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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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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 Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 [1] Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:48 | Mark

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offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

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offsite link Humiliation for Police Scotland as it Drops Case Against Women?s Rights Campaigner in Brollygate Row Fri Nov 07, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Police Scotland has been left humiliated after it was forced to drop its case against a women's rights campaigner for allegedly damaging a trans activist's umbrella in what's been dubbed the 'brollygate' row.
The post Humiliation for Police Scotland as it Drops Case Against Women’s Rights Campaigner in Brollygate Row appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Oatly CEO Admits ?Climate Doom? Marketing Has Backfired as Sales Plummet Fri Nov 07, 2025 15:04 | Lee Taylor
Oatly's CEO has admitted that the company?s 'climate doom' marketing has backfired as sales plummet. It turns out that terrifying people into buying oat milk isn't a sustainable business model, says Lee Taylor.
The post Oatly CEO Admits ‘Climate Doom’ Marketing Has Backfired as Sales Plummet appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour?s National Curriculum Review Risks Being a Trojan Horse for Smuggling Left-Wing Agendas Into ... Fri Nov 07, 2025 13:00 | Amanda Spielman
Labour's National Curriculum review is finally out. While it's much better than feared, there's a clear risk it will be a Trojan Horse for smuggling Left-wing agendas into schools, warns Amanda Spielman.
The post Labour’s National Curriculum Review Risks Being a Trojan Horse for Smuggling Left-Wing Agendas Into Schools appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link 10 Stupid Studies Costing ?23 Million That Rachel Reeves Could Have Easily Cut Fri Nov 07, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
The Government is wasting astronomical sums of money and has no excuse to tax the nation more, says Charlotte Gill. Behold, here are 10 examples of stupid university projects costing taxpayers ?23 million.
The post 10 Stupid Studies Costing ?23 Million That Rachel Reeves Could Have Easily Cut appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The False Temperature Claims That Underpin the COP30 Alarmist Agenda Fri Nov 07, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
COP30 kicks off soon and expect to hear the usual climate scare stories on repeat across the obedient media. It's all based on false claims about global temperatures that real science disputes, says Chris Morrison.
The post The False Temperature Claims That Underpin the COP30 Alarmist Agenda appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday February 15, 2006 14:30 by pat c   text 8 comments (last - friday february 17, 2006 13:27)   image 1 image
Some see religion as a disease of the mind. Richard Dawkins describes it as a malign virus of the mind spread through memes. But religion also spreads physical diseases and viruses. The article below might well prove to be an eyeopener for some.

You can find Richard Dawkins Viruses of the Mind at:
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi//Dawkins/viruses-of-th....html

Jack Woodall who wrote the article below is the director of the Nucleus for the Investigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the department of medical biochemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. jwoodall@the-scientist.com

pat c
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday February 15, 2006 13:59 by Shannon   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 21, 2006 03:42)
The US government sent our troops into Iraq siting the posession of "weaponds of mass destruction" as the reason to enter. We've found none. As a result, the government is now telling us that we still needed to be there because it is a country accomodating terrorist organizations. Thousands of US troops and Iraqi civilians have been killed as a result of this "war on terror." Now, as I read an article in the Guardian about "The Long War" I cannot help wondering if the fighting will ever end. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Tuesday February 14, 2006 22:18 by Liam Mullen
As part of the 2003 Wexford Festival Opera, the Dublin writer Hugo Hamilton gave a talk about his new work – The speckled People. A tall thin man, dressed in black, Hugo stepped up to the podium in the children’s section of Wexford Library and began to speak softly about his latest work. read full story / add a comment
Tony Bliar-guilty of murder
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday February 14, 2006 19:11 by Starstruck   image 1 image
As the violence and senseless bloodshed conti ues in Iraq John Pilger takes a look at what many are describing as the "new Vietnam".
I'd call it murder. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday February 14, 2006 17:24 by pat c
At last some backbone is shown by one of the larger parties. Labour have stood up against Islamic Fundamentalism. In the piece below, Liz McManus criticises the way the President was allowed to address a\meeting in Saudi Arabia where women were kept behind an opaque screen.

Women are treated like animals in Saudi Arabia where the mullahs \wield abnsolute power. This is what the Irish mullahs dream of.

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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday February 14, 2006 11:56 by Oliver Delaney
This is an article in this week's Sunday Mirror article about RTE's celebrity businessman ripping off migrant workers read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday February 13, 2006 23:15 by redjade   text 4 comments (last - saturday march 04, 2006 01:59)
»Perhaps what is most disturbing about her blog post is that the raid did not seem to be directed at her - this is just 'normal' life in Baghdad - Iraq's 'New Normal';« read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Monday February 13, 2006 22:13 by freek
Irish Farmers Journal reports the IFA and ICMSA and Macra na Feirme Ireland three largest farming bodies make no submissions on GM??

Why is that? I call shenanigans
http://www.gmfreeireland.org/ifm/index.php

It is the bioethics ctte who look at the ethics of GMO http://www.bioethics.ie/pdfs/GM%20Report1.pdf
The survey at the end is overwhelming negative. Yet they call for consumer choice!! I don't think trials would get sabotaged if people felt that there was a level playing field between the public and enviromental safety and corporations influence, even with biotethics committees and EPA environmentalists. The Bio-ethics Ctte conclusions are all very sensible but again I don't think the reflects the forces for and against GMO, the bioethics survey for Ireland and the well publicised GM Debate in the UK are overwhelmingly negative. There is this phrase "consumer choice", does the average consumer have choice in the USA to buy GM or not I don't think they do.

Just as this one is. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday February 13, 2006 20:05 by gerard   text 10 comments (last - saturday february 18, 2006 23:47)   image 2 images
WE ARE A NATION AND WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE! read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday February 12, 2006 23:10 by Elephant O'Room   text 6 comments (last - friday february 24, 2006 15:21)
In a Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast on Monday, Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, will be accused of security lapses, dirty aircraft and making its cabin crew and pilots work dangerously long hours. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 12, 2006 05:04 by furlong
Faced with the undeniable and now unavoidable truth of the criminality of the Bush, Blair and Howard governments, what do you suppose are the consequences for these men? People are fined for parking and littering offences but murder and plunder on an international scale incurs no penalty it would seem. [The ICC is a puppet court, an institution with zero credibility.] Is the lack of legal and public response surprising? Advice from leading consultants and ‘people managers’ was/is unanimous; once a decision is acted upon by a government and a nation is committed to a particular course, the people are swept along regardless of compromising evidence released during or after the event. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday February 12, 2006 02:53 by Fedayeen   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 12, 2006 04:04)
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine unsuccessfully tried to unite all the Palestinian left on one list in the recent elections for the Palestinian Parliament. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 11, 2006 21:37 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - sunday february 12, 2006 22:25)
“The Agency is bound by law to investigate and pursue any act which potentially represents sedition,” read full story / add a comment
Car Luas (The Track Star?)
dublin / miscellaneous / other press Friday February 10, 2006 21:09 by Fin   image 1 image
An idiot or an idiot car thief left a car on the Luas track just at Rialto Bridge. Luckily there were no injuries and it was soon removed. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday February 09, 2006 17:34 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - saturday february 11, 2006 16:55)   image 2 images
"World War III will be a guerrilla information war, with no division between
military and civilian participation." - Marshall McLuhan
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday February 09, 2006 12:15 by Grandpa Munster   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 21:14)
Al Lewis, the actor who played Grandpa Munster in the 1960s TV sitcom
Grandpa Munster actor was a firm socialist until the end

The Munsters, died in New York last Friday at the age of 95.
In the 1960s, Grandpa Munster — the cigar-smoking vampire father-in-law of the Frankenstein’s monster-like Herman on The Munsters — was a regular presence on television screens from Cairo to Chicago, and Belfast to Buenos Aires.
JIM DEE Daily Ireland USA correspondent
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday February 08, 2006 21:34 by browser
Adding this here as it references alot of stuff on this site and is to interest to this site. Its seems Rory is using his connections to get published its a question though is he as good as writer as his contact, this piece is alittle of everything and not as verbose. But a timely reminder that perhaps its time for an education category on this site? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 08, 2006 12:22 by Robert Bechert   text 6 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 19:32)
The angry worldwide Muslim protests against the publication of cartoons depicting Muhammad in various European newspapers have shown again the enormous anger provoked amongst Muslims by Bush’s “war on terror” and the invasion of Iraq. However the issue that has sparked off these protests and their character has renewed discussion about a war of civilisations or of cultures. These developments are a sharp warning of the divisive tensions can develop in the absence of a strong socialist workers’ movement offering a class alternative. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday February 07, 2006 06:58 by nano
US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, recently announced the ‘war on terror’ would be re-named “the long war”; this announcement has not surprised analysts who are aware that neo-con ideologues and strategists follow the Straussian (and perverted Trotskyist) doctrine of permanent war. Some interpret this as nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of the Cold War in which a clearly defined enemy (communist bogeymen) kept the nation on permanent alert and amenable to the powers of the time. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 05, 2006 21:21 by hs   text 3 comments (last - monday february 06, 2006 20:28)
After the "cartoon scandal", a re look if socialists and muslims can work together, without socialists compremishing progressive beliefs such as equal rights for all people regardless of gender, sexuality, religion or race. read full story / add a comment
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