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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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dublin / politics / elections / event notice Tuesday January 31, 2006 18:55 by Conor.J.Mcgowan
On Thursday 02/February, Bertie Aherne will be in Belfield for the opening of an extension to the Science Building.
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international / sci-tech / other press Tuesday January 31, 2006 18:21 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 31, 2006 20:55)
Employees of members of the US Congress have been revealed to have been engaging in unethical behaviour on the collaborative online encylopedia "Wikipedia". read full story / add a comment
derry / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday January 31, 2006 18:01 by FEIC
FORMER US MARINE IN DERRY TO SPEAK ON WAR CRIMES

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FEIC UNVEIL PLAQUE TO REMEMBER VICTIMS OF THE ARMS TRADE Thurs 2nd Feb 2006

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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 31, 2006 18:01 by Alan MacSimoin   text 7 comments (last - saturday february 04, 2006 12:42)
Anarchists are usually pretty good at listing the things we are against: capitalism, racism, religious sectarianism, authoritarianism and so on. We are usually pretty good at explaining how best to struggle: direct democracy and mass direct action. Where we often fall down is in explaining what we want at the end of the day, and convincing our listeners that it is a realistic alternative rather than a utopian pipe dream. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday January 31, 2006 16:47 by Sean   text 3 comments (last - thursday february 02, 2006 13:41)
Organise! have called pickets of dunnes stores branches in Derry and Belfast city centre for 1 0'Clock this Friday in support of Joanne Delaney, a shop steward sacked for wearing her union badge. We are calling on comrades and groups to picket other local dunnes stores branches!

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limerick / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday January 31, 2006 15:04 by Mark O'Connor
... at 8pm sharp, Sat 4th Feb, Riddlers Bar, Limerick.
An evening of community, love, awareness, rock and roll, solidarity, and crack.
Admission – €5, Solidarity price – €10 read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Tuesday January 31, 2006 14:22 by green greenie   text 5 comments (last - saturday march 11, 2006 18:17)
“Our only litmus test for joining is that you’re serious about it. If you’ve party politics, you leave them at the door,” said Ms Sinnott, adding that she was only a ‘midwife’ to the birth of the forum. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday January 31, 2006 14:08 by W. Finnerty   text 31 comments (last - saturday december 23, 2006 12:32)
"To me, it feels as though I am being put through years, and years, of mental torture - with no sign of a let up - because certain cliques of public officials are putting themselves above the law: and, far more importantly, that they being allowed to get away with it indefinitely - simply because there is nobody in the legal profession willing to challenge them." read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday January 31, 2006 12:30 by Sean   text 2 comments (last - friday february 03, 2006 15:17)
Organise! have called pickets of dunnes stores branches in Derry and Belfast city centre for 1 0'Clock this Friday in support of Joanne Delaney, a shop steward sacked for wearing her union badge. We are calling on comrades and groups to picket other local dunnes stores branches, and come along this friday to the picket in Belfast.
Bring banners etc!

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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 31, 2006 02:23 by Seán Ryan   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 23, 2006 23:28)
Continuing the theme that the model of society is broken beyond repair, this submission challenges pseudo-traditional notions about employment and its benefits.

The Government is confronted often with logical arguments, which are often stated in very stark terms. read full story / add a comment
limerick / environment / event notice Monday January 30, 2006 23:43 by Rónán Kennedy
The International Commercial and Economic Law Research Group at the University of Limerick will run a series of seminars on environmental law in the Spring 2006 semester.

These seminars will deal with issues such as:

* climate change
* environmental enforcement in Ireland
* fisheries in the national and international contexts
* recent developments in domestic environmental law read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday January 30, 2006 20:48 by Seán Ryan   text 12 comments (last - thursday february 02, 2006 13:25)
A further submission following the recent theme of this contributer on the idea that it is not just an aspect of our society that has failed, but that the whole model of our society has failed and cannot be fixed. It must be replaced.

This piece makes some very strong accusations and then backs them up, some ideas are offered and the piece ends introducing the next piece to be added which will be on employment. read full story / add a comment
laois / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday January 30, 2006 18:10 by E.   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 12, 2006 00:58)
Amnesty Ireland Laois Group Banner Campaign 11.2.06 read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / news report Monday January 30, 2006 16:14 by iosaf   text 5 comments (last - tuesday january 31, 2006 14:42)
Finland like Ireland is a neutral state with a small population whose economic and social transformation is felt by its citizens to be thanks to its membership of the European Union.

It has re-elected Tarja Halonen as President for the next 6 years.

Her re-election ought be of interest to Irish readers, as her candidacy was completely supported by the Finnish Left Alliance party "Vasemmistoliitto" which founded in 1990 campaigns on a political platform of the "new global left" ; a party that promotes the ideals of the French Revolution - liberty, equality, and fraternity - in addition to peace and environmental values and is a member of the "Nordic Green Alliance" in the European parliament.
Finland will thus suceed Austria (another neutral) as president of the European Union in July 2006 as a socialist state to take part in the G8 Russia conference on "energy security".

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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday January 30, 2006 11:13 by Ploughshares   text 2 comments (last - monday january 30, 2006 11:21)
Anti War Vigil Against Refueling the U.S. War Machine at Shannon Airport
900 U.S. troops land daily at Shanon Airport En Route to the Invasion of Iraq read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday January 30, 2006 03:36 by Tommy Donnellan   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 02, 2006 01:33)
Hopefully, better late than never with this one but with the release of Spielberg's controversial "Munich," Neal Ascherson has painted a fair historical backdrop to the events loosely depicted in this film in an article entitled; "A master and the myths of Munich" in The Observer (Sun. Jan 15th, '06) - the documentary that he lauds in his article; MacDonalds "One Day in September" is available for purchase on Amazon.com and Amazon.UK (Region 1 only) read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday January 30, 2006 02:03 by Edward Horgan
Help stop the misuse of Shannon airport by US military in their unlawful war in Iraq.
Over 100,000 Iraqis are dead so far in this war, and up to 46% of these were children. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday January 29, 2006 14:12 by Justin Morahan
Mairead Corrigan Maguire talks about the Holocaust, the horror of Auschwitz, the world's silence, the importance of remembrance, the sanctity of life, justice, fear, the building of trust, nuclear weapons, Mordechai Vanunu's 20 year ordeal within Israel - and the new silence surrounding Vanunu read full story / add a comment
meath / environment / news report Sunday January 29, 2006 02:41 by Michael O'Callaghan   text 2 comments (last - sunday may 20, 2007 06:32)
The German company BASF Plant Science GmbH (an affilate of the giant transnational chemicals and drugs company BASF) has notified the EPA of its intention to deliberately release GMO potatoes into the environment 9km south of the Hill of Tara, on a 2 Ha plot at Arodstown, Summerhill, Co. Meath. The site is located 2km north of the R156 road between Dunboyne and Summerhill (approx. OS grid reference: N 885 500). If given the go-ahead, this would be the first Irish release of GMO crops since protestors ended Monsanto's GMO beet trials in 1998. The Notification submitted by BASF does not appear to include plans for any environmental impact assessment. Farmers, environmental groups and consumers have expressed total opposition to this unwanted experiment which would terminate Ireland's economically valuable GM-free status. The deadline for related public submissions to the EPA is 5pm on 22 February 2006. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Saturday January 28, 2006 23:30 by Frank Keoghan   text 3 comments (last - monday march 13, 2006 00:57)
Ireland and Europe
Alternatives to Neoliberalism
Conference
9.30am to 4pm • Saturday Feb. 18th 2006 • Liberty Hall

Main Speakers :Susan George (10.00-11.30)
Author and activist, resident in France. See www.tni.org/george
Frank Slijper (11.45-13.15)
Dutch author and anti-militarism activist. See www.tni.org/militarism
Brian Denny (14.00-15.30)
Works for the Rail Marine and Transport union in Britain, specialising in EU
affairs; and campaigns against the corporate privatisation of public services.
Admission: €10/ €3 • More info: www.caeuc.org • 087-2308330
Organised by the Campaign Against the EU Constitution read full story / add a comment
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