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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 / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday June 27, 2005 03:30 by with impunity   text 2 comments (last - monday june 27, 2005 13:50)
By Andrew Cawthorne
Sun Jun 26,11:08 AM ET

NAIROBI June 26 (Reuters) - Torture is still meted out with impunity in Kenya, particularly by police, said two studies released on Sunday to mark the U.N. world day for torture.
Former Kenyan strongman President Daniel arap Moi's security services were notorious for torture in the latter years of his 24-year-old rule that ended in 2002.

President Mwai Kibaki came to power vowing better human rights, but the reports showed his record is by no means clean. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Monday June 27, 2005 01:59 by Christian Guerrero
* This article is about expanding coal mining consessions in Venezuela`s western state of Zulia. It explains the threats coal mining poses to indigenous communities and water security for Maracaibo, Zulia`s state capital. The article also explains how this initiative is part of a larger regional development plan, IIRSA, and other proposed projects that fall into Zuila`s regional development. The article is also about the grassroots resistence movement against the proposed projects. read full story / add a comment
cork / health / disability issues / news report Monday June 27, 2005 00:57 by Miriam Cotton
Margaret O’ Donoghue and Carmel O’ Donoghue (no relation) are determined to highlight the needs of parents of children with special needs in schools. As Chair and Secretary of the recently founded West Cork Parents Action Group they are encouraged by the interest they have had from parents since starting the group a few months ago. The inaugural meeting of the WCPAG was held at the Parkway Hotel in Dunmanway on 21st April this year. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / news report Monday June 27, 2005 00:54 by Miriam Cotton
Gai Charis, who lives near Skibbereen, is in the process of putting together a book about the experiences of parents of people with disabilities. ‘Parents Voices’ is intended to be a collection of case studies which looks at aspects of how institutions, professionals, service providers, schools and others interact with families who have a responsibility for finding support services for their children. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Monday June 27, 2005 00:50 by Miriam Cotton
You might be forgiven for thinking that the election of two women presidents had firmly established respect for the contribution that women can make to Irish public life. A review of the media coverage of Kathy Sinnott makes you realise, sadly, that we have some way to go. You’re left wondering exactly whose interests some newspapers exist to serve because it is unlikely to be the large – if silent – majority of offended readers who are actually very grateful for Kathy Sinnott’s efforts on their behalf. Thankfully, for the thousands of disabled people and their families, who have benefited from Sinnott’s determination, she is sanguine about this. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Monday June 27, 2005 00:47 by Miriam Cotton
Dan Boyle doesn’t represent any West Cork constituency but he is TD for Cork South Central, which is not a million miles away. His voice is increasingly influential in national and south western regional policy-making and he is also Party Chief Whip, Spokesperson for Finance & Social & Family Affairs, Community, Rural Development and the Islands. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday June 27, 2005 00:37 by redjade
''On Thursday, I received orders from the Army mobilizing me for Operation Iraqi Freedom. These orders followed an earlier set, cut on Tuesday, which transferred me from the Army's individual ready reserve into the 101st Airborne Division.'' read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday June 26, 2005 23:33 by rory hearne   text 9 comments (last - friday july 08, 2005 19:23)
8 rich men destroying the world

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thousands protesting for a better world



Who won? What will result? Where now for the movements against poverty and war? read full story / add a comment
leitrim / miscellaneous / news report Sunday June 26, 2005 19:01 by R. Ellis
SLIGO MAYOR alderman Declan Bree paid tribute to Leitrim socialist Jim Gralton, during a recent visit to New York. Speaking at the Leitrimman's grave in Woodlawn cemetary in the Bronx, Bree said that Gralton personified all that was positive about the Irish and American labour movements. "He was a life-long socialist and trade unionist and a fighter for the rights of ordinary people. Jim Gralton was a working class hero," said the Sligo mayor read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday June 26, 2005 17:34 by Paul McAndrew   text 2 comments (last - saturday july 23, 2005 18:32)
Monday 25/07/05
The Other Place
Queerscreen: Grand reopening with "A Cinematic Evening with Anne Bancroft presentation by Max Le Kain and Torch Song Trilogy", The Club at the Other Place, 6.30pm followed by an evening of Lounge music upstairs in Grub Café Bar read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Sunday June 26, 2005 16:03 by JM
Synopsis of why local people oppose this development and details of new High Court Order. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / press release Sunday June 26, 2005 11:21 by Global Women's Strike, Ireland   text 12 comments (last - monday february 19, 2007 14:55)
For several years the Global Women’s Strike has protested with many others the inclusion of warplanes in the annual Salthill air show, polluting our skies and shaming those of us who live in Salthill with its investment in killing machines. This year, the organisers have invited the participation of several military planes including from the US while publicly proclaiming themselves ‘as anti-war as the next man’.... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday June 26, 2005 00:43 by Saoirse in America   text 16 comments (last - wednesday january 18, 2006 13:24)
Sinn Fein/IRA have admitted that it shot dead a teenage schoolgirl in Derry 32 years ago and blamed it on the British Army.
The admission puts to an end one of the most notorious pieces of Republican propaganda promoted over the past three decades - the the "Brits" murdered a "wee girl" on her way to the shops to buy milk for her mammy. The admission is the harbinger of Sinn Fein/IRA withdrawal from criminal behaviour, it is shoped. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Saturday June 25, 2005 21:48 by Terry   text 28 comments (last - wednesday july 20, 2005 12:02)
Shell’s latest move in driving people from their homes happened at 4pm today, Saturday, June 25th. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / other press Saturday June 25, 2005 20:07 by James Sorensen
Review of Renewable Energy technologies for the elimination of the energy crisis and for Real Sustainable economic Development. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday June 25, 2005 18:20 by liam o'connor   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 30, 2005 18:31)
Although plans for a South African style Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Northern Ireland have not yet come to fruition, some of the tangled threads of the troubles are at last being straightened out.

A case in point is the IRA's admission that it was one of its snipers who killed schoolgirl Kathleen Feeney in Londonderry in 1973. More than 30 years after the incident, the IRA has finally decided to come clean. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday June 25, 2005 16:07 by Tom Lonergan   text 1 comment (last - monday june 27, 2005 12:19)
Buswell’s Hotel, Molesworth Street (off Kildare St.); Wed 29th of June at 7.30pm

A delegation of Irish politicians recently visited Palestine and were horrified at what they saw there. Green Party TD John Gormley declared: “What we witnessed on our trip this weekend is worse than the apartheid regime in South Africa.” Of course they saw little signs of the Israeli “disengagement” we hear so much about in the media.
SPEAKERS:
John Gormley TD (Greens)
Senator Terry Leyden (FF),
Senator John Paul Phelan (FG)
Aengus O Snodaigh TD (SF). read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Saturday June 25, 2005 16:02 by M.M.mcCarron
A very sucessful press conference was held recently to help the nation understand the Erris and Rossport issue in Mayo. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday June 25, 2005 14:46 by seedot
A map showing the deaths in Iraq by country since 20th March 2003. Excellent visualisation. read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations / press release Saturday June 25, 2005 01:50 by Labour press Hack   text 17 comments (last - wednesday june 29, 2005 13:16)
In the build up to the G8 summit and the mobilisation campaign of the Make Poverty History Campaign Labour Youth has announced its intention to donate 0.7 per cent of its budget to Overseas Development Aid. read full story / add a comment
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