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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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national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday June 01, 2007 13:59 by John McAnulty   text 20 comments (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 13:15)
The Irish election of 24th May astounded all the political observers commenting on it. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday June 01, 2007 13:54 by John McAnulty
The New Stormont regime in the North of Ireland
“And this is hell, nor am I out of it”

John McAnulty

A local cartoonist, Ian Knox, summed up the May 8th re-opening of the Stormont executive in the North of Ireland as the coronation of the sectarian bigot Ian Paisley, read full story / add a comment
protest at Murder Energy
international / crime and justice / other press Friday June 01, 2007 12:56 by Joe C   text 3 comments (last - saturday june 02, 2007 09:08)   image 1 image
Over fifty trade unionists and community activists from South Auckland joined forces at an angry picket at the headquarters of Mercury Energy, 602 Great South Road in Green Lane, today Thurs 31 May at 4pm, to protest the death of Folole Muliaga.

Folole died after her power was disconnected from her house by a contractor employed by Mercury Energy, leaving her family to grieve in the dark. Her family had warned and pleaded with the company beforehand that her life support required electricity. She was $170 behind her bill.
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national / history and heritage / other press Friday June 01, 2007 11:54 by Andrew   image 1 image
Over the last 18 months I've posted a number of historical articles to indymedia.ie on the 1916 period and the rebellions of 1798. As these were very long and perhaps arkward to read online I've laid them out in pamphlet form and put the pamphlet up as a PDF file. You can download this from http://www.struggle.ws/pdf/andrew/risingmoon.html

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Kind of like IBM during the last Reich, but more 'Hand's On' if you know what i mean?
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday May 31, 2007 16:43 by Indy.ie Ljubljana Correspondent   text 2 comments (last - thursday may 31, 2007 19:12)   image 1 image
The Boeing subsidiary is accused of helping facilitate mistreatment of terrorism suspects. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday May 31, 2007 15:31 by TD
In a Haaretz article, Amira Hass exposes yet another ugly facet of Israeli discriminatory policy towards Palestine: "(Israel) does not allocate cellular frequencies to the Palestinians that answer their modern technological, economic, social and personal needs. More precisely, Israel refuses to coordinate with the Palestinians so they can use the cellcom frequencies they should have according to the International Telecommunications Union ...
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday May 31, 2007 11:40 by Red Banner   text 2 comments (last - monday july 02, 2007 22:03)
The latest issue of Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas is available now. €2 / £1.50 from the above address, or from good bookshops. The Red Banner website is also now on line. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday May 30, 2007 23:33 by knowing i did my best to tell you about the blue white flash   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 30, 2009 11:40)
Lebanon might have caught readers attention again in the last ten days. An awful lot has happened since the Valentine Weekend 2005 murder of "Mr Lebanon" Rafik Hariri, an event of such importance that it prompted a series of 9 new stories with constant ongoing analysis of one of the pivotal states as preparation for any geopolitical strategic understanding.

Lebanon returned to our telly screens as a long standing refugee enclave of Palestinians was targetted by the Lebanese army amidst calls to "take out the terrorists" who apparantly use Lebanon to attack Western interests. Tonight the UN security council has voted to bring the murder (or magnicide if you will) of Hariri to the International tribunal in The Hague.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday May 30, 2007 14:22 by pat c
This is an article about the war against the Working Class in Iran; a war which is waged by the Mullahs. In particular it tells the story of the challenges faced by the workers at one car manufacturing plant. The workers are in conflict with the Mullahs who represent the Capitalist System but this does not mean that they favour the US.

As Iranian union activist Ebrahim Madadi says: Our labour union does not regard anyone who propagates and prepares for war as its friends and allies. We reject strongly any military action against our country and warn the workers against the threat of war and the need to stop such aggression. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday May 30, 2007 11:02 by Soundmigration   text 5 comments (last - thursday may 31, 2007 17:45)   1 attached file
All ya need to know to make the most outta your holiday!!! read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Tuesday May 29, 2007 15:10 by Miriam Cotton & David Manning   text 11 comments (last - monday december 08, 2008 16:13)
Fintan O' Toole offers a detailed analysis of his percpetion of mainstream media. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Tuesday May 29, 2007 04:54 by moby   text 1 comment (last - monday june 11, 2007 09:51)
Why is a Northern Hemisphere nation, JAPAN, permitted to flagrantly slaughter whales in Southern Hemisphere waters? Perhaps widespread inaction in the face of blatant Japanese smugness, arrogance, contempt for the environment, the International Whaling Commission and other nations is related to the world’s toleration of criminal wars resulting in hundreds of thousands of innocent human casualties! What chance do whales have if innocent HUMAN BEINGS are treated as expendable? read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / other press Monday May 28, 2007 05:19 by staff report   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 29, 2007 23:03)
The singularly profit driven Corporations have lied and lied regarding food additives, tobacco and climate changing pollutants. They only respond to VERY LARGE financial disincentives. A drive to sign up whole populations for a class action against these polluters is a great start for future mental and physical health.

This action may also reveal the combination of additives in foods and the water supply that impairs the human will. Never before in human history have entire populations become so subservient, helpless and passive in the most alarming circumstances. The apathy and complacency witnessed today in the face of horrendous illegal wars, pollution induced climate change/GLOBAL warming, to name the two most catastrophic events, is beyond comprehension.

Hit them hard and hit them in the pocket, the "class" of the action should include the entire population -- you and your children have been poisoned! read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday May 27, 2007 15:47 by Reibiliun   text 3 comments (last - sunday may 27, 2007 17:56)   image 1 image
From June 6th to 8th the representatives of eight of the most powerful States from the global north are planning to meet in Heiligendamm near Rostock in Germany. read full story / add a comment
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Industry players developing the Atlantic Ridge reserves will no doubt be hoping to avoid the problems encountered by the developers of the Corrib field"
national / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday May 27, 2007 15:28 by NMI   text 17 comments (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 18:59)   image 5 images
It's pretty certainly a conincidence that the day after the news that same bunch will be running the country for the next while broke, an article appeared in Energy Business Review, pointing out how lucrative the huge reserves of gas and oil off the west coast of Fianna Fáil land will be.

Lucrative for the energy companies that is, not for the people of Ireland (unless you count certain people with different morals from the rest of us).

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national / history and heritage / other press Saturday May 26, 2007 14:38 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - monday may 28, 2007 17:22)
Paul Muldoon (author of Horse Latitudes) writes in a recent New York Times article about the destruction of rich archaeological and heritage sites along the route of the proposed M3. Muldoon goes a good job of conveying the historical and archaeological significance of Tara and the "interesting" position of Bertie Ahern. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday May 24, 2007 20:17 by Stop Armageddon
Neo-liberal capitalist globalization is the product of U.S. based Protestant neo-Calvinist Dominionists that actually believe greed is "Godly"! read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Thursday May 24, 2007 20:06 by reabhloid dearg
An Glór / The Voice
News sheet of the Republican Socialist Youth Movement
May 2007 read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday May 24, 2007 20:01 by Dunlo T   text 1 comment (last - sunday june 03, 2007 13:59)   image 1 image
In his latest powerful article for the UK, New Statesman, award winning writer, reporter and documentarist, John Pilger, describes how Gaza in Palestine has come to symbolise the imposition of great power on the powerless, in the Middle East and all over the world, and how a vocabulary of double standard is employed to justify this epic tragedy. read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / other press Thursday May 24, 2007 17:45 by Dorothy Gale
an interesting article on the D case, Abortion and the hypocrisy which forces thousands of women to travel to Britain each to have abortion. In particular it highlights one womans experiences.

Irish Abortion 'Journeys' Avoided in Election
By Leela Jacinto
WeNews correspondent


Ireland's restrictive abortion ban causes thousands of women every year to "make the journey" abroad. Today's general elections are not expected to slow that migration after politicians largely avoided the incendiary topic.

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