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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

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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 / sci-tech / other press Thursday February 03, 2005 13:45 by cousin penelope
OSSIM is an anacronym for Open Source Security Information Management.

It is an open source internet security code developed by a spanish group of IT security professionals with economic assistance from the Spanish government (Aznar and Zapatero regimes) the French Republic and a bunch of Germans a bunch of Americans and is now being used in computers all over the world. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday February 03, 2005 13:21 by cousin georgie   text 4 comments (last - tuesday january 31, 2006 12:54)
Here follows the complete text of the 43rd President of the USA "state of the Union" address to the institutions of government of the emergent democracy of the North America.

It is important and of Irish interest for several reasons, which can be summarised thusly-

the USA is an important trade partner of the EU and Ireland. We do a lot of business with them.
Most of the citizens of the USA speak a dialect of English which we can readily misunderstand.

(It is rumoured on Opus Dei websites [subscription only] that the USA has since the end of the last really really big European war been subject to a power struggle between "corporations" (who own the news and best sneaker brands and make cars) & a sinister group of hooded tattooed basque speakers known as "bonesmen".) read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 02, 2005 13:37 by dalai lama   text 33 comments (last - saturday april 22, 2006 03:40)   image 5 images
Nepal rhymes with
Bhopal
and Venepal.

It's a weird place, no foreigners were let in for a long time, and it's the only country to officialy have a pedent shaped flag instead of the usual rectangle or square variety. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 02, 2005 10:00 by cleaves
Never before in modern history has the sensibility of the population been so anaesthetised. And never before will such a high price be extracted for the failure to reign in nefarious groups that have taken control of the major institutions of power.

While we brood in self-involved distraction, our options are being slowly but effectively eroded and our hard-won liberties are being curtailed. Yet where is the reactive response to these occurrences? With the exception of the people of conscience, inertia and apathy has permeated the majority. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday February 01, 2005 15:31 by cleaves
Throughout human history people have sought (or accepted) leadership in one form or another. Whether the subservient mentality manifests as identification to a pre-existing belief system or the need to follow another human being – the result is subjection. Forfeiting one’s sovereignty in either or both cases relegates the subscriber to subservience. Anthropologists and sociologists accept this behaviour as a fundamental aspect of human society and an essential element in the formation of ‘civilised’ societies. This particular worldview is now taken as a given social reality. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / other press Tuesday February 01, 2005 13:46 by Rosebud   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 01, 2005 22:29)
IBEC regional president Jim Hoey said businesses in Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim were no longer prepared to simply accept major increases in rates and other charges without question. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / other press Tuesday February 01, 2005 13:15 by SDR
Gardaí in Cork were yesterday investigating an incident in which a 36
year-old Romanian slashed his wrists and threatened to cut his throat
after he was refused entry to the country. read full story / add a comment
clare / crime and justice / other press Tuesday February 01, 2005 11:46 by Rosebud
'The Oireachtas had not empowered a District Court judge to manage the health status, social activities and/or lifestyle of a resident of their district. The threat of an indeterminate remand in custody could have no basis in law and the conditions of bail were not in any way rationally connected to ensuring the integrity of a criminal trial.' read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Tuesday February 01, 2005 10:58 by Rosebud
"Before Christmas, an RTÉ colleague told the news reporter that Ireland on Sunday had asked a photographer to follow Bird for a number of days, to see if he was in a new relationship.

When he challenged the newspaper, he was told he "was basically fair game, that they had picked up what they called 'tittle-tattle' on the street"." read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday February 01, 2005 06:04 by reposts
31 January 2005 – Reports of violence continue to come out of Sudan's western Darfur region and several routes in South Darfur state are currently closed for United Nations movement because of ongoing insecurity, the UN Advance Mission in Sudan (UNAMIS) said today. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Monday January 31, 2005 11:52 by pandabear
Save The Children is a global practising non governmental organisation based in the USA.

It works to safeguard the rights of the child globally.

Challenges which are very different from the tsunami zone of SE Asia, to Mozambique, to Darfur, to Brazil, children face different threats from desiese, war, natural disaster etc.,

Save the Children estimates that 14.5% of children in North America and Europe almost of all of whom can read and write and have got their vaccines and many of whom are guaranteed minimum levels of nutrition have arranged to meet a stranger through the internet. Often the stranger is not another kid, its an adult even if not a bogeyman michael jackson type, it could just be a sci tech war recruiter in a gamesroom.

Scary stuff. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday January 31, 2005 01:06 by hs   text 2 comments (last - monday january 31, 2005 15:46)
On the morning of January 19th, in the Ayacucho room of the Presidential Palace in Caracas, and with the presence of Venepal workers and trade union leaders, Chavez signed decree number 3438 which expropriates Venepal. From now on it will be co-managed by the workers and the state.

full article


http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/venepal_nationalised.htm read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday January 31, 2005 00:19 by Hilda ogden   text 3 comments (last - monday january 31, 2005 16:54)
Senior member of NF kills himself during bizarre sex act.
Kristian Etchells 29 was found dead in a store cupboard in his oldham flat with black kettle flex round his neck and with a picture of a woman dressed as a school girl on the floor. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Monday January 31, 2005 00:09 by hs
By OLIVIA McGILL

TEGUCIGALPA — Indigenous people are probably the most marginalized in Honduran society. Many communities live under constant fear of losing the land they live on, despite obligations under national and international law, the government has failed to provide them with deeds to protect their right to live on and use the land. Disputes with landowners, multinational logging companies and tourist enterprises over the recognition of land rights have led to abuses against indigenous leaders, including violence, intimidation, death threats and assassinations. The authorities have consistently failed to properly investigate such abuses or to offer adequate protection against them.

full article:
http://www.marrder.com/htw/special/environment/114.htm read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday January 30, 2005 22:02 by Yoshie Furuhashi
Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is now betting against the dollar. "I'm short the dollar," says Gates. "The ol' dollar, it's gonna go down." Will the dollar be one day the target of attacks by hedge funds? Recently the dollar rallied a bit, but short-term fluctuations aside, the dollar has nowhere to go but down. Gradually or suddenly and precipitously? It may be possible to engineer gradual devaluation of the dollar and stimulate US export, shrinking the US trade deficit, but it turns out that "the US does not have adequate manufacturing capacity to eliminate the external deficit," according to David Hale. That means that the US power elite will demand that the US working class reduce consumption to haul the multinational ruling class out of the abyss of the US current-account deficit, at the same time as forcing the US working class to make greater and greater sacrifices as IED fodders, sinking further into the quagmire in Iraq. Can American workers fight back? read full story / add a comment
louth / racism & migration related issues / other press Saturday January 29, 2005 18:24 by A Student   text 6 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2005 18:39)
FOR years it was the dream of every self-respecting Irish student: after a year denouncing British oppression in the college bar, the only way to spend the summer was sipping Guinness surrounded by plastic leprechauns in a Boston pub. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Saturday January 29, 2005 14:30 by eeekkkk
Billmon sketches out the reasons why. See the related link. Great Blogger and the website Moon of Alabama is where his acolytes hang around
http://www.moonofalabama.org/ read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday January 28, 2005 16:34 by Creidhne   text 2 comments (last - saturday january 29, 2005 00:05)   image 1 image
A senior pentagon official resigns. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday January 28, 2005 14:50 by redjade   text 60 comments (last - saturday january 21, 2006 19:12)   image 3 images
→ American combat aircraft into Iranian airspace:
'' 'We have to know which targets to attack and how to attack them,' said one, speaking on condition of anonymity. '' read full story / add a comment
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