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Indymedia ireland

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 / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday June 15, 2007 14:40 by Absalom
The Assyrian International News Agency has produced a deeply troubling Genocide report regarding the Assyrian (Chaldean) Christians of Iraq. The report: Incipient Genocide: The Ethnic Cleansing of the Assyrians of Iraq portrays a systematic campaign of massacre and destruction of this indigenous population of Iraq.

Through intimidation, forced conversions, murder, kidnapping, beheading of Church leaders, rape, and daily threats against their security and lives, the Assyrian Christian population in Baghdad and other major cities has dwindled from a once-thriving community to almost nothing. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Friday June 15, 2007 10:25 by jimbob   text 4 comments (last - friday june 15, 2007 18:25)
Following Dick Roches final act as minister, to shaft Tara, and give the Greens their first lesson in the realities of FF led government, RTE are asking if the public think that the M3 should be built over Lismullen. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday June 14, 2007 22:40 by reabhloid dearg   image 1 image
An Glór / The Voice
News sheet of the Republican Socialist Youth Movement
June 2007
Circulation: 500 read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday June 13, 2007 15:53 by scorchio   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 14, 2007 15:27)
As far as I know this story hasn't really broken in Ireland - and it certainly has a human interest dimension to it.

As you can see in this youtube video between the 52nd second and the first minute and 4 seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKDdF6vfjoo the watch (Timex) which Bush was wearing disappeared during a hand-shaking session with Albanians (the only Europeans who like him). read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / other press Wednesday June 13, 2007 15:20 by himself

Playing with the future in Seomra Spraoi

Words: Jane Ruffino / Pictures: Maria de la Iglesia read full story / add a comment
jobs for ballymun & style for all
dublin / consumer issues / other press Wednesday June 13, 2007 13:54 by iosaf   text 11 comments (last - monday october 20, 2008 04:40)   image 3 images
I was stunned by the implications of this little story I just spotted on RTE. It seems Dublin hasn't had an IKEA before. How did you escape the stylish homogenous cheaply produced and easy to assemble look ?

Will the FF/Green coalition have any influence on peoples' need or want for such furniture & interior bits and bobs? read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday June 13, 2007 12:02 by TD   image 1 image
The highest ranking UN official in Israel, Alvaro de Soto, has warned that American pressure has "pummelled into submission" the UN's role as an impartial Middle East negotiator in a damning confidential report .

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international / arts and media / other press Wednesday June 13, 2007 11:32 by paul o toole   text 2 comments (last - tuesday july 03, 2007 11:24)   audio 1 audio file
This was a poem, a censored version was read out on the 'wide angle' on Newstalk. Later turned into a song it got some wonderful diverse reactions from abuse to applause, while playing it in the Happenny Bridge Inn, tuesday open mike night (comedy) , it almost won the prestigious...rubber duck award...see what you think read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday June 13, 2007 10:08 by Miriam Cotton   text 2 comments (last - wednesday june 13, 2007 13:47)
"gloriajw' has written a very good article which breaks down many of the causes of alienation of women in technical groups and online communities. It was forwarded to the IMC Global women's list with the following comment:

"Generally a subject covered much too little in indymedia communities, on
our websites and in communication we are having with each other.

With the email from Melbourne today that another collective had decided
to shut down, also because they couldn't handle spam on the site, this
seems even more interesting. The article is about gender, and at the
same time about communication, and the anonymity of open publishing."
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One-way ticket to Hell
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday June 08, 2007 15:05 by Seán Ryan   text 5 comments (last - tuesday june 12, 2007 18:03)   image 1 image
Today the Council of Europe has declared that the CIA ran secret detention facilities in Romania and Poland between 2002 and 2005. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Friday June 08, 2007 12:02 by e   text 26 comments (last - monday june 18, 2007 11:25)
Bertie: Not Waving, Drowning

By Kieran Allen

The election results were a blow to anyone who wants to change Ireland to a more equitable and decent society. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Thursday June 07, 2007 19:00 by Red Wedge   text 67 comments (last - wednesday august 01, 2007 22:47)
Richard Boyd Barrett on coalition, Joe Higgins and the future of the Irish left. From the Irish Times of 7-6-2007.

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Antifascist Resistance Groups October First - or GRAPO were a mao-ist terrorist grouping
international / crime and justice / other press Thursday June 07, 2007 18:41 by scorchio   text 2 comments (last - sunday october 14, 2007 23:29)   image 1 image
This morning with the arrest by the Spanish Guardia Civil of 6 individuals in Barcelona the far-left terrorist organisation "Grapo" who were responsible for 75 murders has ended.

Sympathisers with terrorist organisations in the Spanish state are far and few between these days, but the news might be of interest to their long-standing associates in the IRSP and INLA who often used this very website to call for solidarity and seek signatures on petitions amidst talk of "show trials" & the like.

Sadly however the people of Catalonia and the Spanish state may not look forward to a society without mindless and arbitrary violence as the terrorist organisation ETA which broke its ceasefire with the murder of 2 Ecuadorians at New Year has declared a return to war "on all fronts"
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international / gender and sexuality / other press Thursday June 07, 2007 12:22 by Houzan Mahmoud   text 6 comments (last - thursday july 26, 2007 01:46)
It is unbelievable to hear the news about a 12 years old girl, brutally killed by her father because he suspected her of having a relationship with their 24-year-old male neighbour. Amina was killed on the 5th May 2007 by her own father in their house opposite the Ministry of Human Rights in Erbil, Kurdistan.

Amina’s father is said to be a PUK military official who has not been charged or even punished for killing his daughter up until now. It is said that Amina begged her father not to kill her, and that she kissed her father’s feet twice for mercy. He was cruel enough to ignore his 12 years old daughter’s innocent plea and killed her in cold blood. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday June 06, 2007 12:16 by pat c
This year, the International Labour Organization will yet again accept puppet delegations from Iran at the ILO Annual Conference. This is what the militant workers at Iran Khodro have to say about the Iranian delegation to the ILO:

We, the “Iran Khodro” workers, consider your acceptance of these individuals as “Iranian Workers’ Representatives” as neglecting the ILO Laws specially contravening conventions of 98 & 87.

We, “Iran Khodro” Workers do not consider these individuals as our rightful representatives and demand for their expulsion from the ILO meeting.

Read more in Workers in Iran: Special Issue, Monday, June 4 2007 read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Tuesday June 05, 2007 18:08 by Marie Stopes   text 14 comments (last - sunday july 29, 2007 00:16)
Things are getting worse for Palestinian women; its not just the Israelis they have to worry about. They are constantly under threat from Islamic Fundamentalists who are trying to impose sharia "law".
The complete article is at the url below.

Several dozen Palestinian television journalists protested Sunday in Gaza after a shadowy Islamist group threatened to decapitate female journalists who did not dress according to a strict Islamic dress code.

The protestors assembled in front of the office of President Mahmoud Abbas to demand protection after the threat made by the Swords of Islamic Truth group.

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national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday June 05, 2007 10:40 by Cedar   text 2 comments (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 21:54)
Over the weekend, 14 US troops died in Iraq. Since the start of the year, US troops numbers through Shannon have increased. Yet despite efforts from elements in the broad anti-war movement, the recent general election saw little or not reference to Ireland's role in a conflict that has cost the lives of over 70,000 Iraqi civilians according to Iraq Body Count.
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national / consumer issues / other press Monday June 04, 2007 18:13 by Laboristo
La brita registaro puŝas antaŭen siajn planojn por reformo de akvo kiun kaŭzos amasan senlaborecon, degenerigon de servadoj, kaj bazon de prezpostulo por la utileco de akvo...

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international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday June 03, 2007 12:35 by ('',)   text 9 comments (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 14:39)   image 6 images
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international / arts and media / other press Saturday June 02, 2007 10:15 by Aaron Johnson   image 2 images
An interview with social justice filmmaker Michael Burns on his new series looking at how young people view democracy. Includes interviews with students in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
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