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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday October 22, 2005 18:11 by Robbie Sinnott   text 5 comments (last - thursday april 17, 2008 12:49)   audio 1 audio file
With the construction of the China-Tibet railway this week, the destruction of Tibet reaches a new level.

Studio interview with Yungchen Lhamo (from Tibet) and Neil Steedman (Tibet Support Group Ireland). mp3 (22mins, FM-friendly).

To listen on broadband (immediately - depending on your player settings/preferences), left-click the next link.

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/yungchenradioedit.mp3

to download on any connection, right-click etc.
The above link is also the radio edit, suitable for rebroadcasting on FM.

The same interview is segmented at lower resolution for immediate access for all sorts of internet connections lower down, and synopsis given under those headings. read full story / add a comment
"its up to the Africans" - Will they save us?
international / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Saturday October 22, 2005 15:31 by iosaf   text 5 comments (last - monday october 31, 2005 12:08)   image 1 image
Once upon a time, the global system allowed pharmaceutical companies to withhold patents on drugs, vaccines and treatments needed by the poorest of this earth to protect intellectual property rights, assets, and the R&D budgets of scientists in the newly prosperous technologically focussed economies of the north. read full story / add a comment
Micky Og Devine speaking earlier this year at conference in solidarity with prisoners
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday October 21, 2005 22:25 by IRSP   image 1 image
20 October 2005
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday October 20, 2005 03:03 by Robbie Sinnott   text 9 comments (last - friday october 21, 2005 19:43)   audio 1 audio file
18 min phone interview mp3 (128kbps - Fm-friendly).

to hear on broadband immediately, click
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/nuria.mp3

or, to download on anyinternet connection, just right click the link etc. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 19, 2005 22:34 by banker   text 5 comments (last - thursday october 20, 2005 12:01)
If you live in south belfast, you might as well be living in a totally different country, to the rest of belfast.

If you live in south belfast, your experience of belfast, would be totally different to that of people who live, in the new lodge, lower north belfast, shankill and the Falls. read full story / add a comment
antrim / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 19, 2005 00:06 by Olga   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 19, 2005 12:05)
What's all the fuss about.

The recent leakage of 20 tonnes of plutonium and uranium fuel from sellafields Thorp processing plant has forced the closure of the Thorp processing plant. Radioactive waste leaked into a huge stainless steel chamber which is so radioactive it is impossible to enter. http://guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,1479527,00.html read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 18, 2005 17:00 by m.m.mccarron   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 18, 2005 18:21)
Irish Times on Corrib Shell Illegal Pipe Today.
Shell, break the pipe and obey the law! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday October 17, 2005 22:12 by John Waters   text 15 comments (last - tuesday august 22, 2006 17:18)
I have heard of no case where the department has taken the most rudimentary steps to ascertain whether the so-called "absent father has declined to support his child or children. When did the department last contact such a man and ask him if he was willing to marry the mother, or to accept joint, or even sole custody of his child/children? Not one of, these 70,000 men owes mothers or the State a cent, because there can be no legal obligation on a father to pay "maintenance" for children he has not refused to support in these ways. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday October 17, 2005 15:40 by Jim   text 35 comments (last - saturday october 22, 2005 19:37)   image 1 image
Yesterday the people of Iraq - Shia, Sunni and Kurd alike - voted overwhelmingly in support of the new Iraq Charter defying political extremists of the Ba'athists and Islamic fundementalist terrorists. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday October 14, 2005 14:56 by Independent Media Consultants   text 1 comment (last - friday october 14, 2005 16:13)
Outlines the benefits of unleashing the P.R.I.C.K. on the Irish electorate. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Thursday October 13, 2005 15:10 by "John"   text 244 comments (last - friday may 06, 2011 16:11)   image 2 images
Alcoholism is a bad thing, right? Anybody who makes any attempt to eradicate it deserves our gratitude and encouragement. Well, that’s not the story at all, as it turns out. There is only one way to do it and it’s the Alcoholics Anonymous way. At least according to AA themselves, that is. Theirs is the only thing that works and they are 100% infallible in what they say and do. Jesus Christ had more self-doubt than the AA. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 12, 2005 17:50 by Miriam Cotton   text 5 comments (last - tuesday january 22, 2008 20:34)
At a public meeting in Co Cork, a parent in the audience inadvertently used the expression ‘his SNA’ in referring to her son’s Special Needs Assistant while asking a question of one of the speakers. It was an incidental thing in terms of the woman's question but it was interpreted as its central point by the CEO of the National Council for Special Education, Mr Pat Curtain, who was there to tell about all the progress being made by the NCSE in implementing the Education of Persons with Special Needs Act 2004. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 11, 2005 04:26 by Seán Ryan   text 36 comments (last - tuesday october 18, 2005 22:26)   image 1 image
Our Constitution is mocked by our Government's use of their vile and ultimately ficticious "Neutrality Policy." I believe I have found a part of our constitution that forbids our Government from forming such a policy. I'd like to hear your comments and any advice or ideas would be welcome. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday October 09, 2005 22:16 by Michelle Clarke   text 7 comments (last - wednesday september 27, 2006 00:45)
to special privileges!!! Like Stallions etc


Ireland

What about making those in control of government departs such as health, transport, education ....... an extract of criminally responsible for reckless or negligent behvaviour......This may enhance Corporate Governance, Accountability, Transparency.

It is time to avoid tangents and focus on our Prisons, our Vulnerable people, a system of health similar to Europeans and lower wages and to ensure we do not stand away from the principles Of James Connolly and Jim Larkin. We have fought hard in Ireland for fair wages let us not discriminate now. Well done Joe Higgins going out to Turkey re. the Gama workers. Let us ask were low wages costed in to the construction contract!!!!

What annoys me most in Ireland now - Committees and more committees followed by academic research, research and more research. The publications are beyond a joke now.

Where is the committee on Common Sense? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday October 09, 2005 11:15 by FPF-fwd.: Andrew Sparrow   text 8 comments (last - thursday october 13, 2005 14:20)
Good news: Even in a mainstream paper like 'The Telegraph' in England reality begins to dawn! Scott Ritter - former UN inspector: "Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing," he said. read full story / add a comment
All "Yes"
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday October 08, 2005 21:55 by Jim Holohan   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 13, 2005 19:09)   image 1 image
The result is already known read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday October 08, 2005 18:31 by Robbie Sinnott   audio 1 audio file
2 .mp3 interviews (128kbps - FM-broadcastable).

click the below links to lsten on broadband directly, or right click them to download on any connection.

Part 1: 14 mins
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/2005.9.19-9.christina__dennis___james.mp3

Part 2: 12 mins
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/2005.9.19-12._christina__dennis___james__ii_.mp3

That such integrity, optimism and informed analysis can flourish within an environment of suffocating media and authoritarian state/junta, is testamemt to the indefatigability of human warmth. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday October 07, 2005 16:39 by paul o toole   text 1 comment (last - friday october 07, 2005 21:16)   image 1 image
The New World Order according to a raving Drunk read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday October 07, 2005 00:19 by paul o toole   text 7 comments (last - friday october 07, 2005 16:35)
Will they call this 'shock and awe' also when they unleash their weaponry on innocent men women and children. read full story / add a comment
JAKE'S  DREAM  HOME
national / housing / opinion/analysis Thursday October 06, 2005 10:40 by Brian Jones   text 3 comments (last - monday october 10, 2005 00:14)   image 1 image
Jake Tate (age 6) has a dream. read full story / add a comment
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