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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 Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
It's bad enough that all UK TV users are forced to fund the BBC via a TV licence. But it's worse than that, says Charlotte Gill: millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are handed to the corporation via backdoor channels.
The post Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran Sat Nov 22, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing against the acquittal of Hamit Coskun, who was convicted of burning the Quran in a protest, reigniting fears Britain could introduce blasphemy laws by the back door.
The post CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link World Kindness Day is Just Another Way of Grooming Schoolchildren into the Climate and Open Border C... Sat Nov 22, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
World Kindness Day may have passed you by. But it won't have passed by your children, whose school will have been sure to teach that climate action and open borders are essential elements of 'kindness', says Steven Tucker.
The post World Kindness Day is Just Another Way of Grooming Schoolchildren into the Climate and Open Border Cults appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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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

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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 / news report Wednesday April 21, 2004 15:05 by GreenMan   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 21, 2004 20:57)
After repeated interuptions from the opposition The debate surrounding the upcoming referendum started in the Dail today. In response to a barage of heckles McDowell referred to those involved as cry-babies, "your behaving like a baby' quibbed McDowell when he couldn't get the undivided attention of his playground. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 21, 2004 12:22 by P.j.
While republicans are dragged through the mire for electoral purposes the violence of the loyalist paramilitaries continues. Here are three stories taken from today’s papers to illustrate that point. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 21, 2004 12:09 by Brian O'Nolan   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 21, 2004 13:06)
Kevin’s conversion - why has Kevin Myers done a flip-flop on George Bush?

He has turned on his intellectual mentor and now thinks him a political madman (on the basis that it takes one to know one?).

Why has this happened? What is the source of this conversion of Uncle Sam’s best friend into his foe? read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday April 21, 2004 11:39 by Trinners Anarchist   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 21, 2004 15:30)
The Trinity Anarchist Society will have a meeting on the topic of Mayday, with speakers from Indymedia and Dublin Grassroots who will describe the preparations that have been put in place in advance of the Mayday weekend. An AGM and social will follow. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Wednesday April 21, 2004 10:50 by Rick Lines, Executive Director   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 21, 2004 11:37)
The IPRT is pleased to welcome Baroness Vivien Stern to deliver the organisation’s 2004 Annual Lecture. She will be speaking on the topic of criminal justice and social justice.

Baroness Stern is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Prison Studies, King’s College, London. She is honorary Secretary General and co-founder of Penal Reform International, a network established in 1989 to promote prison reform throughout the world which currently has projects in 40 countries.

Baroness Stern’s lecture will be held Thursday April 22nd in the Swift Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin at 6:00pm. This event is free, and open to both members and non-members of the IPRT. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday April 21, 2004 10:45 by Rick Lines, Executive Director
The IPRT is pleased to welcome Baroness Vivien Stern to deliver the organisation’s 2004 Annual Lecture. She will be speaking on the topic of criminal justice and social justice.

Baroness Stern is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Prison Studies, King’s College, London. She is honorary Secretary General and co-founder of Penal Reform International, a network established in 1989 to promote prison reform throughout the world which currently has projects in 40 countries.

Baroness Stern’s lecture will be held in the Swift Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin at 6:00pm. This event is free, and open to both members and non-members of the IPRT. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / news report Wednesday April 21, 2004 10:32 by Gearoid O Loingsigh   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 22, 2004 20:31)
Yet again the paramilitaries turn their fire on the union read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations / news report Tuesday April 20, 2004 22:32 by redflaremist   text 28 comments (last - tuesday april 14, 2009 16:52)
national / summit mobilisations / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 20, 2004 20:45 by Mark Paul   text 10 comments (last - friday april 13, 2007 10:12)
As a freelance journalist with an interest in anti-globalisation issues, I wrote an article about the tabloid coverage and hype in the run-up to Mayday. Two of the Sunday broadsheets initially showed interest in it, but then rejected it upon reading it.

I don't subscribe to the idea that all journalists are spineless etc. etc. etc.......... However, I do feel that it was a balanced article. Yet the media still wouldn't touch it.

As a part of the media, I feel that there is the need for reasonable, sensible debate on the role the mainstream media plays, how it can be improved, and comments from other sections of the media would be a good start. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Tuesday April 20, 2004 19:34 by Nicki Jordan
All are welcome to join a fundraising table quiz for Habitat for Humanity Ireland on Sunday April 25th at 8pm in Mother Red Caps.

Test your knowledge on the culture,history, sport, music and geography of the 10 Accession States and other topics...

20 Euro for tables of four.

Prizes courtesy of Accession State Embassies in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 20, 2004 17:08 by Local Tallyman   text 48 comments (last - friday july 29, 2005 12:00)
The Socialist Workers Party and the Socialist Party have now declared their candidates for the upcoming local elections.

http://www.swp.ie/html/elections.htm
http://www.socialistparty.net/elections/elections.htm read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / news report Tuesday April 20, 2004 16:26 by BelgianDemocrat   text 6 comments (last - thursday april 22, 2004 13:42)
The electoral registration office in ‘French-speaking’ Wallonia rejected the signatures smaller parties had collected to legally stand in the forthcoming European elections. According to Belgian law, parties – in order to be able to contest the elections – either need the signatures of 5 members of parliament or have to collect 5,000 signatures of people who are entitled to vote. read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday April 20, 2004 15:37 by ron
First 'Stop Bush' demonstration in Limerick this friday afternoon.

Outside Penneys, O'Connell St from 3:30pm.

Bring your placards and your vocal opposition! read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations / press release Tuesday April 20, 2004 15:07 by D   text 23 comments (last - monday april 26, 2004 06:39)
On being hassled by the jack booted boys in blue for simply trying to advertise Mayday. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday April 20, 2004 14:44 by Reporter   text 20 comments (last - thursday april 22, 2004 14:48)
Paul Murphy MP, the NI Secretary of State has just announced the findings of the Ceasefire commission in the House of Commons. read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations / press release Tuesday April 20, 2004 14:36 by anothereuropeispossible   text 5 comments (last - wednesday april 21, 2004 04:24)
Press Release- Are the gardai and government using May Day hype to bring in an armed police force? The claim that 1000s of G8 Summit Genoa protesters will be in Ireland on May Day is untrue. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / news report Tuesday April 20, 2004 13:57 by Gearoid O Loingsigh   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 21, 2004 11:15)
Frist motion by a Union Conference in support of the Coke workers in Colombia read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday April 20, 2004 13:37 by Mark Grehan   text 10 comments (last - wednesday april 21, 2004 15:33)
A protest has been called for tommorrow April 21st at 6.30 outside the Dail against Michael McDowells proposed citizenship referendum. The protest has been called by the Campaign Against the Racist Referendum. The referendum is being debated in the Dail tommorrow and it is vital that we get massive numbers out on the protest. The protest will be addressed by several opposition and independent TD's read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations / news report Tuesday April 20, 2004 13:26 by solidarity trade union
Solidarity trade union (Mazowsze) declares that it firmly opposes both the style of meeting of the European Economic Forum (WEF/EEF) and the goals of the WEF/EEF. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday April 20, 2004 12:59 by Mark
Find out about how the people of West Papua are struggling to survive as a people and as a nation in the face of 40 years of brutal Indonesian military oppression. read full story / add a comment
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