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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Superheroes
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday May 23, 2006 23:57 by niall   image 1 image
A gang of anarchist Robin Hood-style thieves, who dress as superheroes and steal expensive food from exclusive restaurants and delicatessens to give to the poor, are being hunted by police in the German city of Hamburg. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday May 23, 2006 12:07 by Pitstop Ploughshares - (DM/ Personal Capacity)   text 2 comments (last - thursday may 25, 2006 15:11)
British kowtow to unionist sectarianism
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday May 22, 2006 11:09 by James Reilly   text 4 comments (last - wednesday may 24, 2006 17:06)   image 3 images
Garvaghy Road residents won an action in the High Court against appointment of Orange Order members to Parades Commission on Friday May 19th - press coverage to follow. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Sunday May 21, 2006 20:48 by Anthony Coughlan
Anthony Coughlan is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin and Secretary of the National Platform EU Research and Information Center read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday May 20, 2006 17:23 by peptide
In response to increased UN pressure to close the illegal Guantanamo Bay detention/torture centre, the Americans left no doubt, “we have no intention of closing Guantanamo Bay”. The flagrant illegality of Guantanamo Bay is lost on the Americans, or worse, stands as a defiant monument to American belligerence and unilateralism. The rest of the world can go to hell; Americans do what they want when they want, is that clear? read full story / add a comment
Bertie's best mate is under interrogation
national / politics / elections / other press Friday May 19, 2006 17:04 by John McDermott   image 1 image
This is a piece of an article in this months Phoenix Magazine read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues / other press Friday May 19, 2006 17:00 by redjade   text 10 comments (last - saturday may 20, 2006 21:09)   image 4 images
excuse me, what was the essence of the Jesus story, again? hmm? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Friday May 19, 2006 15:36 by Séan   text 11 comments (last - wednesday may 24, 2006 17:31)
Speaking at a meeting of Republican Sinn FÈin in Bundoran this week, Joe O'Neill said the leadership of Provisional Sinn FÈin had sold out the ideals of the 10 hunger strikers who died in 1981 "with one stroke of a pen." read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday May 19, 2006 10:58 by Terence
The German secret service has been spying on journalists for over 25 years. The question is could it happen here and elsewhere. Undoubtably the answer must be yes. Why would it be any different anywhere else? read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday May 19, 2006 00:22 by Seán Ryan   text 7 comments (last - monday may 22, 2006 19:56)
Limerick Leader follows up on an article they published recently, where they along with the American Ambassador, threatened the people of Limerick with their jobs, if we didn't shut up about Shannon Airport.

Following this, activists including Ed Horgan wrote to the Limerick Leader in reply and were published.

The have published a reply to us. And I for one do not like it. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / other press Thursday May 18, 2006 13:42 by Carlotta Gall
[Four] years after the Taliban were ousted from power by the American military, their presence is bigger and more menacing than ever, say police and government officials, village elders, farmers and aid workers across southern Afghanistan. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Wednesday May 17, 2006 13:59 by lark   text 90 comments (last - friday april 04, 2008 18:42)   image 1 image
Were the hunger strikers betrayed by their representatives outside the prison?

Danny Morrison wrote of Richard O'Rawe that he should have called his powerful memoir, Blanketmen, "On Another Man's Hunger Strike", cattily referring to the seminal memoirs of a previous generation of republicans, Ernie O'Malley's searing On Another Man's Wound.

As more is revealed about what exactly happened during the 81 hunger strikes, who betrayed who, for what and why, it certainly appears true that a few people have made themselves on the back of 'another man's hunger strike' -- and it isn't Richard O'Rawe. read full story / add a comment
Daily Ireland front page (17 may 2006) on criticism of PSNI (story continued in paper)
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday May 17, 2006 13:25 by Ireland.Com & Daily Ireland   text 2 comments (last - monday may 22, 2006 11:17)   image 1 image
Ireland.com breaking news Last updated: 17-05-06, 11:17

The funeral of Catholic schoolboy Michael McIlveen, who died after a sectarian attack, is taking place in Ballymena, Co Antrim. read full story / add a comment
Now it's UUP-UVF - just like in the days of Edward Carson and the Larne gun running
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday May 17, 2006 12:09 by Brian Feeney   image 1 image
"So farewell the PUP, instead of PUP/UVF it's now UUP/UVF....... For the UUP to take on board a member whose party represents the UVF, a group not even on ceasefire, which deals in drugs and prostitution in loyalist districts, is... assisted suicide"

With paisley's DUP up to their necks in Northern Resistance and imported South African arms where does that leave the unionist bluster about "terrorists" in government?

Biting sarcasm from Brian Feeney.
read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / other press Wednesday May 17, 2006 06:21 by Disgusted Republican   text 7 comments (last - sunday june 25, 2006 11:22)
Families of the 1981 hunger strikers along with H-block protest veterans have denounced Sinn Fein's main support group in the United States for selling plates commemorating the death fast. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / other press Wednesday May 17, 2006 00:53 by Phuq Hedd   text 29 comments (last - thursday july 06, 2006 18:20)
One of the most famous celebrity islamophobes has been exposed as a fraud and is fleeing Holland to join the payroll of the American Enterprise Institute. Cited often on Indymedia and other venues as an exemplar of feminist criticism of "islamofascists" it turns out that many details of her ordeal at the hands of Somali islamicists may be false.

The fact that she is so allied to neocons ought to give pause to those that are too enthusiastic in their blanket attacks on Islam. Of course it doesn't discredit /all/ critics of Islam, or even some of her own criticisms, but it does show that such criticisms are happily amplified and exploited by sinister forces. read full story / add a comment
The Socialist #16 - May2006
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday May 16, 2006 22:32 by SP Online   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 18, 2006 16:20)   image 1 image
The May 2006 issue of The Socialist (#16) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday May 16, 2006 20:16 by RSF
Irish Republican Information Service (no. 66)
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: saoirse@iol.ie
Date: 15 Bealtaine / May 2006 read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / other press Tuesday May 16, 2006 20:11 by James Mullin   text 3 comments (last - thursday may 18, 2006 01:02)
The traditional view of Irish history is based on the premise that the Irish people had a moral right to fight for their political, economic, social and cultural independence from Imperialist Britain.

According to Dr. Christine Kinealy,(A New History of Ireland, This Great Calamity, etc.) an opposing view began to emerge in Ireland in the 1930s, when a number of leading Irish Academics, following the lead of earlier British historians, set an agenda for the systematic revision of traditional Irish History, which they claimed was rife with “nationalist myths”. Their declared mission was to replace this so-called mythology with objective, “value-free history”.

In her essay, “Beyond Revisionism”, Dr. Kinealy says that the revisionist movement gained a new prominence in the battle for Irish hearts and minds during the 1960’s when the IRA campaign intensified: “Challenging nationalist mythology became an important ideological preoccupation of a new generation of historians”. read full story / add a comment
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