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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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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday March 16, 2007 20:35 by Brian   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 03, 2014 19:19)
The world is in a state of chasis as Sean O'Casey might say. Since the advent of George Bush to the White House every other year seems to bring forth a war or talk of war. Few commentators believe that this will stop at Iraq. Last July even Newt Gingrich was quoted as saying that "we are in the early stages of what I would describe as the third world war..."(1) Many people are now openly speculating about who is next. Syria? North Korea? Saudi Arabia? And especially Iran are the subject of fevered speculation even in the established media. This writer would just like to opt for Russia as the next ultimate target. read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Friday March 16, 2007 15:53 by Pushkin   text 6 comments (last - thursday march 22, 2007 12:08)
Following the successful picket on Wednesday 7 March at the rogue crisis pregnancy agency, a follow up action will be held on Saturday 24 March at 12 noon. To build for this action a leafleting session will be held outside the GPO on Thursday 22 March at 5.30 pm. read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Friday March 16, 2007 15:39 by Pushkin
Pro Choice Direct Action

Following the successful picket on Wednesday 7 March at the rogue crisis pregnancy agency, a follow up action will be held on Saturday 24 March at 12 noon. To build for this action a leafleting session will be held outside the GPO on Thursday 22 March at 5.30 pm.

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national / arts and media / other press Friday March 16, 2007 11:47 by David Manning and Miriam Cotton   text 5 comments (last - friday march 16, 2007 15:51)
Below is the latest MediaShot from MediaBite. We have focused this time on the extraordinary myopia that appears to have overtaken the Irish media when considering the so-called 'evidence' being pushed by the Bush administration for military intervention in Iran. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / other press Friday March 16, 2007 10:25 by QR   text 1 comment (last - friday march 16, 2007 10:31)
Queens student uni election results read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Friday March 16, 2007 10:20 by Dr. Nadje Al-Ali
Islamist militants and terrorist groups pose a particular danger to Iraqi women. Many women’s organizations and activists inside Iraq have documented the increasing Islamist threats to women: the pressure to conform to certain dress codes, the restrictions in movement and behaviour, incidents of acid thrown into women’s faces and even targeted killings.

After the U.S. invasion in 2003, many women in Basra, for example, reported that they were forced to wear a headscarf or restrict their movements in fear of harassment from men. Female students at the University of Basra reported that since the war ended groups of men began stopping them at the university gates, shouting at them if their heads were not covered read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday March 16, 2007 06:17 by Vince McGreal   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 17, 2007 02:00)
Writers in Ireland are campaigning for a boycott of Russian Xenophobe politician Georgy Pryakhin, noted for his anti-Semitism and race hatred. Commenting on the proposed visit by the Russian parliamentarian, Russian-Irish writer Anatoly Kudryavitsky said " This man is a dangerous extremist masquerading as a writer, and should be exposed as a hate-monger." read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Thursday March 15, 2007 21:03 by Shell to Sea
Leafleting of Shell workers will take place this Friday morning at 8am outside SEPIL HQ beside the Leeson St bridge over the canal. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday March 15, 2007 15:14 by reabhloid dearg
Easter 1916 commemoration read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday March 15, 2007 00:24 by Conor Cregan   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 15, 2007 18:13)
Tuesday 20th of March of next week marks the fourth anniversary of the American led invasion of Iraq. To mark this dark occasion Cosantori Siochana are holding a commemoration at the site of the old customs post on the entrance at Shannon Airport. This event will happen at 4pm Bank Holiday Monday 19th of March. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / other press Wednesday March 14, 2007 23:37 by neptune's eye   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 28, 2007 17:26)
This is thrilling stuff. I could point you in loads of directions at stunning analysis & biting cartoons. But it's best just to look at the nitty gritty of the pieces of paper that go into Hansard - the official record of the Houses of Commons and Lords SW1A Aaakkkmi6mi5. now one of those is a real secret society with hoods on. & I'm not talking about hoodies or asbestos. We do though (get hoodies & asbestos) because we're scum.

Remember that the link in this "other press" article is to a site envisioned for people who aren't like you, that's why it's called "they work for you". Thanks to the foresight of some maligned predecessors & hard bleeding by other predecessors - we either live in the bubble of the Irish diasporia or in the republic of Ireland & a lot of voting households up the wee north.
& it's not wee actually.... It's global. anyway read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday March 14, 2007 22:49 by Robert Hamm   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 28, 2007 18:23)
Public Presentation of a film shot at the
International Democratic Education Conference 2005 in Berlin
Sligo, 28. 03. 2007 - Family Resource Centre, The Mall - 8 p. m. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday March 14, 2007 19:10 by Kevin Higgins   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 15, 2007 18:42)
The next Over The Edge: Open Reading takes place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, March 29th, 6.30-8pm. The Featured Readers are Michael Gorman, and four members of the Dark Gate Writers Group, Sean Donegan, Margaret Cullagh, Bernadette Tierney & Donal Grehan. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / news report Wednesday March 14, 2007 17:51 by sean moraghan   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 15, 2007 15:56)
The recent and continuing practice of deporting Kurdish and Iraqi asyslum seekers in the UK back to Iraq has been condemned by members of those communities currently living in Kerry.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 13, 2007 21:13 by Angry Man   text 23 comments (last - sunday march 18, 2007 20:45)
Today, live-line listeners heard first hand from the distressed lady whose rapist was let walk free from the court after a jury had found him guilty. On the very same day, the same judge Kearney, committed another rapist to 15 years in jail followed by 10 years supervised release. Both men broke into the womens houses, both men were under the influence, both men traumatised their victims and both victims were totally innocent of any provocation. What is the difference?

According to judge Kearney, One was a young man from a "good family" and the other wasn't. So what is a "good family?" read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday March 13, 2007 19:17 by Michelle Clarke   text 22 comments (last - tuesday may 14, 2013 16:40)
The year was 1993 or perhaps 1994, I lived in Zimbabwe and the past time that I most enjoyed was horse riding in the Veld near Sunset.

On this occasion....I was being brave. I had learned to canter so it was time to jump. An arena, an enthusiasm, the taste of speed and miscalculation and there was change, I went over the horse and under the horse.

Outcome: private emegency ambulance - a team who I will never know who most likely saved my life. There was only one elderly man as Neurosugeon in Zimbabwe at that time. From there life became a pilgrim path of exploration and many bumps and turns on the road.

Welcome to Brain Awareness Week. Let us all take the opportunity to learn about the brain, about acquired brain injury, about diseases of the brain, about mental health implications,

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday March 13, 2007 14:00 by Pro Choice Activist   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 14, 2007 16:05)
Next meeting of the Pro Choice Direct Action Group to be held this Thursday, 6.45pm. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 13, 2007 00:22 by Robbie Sinnott / Saoririseoir   text 42 comments (last - thursday march 15, 2007 21:17)
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