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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 News Round-Up Sat Nov 22, 2025 01:24 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine Fri Nov 21, 2025 17:00 | Anonymous
Read what happened when an Extinction Rebellion meeting was disrupted by a protester. Seems they can give it out but have no intention of putting up with it themselves.
The post What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Are the Grooming Gangs a Muslim Phenomenon? Fri Nov 21, 2025 15:00 | Mark Durie
First they were 'Asian' grooming gangs, then 'Pakistani'. But the most important thing to grasp is that almost all of them ? 87% of convictions ? are Muslim, says Mark Durie. This must not be covered up.
The post Are the Grooming Gangs a Muslim Phenomenon? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Free Speech Documentary Cancelled by London Cinema Fri Nov 21, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
London cinema Rich Mix has banned a documentary by Spiked about free speech because it does not "align with our values and mission".
The post Free Speech Documentary Cancelled by London Cinema appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Inquiry Has Failed to Engage With the Evidence Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
The Covid Inquiry module two report fails to question faulty assumptions and draws conclusions without engaging with the evidence, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson in a damning assessment.
The post The Covid Inquiry Has Failed to Engage With the Evidence 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

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

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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international / sci-tech / other press Monday March 21, 2005 11:16 by -   text 7 comments (last - thursday march 24, 2005 18:47)
As governer of Texas George Bush, (the current supreme wookie of the fundamentalist churches in schism with those of Europe, Kiev, Ethiopia and the Lebanon)
executed more prisoners than any other
man entrusted with the death sentance in US history.

The news that he has flown home to rush legislation through Congress to stop the withdrawl of medical assistance to a woman in a persistent vegetative state, could be understood to mean

HE IS LOOKING FOR FORGIVENESS.

or maybe not... read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 20, 2005 21:48 by Derry IRSP   text 2 comments (last - monday december 26, 2005 02:05)
Son Of INLA Hunger Striker In Solidarity With Basque Hunger Strikers read full story / add a comment
antrim / racism & migration related issues / event notice Sunday March 20, 2005 18:31 by Jon Glackin
Stop The Deportations


Wednesday 23 March 1 p.m.

Irish Tourist Board,
Castle Street,
Belfast

Please bring banners/ placards and noise!!


Speakers: Mick O’Reilly TGWU
Davy Carlin Chair ARN
Jon Glackin Co-Ordinator Street Seen
Paddy Hughes Dep. Pres Queens University

Co-inciding with protests occurring in Dublin, London and Amsterdam against Deportations read full story / add a comment
galway / crime and justice / event notice Sunday March 20, 2005 18:24 by JFC   text 10 comments (last - wednesday march 23, 2005 19:35)
On Tuesday, 25 April 1915, about 600 poorly-trained & poorly-armed young people reported for duty in the Athenry / Oranmore / Gort district of Co Galway. It was the only major mobilisation of the 1916 rebellion outside of Dublin. Who were these young people & what did they hope to achieve?

Answers to these and other questions will by provided by Fergus Campbell, author of a new book entitled 'Land & Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland, 1891-1921', recently published by Oxford University Press.

Admission is free to the lecture, which is hosted by the Galway Labour History Group, and all are welcome read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday March 20, 2005 18:12 by redjade   text 10 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2005 21:53)
Quote: 'The Red Sox logo was visible, for example, in photos taken at an air show in Schenectady, N.Y., on Aug. 23, 2003, eight days after the Gulfstream returned to Washington from an around-the-world flight that included Anchorage; Osaka, Japan; Dubai; and Shannon.

The logo was not visible when the Gulfstream was photographed during a fuel stop in Shannon on June 12, 2004.' read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Sunday March 20, 2005 16:18 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - monday august 22, 2005 12:31)
Report: '...the problem of the peaking of world conventional oil production is unlike any yet faced by modern industrial society.' read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 20, 2005 01:31 by Brian Nugent   text 10 comments (last - sunday may 22, 2005 02:25)
The O'Hara family and Adrienne McGlinchey read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday March 19, 2005 19:22 by stop world bank   text 9 comments (last - friday march 25, 2005 22:37)
Paul Wolfowitz is a war criminal-why is he going to head the World Bank? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday March 19, 2005 00:25 by boi   text 2 comments (last - saturday march 19, 2005 18:00)
Bank of Ireland wishes to alert its customers to ignore any emails they may have received from a source purporting to be Bank of Ireland or www.365online.com. read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday March 18, 2005 23:40 by s.fleming   text 17 comments (last - thursday march 24, 2005 14:18)
The mental health organisation Aware received 90, 490 euros in donations for the year 2003. They refuse to say how much of this money came from individuals with links or associations to pharmaceutical companies promoting the theory that depression is a real disease related to a brain chemical imbalance. It's important to note that these donations are separate from D.A.W.N donations, etc, and no breakdown is given. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday March 18, 2005 21:03 by Abu Yusef   text 3 comments (last - monday march 21, 2005 16:06)
Andy Sproule ,head of the PiSsiNI Organised Crime Squad , has suddenly decided to take "early retirement", as it emerged no link could be established between the Northern Bank notes seized in Cork and those seized in Belfast from the Northen Bank. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday March 18, 2005 20:10 by Dublin IRSP
Following an announcement on the 16th March 2005, that 720 Basque political prisoners had begun an indefinite hunger strike, the International Department of the Irish Republican Socialist Party issued a statement of solidarity. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday March 18, 2005 16:09 by Pat   text 11 comments (last - sunday march 20, 2005 16:15)
Anti-war organisations today appealed to the Irish public to take to the
streets of Dublin tomorrow (March 19th) as part of a global day of protest
to mark the second anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. The protest
will take place in over 100 cities across the world including almost all
major US cities and five continents. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / other press Friday March 18, 2005 13:32 by Ciao!   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 20, 2005 10:39)
The CIA director Porter Goss has declared that the "porosity" of the borders of the USA allow for the terror to pass freely.

& its true.

Every day, terror crosses the land, air, sea and electronic frontiers of the United States of America- read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Friday March 18, 2005 12:14 by climate watch   text 1 comment (last - friday march 18, 2005 15:58)
The environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] have lodged formal complaints with the European Commission’s Regional Directorate and the Environmental Directorate objecting to the use of Public Service Obligations to subsidise short distance flights from Dublin. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday March 18, 2005 04:18 by Rayna Moss   text 1 comment (last - friday march 18, 2005 16:07)
CHARGES SERVED AGAINST VANUNU: A SHAMEFUL ATTEMPT TO SILENCE WHISTLEBLOWER read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday March 17, 2005 18:51 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 17, 2005 18:52)
Aron Baker gives his account of the bogus arrrest of the three detained by the Irish Navy after being falsely charged with "Failing to Obey Gardai" and "Breach of an Exclusion Zone". He describes their acquital and trial. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday March 17, 2005 15:53 by Civil Liberties   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 22, 2005 16:58)
An Online petition has been set up as part of a campaign against the Criminal Justice Bill. If introduced it will allow for the gardai to issue on the spot fines for whatever reason they deem fit and the only evidence that he or she needs in support is his or her subjective opinion that that person is in breach of the law. The person will have to pay up within a certain time period regardless of whether they are guilty or not. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday March 17, 2005 01:07 by Donnacha O Briain   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 24, 2005 14:13)
The EU's REACH proposal for improved regulation of chemicals has sparked the largest ever industry lobbying campaign in Europe. The chemical industry council CEFIC took the lead, with German giant BASF in a key role, and with active backing from US chemical corporations and the Bush administration. Scare mongering, flawed impact studies and delay tactics are part of this aggressive counter-campaign that has seriously weakened REACH. More than ever, it is time for citizens to stand up against industry attempts to undermine progressive environment and health legislation.

Read the full text at: http://www.corporateeurope.org/lobbycracy/BulldozingREACH.html read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 16, 2005 21:19 by Rasta4i's   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 16, 2005 23:24)
1 Video 00:11:11. Low quality.
Residents Against Racism called a protest at 12.30pm today Wednesday March 16th at the Garda National Immigration Bureau on Burgh Quay read full story / add a comment
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