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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

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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 Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 [1] Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:48 | Mark

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 [2] Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:43 | Mark

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 [3] Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

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offsite link Bill Gates?s Climate U-Turn: Real Epiphany or Expedient Pivot? Thu Nov 06, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
Devotees of the Church of Climate are in uproar after mega-donor Bill Gates turned heretic and conceded humanity is set to thrive under climate change. But is his conversion all it's cracked up to be, asks Tilak Doshi.
The post Bill Gates’s Climate U-Turn: Real Epiphany or Expedient Pivot? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Nov 06, 2025 00:42 | Richard Eldred
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.

offsite link What Will it Mean in the Future to be English? Wed Nov 05, 2025 19:00 | Dr Nicholas Tate
With 'white British' set to be a minority in their homeland within 40 years, talk among many has turned to ethno-nationalism. Dr Nicholas Tate asks what the great French historian Ernest Renan would have to say about this.
The post What Will it Mean in the Future to be English? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Migrants Given Asylum Despite Being Accused of Sexual Offences, Whistleblower Says Wed Nov 05, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Migrants who have been accused of multiple sex offences and other crimes are being granted asylum anyway, a whistleblower has said, with targets incentivising caseworkers to approve claims.
The post Migrants Given Asylum Despite Being Accused of Sexual Offences, Whistleblower Says appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Fury as Algerian Migrant Sex Offender is Accidentally Released From Wandsworth Prison But Police Wer... Wed Nov 05, 2025 15:13 | Will Jones
Police have launched an urgent manhunt after an Algerian migrant prisoner was mistakenly freed from HMP Wandsworth amid fury that police weren't told for a week.
The post Fury as Algerian Migrant Sex Offender is Accidentally Released From Wandsworth Prison But Police Weren’t Told for a Week appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offaly / environment / event notice Saturday September 22, 2007 19:22 by June Kelly
Westmeath Enviros Reach Out to Farmers
at Ploughing Championships in Tullamore on Wed, 26th September 2007

Members of the Westmeath Environmental Group will be at the National Ploughing Championships in Tullamore to highlight the dangers of genetically modified crops on Wednesday, 26th September 2007.

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offaly / environment / event notice Saturday August 11, 2007 16:31 by Tadhg O' Cruadhlaoich
The Environmental Film Night is part of the 39th Annual Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival

3 short films on the environment shown by activist Tadgh O' Cruadhlaoich. (In conjunction with Ionad and The Local Planet) The Last Penguin, animation by children from Sacred Heart School, Portlaoise. Peak Oil Imposed by Nature, documentary by Norwegians, in English. The Carbon Connection, a film by Norman Phillip. Refreshments and Free popcorn! (Booking advised: 057 9121818)
Tin Jug Studio •9pm • (Voluntary entry fee of €5 goes to Art Aid for various charities.)

More info
www.birrvintageweek.com
www.ionad.org
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offaly / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday August 10, 2007 15:31 by Mary P.
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger skewers "good 'ol Bill" (Clinton) where an "audience" with him during his forthcoming visit to London will cost up to £799 a head. read full story / add a comment
offaly / environment / event notice Thursday August 09, 2007 19:45 by June Kelly
If you are intending to visit the Tullamore Agricultural Show on Sunday 12th August watch out for members of the Westmeath Environmental Group who will be distributing literature
which explains the dangers and terrifying realities to GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS.
Anti GMO T shirts will be on sale from our members at the IOFGA (Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association) stand at the show . Join us in our campaign on Sunday.
SAY NO TO GMO -
Westmeath Environmental Group
weg1@eircom.net
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offaly / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday April 22, 2007 09:50 by Brian   text 1 comment (last - sunday april 29, 2007 22:56)
Victims of the legal profession meeting read full story / add a comment
offaly / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday February 05, 2007 02:47 by Nora G.
In today's UK Guardian, a letter signed by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, John Pilger, Walden Bello, Michael Greger, Mike Davis, Caroline Lucas, Green MEP, Gabriel Carlyle, Pandemic Action,
Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Michael Albert, ZNet. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel peace prize winner and Hans von Sponeck, former UN assistant secretary general warns that "Humanity faces a massive global threat from avian influenza"

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offaly / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 26, 2006 21:08 by David K.   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 27, 2006 15:00)   image 2 images
A play featuring the writings of the late American peace activist Rachel Corrie: “My Name is Rachel Corrie” has been cancelled at a Canadian Theatre in what can only be described as contemptible self censorship. The Canadian theatre company CanStage has done a three monkeys and pulled down the Iron Curtain of censorship down on it by announcing its cancelling plans to present the play in Toronto : Can stage, won't stage, exit stage. read full story / add a comment
offaly / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday November 18, 2006 21:21 by Solas Eile   text 13 comments (last - monday april 26, 2010 15:54)
In response to Mr. Muldowney's : The Pearsons and their Prosecutors ?? read full story / add a comment
offaly / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday September 05, 2006 02:17 by Naomi Murphy   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 05, 2006 22:43)
In the 1950s, he opposed Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt and was almost jailed for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee read full story / add a comment
offaly / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 30, 2006 17:03 by Pat Muldowney   text 74 comments (last - friday june 19, 2009 19:58)   image 2 images
Alan Stanley’s book describes the death of the Pearson brothers using a variety of sources:
(1) The contemporary (July 7 1921) account in the Unionist newspaper “The King’s County Chronicle, Parsonstown” (King’s County and Parsonstown are, respectively, Co. Offaly and Birr) which quotes their sister Matilda Pearson on her brothers’ death and the burning of their house;
(2) A 1983 description by a surviving Pearson brother David Pearson in Australia;
(3) A summary of descriptions of those events by William Stanley who was with the Pearson brothers when they were arrested and who subsequently lived in Carlow until his death in 1981;
(4) A number of comments gathered by Alan Stanley, mostly from Protestant neighbours and relatives of the Pearsons after 1981, and principally from Tom Mitchell of Kinnitty near Coolacrease.

The page numbers refer to the edition of Stanley's book published July 2005.
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offaly / environment / press release Tuesday November 09, 2004 01:52 by J. Antonio DiBella   text 9 comments (last - friday april 14, 2006 10:58)
Help stop road construction near Charleville Castle read full story / add a comment
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offaly / arts and media / event notice Monday August 16, 2004 16:58 by Conor   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 17, 2004 11:00)   image 1 image
not strictly political - but is run by volunteers and show casing some very unusual music plus most of the acts playing for free.

How ever if the editors see fit to remove I won't complain ! read full story / add a comment
offaly / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday June 10, 2004 10:07 by Tullamore/Offaly
Kieran Allen (SWP & IAWM) & Ciaron O'Reilly (Pit Stop Ploughshares & Dublin Catholic Worker) will be among speakers at an anti-war meeting at Foresters Hall, Tullamore, Starts at 9 pm Thursday June 10th. read full story / add a comment
offaly / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday April 17, 2004 17:28 by Fintan Lane   text 3 comments (last - sunday april 18, 2004 02:18)
Just received the following report from the EU Foreign Ministers anti-war demo in Tullamore: read full story / add a comment
offaly / eu / event notice Friday April 16, 2004 13:40 by Damien Moran   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 18, 2004 00:00)
Saturday April 17th Protest against EU Foreign Ministers Meeting at Tullamore, Co. Offaly read full story / add a comment
offaly / environment / event notice Saturday February 14, 2004 12:33 by Caoimhin
A 'Village Membership Roadshow' will be visiting Dooley's Hotel, Birr on Monday 23rd February 2004, 7-9pm. read full story / add a comment
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