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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 Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

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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 Take Back Migrants or Face Visa Ban, Says Home Secretary Mon Nov 17, 2025 11:29 | Will Jones
Countries that refuse to take back illegal migrants from Britain?will face visa bans, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to announce as part of a crackdown on immigration. But Labour MPs are getting uncomfortable.
The post Take Back Migrants or Face Visa Ban, Says Home Secretary appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Police Admit Unlawful Arrest of Parents who Complained about School Mon Nov 17, 2025 09:00 | Jonathan Barr
Hertfordshire police have admitted that their arrest of Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine ? two parents who complained about their daughter's school on WhatsApp ? was unlawful, and agreed a ?20,000 payout.
The post Police Admit Unlawful Arrest of Parents who Complained about School appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The UN?s Contempt for Democracy Mon Nov 17, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
It would be premature to celebrate "the failure of this COP meeting," writes Ben Pile, "and it is the broader conversations around the UN that shed light on why we should resist global climate politics."
The post The UN?s Contempt for Democracy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Nov 17, 2025 00:50 | Jonathan Barr
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 Exposed: The Hoax that Targeted Health Freedom Sun Nov 16, 2025 19:33 | Jeffrey A. Tucker
A couple of activists visited the Children's Health Defence conference to get attendees to endorse a fake study while on film. Their plot was foiled, and they were confronted by Brownstone Institute's Jeffrey A. Tucker.
The post Exposed: The Hoax that Targeted Health Freedom appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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donegal / eu / event notice Sunday May 14, 2006 12:20 by redjade
The conference will open with a keynote address by Marian Harkin, independent Member of the European Parliament for the North West of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday May 14, 2006 09:41 by Afri
Christy Moore and Dr. Owens Wiwa, Vincent and Maureen McGrath

to Lead Annual Famine Walk from Doolough to Louisburgh

on Saturday May 20th 2006

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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 04:02 by Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha   text 1 comment (last - sunday may 14, 2006 04:07)
In a letter to the Ombudsman of the Danish Parliament, staff at the Danish Prime Minister's Office have invoked "very wide powers of discretion" under the legislation, to defend Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's persistent refusal to be interviewed by prize-winning journalist Bo Elkjær.

In response, Elkjær points out that Fogh promised to give him an interview when they met at the offices of the Danish Union of Journalists in Copenhagen in January 2004. On that occasion, Elkjær had just been awarded the prestigious Cavling Prize for his work in exposing the lies by which Fogh and his cabinet persuaded the parliament to support Denmark's invasion of Iraq.

By Elkjær's account, staff at the Prime Minister's Office have made the excuse that Mr Fogh "did not have space in his calendar," even though Elkjær has given the Prime Minister's Office complete freedom to set the time and place for an interview. Fogh's staff have repeatedly failed to keep promises that they "would call back".

One of Elkjær's intentions for an interview is to ask why, at a press conference on 21 March 2003, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen "emphasised a nuclear threat [from Iraq] that the government several days before, in an internal paper, had clearly and unequivocally rejected."

"It is clear from the records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the government had several days previously arrived at the definitive conclusion that Iraq did not have a nuclear weapons programme, or indeed any nuclear programme at all," says Elkjær.

Please read Billy O'Shea's translation of the latest exchange below. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Sunday May 14, 2006 00:45 by Earth First! Climate Caucus
July 15th will be an International Day of Action Against Climate Change. As G8 energy ministers promise trillions in new subsidies to the industries destroying our planet and our future, we will take action to shut them down! This is a call for autonomous, decentralized actions appropriate for your town, city, or bioregion. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 23:42 by DF   text 26 comments (last - friday march 20, 2009 17:57)

Critics of Hugo Chavez have renewed their charges of authoritarianism against the Venezuelan leader. How well do these claims stand up? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday May 13, 2006 16:37 by Green Ink   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 20, 2006 15:26)
An American satirist has given George W. Bush a concentrated recap of some of his immoral and illegal offences. Bush was a captive audience as the speech was delivered at a dinner attended by White House press correspondants- and he was sitting two seats from the speaker. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday May 13, 2006 12:55 by Sean O'Neill   text 3 comments (last - thursday march 01, 2007 15:15)
Time and tide waits for no man or woman the organisors of River fest in Limerick learned when canoeists had to wade ashore read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday May 13, 2006 12:49 by Joe Lynch
Hundredss of families in the Mid West were disappointed at being turned away from visiting a French naval ship in the port of Limerick because of an insurance cock up read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 10:24 by Sean Crudden
Nowadays none of us want to believe that we are living - or struggling to live - in a "top-down" patriarchal society. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 10:14 by Manus O'Riordan   text 5 comments (last - friday august 01, 2008 11:14)
Review:
Eoin O’Duffy – A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry, Oxford University Press, 2005, €35/£25

Fearghal McGarry first made his mark as a historian with Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War (1999), described by me as “the definitive textbook on the subject” in the Fall 2003 issue of Irish Literary Supplement. This was in the context of a review of his second book, Frank Ryan (2002), a biography criticised as both disappointing and sensationalist, with little evidence of the depth of research and analysis required to do justice to its subject. The hope was nonetheless expressed that the author’s future work would demonstrate a return to the “high standards of scholarship, balanced presentation and conscientious evaluation” that he had previously shown. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday May 13, 2006 00:52 by Millie R.   text 1 comment (last - friday may 19, 2006 21:46)
A snapshot at the fortunes of Ireland's top capitalist. Tony O'Reilly isn't going to be running out of money anytime soon. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday May 12, 2006 23:11 by Emma-Residents Against Racism   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 16, 2006 11:02)
This coming Thursday May 18th many asylum seekers have to sign at the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) for deportation from the Irish state. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / news report Friday May 12, 2006 19:21 by Chekov
An Irish Times editorial on May 1st laid out the various options open to the UN Security council for dealing with Iran’s nuclear threat. These options ranged "from a solemn statement warning Iran to comply to consideration of sanctions or military force under Chapter VII of the UN Charter." The paper of record nailed its colours to the mast by favouring negotiations and UN action while declaring that "military action by the US outside UN auspices would be a dangerous folly." read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Friday May 12, 2006 18:24 by Seaghán Ó Murchú   text 42 comments (last - wednesday august 09, 2006 23:34)
Seaghán Ó Murchú reviews Robert White's biography of Ruarí Ó Brádaigh. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Friday May 12, 2006 17:46 by Terry
On midnight on the 7th of May a small fishing boat from the village of Porturlin, 5 miles from Rossport, was involved in an incident with the Sedco 711, a rig platform hired by Shell to carry out work on the Corrib gas wellhead. read full story / add a comment
national / housing / press release Friday May 12, 2006 17:18 by Union of Students in Ireland
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has demanded the Government investigate fresh claims – this time from a member of Labour’s shadow Cabinet – that, in some cases, designated ‘Section 50’ student accommodation is being rented to the general public by rogue landlords. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Friday May 12, 2006 13:30 by ollie   text 2 comments (last - monday may 15, 2006 01:49)
a new book, of interest to indymedia types has just been published. It's called 'Uncertain Ireland: A Sociological Chronicle, 2003-2004

Topics covered include Rossport,the citizenship referendum, waste individualisation, farmers' markets, the george bush carol coleman interview and more.

C more at
http://www.ipa.ie/?id=63&categoryID=14&pubID=599&sc=1 read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Friday May 12, 2006 13:06 by Joao Soares   text 4 comments (last - saturday may 13, 2006 13:23)
A comlete dossire had made to studentes and all people.You have the technology and knowledge to spread renewable energies and find peace on Earth read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday May 12, 2006 11:28 by Bela Kun   text 1 comment (last - friday may 12, 2006 11:31)
The reactionaries are playing a dangerous game with Iran’s national interests.

From Nameh Mardom (official weekly paper of the Tudeh Party of Iran), no. 731, 2 February 2006
(Translated from Persian)

http://www.tudehpartyiran.org/english.htm
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday May 12, 2006 11:26 by sally
This series, produced by NEARfm, will offer an overview of the similarities and differences of community radio in Ireland. Listen to NEAR101.6 fm or to our live streaming www.nearfm.ie or the podcasts the week after programmes are being aired. read full story / add a comment
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