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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 Sun Nov 23, 2025 01:46 | Will Jones
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 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.

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national / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 10, 2003 18:31 by Phuq Hedd
Guardian piece about two train drivers in Scotland who are the only people trained to deliver munitions refusing to do so because they object to the attack on Iraq. Company (EWS) tries to pretend that there are "leaves on the track" etc. This story was also reported on Friday's "Democracy NOW!" http://www.democracynow.org (archives up shortly) read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 10, 2003 17:33 by Fergus   text 4 comments (last - sunday january 12, 2003 17:55)
The Government is planning to introduce regulations which will require people seeking asylum to apply as soon as they enter the state. Social Welfare payments will be witheld from asylum seekers who do not claim asylum immediately at their point of entry to Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 10, 2003 17:13 by Gregory Elich
The hidden history of the nuclear issue and U.S-North Korean relations. How the Bush Administration deliberately created a crisis in international relations read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 10, 2003 16:42 by Cathy Flanagan   text 40 comments (last - monday january 20, 2003 15:10)
Labour Leader, Pat Rabbitte has called for the immediate suspension of Shannon facilities and has requested that Dail representatives be given a full report on the facilities available for U.S. troops and equipment in transit. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 10, 2003 15:40 by Cathal   text 1 comment (last - friday january 10, 2003 17:57)
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 10, 2003 14:24 by iosaf jedi svengali and weedy bookworm type.   text 4 comments (last - wednesday september 24, 2003 16:00)
IFA President John Dillon said today's convoy to Government Buildings could easily have numbered 5,000 based on the high level of support farmers had been shown. They agreed to restrict it to 300 vehicles to avoid further inconvenience. "I could have had 30,000 farmers and 5,000 tractors in Dublin because of the level of frustration and anger out there," he said. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 10, 2003 14:20 by Nikhil Nigam
"Evolving our world" - Statement Issued at recently concluded Asian Social Forum - part of World Social Forum(WSF), held in India 3-7 January read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 10, 2003 13:57 by Urban Worker   text 1 comment (last - sunday january 12, 2003 12:15)
Today hundreds of tractors are coming into Dublin City to protest against the governments inactio over rural poverty. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 10, 2003 12:34 by Mountbattens Third Leg   text 15 comments (last - friday april 02, 2004 17:08)
Barmy Army leaders are outraged after discovering Aussie cricket fans have been distributing offensive song-sheets glorifying IRA violence at the final Test. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 10, 2003 10:55 by Anonymous   text 4 comments (last - saturday january 11, 2003 23:16)
Nice little analysis of some of the real intentions of the US, from a piece she wrote in the Guardian. She was on "This Is Your Life", last night - She is a higly respected figure in diplomatic circles and good to know that at least one heavyweight (albeit former) political figure is prepared to come out and call this spade a spade. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 10, 2003 06:42 by Fintan Lane   text 10 comments (last - saturday january 11, 2003 22:26)
People might be interested to know that a plane-spotter phoned up 96FM radio station in Cork yesterday (Thursday) to report having seen eight B52s fly over the city on the previous day. Another caller later contacted the station to say he had also seen these planes (which he similarly identified as B52s), but had counted twelve. Methinks they did not belong to the Irish Air Corps, despite Michael Smith's pretensions. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday January 10, 2003 00:30 by souljah
The NRO, September 11, UAV's, Echelon, ARPANET, the NSA, the Israeli Space Agency, NIMA, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, NASA, Ron Sega, Vince Foster, Global Hawk, TIA, Mitre Corp., Star Wars (SDI), Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia (and his satellite investments), and the NMCI. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday January 09, 2003 20:56 by In support of Alex   text 8 comments (last - saturday january 11, 2003 17:36)
The Dáil should be reconvened to discuss the country's position on Iraq, the Government was told tonight. The situation was too important to be decided by long distance phone conversations between leaders, said Fine Gael foreign affairs spokesman Gay Mitchell. His call came as campaigners intensified their demands for the Government to clarify its position on the use of Shannon airport for refuelling by United States forces. At a time of potential war and as US troops pass through Shannon, the Taoiseach, Tanaiste, and Minister for Foreign Affairs are all out of the country, Mr Mitchell said. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday January 09, 2003 19:57 by SoC
The international meeting organized by the Egyptian Popular Campaign to Confront U.S Aggression was convened in Cairo on December 18 and 19 to launch the International Campaign. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday January 09, 2003 18:36 by o5st   text 6 comments (last - friday january 10, 2003 12:52)
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday January 09, 2003 17:23 by Vincebus Eruptum
from UK Indymedia: "The political and social struggles in Italy in the recent years have been a source of innovation and inspiration for political and social struggles globally [...] We have invited an Italian comrade from the collectives of Wu Ming and the Luther Blissett Project to give an account of the experiences, activities and thoughts still unfolding in the material struggles of the Italian everyday." read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday January 09, 2003 17:23 by Dubya   text 4 comments (last - friday january 10, 2003 18:18)
A musical composition read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday January 09, 2003 15:42 by iosaf jedi of the mythical Eire & bit of svengali dude.   text 5 comments (last - friday january 10, 2003 18:50)
There are three languages spoken in Ireland. and two national games. and many different types of farmers. read full story / add a comment
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