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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 Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours Fri Sep 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Labour has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating as Andy Burnham fuels rumours he is preparing to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership by refusing to commit to serving a full term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
The post Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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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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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday November 11, 2010 00:02 by RNU PRO   image 1 image   video 1 video file
REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY Spokesperson, MARTIN Óg MEEHAN has slammed the felon-setting of a West Belfast Republican. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday November 10, 2010 14:19 by Paul McAndrew
Rally to stop the budget cuts the day after the budget
Patrick's Bridge 5pm read full story / add a comment
Joe Gannon at the Dept of Finance last week
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday November 10, 2010 13:46 by Shell to Sea   image 1 image
Today marks the 4th year anniversary of the baton charge and violence by Gardaí against protestors opposed to the Corrib Gas Project.

The 10th of November 2006 was chosen by the Shell to Sea campaign, as a suitable day of action as it marked the anniversary of the hanging of Ken Saro Wiwa and 8 other Ogoni activists who opposed Shell. Over 200 Gardaí were drafted in under the direction of Superintendent Joe Gannon (then Superintendent in Belmullet).[1] read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 10, 2010 13:43 by Paul Dillon   text 2 comments (last - monday november 15, 2010 14:04)
Author keith Bolender speaks about his book "Voices From The Other Side: An Oral History Of Terrorism Against Cuba".

For more, see the latest edition of Look Left. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / news report Wednesday November 10, 2010 13:12 by Dave Donnellan   video 1 video file
At the recent Afri Hedge School Clare O'Grady Walshe argued strongly that if we give away our food sovereignty and our right to grow our own seeds as happened in Iraq it will prove disastrous for the world food system. read full story / add a comment
Audiences watch Resistance
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday November 10, 2010 12:18 by Liz Crow   image 1 image   1 attached file
Resistance: which way the future? is a dual-screen interactive installation, comprising drama and documentary films and an immersive audio-video experience. It takes as its starting point the Nazi programme of mass-murder targeting disabled people and asks what this history means for all of us today. A timely and hopeful work, Resistance explores the marginalisation of a group of people and asks what can be done to make a better future.

Recently returned from its run at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center, one visitor wrote: “One of the most powerful things I have ever experienced. I was so amazed by it, I went back to see it two more times. Each time I saw more and took more away from the experience. A month later it is still with me.” Susan Fitzmaurice

In association with ABÄRA International Disability Film Festival read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues / event notice Wednesday November 10, 2010 10:47 by Alex   text 14 comments (last - monday november 22, 2010 20:26)
Join us to the DEMONSTRATION to be held on THURSDAY the 11th of NOVEMBER at 5.30pm at the Dail in Kildare Street Dublin 1 read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / news report Wednesday November 10, 2010 09:42 by Aileen   text 6 comments (last - saturday november 13, 2010 11:01)
Members of the NUIM IFUT Branch Committee sent the letter below to NUI Maynooth Student Union President congratulating the students on demonstrating in defense of Irish education and expressing grave concern at Garda actions on the Wednesday November the 3rd. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday November 10, 2010 03:24 by JWhite- FEE NUIM   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 10, 2010 17:05)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
"RTE Six One news has finally aired footage of Gardai beating student at the recent national protest, six days after it occurred." read full story / add a comment
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national / education / feature Wednesday November 10, 2010 02:20 by Squirrel   text 16 comments (last - monday november 15, 2010 19:30)   image 2 images
Upwards of 25,000 students from across Ireland descended onto the streets of Dublin on Wednesday 3rd November, 2,000 students broke off and occupied the Department of Finance, here are 2 interviews with students present. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Wednesday November 10, 2010 00:17 by Laura Broxson
Torturing ducks and geese is sick - help us stop it! read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 09, 2010 21:52 by Pepe   text 7 comments (last - thursday november 11, 2010 23:01)
I just happen to work very near the Department of Finance and so I was a first hand witness to how events unfolded on November 3rd during the Students’ Protest. I came out to support the students -“hijack their protest” according to the lazy, subservient and incredibly pro-rich Irish mainstream media journalists, who are unable to understand a simple concept called “Solidarity”. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday November 09, 2010 18:39 by The Ireland Institute   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 09, 2010 22:42)
The Ireland Institute believes that the debate to date has been dominated by a narrow consensus that does not question the structures within which the crisis is being played out. This consensus regards capitalism as the right and natural way to organise the economy and society: no alternative is admitted. In this worldview, competition, individualism, small government, privatisation, free trade and free movement of capital are self-evidently good and the means to economic success. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday November 09, 2010 17:35 by LASC
The Mexican Government commits - before the European Parliament - to establish the truth in relation to the assassination of Beatriz Alberta Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday November 09, 2010 15:42 by PRO Workers Solidarity Movement
“The will of the people has been subjugated to the will of bankers, developers and the super-wealthy. Wednesday’s attack on peaceful protestors was designed to re-inforce that subjugation” – Gregor Kerr WSM spokesperson

Anarchist organisation Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) has called for support for the Student Protest Against Garda Brutality called by students from the Free Education for Everyone and Students in Solidarity networks. The protest is due to gather at the Wolfe Tone Statue on St. Stephen’s Green on Wednesday (10th November) at 6:00p.m. and will march to Pearse Street Garda station. read full story / add a comment
Churchill's Secret War: the British Empire and the ravaging of India during WWII
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 09, 2010 13:59 by Marcus McSpartacus   image 1 image
Harper's Magazine interviews Madhusree Mukerjee who "has published a bombshell book about Churchill’s attitudes toward India and the steps that he took during World War II that contributed to a horrific famine in Bengal in 1943." Like Ireland a century before, India was a food exporter at the time due to British suzereignty. read full story / add a comment
According to Morgan Kelly, this is where our economy is headed
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday November 09, 2010 13:30 by T   text 8 comments (last - sunday november 14, 2010 09:34)   image 4 images   1 attached file
In the latest piece in Monday's Irish Times from Prof. Morgan Kelly who at the height of the boom in 2007 said Anglo had lent over €100 billion and would eventually go bust, now says the country is facing a wave of mortgage defaults and that the country is effectively gone bust already. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 09, 2010 06:16 by 9-0   text 20 comments (last - saturday november 20, 2010 08:41)   image 1 image
PHOTO (last Saturday Nov 6th 2010)
Celtic Fans Against the "Bloodstained Poppy" (Nov 11th)
-Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan
http://willievass.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/061110...7Iink

(the bhoys hammered Aberdeen 9-0 on the day!)
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dublin / education / event notice Tuesday November 09, 2010 00:29 by Morbeg-
Campaign for Free Education

Fees of €3,000 threatened

Garda Brutality against Students

How do we Build the campaign from here?
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Peter Murray // This Land Again
national / arts and media / press release Monday November 08, 2010 22:33 by Andrew Carson   image 1 image
THIS LAND AGAIN //
PETER MURRAY //
OPENING 16th NOVEMBER 6:00pm//
RUNS 17th NOV-14th DEC // Clondalkin
Dublin 22. read full story / add a comment
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