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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 News Round-Up Sun Nov 09, 2025 00:20 | Will Jones
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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Police Say Bible Verse on Campervan Could Be Hate Speech, Says Pastor Sat Nov 08, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
A church leader has said the police warned him that that Bible verses on the back of his campervan could be considered "hate speech".
The post Police Say Bible Verse on Campervan Could Be Hate Speech, Says Pastor appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ofgem Caught Using Climate Armageddon ?Worst Case Scenario? for Energy Planning Sat Nov 08, 2025 15:00 | Nick Rendell
Ofgem has been caught using the climate Armageddon 'worst case scenario' RCP8.5 as the basis for its energy planning. This is a scenario so ludicrous even the Biden administration abandoned it, says Nick Rendell.
The post Ofgem Caught Using Climate Armageddon ‘Worst Case Scenario’ for Energy Planning appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link NHS Spends ?1.4 Billion on Net Zero With Zero Results Sat Nov 08, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
The NHS has spent ?1.4 billion of taxpayers' money on Net Zero schemes without reducing its carbon footprint at all.
The post NHS Spends ?1.4 Billion on Net Zero With Zero Results appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link German Government Promotes Antifa With Publicly-Funded Guides to Political Violence Sat Nov 08, 2025 11:00 | John Rosenthal
While?some countries have followed Trump's lead in designating Antifa a terrorist organisation, Germany actively promotes the far-Left group with publicly-funded guides to political activism and 'defensive' violence.
The post German Government Promotes Antifa With Publicly-Funded Guides to Political Violence appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

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

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international / arts and media / other press Saturday August 05, 2006 07:31 by rep
The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert embeds his soldiers in Israeli communities, next to schools, beside hospitals, close to welfare centres, ensuring that any Israeli target is also a civilian target. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday August 05, 2006 00:28 by Mary Kelly
Pls take a moment to watch this clip about Israel's
war on Lebanon... images
you won't find in mainstream media.
thanks,
Mary. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday August 04, 2006 21:48 by Daithí
Suffice it to say, it’s an uncomfortable summer here in New York. My own neighborhood was among those without electricity for a greater part of last week.
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international / miscellaneous / other press Friday August 04, 2006 17:17 by SP Member   text 269 comments (last - friday may 04, 2007 07:42)   image 1 image
Tommy Sheridan has won his case against the News of the World. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Friday August 04, 2006 16:09 by Phuq Hedd   text 20 comments (last - wednesday august 09, 2006 20:12)
In Counterpunch, Aug 4th 2006, Jonathan Cook reports on Human Rights Watch's analysis of civilian casualties inflicted by Hizbullah and the IDF and concludes that indiscriminate media reporting is perpetuating at least two inaccuracies: that IDF strikes are "targetted" with Lebanese civilian deaths being a result of Hizbullah using them as human shields; and that Hizbullah attacks are deliberately targetting civilians. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Friday August 04, 2006 15:14 by salamander
The major communication mediums of the world continue to bombard the public with images and descriptions of the Israeli-Lebanon conflict. The media works tirelessly to deliver our social consciousness. Today’s mass media maintains its status as the principal means of creating and sustaining social realities. The internet-based ‘independents’ lack real independent front-line resources and continue to rely on the mainstream for most of their information (much to their chagrin). read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Friday August 04, 2006 14:17 by Media   text 1 comment (last - friday august 04, 2006 16:24)
The US Embassy has helpfully posted up a guide to independent journalism on their website http://dublin.usembassy.gov/

here http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/journalism/index.htm
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national / miscellaneous / other press Thursday August 03, 2006 20:17 by supp
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Natural Resources Martin Ferris TD has accused Shell of duplicity in their announcement that they are to drop their court injunction against the Rossport Five.

Deputy Ferris said:

"In announcing that they are dropping their injunction, Shell have absolved themselves of the requirement to surrender key documents relating to various aspects of the pipeline project. On Monday Justice Mary Laffoy made an order of discovery that for the first time would have placed this information into the hands of those who object to the pipeline.

"The fact that Shell, after more than a year of attempting to bully Rossport men, should now drop their action speaks volumes. It confirms what many of us believe; that the entire deal regarding the Corrib field stinks to high heaven. The fact that Shell is willing to abandon its campaign of intimidation rather than shed any light into this dark corner speaks for itself. read full story / add a comment
international / housing / other press Wednesday August 02, 2006 19:54 by zee lumpen
During the summer of 1946, over 40,000 British people took the law into their own hands and squatted in property that they didn't own - initially disused military camps, then empty hotels and blocks of flats. It was an unprecedented movement of civil disobedience, and it presented Atlee's Labour Government with its first great crisis. Mark Whitaker tells the story - with testimony from several of the squatters themselves. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday August 02, 2006 13:03 by republica   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 02, 2006 15:43)
This is a call from Barcelona to give suport to the prisoners 4f that have been unfairly in prison for half a year next 4th of august. Any actions are wellcomed, ballons with names, information about this, placards especially in front of the spanish embassy but not necessarily, just use your creativity. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday August 01, 2006 03:37 by E.Goldstein   text 5 comments (last - wednesday august 02, 2006 02:59)
We need your solidarity now. Daniel Gross, an organizer in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union, is being "investigated" by the company over a protest he and his co-workers participated in to support another IWW barista, Evan Winterscheidt. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday August 01, 2006 00:10 by D_D   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 16, 2006 22:54)
Issue 25 of Red Banner, the independent magazine of socialist ideas, is available now, from PO Box 6587, from red_banner@yahoo.com or from some bookshops (e.g. Books Upstairs, Dublin).
Euro 3/£2
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday July 31, 2006 10:58 by finch   text 3 comments (last - sunday august 20, 2006 02:43)
Indirectly confirmed by John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the UN (and sociopath) in a public statement; the first casualty of war is LANGUAGE – the needless slaughter of innocent children in Qana by an Israeli airstrike was an “accident of war”! In the face of an obvious war crime it is now incumbent on the Bush regime, especially its representatives Bolton and Rice, to define the rules of engagement and what constitutes a war crime. We do not forget how quick the U.S. and NATO were to condemn war crimes in the Balkan conflict – it would seem that allies of the U.S. (Israel) are immune; their obvious crimes become tragic ‘accidents’ whereas those opposed to the U.S. are war criminals and liable to indefinite incarceration (‘Torture’ Bay) or trial in an ‘independent’ court at the Hague. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday July 30, 2006 17:04 by red   text 3 comments (last - monday july 31, 2006 19:17)   image 1 image
Sect with class roots

Ted Grant died on July 20 at the age of 93, after more than 75 years as a Trotskyist activist. He was the effective founder and theoretical guru of the Militant Tendency, which at its height, recalls Mike Macnair, before the splits of the 1990s, was probably the largest and best-rooted of the Trotskyist organisations in Britain
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longford / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday July 30, 2006 00:16 by Jake
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, south of Tyre
Saturday July 29, 2006

Guardian

Inside a well-furnished apartment in a village on the outskirts of Tyre, with shelves of books piled from floor to ceiling, a black turbaned cleric and three men sit sipping bitter coffee. By the door is a pile of Kalashnikovs and ammunition boxes; handguns are tucked into the men's trousers. The four are Hizbullah fighters, waiting for the Israelis.
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laois / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday July 30, 2006 00:02 by Fiona G.
Made in the UK, bringing devastation to Lebanon - the British parts in Israel's deadly attack helicopters
· Key parts for Israeli aircraft made in UK
· Rights groups say Apaches used for assassinations

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday July 29, 2006 08:05 by cleaves
The people are once again faced with a very real opportunity to act and change the status quo. The USA has abandoned its traditional role of peacekeeper in the Middle East. Two clear prerogatives present themselves in the face of ongoing hostilities, a people’s movement or another nation filling the vacuum left by the U.S. (which has tragically become an involved party in the conflict). How many times must the opportunity for Peace go begging? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday July 29, 2006 04:11 by Seán Ryan   text 10 comments (last - monday july 31, 2006 00:32)
Cindy Sheehan buys plot of land near George Bush's Ranch in Crawford, Texas. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday July 28, 2006 12:18 by Starvin Marvin   text 3 comments (last - sunday july 30, 2006 23:30)
The following is an article I read in the Irish Times.

At first I thought I was reading an article by Richard Perle or some other neo-con ideologue but then I saw its author was none other than Joschka Fischer.

What do Trevor Sargent and John Gormley have to say about their Green cousins in Europe? read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Friday July 28, 2006 10:20 by Frank Cordaro   text 3 comments (last - friday july 28, 2006 15:05)
Former RC priest ,and long time Catholic Worker, is presently serving a 6 month sentence for a nonviolent trespass at Offcut Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska. Offcut is headquarters of what was once called the U.S. Strategic Air Command. This is Frank's 7th. 6 month stint for nonviolent resistance at Offcut AFB. Frank also did time for a (1990's) Plowshares action on a B-52 Bomber at Andrews Air Force Base. (By happenstance, Amy Goodman was on site and covered the action for "Democracy Now"). Although Frank is presently a prisoner of the Federal Government he spent the first 2 months of this sentence in overcrowded County Jails (There ar e now 2.3 million prople locked up in the U.S.) Frank is now ensconsed in Yankton Fed Pen (once rated by Penthouse 'zine as one of the 5 easiest places to do time in the U.S. system. read full story / add a comment
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