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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 Worries About Net Zero, Mass Immigration and Covid Vaccines Targeted as ?Conspiracy Theories? in Nat... Sat Nov 08, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Worries about Net Zero, mass immigration and Covid vaccines are being targeted as "conspiracy theories" in Labour's National Curriculum review. But the commissioners have some weird ideas of their own, says Steven Tucker.
The post Worries About Net Zero, Mass Immigration and Covid Vaccines Targeted as “Conspiracy Theories” in National Curriculum Review appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Nov 08, 2025 01:08 | Toby Young
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.
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offsite link Humiliation for Police Scotland as it Drops Case Against Women?s Rights Campaigner in Brollygate Row Fri Nov 07, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Police Scotland has been left humiliated after it was forced to drop its case against a women's rights campaigner for allegedly damaging a trans activist's umbrella in what's been dubbed the 'brollygate' row.
The post Humiliation for Police Scotland as it Drops Case Against Women’s Rights Campaigner in Brollygate Row appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Oatly CEO Admits ?Climate Doom? Marketing Has Backfired as Sales Plummet Fri Nov 07, 2025 15:04 | Lee Taylor
Oatly's CEO has admitted that the company?s 'climate doom' marketing has backfired as sales plummet. It turns out that terrifying people into buying oat milk isn't a sustainable business model, says Lee Taylor.
The post Oatly CEO Admits ‘Climate Doom’ Marketing Has Backfired as Sales Plummet appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour?s National Curriculum Review Risks Being a Trojan Horse for Smuggling Left-Wing Agendas Into ... Fri Nov 07, 2025 13:00 | Amanda Spielman
Labour's National Curriculum review is finally out. While it's much better than feared, there's a clear risk it will be a Trojan Horse for smuggling Left-wing agendas into schools, warns Amanda Spielman.
The post Labour’s National Curriculum Review Risks Being a Trojan Horse for Smuggling Left-Wing Agendas Into Schools appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 18, 2003 18:15 by David   text 6 comments (last - thursday november 20, 2003 11:07)
Published In the Guardian today, the cream of the conservatives welcomes The unelected president of a pseudo democracy to Britain read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 18, 2003 17:01 by Greenpeace   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 19, 2003 00:06)
GREENPEACE JOINS FORCES WITH HHCL / RED CELL TO PRODUCE CUTTING EDGE COMMUNICATION WITH THE LAUNCH OF STAR STUDDED SHORT FILM ‘ALIEN INVASION’ read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Monday November 17, 2003 17:15 by Liam Mellowes   text 60 comments (last - wednesday november 26, 2003 02:35)
The main players in the Bin Tax Campaign in Dublin seem to be changing tactics. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday November 17, 2003 16:57 by In defence of Marxism   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 19, 2003 03:21)
Paying the price for opportunism Phil Sharpe examines what lies behind the moves by the Socialist Workers Party to form a Peace and Justice Party with representatives of the Muslim community. In the first of a four-part series, he examines the background to mounting criticism of the SWP’s methods and its growing internal crisis read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Monday November 17, 2003 16:51 by a lonely IMC Editor
A new European constitution is now proposed that ignores civil society. This constitution consecrates neoliberalism as the official doctrine of the EU. It makes competition the basis for European community law, and indeed for all human activity. The constitution completely ignores sustainable development, gives Nato a role in European foreign policy and defence, and pushes for the militarisation of the EU. It puts the market first, marginalises the social sphere, and accelerates the destruction of public services. This draft constitution does not meet our aspirations. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday November 17, 2003 11:18 by tony dillon
It looks like big bad Saddam Hussein with a war chest of billions and an endless supply of materiel and angry youth had planned this war of attrition long before geniuses Bush, Powell and Rumsfeld knifed the UN in the back in their ill fated, unilateral rush to war. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Friday November 14, 2003 15:11 by WSM   text 16 comments (last - tuesday november 18, 2003 09:58)   image 1 image
A four page PDF file on the bin tax that goes into the various arguments around it in detail. Everything from 'anarchist infiltration' to 'Privatisation' Read it online or print it out, make copies and distribute it. read full story / add a comment
guess who
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday November 13, 2003 19:39 by Paul Cummins   text 6 comments (last - thursday november 27, 2003 18:36)   image 7 images
Went along to the Ploughshares Support gig in Mother Redcaps last week it had great musicians at it. Didn't get much info on the progress of the trial bar there's a date been set for some time in February? I think. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday November 13, 2003 16:43 by SF member   text 8 comments (last - tuesday november 18, 2003 18:58)
FF's Pat Carey reacts very negatively to SF housing campaign and seems to suggest that a consititutional amendment would be bad as it would mean the state would be obliged to provide adequate housing to its citzens - god forbid that would be a good thing! read full story / add a comment
down / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 12, 2003 20:57 by SP   text 53 comments (last - tuesday november 18, 2003 17:28)
The Socialist Party has decided to challenge the right wing and sectarian parties by putting up two candidates for the Assembly. Voters in East and South Belfast will have the chance to elect someone who will fight to defend the common interests of working class people and to break the logjam of sectarian politics. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 12, 2003 15:38 by Andrew   text 17 comments (last - thursday november 13, 2003 19:52)   image 1 image
This is the text of my contribution to the debate in Galway last weekend on 'Class, Ecology and the bin tax'. The other speaker was Niall O Brolacháin (Green Party). This was one of the sessions at Grassroots Gathering 6, you will find more details of the Gathering at http://grassrootsgathering.freeservers.com/ read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 11, 2003 14:12 by Da rebel county   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 11, 2003 15:34)
Howysa going all everyone. Just to give ye up in da big smoke the good news that there's a groundswell of support building up in da rebel county for "The Nationwide Day Of Action Against The Bin Tax And The Jailings" on Friday, November 21st especially now that Cork Corporation are going to resume non-collection of the bins of householders who haven't paid this unjust and unfair double tax from next Monday, November 17th. "One out! All out!" read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 11, 2003 02:27 by Brendan Young   text 17 comments (last - thursday november 13, 2003 19:50)
The Assembly of the European Regions, an official body of the EU, has produced an analysis of the proposed new EU constitution that reveals measures which will allow Health care, Education and Cultural / Audio-visual services to be privatised and traded as part of the GATS. read full story / add a comment
irgendwann fällt jeder mauer - some day every wall shall fall
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday November 09, 2003 13:58 by ipsiphi   text 3 comments (last - tuesday november 11, 2003 02:58)   image 2 images
Many cherished readers of indymedia globally were not born. And many cherished writers of indymedia globally were still in a box which has never ended.

But the Wall is gone. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday November 07, 2003 11:53 by Daithí   text 42 comments (last - saturday december 27, 2003 21:33)
You would think, with all the work that he has done with unions and for people with disabilities etc. that this TD would be in favour of a measure designed to protect the health of workers - whether they work in bars or otherwise.

But yet we see him standing up in the Dail to speak against the tobacco regulations. Not only this, but he also tried to claim that most cancer deaths were caused by other factors! Now it is true that the Government are using this issue as a distraction from the mess they are making of the health service - and also that anti-cancer measures need a lot of work - but seeing him try and belittle the cancer-causing properties of tobacco smoke is disgusting; it reads like a script written by the tobacco industry. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday November 06, 2003 23:52 by Robert Looby   text 1 comment (last - friday november 07, 2003 00:18)
Newly discovered material from communist Poland archives gives an insight into how authorities seek to undermine opposition groups by exploiting differences between radicals and moderates. This can involve government support for (ousted) moderates. read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Thursday November 06, 2003 15:09 by DCTU insider   text 16 comments (last - tuesday november 18, 2003 01:15)
There are 4 possible decisions that may energe from next Tuesday night's DCTU meeting in Liberty Hall. Let me outline briefly these below and which I think is the most likely that the DCTU will embrace next Tuesday night. read full story / add a comment
cavan / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 04, 2003 21:15 by R   text 18 comments (last - friday november 07, 2003 16:25)   image 1 image
The following poem appeared like a light of hope and reality in last Thursday’s Anglo Celt, a conservative Cavan based newspaper. The author, ‘Rhymin’ Simon’ provides a weekly platter of poetry and medicine to those of us who just don’t identify with the usual Fianna Fail shite that local Ireland is forced to digest. All hail Rhymin’ Simon and remember: the smallest candle can drown out all the darkness in the world. Now – get localising! read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday November 03, 2003 20:44 by Trinity Insider   text 62 comments (last - tuesday november 11, 2003 22:12)
Trinity SP plan to prevent BNP from speaking in TCD read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday November 02, 2003 19:42 by John McDermott   text 17 comments (last - monday april 05, 2004 13:02)
Fianna Fail are an unscrupulous ,immoral ,and totally ruthless in pursuit of revenues/taxes with which to continue the iniquitous division of our society into" the haves" and "the havenots" read full story / add a comment
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