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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 / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday November 01, 2007 12:39 by Kieran O'Sullivan
Leviathan: Political Cabaret Friday November 2nd 2007, 8pm
CrawDaddy, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2 read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Thursday November 01, 2007 12:10 by .   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 10, 2007 21:02)
The Minister for Education Catroina Ruane has stated publicly that the current offer on the table to settle the Classroom Assistants dispute is valued at £45 million. This is in direct contradiction to the statements by the Education Boards that the offer is valued at £40.2 million.

These opposing statement have caused great confusion amongst parents and staff.

NIPSA is calling for transparency in the job evaluation process and demanding access to the costings for the job evaluation process.
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dublin / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Thursday November 01, 2007 09:51 by Domhain Sceadaman   text 25 comments (last - friday november 30, 2007 01:47)
I cam across this tale whilst having coffee in leafy D4, in the Baggot Street area and this tied in with something that I had heard a few weeks ago in that Palace of Epicurian Delights the Embassy Grill in Ballsbridge.

The story is about corporate greed, arogance and "murky stuff" which links back to the rendition flights out of Shannon. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Wednesday October 31, 2007 23:28 by Diet Simon, summarising Deutsche Welle   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 03, 2007 11:16)
A German nuclear safety expert says Germany faces a shortage of nuclear safety experts because it’s due to end nuclear power production by 2020. Christian Küppers, of the Darmstadt-based Öko-Institut and a member of the government's advisory Radiation Protection Committee, says new plants in Germany are designed to withstand an air crash, old ones are not.

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dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Wednesday October 31, 2007 16:31 by J. Barret
The Abortion Debate - Wednesday, 31st October, 2007

Guests
Mary Muldowney - Pro Choice Ireland
A representative of Pro Life Ireland Anonymous
A representative of Marie Stopes Ireland read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday October 31, 2007 14:21 by Anne McShane   text 1 comment (last - thursday november 01, 2007 23:41)
Press Release

Hands Off the People of Iran (HOPI) November Teach-In

As the war drums beat ominously and an attack on Iran seems inevitable, an important campaign is being built in Ireland. HOPI stands with the Iranian people, not the Iranian government. We totally oppose the Bush war-drive and at the same time speak out and publicise the current crackdown by the Iranian government on both dissidents and ordinary Iranian people.

HOPI is holding a Teach-In in Dublin on 10 November to inform and discuss the situation and building solidarity.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday October 30, 2007 22:07 by Sal Fiore
Today the MPs part of the government coalition in Italy have deserted the coalition and voted with the opposition (Berlusconi, Casini, Fini) to stop the parliamentary investigation over the events occurring in Italy during the G8. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 30, 2007 16:54 by paul o toole   text 7 comments (last - saturday november 03, 2007 02:02)
Hypocracy all across the board. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday October 30, 2007 15:21 by Dublin Shell to Sea
Dublin Shell to Sea will have their normal weekly meeting in UCD this evening read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday October 30, 2007 13:59 by Yassamine Mather   text 34 comments (last - friday november 02, 2007 16:35)
Yassamine Mather in an article published in the Weekly Worker (25 Oct 07) deals with the growing threat of war against Iran. She also analyses developments amongst the Kurds and highlights how the Iraqi PUK are betraying other Kurds.

If anyone is in any doubt about the level of the threat of war against Iran, I suggest they read the text of a speech by Tony Blair comparing “Iran’s extremism” to “rising fascism in the 1920s and 1930s” (Times Oct 19). Quiet clearly Blair has spent so much time in Israel that he repeats like a parrot the most stupid utterances of Israeli politicians - all this in line with the US administration’s plans for possible military attack against Iran and paving the way for more extensive sanctions. Worst of all for Iran’s leaders, Russian president Vladimir Putin, in Tehran for talks with the theocratic regime gave a stark warning that Russia will not oppose further sanctions and military strikes against Iran, unless it stopped its enrichment of nuclear-grade uranium. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday October 30, 2007 12:38 by pat c
Peter symonds reflects on the decision of the Bush Regime to brand the iranian Revolutionary Guards as a weapons proliferator and a supporter of terrorism. Who says irony is dead when the Bushistas come out with this kind of guff? Peter symonds also deals with the heightening tensions regarding nuclear power in Iran.

The Bush administration’s unprecedented decision last week to brand the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a weapons proliferator and its Quds Force as a “supporter of terrorism” has heightened tensions with Tehran and undermined European efforts at negotiations, setting the stage for a US attack on Iran. While the White House still claims to be seeking a diplomatic solution to the current confrontation, a series of media articles have noted Washington’s increasingly bellicose rhetoric and warned that the US appears to have decided on military action against Iran. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday October 30, 2007 12:12 by PaddyK2
On November 13th, the Feasta Annual Lecture will take place in the Emmet Theatre, the Arts Block, Trinity College at 7.30 pm. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday October 30, 2007 12:04 by PaddyK2
How can the political-economic regime be reformed to ensure that the environment and future generations are effectively represented? And what can we do to bring about the needed changes?

Feasta Seminar 13 November 2007, 11am-2pm
Venue : ENFO, 17 St. Andrew's Street, Dublin 2. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / other press Tuesday October 30, 2007 03:50 by Spailpin Fanach   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 31, 2007 15:50)
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey has criticized the exploitation of migrant children who work below the minimum wage producing cheap food.
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national / miscellaneous / press release Monday October 29, 2007 14:06 by Des Dalton   text 7 comments (last - friday november 02, 2007 21:56)
Referring to the use of the GAA’s Sam Maguire All-Ireland Senior football trophy in the so-called ‘International Police Gaelic Football Tournament’ in London on October 26/27 involving the RUC/PSNI. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Monday October 29, 2007 13:29 by Laura Broxson
GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST THE FUR TRADE read full story / add a comment
cavan / health / disability issues / event notice Monday October 29, 2007 12:14 by AK
AN ambitious project, a conference organised by the Parkinson's Association of Ireland in cooperation with the PDS (NI Branches), this grew from an idea by two officers of our Cavan/Monaghan branch, who had been in touch with the PDS Fermanagh Branch. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / press release Monday October 29, 2007 11:45 by Orla
Shell are presenting their graduate opportunities in UCD Student Centre, Belfield Campus. Tuesday 30th November, 2007. 6pm read full story / add a comment
cork / gender and sexuality / event notice Sunday October 28, 2007 19:33 by Joe Moore
A public meeting to discuss this topic will be held on Thursday 29th November, 2007 in the Victoria Hotel, Patrick St. Cork at 8.00pm.
Speaker, Marnie Holborrow, SWP. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday October 28, 2007 19:28 by P. Bowman   text 3 comments (last - tuesday august 26, 2008 16:28)
The conference of Irish Labour Youth passed a motion (no. 37) in support of the Venezuelan Revolution last Saturday, 27th October.

The motion also called on Labour Youth "to build links with the Irish branch of the "Hands Off Venezuela Campaign"." read full story / add a comment
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