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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 / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday January 25, 2006 16:25 by AY   text 5 comments (last - saturday january 28, 2006 19:54)
Anarchist Youth will be making banners and stencils in seomra spraoi on abbey street from 2pm-6pm on saturday 28th.

The space is open to anyone who wants to drop in for a cup of tea/coffee between 2pm-6pm and check out one of the 900 zines or read a radical book from the library.

If the whim takes us we can watch some films or have a discussion as well.

Seomra Spraoi is opposite Arnotts on Middle Abbey st.
(it's the crazy looking building).

We have lots of materials but if you want to bring

- Banner/Flag material (red, black or whatever)
- Stencils or card/acetate
- Designs for stencils
- Scapel/stanley knife
- Paint (all kinds)
- Films

Contact Anarchist Youth - 087 918 4604
Anarchistyouth@riseup.net read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday January 25, 2006 15:57 by c murray
The verdict on the Carrickmines castle complex willbe delivered today.
The judgement will have direct repercussions for other heritage issues,including the Tara case,(verdict March
1st 2006).
I'd encourage people with concerns re fast
track infrastructural planning and the mooted
infrastructure bill to follow these cases.
Will post meetings.Chris. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday January 25, 2006 15:53 by belladonna   text 2 comments (last - sunday march 23, 2008 20:02)
Dignitas was set up in 1998 by Swiss lawyer, Ludwig Minelli, who runs it as a non-profit organisation to assist people whose paliative care is felt to be too ardous and who rather favour euthnasia as an option.

["Dr Michael Irwin said he had provided "advice and encouragement" to five Britons about visiting the Dignitas clinic in Zurich during the past two years. The 74-year-old, who was struck off the medical register last year for obtaining drugs to help a friend die on the Isle of Man, also insisted he was willing to face jail over the issue.
Dr Irwin told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "In the past two years I have given advice and counsel and encouragement to five terminally ill people to go from England over to Dignitas."] read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday January 25, 2006 15:25 by Dilin O Deamhas   text 13 comments (last - tuesday january 31, 2006 23:08)
The wriggling continues as the screw turns on Fianna Fail & PD complicity, civil service silence and Gardai 'followin orders to do nuthin' in breaches of The Nurnberg Principles and international laws against torture. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 25, 2006 13:54 by Justin Morahan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 18:48)
A reflection, as the Dáil returns, on the impossibility of protesting so many things that have gone wrong in today's Ireland read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday January 25, 2006 11:14 by Gumshoe   text 5 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 17:48)
A week after an Irish Times report revealed that he reversed national waste policy after private meetings with a wannabe incineration operator, Environment Minister hands a second success to industry lobbyists. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday January 25, 2006 01:40 by Dr. Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha
At a peace conference in Kuala Lumpur last month, the Kuala Lumpur Global Peace Forum of concerned peoples from all five continents, "outraged over the frequent resort to war", made a declaration to criminalise war.

"Killings in war are as criminal as the killings within societies in times of peace," the signatories, including two former Assistant Secretaries General of the United Nations, declare.

"Public servants and professionals, in particular in the medical, legal, educational and scientific fields, must promote peace and campaign actively against war," they declare, and this doctor wholeheartedly agrees.

Finally, the Forum resolved to establish a permanent Secretariat in Kuala Lumpur to implement the initiativeand to seek the cooperation of NGO's worldwide to achieve its goals. read full story / add a comment
limerick / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 24, 2006 23:55 by mags   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 00:21)
Amer Wreck A
Say it out loud and you’ll get it.

The blurb describes it as Fahrenheit 911 meets Moulin Rouge and it has something for everyone- brilliant comedy about the current US President, fantastic music from 60s, sex and full frontal nudity, and a ‘God’ figure that I think most of us would be happy with! On top of that there’s a strong message about political activism. definitely one to debate in the pub after.

Everyone in limerick should grab the chance to see it. Only till Sat night in Belltable. For those of you unfortunate not to be in Limerick, I hear rumours of a movie version... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 24, 2006 22:48 by W   text 1 comment (last - sunday january 29, 2006 16:32)
All the kidnapping that's fit to print read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday January 24, 2006 22:16 by Eoin Dubsky   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 08, 2006 00:58)
At a nuclear submarine base in Brittany on Friday, Chirac announced the fruits of France's Atomic Energy Commission contract with HP in Galway. They've made "usable" tactical nuclear weapons, and first-strike policy to use them against non-nuclear states and nuclear states alike (though of course they wouldn't use them against the nuclear states). read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday January 24, 2006 21:47 by c murray   text 4 comments (last - tuesday february 28, 2006 18:08)
Factual disputes regarding the ambit of the Tara complex and its definition under current legislation have not been resolved. The testimony of expert witnesses on the discovery of two National monuments at Barronstown and Collierstown disallowed.
The State contends that in fact no national monument was discovered on the 38 sites, nor is there legislation protecting the landscape. Chris. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / other press Tuesday January 24, 2006 21:36 by Blaithin McPhilbin
Digital Rights Management technology is not about stopping consumers stealing from artists -- it's about stopping companies stealing from each other and we consumers get caught in the middle read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday January 24, 2006 20:39 by R. Isible
Chomsky delivered the annual Amnesty International lecturehttp://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=73134. It was originally to be held at Trinity College Dublin and was then resecheduled to the Royal Dublin Society's Shelbourne Hall. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday January 24, 2006 16:49 by Socialist Worker   text 9 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2006 16:58)
The dispute at Irish Ferries shows the need for a different type of trade unionism.

IBEC, the employers body, did not once condemn the actions of Irish Ferries - even though they wanted to pay workers below the minimum wage - so it makes no sense to regard them as our 'social partners'.

We, therefore invite you to this seminar to discuss Social Partnership, the EU Services Directive, migrant workers and union recruitment and how to build fighting trade unions today. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / news report Tuesday January 24, 2006 15:37 by Dáil Observer   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 24, 2006 16:46)
Independent T.D.s are to call on the Government to reject the proposed EU Services Directive. Concerned that this Directive, which is backed by EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevey, would have serious negative implications for workers' rights and public services, Independent T.Ds, Marian Harkin, James Breen, Paudge Connolly, Jerry Cowley, Tony Gregory, Seamus Healy, Joe Higgins, Finian McGrath, Paddy McHugh and Catherine Murphy have initiated a Dáil debate on this issue on Wednesday 25th January. The text of their motion is as follows: read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday January 24, 2006 14:18 by Colombia Solidarity Network   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 24, 2006 14:19)
This meeting will re-launch the boycott coke campaign and is calling all activists from around the country interested in the campaign. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday January 24, 2006 12:15 by Charles B.   text 9 comments (last - friday january 27, 2006 12:07)
DPP wants change to free up court time. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday January 24, 2006 12:09 by cf   text 14 comments (last - thursday february 02, 2006 20:01)
The European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly ruled that “diplomatic assurances” do not provide sufficient protection against the risk of torture
The Irish Government has not carried out any inspections of aircraft or flights using Shannon, despite being asked to do so by the Irish Human Rights Commission read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Monday January 23, 2006 22:57 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - saturday january 28, 2006 12:04)
:["The wife and five children of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet were arrested on Monday on tax evasion and fraud charges as part of an investigation into secret, multimillion dollar bank accounts.
Officials of the court who asked not to be identified said Judge Carlos Cerda ordered the arrest of Pinochet's wife, Lucia Hiriart, and their children on charges of filing "maliciously incomplete" and false tax declarations involving millions of dollars. Cerda also ordered the arrests of Monica Ananias and Oscar Aitken, a personal secretary of Pinochet and the former executor of Pinochet's will."]: read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / news report Monday January 23, 2006 17:01 by Left Supporter   text 40 comments (last - tuesday january 31, 2006 14:38)
With so many calls for a "left alliance" seen here over the past few months, two further interesting interventions were made over the weekend. read full story / add a comment
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