.
The post Shamima Begum Should Be Allowed to Return to Britain as Her Human Rights Are Being Violated, Review Finds 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 / miscellaneous / other press Thursday January 13, 2011 05:09 by R.I.P.   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 30, 2011 06:19)
This thread marks the passing in 2011 of folks who have spent their lives struggling for peace and justice (and others). read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday January 13, 2011 00:41 by Conall
"Would you like to come along to the next Dublin branch meeting of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign?
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international / environment / other press Wednesday January 12, 2011 08:10 by Anonymous Zero   image 1 image
CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATION (CCS) DEAD? YOU BETCHA! World's Largest CCS Project Weyburn, Saskatchewan Leaking like Soda Killing Birds, Cats, Goats.. read full story / add a comment
What History Ireland said about programme on Tom Barry
dublin / history and heritage / news report Tuesday January 11, 2011 23:44 by Eoghan Myers   text 17 comments (last - thursday march 24, 2011 23:31)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
Bóthar na Saoirse (The Road to Freedom) is a trilogy of documentaries on the lives of Dan Breen, Tom Barry and Ernie O’Malley, iconic hardline republicans from the War of Independence.

It begins on Wednesday on TG4 with My Fight For Irish Freedom, Scéal Dan Breen, the colourful and complex South Tipperary guerrilla who started the War of Independence at Soloheadbeg in 1919 on the day the First Dail sat in Dublin. Forced to flee Tipperary he joined Michael Collins’ hit squad in Dublin but then opposed the Treaty negotiated by Collins. Later he joined De Valera’s Fianna Fail and was the first anti-Treaty activist to enter Dail Eireann and take the oath of allegiance he had fought to abolish. read full story / add a comment
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cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday January 11, 2011 22:23 by anarkitty   image 1 image
Friday 28th January at 8pm in Bacchus Nightclub, Kinsale read full story / add a comment
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cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday January 11, 2011 22:18 by anarkitty   image 1 image
Thursday 27th January at 8pm upstairs in An Spailpin Fanac read full story / add a comment
Gestapo MI-5 & MI-6
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 11, 2011 21:36 by Rebels Yell   image 1 image   video 1 video file
The British secret service MI5 has displayed nothing but contempt for democracy in Ireland, indeed its own agents are on record as describing it as Nazi like body, particularly when it comes to the Irish people throughout its history. During all its years in Ireland its agenda has involved, wholesale slaughter of Irish citizens, in directing and co-ordinating the Dublin and Monaghan no warning car bombs, that murdered 33 people.Aside from co-ordinating several such bombings against innocent Irish people, it was identifying, targeting and killing Irish people they considered a threat or challenge to their control over all of Ireland, north and south. MI5still continues to this day to frame innocent Irish people all over the island, into lengthy prison sentences, among them the innocent brother-in-law of dead hunger striker Bobby Sands for twenty years, simply on the basis of vindictiveness and his ties to the Sands family. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday January 11, 2011 20:17 by Con Carroll   text 3 comments (last - monday january 17, 2011 08:48)
we should shout if from every rooftop that Israel is apartheid state read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday January 11, 2011 16:16 by Karen Ní Ríada
Public Discussion announced with Susan George in the Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2 on January 18th from 1pm - 2pm. read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice / press release Monday January 10, 2011 22:53 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (RNU) Spokesperson, MARTIN ÓG MEEHAN has denounced a joint RUC/PSNI and British Army raid today in West Belfast as sinister. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday January 10, 2011 22:46 by ViciousHippie
Bring tools, play sound !

A lively and open jam session on the streets of Dublin -
free to everyone with or without an instrument.
Bring the community spirit back to our streets,
play some music and have some fun while you're at it !

Meet @ 1pm in Temple Bar Square on Saturday 22th January read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday January 10, 2011 22:26 by ViciousHippie
A Drum, Pot n' Pan Bang - Peaceful Sonic Vigil for Real Democracy

LIBERATE YOUR KITCHENWARE WEDNESDAY 12th JANUARY @ 12pm outside the Not-So-Pearly gates of Dáil Eireann
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national / arts and media / event notice Monday January 10, 2011 22:06 by Dominic Taylor
'On The Nail' Reading @ The Locke Bar, Limerick
Thurs. 3rd Feb 2011 8.00pm
The next monthly 'On The Nail' literary reading takes place Thursday 3rd Feb 2011 at 8.00pm in The Locke Bar, George's Quay, Limerick
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Organised by The Limerick Writers' Centre this popular monthly reading and open-mic continues to attract audiences with a mix of poetry, prose and music.

This Month (February) our Guest Readers are author PJ Taylor and poet Ciaran O’Driscoll. PLUS Launch of Revival Literary Journal 18.
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mayo / environment / event notice Monday January 10, 2011 21:42 by ViciousHippie
Winter skillshare 15th-16th of January 2011 in Barr na Coille

* tree talk and tree planting
* timber handling demonstration
* guided foraging walk
* craft workshops
* soap making and needle work
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"JUST HOW MUCH PHUCKIN IMF DEBT HAVE THESE SCUM STATE SLIME GIVEN ME?"
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday January 10, 2011 19:47 by Rebels YELL   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Slavery was abolished in the West after Roger Casement an Irish republican of good dissident stock, kicked up about it. Generally it only continues in third world places such as Africa, South-east Asia and parts of the middle-east. However bonded Labour which is reality another form of slavery, is more common than you think and has been re-introduce into Ireland, which has un-officially become a third world country again. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday January 10, 2011 16:23 by V for vendetta   text 2 comments (last - friday january 14, 2011 23:46)
An emerging guitar talent who might go all the way. Here he plays an old tune from Eurythmics in his unique style that has impressed many famous guitarists and gained him a following on youtube in a short time. read full story / add a comment
Peace Vigil at Shannon 9 Jan 2011
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Monday January 10, 2011 14:43 by Edward Horgan   text 1 comment (last - monday january 10, 2011 09:35)   image 3 images
Today’s peace vigil at Shannon on 9 Jan 2011 was not a celebration but a commemoration of events that have been occurring over the past 11 years in Afghanistan and Iraq in which the United States waged unlawful and unjustified wars killing hundreds of thousands of people. It also commemorated and offered condolences on behalf of the many prisoners who were kidnapped, imprisoned without trial and in many cases tortured in Guantanamo and elsewhere. January 2011 also marks the 20th of the US led Gulf War in 1991, which led to the deaths of over two million Iraqi people in the decade up to 2001. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday January 10, 2011 11:03 by Mairtin
DUBLIN - Vigil US Embassy,
Ballsbridge, D4 12midnight
Saturday night 15th January 2011
to mark the first bombardment of this 20 year ongoing War on Iraq
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday January 09, 2011 18:52 by Fiona Dukelow
Bernadette McAliskey will give a seminar on 'Republicanism Revisited - Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man' at University College Cork on January 24th. This will be held at 4pm, Room G04, Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College Road. read full story / add a comment
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday January 09, 2011 15:37 by Eric   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 11, 2011 13:14)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Documentary-maker John Pilger has returned to a subject that can't be revived often enough: the grotesque untruth of "weapons of mass destruction": a cloudy concept, eagerly amplified and lent credibility by credulous and submissive journalists who, after 9/11, lost their nerve en masse.
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