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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 Meet the ?Anti-Racist? South African Politicians Who Blame Power-Cuts On Their White Opponents Being... Sat Nov 01, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
This Halloween, meet the 'anti-racist' South African politicians who blame power-cuts on their white opponents being witches who magically control the nation's electricity supply, says Steven Tucker.
The post Meet the ‘Anti-Racist’ South African Politicians Who Blame Power-Cuts On Their White Opponents Being Witches Who Magically Control the Nation’s Electricity Supply appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:23 | 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 The National Police Chiefs? Council Should Abandon its Efforts to Salvage Non-Crime Fri Oct 31, 2025 17:00 | Paul Birch
The Metropolitan Police may be ditching Non-Crime Hate Incidents but the National Police Chiefs' Council didn't get the memo. It's released a report trying to salvage non-crime, but it shouldn't bother, says Paul Birch.
The post The National Police Chiefs’ Council Should Abandon its Efforts to Salvage Non-Crime appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Just Stop Oil Activists Who Covered Stonehenge in Orange Powder Are Cleared of Criminal Damage Becau... Fri Oct 31, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Three Just Stop Oil activists who sprayed Stonehenge with orange powder using fire extinguishers?have been found not guilty of criminal damage and causing a public nuisance after citing their 'human rights' to protest.
The post Just Stop Oil Activists Who Covered Stonehenge in Orange Powder Are Cleared of Criminal Damage Because ‘Human Rights’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link J.K. Rowling Leads Backlash Against Glamour Magazine After Nine Male Trans Activists are Named ?Wome... Fri Oct 31, 2025 13:42 | Will Jones
J.K. Rowling has led the backlash against Glamour Magazine after the publication named nine male trans activists its "Women of the Year", including one who called the Suffragettes "white supremacists".
The post J.K. Rowling Leads Backlash Against Glamour Magazine After Nine Male Trans Activists are Named “Women of the Year” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

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

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 24, 2010 19:08 by Amnesty International - Ireland   text 4 comments (last - monday march 01, 2010 11:37)
The Government must adopt a coordinated approach if it is serious about improving its track record on mental health, according to a report launched today (24/02/10) by Amnesty International Ireland. The Missing Link: coordinated Government action on mental health was launched by Minister for Mental Health and Disability John Moloney TD at a press conference this morning. read full story / add a comment
Alessandro Zagato &  Paddy Bresnihan
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 24, 2010 12:49 by Paddy/Alessandro (recorded by Andrew)   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 25, 2010 11:57)   image 2 images   audio 2 audio files
This is an audio recording of a Better Question discussion if the ideas of the French left philosophers Jacques Ranciere and Alain Badiou. A fifty minute introduction is given by Paddy Bresnihan and Alessandro Zagato followed by about forty minutes of discussion about the presentations. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 23, 2010 12:34 by orangecitadel
Recent media reports have cited Dolores Kelly, the SDLP Assembly representative for the Upper Bann constituency (and the Garvaghy Road) as having claimed that people were ‘very frightened and anxious that a parade down the Garvaghy Road is a price Sinn Féin is prepared to pay for the devolution of policing and justice’. What does Dolores know? read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday February 22, 2010 13:54 by Joe Galvin   text 2 comments (last - monday february 22, 2010 21:35)
The resignation of Willie O'Dea has again led to criticism of the Green Party, despite it being another failure on the side of Fianna Fáil (FF). read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday February 20, 2010 14:20 by Peter Mulholland   text 9 comments (last - monday april 05, 2010 13:55)
After finally being forced to accept that Orange parades have kept up ‘an exclusive society in civil and military life, exciting one portion of the people against the other... [leading to] breaches of the peace and bloodshed’ the Grand Master of the Orange Order in Ireland met with ‘several influential members’ to arrange for the immediate dissolution of that sectarian organization. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday February 19, 2010 11:27 by Gavin Gleeson   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 20, 2010 17:41)
Joe Stack recently committed suicide by crashing an airplane into the IRS offices in Austin, Texas. He left a manifesto describing the long path which had finally led him to this decision. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday February 18, 2010 16:43 by Paul Larkin   text 2 comments (last - friday february 19, 2010 14:55)
Article looking at the broadcasting ethics (or lack of same) of RTÉ and the slanted political make-up of personalities and news coverage read full story / add a comment
street dogs need help to survive
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 17, 2010 18:44 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
February 2010

We will be travelling soon to SDON in Kathmandu to oversee new centre plans and progress there. We will be able to carry limited light items with us so if anyone has Veterinary medicines especially skin creams or conditioning tablets we would love to have them. Any other animal equipment, bandages,dog coats,wormers,or books on Small Animal husbandry are still needed.
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galway / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday February 14, 2010 20:53 by donkylemore   text 16 comments (last - wednesday february 24, 2010 17:13)
Lets face it . The GP is now little more than the bordello of Irish politics. You pay - the harlot performs. She does so at the whim of the punter.And repeats it just so long as he pays.
The manner of their Machiavellian march into Dail Eireann under Gormley rather than Sergeant amply demonstrated their lust for the whiff of power- principals were for losers. read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday February 13, 2010 11:45 by donkylemore   text 6 comments (last - thursday february 18, 2010 19:13)
If Ms de Burca's allegations are to be believed as written her unbridled personal column in today's Irish Times, it would seem that not only have the Greens lost their moral compass ; they have buried it under a host of erstwhile worthy principles.
In these circumstances t'would be well were the Green's to bury this current arrangement of their party system and try to reform themselves rigorously before they attempt to resurrect themselves , with any credibility. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday February 12, 2010 13:52 by Peter Mulholland   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 18, 2010 14:25)   1 attached file
The Northern Ireland Assembly Minister for Culture, Nelson McCausland, has accused the minority community in Portadown of pursuing a policy of ‘cultural apartheid’. This is a gross and insulting distortion of the facts. The International Criminal Court defined apartheid as being inhumane acts 'committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime'. read full story / add a comment
City of Culture 2013?
derry / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Thursday February 11, 2010 21:21 by Eleanor   text 3 comments (last - wednesday march 31, 2010 18:57)   image 1 image
On Tuesday's issue of the Derry Journal, the newspapers editor highlighted the city's 2013 bid to make Derry the Culture Capital of the North.

Whatever peoples views on the issues surrounding Derry's 2013 'cultural bid', in the article itself the editor published an image of the model Donna Feldman poising as a giant in her underwear at under Ferryquay Gate.
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 10, 2010 00:14 by Paddy Hackett   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 10, 2010 07:22)
The little piece below touches on the materialist conception of history. And it hints at how it renders relativism and positivism unjustifiable as philosophies of science.

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national / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday February 06, 2010 06:48 by carbonman   text 104 comments (last - tuesday april 27, 2010 19:45)   image 16 images   video 5 video files
How the Irish Taxpayer is being misled into the necessity of a carbon tax by an agenda of false and exaggerated science by influential scientists and environmental catastrophists. read full story / add a comment
Laurence Cox & Mick O'Broin, the two speakers
national / education / opinion/analysis Thursday February 04, 2010 17:54 by Speakers: Mick & Laurence Editing: Andrew   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 09, 2010 15:19)   image 1 image   audio 2 audio files
Recording of the Better Questions seminar at Semora Spraoi, February 3rd 2010. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday February 04, 2010 12:55 by Amnesty International - Ireland
Israel’s latest response to the UN on its investigations into alleged violations of international law by its forces in Gaza a year ago is totally inadequate, Amnesty International said today. Crucial questions about the conduct of attacks in which hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands were made homeless are not credibly addressed in Israel’s update to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday February 01, 2010 15:14 by donkylemore   text 1 comment (last - monday february 01, 2010 21:23)
As Tony Blair's evidence to the Iraq invasion inquiry , Old Labour ' statesman said yesterday he didnt believe a word of his rambling fiction. Did he really get away with this with his lying by increments, his obscenely flawed rhetoric. His false claims re Saadam and WMD.. the notion of a rogue state ..- the real rogue stat in the region.
And do the Brits reall give a dam anyway, as integrity has only an inconvenience and only had £ shop currency.
The whole inchoate gibberish. - from the man who felt the hand of history on his shoulder.
Yo ! Blair- as GW Bush would have said.
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national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday February 01, 2010 08:47 by Paul Larkin
Stephen Collins' attack on the GFA in Saturday's Irish Times read full story / add a comment
Gravity Satellite Ice Sheet Mass Measurements
national / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday January 31, 2010 10:23 by Dave Donnellan   text 11 comments (last - thursday february 04, 2010 13:52)   image 1 image
Pat Kenny has lost the plot on Climate Change. As has been noted on previous Indymedia articles Pat Kenny's position on the coming climate catastrophe is “It's all been blown out of proportion.” But could he be right? Maybe the whole thing is a storm in a teacup. I certainly hope he's right. But let's take one example... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday January 29, 2010 14:34 by Peter Mulholland
This article argues that the DUP's attempt to link policing and justice to Orange parades is a threat to human rights in Northern Ireland. read full story / add a comment
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