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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 Political Conjugations Sat Dec 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
Everyone assumes that words have straightforward meanings. Philosophers because they want them to and politicians because they need them to. But the first law of politics is that words are ambiguous, says James Alexander.
The post Political Conjugations appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Dec 20, 2025 00:37 | Toby Young
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.
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offsite link Nigel Farage Fumes at ?Banana Republic? Britain as Labour Prepares to Delay Local Council Elections ... Fri Dec 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage?has said Britain is turning into a "banana republic" as?Labour?prepares to delay local council elections again until 2027 for millions of voters.
The post Nigel Farage Fumes at “Banana Republic” Britain as Labour Prepares to Delay Local Council Elections Again Until 2027 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Leading Scottish Teaching Union Defines Gender Critical Views as ?Far Right? Fri Dec 19, 2025 15:00 | Annemarie Ward
The leading Scottish teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland, has released a briefing that defines gender critical views and Reform UK supporters as "far Right". Pupils deserve better, says Annemarie Ward.
The post Leading Scottish Teaching Union Defines Gender Critical Views as “Far Right” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thousands of Turkish Students Could Come to UK as Starmer Hands EU ?570 Million to Rejoin Erasmus Sc... Fri Dec 19, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer faced outrage this week after handing the?EU ?570 million to rejoin the?Erasmus student exchange programme ? and opening the door to a wave of arrivals from Turkey and North Africa.
The post Thousands of Turkish Students Could Come to UK as Starmer Hands EU ?570 Million to Rejoin Erasmus Scheme for a Year appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

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national / politics / elections / other press Thursday February 15, 2007 10:08 by Apparat
Elections tend to bring out the worst in leftists. Either they get completely caught up in them, insisting that the result of this election is crucial to the future prospects of world revolution, or else they insist that even sneaking a glance at an election poster is an abject surrender to the oppressive state apparatus. read full story / add a comment
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galway / arts and media / other press Thursday February 15, 2007 01:15 by poetry news   image 1 image
Four Galway poets, Neil McCarthy, Mary Madec, Aoife Casby & Susan Millar DuMars, have been selected for this year’s Poetry Ireland Introductions Readings. All four are closely associated with the popular Over The Edge poetry events. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday February 14, 2007 22:49 by AXNC   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 15, 2007 17:17)   image 1 image
Latest development for the troubled energy giant in what is rapidly becoming a year of bad news is that the Nigerian election may be fought on plans to nationalise the country's natural resources.

It seems to be an emerging pattern that as energy becomes scarce, states don't like the idea of their oil and gas being sold or (in some cases) given away to transnational companies like Shell.

It seems unlikely, but who knows what is going to happen, maybe the general election in Ireland will be fought on similar issues.

On a day when the minister for justice is moaning about the cost of tribunals, and asking why the money spent there can't be used for parts of the economy which are underfunded like the Health Service, perhaps some smart candidate will start to question why the 51 Billion euro that the Corrib and associated fields are worth could not be used to fund something useful for the Irish economy.

Maybe even a tribunal of inquiry into the giveaway itself.
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tipperary / environment / other press Wednesday February 14, 2007 22:06 by MediaWatch
Residents of Ireland’s first eco-village in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, have been told by the local council they must pay €160,000 to meet their social and affordable housing requirements. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday February 14, 2007 12:29 by finch   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 14, 2007 16:09)
The Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, has managed to gain some international attention after his hysterical attack on presidential candidate, Barack Obama. The seasoned Australian politician knowingly stated that a victory for Obama OR the Democrats would be a victory for al-Qaeda, “I mean, if I we're running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and pray as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats”. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday February 13, 2007 23:10 by tom eile   text 3 comments (last - friday april 06, 2007 23:22)
April has been chosen because Bush's ally ,Tony Blair, has said it will be the last month in office for him. The US is confident that its Patriot missiles will be capable of protecting allies in the region from retaliation. The Global Research article quoting anonymous sources is by Ahmed Al-Jarallah ,Editor in Chief of the Arab Times read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday February 13, 2007 18:20 by Dermot L   text 11 comments (last - thursday february 15, 2007 01:08)   image 3 images
The most recent issue of Left Tribune, the national magazine of Labour Youth, is now available online at http://www.labour.ie/download/youth/pdf/Left_Tribune_Fe...7.pdf read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday February 13, 2007 16:11 by anon   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 20, 2007 16:34)
IRELAND has put off signing a UN treaty that bans governments carrying out forced disappearances and jailing people in secret.

The treaty criminalises anybody involved in the CIA secret renditions and forces countries to prosecute those involved. The US has said it will not ratify it.

Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain have also refused to sign.

They have all been associated with the CIA’s kidnapping of terror suspects and with Ireland will be named in a European Parliament report tomorrow. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday February 12, 2007 15:48 by Andy
Following the preliminary decision of the Environmental Protection Agency to grant a licence to Shell for a gas terminal at Bellanaboy, now follows the news that Shell has sought what are termed 'pre-application discussions' under the new Strategic Infrastructure Act to clarify procedures for lodging an application : This Act came into force at the end of January and Shell lodged its application for talks just days later on 8 February and "it is understood the impact of the new act is that any pipeline from the shoreline to any terminal requires the sole permission of An Bord Pleanála" (RTE news)
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international / sci-tech / other press Monday February 12, 2007 15:19 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 13, 2007 19:03)
Gillian McKeith is a popular TV quack whose books on health and nutrition are avidly consumed by a gullible public in the UK. Due to a grassroots efforts by bloggers the author of the book most borrowed from UK libraries in 2005/6 "Dr. Gillian McKeith's You Are What You Eat Cookbook", has been forced to stop misleadingly calling herself a doctor. read full story / add a comment
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roscommon / anti-capitalism / other press Monday February 12, 2007 14:34 by Paddy Murphy   text 19 comments (last - saturday december 06, 2008 00:17)   image 9 images   video 1 video file
The Irish Times is reporting that RAF/Baader-Meinhof gang member, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, after 24 years in jail would be released on five years probation on March 27. Brigitte, 57, was arrested in 1982 and sentenced to five life sentences for her role in the killings of leading German figures including industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, Dresdner Bank head Juergen Ponto and federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback.

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dublin / miscellaneous / other press Monday February 12, 2007 01:12 by David Collins   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 13, 2007 19:09)
A brief notice about a small web-based project which aims to facilitate free sharing of goods, and free provision of services. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday February 11, 2007 06:06 by nano   text 4 comments (last - monday february 12, 2007 18:18)
John Howard, known internationally as a Bush lackey, shameless coward, racist and abandoner of Australian citizens in trouble, today levelled a criticism at U.S. Presidential candidate, Barak Obama. The ‘aluminium tubing’ Prime Minister stated that Obama’s Iraq policy would “completely destabilise and destroy Iraq”. Howard seems ‘completely’ oblivious to the FACT that his participation in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq has ALREADY COMPLETELY DESTABILISED AND DESTROYED Iraq! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 10, 2007 13:53 by peptide
The ever increasing, unmentionable death toll of U.S. military expansionism in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and elsewhere exceeds one million souls. The human casualties have achieved unification and consensus at last! The slogan of death is unutterable, perfectly silent and devastatingly effective! Devoid of tribe, nation, race, religion and every other divisive factor that contributed to their demise, all humans are united in death – they are finished! In death there are no ideologies, 'critical issues' or causes. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday February 08, 2007 04:39 by Kwang zi
China's President Hu Jintao re-establishes trade links with Africa vowing not to interfere with the sovereign rights of African nations. The net result of this soft approach is African nations clamouring to the Chinese whose trade links with Africa extend thousands of years into the past. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of large African port cities containing artefacts and trade material from China and Africa. Large amounts of ceramics, ivory, gems, precious metals and a wealth of other artefacts reveal a long history of lively and thriving two-way trade between the two continents. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 07, 2007 19:18 by www.democracynow.org
In Florida, USA, Governor Charlie Crist has announced the state will abandon touch-screen voting machines in favor of paper ballots. The $30 million replacement would mark the nation’s biggest rejection of voting-machines to date.

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international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday February 07, 2007 14:26 by Apparat   text 42 comments (last - thursday february 15, 2007 00:52)
The ISN have added 4 new publications to irishsocialist.net

☆ An article on Trotsky
☆ The latest issue of "The Finglas People"
☆ Reflections on the Anti War Movement in Ireland
☆ A review of "Socialism Made Easy", by James Connolly - first published in Red Banner read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Tuesday February 06, 2007 15:58 by R. Isible
The independent documentary Loose Change [1] is doing the rounds in screenings and downloads (over 4 million apparently for just this version on Google Videos) [2]. Despite overwhelming testimony from independent scientific experts as publicised by Counterpunch [3], Popular Mechanics [4] and South Park [5] the documentary is spreading a pall of confusion and misinformation about 9/11. George Monbiot takes it on in his latest column: read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / other press Tuesday February 06, 2007 11:24 by Terence   image 1 image
According to the latest statistics released by the European Wind Energy Association www.ewea.org, Ireland's wind power capacity increased by 50% last year bringing us from 495 MW (megawatts) to 745 MW. Meanwhile for Europe as a whole, new records were broken again and capacity installed for last year by 23% or 7,588 MW over the 2005 figure. Cumulatively total capacity increased by 19% with the total for Europe now over 48,000 MW. read full story / add a comment
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