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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
detail of shoe
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday March 16, 2007 14:46 by Stripe   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 18, 2007 19:52)   image 6 images
It's hard to know where to start with this.

Is it that they have reduced the whole notion of Irishness to a running shoe with a leprachaun on it?

Is it the weird notion of having the colours of the Republican tricolour on an ugly pair of runners?

Is it the "kiss me I'm Irish?".

Is it the design of the lining showing an overflowing beer mug?

Is it the sheer awful, "Americaness" of it all? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 14, 2007 11:31 by Joe   audio 1 audio file
Three speakers from Chile, Mexico and Spain talk about the rise of the left in Latin America in general and focus on the situation in Bolivia, Mexico and Columbia in particular read full story / add a comment
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
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 13, 2007 00:22 by Robbie Sinnott / Saoririseoir   text 42 comments (last - thursday march 15, 2007 21:17)
Seachtain na Gaeilge atá ann arís, ach fós, níl ach scrídín Gaeilge le feiceáil ar www.indymedia.ie. Seo é a leannas, mo bhronntanas fágála tar éirí as an bhfoireann eagarthóireachta (an comharchumann féin mar dheá) ar ball.

B'fhéidir go mbeidh daoine eile ábalta an t-am a thabhairt chun aistriúcháin eile a dhéanamh le haghaidh na leathnacha eile am éigin arís. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday March 12, 2007 21:08 by Tommy Timidity   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 13, 2007 09:57)
Is it a sign of modern Ireland? Is it an attempt to get down with Ireland's Yoof? Whatever it is, the rise in party political electronic campaigning/propaganda has, at the very least, a few funny moments as a reward for those with a penchant for punishing yourself by daring to have the images burned into your memories. The wonders of the Inter Web are now being utilised to in the name of the party political cause... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday March 12, 2007 14:55 by Joe   audio 1 audio file
“Although the years from 1917 to 1923 constitute one of the least neglected segments of labour’s chronology, syndicalism remains the most underestimated and misrepresented ideology ever associated with Irish trade unionism”

Audio from the 2nd Dublin anarchist bookfair of Emmet O'Connors talk and the discussion that followed it. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday March 11, 2007 21:20 by Louise Gaffney   text 2 comments (last - friday march 16, 2007 14:04)
The innocence and wonder of children is something that sane and decent people strive to cherish and protect. The ubiquity of terms like "child abuse" in the media can lead us to almost become innured to the reality of these repellent crimes. Rational adults expect law agencies to have such crimes prioritised and investigations prosecuted with professional "zeal" for want of a better term. Alas what happens when a cloud of doubt is cast over those very agencies and professions whose remit is to protect the weak and the vulnerable ? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday March 09, 2007 16:41 by David Morrison   text 2 comments (last - monday december 03, 2007 18:40)   image 1 image
There are five “official” nuclear-weapon states in this world - the US, the UK, Russia, France and China - that are permitted to possess nuclear weapons under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (the NPT) [1].

The US is currently proposing that India be granted the privileges of these “official” nuclear-weapon states, even though it has refused to sign the NPT and has developed nuclear weapons. In effect, the US is proposing that India be recognised as the 6th nuclear-weapon state in this world, while remaining outside the NPT.

Ireland is in a position to stop this happening.
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Planet Under Threat
international / environment / opinion/analysis Friday March 09, 2007 15:47 by Socialist Party   text 19 comments (last - monday may 24, 2010 21:24)   image 1 image   video 1 video file   1 attached file
Channel 4 ran a documentary on thursday nigth claiming to be a 'scientific' counter argument to climate change. The scientific method is to look at the balance of evidence and make a decision, not focus on one or two pieces alone.

In this article Pete Dickenson looks at the evidence put forward by the 'sceptics' and argues for immediate action to stop climate change. read full story / add a comment
Sue who? Harris didn't sue.
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 07, 2007 01:07 by Eamon Sullen   text 59 comments (last - friday april 06, 2007 20:29)   image 17 images
Fresh from smearing Manus O'Riordan, Eoghan Harris turned his ire on RTE's Tom McGurk – links below. In his Sunday Independent column on March 5th Ireland's mud thrower in chief says that it "behoves McGurk to be balanced". "Failing that, he should be fair", Harris continued.

McGurks’s failing? He criticised the Sunday Independent.

Also, McGurk was accused of going on the Buntollet Commemoration march of January 1969, the one that exposed the viciously sectarian nature of the RUC and of the northern state. The young protester’s heads were cracked open by the RUC and by their allies in the B Specials. The images received world wide publicity.

Some people have long and bitter memories that perpetually fuel their rancid politics.
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Herald of Free enterprise
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 06, 2007 21:03 by Twenty Years Anniversary   text 3 comments (last - friday march 09, 2007 19:23)   image 1 image


The Guardian are covering the issue in their 'Transport' section.
For anyone nt old enough, the ferry went down outside of Zeebruge
and many lives were lost. The doors on the huge ferry jammed and
it took on tons of water. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 06, 2007 16:17 by useless eater   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 07, 2007 18:17)
Most readers and contributors to Indymedia, I presume, would be against the arms trade and money going towards 'third-world' exploitation, deforestation, or animal testing for eg., yet every one of us contributes to these decidely unethical practices. read full story / add a comment
Poster Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday March 05, 2007 05:38 by Adri Nieuwhof   image 1 image
The Joint Advocacy Initiative (JAI), an initiative of YWCA of Palestine and East Jerusalem YMCA, carried out research among young people from the Bethlehem area, to examine the attitude of Palestinian youth towards non-violent struggle against the occupation and oppressive practices. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday March 04, 2007 01:57 by jim travers
What is the mixed economy of welfare and why, despite Mary Harney's assurances in that, what she is doing is really in the interest of all the Irish people and not a back door method of promoting the privatisation of our health service in the interest of the doctors and consutant's who collectively and directly contribute to the demise of the same public heath service from within.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 28, 2007 02:25 by PaddyK
Irish Bishops make light rebuke of Israeli policy in Palestine but is there really an reason to expect real action in light of other recent church releases ? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 27, 2007 22:11 by Dave   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 28, 2007 16:38)   image 1 image
Maze Stadium V's Giants Park (Dargan Landfill) read full story / add a comment
in normal times we would never have read a child's diary.
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 27, 2007 05:50 by hogworts   text 4 comments (last - monday april 16, 2007 12:16)   image 5 images
Last summer solstice (June 24, 2006) in Pretzien a tiny village of Saxony-Anhalt (former DDR - east Germany) not too far from Berlin occurred an incident of burning books or "Bücherverbrennung" as it is said in the German language. 8 months later 7 individuals went to trial on Monday accused of "inciting racial hatred" and "disparaging the dead". The men ranging in age from 24 to 29 also burned a US flag. Local villagers called the police who did not recognise the burning of a diary by Anne Frank as being that worrying. The men face up to 5 years imprisonment and the training of police officers in the state has been improved to help them deal with the large scale emergence of neo-Nazi groups & far-right crime. They'll be better skilled in understanding the neo-Nazis who get a job working next to them or the historical stuff behind a Jewish kindergarten being burned last weekend in Berlin. They may even read Anne Frank. read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / opinion/analysis Monday February 26, 2007 16:36 by SPer   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 08, 2007 22:56)   image 6 images   2 attached files
PLANET BEFORE PROFIT:
-> No to Nuclear; Demand mass investmet in renewable energy!

-> Decent public transport as a viable alternative to driving!

-> No to the destruction of the environment for profit! read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday February 26, 2007 15:58 by Dr Nick   text 9 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 14:45)
Deppression and suicide is crippling our nations society so why does mental health not win votes? read full story / add a comment
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