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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday November 25, 2004 22:01 by Michelle Clarke   text 32 comments (last - sunday december 09, 2012 14:42)   image 1 image
The last time Suicide was raised on Indymedia, 27 people replied. Another article referred to the Father who felt such pain that he opted to set fire to himself in a solicitors office. This is about pain and it is my hope that this article written at a painful time in my life might initiate the word HOPE in the minds of vulnerable, saddened, people. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday November 25, 2004 13:58 by Michael Hennigan   text 1 comment (last - friday february 04, 2005 23:22)
Newspapers are losing circulation and influence as alternative media channels grow. However, the rise of free newspapers is also a challenge to traditional newspaper empires. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday November 25, 2004 03:01 by Digitripitaka   text 3 comments (last - thursday november 25, 2004 19:20)
I took out the sandwiches from my lunchbox in the canteen at work the other day as the rest of my mates sat down beside me with their trays from the hot counter. You see I’ve been eating from my lunch box ever since Sodexho took over running the canteen, because I read an article saying that Sodexho took over the contracts for the all the canteens in the NHS over in England, and all the staff lost their NHS jobs and became lower paid Sodexho employees with fewer rights. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Thursday November 25, 2004 02:39 by Mary Kinane   text 1 comment (last - thursday november 25, 2004 11:13)
Two successfully organised Irish Social Forums later, and now where do we stand? Already a debate has begun amongst those involved in the current organising structures around the future direction and vision of the Irish Social Forum process. This discussion is to be continued this Saturday, Nov 27th. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 24, 2004 20:50 by John   text 12 comments (last - friday december 10, 2004 10:22)
Hands off Mary Kelly! Drop the charges now!
US/Britain our of Iraq now! UN stay out! For class struggle against the capitalist rulers at home! read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 24, 2004 14:16 by scot   text 24 comments (last - sunday january 23, 2005 15:44)
Philip Stott, cwi Scotland


Scottish socialist Party (SSP) members were stunned to learn of the resignation of Tommy Sheridan as national convenor of the party on Wednesday 10 November. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 23, 2004 17:55 by Righteous pragmatist   text 49 comments (last - tuesday december 21, 2004 03:24)   image 1 image
.Fifteen years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the subsequent speedy collapse of the Soviet Union, the unfolding turmoil in Ukraine is a sobering reminder that democracy is a fragile work-in-progress read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Monday November 22, 2004 20:14 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - thursday november 25, 2004 00:49)
Is corporal punishment for children resurrecting itself in a new form? What are the aims and objectives of child and adolescent psychiatry anyway? read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday November 22, 2004 17:17 by Ed   text 17 comments (last - monday april 25, 2005 21:06)   image 1 image
'The Circular,' (first edition) is made by the journalism students of Griffith College. It will be distributed to various places around the city centre including colleges, pubs, cafes and shops alike.
Includes mainly feature articles on politics, health, Iraq, film & music and various others.
Its unconvential front page will surely grab some attention! Be sure to check it out.
Thanks for your time! read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Monday November 22, 2004 15:59 by Indy Council Corr   text 1 comment (last - monday november 22, 2004 17:23)
A week to go, who will crack first? read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday November 22, 2004 11:06 by NO GODS, NO MASTERS   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 05, 2005 13:19)
Jon Ronson's programme on the crazy but evil rulers of the world shed an interesting light on military intelligence manuovers since American propaganda losses during the vietnam war. After the loss of the propaganda war in Vietnam and the world. The CIA set up the pysch ops division/1st earth batttalion which infiltrated and researched the then late 60's/70's new age hippy peace movement. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday November 21, 2004 20:32 by Mary Kelly   text 15 comments (last - tuesday november 30, 2004 23:31)
The leadership of the protest movement have caricatured the position of direct activists and isolated us from the wider movement.
In the interest of an effective movement that hopes to realise its aims, this needs to be corrected urgently read full story / add a comment
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid ! ; The Bushman Is Working Towards Armagedon.
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday November 21, 2004 19:31 by Tommy Donnellan   text 4 comments (last - sunday november 28, 2004 21:54)   image 1 image   1 attached file
BLACK POPE/EOIN RICE. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Sunday November 21, 2004 11:03 by john mcdermott   text 2 comments (last - monday november 22, 2004 11:25)
January 2005 has been announced as the date set for the last and greatest Revenue amassing campaign in the history of the Irish Free State.General Bertie,and his Chief of Staff Marshall Mary Hearney,loyal dominatrix of the Soldiers of destiny,will go to war against the remaining tax dodgers holed up in "Irish Life",etc,etc. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday November 21, 2004 03:56 by Dave Curran   text 6 comments (last - sunday november 21, 2004 17:43)
The free market solution to world poverty has failed, so countries should be allowed self-determination in their economic policies. read full story / add a comment
Possible Chemical Attack
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday November 18, 2004 23:18 by XBrain   text 32 comments (last - tuesday november 23, 2004 17:21)   image 8 images
At first I didn't notice, the spots of pinky red on the photo were enough to say "blood" and that these kids were shot or killed by conventional weapons. I was more revulsed by the casualness of the "trophy-kill" snap.

It suddenly hit me, what I was looking at was the result of a Chemical Attack of some sort. There are no wounds on any of the bodies. No pools of blood. No shattered frames hit by high calibre guns. I'm not a forensic toxicologist but the demeanour of the bodies suggests death by asphyxiation. They all choked to death. Remember the images from Halabja?

No they didn't die somewhere else and were moved, they died right there. How do I know? Third in we see a little girl who kicked off her pink slippers as she writhed in agony on the ground gasping for a breath. The boy furthest away in close up reveals him in a convulsed state, a death-throe similar to the gas victims from ww2. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday November 18, 2004 21:41 by Paul Kinsella   text 29 comments (last - thursday may 24, 2007 12:43)
Lies! Damned Lies! And Statistics! This certainly applies to this survey that claims that Ireland is the best country in the world to live in. Ireland the best country in the world to live in! Come on get a grip! Are these people for real? What planet are they living on? Are these economists, businesspeople and their rich friends so detacthed from the stark reality of daily life for most people that they believe such stuff? read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 17, 2004 20:56 by The National Platform EU Research and Information Centre   text 16 comments (last - saturday november 20, 2004 20:50)
Below for your information are 3 items on "Why the Left should oppose the
EU Constitution" read full story / add a comment
derry / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 16, 2004 21:59 by Derry IRSP   text 5 comments (last - friday november 26, 2004 22:01)
Twenty months on from the US and British invasion of Iraq, occupation has taken its toll. Over 100,0000 Iraqis have been killed and many more wounded. Political repression is the order of the day. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 16, 2004 18:25 by L.   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 17, 2004 14:52)
outside the trial of 2 mayday arrestees last wed. i talked to a young guy who told me:

"tIn court he judge said to me "Where are you from?"
" I said Dublin 22."
"He said so you get 22 months & the whole court laughed."

a friend of mine was in court last week where the judge told a defendant to take his hands out of his pockets saying :
"That's what's gone wrong with this country !" read full story / add a comment
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