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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 / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday January 21, 2006 23:34 by BP   text 5 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 14:52)
Good quality audio (MP3) of two recent speeches by Noam Chomsky at University College Dublin:

1. Democracy Promotion: Reflections on Intellectuals and the State

2. Biolinguistic Explorations: Design, Development, Evolution read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday January 21, 2006 17:49 by Richard Mellor   text 2 comments (last - saturday january 21, 2006 23:29)
Capitalism's assault on New Orleans and the Auto Industry. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday January 20, 2006 14:43 by Davros   text 4 comments (last - monday february 13, 2006 12:54)
Is there a possibility of direct action in connection with Shannon? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday January 20, 2006 11:50 by MichaelY
With thanks to Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writer read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday January 20, 2006 02:05 by Wanbli Watakpe and DJ Tanya
Tashunka Witko Brigade co-host Wanbli Watakpe interviews Irish socialist feminist historian Ruth Taillon who is also a long time ally of the indigenous struggle in North America. Ruth talks about issues parallel to both the Irish and Indigenous struggle, Leonard Peltier, and Bobby Sands. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 18, 2006 05:10 by Xavier   text 65 comments (last - thursday october 09, 2008 05:04)   image 4 images
Organised religion and political parties are one and the same thing, bodies formed for the exercise of social control through the centralisation of power and the use of hierarchical structures read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 17, 2006 18:32 by Paul Baynes   text 21 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 21:19)   image 1 image
Although the mass media often links Islam with militancy, Political Islam can refer to a wide range of movements - many of them progressive. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 17, 2006 02:07 by Terry   text 9 comments (last - friday july 25, 2008 14:18)
This is the final part of a three part series on the potential role of alternative net based media could play in political mobilisation. Part one is here, and part two here. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 17, 2006 02:03 by Terry
This is the second part of a three part series on the potential role of alternative net based media in political mobilisation, part one is here. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday January 16, 2006 21:56 by ipsiphi   text 11 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 13:30)   image 1 image
It would seem the great unseen powers so often ascribed the responsiblity for planning the co-incidences so many see politics and culture of local and global nature, can not find a suitable day to finally lay to rest Ariel Sharon. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday January 14, 2006 20:31 by c murray   text 10 comments (last - monday january 16, 2006 15:13)
The case taken by Vincent Salafia to
judicially review the decision to grant
38 licences to excavate along the M3
Kells to Clonee is being examined at the
High Court. It will resume at eleven am
on Tuesday the seventeenth of january. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday January 13, 2006 16:31 by Davy Carlin   text 2 comments (last - friday january 13, 2006 18:21)
It is like a big big jigsaw, with many many players and many many pieces.


Below is today's front page article from Daily Ireland. I give though firstly a few lines of an article I had written a few years ago in relation to the {once termed} Belfast SWP's response to this murder. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday January 12, 2006 20:34 by marcus   text 7 comments (last - monday january 23, 2006 19:58)
Veronica McDermott is a rep for BNFL in Ireland and has had an article in the Sunday Business Post (10/12/06) and been heavily quoted in an article in the Sunday Independent (08/01/06) both of which promote nuclear power as a real option and both of which only refer to her as a public affairs consultant. this along with David McWilliams article a few weeks ago shows that there is a pro-nuclear agenda being pushed in our papers preparing the nuclear industry to pounce when energy becomes a major issue. read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 11, 2006 17:49 by Conor Cregan   text 23 comments (last - wednesday january 18, 2006 19:38)
On Saturday 7th of January we returned to the doorstep of Shannon Airport after a three year absence to hold a 24 hour vigil to mark the third anniversary of founding a peace camp in protest against the use of the airport by the U.S. Military as pit stop for George W Bush’s War on Terror. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 11, 2006 12:49 by Timothy   text 27 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 13:20)
In violation of its agreements with the IAEA the Iranian government has removed seals from its nuclear facilities and has begun uranium processing. The response of the international community led by the US and UK poodle with the support of effeminate France (the CIA staged Paris riots have convinced them of the need to clamp down on Muslims) and Russia (Chechens freedom fighters supported by Iran)is to refer the issue to the UN Security Council in preparation for a new Iran War read full story / add a comment
1st Dublin march
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 11, 2006 11:56 by Alan MacSimoin   text 10 comments (last - monday january 16, 2006 17:35)   image 1 image
On December 14th the three week dispute at Irish Ferries came to an end. SIPTU claimed that the deal protects a “threshold of decency”. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 10, 2006 22:26 by charles dickens   text 5 comments (last - friday february 10, 2006 23:12)
British anti-War politics has taken an interesting turn over the change of Year.
The leader of the largest "anti-War" party has resigned his position after being exposed as a soaked up rickety wreck alcoholic.
Meanwhile the umbrella of interests in British politics which work through the "Impeach Blair" or "Stop the War" coalition have called upon a retired general to voice their concerns, and the former extreme left candidate Gorgeous George Galloway has decided to go to Big Brother. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 10, 2006 20:13 by gay geori   text 5 comments (last - tuesday january 17, 2006 14:16)
Anyone listening to RTE's Tubridy show this morning would have been gobsmacked to hear the "head mistress" of posh middle class girls school Alexandra's College in Dublin refer to a site where students can post hate messages about each other. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday January 09, 2006 17:14 by Justin Morahan   text 6 comments (last - tuesday january 10, 2006 11:29)
We continue to kowtow to the present incumbent of the White House using all kinds of lame excuses for so doing.
Enough!
Let us end the empty charade of "friendship" with this man now and demand that our leaders present him with no more bowls of shamrock, an idea already tainted by the events surrounding 17 March 2003. read full story / add a comment
It's OK to take off your hat now, McDowell, we know you!
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday January 09, 2006 16:46 by MK_LSG   text 18 comments (last - friday march 03, 2006 08:31)   image 1 image
In this open letter and call to action, Ms. Kelly clearly outlines the criminal complicity of the Irish Government (i.e. McDowell & his Cohorts) in the matter of US warcriminals and torturers using Ireland for their obscene purposes. read full story / add a comment
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