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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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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Nov 14, 2025 01:44 | Will Jones
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 Heat Pump Grants to Be Cut in Budget Thu Nov 13, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Funding for heat pump grants is set to be cut by billions of pounds at the Budget in a fresh blow to Ed Miliband's green agenda as the Government tries to lower bills amid sky-high energy costs.
The post Heat Pump Grants to Be Cut in Budget appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link French Stopping Even Fewer Small Boats Since Deal With Starmer Thu Nov 13, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
French police are preventing even fewer small boat crossings since Sir Keir Starmer struck a deal with President Emmanuel Macron to?tackle the crisis, the success rate dropping from 38% to an abysmal 28.7%.
The post French Stopping Even Fewer Small Boats Since Deal With Starmer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sweden?s Pension Funds Face Eye-Watering Losses After Investing Heavily in Net Zero Projects Thu Nov 13, 2025 15:36 | Will Jones
Sweden's pension funds are facing eye-watering losses after they invested heavily in Net Zero projects that are now going bust, leaving the retirement savings of millions at risk.
The post Sweden’s Pension Funds Face Eye-Watering Losses After Investing Heavily in Net Zero Projects appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Too Woke to Save Sara Sharif Thu Nov 13, 2025 13:02 | Will Jones
Woke attitudes have been blamed for the failure to save Sara Sharif from being tortured to death by her father, with officials failing to check under her hijab for injuries and neighbours afraid to report concerns.
The post Too Woke to Save Sara Sharif appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

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dublin / environment / event notice Monday July 30, 2007 10:29 by k.   text 2 comments (last - monday july 30, 2007 22:00)
People in Dublin are asked to prostest against the building
of Baltica Motorway - a road that will destroy the Rospuda Valley one of Europe's largest wild wetlands

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday July 29, 2007 13:15 by manpower adecco randstad   text 2 comments (last - sunday july 29, 2007 23:47)
Mr Arnadlo Otegi Mondragon as you remember is the leader of the basque independence armed force tradition people. His interview has been carried in this Sunday's Gara which as you remember is the daily newspaper of the basque independence armed force tradition people complete with classified sections for those who need a new washing machine or television and don't want to fork out loads of dosh on new ones with built-in obselence. Otegi also has a new website which will be collecting signatures from those people who want him out of prison.
He has spoken not of failure , for some progress has been made... and prudence . Ask the person to show you the washing machine working or take the bike for a spin first. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / event notice Saturday July 28, 2007 15:51 by Cathal
The Cork branch of Shell to Sea are hosting a talk by John Monaghan in the Gresham Metropole on McCurtain street at 8pm on Wednesday the 8th of August. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Friday July 27, 2007 14:03 by Laura Broxson   text 1 comment (last - friday august 17, 2007 13:37)
PROTESTS AT DUBLIN FUR STORES read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday July 27, 2007 13:29 by MikW
Set in the DDR in 1984, actors, stasi, writers and politicians display some of the
best and worst vestiges of humanity against a backdrop of dimly lit deserted streets, grey buildings
and fenced in feelings. Stasi agent Wiesler a loyal servant of the party and the state believes
writer Georg Dreyman to be not so loyal, a crime in the stasi agents eyes.
Wiesler gets his chance to nail the writer when the corrupt and seedy Minister Of Culture decides he wants Dreyman to be found guilty of anything. The politicians motives have nothing to do with love of party or state. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday July 26, 2007 16:25 by Con Carroll   text 13 comments (last - thursday august 09, 2007 21:39)
first they came for the Jews, I didn't speak out I was not a Jew. then they came for the Communists. I didn't speak out. then they came for people with disabilities. I didn't speak out. then they came for me. no one spoke out for me. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday July 26, 2007 15:59 by Paul   text 3 comments (last - friday july 27, 2007 10:35)
This Saturday, 28 August Socialist Youth is hosting a forum for young people from 1pm in the Imperial Hotel on Eyre Square.

1pm Debate with Young PDs - Poverty, Global Warming, Health crisis... Is the capitalist "free market" to blame?
3pm - Che Guevara and the struggle for socialism in Latin America today.

All welcome! read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday July 26, 2007 10:57 by Parent   text 8 comments (last - friday july 27, 2007 10:37)
Whether you are a parent or just interested in kids, come along to talk about kids, different ways to practice parenting organise childcare and relate to education. read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 25, 2007 23:41 by Susan Repasky
The following has been sent to newspapers in Ireland and the US regarding the arrest and subsequent imposition of conditional bail agreement on seven protesters against the construction of the M-3. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday July 25, 2007 22:01 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 26, 2007 21:38)
The title of this story might intrigue some and put others off but I can think of no other way to report on the mass media news spin which Spanish people & then various westerners learnt today of the charges of treason brought against a former employee of the Spanish secret service. As we must have noticed by now, things are changing on the geopolitical stage & media manipulation as much as exposure is increasingly pointing to the end of any entente between the former Soviet Union or its citizens and NATO or its dependents. read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues / event notice Wednesday July 25, 2007 16:56 by JK, D_D
Table Quiz Fund-Raiser for Roma Gypsy families living on M50 roundabout read full story / add a comment
armagh / crime and justice / press release Wednesday July 25, 2007 16:45 by Kevin Murphy   text 6 comments (last - tuesday july 31, 2007 21:58)
Anti-Social Behaviour in South Armagh is being used as a Pretext to introduce British Policing. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday July 25, 2007 15:23 by The Activists Formerly known as the Pitstop Ploughshares   text 5 comments (last - friday july 27, 2007 10:49)
What follows is a reflection on the anniversary of the acquittal of the Pitstop Ploughshares. I could only collaborate with Karen, Damien and Ciaron and was unable to contact Nuin. However, I am sure she would have no problem agreeing with the general spirit of our statement. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday July 25, 2007 14:58 by SR   text 10 comments (last - wednesday august 22, 2007 13:38)
Socialist Youth's National Summer Festival read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday July 25, 2007 10:51 by Yassamine Mather
This article is based on a speech given by Yassamine Mather of Workers Left Unity Iran at a Marxism 2007 fringe meeting. It explores the position socialists should take in light of both US aggression towards Iran and the Iranian Regimes onslaught against the working class of Iran.

Anti-imperialism and Tehran

Every day the media publish unattributed briefings by US generals and Pentagon sources regarding Iran’s connections to Al Qa’eda, the Taliban and various other terror groups. Most of the media briefings contain no details of substance and many simply repeat previous accusations. However, they are undoubtedly intended to keep tensions ratcheted up, and there is no doubt that the danger of an extension of the current sanctions against Tehran and of limited military action by the US or Israel is very real... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / press release Tuesday July 24, 2007 18:16 by The Attic Youth Cafe
Youth Film Competition - Bantry Youth Cafe, West Cork.

Your Planet - Your Future

A chance to let young people make their views known about the environmental issues we face. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Tuesday July 24, 2007 15:37 by wolfie   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 26, 2007 10:19)
Biofuels have been touted as the way to go facing fossil fuel shortages and global warming.The reality is that they are leading to higher food prices for the worlds poor and to degradation of the environment. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday July 24, 2007 14:57 by Dublin Shell to Sea
Dublin Shell To Sea meeting - 7pm in Seomra Spraoi read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday July 24, 2007 14:15 by Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL)
A dismal failure! This is the verdict of workers belonging to the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) as they slammed the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) administration ahead of her State of the Nation Address (SONA) for its consistent failure to clip the jobs crisis.

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