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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 Britain?s Public Inquiries ? Unaffordable and Unscientific Sun Nov 23, 2025 13:00 | Dr David Livermore
Britain's public inquiries are a money pit, chasing stories that suit them while ignoring the facts. David Livermore calls out the Covid Inquiry for spinning dodgy stats and brushing aside the huge harm lockdowns did.
The post Britain?s Public Inquiries ? Unaffordable and Unscientific appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thousands of Pakistanis Using Visa Loopholes for Asylum Claims Sun Nov 23, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
There are growing claims the UK's visa system is being openly gamed, with record numbers of Pakistani nationals arriving on student, work and visitor visas and then switching to asylum.
The post Thousands of Pakistanis Using Visa Loopholes for Asylum Claims appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link 30 Left-Wing MPs Call on Ofcom to Censor X Under the Online Safety Act. Of Course They Do Sun Nov 23, 2025 09:00 | Laurie Wastell
Thirty Left-wing MPs have written to Ofcom to press it to censor X under the Online Safety Act. The evidence of 'hate' on the platform is threadbare, but it's obvious why they want to clip its wings, says Laurie Wastell.
The post 30 Left-Wing MPs Call on Ofcom to Censor X Under the Online Safety Act. Of Course They Do appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Exposed: How Green ?Philanthropy? Writes Scripts for Ulez ?Clean Air? Activists Sun Nov 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile highlights the work of Charlotte Gill exposing how green 'philanthropy' gives scripts to activists pushing 'clean air' schemes like Ulez as blatant proxies for the climate agenda.
The post Exposed: How Green ‘Philanthropy’ Writes Scripts for Ulez ‘Clean Air’ Activists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Nov 23, 2025 01:46 | Will Jones
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Fianna Fail loses the rag

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday May 16, 2002 17:02author by Working Class Actionauthor email workingclassaction at eircom dot net Report this post to the editors

WCA leaflet 'upsets Bertie'

Below is a Press Release from Working Class Action outlining why we are distributing a leaflet in Dublin Central calling on voters not to support Dr. Dermot Fitzpatrick. Bertie's office has got into an awful tizz about this. A senior Ahern aide has accused people in the wrong and issued threats against WCA activists. He also says Bertie is 'very upset and disappointed.' Awww!

Working Class Action

Press Release

Group Rejects Fianna Fail Candidate in Dublin Central

Working Class Action, a group of local political activists, have called on voters in Dublin Central to support Independent and progressive community based candidates rather than those from mainstream parties.

The group see the extremely tight contest for the last seat in the constituency as an opportunity to inflict some damage on the larger of the Government parties. For Fianna Fail to lose the second seat in the Taoiseach’s constituency would be an embarrassment, but more importantly, would also highlight the power a community has to punish politicians who do not represent the views of local people.

Fianna Fail’s Dr. Dermot Fitzpatrick has been targeted due to his support for the double taxation of the Bin Charges and the Pelletstown development against local wishes. Dr. Fitzpatrick has been chosen by Fianna Fail due to their first choice Royston Brady’s continuous gaffes. He is being run in Dublin Central purely to get elected on Bertie Ahern’s surplus vote. The group feel that a ‘default’ candidate such as Dr. Fitzpatrick displays a lack of respect for the people of Dublin Central.

The group states that the record of candidates from all the major parties shows them promoting policies which run directly contrary to the interests of working class people. The group will be leafleting door to door in the constituency.

Working Class Action are encouraging voters in the Cabra, Navan Road and East Wall areas to vote in their own interests and those of their communities, and not to vote down the ballot paper with preferences for the one party.

Working Class Action is an alliance of socialist, republican and community activists. We have come together to promote our belief in working class independence. We believe this can only be achieved by collective political action by communities themselves.

[ENDS]

author by Andrewpublication date Thu May 16, 2002 17:06author address author phone Report this post to the editors

author by Michael Ronan O'Connell - Socialist Workers Party, Drop the Debtpublication date Thu May 16, 2002 18:01author email michaeloconnell2001 at yahoo dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Indymedia get the rag out and start creating some news topic sections! (besides the debate forums, chat rooms etc.) News topic section like our National Election being an obvious example - so that ye can stop deleting my stuff! :)

News postings go off the page very quickly, so a topic section would be great.

The most obvious need for of course, is an Irish up-coming event section. If someone posts an upcoming event that is gone off the main page in no time, hence the need to re-type it in the news posting section which you may subsequently delete!

By the way, great showing on the Late Late recently by both Aidan O'Brien and Amanda Moloney.
Ye summed up your points very well, coherently and vigorously. Well Done!

author by Daithi - IMC Irelandpublication date Thu May 16, 2002 19:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Just in case anyone is wondering, the reason that Michael's posts have been hidden is that he was copying in full a previous article from the newswire and reposting it again, just to bring it up the newswire. This was done twice.

Indymedia's editorial guidelines state that duplicate posts will be removed. No matter how good the article is!

author by Tompublication date Thu May 16, 2002 20:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Wait and see

author by saortinnpublication date Fri May 17, 2002 17:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

who knows but some more nice popularity winning tactics by the SWP.... tut tut boys and girls, in this the era of spin ye just havent been paying attention have you?

author by Limerick1919publication date Fri May 17, 2002 18:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Considering that 2 out of the three electronic constituencies, D West and D North are the only places where socialist party candidates have a hope- C Daly and J Higgins- will tonights election special on rte not make interesting viewing. Here out of 12 available seats you will have SP taking 2 - imagine the punditery on that- skewed I know- but the second week in a row that RTe 1 will provided a forum for far left on a friday night.

Of course neither might win....

author by Paul Moloneypublication date Mon May 20, 2002 16:49author email paul_moloney at hotmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Normally I'd be all in favour of booting an FFer out, but the above smacks of a cynical attempt by Sinn Fein to get people not to vote against their candidate. It might be nice if WCA made themselves public..

P.

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