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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 Good Riddance to Police and Crime Commissioners Sat Nov 15, 2025 07:00 | Paul Birch
Time is up for the most pointless layer of officialdom of modern times. In a rare moment of good sense, the Labour Government is abolishing Police and Crime Commissioners. It's not a moment too soon, says Paul Birch.
The post Good Riddance to Police and Crime Commissioners appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Nov 15, 2025 01:08 | Toby Young
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.
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offsite link BBC ?Indoctrinating Children With Pro-Trans Agenda? Fri Nov 14, 2025 17:13 | Will Jones
The BBC has been accused of "indoctrinating" children with pro-trans programmes after a number of children's shows broadcast by the corporation uncritically presented activist perspectives.
The post BBC “Indoctrinating Children With Pro-Trans Agenda” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link RedBird Pulls Out of Telegraph Takeover Amid China Link Concerns Fri Nov 14, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
The US private equity firm RedBird Capital Partners has pulled out of its bid for control of the Telegraph amid concerns over foreign state control and links to China.
The post RedBird Pulls Out of Telegraph Takeover Amid China Link Concerns appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The BBC: My Part In Its Downfall Fri Nov 14, 2025 13:21 | Iain Macwhirter
BBC staff have always been very Left-wing, but they used to avoid letting it show. That all changed in 2014, first with climate change, then trans, then anything 'Right-wing'. It's been a disaster, says Iain Macwhirter.
The post The BBC: My Part In Its Downfall appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday December 23, 2006 22:55 by Ciaron   text 4 comments (last - wednesday december 27, 2006 04:55)
For the Christian exploring radical salvation history and seeking to be faithful in a time of escalating and expanding imperial war on the Middle East, the co-option of the Christmas season by the state is always a problem. How do we remain faithful in a context where our radical traditions and stories are being co-opted to feed rampant consumerism that drives the ever expanding market and diminishes finite ecology? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday December 23, 2006 09:41 by Paul Doran   text 6 comments (last - friday december 29, 2006 23:48)
The following is a video made by US Marines and posted on the youtube video sharing website.
Parodying the US show "Extreme Makeover" the soldiers set about rigging the home of an innocent Iraqi family with explosives and razing it to the gound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKVwNUzF5kU read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Saturday December 23, 2006 04:10 by Kevin Higgins
The 2007 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase
featuring Mary O’Malley, Colette Nic Aodha, Tom Duddy, Marion Moynihan, Sandra Bunting, Celeste Augé, John Walsh, Neil McCarthy & Stephen Murray

8pm, Friday, February, 9th

Sheridan's Wine Bar,
(above Sheridan's Cheesemongers)
14-16 Church Yard Street, Galway

For further details phone 087-6431748

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galway / arts and media / event notice Saturday December 23, 2006 03:53 by Kevin Higgins
Todd Swift is a Canadian poet, currently based in London. He edited the groundbreaking anthology '100 Poets Against The War', published by Salt Publishing at the outset of the Iraq war in March 2003.

He will be reading at the Over The Edge fourth anniversary reading in Galway City Library.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday December 22, 2006 15:29 by Stuart   text 12 comments (last - tuesday december 20, 2011 05:26)
The Health and Safety Authority (http://www.hsa.ie) published new draft guidelines on the prevention and resolution of workplace bullying. Interested parties are invited to submit comments and observations to the Public Consultation Phase on the draft by the 16th of January 2007 before the guidelines become a Code of Practice with legal force.

The new Code does not compel the assessment of bullying within Safety Statements, the production of monitoring information about workplace bullying episodes, transparent procedures or objective investigation of bullying complaints. No State authority is nominated with responsibility to enforce effective measures to reduce workplace bullying behaviour.

As such it is a cosmetic measure that can be misused as a charter to bully. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday December 22, 2006 14:05 by BELFAST BASQUE COMMITTEE
SOLIDARITY WITH BASQUE POLITICAL PRISONER ON HUNGER STRIKE read full story / add a comment
waterford / animal rights / event notice Friday December 22, 2006 12:52 by John Tierney
Anti-hunt protest planned for the 26th December 2006 in Tramore Co. Waterford.

The Association of Hunt Saboteurs and BadgerWatch Ireland are holding its annual anti-hunt protest at the St. Stephen’s Day meet of the Waterford Foxhounds in Tramore Co. Waterford.

John Tierney, Campaigns Director AOHS says: “Animal rights organisations intend making animal rights an election issue in the 2007 general election.”

“It is time for our legislators to deal with the issue of bloodsports for once and for all. They must carry out the wishes of their electors who do not wish to have our wildlife abused and killed for entertainment.”

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday December 22, 2006 08:45 by peptide
As America faces the most calamitous military misadventure in its history, the administration offers unqualified slogans rather than detailed plans to remedy the horror it created in Iraq. The American mass media is now buzzing with the sound of nothing meaningful. The Bush administration has resorted to contextually meaningless slogans in its efforts to dupe an increasingly sceptical public. The latest inane slogans saturating the airwaves are “win” and “way forward”. Only adolescents and the daft invest meaning in unqualified slogans – shall we test the latest two slogans and attempt to determine the ruse behind the deception? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday December 22, 2006 08:17 by sophia
A broad-based network of U.S.-based activists, grassroots organizations, and their allies are betting that this is a time when a U.S. Social Forum could be a vehicle for moving a social, environmental and economic justice agenda to center stage.
The U.S. Social Forum planning effort grew out of a series of consultations held in 2003 between activists in the United States and members of the World Social Forum International Council. Grassroots Global Justice (GGJ), a national alliance of U.S.-based grassroots organizations, facilitated the process, including a 2004 meeting of 50 grassroots organizations in Washington, D.C.

The 22 organizations spearheading the planning came of age in response to varying forms of community displacement resulting from the last 20-plus years of neoliberal economic policies. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday December 22, 2006 03:00 by TJ
The New York Times is reporting that : Gazprom, the Russian energy monopoly, bought control of the world’s largest combined oil and natural gas development yesterday after a highly publicized campaign of pressure on its foreign operator, Royal Dutch Shell.
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leitrim / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 21, 2006 22:58 by Sylvia
The Al Jazeera website is reporting that Royal Dutch Shell is evacuating about 400 of the dependants of its expatriate staff from the Niger Delta to Lagos after fighters planted a car bomb in a residential compound earlier in the week. The stimulus to evacuate was engendered by another attack today when armed men stormed Total's Rivers state oil facility killing three police officers. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday December 21, 2006 22:26 by Dunlo   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 24, 2007 12:14)
The New York Times is currently reporting that the United States and Britain will soon move additional warships and strike aircraft into the Persian Gulf region to be within striking range of Iran. Senior U.S. officers told the paper that the increase in naval power should not be viewed as preparations for any offensive strike against Iran. But they acknowledged that the ability to hit Iran would be increased. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 21, 2006 16:20 by OZ
The killing of local aboriginal man Mulruniji by Snr. Sgt. Chris Hurley on Palm Island, Queensland, that resulted in a spontaneous riot and deployment of paramilitary police will not lead to the charging of the police officer concerned. In the history of the state of Queensland that has seen many aboriginal deaths in custody not one police officer has ever faced charges. This killing was captured in the watchhouse CCTV, the coroner put the cause of death squarely on Snr. Sgt. Hurley. The Queenlsland Labor Govt. has decided not to pursue charges. see link for more info http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/12/134272.php read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 21, 2006 04:29 by barra
It’s Official, marijuana represents the USA’s most lucrative locally grown product – at $200 billion/annum, corn, wheat and potatoes are chicken feed. While U.S. borders seep various powdered imports it’s good ol’ home grown pot that makes the bankers smile. The USA is drowning in contraband and the negative social ramifications of the neo-PROHIBITION of unenlightened conservative beliefs – when will they ever learn? read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday December 20, 2006 22:05 by Residents Against Racism   text 6 comments (last - friday december 22, 2006 02:32)
No Room at the Inn demo/vigil

Residents Against Racism will be holding a vigil at the christmas tree near the spire to demonstrate against the recent deportation last to Tuesday to Nigeria where mother was deported without children read full story / add a comment
armagh / politics / elections / other press Wednesday December 20, 2006 20:48 by Charlie Kerins   text 27 comments (last - thursday january 04, 2007 22:27)
Davy Hyland and Pat O'Rawe have both been de-selected from contesting the forthcoming assembly elections.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6194757.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/619...9.stm read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 20, 2006 20:48 by TJ   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 21, 2006 19:47)
Today's Guardian is reporting that : The state-owned Russian group,Gazprom, is close to taking control of Shell's Sakhalin-2 project with Shell chief executive Jeroen van der Veer making a third trip to Moscow in as many weeks to tie up the final details of the agreement.

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national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday December 20, 2006 17:45 by Media monitor   text 9 comments (last - saturday december 23, 2006 17:09)
The Government is seeking to delete key parts of a European Parliament report that criticises Ireland for allowing its airports to be used by CIA aircraft linked to rendition. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday December 20, 2006 15:20 by Terence   text 3 comments (last - thursday january 04, 2007 19:26)
One of the high ranking nut-cases in the Pentagon, Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, an Air Force commander and the Defense Department’s deputy director for the “war on terrorism" has warned last week that the “global war on terror” will go on for another 50 to 100 years and voiced concern that “politics” not be allowed to interfere with the protracted struggle

Who are these people? Such argument if it can be even called that, shows how depraved those in power are. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 20, 2006 14:23 by jim travers   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 20, 2006 16:00)
The Moriarity Tribunal has given us a clear indication of the past state of Irish politics. if we are to learn anything, it should be that political life must be more carefully scrutinised and that initatives proposed by politicians must be more openly debated before taxpayers are asked to pay for such proposals. Charlie was not a bad man, he was just give toys to play with and his friends made the game more real. read full story / add a comment
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