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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 Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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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 Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 [1] Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:48 | Mark

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offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

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offsite link James Watson: A Brilliant Scientist Who Helped Discover the Secret of Life Sun Nov 09, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
James Watson helped to discover the secret of life, but that didn't stop him from being cancelled, says Noah Carl.
The post James Watson: A Brilliant Scientist Who Helped Discover the Secret of Life appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BBC to Review Bias in Climate Change Coverage Sun Nov 09, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
The BBC has launched an internal probe into its crummy climate coverage. Has the Director-General seen our article listing 50 times the BBC spread climate misinformation?...
The post BBC to Review Bias in Climate Change Coverage appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Bridget Phillipson?s School Reforms Are Deepening the Two-Tier Crisis Sun Nov 09, 2025 11:00 | Mary Gilleece
Bridget Philipson's curriculum reforms have ignored a growing two-tier state education system, warns Mary Gilleece.
The post Bridget Phillipson?s School Reforms Are Deepening the Two-Tier Crisis appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Criticism of Islam is a Protected Belief, Judge Rules Sun Nov 09, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
In a landmark Employment Tribunal ruling, a judge has found that being critical of Islam is a protected belief under the Equality Act. This renders the Government's efforts to ban 'Islamophobia' largely pointless.
The post Criticism of Islam is a Protected Belief, Judge Rules appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Joining the Dots Between Bill Gates and the BBC Sun Nov 09, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
What connects the scandal of the BBC doctoring Jan 6th footage to cast Trump in a bad light and Bill Gates's retreat from climate alarmism? More than you might think, says Ben Pile. It's all about how the Blob is made.
The post Joining the Dots Between Bill Gates and the BBC appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / history and heritage / other press Saturday December 06, 2008 12:10 by Jim Gibney   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 00:48)   image 1 image
RTE is this country’s national broadcasting agency for both television and radio.

I doubt it very much if a columnist writing in a mainstream newspaper in Britain would feel the need to write, ‘The BBC is this country’s national broadcasting agency’. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday December 06, 2008 01:01 by V. Ritas   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 28, 2008 21:26)   video 1 video file
Ben Mcintyre and Paul Orengoh reveal in the Times of London how President-elect Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was brutally tortured by the British during the Mau Mau freedom fighters uprising in support of Kenyan independence. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / other press Friday December 05, 2008 11:54 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - friday december 05, 2008 17:02)
from RTE.ie
Ognir is offering via bittorrent... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday December 04, 2008 20:41 by Red Banner
Issue 34 of Red Banner is available now: €2 / £1.50 from bookshops, sellers, or the above address. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday December 03, 2008 16:38 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 19:50)
Here is an extract from an interview with Maryam Namazie who argues that Political Islam makes abolishing the Death Penalty more difficult. Full text at link.

IPS: Your organisation campaigns for the separation of religion and state. In Muslim countries, is it religion, more than anything else that prevents the abolition of the death penalty?

Maryam Namazie: The death penalty exists in quite a large number of countries and is a form of social control still exercised by states, not all of them ruled by Islamic laws (I wouldn't call them Muslim countries any more than I would call Britain and France Christian ones). The U.S. and China are good examples of this. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / other press Wednesday December 03, 2008 15:25 by mary and john
Veteran rights campaigner Peter Tatchell makes an impassioned plea in today’s London Independent for the rights of the thousands of animals languishing under the voyeuristic gaze of the gawping squawking horde that visits London Zoo each day. Cutting through all the prison/ Zoo’s PR spin , Peter points out that its primary concern lies in satisfying the prurience of these cash-cow visitors , and not in animal conservation .

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday December 02, 2008 22:58 by Coilín   text 3 comments (last - saturday december 06, 2008 20:35)
The Danish evening paper, Ekstra Bladet, reports that foreign minister Per Stig Moeller has provided the parliament with written documentation to show that the prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was aware of a UN report indicating that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, eleven days before the government submitted a parliamentary bill to invade Iraq. Fogh has previously denied all knowledge of the report.
This development may signal a rift in the Liberal-Conservative coalition and ultimately lead to a parliamentary majority to launch an investigation of Denmark's participation in the invasion. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Tuesday December 02, 2008 17:22 by redjade
A tribunal into political corruption in Ireland has used the law to prevent some Irish newspapers from printing its preliminary report.

Two Dublin-based papers, the Irish Times and the Sunday Business Post, received threats of injunctions aimed at preventing them from disclosing the main conclusions of the Moriarty tribunal. As a result, the Irish Times was forced to halt printing and destroy 25,000 copies of the paper on Friday night. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday November 29, 2008 00:28 by anticopyright   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 13, 2010 09:46)   image 1 image
http://anticopyright-tr.blogspot.com/ read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday November 28, 2008 13:01 by redjade
Solidarity needed - even during the era of President Obama. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday November 28, 2008 10:46 by Peter O´Callaghan   text 10 comments (last - monday december 01, 2008 16:41)   image 1 image

The terrorist assault on Mumbai’s five-star hotels was well planned, but did not require a great deal of logistic intelligence: all the targets were soft

Read full article :

http://www.counterpunch.org/

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national / miscellaneous / other press Friday November 28, 2008 10:28 by Steerpike   image 1 image
There has been much in the news lately about shoppers taking their money (or credit, more likely) up north, despite government appeals to "patriotism"... a word that should always set the alarm bells ringing off their mountings. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday November 26, 2008 13:46 by redjade
''A US appeals court has ruled that the Vatican can be sued for the sex abuse committed by US priests.

The Vatican had tried to block a class action lawsuit alleging that it orchestrated a cover-up of sexual abuse by clergy with the argument that it was protected by laws granting sovereign states immunity from most US civil proceedings.....
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday November 26, 2008 11:41 by Michael Taft
A new 10-point programme for economic recovery and renewal read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 23, 2008 23:07 by redjade   text 2 comments (last - monday november 24, 2008 09:56)   image 2 images
It was thought that George W Bush and his immediate family would being going into exile in Paraguay after January 20th 2009 - but Paraguay had the misfortune of recently electing a left of centre government.

Thus, George had to make new plans.... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Friday November 21, 2008 14:49 by Darren C
A massive tide of anger has swept over Ireland following the Fianna Fail government’s draconian Budget announced in October. Bernie McAdam from the League for the Fifth International reports on a wave of struggle and calls for militant action to defeat the bosses' attacks.

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dublin / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday November 19, 2008 22:13 by beth   text 6 comments (last - wednesday december 24, 2008 22:53)
the next few days I will be going around with hopefully a few sleeping bags and blankets for the homeless. If you have any to donate and you are in Dublin in the next few days please donate sleeping bags or blankets. This year I can use the seomraspraoi building as a collection point. thanx guys.
so please donate your unwanted sleeping bags. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Wednesday November 19, 2008 10:31 by Aragon   text 5 comments (last - friday november 21, 2008 01:54)
Sarah Carey is apparently a responsible 'yes' voter when it comes to Lisbon. We will all therefore appreciate the terrible position she was put in when she discovered that The Times of London (Irish version) was banning all pro Lisbon pieces in its pages. Carey went along with this - for a good long while, in fact. She has just fetched up however in the pages of the Irish Times, that bastion of balanced and fair journalism (not), armed with a revivified conscience, describing the horrors of the editorial interference of Frank Fitzgibbon at the London Times and wishing she had had the courage to bring the truth of his editorial perfidy to the world before. Read her heart-rending tale here:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1119/1....html

Sarah tells us that when reading anything in a newspaper, we had better be asking ourselves who is writing it and what is their agenda. Quite so.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday November 18, 2008 16:38 by Paul McAndrew   text 1 comment (last - sunday november 23, 2008 14:49)
The report found many gays are isolated

A new study of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in the West of Ireland has found that nearly 70% of them have suffered some form of discrimination.

90% felt isolated at times because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

The report was commissioned by LGBT West - a consortium of statutory and voluntary service providers in counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon, including county councils, rural and city partnership companies and lesbian and gay groups.

50% of those who had experienced discrimination were verbally abused and 20% had been physically attacked read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday November 18, 2008 09:13 by A.J Fozdyke
www.basicfraud.com
Features the signatures of Queen Elizabeth II: all in top right-hand corner, all without Seals and all forged by Strawman Jack. read full story / add a comment
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