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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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national / environment / press release Monday March 26, 2007 20:50 by Pears
from the 10th April 07 the TreeWalk will kyayk and foot it on and beside the river shannon,carrying trees to plant with school communities and others, invites welcome, feel free to participate.
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national / anti-capitalism / press release Sunday March 25, 2007 13:24 by Eugene Mc Cartan
As representatives of the twenty-seven EU member-states gather to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the EEC, the Communist Party of Ireland reasserts its continued opposition to the strategy of these elites in their continued drive to concentrate economic and political power in the hands of a bureaucratic caste and to undermine national democracy. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday March 24, 2007 21:01 by Joe Moore   text 5 comments (last - tuesday march 27, 2007 09:34)
Book Launch and Public Talk, The Corporate Take Over of Ireland by Dr. Kieran Allen, UCD Sociology Department.
Tuesday 3rd April, 8.00pm Victoria Hotel, Patrick Street, Cork. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday March 24, 2007 15:50 by finn
Wind down from your artificially induced stress/pace and confront your personal reality – take stock for a moment. Your existence has been confined to sustaining and maintaining a system that makes ever-increasing demands on your liberty and freedom – the pillars upon which joy and satisfaction are built/derived! The frenzied pace of western society is largely the result of the manic need for ever increasing profits and greater concentrations of wealth in the fewest possible hands, which inevitably places higher demands on those at the bottom of the financial scale. Obtaining wealth is simply a matter of applying unfair downward pressure in favour of upward flowing benefits; wealth is not created it is the result of manipulation and/or theft – the historical record bears this out. Put simply, profit is exploitation/theft! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday March 24, 2007 01:39 by Anarchy Rules   text 15 comments (last - tuesday may 29, 2007 11:50)
Iran says the incident occured in Iranian waters. Nearly everyone else claims the incident happened in Iraqi waters. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday March 23, 2007 19:53 by Common Sense   text 8 comments (last - tuesday march 27, 2007 00:50)
Everybody but the most myopic neo-conservative agrees that the invasion of Iraq has been an utter catastrophy.
It seems inevitable that US troops will be withdrawn, if not in the lifetime of the Bush administration, then certainly in the lifetime of the next US administration either Democrat or Republican, when a realist will certainly occupy the White House with the mandate of a US public who have awoken from the hysteria after 9/11 which brought to them to war in the first place.

But only a fool would believe Iraq will be peaceful after the US withdraw. Indeed it seems obvious that Shia and Sunnis will slaughter with impunity once the ineffectual US referee is removed from the boxing ring.That is why the UN must send peacekeeping troops to the region to prevent this catastrophe from occuring. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday March 23, 2007 19:49 by Brian
Meeting of the Victims of the Legal Profession read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / news report Friday March 23, 2007 16:21 by C Murray   text 8 comments (last - saturday december 08, 2007 18:57)
In Rathmines, Harold's Cross and Crumlin we are to lose St Luke's Hospital.
In fact, the hospital scandal stretches further than that.
We are to lose a cancer hospital which will be amalgamated with St James,
the high property values allowed Minster Mc Dowell's Sidekick to sign the lands
to speculators.

There is a clinic in that hospital complex used by the parents of kids with CF and asthma
called Lukedoc/Dubdoc- one TD from the area put down the question re losing our clinic
published below is the reply from Mary Harney. read full story / add a comment
galway / gender and sexuality / other press Friday March 23, 2007 13:59 by Sarah McKibben
The following letter, signed by more than 200 scholars from universities in some 13 countries, asks NUIG to reconsider the decision to close the Women's Studies Centre and to maintain the autonomy of Women's Studies as an interdisciplinary field. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday March 23, 2007 11:02 by Patrick
This weekend the annual Connolly festival hosted by Labour Youth will take place in Dublin in the ATGWU Hall. The keynote speaker is Spanish Civil War veteran Bob Doyle. read full story / add a comment
antrim / environment / event notice Thursday March 22, 2007 23:40 by Ciarán
Shell to Sea in Belfast are organising a protest at the Odyssey Arena where a Shell-sponsored wildlife photography exhibition is taking place. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday March 22, 2007 20:52 by Irish Anti War Movement   text 7 comments (last - friday march 23, 2007 10:37)
ASSEMBLE 2.00PM AT FORTUNESTOWN SCHOOL, DOWN FROM LIDL, CITYWEST (http://irishantiwar.org). Feeder bus shuttle from Red Cow LUAS Car Park from 1.30pm
Performers include; Mary Coughlan (Singer), Róisín Elsafty (Singer), Mary O Malley (Poet) + others.
Speakers include; Patricia Mc Kenna (Green Party), Aongus O Snodaigh (Sein Fein), Councillor Declan Bree, Labour Youth, SIPTU, Independent politicians, Brid Smith (SWP), Glenda Cimino (US Citizens in Ireland Against the War) David Norris (Senator), Robert Ballagh (Artist) and Dr. Abdullah Sayegh (Iraqi Citizen).

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 22, 2007 20:04 by BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Sum
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing / event notice Thursday March 22, 2007 18:10 by Erik van Lennep
With the government missing the boat being pushed out by the rest of the world rallying to stave off climate change, home owners, builders and prospective buyers are leading the way in carbon reduction. The market follows close behind. Two new courses on Green Building will help sort through the options of saving energy, reducing our carbon footprints, and plugging the leaks. Don't wait for government to lead the way. The future is here now. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Thursday March 22, 2007 16:58 by SP Member   text 9 comments (last - tuesday march 27, 2007 11:32)
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has called for a national debate on nuclear power as a way of providing enough energy for Ireland's growing population.

Speaking at the launch of a congress policy document on sustainable energy, General Secretary David Begg said that he was not 'cheerleading' for nuclear power.

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national / environment / other press Thursday March 22, 2007 11:50 by maire   text 9 comments (last - monday march 26, 2007 10:36)
Low Carbon Life.

“low carbon” life will require changes in how we live. It will require a shift in public consciousness, as well as a willingness to do without conveniences that may now seem essential. Energy inefficiency and waste are so woven into the fabric of life that it is both very easy for some and very hard for others to change.
The business of climate change will create demand for innovation, and will change and reshape markets immediately. Investors will be asking questions to identify companies that will succeed or fail in an environment of increased climate change risk.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday March 22, 2007 11:31 by Graham Ó Maonaigh   text 7 comments (last - thursday march 22, 2007 17:39)
With the Local and European Elections set to take-place on the same day in 2009, the Labour Party believes it makes sense for all those aged 16 above to be allowed vote and encouraged to play their part in the democratic system. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday March 21, 2007 17:04 by Chris O Ralaigh
As part of a national day of events, Dublin Shell to Sea have organised a protest outside of Shell HQ on Friday 30th March at 1pm.
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dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Wednesday March 21, 2007 12:31 by WERRC
This is a reminder that a screening of Melissa Thompson's documentary, 'Like a Ship in the Night', will be held in the Humanities Institute of Ireland, Belfield, on Monday 26th March at 7.30pm.
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limerick / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 21, 2007 12:25 by BossWatcher   text 7 comments (last - sunday december 14, 2008 13:37)
I have been contacted recently by a number of foreign workers who have been screwed over by their employers in both money and health and safety issues. None of them speak much english and none were in a union. Finding it hard to get them help through Solicitors, any advice on how to proceed would be appreciated. read full story / add a comment
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