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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 / history and heritage / news report Friday September 15, 2006 20:52 by Fiachra Ó Luain   text 4 comments (last - wednesday march 11, 2009 15:49)
Late last Monday night I scatched together a quick notice about ceremony on the 159th anniversary of the Saint Patrick's Battalion here in Mexico. Today on the day of Mexico's Independence celebrations I'll try to give a better account of the actual event. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday September 15, 2006 20:21 by Elizabeth Cook
Citizens of New Orleans are taking it upon themselves to enforce the right of return with everyday acts of civil disobedience. Public housing residents in particular are fighting back. HUD is attempting to shutter all of public housing in New Orleans, but residents have forced the reopening of Iberville Housing Development, and have attempted reoccupation of two other developments. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday September 15, 2006 17:59 by John Kelly   text 3 comments (last - monday september 18, 2006 22:26)
Dublin City Council's (DCC) position on posters for public meetings and public assembly is to grant permission to requests for such events. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday September 15, 2006 10:48 by anon   text 2 comments (last - friday september 22, 2006 09:10)
"Our territory may have been used not to commit crimes as such but as a stopover on the way to commit crime in other territories," Moratinos said, adding that 66 suspect flights had made stops in Spain.

"According to all information available to the Spanish government at this moment ... there has not been any violation of Spanish law as regards CIA flights since this government came into office (March 2004)," he added. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday September 14, 2006 23:35 by Paul Baynes
Out of date but worth a look... Read it if you need some positive inspiration in the face of a world gone mad. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday September 14, 2006 21:33 by RSF
The Vice President of Republican Sinn Fein Des Dalton was a guest of the Swedish Ireland Information Group over the weekend of September 9\10. At a public meeting in Uppsala on September 9 he spoke about the plight of the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry prison read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday September 14, 2006 19:35 by gníomhaí   text 8 comments (last - thursday september 21, 2006 15:25)
'Peak oil' is a term that has become almost mainstream by now- basically it signals the end of cheap oil. Most of us will have heard this already and as oil prices increase almost every month at this stage the government is finally waking up to the fact. Or is it? Recently in the Irish Times Marc Coleman, Economics Editor wrote that Brian Cowen said 'The government had NO contingency plan to deal with the prospect of a SEVERE INCREASE in oil prices' .

Now, usually politicians 'put a brave face on' when dealing with times of crisis- it is rare indeed that someone in Cowen's position is so forthright, yet there we have it in black and white- the government has plainly admitted that we are on our own- we cannot rely on the government to help us through the imminent energy crisis that now faces us. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday September 14, 2006 18:52 by gníomhaí   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 19, 2006 15:56)
Is seirbhís poiblí í RTÉ, cén fath mar sin an bhfuil fógraí ann chomh maith le ceadúnas le íocadh? read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday September 14, 2006 16:28 by rightsbasedgirl
Protect the People of Darfur: Solidarity action by Irish NGOs
Friday 15th September 2006 - 1pm, at the Mansion House, Dublin
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday September 14, 2006 15:25 by Lara Kelly
Middle East: Take action to end demolitions

Please send an email to the Mayor of Jerusalem demanding the cessation of home demolitions in East Jerusalem.

Ahmed Dari, who lives in Jerusalem, had his home demolished in 2003. He rebuilt in 2004, but his home is once again about to be destroyed.

Take action below, demanding that the Dari family be left in peace and that institutional discrimination against Palestinians in East Jerusalem is brought to an end.

http://www.trocaire.ie/takeaction/action2.php read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday September 14, 2006 14:17 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - friday september 15, 2006 10:00)
This is an introduction to the edited transcript of an interview Maryam Namazie conducted with Hamid Taqvaee. Hamid wrote the Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism. The programme can be viewed on http://www.thirdcamp.com/indexe.php

The edited transcript can be found at the link at the end of the article.

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galway / arts and media / press release Thursday September 14, 2006 12:12 by Kevin Higgins
Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars, who co-organise the Over The Edge literary events in Galway City Library and at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, have welcomed the substantial increase in funding the organisation has received in the recently announced 2006 Arts Grants from the City Council’s Arts Office: read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday September 13, 2006 23:41 by Solidarity   text 15 comments (last - tuesday june 12, 2007 20:17)
A number of serious anti-war trials are underway around the globe. Margaret Jones and Paul Milling enter the last days of their trial for disabling vehicles specifically designed to reload the U.S. B52 Bombers that were based at Fairford (England) in '03 and were ging to drop napalm, cluster bombs and fuel explosives over Iraq. Meanwhile in the U.S. Fr, Carl Kabat OMI (who has already served 15 years imprisonment for nonviolent resistance),Vietnam vet/Catholic Worker Michael Walli and ex-soldier had no trouble finding WMD. they looked in North Dakota,USA, rather than wasting their time lookng for them in Iraq! Their trial started this week. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / news report Wednesday September 13, 2006 22:02 by o as if   text 13 comments (last - monday september 18, 2006 13:25)
On this day 50 years ago IBM unveiled its RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting Machine). A computer machine which weighed several tonnes & occupied the same space as a bunch of fridge freezers. It was the first hard drive which could be searched & accessed without starting from the "beginning" of the data flow & running to the end, such as one must do with a magnetic tape.

Between 13/9/56 and its withdrawl from the market in the mid 1960's IBM sold over 6,000 of the units each of which could store 5 megabytes of information. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday September 13, 2006 20:18 by Anarchist Youth   text 4 comments (last - thursday september 14, 2006 17:11)
Meeting and discussion on "No Platform for Fascists" read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday September 13, 2006 20:02 by pat c   text 7 comments (last - saturday september 16, 2006 20:45)
Once again, Maryam Namazie takes on the Islamists and shows the left that it is necessary to stand up to those who use the excuse of multi-culturalism to impose misogyny and homophobia. Full story at the link.

pat c

Cultural relativism is not only a prescription for inaction and passivity in the face of the oppression of millions of people struggling and resisting in the Middle East and here in the west but is in fact racist in and of itself.
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international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday September 13, 2006 19:33 by pat c
There are a few benighted souls who believe that the former president of Iran was a reforming liberal. Here he is exposed in all of his homophobic glory.

Full story at the link.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday September 13, 2006 17:50 by Nessa Ni Chasaide
This week, the Singapore government, due to host the annual meetings of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group from 14th - 20th
September 2006 banned several campaign groups from entering the country.
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international / environment / other press Wednesday September 13, 2006 17:28 by Ibis   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 14, 2006 18:46)
‘Siberia and today’s arctic regions of Canada will be the future breadbaskets of the world.’ I read this forecast in the sixties and immediately scoffed at the prediction. The guy who made these predictions is either nuts, a charlatan, or both, I thought. The regions referred to are renowned for their permafrost, and aside from some mosses, lichens and ‘summer’ grasses, there is no way those areas could yield a viable supply of food for “the world” – that was then! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 13, 2006 15:38 by socialist
Threats of sanctions or a military attack on Iran are having a worrying impact on the country’s domestic politics, writes Naz Massoumi
The next few months will be decisive ones for the “war on terror” as the US steps up its pressure on Iran. The Iranian nuclear issue is back on the agenda, with the passing of another United Nations (UN) deadline and another “negative report”. This external pressure has implications for politics inside Iran. read full story / add a comment
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