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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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armagh / crime and justice / event notice Monday March 07, 2005 17:18 by miriam
Women rape survivors are marching today (International Women's Day) in Narobi to protest years of rape by British Army.
Belfast women are selling cookies and collating a petition in support of women in Nairobi. Gingerbread women and peanut butter cookies for sale, and info and petition available all day in open sesame, Botanic avenue, Belfast. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Monday March 07, 2005 15:33 by .
From znet
Whole countries opposed it, its proponents couldn't explain it, and its own parliament called for it to be completely reconsidered. Twice.Therefore, the European Council decided to approve it. Barring an exceptional parliamentary earthquake, the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive will be rubber-stamped by the European Parliament and will in time become law across the Union. It seems Bill Gates got more than a regal tap on the shoulder when he was visiting last week: if these are the punishments for heading a company convicted in Europe and America for anti-trade monopoly abuse, let us hope he is never rewarded. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday March 07, 2005 10:18 by never having had a brace on my fangs   text 3 comments (last - thursday june 09, 2005 23:15)
After only 19 months as Pressie, Carlos had a think about it last night and announced via telly, that just can't go on. He'll do the official signing off bits in the congress later today.

Meanwhile members of the public are thinking about doing a street thing, and the right and centre parties of the congress are asking that they don't. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / news report Saturday March 05, 2005 14:59 by doing it with élan.   text 6 comments (last - saturday july 08, 2006 03:34)
Once upon a time two doctors got together, and not content with talking to grannies and mammies all day, and offering advice to nurses, and parents with autistic children, decided to set up a drug company.
The spoke fluent american and had friends in the progressive democrats, with proven links to supremacists organisations in the US.
They found lots of money, cash and the promise of many young graduates to help them, design the killer drug from Mary Harney TD.



http://www.elan.com/ read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Saturday March 05, 2005 01:47 by pirate   text 12 comments (last - friday march 11, 2005 21:22)
Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena has been freed by her captors but U.S. forces in Iraq
mistakenly opened fire on the convoy taking her to safety, wounding her and killing an Italian secret service agent.

That doesn't go down well in the Union.

eye for an eye
tooth for a tooth
like. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday March 04, 2005 12:08 by janette byrne
PatientsTogether will hold a general meeting in the Mansion House Dublin on 9th march @ 8pm..

We the people of this wealthy nation continue to suffer, left lying for days on trolleys, sitting in chairs or most degrading of all on a mattress on the floor in our hospitals. It has to stop ..dont' wait till it happens to you. The sick of this country live in fear of our A&E departments old and young alike. We attend our hospitals because we want care when we are ill and this is the way we are treated in modern day Ireland.. who can we turn to who cares?

If you or a loved one have suffered the horrendous conditions in our A&E departments please come along or contact us @ 085 7302798 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday March 04, 2005 01:51 by AmigaPhil   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 17, 2005 14:07)
Global day of protest on the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday March 04, 2005 00:52 by John Meehan   text 3 comments (last - friday march 04, 2005 12:32)
Still hate loud blaring music and flashing lights?
Still want to talk and meet people?

Club Rince offers a music mix of the 60s, 70s and 80s (rock 'n roll,
reggae. jive, boogie woogie etc.) in a setting conducive to socialising,
bopping and hearing yourself talk. read full story / add a comment
galway / eu / event notice Friday March 04, 2005 00:49 by John Meehan
2nd EU seminar in Galway March 11th

The Green Party is hosting a public information seminar on the EU
Constitution in Galway on Friday March 11th at 7pm. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday March 04, 2005 00:37 by Tracey Ryan, Mags Liddy & Niall Harnett   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 19, 2005 16:05)
A non-hierarchical consensus based approach to setting up a European Network of Activists, in association with
EYFA - European Youth For Action, www.eyfa.org read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday March 03, 2005 18:37 by Davy Carlin   text 5 comments (last - tuesday march 15, 2005 16:46)
Street Seen's new edition should be hitting the streets soon. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday March 03, 2005 18:03 by concerned student   text 1 comment (last - friday march 04, 2005 04:36)
mcDowell not welcome in NUIM read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday March 03, 2005 16:27 by D Lynch
Socialist Forum
Title: Venezuela, Hugo Chávez and the "Bolivarian revolution"

Time and Date: 8.30 pm Monday 7, March.

Venue: Red Parrot Pub, Dorset Street, Dublin North City Centre.

Speaker: Kevin Wingfield

MANY people on the left and in the anti-capitalist movement have looked to Venezuela and Hugo Chávez in recent years for hope and inspiration.
Hugo Chávez, who has won two democratic elections on a radical programme, is hugely popular among Venezuela's poor.
In April 2002 sections of the army mounted a coup and arrested Chávez.
Immediately hundreds of thousands of poor people poured into the centre of the capital, Caracas, and caused key military commanders to switch sides reinstating Chávez after three days. In the aftermath Chavez made concessions to placate the opposition, and called for "national accord".
Can Hugo Chavez survive? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 03, 2005 11:00 by Nils   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 03, 2005 14:25)
I find myself thinking of Kenya’s tsunami victim. That’s right: victim, singular, no “s” on the end. He was Samuel Njoroge, a car mechanic from Nairobi, who was making his first ever visit to the East African coast. “He was very excited about the prospects of going to the beach and learning how to swim,” said his father. He picked the wrong day. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday March 03, 2005 09:29 by Sinéad Ní Bhroin   text 2 comments (last - friday march 04, 2005 10:58)
Childcare, abortion, exploitation & the struggle for women's liberation in the 21st Century.... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 02, 2005 22:46 by the burningman   text 8 comments (last - friday june 22, 2007 05:35)
Despite efforts by many around the world to rise above sectarianism in the face of the USA's raw imperialism, Walden Bello, a prominent critic of neo-liberalism, has launched an international distancing campaign against the Communist Party of the Philippines and the democratic sectoral movements which draw political inspiration from them. Claiming that the CPP's military wing has targeted him with a “hit list,” which in fact is a mere diagram showing the international linkages of various Phillipino parties and individuals, Bello is playing a dangerous game. Included on the diagram is Bello's Akbayan parlimentary party. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 02, 2005 21:24 by Joe   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 02, 2005 21:26)
Vermont has a traditional of annual town assemblies that dates from the American revolution. Anti-war activists tabled motions against the Iraq war at these assemblies last night. 48 town meetings voted last night to condemn the war in Iraq and to call on political leaders to bring home the state's National Guard. We speak with an organizer with the Iraq Resolution Campaign that coordinated the town meetings. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / other press Wednesday March 02, 2005 15:42 by fiwatch   text 63 comments (last - saturday october 01, 2005 14:04)
Fascist Freedom Institute play the race card. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 02, 2005 11:26 by Tsahar Rotem, Yuval Azoulay & Eli Ashkenazi   text 13 comments (last - thursday march 03, 2005 13:57)
"Israel Orbach delivered a fiery eulogy, [*PROUDLY*] explaining that he had served in the same unit as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon[!] and Mossad chief Meir Dagan[!]." read full story / add a comment
cork / eu / press release Tuesday March 01, 2005 23:10 by Cork IRSP   text 7 comments (last - wednesday july 06, 2005 15:59)
With thousands on the dole or hidden on government schemes Cork Irish Republican Socialist Party say that:

CORK 2005 IS NOTHING BUT A FARCE! read full story / add a comment
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