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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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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday August 21, 2010 12:36 by Wayne   text 6 comments (last - tuesday august 24, 2010 11:20)
Cronyism in the heart of Dublin 4 read full story / add a comment
Irish antiziganism in 2009
international / eu / opinion/analysis Saturday August 21, 2010 00:26 by iosaf   text 12 comments (last - friday october 08, 2010 12:23)   image 8 images
Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential decree ordering the expulsion of Roma gypsies from the French state is currently being carried out. It marks another milestone on an age old road of antiziganism (the hostility, prejudice or racism directed at the Roma / Romani people, also known gypsies or Romanian gypsies. An age old road tread in Europe which has not yet brought them early 20th century literacy rates. An age old road which has seen them pass & passed through camps, squatted sites, the Holocaust, forced sterilization & in this age of Facebook Ryanair globalisation their prettiest children have become the fodder for 21st century sexual slavery.
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday August 20, 2010 23:47 by Marie-Therese O' Loughlin
Re: Industrial Schools and the Legacy thereof.

I have just signed a petition for survivors' of institutional child abuse to have Statutory Funding given to them directly; as opposed to bureaucratic handling of it by government agencies, et al.

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national / public consultation / irish social forum / press release Friday August 20, 2010 23:13 by DANNY MCBREARTY   image 1 image
Following the arrest of Republican activist Gary Donnelly and revelations that the crown constabulary had demanded and seized related materials from a journalist, Republican Network for Unity (RNU) Chair DANNY MCBREARTY noted: read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Friday August 20, 2010 16:50 by ECO-UNESCO
This innovative course is designed for organisations wishing to integrate the principles of sustainable development in their work. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Friday August 20, 2010 15:51 by ECO-UNESCO
This one-day training introduces environmental education utilising activities developed by ECO-UNESCO to encourage young people to get involved in environmental issues. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday August 20, 2010 14:49 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
Marla Stormwolf - Patty and Anthony Damiano read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday August 20, 2010 14:28 by AII
Iran's Supreme Court has rejected Ja'far Kazemi's request to appeal against his death sentence. The sentence was imposed for his alleged participation in anti-government demonstrations and links with a banned organization. His sentence may be carried out at any time. Six other people with alleged links to the same organization are said to be under sentence of death.

Ja'far Kazemi was arrested on 18 September 2009 and interrogated and possibly tortured for months in Evin prison in Tehran. He was accused of participating in protests which followed the disputed outcome of Iran's presidential election in June 2009, but was not accused of committing any violent acts; and for his alleged contact with banned opposition group the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). He was sentenced to death for "enmity against God", and is also believed to have been convicted of "propaganda against the system". On 26 April, he learned that his death sentence had been confirmed by an appeal court. A further appeal was apparently rejected in late July read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday August 20, 2010 14:21 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
Marla Stormwolf - Patty and Anthony Damiano read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday August 20, 2010 11:50 by SHE-D   image 1 image
SHE-D
43 Gardiner Lane D1
...(rear of HILL 16 pub on Gardiner st or BUS PARKING on Mountjoy
Square)
Donations(*): 5,00 Euro @ SHE-D
DOORS @ 21:00 pm

THE MANY FACES OF POWER
is a cycle of movie screenings that tries to investigate and dissect
the complex notion of power from different points of view. The
screenings will focus on four films directed by some of the most
important Italian filmmakers who in different times and from different
standpoints gave an interesting insight into the many expressions of
power meant as the ability to control and repress our lives either in
the political, private or social sphere. read full story / add a comment
why choose suffering?
dublin / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday August 20, 2010 09:19 by Bernie Wright   text 46 comments (last - saturday june 23, 2012 08:47)   image 2 images   video 4 video files

The Alliance for Animal Rights is horrified to hear that a well known RTE presenter Ella Mc Sweeney has had two ‘pet’ pigs she raised in her garden butchered for food. This person apparently an animal ‘welfarest ‘’ has been known for her stance against animal cruelty in the meat trade.
The pigs were kept by her at her Blackrock home for several months before they were butchered.She is pictured in a newspaper with her arms around the two innocent and gentle animals.
Yet again we stress the difference in using animals for to feed our taste buds as welfarests do, as opposed to respecting the rights of other non human sentient beings to share our planet.

We have urged our supporters to stress their disappointment at her actions.
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international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday August 20, 2010 04:22 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
... and concepts about animal communication on a spiritual level read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday August 20, 2010 04:06 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
,,, and concepts from one communicator to another! read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday August 19, 2010 22:54 by T Flynn
The HAI hosts an open meeting for Humanists on the first Sunday of every month in Dublin. The meetings begin at 4 p.m. and ends at about 6 p.m. Each meeting is an informal gathering and an opportunity to meet fellow Humanists in a relaxed atmosphere, with on occasion, a guest speaker. Please feel free to drop in and join us. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday August 19, 2010 16:57 by Steven Bennett
Friday 20th August 2010: 6pm-7pm + travel time from Dublin

Irish Anti-War Movement is looking at the possibility of arranging a bus from Dublin city to BBC in Belfast and back, to demonstrate/protest against the airing of the outrageously pro-Israeli Panorama documentary "Death in the Med". The documentary tried to justify the murder of the 9 peace activists on board the Marvi Marmara on the 31st May 2010.
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international / gender and sexuality / press release Thursday August 19, 2010 14:59 by Mina Ahadi   text 2 comments (last - friday august 20, 2010 14:35)
For Immediate Publication.

According to a report disseminated by the International Committee against Execution, in addition to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, at least 21 others in the Islamic Republic's prisons are living with the nightmare of a stoning conviction. At any moment, their sentences could be implemented. These verdicts should be overturned immediately and this despicable punishment against humanity should be abolished everywhere and forever. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday August 19, 2010 12:53 by Bryan Wall   text 5 comments (last - friday august 20, 2010 12:53)
A number of weeks ago, an article has published in a local newspaper in Cork in which the 19 year old author describes her time volunteering with the IDF for 2 months over the summer. This article is a response to her initial article and a correction of the false claims and accusations she made in her initial article. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday August 19, 2010 11:48 by green leprechaun   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 04, 2010 15:54)
Ireland, by its very nature, should become a model of tolerance and intellect for the rest of the world...afterall....no one else is doing it...the market for tolerance and real intellect is WIDE OPEN...with electronic security and a little know-how the crime can be squashed and the profits can be enormous, all the while setting an example for the world about what freedom means. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / press release Wednesday August 18, 2010 19:44 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo   image 1 image
The 30th of August is the deadline for submissions to Minister for the Environment, John Gormley on Shell's plans to tunnel under Sruwaddacon Estuary which is designated a Special Area of Conservation.

The tunnel will be....

* 4.9 kilometers long
* 4.2 meters in diameter
* 15 months of tunnelling
* 24 hour a day tunnelling
* 944 truck movements a day at peak construction
* 68,000 m3 of material removed
* 2.5 km of 3m high fencing
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Lone kayaker surrounded but still Beating The Boreholes!
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday August 18, 2010 14:23 by FSB!   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 18, 2010 19:19)   image 6 images
Yesterday lunchtime, nine kayakers from Rossport Solidarity Camp, with their team of volunteers and local campaigners in support roles on dry land, successfully interrupted Shell's borehole survey drilling programme in Sruth Fhada Conn for several hours yesterday. read full story / add a comment
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