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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 RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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.

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offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

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offsite link British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
The post British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
The post Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.
The post Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 02, 2003 11:39 by kokomero
America has urged Israel to stop building settlements, but under Mr Sharon their number has increased. Yet Sharon says he has to investigate the claim made by an opposition member of the Knesset that a Jewish settler living alone on a hill in the West Bank is being guarded by six Israeli soldiers. The cost is about £27,000 a month, an opposition member of parliament says. Doesn't Sharon know what his troops are up to? Maybe it suits him to keep things like this at arms length similar to the Shatilla and Shabra massacres to maintain plausable deniability? Sharon supports the expansion of settlements despit the fact that most Israelis support dismantling some of the settlements as part of a peace deal, according to recent polls. The settlements are one of the biggest obstacles to a deal between Israel and the Palestinians. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 02, 2003 11:36 by Dixie Chick   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 02, 2003 16:17)
An extraordinary communication from the United States to UN representatives around the world has been leaked to Greenpeace. In it, the United States warns that the simple act of support for a General Assembly meeting to discuss the war will be considered "unhelpful and directed against the United States." They further threaten that invoking the Uniting for Peace resolution will be "harmful to the UN." read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 02, 2003 11:24 by Member of Parliament Tam Dalyell
Blair is a man who has disdain for both the House of Commons and international law says Tam Dalyell, Labour MP for Linlithgow since 1962. He is the longest continuously serving member of the House of Commons in 'Red Pepper'. It's a great read!   read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 02, 2003 11:11 by publo   text 4 comments (last - thursday april 03, 2003 12:02)
Fairly Large NO WAR Banner dropped from side of Arts Millenium building. Students waking up. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 02, 2003 11:07 by ASSOCIATED PRESS   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 02, 2003 18:57)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's military exchanged gunfire with Colombian paramilitaries and bombed a zone close to the border as a warning to the fighters, President Hugo Chavez said Sunday. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 02, 2003 08:20 by Max Dempsey   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 02, 2003 18:23)
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve King (R-IA) has been attending anti-war rallies in the nation's capital, but it's not to support the marchers. GOPUSA News accompanied the first-term Iowa Congressman to one such rally two weeks ago. King explained that he had been criticized for calling the protesters "anti-American" and decided to observe a march to determine the background of the participants. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 02, 2003 07:36 by x   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 02, 2003 13:04)
You might want to bookmark this site: I think it provides excellent coverage of the (not "war", but) US/UK INVASION. http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news086.htm read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 02, 2003 02:27 by darren
Check out reports & pics of actions in Belfast at www.geocities.com/directactionagainstapathy feel free to e-mail reports/pics from other parts of the country for inclusion on the site. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 02, 2003 01:48 by Shane OCurry   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 02, 2003 01:57)
Following the recent successes of FEICs campaign to moblise the City of Derry to boot Raytheon out, more actions are planned, with an anti war coalition blockade of the plant in the Science Park on the Branch Road (just before the Templemore Roundabout)between 1pm and 5pm tomorrow. The Monthly FEIC vigil on Saturday from 5 to 6 and the annual FEIC good friday direct action from 12 to 3. Check the link if you are interested in the details of raytheon's connection to this carnage. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday April 01, 2003 23:48 by Redmond O'Laoire   text 10 comments (last - thursday april 03, 2003 15:16)
I see from the RTE “news” that the Iraqi Special Olympics team has had to withdraw from the forthcoming games. Such a decision has to be welcomed given the understandable security considerations; some of the individuals accompanying the team could be agents of the Saddam Hussein regime with terrorist activity on their minds. Given the positive role our country has and continues to play in “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, such a terrorist threat has to be taken serious. I know our government and security forces will be on constant alert in order to ensure the safety of all citizens and foreign residents. In these difficult and stressful times, we can be proud that our country is standing by the forces of freedom and democracy, and supporting leaders of courage and determination like President Bush and Prime Minister Blair. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday April 01, 2003 22:19 by Rembrant   text 5 comments (last - wednesday april 02, 2003 11:15)
RTE Radio 1 and 2FM are to be dropped from Sky's EPG following a row over coverage of the war in Iraq. Sky had already protested to RTÉ about their anti-war coverage, saying it is biased. Although they will be removed at midnight tonight, both RTÉ Radio 1 & 2FM will still be available via the 'Other Channels' menu. They consider RTE's coverage to be anti-war???!!! read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday April 01, 2003 21:13 by Fintan Lane   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 01, 2003 21:14)
Anti-Fianna Fail picket planned for Cork city read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday April 01, 2003 21:05 by Deirdre Clancy
There will be a 24-hour fast and vigil outside the Dail from tomorrow, April 2nd to noon Thursday, April 3rd, involving three members of the "pitstop ploughshares" Shannon five - Deirdre, Damien and Nuin. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday April 01, 2003 20:29 by Mitchell   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 01, 2003 21:10)
Dail protest tomorrow read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday April 01, 2003 20:27 by smart bum   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 02, 2003 18:53)
another day, another massacre... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday April 01, 2003 20:20 by Finghin   text 4 comments (last - wednesday april 02, 2003 13:56)
Reflecting the massive opposition of Spanish people to the war in Iraq, the UGT - socialist trade union confederation - has called a two-hour general strike on Thursday 10 April. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday April 01, 2003 20:14 by J. Swift   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 02, 2003 00:22)
evil reactionary cabal at slate now online - least It's the first time I noticed www.theslate.ie Maybe they would put a link to Indymedia.ie on their site if we flooded their editor's mailbox with sarcastic abuse - we have plenty of practice around here. editor@theslate.ie don't become the media - swallow the media whole read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday April 01, 2003 19:12 by kokomero   text 13 comments (last - wednesday april 02, 2003 13:06)
At least two threads relating to Israel have been deleted from this site over the past 24 hours without any explanation. One on the supply of D9 buldozers and training to the US military, and the other on the murder of Rachel Corrie. Aren't we allowed to post about Israel and the Palestinians? Are only SWP vs SP trivia now acceptable for posting on this site? Have the rules for postings changed in the past 24 hrs? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday April 01, 2003 18:51 by Justin Moran   text 7 comments (last - wednesday april 02, 2003 13:55)
Taken from an Ográ Fianna Fáil Discussion Forum read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday April 01, 2003 18:41 by CWI   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 01, 2003 21:35)
Melbourne protesters block prime minister's function read full story / add a comment
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