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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 The Reaction of My Mental Health Nursing Students to Being Shown an Image of a Black Murderer and Wh... Thu Nov 06, 2025 19:01 | Dr Niall McCrae
The reaction of my mental health nursing students to being shown an image of a black murderer and white victim shows why 'anti-racist' ideology is putting us all at risk, says Dr Niall McCrae.
The post The Reaction of My Mental Health Nursing Students to Being Shown an Image of a Black Murderer and White Victim Shows Why Ideology is Putting Us All at Risk appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BBC Rebukes Newsreader Who Corrected ?Pregnant People? to ?Women? Thu Nov 06, 2025 17:52 | Will Jones
The BBC newsreader who went viral after she changed "pregnant people" to "women" during a live broadcast has been rebuked by the BBC after being found to have breached impartiality rules.
The post BBC Rebukes Newsreader Who Corrected “Pregnant People” to “Women” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Southport Inquiry?s Sinister Censorship Agenda Thu Nov 06, 2025 15:23 | David Shipley
The Southport Inquiry summoned X this week to lecture it on the wonders of the Online Safety Act. It shows a sinister willingness to use the worst kind of tragedy to advance a censorship agenda, says David Shipley.
The post The Southport Inquiry’s Sinister Censorship Agenda appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How the Government?s Digital ID Fantasy Will Fall Apart Thu Nov 06, 2025 13:21 | Guy de la B?doy?re
Keir Starmer is planning digital ID for UK citizens. You may worry about the impact on civil liberties, but worry not, says Guy de la B?doy?re. A recent experience shows the system will never get off the ground.
The post How the Government’s Digital ID Fantasy Will Fall Apart appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reeves to Hit EVs With ?250 Pay-Per-Mile Tax Thu Nov 06, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Electric vehicle drivers will be hit with a new pay-per-mile tax in?the Budget,?with a new charge of 3p per mile being levied on top of other road taxes, costing the average driver an extra ?250 a year.
The post Reeves to Hit EVs With ?250 Pay-Per-Mile Tax appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Omni Troop Carriers - Shannon Dec 2011
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Wednesday December 28, 2011 00:30 by Galway Alliance Against War   text 8 comments (last - wednesday january 04, 2012 06:47)   image 2 images
The Irish government has been complicted in the murder of innocent people for almost a decade now via the wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq. They are completely hypocritical when for so many years they condenmed the acts of murder in the North, but now not only remain slient about these mass murders in far off lands but actively support it through the apparatus of the state in the form of providing resources -Shannon Airport, policing to go with it and of course welcoming back in 2004 the war criminal Bush and more recently Obama. We are supposed to cheer when the US and NATO drop daisy-cutter 4,000 lb bombs or when drones fire missles and say oops! when innocent civilians get killed.

And to counter the propaganda spewed a few weeks ago about the so-called ending of the war in Iraq. It is not over. There are still troops there. And contary to statements at the time of only 64,000 killed as if that was just a few, the figure is well over one million people, as estimated by internationally peer reviewed Lancet study that was done twice to confirm the initial findings.

We are so immersed in the propaganda that we have all forgotten our true values and the difference between right and wrong. Fortunately there are a few individuals willing to stick by their convinctions.

Below we reproduce a handwritten communication we received from one of the members of the Peace Team that sabotaged a US troop transporter at Shannon warport last Tuesday morning, 20th December 2011. We have verified that this person participated in this action. read full story / add a comment

galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday December 26, 2011 15:41 by Galway Alliance Against War
GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR ****** DECEMBER BULLETIN 2011

FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!!
FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!!
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FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!!

CONTENTS
1) EXCLUSIVE REPORT ON THE PEACEFUL ACT OF SABOTAGE AT SHANNON WARPORT
2) SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS: IN PALESTINE
3) LIBYA: AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE
4) NORTH KOREA: AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE
5) REPORT ON AN ALTERNATIVE CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN
6) EDWARD HORGAN REPORTS FROM THE CONGO
7) BUSH & BLAIR FOUND GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES
8) FOR YOUR DIARY read full story / add a comment
Dáithí Ó Conaill Commemoration , New Year's Day 2012 , Glasnevin Cemetery , Dublin.
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Monday December 26, 2011 14:32 by Sharon.   text 1 comment (last - sunday january 01, 2012 21:46)   image 2 images
Dáithí Ó Conaill Commemoration to be held in Dublin on January 1 , 2012. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday December 25, 2011 22:43 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh   text 1 comment (last - wednesday january 04, 2012 18:28)
Claiming Our Future is campaigning for the introduction of measures to tax wealth.  As you all know it is very important that there is a counter argument to the austerity approach being pursued by government. The type of tax options that are being proposed include 1. A levy on assets and property worth over €1 million 2. High net worth Irish citizens paying their dues here so that the number of tax exiles decreases 3. Eliminating tax breaks for those with high incomes so that they pay their fair share 4. A levy on financial transactions (Tobin Tax) 5. A higher tax rate on incomes over €100k It would be great if you could support the campaign by Go to www.claimingourfuture.ie where you will find information and facts about wealth and taxation. Tell all your contacts and friends about it. Putting it on your organisations website. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday December 25, 2011 16:24 by Frank Maher
The writer of a letter to the Irish Times was surprised when it was published on the 22nd. inst. it was in response to an earlier letter written by a Ms. O'Dwyer expounding the virtue of German efficiency. His letter is reproduced in the full content below. It was expected that there would have been a vigorous response to it, instead no response was published, however two days later, two letters were published in regard to Ms. O'Dwyer original letter. The peculiar aspect to these letters was that they were published under a different heading to the first two letters. I have never seen that happen before despite being a reader of the IT for over twenty years. The writer of the letter is concerned that powerful forces influenced the Irish Times to kill the topic, that is that Germany is involved in a conspiracy so as to bring about a federal Europe through economic manipulation of the economies of the peripheral states of Europe. He also wonders if he is in danger, I'm not sure. read full story / add a comment
Adams Praying
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday December 24, 2011 04:27 by BrianClarkeNUJ   text 51 comments (last - sunday january 08, 2012 09:50)   image 15 images   video 8 video files
Marian Price from her prison cell says, Sinn Fein have approved her political internment without trial. "Sinn Féin might be hypocritical but I'm not. I wasn't having them shedding crocodile tears over my case to appease their grassroots. I'm in Maghaberry because Gerry Adams as OC of the Belfast Brigade sent me to bomb Britain in 1973 when I was 19. But then my memory must be deceiving me. I must have the wrong man because Gerry Adams was never in the IRA."(Gerry Adams is now President of Provisional Sinn Fein in power sharing Government.) read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday December 23, 2011 23:48 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
The REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY extends New Year’s greetings to our activists and supporters across the thirty-two counties of Ireland and abroad, to all allied Republican organisations or independent Republicans, who work separately from RNU, but on shared principles to achieve our common political objectives, and to all Republicans who today remain faithful to the sovereign and indefeasible right to national freedom enshrined in the 1916 Easter Proclamation. We particularly wish to remember all Irish Republican political prisoners, whether in Maghaberry, or Portlaoise or beyond, and especially their families, who are at all times in our hearts and thoughts but most especially as they endure the pain and hardship of separation from loved ones during the Christmas season and the advent of the New Year. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday December 23, 2011 22:31 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
This year ending (2011) and the new year starting (2012) marks the tenth anniversary of the illegitimate, illegal and unjust wars of aggression and colonial occupation being waged against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq that destabilised the Middle East and indeed the whole world and things are worse than ever there :-( read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday December 23, 2011 22:14 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
The year 2011 has seen an amazing resurgence of grassroots resistance here and around the world. In January and February, we saw the popular uprisings that brought down the U.S.-backed regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. read full story / add a comment
donegal / miscellaneous / news report Thursday December 22, 2011 16:32 by Emmett Farrell   1 attached file
Meeting on Household Charges and Septic Tank Legislation where Pearse Doherty Sinn Feing stated that he would not advocate not paying the charge read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday December 22, 2011 12:45 by James Connolly Soviet   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 18, 2012 08:50)
On the 20th of January, 2012, The Last Friday Comedy Club, at the Maple Hotel, 74 Lr. Gardiner St. Dublin, will be held as a benefit night for the campaign to have Leonard Peltier released. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Thursday December 22, 2011 12:43 by ALiberation
(Please send in a submission to ban fur farming to furfarminsubmissions@agriculture.gov.ie See bottom of article for Dept of Agriculture Notice. This still isn’t on their website.) The animal rights group ALiberation have compiled a list of things that has happened in relation to the proposed ban of fur farming since the current government has come into office. (See Below) read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday December 22, 2011 10:49 by black betty   text 3 comments (last - thursday january 05, 2012 10:10)   1 attached file
Shell Claus the black pariah of the Claus family is out to take rather than to give. Santa's younger brother has often been compared to Lucifer the dark angel. Rather than give presents, Shell Claus comes to take away what you have and destroy it. His betrayal of the spirit of thanksgiving often brings Santa to tears. In Ireland, Shell Claws has come to visit all the houses in the Erris area, offering false gifts to seduce people, but then afterwards betraying even those who give him their trust. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday December 22, 2011 10:28 by Paddy Hackett
The capitalist crisis can provide the working class with the opportunity to forcefully take power. read full story / add a comment
Cover of Harry Browne's book on the Pitstop Ploughshares
clare / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday December 21, 2011 17:00 by Trevor   text 20 comments (last - thursday december 29, 2011 14:36)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
A sketchy report on the Irish Anti-War Movement website states that a U.S. troop carrier plane was attacked and sabotaged at Shannon airport. From other sources I understand that that Omni used this aircraft as a spare and that was parked in a relatively remote area of the airport when disarmed a day or so ago by having its hydraulic or fuel lines severed. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday December 21, 2011 10:34 by Karina   text 22 comments (last - thursday january 05, 2012 00:39)
Now Michael D has gone a step further from his ceremonial role in supporting war-mongering. He is openly feeding the feel-good factor for the FG-Labour government anti-social economic and political decisions. At a time of extraordinary hardship for the people of Ireland caused by the regressive and pro-business politics of Labour and FG, he comes out to send a Christmas message of "hope" in economic recovery. It is surely strange for a so called "socialist" and "progressive" to come out in such base way to support the fact that his government has passed the burden of the crisis onto the shoulders of the ordinary people of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice / press release Tuesday December 20, 2011 23:37 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY SPOKESPERSON, MARTIN ÓG MEEHAN has described as scandalous recent house raids in Armagh, Fermanagh and West Belfast by the counter-insurgency agency, RUC/PSNI. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 20, 2011 19:08 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh   text 7 comments (last - tuesday april 03, 2012 14:22)   image 1 image
The response to the legislation on household tax has been very encouraging. A poll taken on Sunday by Newstalk after the launch of the campaign opposing the tax, showed over 70% indicated opposition and a determination not to pay. This is a great start to what will be one of the dominant campaigns in 2012.  There will be a consistent and vicious propaganda campaign by the establishment which has already begun. There will be intimidation and pressure on people who can face massive fines if they refuse to register for this charge before the end of March. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 20, 2011 12:30 by Sean Crudden
Maybe the time has come again to look inwards instead of outwards. Like we did in the early and mid 1950’s. Let us not wait for the prompt from hypocrites from abroad. Create liberty, equality, fraternity; for all mental patients in Ireland. And for everyone in Ireland including children about to be born now around the Feast of The Nativity. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 20, 2011 12:00 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
It’s January.  It’s freezing. Christmas emptied the coffers and now the bills are starting to bite. As the government cuts the eligibility period for the Fuel Allowance, it’s time to tell the government that we’ve had enough! read full story / add a comment
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