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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 / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday July 21, 2005 03:49 by frank hall rip   text 4 comments (last - thursday july 21, 2005 04:56)   image 14 images
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=201957650&p=zxy9586xx&n=201958637&x=

"“The position was that the minister was quite happy to meet General Myers, was he to be in Dublin this afternoon. It was that level of formality,” the spokesman said.
“If he was there Gen Myers would have dropped in, it was no firmer than that. But the minister is visiting troops in the Midlands and has been delayed.”
Mr O’Dea is visiting army units in Longford and Mullingar as part of his nationwide tour around all barracks. A number of troops from both the barracks are serving with the United Nations peace keeping force in Liberia." read full story / add a comment
does it matter what day it is?
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday July 21, 2005 00:53 by iosaf .:. the ipisphi ·.·   text 10 comments (last - saturday may 20, 2006 23:32)   image 7 images
Today @ "time" / writing is

2005 the seventh month
MMV July
Jumaada Awal 1426
5765 Tamuz between the feast of Rosh Chodesh and the fast after full moon.
Lúnasa read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 20, 2005 22:13 by Jim Dixon   text 4 comments (last - monday july 25, 2005 00:40)
The 2 big issues today are Poverty and Global Warming - both caused ultimately by
Western consumerism (Mandela: poverty is not natural - it is man-made. Bush: Our
American way of life is not negotiable.) But if the rest of the world must catch up to
American levels of consuming there would be a total environmental disaster - so how
can we persuade American - and European - consumers to cut their ever-increasing
greed? What if we just shared out equally over the whole world everything we already
own or produce - would Western lifestyles really fall to a terribly low level? Details
and statistics of such an equally-shared world for each of us. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 20, 2005 08:15 by Ed   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 20, 2005 20:02)
There are several layers of injustice underlying the imprisonment of these men who have had the courage to stand up against the unlimited resources of a multi-national supported hand in glove by our blinkered government. read full story / add a comment
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meath / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 19, 2005 21:15 by Meath Sinn Féin   text 162 comments (last - sunday march 26, 2006 11:36)   image 4 images
Recent media reports show that Hill of Tara is clearly visible from the site of the M3 Tara Interchange. It also appears that heavy mechanical diggers are being used in the excavation of the Tara valley.

Many in Meath are concerned that the visual impact of this M3 Interchange at Tara may have a detrimental effect on the appeal of Tara, both as a heritage site and a tourist venue.

Time and time again, the crucial question of whether the M3 and the Blundelstown Tara Interchange would be visible from the hill of Tara has been raised. And as many times, both the government and the NRA have stated categorically that the M3 would not be visible from the hill. However, it is now entirely evident that this massive interchange at the foot of the Hill will indeed be visible from Tara, and this now poses grave questions. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 19, 2005 00:41 by Gar
The truth is no longer pragmatic. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday July 18, 2005 11:49 by roisin (supporter of shell to sea campaign)   text 4 comments (last - friday july 22, 2005 23:41)   image 1 image
Demands of Shell to Sea Campaign

We call on the developers, authorities and state to:

* Stop all illegal development in Rossport
* To cease all operations in Erris, onshore and offshore, pending a full hearing of the issues
* Clean the gas and hydrocarbons at sea,
* Vindicate the Rossport 5 and expunge their criminalisation by Shell
* Renegotiate the overall deal for the Irish people
* Make those responsible for the project accountable, including calling for the resignation of Noel Dempsey, Dermot Ahern and Frank Fahey who have presided over this scandalous affair. read full story / add a comment
St Patrick on the Hill of Tara looks at the Church on the Hill of Skryne
meath / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday July 18, 2005 09:50 by Look at the view   image 1 image
The M3 will run through the Tara Skryne valley between St Patrick on the Hill of Tara and the the Church on the Hill of Skryne read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday July 17, 2005 22:59 by Una   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 29, 2005 02:56)
The World Can't Wait!
Drive Out the Bush Regime!

Mobilize for November 2, 2005 read full story / add a comment
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sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday July 17, 2005 20:23 by Sean Fleming   text 29 comments (last - wednesday september 27, 2006 13:36)   image 1 image
Between November 2004 and April 2005 I in a personal capacity wrote to pharmaceutical companies in the 26 county state who manufacture what are known as atypical 'anti-psychotic' drugs in the 'treatment' of 'mental illness'. I was motivated to do this by what I believe is a failure on the part of these companies to fully inform psychiatric patients in relation to the dangers of such drugs. This article on how pharmaceutical companies play down the dangers of neuroleptic drugs appeared in two Irish newspapers. One journalist who viewed it invited a psychiatrist friend of his to comment on it. These comments by Siobhan Barry of the Irish Psychiatric Association as well as my own counter response also are published here. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday July 17, 2005 16:26 by Tom Paine   text 10 comments (last - monday july 18, 2005 13:10)
When Geobbles Murdoch of The Sunday Times gets after you , you must be doing something right. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Sunday July 17, 2005 14:49 by pat lally   text 12 comments (last - wednesday july 20, 2005 19:24)
I just want other peoples opinions, my local mace store have promotions, e.g. two for a reduced price or whatever, but these goods are charged at full regular rate at check out. Most people don't complain so i guess it goes smoothly and profitably.

To my shock this morning I complained, having being overcharged on at least one item each weekend for three weeks now. I bought surf breeze 1.1 kg, marked 2.69 on shelf, but 3.80 at till, complained after going back and checking, received a refund for the difference, but , to my amazement, that was it, no changes were made to till system, so the next person who picks up a box will be charged 3.80.

In a time when many people don't check receipts for small items, it is these little, ongoing rip offs that frustrate me. So please let me know if this policy is being practiced elsewhere, or just here. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday July 16, 2005 16:12 by Dr. Majed Nassar
The disengagement plan:
The previous and present Governments of Israel knew for fact that they do not want to keep Gaza and the Palestinians in Gaza under their control. The question was always when, how and to what price would Israel withdraw from Gaza. In the Post-Oslo era there was for Israel no reason why it shouldn't have withdrawn from Gaza and evacuate the settlements. The Atmosphere was ready, the détente was at its peak and Rabin and Peres (and Arafat) won the Peace Nobel price. The question in deed is: Why didn't Israel between 1995 and September 2000 withdraw from Gaza and evacuated the settlements?

The Palestinians can then wait till "they turn Finns"? read full story / add a comment
dublin / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Saturday July 16, 2005 05:45 by Seán   text 10 comments (last - saturday july 30, 2005 04:16)
Seirbhísí i nGaeilge read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday July 15, 2005 22:46 by IRSP   text 22 comments (last - thursday july 28, 2005 12:24)
In a statement issued by the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Political Secretary John Martin in condemning the attacks on ‘soft targets’ and hit out at Al-Quida for such attacks on ‘ordinary working people’. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday July 15, 2005 15:45 by .:. iosaf ·.· ipsiphi   text 2 comments (last - friday july 15, 2005 21:41)
On the 6th of july the EU parliament rejected software patents, another step in the struggle for ideas & information.

It wasn't reported (by me) as it that time the G8 seemed more important, and the Irish MEP votes on this issue which effects all europeans and all users of indymedia were already long decided on "party political ground".

In the end 14 votes were cast in favour, 648 against and 18 abstentions. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday July 15, 2005 13:51 by Justin Morahan   text 6 comments (last - friday january 26, 2007 15:19)
"Make no mistake, if your child is at school in Ireland he or she is in the middle of a monstrous bullying culture" read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday July 14, 2005 11:21 by Davy Carlin   text 7 comments (last - sunday july 17, 2005 12:24)
Dear friends below I give details of some more of the various initiatives that Street Seen will be involved in, in the months ahead. Also I give an updated version for Indymedia on an article I had written a while back – more especially in relation to the last few days of great weather.

It talks about my increasing awareness and indeed growing love for nature and the environment. In youth such things I had not only not taken notice of, but if I had of, I believe I may not have spoken about it given the immediacy of war and the association with ‘manly’ peers of those times.

Indeed the immediate area of my childhood, that of the Turf, Murph, the Falls and surrounding area, is now the very same area that is bringing my senses alive through that appreciation of the environment and nature.

Firstly though a few upcoming initiatives of Street Seen. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 13, 2005 16:43 by The Singing Nun   text 80 comments (last - thursday march 02, 2006 20:31)   image 3 images
Southern politicians and SP/SWP partitionists have failed to condemn a provocative Orange march through Ardoyne and heavy-handed PSNI actions. read full story / add a comment
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