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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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Murat Kurnaz
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday November 05, 2006 20:42 by Yusuf   image 2 images
German born Murat Kurnaz (23) was arrested by Pakistani police in 2002 while there on holidays. He was then sold to US forces and brought to Afghanistan where he was tortured by US and German forces before being transported to Guantanamo where he was illegally held and tortured by the US, with the complicity of the German Government for four years.
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international / crime and justice / other press Sunday November 05, 2006 19:56 by C Murray   text 1 comment (last - monday november 06, 2006 11:23)
NYC and NarcoNews are reporting twenty thousand People converging for a March
organised by the APPO in Oaxaca:
"During the night helicopters brought military troops into the city, according to
'La Doctura', impecabbly calm and intelligent as ever on Radio Universidad"

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/11/5/124043/519 read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 05, 2006 15:52 by sophia
for Shell to Sea campaigners in particular:
A 2005 documentary film , Total Denial, by Milena Kaneva examines the effects of oil companies on local people in Burma.

Burmese refugee Ka Hsaw's courage in filing a lawsuit against one of the biggest global corporations on the planet has inspired people fighting for human rights in other countries, such as Indonesia and Nigeria, to do the same. Has this been shown here? If not it should be. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday November 05, 2006 12:21 by sophia   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 19:28)
For the fourth consecutive day, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue their land incursion on the town of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip. This attack comes as part of an IOF operation codenamed "Autumn Clouds." The number of victims has increased to 34 killed, including 21 civilians that include 7 children, 2 women, and 2 paramedics. The injured are 150, most of them unarmed civilians, including approximately 40 women, 40 children, 1 paramedic, and 1 journalist.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights [PCHR]Calls upon the international community to immediately intervene to stop these crimes. read full story / add a comment
OAXACA, November 2, 2006
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 05, 2006 10:20 by Solidaria   text 2 comments (last - monday march 12, 2007 19:23)   image 8 images
Flyer to distribute to the unaware at marches and other Oaxaca solidarity actions.
I was not able to upload typeset flyer, but below are the photos & text used if you want to use any. On the 8 x 10 flyer, the six photos [Ireland imc has only 4] from around the world are smaller than they appear here, about 1.5 x 1.5. The flyer includes a 3.5 x 5 photo of the girl confronting the PFP (Policia Federal Preventiva, Mexican Federal Riot Police), and a separate large poster was made just with her photo and the legend:

the world is watching
OAXACA
November 2, 2006
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galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday November 05, 2006 00:43 by TJ
In his latest article for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Saturday November 04, 2006 08:12 by Kingfisher
Conservative (far right) ‘governments’ – presentation marionettes of Corporate and Financial interests – have unanimously implemented “new sweeping” (slogan) anti-terrorist and sedition laws to constrain or otherwise stifle dissent and other opposing ‘views’. Conservatives can always be relied upon to implement the most lacklustre ‘solutions’. In characteristic mode they have all resorted to Legislation in a futile attempt to silence dissenting and protesting ‘voices’. Legislation has always been the refuge of all scoundrel governments and inept politicians; nevertheless, the popular media remains unaffected by the new laws and continues to demonise, misrepresent, distort and omit details in order to present a ‘tailored reality’ to the public. Circumventing the ‘new sweeping laws’ is child’s play for any journo, analyst, artist or professional media manufacturer/fabulator/fabricator – WHY? read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday November 03, 2006 13:25 by Article by Gordon Deegan   text 12 comments (last - friday january 05, 2007 15:05)
Following article appears on P. 8 of "Clare People" 31/10/06.
The article reveals the tension that exists sonce the declaration following the Ploughshares acquittal that nonviolent dorect action will be employed to demilitarise the airport if the Government fails to demilitarise the airport. The initial State repsonse to the declaration has been to deploy 40 Garda and redeploy the army to protect the U.S. war machine from the nonviolent direct action of the the peace movement. The Green Party emerged out of the nonviolent direct action of the German anti-war movement, strange that Councillor Meaney can remain a member of the irish Green Party while supporting the U.S. war effort and attacking the Irish peace movement! Go figure? read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / other press Friday November 03, 2006 12:38 by paul smyth   image 1 image
BRIT AGENT KEVIN FULTON arrested IN ENGLAND BY THE PSNI.. read full story / add a comment
Palestinians carry the body of 21-year-old Bassem al-Jammal during his funeral in Gaza City, 2 November 2006. Al-Jamal was a Hamas activist killed by Israeli forces. (MaanImages/Wesam Saleh)
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday November 02, 2006 23:57 by TJ   text 50 comments (last - monday january 08, 2007 15:31)   image 4 images
A blood bath, fomented, aided and abetted by the US and Israel between Fatah and Hamas now sems to be in the offing?.

Since August, at a compound in Jericho where reporters were recently barred access. General Keith Dayton, the American "security coordinator in the territories", is arming and training Presidential Guard of PA Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas "for a confrontation with Hamas, which the United States believes is inevitable".(Haaretz). read full story / add a comment
marius65; donquichotte magazine representative in eire
international / arts and media / other press Thursday November 02, 2006 23:47 by marius65   image 2 images
At times of cultural divisions reading cartoon websites and cartoon magazines from all the different part of the planet, help to better understand each other. The blasphemous cartoons brought a lot of troubles but most of the time cartoons are the most direct and easy way to communicate, understand and appreciate the humour culture and tradition of societies and regions far away from our one.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday November 02, 2006 13:18 by Tachyon
Ryanair are famous for the use of spin and 'selective' figures to hide the truth, recent examples being pilot working hours, state subsidies, negative polluting externalities, disability charges etc. The latest is the number of workers employed per aircraft. Apparently, those on precarious, temporary agency contracts, just don't count! read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / other press Thursday November 02, 2006 12:19 by Terence
This is an interesting report on some research into the study of cockroaches from the Free University Of Brussels in Beligum. The findings show that they follow some simple decision making rules and this has helped open up the understanding of these creatures and other insects too because they also follow similar patterns or rules. It seems that they operate without any leaders. Now if we could just do that.

It also intriguing because it shows that the idea of equality and some forth is not just a human construct but is something that goes to the heart of nature. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday November 02, 2006 00:08 by Paul Kinsella
This is an introductory paragraph about a health service protest to the Houses Of Parliament. The rest of the story can be accessed by clicking this link http://uk.news.yahoo.com/01112006/344/doctors-nurses-nh....html read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Wednesday November 01, 2006 22:25 by not listened to   text 33 comments (last - tuesday november 07, 2006 10:26)
The Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, and Junior Minister John Browne have met a group of 20 Fianna Fáil TD's and Senators at Leinster House over concerns about the plan to end driftnet fishing for salmon. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Wednesday November 01, 2006 19:33 by Terence   text 4 comments (last - friday november 03, 2006 14:13)
The rather famous documentary made a few years ago and which has been shown widely is now available online with YouTube. It documents how the growth of suburbia was based on the assumption of an endless supply of cheap oil. That assumption now no longer holds true. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / other press Wednesday November 01, 2006 14:30 by Shell and the environment   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 01, 2006 16:08)
Pressure group calls for boycott of photography show read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday November 01, 2006 12:20 by pat c
Women still face a grim present and future in Afghanistan as the ironheel of Islam stamps firmly on their faces.

Women reporting rape run the risk of being imprisoned for having sexual intercourse outside marriage.

"Women's rights activists are getting killed, women's NGO workers are getting killed, and that is not going to change unless some drastic action is taken,"

Full story at the link.

pat c

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galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday November 01, 2006 00:46 by Maggie   text 4 comments (last - thursday november 02, 2006 14:49)
In a Counterpunch article by William S. Lind; Director for the Center for Cultural Conservatism for the Free Congress Foundation it is suggested that an attack on Iran is envisaged before Xmas:

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mayo / environment / other press Tuesday October 31, 2006 23:07 by supporter   text 11 comments (last - saturday november 04, 2006 12:13)
There has been some articles in the village magazine latley which cover the shell to sea campgain.
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