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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 Shock COP Dirty Secret: At Least Half the Balsa Wood in Wind Turbine Blades is Illegally Logged in A... Mon Nov 10, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Half the world's balsa wood for wind turbines is illegally logged from Ecuador's Amazon, destroying protected rainforest. Chris Morrison reveals wind power's dirty secret.
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offsite link If You?re Sick, But Possess the ?Incorrect? Political Views or Religion, Will Some Far-Left and Musl... Mon Nov 10, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
From woke NHS wards to pro-Hamas medics, politics is poisoning healthcare ? and not just in the UK. Steven Tucker warns that bias and anti-Jewish hatred could soon prove deadly.
The post If You?re Sick, But Possess the ?Incorrect? Political Views or Religion, Will Some Far-Left and Muslim NHS Staff Try to Kill You? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Nov 10, 2025 01:28 | Richard Eldred
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.
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offsite link Tim Davie and BBC News Chief Resign From Corporation Sun Nov 09, 2025 19:20 | Richard Eldred
Tim Davie has quit as BBC Director-General over misleading edits of a Trump speech, with news chief Deborah Turness also quitting as the broadcaster faces a mounting crisis.
The post Tim Davie and BBC News Chief Resign From Corporation appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Green Party?s Zack Polanski Wears a White Poppy as He Overlooks Remembrance Sunday Ceremony at The C... Sun Nov 09, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has raised eyebrows by wearing a white poppy at the Cenotaph, saying it symbolised hope for peace and a world without war.
The post Green Party?s Zack Polanski Wears a White Poppy as He Overlooks Remembrance Sunday Ceremony at The Cenotaph appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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mayo / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 18, 2007 13:04 by all corked up
Just a note that the song I used over the images was written by Buffy Saint Marie and referrs to the Native Indian land and Energy protests in North America. read full story / add a comment
Sean Crudden
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Saturday July 14, 2007 15:04 by Sean Crudden   text 4 comments (last - sunday july 15, 2007 12:23)   image 1 image
The dilemma for The Progressive Democrats now is whether to try to ride out the storm with the old crew or to change course under a new leadership? read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 10, 2007 21:11 by ipsiphi   text 3 comments (last - friday july 13, 2007 17:46)
In the last while attention on this site has been brought yet again to the suicide crises & adjacent mental health issues amongst our young. We've read much & been directed to yet other sites and resources who like most of us want to do our bit to tackle the problem. There seems to be growing concensus that the nasty hard approach just isn't working. Yet we've still got some work to do in appraising what that means & how it ought influence contemporary anarchist & friends activism, conversation, chit-chat & attitude. It goes without saying the judicial, penal & educational policies and frameworks of both the Irish state & Irish society have a role to play. But lest we get diverted into learning a list of "warning signs" & "indicators" of those dealing with the various psychological or emotional challenges which may lead to suicide I thought to bring it back to primary school. S-p-e-l-l-i-n-g. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday July 09, 2007 14:14 by Ed   text 51 comments (last - friday july 20, 2007 10:55)   image 2 images
The failed terrorist attacks in the UK have prompted another debate about the causes of such violence – and the ways to end it. Anyone who seeks to lay some of the blame at the door of western governments must expect a torrent of abuse from right-wing commentators and the “Cruise missile Left”, reinforced by a useful collection of house Muslims and renegade jihadists keen to put the spotlight on factors within the Muslim world that are beyond the influence of US / UK elites. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday July 09, 2007 01:57 by Aoife Kavanagh   text 4 comments (last - sunday july 22, 2007 12:14)
In 1941 a bill was brought before the Dail which would make trade unions pay for licences to negotiate on behalf of their members. Without a licence workers and their unions could be sued by employers for loss of profits if they went on strike.
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Gardaí police Shell to Sea Demonstrations in Rossport
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday July 09, 2007 01:32 by W.   text 7 comments (last - wednesday july 11, 2007 19:14)   image 1 image
Recent arrests of protestors, both north and south of the border, has shown that political policing is alive and well within our society. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / opinion/analysis Monday July 09, 2007 00:44 by Chekov Feeney   text 15 comments (last - saturday march 29, 2008 01:28)   image 1 image
For the first time in their history, the Irish Green party is in government. The deal that they struck with Fianna Fail has been criticised in many quarters as a “sell-out” – and with some justification, since the Greens have changed sides on the issue of Shannon airport’s use by the US military, the conflict between Shell and the residents of Rossport and the decision to route the M3 motorway through the lucratively re-zoned lands of Fianna Fail supporters, who happen to live near Tara. On these, and other issues, the Greens switched, overnight, from a position of opposition, to jobs in a government that is implementing them - with force when necessary. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Thursday July 05, 2007 18:15 by iosaf   text 6 comments (last - friday july 06, 2007 16:37)   image 1 image
No-one has put a street value yet on the 110 kids seized by lifeguards and customs guards today off the Dun Laoighaire coast. Nor has the Taoiseach made a facine statement to the Dail on the increase in irresponsible use of leisure craft in our waters. But analysts like me are quick to point out the links on safety issues as the suicide prevention exercise organised by the Royal St George Yachtclub under the smokescreen title "junior regatta" occured on the same day 11 teachers ran rather than walked down the stairs of the National musem of Natural History causing it to collapse.
Ambulances were obviously stretched to the limit and headshots today went untreated. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 03, 2007 16:39 by Owen Bruton   text 2 comments (last - friday july 13, 2007 21:55)
After George Galloway's appearance another Respect member has joined the Big Brother house. Carole Vincent is a member of the Socialist Workers' Party and was a candidate in the 2006 local elections. She has entered the house as she "wants to bring important issues to the public" read full story / add a comment
Ryanair's Stock Price
national / environment / opinion/analysis Monday July 02, 2007 10:47 by stacyh   image 1 image   2 attached files
As predicted nearly three years ago by Max Keiser in the Ecologist Magazine, "Ryanair in a Tailspin" (Ecologist, October 2004), Ryanair's share price has been falling big time this year due to what the company concedes is successful environmental campaigns. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday July 01, 2007 15:46 by Ernesto Lynch   text 4 comments (last - monday july 09, 2007 13:46)
New Sinn Fein police march protestors. read full story / add a comment
Suburban Superwoman
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 28, 2007 19:46 by Heather.   text 22 comments (last - monday august 13, 2007 22:10)   image 1 image

We do not know if the new improved EC Constitution which will be voted
in 2008 includes a 'God Clause' but we do know that the good German
Doctor Kues has plans for the women of the EU, which is to promote the
equality agenda through rediscovering the traditional family. This should
make the Poles and the Right wing Irish who collude so diffidently in the
oppression of women remarkably happy.

http://www.eu2007.de or -www.eu2007.de: read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 27, 2007 11:16 by paul o toole   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 05, 2007 01:37)
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday June 25, 2007 18:25 by Sheldon
The Iraq war was won and lost a long time ago. Now it's time to get out and go home. Like Vietnam the United States is fighting an enemy that will not give up. Like Vietnam the US is fighting an enemy on their home turf. Like Vietnam more and more Americans are turning against the powers that be that got us into this war. Unlike Vietnam we won the war and now comes the cost. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday June 23, 2007 20:00 by Dublin 9   text 1 comment (last - wednesday january 18, 2012 00:53)
This is very serious and something has to be done about this hideous proposed Planning Application on the grounds of the Kilmardinny and Super Valu on Lorcan Avenue in Santry. Many of these apartments that they want to build are 6 storeys high in an area which has always been a 2 storey area. Naturally the residents of the area, especially those most effected by this proposed development, those on Lorcan Avenue and Lorcan Grove are vehemently opposed to this on a number of grounds; including; but not limited to; increased traffic, noise and pollution, reduced water pressure, loss of light and lack of privacy, and are preparing to fight this very strongly. Now this particular version of this Planning Application has been declared invalid, but from all the information available, they are going to reapply again very soon with the exact same plans. Click on the link below and read the full information on this Planning Application below as well and see for yourself the huge size of this. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday June 21, 2007 17:35 by Ógra B   image 1 image
Peader de Bluit

Tá seanfhocal ciallmhar sa Gaeilge a deir, "Mol an óige agus tiocfaidh sí". Tá nath ábharaín éagsúil ag an gluaiseacht seo áfach. Is minic na laethanta go gcloistear á rá, "Mol an Ógra agus tiocfaidh siad". Tá an meoin seo ag fás le tamaill agus an t-aos óg sa gluaiseacht ag iarraidh tógáil, agus béim a cur ar pholaitíocht óige. Sé sin le rá go mbeadh inchur níos mó ag an t-aos óg, todhchaí na gluaiseachta agus na tíre, i gcúrsaí ar leith.

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international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 20, 2007 12:45 by R. Isible   text 11 comments (last - friday june 29, 2007 19:17)
YouTube (now owned by Google) have launched what they say are "localized" versions for 9 countries: Brazil, Japan and seven EU countries including Ireland. The Irish version appears bizarrely to be localised in English. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 19, 2007 11:57 by Guy de Cervens   text 12 comments (last - saturday june 23, 2007 11:14)
The Green Partys new minister for Energy, Communications and Natural Resources expresses a desire for a debate on nuclear power generation in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 19, 2007 11:34 by paul o toole   text 8 comments (last - wednesday june 20, 2007 12:04)
RTE(Refuse to Tell the Electorate ) do it again read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 19, 2007 00:51 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 2 comments (last - monday june 25, 2007 18:03)
In a recent interview published in the Washington Post, former US secretary of state Colin Powell said that the US "didn't have enough troops" in Iraq to restore order following the ill-fated US-led invasion. In saying this, Powell is not revealing anything, but in fact concealing plausible accounts of American soldiers actively inciting Iraqis to plunder public buildings at the time of the invasion. read full story / add a comment
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