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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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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

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national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday December 22, 2002 20:16 by Infohead   text 1 comment (last - monday december 23, 2002 15:21)
'Another World is Possible! A Conference on Global Protest Movements and Transnational Advocacy Networks' on Thursday 6th March 2003, at The Development Studies Centre, Kimmage Manor,Kimmage Manor, Whitehall Road, Dublin 12 read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday December 22, 2002 19:13 by CavanMan   text 4 comments (last - monday december 23, 2002 11:13)
Christmas is well and truly upon us as we get set for the showers of food, gifts and relaxation time that most of us will enjoy over the coming week or so. After all the hype and stressful shopping of the past few weeks, it will come as a welcome relief to finally sit down and enjoy the days ahead. And so we should – it’s rare in these days of rushing and running around that we find the time for the important things in life like sharing quality home cooked food with our families and loved ones. This is what Christmas should be all about, Christian or otherwise, taking time out to reflect, to give thanks and to ponder the past, present and future. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday December 22, 2002 18:52 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 7 comments (last - saturday january 18, 2003 20:47)
a Sufi philosopher and poet (226-295)=(AD840-AD907) given the title "al núrí" "the illuminated". Today I´m going to wallow in "I told you so". read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday December 22, 2002 17:56 by John Cunningham   text 1 comment (last - sunday december 22, 2002 23:35)
About 50 people defied the rain and the pre-Christmas shopping frenzy to join in an anti-war protest on Saturday afternoon, 22 December, in Shop-street, Galway. It was a lively protest -with lots of chanting and singing- which was generally well-received by the public. 1,000 anti-war Christmas cards were distributed. The Galway Alliance Against War plans another street protest on Saturday 4 January 2003. Paraic Breatnach, founder of street theatre company Macnas, has volunteered his services for a day-long action, which will focus on communicating the impact the looming war will have on Iraqi civilians. A large number of volunteers will be required. Please contact GAAW if you can spare an hour or two on the day. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday December 22, 2002 17:22 by Carlo   text 12 comments (last - wednesday december 25, 2002 16:02)
Religious struggle between Hussites and the Roman Catholic Church read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday December 22, 2002 16:06 by hydrarchist
The following action in Rome yesterday could be of much wider application. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday December 22, 2002 05:31 by always an alternative   text 5 comments (last - tuesday december 24, 2002 15:35)
He wishes (for x mas no doubt) "that all members finding themselves before the court be exhonerated for the Reclaim The Streets Riots. I believe these members were doing their duty and, when all facts are presented in these cases, I hope the courts conclude that these members had no alternative but to do their duty. I wish that the people would be fair. To do nothing in public order issues would equally draw criticism.' - Quoted in Current issue of Garda Review (and no I am not making this up just for kiks) read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday December 21, 2002 20:27 by bad   text 7 comments (last - tuesday january 14, 2003 05:13)
things getting bad in the states. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday December 21, 2002 14:42 by blisset   text 5 comments (last - monday december 23, 2002 10:16)
: I think the post by these so-called "anarchists," and their timing, is a cowardly act of aggression against the progress of all Latin American social movements right now. If Venezuela falls to a U.S. coup, it's going to turn the clock back 30 years in the entire hemisphere. We'll be right back in Santiago de Chile, September 11, 1973. Pinochet rounded up and shot all the anarchists, too, you know. Remember that the Chile coup led to Operation Condor and military dictatorship terror in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, and Bolivia among other places. The cancer spread all the way to Mexico. THAT is what is being attempted right now. The people whining about Chávez today are like those who whined about Allende in the early 70s . . . he wasn't politically perfect enough for them. Well, look what they got. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday December 21, 2002 00:45 by %)   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 21, 2002 12:20)
Paste links to their personal best/most informative IMC IRL/Other Outlets stories/rows of the year under this article so we can have somethjing to keep us going over the crimboh? here are mine for keeping the world safe for journalism as a branch of the performing arts http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=12975&start=170 http://www.narconews.com/izzy1.html read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday December 21, 2002 00:26 by Raymond McInerney   text 21 comments (last - friday march 10, 2006 14:51)
The Limerick Leader editor Brendan Halligan wrote the following on this weeks City Edition. I for one would most probably disagree with the proposed letter writers' submission. But there would be no way that I would threaten her in anyway. We are not just anti-war, we're PRO-PEACE read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday December 21, 2002 00:01 by GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE   text 7 comments (last - saturday january 18, 2003 12:44)
“We women reject the organizers of hate and chaos. We women are on the front line for our right to live in peace and to defend the Bolivarian Constitution of Venezuela, which gives us, for the first time in history, the right to full legal equality, to social security, to a pension for housewives. We are on the streets backing our President and our Bolivarian Revolution. Long live the Constitution! No to the fraudulent referendum! No to the pro-coup fascist stoppage! Don’t stop for the stoppage!” read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday December 20, 2002 23:24 by Blisett   text 1 comment (last - friday december 20, 2002 23:27)
Artesyn Initiates Global Restructuring Program Designed to Significantly Lower Operating Costs Approximately 400 positions impacted globally Expected total charges of approximately $40 million Estimated annual savings of $35 million versus current cost structure read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday December 20, 2002 23:10 by a   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 21, 2002 16:36)
"It takes a heap o'livin' in a house t' make it home," wrote Edgar A. Guest, and Ogden Nash replied that it also "takes a heap o' payin'." read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday December 20, 2002 22:55 by data by itself will never reach critical mass   text 16 comments (last - wednesday december 25, 2002 16:09)
Paid for the venue but no money left for server. We are now officialy struggling methinks. Lists are dead round the clock and the small crew who have kept site operating thru the last year are getting burned out and frustrated at lack of help forthcoming from the now large numbers of people consuming the site. If anyone out there has time or E400 to spare please get on the lists. http://www.indymedia.ie/about/mailinglists.html An IMC Volunteer (we all are) read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday December 20, 2002 19:53 by Quico   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 24, 2002 03:13)
KNOW THE FIGHT OF THE CATALAN PEOPLE FOR THEIR FREEDOM. GO TO: http://www.paisoscatalans.org/quico (also in English) read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday December 20, 2002 19:48 by Crispin Beltan   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 21, 2002 13:23)
"With the full backing and support by the US, President Arroyo as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines has unleashed a most brutal war against progressive and militant forces. Even the unarmed, legal democratic movement is not spared. More than 20 members from my party, Bayan Muna, have been murdered in the past 18 months since Arroyo became President. One-hundred forty-eight (148) activists have been killed in this short period." read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday December 20, 2002 15:44 by Durutti Column   text 7 comments (last - sunday december 22, 2002 23:39)
REMEMBER BRETON PRISONERS AT XMAS Political activists of the socialist republican Emgann group in Brittany are facing another Xmas in jail without trial on conspiracy charges related to a bombing campaign by ARB (Breton Revolutionary Army). Don't forget the Breton prisoners this Xmas and if possible send gifts, cards or messages of support to the six men. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday December 20, 2002 14:36 by Deery   text 16 comments (last - tuesday december 24, 2002 04:49)
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: Citizens of the World are encouraged to IMMEDIATELY BOYCOTT all products and services of the United States of America until such time as the Unites States of America ceases and desists from the production of weapons of mass destruction; quits all programs which produce weapons of mass destruction; submits documentation to the United Nations declaring all programs, activities, and research into the production of weapons of mass destruction; and allows United Nations inspectors open and unfettered access to all facilities engaged in the research, development, production, and stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction. This BOYCOTT shall exist until such time as the United States of America conforms to the articles described above, which shall be enforced by the citizens of the world in securing peace and freedom from weapons of mass destruction owned and operated by the United States of America. Please forward this declaration to the citizenry of read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday December 20, 2002 13:17 by Marianne
Open day in Carrickmines Saturday 21st December. All welcome, come out and take a look around, meet the carrickminders, see the castle!! Just hop on a no. 63 bus from Fleet St. or college green, there's one every hour, check the timetable. Ask the driver for the stop or hop out at the glenamuck road stop and look out for the banners. See yis there!!! read full story / add a comment
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