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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 / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday March 10, 2005 09:25 by Bukharin   text 48 comments (last - friday april 06, 2007 17:44)   image 1 image
Just in case you thought they had gone all soft and cuddly, heres an article from the current edition of the CPI publication 'Socialist Voice' justifying the Hitler-Stalin pact! Of course if you dare mention Stalin's crimes you are either a right-wing stooge or worse still an 'ultra-left'. Looking forward to their justification of the Moscow Showtrials.

Here's the full article, warts and all: read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 09, 2005 12:14 by irish basque committees
654 years in prison for 42 basque youth activists. Solidarity petition. read full story / add a comment
20 million  Euro subsidy for private enterprise.?
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 08, 2005 22:45 by John McDermott   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 09, 2005 21:54)   image 1 image
The increased funding of an Airline which is already very successful,is possibly a repeat of the Air Lingus story.
Two heavily susidised entities,Irish rail and a local airline are in direct competition with each other,and as business flows to the private airline,our national rail system will require more and more taxpayers funding. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 08, 2005 16:34 by Grace Walsh   text 26 comments (last - saturday march 19, 2005 18:20)
An Evening Herlad journalist walked out on an indept discussion on a Griffith College radio show, seemingly not able to hack a difference of opinion on the issue of the war in Iraq. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday March 07, 2005 19:17 by Sean Crudden   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 09, 2005 02:32)
A young Russian soloist took over at short notice from the indisposed Patricia Bardon and captured every heart in the National Concert Hall on Friday night in the leading role in a very entertaining and profound performance of the Mahler classic. read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / opinion/analysis Friday March 04, 2005 00:31 by Ed Lee   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 09, 2005 13:00)   image 1 image
...can you walk the walk?" read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 03, 2005 11:00 by Nils   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 03, 2005 14:25)
I find myself thinking of Kenya’s tsunami victim. That’s right: victim, singular, no “s” on the end. He was Samuel Njoroge, a car mechanic from Nairobi, who was making his first ever visit to the East African coast. “He was very excited about the prospects of going to the beach and learning how to swim,” said his father. He picked the wrong day. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 02, 2005 22:46 by the burningman   text 8 comments (last - friday june 22, 2007 05:35)
Despite efforts by many around the world to rise above sectarianism in the face of the USA's raw imperialism, Walden Bello, a prominent critic of neo-liberalism, has launched an international distancing campaign against the Communist Party of the Philippines and the democratic sectoral movements which draw political inspiration from them. Claiming that the CPP's military wing has targeted him with a “hit list,” which in fact is a mere diagram showing the international linkages of various Phillipino parties and individuals, Bello is playing a dangerous game. Included on the diagram is Bello's Akbayan parlimentary party. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 01, 2005 11:32 by USS (Union of Secondary Students)   text 7 comments (last - tuesday march 08, 2005 21:02)
Just to let you know that after a slightly quieter period that the USS (Union of Secondary Students) has been reinvigorated. You will already find details of our upcoming conference in Dublin in the IndyMedia Events guide at this link http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68815 We're still looking for more secondary school students to join us. Please do not hesitate to contact us either via email, our web site or phone.

The USS (Union of Secondary Students) read full story / add a comment
How fellow europeans now see Ireland thanks to McGreevy
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Monday February 28, 2005 23:24 by A. Programmer   text 9 comments (last - wednesday july 06, 2005 16:05)   image 1 image
The only vaguely democratic institution in the EU, the european parliament, has repeatedly and firmly rejected software patents (or "computer implemented inventions" in Newspeak). But the European Commission and Council, spurred on by none other than our old pal McGreevy, is still trying to introduce a new law that would hand the european software industry to multinationals, mainly Microsoft and IBM, on a plate, in a sickening little "What's good for Microsoft is good for Ireland" show. read full story / add a comment
We want our money back.
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday February 26, 2005 10:12 by John McDermott   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 26, 2005 22:11)   image 1 image
It has been the longest stealth tax in history.
and now the High Court have ruled it out of order.
Even millionaire old age pensioners will be recompensed due to Bertie,s generousity with Medical Cards. Wonderful! read full story / add a comment
louth / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Friday February 25, 2005 14:21 by murphys   text 16 comments (last - wednesday march 09, 2005 12:44)
DUBLIN, Ireland (Reuters) -- They hit the headlines when there were too few. And now the humble spud is back in the limelight ... because there are too many. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday February 25, 2005 11:03 by Frothing at the mouth   text 3 comments (last - wednesday march 02, 2005 10:35)
A US marine, captured on film killing a wounded Iraqi at point blank range during November's assault on Fallujah, will not be formally charged because of a lack of evidence, CBS News reported yesterday. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Thursday February 24, 2005 12:57 by Brian Nugent   text 28 comments (last - thursday october 18, 2007 16:43)   image 2 images
Some thoughts on reading the book 'Stasiland' on a society dominated by the secret police. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 23, 2005 17:01 by Davy Carlin   text 25 comments (last - monday february 28, 2005 11:34)
I have to give credit where credit is due read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 23, 2005 14:48 by Maria   text 7 comments (last - thursday february 24, 2005 13:37)
It may sound banal and in “what else did you expect” mode, but since I started reading the Irish Times, I have not read a single positive and objective article on Russia. read full story / add a comment
every visitor is shown the bullet holes he left. "to remember"
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 23, 2005 12:27 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 24, 2007 04:23)   image 3 images
Democracy does not spring up out of the ground.
The rights to equal suffrage regardless of socio-economic class, gender, or creed in a secret ballot are European rights.

They have rooted in the arguments of Greek sychophants and intellectuals, who never allowed their wives, concubines, slaves or migrants the same rights.

They have roots in the declaration of the rights of man of the French Revolution. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 23, 2005 11:57 by Paul McAndrew   text 23 comments (last - tuesday july 08, 2014 20:14)
The last edition of UCC's student newspaper published a full page anti-gay rant, in its latest attempt to whip up Islamopohbia and homophobia

As a gay student I feel very badly let down by the Students Union at UCC.

If racist material had been widely distribted on campus, let alone an article in an SU funded paper whose sole purpose was to attack black people, there would at the very least have been an immediate statement of condemnation by the Student's Union.

I challenge the SU leadership to deny it. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 23, 2005 11:12 by Concerned   text 41 comments (last - thursday june 09, 2005 18:10)
Robert McCartney' s sisters are on Marian Finucane's radio programme on RTE. Anyone who has any doubts about the guilt and activities of IRA activists should listen to these women. read full story / add a comment
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