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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 Migrant Accused of Sex Assault Claims he Would be Attacked if Deported Sat Nov 15, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Pakistani migrant accused of sex assault in Britain has claimed he would be attacked if deported to his home country because of the allegations against him.
The post Migrant Accused of Sex Assault Claims he Would be Attacked if Deported appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link German Police Raid a Libertarian?s Home for the Crime of Calling Civil Servants ?Parasites? Sat Nov 15, 2025 13:00 | Eugyppius
German police have raided a libertarian's home for the crime of calling civil servants "parasites" before advising him to "think carefully about what you post in future, because you are now under observation".
The post German Police Raid a Libertarian’s Home for the Crime of Calling Civil Servants “Parasites” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump Will Sue BBC for Up to ?5 Billion Despite Apology Sat Nov 15, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump?has said he will sue the?BBC?for up to $5 billion over its "defamatory" editing of his January 6th speech despite the apology the corporation issued on Thursday.
The post Trump Will Sue BBC for Up to ?5 Billion Despite Apology appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Train Companies Are All Aboard the Trans Activism Bandwagon Sat Nov 15, 2025 09:00 | Practically Perfect
Rainbow trains, pronoun badges ? and employees sacked for raising even the mildest question. England's train companies have climbed aboard the trans bandwagon, says one dismayed employee writing for the Daily Sceptic.
The post Train Companies Are All Aboard the Trans Activism Bandwagon appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Good Riddance to Police and Crime Commissioners Sat Nov 15, 2025 07:00 | Paul Birch
Time is up for the most pointless layer of officialdom of modern times. In a rare moment of good sense, the Labour Government is abolishing Police and Crime Commissioners. It's not a moment too soon, says Paul Birch.
The post Good Riddance to Police and Crime Commissioners appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Friday April 02, 2010 14:23 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Saturday 15 May, 2 p.m.
James Connolly Memorial Lecture, 2010
Imperialism, global poverty, and environmental destruction read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Friday April 02, 2010 02:12 by RNU PRO
Denouncing the recent politically motivated arrest of RNU Ard Comhairle member, Tony Catney, REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (RNU) SPOKESPERSON, MARTIN Óg MEEHAN said; read full story / add a comment
Release ALL Palestinian Political Prisoners Now!
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday April 01, 2010 19:25 by Kev   text 1 comment (last - friday april 16, 2010 10:45)   image 1 image
Palestinian Prisoners Day 2010 Demo - "Release ALL Palestinian Political Prisoners Now!"

On Saturday April 17th at 2pm the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and the socialist-republican political party éirígí will mark Palestinian Prisoners Day with a joint demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in Dublin (122 Pembroke Road, Dublin 4).

The demonstration will be followed by a public meeting on the issue of Palestinian prisoners, exact time and venue TBC - please check back on this page for full details in the future. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Thursday April 01, 2010 16:48 by No Port Here
Outside Fingal Co Co Main Street Swords Good Friday 1-2pm read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday April 01, 2010 14:26 by RachelLYCS
Linking the Local and the Global:
A Free 2-Day Residential Training Course
for the Community Sector
Portarlington, 28 & 29 April 2010 read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday April 01, 2010 14:10 by John Cornford   image 1 image
Yassamine Mather interviews Mohammad Reza Shalgouni in the article below. Mohammad is a founder-member of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar) and has been a leader of the organisation for many years. Mohammad spent nine years as a political prisoner in Iran under the shah and today is an active supporter of Hands Off the People of Iran. In this interview he sstresses the need to oppose Imperialism as well as opposing Ahmadinejads regime. Full text at link.

Mohammad Reza Shalgouni

The office of Iran’s supreme leader is not only in total confrontation with the people, but at the same time most of the Shia ayatollahs who are accepted as sources of religious guidance are trying to distance themselves from him. The truth is that the traditional Shia religious governance is a form of republic (in the way Engels refers to the Protestant church as the ‘republican church’ and the Catholic church as the ‘Royalist church’), but now vali faghih is trying to change it into a royalist system, making the independence of centres of guidance impossible. read full story / add a comment
Watching them watching us back in June
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Thursday April 01, 2010 08:21 by Andrew N Flood   text 12 comments (last - tuesday april 27, 2010 15:42)   image 1 image
Around the time of the visit of Shell’s pipe-laying ship the Solitaire in June it became clear that the Gardai had been told that they could do anything to remove Shell to Sea campaigners from the scene and they would be looked after. Rulings from the district court, in particular the denial of bail to 7 campaigners charged with the most minor of public order offences removed people with vital water skills from the area by interning them in Mountjoy and Castlerea prisons. Local fisherman Pat O’Donnell had one of his boat sunk from under him when four masked men boarded the boat in the middle of the night and held Pat and the other crew member at gun point while they sabotaged the boat leading to its sinking. When Pat took to sea in another boat as the Solitaire arrived he was arrested under the Public Order Act for loitering and once more sent to prison leaving the way clear for the Solitaire. read full story / add a comment
'Remember Irelands Patriot Dead- Wear an Easter Lily'
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday April 01, 2010 00:39 by éirígí PRO   text 7 comments (last - friday april 02, 2010 17:37)   image 2 images
éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has called for republicans to remember Ireland’s patriot dead with pride this Easter and attend the party’s commemorations read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Thursday April 01, 2010 00:25 by Portia   text 1 comment (last - friday april 02, 2010 20:04)
The Catholic church has behaved like a cult in keeping women and children as second class human beings who were expected to obey the men of God without question.

The influence of this church has infiltrated most Government agencies especially the legal system where once again women and children were often made homeless for refusing to put up with abuse and play happy families. read full story / add a comment
tipperary / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 31, 2010 18:57 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 01, 2010 07:55)   video 1 video file
Anger was palpable on the streets of Clonmel, particularly directed at Martin Mansergh, local Fianna Faíl politician and Mary Harney, who was described as 'an excuse for a human being'. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday March 31, 2010 18:44 by Jerry Cornelius   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 31, 2010 19:51)
The “public service deal” is historic betrayal of public service union members by ICTU and its Public Services Negotiating Committee of general secretaries.The National Public Services Alliance calls on the elected national executives of individual unions to reject these destructive proposals without ballot where rules permit.

Should national executives put these proposals to ballot, the NPSA will campaign vigorously in each union for a “no” vote

The NPSA also calls on all national executive committees of individual unions to keep directives and forms of industrial action in place rejecting the call by Kieran Mulvey to end industrial action.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday March 31, 2010 17:19 by Kerry Public Service Worker   2 attached files
The Kerry Public Service Workers’ Alliance has rejected the government proposals emanating from the Croke Park talks as a recipe for the destruction of public services. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 31, 2010 15:43 by Angry Green   text 26 comments (last - wednesday november 06, 2013 00:33)   image 1 image
It is now time to form a new more left of centre Green Party as Traditional Green policies such as Climate Change, emissions reduction and renewable energy, while I agree with them are no longer enough. We don’t just want to save the planet. We want to make life so much better for the people living on it. The current Green Party has not delivered ( with the notable exception of power points for non currently existent electric cars!) and has no new ideas of any note whatsoever. They are no different than the other parties out there at the moment. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday March 31, 2010 14:29 by Terry Fagan
The North Inner City Folklore Project is to re-enact the hoisting of the Green Flag outside Liberty Hall on Palm Sunday by the Citizen Army. We will also unveil a plaque to Captain Sean Connolly of the Citizen Army who was killed on the roof of the City Hall at Sean McDermott Street. read full story / add a comment
solidarity books on international women's day
cork / arts and media / press release Wednesday March 31, 2010 13:37 by anarkitty   image 1 image
Local Cork bands The Altered Hours and Mashed Chicken and DJ Dr. Fiasco will play a fundraiser for Solidarity Books in Cruiscin Lan on Thursday 1st April starting at 8pm. Cork WSM, who have organized the event, anticipate a good turnout. Since opening its doors in December 2009, Solidarity Books, a non-profit radical book shop and meeting space, has become a hub for the local Douglas Street Community. This was most clearly seen in the recent hugely successful Douglas Street celebration of International Women’s Day. read full story / add a comment
Land Theft Veto - Palestine
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 31, 2010 13:05 by Freda H & Kev   text 2 comments (last - saturday april 03, 2010 16:33)   image 7 images   video 3 video files   1 attached file
On the evening of Tuesday 30th March 2010 the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) in Dublin commemorated Palestinian Land Day by holding a solidarity picket outside the GPO on O'Connell Street from 5 - 7pm, during which hundreds of leaflets were distributed. The picket was attended by over thirty members and supporters of the IPSC, in a colourful and lively display of solidarity which brought a certain vivaciousness to O'Connell Street on such a dismal evening. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 31, 2010 11:40 by Fintan Lane
Yesterday, the Free Gaza Movement, bought a 1,200 tonne cargo ship at an auction in Dundalk, Ireland.

The vessel had been impounded a year ago following an inspection by the International Transport Federation (ITF) which found that its’ owners had exploited it’s Lithuanian crew members - not paying their wages and subjecting them to humiliating treatment. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 31, 2010 10:31 by Residents Against Racism   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 31, 2010 11:22)   image 5 images
Despite driving rain and sleet, two hundred people marched through Dublin yesterday to protest against the death of human rights for asylum seekers. read full story / add a comment
limerick / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday March 30, 2010 20:22 by joehickey
Press Release 29th March 2010

Easter Commemoration 2010

The annual 1916 commemoration, organised by Sinn Féin, will take place in Limerick on Easter Sunday April 4th. The parade will assemble outside the Munster Fair Tavern at 12.00 noon and proceed from there to the Republican Plot, Mount St. Laurence Cemetery.

The main speaker will be Cllr. Maurice Quinlivan.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday March 30, 2010 16:42 by Paula Geraghty   text 9 comments (last - sunday may 16, 2010 09:40)   video 1 video file
Video from a protest called by the Labour party to close down the Clontarf Head Shop from March 20th 2010. read full story / add a comment
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