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Indymedia ireland

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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Voltaire, international edition

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

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

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Bety Cariño flyer
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday September 20, 2010 13:49 by Event officer   image 1 image
With food and Musica Latina at 7pm
(followed by 80s night at 8pm)

Suggested Donations: 5 at door, 5 for food
All proceeds go to Bety's family and projects read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / news report Sunday September 19, 2010 22:21 by Trade Union TV   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 23, 2010 15:05)   video 1 video file
Artists performed at Kildare Street to highlight low pay and the inability to organise because of the unjust Competition Act lunchtime 16th September 2010. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday September 19, 2010 21:53 by SHE-D
SHE-D
43 Gardiner Lane D1
...(rear of HILL 16 pub on Gardiner st or BUS PARKING on Mountjoy Sq south)
Donations(*): 5,00 Euro @ SHE-D
DOORS @ 21:00 pm

Cinema Paradise @ SHE-D
presents
THE MANY FACES OF POWER 3

FILM:
IL DIVO by PAOLO SORRENTINO,
(110 min, 2008, italian language, english subtitles)
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national / arts and media / press release Sunday September 19, 2010 20:25 by Pyjamarama   text 5 comments (last - saturday september 25, 2010 12:40)   video 1 video file
Pyjama Girls isn't your typical commerical release. Its a film which deserves a space on Indymedia.

Pyjama Girls, a new Irish documentary by Maya Derrington that examines the lives of two of Dublin’s ‘pyjama girls’, will screen at some of the country’s most prominent cinemas as part of a DIY distribution campaign. The film sold out its week-long run at Dublin’s IFI and was moved from the smallest to the largest screen after one day. IFI director Sarah Glennie says “the film attracted a new audience profile to the cinema – it’s pyjama mania!” read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday September 19, 2010 19:43 by Maryam Namazie   text 2 comments (last - monday september 20, 2010 03:24)   video 1 video file
Maryam Namazie spoke at the anti Pope rally in London on Saturday. Maryam makes clear that the struggle against religious obscurantism is going to continue. Full text at link.

We choose humanity whilst the pope, Ahmadinejad and Islamists choose religious dogma at the expense of humanity. The pope complains of ‘aggressive secularists.’ Well they haven’t seen anything yet. We’re going to push them back. We want to – demand to - live in the 21st century. read full story / add a comment
fas ''employment'',for us or for them..
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday September 19, 2010 17:54 by elaine morrisey   image 3 images
FAS,the troubled state agency has lost all credibility,and this has not just been recently,this has been happening for years,with the government of the state 'training educational' agency,standing by still in support of these 'services',to provide free labour,and continue to not pay the people making FAS happen,the ce workers.FAS pay employers who take on their FAS employees hundreds of euros,while the FAS ce or apprentices,get paid by social welfare,this is not a system that works for the unemployed,currently only 3 % of former fas workers are employed in the jobs market,so what good has FAS done for the unemployed minus themselves and thier business associates apart from making the dole stats look good,what use is that when FAS are draining our economy and providing no job oppurtunities across the board.
brainstorming for a new name will not solve the old problems in the well heeled FAS senior management.
read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing / other press Sunday September 19, 2010 17:42 by Wayne Flanagan Tobin   text 8 comments (last - tuesday march 18, 2014 16:33)
A Poem on Homelessness in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday September 19, 2010 17:41 by Laura Broxson
Foie gras is illegal to produce in Ireland, so why is it legal to sell it? Join us and help us fight this disgusting industry! read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Sunday September 19, 2010 15:33 by Hibernian Scribe   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 23, 2010 21:18)
Conor Lenihan was due to launch John J.May's self-published book The Origin of Specious Nonsense which challenges the theories of Charles Darwin. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Saturday September 18, 2010 23:22 by Laura Broxson
Hi,

Activists in Italy have asked us to organise a protest outside the Italian Embassy in Dublin, in solidarity with their campaign to close Green Hill beagle breeders (which is owned by the notorious Marshall Farms Inc.).

Green Hill currently imprison 2,500 beagles and ship them to all around Europe, mainly to companies such as Novartis, Wyeth, Bayer as well as Italian laboratories - and even Huntingdon Life Sciences, the biggest animal testing laboratory in the UK.

In previous months, they applied for an expansion to stock 5,000 beagles in total, and as a result a campaign was launched in Italy which had this application stopped. Now, the campaign aims to close down the farm, which is breaching Italian law. The campaign is also aiming to get a complete ban on vivisection in Italy.

For more information, Google-translate their website: http://www.fermaregreenhill.net/wp/ read full story / add a comment
The march ended with a rally outside Downing Street
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday September 18, 2010 19:45 by pat c   image 2 images
Thousands have come out to protest against the Pope in London. Victims of abuse by clergy, Humanists, Atheists, Anarchists,Socialists, Liberals, LGBTQs, Feminists; all varieties of progressives were present to give the finger to the Panzer Pope. Full text at link.

Peter Tatchell who has a track record of opposing other dictators such as Mugabe said:

"This is not an attack on Catholic people or the Catholic faith. We are critical of certain policies of the Pope.
When he says no woman is fit to be a priest, that's an insult to the whole of female humanity.
When he says a husband must not use a condom to protect his wife from infection - even if he has HIV - that's irresponsible."
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international / crime and justice / news report Saturday September 18, 2010 13:27 by Assembly for Solidarity
Responding to the Call for International Solidarity by the persecuted and rebellious comrades in Chile, we call on people around the world to express their solidarity and in Athens we invite a

Gathering of Solidarity
on Friday, September 24th at 5pm,
outside of the Chilean Embassy (Bas. Sofias 25)
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Poll graphic
mayo / arts and media / news report Saturday September 18, 2010 10:41 by JM   text 1 comment (last - monday september 20, 2010 20:17)   image 1 image
The Mayo-based Connaught Telegraph weekly newspaper ran an on-line poll this week on the Corrib gas pipeline project, with unsurprising results. read full story / add a comment
80snight250910.png
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Friday September 17, 2010 19:55 by Seomra Spraoi   image 1 image
80s night! DJs, danceparty, dress-up madness, come on down for the hyper-cheese craic!

Suggested Donation 5-euro
from 8pm, byob

Saturday 25th September @ seomra spraoi, 10 Belverdere Court, Dublin 1 read full story / add a comment
Comh. Críona Ní Dhálaigh
dublin / arts and media / news report Friday September 17, 2010 19:52 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   image 2 images
www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice
www.bebo.com/armuinnamuice
www.nearpodcast.org
www.near.ie read full story / add a comment
"What do you mean they're on OUR bus!?"
mayo / environment / news report Friday September 17, 2010 15:15 by jen debender and da ram   text 8 comments (last - sunday september 19, 2010 12:28)   image 7 images   video 1 video file
Representatives from Shell and their panel of expert witnesses were prevented from leaving the An Bord Pleanála oral hearing Thursday night by peaceful protesters. read full story / add a comment
Debate Poster
galway / arts and media / event notice Friday September 17, 2010 12:25 by Debateboy   text 2 comments (last - monday september 20, 2010 12:35)   image 1 image
All are welcome to a debate on the topic ‘Politics and Media: a Cosy Cartel?’ which will take place at the 8 Café at Galway City Museum near the Spanish Arch on Monday 27th September starting at 8pm. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Friday September 17, 2010 11:39 by ECO-UNESCO
ECO-UNESCO’s Youth for Sustainable Development Conference 2010

YOUTH FOR THE FUTURE

Learning to Change our World

When? Wednesday 22nd September 2010, 10am-4pm

Where? The Greenhouse, 17 St Andrew Street, Dublin 2

Cost? Free of charge*

Who should attend? Youth workers, youth leaders, teachers and educators from community organisations and NGOs. Young people aged 15 – 18 are also warmly invited to attend with their adult support workers.

What will be happening at the conference?
You are invited to a day of learning and reflection through workshops, keynote speeches, exhibition of projects and interactive activities. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday September 17, 2010 11:05 by SWP Cork
Public Meeting
Israel & The Palestinians
What Will Bring Peace?

Thurs Sept 23rd 8pm
Victoria Hotel Patrick St

Speaker: Claudia Saba (Palestinian activist & Steering Committee) read full story / add a comment
national / education / event notice Thursday September 16, 2010 18:32 by T Flynn
Monthly meeting for Humanists, Atheists, Agnostics and Freethinkers. read full story / add a comment
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