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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

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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.

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offsite link News Round-Up Tue Nov 18, 2025 01:47 | 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 The Doomed Attempt to Create Academic Journals That Nobody Pays For Mon Nov 17, 2025 19:46 | Dr Roger Watson
Is the academic publishing industry facing ruin from open access journals? Not likely, says Prof Roger Watson. There are some pretty fundamental problems with trying to run a journal that nobody pays for.
The post The Doomed Attempt to Create Academic Journals That Nobody Pays For appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How I Found Myself in the Middle of ?Anti-Fascist? Violence at UC Berkeley Mon Nov 17, 2025 17:14 | Andrew Doyle
Andrew Doyle was warned there would be trouble when he appeared at UC Berkeley for what was intended to be the final stop on Charlie Kirk's tour. Sure enough, he soon found himself in the middle of 'anti-fascist' violence.
The post How I Found Myself in the Middle of ‘Anti-Fascist’ Violence at UC Berkeley appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Science Career Bias Against Women Debunked After Study is Repeated Mon Nov 17, 2025 15:12 | Will Jones
A landmark study that claimed men enjoy an unfair advantage in scientific careers has been debunked after a nearly identical rerun of the experiment finds the opposite is true: it's women who have the unfair advantage.
The post Science Career Bias Against Women Debunked After Study is Repeated appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Are Economically Literate Americans More Right-Wing? Mon Nov 17, 2025 13:00 | Noah Carl
Two academics gave a test of economic literacy to a representative sample of Americans. Men scored higher than women, the old scored higher than the young, and Republicans scored higher than Democrats.
The post Are Economically Literate Americans More Right-Wing? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday March 22, 2006 17:08 by Zoe Lawlor
The University of Limerick Palestine Solidarity Society is hosting an international conference entitled:
Towards Peace & Justice in Palestine and Israel,
Venue: Jean Monnet Theatre 1st & 2nd April 2006.
Admission Free read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday March 22, 2006 14:32 by Global Women's Strike Ireland
Report back of the Global Women’s Strike’s eight-country delegation of grassroots women and men to Venezuela, featuring a rough-cut of a new film, the fourth in a series of Strike films on Venezuela. .. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 22, 2006 12:57 by Alan McSimion
A small band of fringe nationalists decided to stop the Love Ulster parade. There is no question but that crowd of loyalists are sectarian bigots. During a protest against the release of republican prisoners as part of the Good Friday agreement, their leader, Willie Frazer, was asked about loyalist murder gang prisoners. “They should never have been locked up in the first place,” he replied. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday March 22, 2006 02:22 by gan
As mainstream media and unrepresentative governments narrow the scope and range of social discourse, the public network has exploded with millions of ‘voices’ that continue the public discourse in a social space conveniently created by the forces that fear free expression most. The blogosphere is without competition as the primary body of free speech in today’s digital age. It is not unexpected that the content and character of independent speech is in contrast and opposition to the mainstream discourse of minority interests. It would seem that attempts to limit and tailor the social debate have resulted in unexpected consequences. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 22, 2006 00:55 by Paul   text 37 comments (last - tuesday march 28, 2006 13:50)
This is just a brilliant analysis on how Sistani is portrayed in western media. As somebody who has been swallowing the western media propaganda on the distinction between Sistani the quietist and the Iranian revolutionary style ayatollahs, this essays blows the supposed difference out of the water. It does make you wonder is the media (outside of a few honourable exceptions) deliberately simplistic or truly ignorant read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday March 22, 2006 00:53 by Cearbhuil   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 22, 2006 01:03)
Gilardo was released later on this evening. Thanks to international pressure and solidarity. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday March 21, 2006 22:10 by Gaz B
SIPTU are claiming that 25 Hungarian workers at the spencer dock construction site have been paid as little as €4.50 an hour with no overtime, payslips or pension .

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dublin / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday March 21, 2006 20:34 by DSF   text 4 comments (last - monday april 10, 2006 12:30)
Dublin Sinn Féin to re-launch "Socialism Made Easy". read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Tuesday March 21, 2006 20:32 by Dunphy Watcher   text 3 comments (last - wednesday march 22, 2006 23:31)
Veteran broadcaster Dunphy blasts misuse of Dáil privilege over Frank Connolly affair , speaks passionately in favour of the Rossport Five in this Daily Ireland interview and slams the profession that he is involved in: The Media!
I know he is never consistent but some of the quotes here are classics, angry and on the money.

“We live in a corrupt society, and the corrupt people are not going to go to the barricades to save Frank Connolly."

“It has not changed for the better, no. Journalism now in Ireland is much weaker than it was when I began, which is now 27 years ago. It does not have the crusading zeal that it had. It’s much more interested in celebrity, style and stories about people’s personal lives."

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international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 21, 2006 19:20 by David Manning
The Bloody Shoe Shines

RTE distorts the level of deaths inflicted upon ordinary Iraqis. Senator Brendan Daly likens Shannon protestors to Saddam's minions. John Waters okays an illegal war and lays the blame at the feet of the 'perverse' public.

It is not just Bertie Ahern that shines the shoes of those in power. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday March 21, 2006 17:00 by Maryam Namazie   text 11 comments (last - monday march 27, 2006 14:03)
March for Free Expression

What and When
A Rally in Trafalgar Square between 2:00pm and 4:00pm on Saturday March 25th 2006.
Speakers

* Evan Harris, MP. Lib Dem human rights spokesman
* Maryam Namazie, Broadcaster & Human Rights Campaigner
* Keith Porteous Wood, National Secular Society
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / other press Tuesday March 21, 2006 16:59 by Slimes Reader
Article from todays Irish Times, reposted in full because the Slimes is paid-restricted. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday March 21, 2006 16:53 by Shauna   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 23, 2006 17:34)
Ógra Shinn Féin has called on the British Minister Angela Smith to resign for failing to budget to meet the education entitlement of children across the five Education and Library Board areas. Pierce Gormley, Ógra Shinn Fein Education spokesperson went on to praise the BELB members lead by Sinn Fein who refused to support further cuts to schools services.
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international / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday March 21, 2006 16:40 by Darren Mac an Phríora   text 3 comments (last - thursday march 23, 2006 16:23)
Beidh Tóstal na Gaeilge, mór-ócáid na Gaeilge 2006, ar siúl sa Corrib Great Southern Hotel, Gaillimh, ar an 24 & 25 Márta. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 21, 2006 14:43 by Hilda
Holyland residents can let out a sigh of relief, as St Patricks day, passed by. Most families evacuated their children out of the Holylands in an effort to preserve the magic of St Patricks day, but those that remained again had to endure the depraved behaviour of our future professionals, middle classes and SDLP voters.

Only 1.2% of the student population is from a poor or working class background, you've only to look at the top range model cars the students of the Holylands drive, to see they're all from money backgrounds, with the bad manners and disassociated aloofness of the snooty rich. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 21, 2006 12:19 by Jack White
Just as the cartoons simplified and obscured the reality of Muslim attitudes, the media coverage caricatured and simplified the debate. The real world was much less black and white then the media portrayal. Jllands-Posten was eventually revealed not to be a brave defier of censorship but a source of anti immigrant rhetoric, whose owner had campaigned for Muslims to be expelled from Denmark and who had, in 2003, refused to publish cartoons depicting Christ on the grounds that they were offensive! On the other side it emerged that hardline Danish imams had toured the cartoons around the Muslim world for months, and even added their own! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday March 21, 2006 11:44 by Sinéad Ní Bhroin
Urgent Action Appeal

Protest Against the Repression of Korean Anti-War Activists by the Roh Moo-hyun Government
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday March 21, 2006 10:41 by T
This reports questions whether the Iraqi War has entered what is called the "My Lai" phase of the war which refers of course to earlier atrocities by American soldiers working for imperialism back in the Vietnam war. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday March 21, 2006 10:10 by Úna Méabh Ní Earáin   text 2 comments (last - monday april 03, 2006 18:14)
Oíche shóisialta ar son Ghaeil óga Bhéal Feirste read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday March 21, 2006 04:47 by Our Los Angeles Correspondent
This American Life is an audio chronicle of the weird, the prosaic, the extraordinary, the beautiful and the disgusting in the massively diverse country called the United States of America. It is frequently an amazing show, containing memories of disturbing childhoods, hilarious miscapades and cunning hipster pranks. But no episode has reached the level of the 10th March 2006 episode "Habeas Schmabeas". read full story / add a comment
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