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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 / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 22, 2005 21:59 by Nuria O'Mahony   text 28 comments (last - monday april 07, 2008 07:02)   image 1 image
Consumers have a right to expect full and impartial information about the potential risks and adverse effects of prescription medication in Ireland. This information is essential to make informed decisions about treatment, weighing up the real risks as well as the real benefits. This is not happening at present with the SSRIs. read full story / add a comment
if the cap fits wear it...
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 22, 2005 13:47 by ipsiphi   text 26 comments (last - saturday may 26, 2007 13:04)   image 2 images
This week the minster of Justice, Michael mc Dowell addressed the Garda Siochana (his police force) on several issues.
Improvements to their housing.
What he terms "SF/IRA" criminality with very special references made to two events outside the jurisdiction of his department in Northern Ireland of the UK.
And reminded everyone that he supports the GFA (to wash hands of ethnicity issues and crucify the Christ).

Meanwhile the local "experts" on the Good Friday thing had earlier the same Dail holiday weekend
spoken out against his policies.

He made no reference to either speed lasers or
the deportation of a young black chap in his school uniform to Nigeria last week. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Monday March 21, 2005 12:59 by shoegirl   text 21 comments (last - wednesday march 30, 2005 11:49)
Discussion on handling general racism on a day to day basis. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday March 21, 2005 11:31 by sovietpop   text 6 comments (last - thursday march 24, 2005 10:01)
The US occupation has damaged Iraqi civil society and infrastructure, fuelled terrorism and was carried out in the interest of capitalists rather than the Iraqi people. American capitalism has used the occupation to suppress workers rights and steal the natural resources of the country. Before the US invaded there weren’t any Islamist terrorist groups of any note in Iraq. Now there are, thus the secular nature of Iraqi society has declined under the occupation as secular forces are squashed between the Islamists and the US forces. read full story / add a comment
Arahbishop Michael Desmond Hynes Prepares to Serve at The Handball Alley, Tullyvin, Co Cavan
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Monday March 21, 2005 10:26 by Sean Crudden   text 3 comments (last - monday march 28, 2005 19:50)   image 1 image
The weather is fluky here in Cooley today with rain and depression coming down. The following text may do something to lighten the spirits of indymedia readers.

Some people think that The Archbsihop is just another venal cleric. Others may say that he is only a cod. However no-one can deny that he has in abundance the unusual gift of seeing what is (blindingly?) obvious.

The following is a post factum reconstruction by Archbishop Michael Desmond ("Dessie") Hynes of a talk he gave to the fifth annual winter workshop organised by Cooley Environmental and Health Group. The workshop entitled "Organisation and Health" took place on the afternoon of 29 January 2005 in The Strand, Omeath, Co Louth. read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 20, 2005 21:48 by Derry IRSP   text 2 comments (last - monday december 26, 2005 02:05)
Son Of INLA Hunger Striker In Solidarity With Basque Hunger Strikers read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 20, 2005 01:31 by Brian Nugent   text 10 comments (last - sunday may 22, 2005 02:25)
The O'Hara family and Adrienne McGlinchey read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday March 19, 2005 19:22 by stop world bank   text 9 comments (last - friday march 25, 2005 22:37)
Paul Wolfowitz is a war criminal-why is he going to head the World Bank? read full story / add a comment
no War. it's a planetary thing
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday March 19, 2005 14:16 by peace   text 4 comments (last - sunday march 20, 2005 16:22)   image 9 images
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday March 18, 2005 23:40 by s.fleming   text 17 comments (last - thursday march 24, 2005 14:18)
The mental health organisation Aware received 90, 490 euros in donations for the year 2003. They refuse to say how much of this money came from individuals with links or associations to pharmaceutical companies promoting the theory that depression is a real disease related to a brain chemical imbalance. It's important to note that these donations are separate from D.A.W.N donations, etc, and no breakdown is given. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday March 17, 2005 01:07 by Donnacha O Briain   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 24, 2005 14:13)
The EU's REACH proposal for improved regulation of chemicals has sparked the largest ever industry lobbying campaign in Europe. The chemical industry council CEFIC took the lead, with German giant BASF in a key role, and with active backing from US chemical corporations and the Bush administration. Scare mongering, flawed impact studies and delay tactics are part of this aggressive counter-campaign that has seriously weakened REACH. More than ever, it is time for citizens to stand up against industry attempts to undermine progressive environment and health legislation.

Read the full text at: http://www.corporateeurope.org/lobbycracy/BulldozingREACH.html read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 16, 2005 02:40 by Ross Getman   text 2 comments (last - sunday march 20, 2005 00:12)
In advance of a meeting of the Irish Medical Organisation addressing soda in school, here are arguments that have been used in the United States in the ongong attempt to rid schools of caffeinated sugar water. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 15, 2005 15:10 by Sean Burke   text 17 comments (last - thursday march 17, 2005 12:45)
First off, we've had the Hizbollah, pro-Syrian, pro-government rally, which according to various estimates attracted somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million people to the center of Beirut.

Now, we have an opposition, anti-Syrian, anti-Government rally, with anywhere between 800,000 and 1.3 million people in the streets.

Lebanon's total population is 3.7 million. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 15, 2005 10:41 by rory hearne   text 6 comments (last - wednesday march 16, 2005 15:36)
At the European Social Forum in Florence in November 2002 a debate emerged within the alter-globalisation movement over whether building opposition to Bush’s global war was a diversion from opposing corporate globalisation. The debate - in terms of developing a strategy for the movement - is centred on identifying the key issue or challenge that the movement should focus on. This is an essential task if the movements are to win and not just oppose or resist. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Sunday March 13, 2005 01:20 by Just Wondering   text 8 comments (last - monday march 14, 2005 21:11)
Does anyone know if this motion was passed? read full story / add a comment
The four Goldmines,more frolics to come.
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday March 12, 2005 10:27 by John McDermott   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 12, 2005 11:17)   image 2 images
A flurry of abnegations and 'I am not to blame' responses emerged from Leinster House,recently on publication of the Travers report.
The story may not be over....yet. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday March 11, 2005 19:22 by Paddy Collins   text 6 comments (last - tuesday march 15, 2005 02:21)
A few observations on where the left is, should be and how to get there. read full story / add a comment
The Primrose - Harbinger of Spring
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday March 11, 2005 16:50 by Sean Crudden   text 4 comments (last - saturday march 12, 2005 11:11)   image 5 images
"In eunte Verae" (if I remember correctly from my schooldays) is a Latin tag which means "With the coming of Spring." The weather has been kind and growth is in the air. But what I hunger for is political growth. Will the Progressive Democrats national conference bring change or will it be, politically, another lost opportunity - another stale affair? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday March 11, 2005 13:59 by Joe
Just watched a very interesting video from 'Anarchists Against the Wall' an Israeli group that pulls down/breaks open the apatheid barrier being built with the help of CRH amongst others. It covers the events of 26 Dec 2003 when one of their memebrs was shot in both legs by the IDF but more interesting the media reaction that followed and why this first shooting of an Israeli from a Jewish background by the IDF provoked such a storm. Very interesting in light of the reaction here to plans to pull down the fence at Shannon earlier in the same year. read full story / add a comment
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