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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 / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday August 06, 2004 02:00 by Justin Morahan   text 28 comments (last - wednesday august 23, 2006 15:21)
Today is the anniversary of the Hiroshima massacre in which 200,000 Japanese citizens were murdered by a US atomic bomb read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday August 05, 2004 21:19 by andréa   text 12 comments (last - wednesday august 11, 2004 14:23)
Justice and Courage in Occupied Iraq: Challenges for the anti-war movement

Kathy Kelly and Michael Birmingham of Voices in the Wilderness
(http://www.vitw.org) speak about the occupation of Iraq and resistance to
Empire in the US, Iraq and elsewhere.

Length (h:m:s): 00:50:16
Language: English
Date Recorded: 2004-07-07
Location Recorded: Chicago, IL

url: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=9758
ftp: link available from same page read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday August 05, 2004 16:40 by P.j.   text 9 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 02:13)
People from all over Ireland should come to Ardoyne on the 14th of August in order to prevent the blatant sectarian march, which will take place there. Last month the parades commission’s determination was ignored by the PSNI, this time they have not even bothered to prevent the hangers on from coming into the nationalist area knowing full well that the PSNI will just ignore it in anyway. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday August 04, 2004 18:13 by Conor   text 27 comments (last - friday may 13, 2005 15:11)
In the Past few months, The British SWP/IST has taken the unprecedented step of rejecting its core Secular Revolutionary Socialist principals, and traded them off for electoral success by entering a coalition with religious reactionaries. read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday August 04, 2004 00:18 by Hilaal   text 28 comments (last - tuesday may 30, 2006 21:32)   image 4 images
According to Walter Kansteiner, US Under-secretary of State for African affairs, African oil "has become a national strategic interest". Ed Royce, the influential Republican senator for California and chairman of the Congress African subcommittee, maintains "African oil should be treated as a priority for US national security post 9-11" . Congress and the White House have yet to make this strategy official. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday August 02, 2004 22:56 by greg grisham   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 04, 2004 09:51)
Without visible street protests our efforts in internet and the alternative press accomplishes little to nothing. read full story / add a comment
Belgium burns
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday August 02, 2004 14:49 by Hilaal   text 12 comments (last - friday august 13, 2004 07:41)   image 5 images
Oil futures in New York on Friday surged to $43.85 a barrel, the highest level since the futures contract began trading in 1983. A slowdown in the U.S. economy and a renewed threat to it's economic recovery has been blamed on steep increases in the price of petrol. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday July 29, 2004 13:38 by righteous pragmatist   text 46 comments (last - tuesday march 24, 2009 14:34)
Environmentalist claim that the increase in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere are the result of human activity. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday July 29, 2004 06:51 by Mary La Rosa   text 29 comments (last - thursday august 31, 2006 11:24)   image 1 image
The ambiguously free man, Mordechai Vanunu.
A Man who does not lie, especially about WMD. read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 28, 2004 18:05 by Sean & Rosanna Crudden   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 28, 2004 19:24)
"Ni h-aon ualach trom i an fhoghlaim."

Gan dabht ar domhain ta ne h-aiseanna oideachais ata ar fail sa tir seo ar fheabhas ar fad agus da reir sin, ta an t-aos og an-foghlamtha ar fad i reim fairsing abhar - cuntasaiocht, teicneolaiocht, dli, adhmadoireacht.

Go mion minic ceapaim fein tar eis mo shaol a chaitheamh mar acaduil ag spreagadh daoine oga, go bhfuil an duine ata oilte i gceird agus ag obair sa limisteir sin ar fad nios sona ina shaol agus nios stuama na an duine a chaitheann a lan ama ag treabhadh tri figuiri agus litreacha in oifigi.

Ni he an stor airgid ag deireadh an lae an rud is tabhachtai ach an sasamh a bhaineann duine as a chuid oibre.

Molaim go ndeanfai iarracht cuid de na sean-ceirdeanna ata caillte le blianta a thabhairt arais aris ar sli eigin agus cuid de na daoine oga a oiliunt ins na ceirdeanna sin. Ceapaim go mbeadh tioncar an-mhaith aige seo ar aos og na tire. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 27, 2004 18:06 by SWP member   text 30 comments (last - monday august 02, 2004 13:30)
Paul Foot, who died last weekend, was one of the greatest socialist writers and orators of his generation, who inspired thousands of activists from the time he became a socialist in the early 1960s until the last week of his life. He was also a celebrated campaigning journalist, who supported workers in struggle and took up cases of wrongful imprisonment, bringing about the resignation of a Tory home secretary and helping to free many innocent people from jail.

Here are a few links to obituaries and appreciations of Paul.

http://www.istendency.net/node/view/18?storyID=19 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 27, 2004 12:04 by Jim   text 44 comments (last - sunday september 26, 2004 01:43)
In Darfur 30,000 black people have been killed by bands of Islamic Arab tribesmen and more than 1.5million have fled to neighbourinf Chad all this with the assistance of the Khartoum government. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday July 26, 2004 23:08 by David C.
As Israel seeks to consolidate its theft of the West bank, Gaza and Golan, it is increasingly using lies and lying in a radically new and innovative way. This new lying technique appears to have been developed in Israel in the early 1990's but has been perfected and used to its greatest effect by the American republican party over the past 5 years - particularly regarding its recent invasion of Iraq . read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Monday July 26, 2004 12:26 by john mcdermott   text 3 comments (last - wednesday july 28, 2004 21:33)
Are the new german Supermarket chains really ripping us off? read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Sunday July 25, 2004 17:24 by Sean Crudden
Government policy seems to boil down to a mish-mash of ideas about competition, privatisation - and really a dash of laissez-faire mentality about public services. However there seems to be a bit of old-fashioned loyalty to state enterprise and social policy generally. Have the PDs already produced - through their ally Charlie McCreevy - an irreversible and seismic shift in public policy. Or is the political pendulum beginning inexorably to swing back in the opposite direction? read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Friday July 23, 2004 21:38 by Gravy Train   text 16 comments (last - thursday july 29, 2004 17:51)
The wretched ex finance minister has been feted by the entire establishment , you had Willie O and Eoin Ryan and other FF hacks praising him to the hilt on radio yesterday and giving out about De Rossa for being un Patriotic about 'our' brand new EU commissioner and complaining about the 35 hour working week for workers in France. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 21, 2004 11:44 by Davy Carlin   text 60 comments (last - wednesday july 28, 2004 13:54)
Democratic centralism {DC} has been much debated on indymedia read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 20, 2004 16:45 by Shinner   text 4 comments (last - wednesday july 21, 2004 10:26)
British are failing to demilitarise. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 20, 2004 12:08 by Eoin Dubsky   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 21, 2004 00:40)
An article in today's Guardian newspaper about a riot at the UK's worst immigration removal centre, the Harmondsworth conplex, begins with a passage which might tell us something about why people there are rioting: "The Home Office today promised a full investigation after the discovery of a hanged detainee led to a "serious disturbance" overnight at the country's largest immigration detention centre. The death was not thought to be suspicious, but staff at the Harmondsworth complex - near Heathrow airport, west London - were forced to withdraw for their own safety." read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday July 18, 2004 22:48 by Decommission the PSNI   text 22 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 01:42)
The Morris enquiry are investigating claims that the shadowy Force Research Unit recruited and ran Garda from the notorious corrupt Donegal Garda. Donegal Garda were found to have faked republican arms finds in order to gain promotion and also on behalf of FRU propaganda purposes. read full story / add a comment
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