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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 The Despicable Special Educational Needs Fraud Wed Sep 24, 2025 13:19 | Mary Gilleece
After working with over 100 SEND children, Mary Gilleece has finally met a child with actual special needs. But there isn't enough money to support him because ?11 billion is being blown on bogus diagnoses.
The post The Despicable Special Educational Needs Fraud appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner?s Daughter Violet Pushes for Mask Mandates at United Nations Wed Sep 24, 2025 11:12 | Will Jones
Violet Affleck,?the daughter of Hollywood stars?Jennifer Garner?and?Ben Affleck, was at the?UN?on Tuesday to push for mask mandates, saying the world was irresponsible for returning to 'business as usual' after Covid.
The post Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s Daughter Violet Pushes for Mask Mandates at United Nations appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Problem with Rupert Lowe?s Argument Against Halal and Kosher Meat Wed Sep 24, 2025 09:00 | Noah Carl
Rupert Lowe has called for halal and kosher meat to be banned. But there's a problem with his argument: he doesn't mention factory farming?a far greater evil.
The post The Problem with Rupert Lowe?s Argument Against Halal and Kosher Meat appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying Wed Sep 24, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
As New York hosts Climate Week NYC ? "the world?s largest climate event" ? the absence of any major global leaders speaks volumes, says Tilak Doshi. Mugged by reality, the Net Zero dream is dying.
The post The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Wed Sep 24, 2025 01:05 | 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.

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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

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday June 18, 2006 23:46 by RSF
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: saoirse@iol.ie
Date: 14 Meitheamh / June 2006

Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE-Irish Freedom

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday June 18, 2006 22:43 by Michelle Clarke   text 28 comments (last - monday april 20, 2009 20:52)
America, they refer to the Underclass.

Medical Services in Ireland are harnassed by the divide - you pay or you don't.......therein is the obscurity as to how to have hope and get the best treatment.....

I note Patient's Together are mobilising to challenge Professor Drumm and the HSE scandal of overcrowding in Accident and Emergency.

I am hearing too much about suicide. I am encountering a degree of medical arrogance that I can no longer accept. I wonder have people experienced similar problems.

We are not hearing about all the suicides.....i.e. those involving the Luas for example or the out of the ordinary number in Finglas at the moment.

What is the system saying......Are they confining us to no Hope and the undersclass category.
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cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday June 18, 2006 22:28 by Joe Moore   text 9 comments (last - thursday july 13, 2006 18:59)
Former Venezuelan minister in the Chavez government and a leader of the Bolivarian Revolution to address public meeting in Cork read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday June 18, 2006 13:52 by Anti-War Ireland   text 4 comments (last - monday june 19, 2006 10:14)

By Nicola Byrne
Sunday June 18, 2006
The Observer

Staff working at Shannon Airport are being pressed to report any evidence they see of trafficking of prisoners by the US military.

It follows the discovery by a cleaner last Sunday of a manacled soldier on board a US civilian aircraft at the airport. The incident has proved highly embarrassing for the Irish government, which had always accepted assurances that no such traffic passed through its airports.

Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern has now signalled that gardai may carry out random checks of US planes using the airport, but in the absence of any concrete decision human rights groups have asked staff at Shannon to report anything out of the ordinary.

'Only for the vigilance of one worker, we still wouldn't know for certain what we have long suspected - that prisoners are been transported through Ireland by the American authorities,' said Fintan Lane of the Irish Anti-War Movement. 'We are now depending on staff at Shannon to report more incidents. It's the only way we can find out what is being carried on US military aircraft at this point.'
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday June 18, 2006 12:25 by Autonomous Action Individual   text 1 comment (last - monday june 19, 2006 11:17)
The teachers of Oaxaca are resisiting the authoritarian state of Mexico, while elsewhere the repression from the governor Ulises Ruiz continues. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday June 17, 2006 17:25 by Chris Murray   text 15 comments (last - tuesday june 20, 2006 13:10)
The Planning and development Bill yesterday passed with copious Government
amendments thru the Seanad.

http;//debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx/=sen20060516

On the day of the burial (with full military honours) of a certain ex Taoiseach. Mr Dick Roche
TD sought to bury the statutory undertaker and replace it with the undertaker in relation to
the judicial process by the objector.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday June 17, 2006 17:15 by paul o toole
The Contradictions ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday June 17, 2006 13:48 by Daithí   text 4 comments (last - saturday june 17, 2006 19:44)
Encouraging students to get involved in politics, representation, activism and campaigning is a funny business. In an ideal, perfect situation, you wouldn't have a division between encourager and encouragee; no-one should need to drum up interest among others or to have a position of 'managing' student involvement. But we don't live in that world, and it's perfectly usual to see students' unions, political 'youth wings', campaign groups and so on trying to encourage 'others' to get involved. read full story / add a comment
dublin / public consultation / irish social forum / event notice Saturday June 17, 2006 13:21 by Pit Stop Ploughshares   text 2 comments (last - monday june 19, 2006 10:55)
Pit Stop Ploughshare defendants & supporters will be conducting an anti-war vigil at the GPO from 12noon-2pm (monday to friday) until the July 5th. trial date. Drop by and touch base with the defendants!

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national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday June 17, 2006 10:27 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 17, 2006 22:52)
We buried him darkly at dead of night,
The sods with our bayonets turning,
By the struggling moonbeam's misty light
And the lanthorn dimly burning. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Friday June 16, 2006 21:24 by Boadicea   text 9 comments (last - monday august 07, 2006 10:02)
"This is the most dangerous legislation that has ever come before the House because it seeks to deprive people of the power to make observations and objections in regard to planning matters." (Deputy Michael Ring T.D.)

"If local people cannot have an input into the planning process, they will see their local councillors as being irrelevant." (Deputy Jimmy Deenihan T.D.) read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday June 16, 2006 20:15 by West Papua   text 4 comments (last - friday august 25, 2006 12:51)
MORE than 75 per cent of Australians support self-determination or independence for Papua, a new poll shows.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday June 16, 2006 18:42 by Graham Ó Maonaigh   text 6 comments (last - monday june 19, 2006 17:54)
Labour Youth is organising a weekend of debate and discussion marking
the 90th anniversary of the death of Labour founder James Connolly. The
Connolly Festival takes place this evening and all-day tomorrow (Friday
and Saturday) in the Teachers Club, Parnell Square, Dublin 1.

The Connolly Festival is opening tonight at 8pm with a discussion on
advancing the campaign for same sex marriage. Speakers tonight include
Marie Mulholand who chaired the Irish Council for Civil Liberties
working group on civil partnerships and Rachel Mathews Mc Kay, Co-Chair
of the Labour Party’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) group. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Friday June 16, 2006 16:29 by tom eile
The right wing media in Britain reacted with predictable fury at
Loach’s treatment of the Irish war of independence in his prize winning film ,The Wind That Shakes The Barley .The Times compared Loach unfavourably to Hitler’s favourite director, Leni Riefenstahl ;the liberal press - again predictably- took the view that the film was one-sided in its anti-British stance .
In this Guardian interview Loach defends his film from liberal and tory critics alike .
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dublin / environment / event notice Friday June 16, 2006 16:17 by Eamonn
A joint meeting between the Socialist Workers Party and The Green Party. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday June 16, 2006 14:36 by karen fallon   text 1 comment (last - friday june 16, 2006 16:38)
This story is in Todays U.K Guardian newspaper. in the international section. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday June 16, 2006 14:24 by Stardust   text 2 comments (last - friday june 16, 2006 20:08)
While thosands will attend St Fintan’s cemetery in Sutton today for Mr Haughey's funeral there are the remains of 5 other northside Dubs that people should remember are buried there. The unidentified remains of five victims of the Stardust Fire.

The government and Mr Ahern should pay for the DNA tests that is needed to identify these remains.

The Stardust Committee say they are holding a protest in Dublin next Tuesday regarding it. Anyone know details?
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international / animal rights / event notice Friday June 16, 2006 12:48 by Bernie Wright
AR2006 Timetable online

The timetable for AR2006 International Gathering is online now, see link below. The event begins in two weeks. There may be one or two changes or additions over the next week or so, so keep an eye on the website. Also if you are planning to attend, please read the rest of the website carefully, especially the guidelines and directions pages.

http://www.ar2006.info/timetable.html

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday June 16, 2006 11:44 by proletarian   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 17, 2006 19:12)
Nurses look for a shorter working week, hopefully siptu and the other big unions will follow the lead given by the brave nurses. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Friday June 16, 2006 02:12 by poetry news
The Galway Launch of ‘Life Lines’, the Oxfam Poetry CD, edited by Todd Swift, takes place on Thursday July 20th, 6.00pm in the Galway Oxfam Shop, Abbeygate Street. ‘Life Lines’ will be launched by Galway City Councillor Niall Ó Brolcháin. All welcome. The launch is part of the Project 06 Festival. For further details about the Galway ‘Life Lines’ launch phone 087-6431748 read full story / add a comment
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