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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 The Southport Inquiry?s Sinister Censorship Agenda Thu Nov 06, 2025 15:23 | David Shipley
The Southport Inquiry summoned X this week to lecture it on the wonders of the Online Safety Act. It shows a sinister willingness to use the worst kind of tragedy to advance a censorship agenda, says David Shipley.
The post The Southport Inquiry’s Sinister Censorship Agenda appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How the Government?s Digital ID Fantasy Will Fall Apart Thu Nov 06, 2025 13:21 | Guy de la B?doy?re
Keir Starmer is planning digital ID for UK citizens. You may worry about the impact on civil liberties, but worry not, says Guy de la B?doy?re. A recent experience shows the system will never get off the ground.
The post How the Government’s Digital ID Fantasy Will Fall Apart appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reeves to Hit EVs With ?250 Pay-Per-Mile Tax Thu Nov 06, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Electric vehicle drivers will be hit with a new pay-per-mile tax in?the Budget,?with a new charge of 3p per mile being levied on top of other road taxes, costing the average driver an extra ?250 a year.
The post Reeves to Hit EVs With ?250 Pay-Per-Mile Tax appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The BBC?s Top 50 Pieces of Climate Misinformation ? Part 2 Thu Nov 06, 2025 09:00 | Paul Homewood
Paul Homewood returns with Part 2 of his top 50 pieces of BBC climate misinformation from the last couple of years, adding to the pressure on the corporation over its terrible track record on bias and spreading falsehoods.
The post The BBC’s Top 50 Pieces of Climate Misinformation ? Part 2 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Bill Gates?s Climate U-Turn: Real Epiphany or Expedient Pivot? Thu Nov 06, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
Devotees of the Church of Climate are in uproar after mega-donor Bill Gates turned heretic and conceded humanity is set to thrive under climate change. But is his conversion all it's cracked up to be, asks Tilak Doshi.
The post Bill Gates’s Climate U-Turn: Real Epiphany or Expedient Pivot? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

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national / eu / press release Friday January 22, 2010 15:42 by PBPA   image 1 image
In a statement the People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA) has condemned a recent ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which means that VAT will now be imposed on all local authority services for which there is a charge. read full story / add a comment
Bairbre de Brún
international / eu / news report Friday January 15, 2010 14:46 by redjade   text 4 comments (last - sunday january 17, 2010 13:25)   image 1 image   video 2 video files
these are reports from her Facebook page - since I cannot find these writings elsewhere I will liberate these texts from globo-corporate control.... read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 18, 2009 12:30 by Astrid Essed
With the EU guarantee to the Czech president, that the Czech State should not be exposed to property claims of expelled Germans after World War II, the EU not only implicitly consents with ethnical cleansings, it is also highly hypocritical, since the EU regularly points a finger to human rights violating countries like Sudan, Myanmar and Iran
It is high time the EU should look in its own mirror, among else with regard to police abuse, racism and violation of the rights of migrants and real or alleged terrorsuspects read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Friday November 06, 2009 10:26 by Republican Sinn Féin
The Czech Republic’s ratification of the Lisbon Treaty on November 3, paving the way for its adoption as EU law does not mark the end of history. The principles of upon which the campaign against the Lisbon Treaty was fought are timeless and will hold true as long as the human race exists. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Tuesday October 27, 2009 19:44 by Irish Socialist Network

Statement from Irish Socialist Network on Lisbon treaty result. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Saturday October 10, 2009 13:49 by ud   text 6 comments (last - saturday october 17, 2009 11:14)
The Green Party which consists mostly of a parliamentary section and a grassroot will continue
to support FF through whatever budget cuts FF deem necessary to the Irish economy without
question until 2012. it really turns the spotlight onto FG's failure to capture anybody's imagination
save the uber-blonde professional politician types that hang out round Mr Kenny.
Yesterday 09/10/09 Minister Gormley believed that he had the media in thrall from 9am-9pm
with his crack negotiating team comprised of Boyle, White and Ryan. White is notable in that
in her first joint budget with FF she stood and applauded cuts to old people, she is thus
not very bright (low wattage).
read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Wednesday September 30, 2009 23:00 by Fiachra Ó Luain
PRESS RELEASE - 30th September 2009

There has been a formal call for the OSCE to oversee the Irish Lisbon referendum amid growing concerns that the result of the Irish referendum may be manipulated by postal vote fraud. A source within the Dublin City Council has informed the former MEP candidate Fiachra Ó Luain of efforts by the head of the Franchise department to actively register residents of retirement homes, prisons and even the army.

The source has said that the head of the Franchise department has unsupervised and unregulated access to the postal votes and suggests that there may be concerted efforts to influence the outcome of the Lisbon referendum by manipulation of the postal vote system. This corroborates the fact that the ‘People’s Movement’, who are calling for a No vote, received notice from various county councils of the issue of postal votes the day after they had been sent out. read full story / add a comment
Voting for Lisbon and Xmas
galway / eu / news report Wednesday September 30, 2009 22:38 by TD   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Due to maximum effort in Shop Street, Galway, the past few days urging people to vote no on Friday and the consequent bony-weary tireness read full story / add a comment
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national / eu / press release Tuesday September 29, 2009 15:01 by Barry McColgan   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Barry McColgan
National Organiser
Ógra Shinn Féin

Your vote is void, please vote again.

This effectively is the message being sent out by the incumbent Dublin Government as citizens across the 26 Counties are being asked to go to the polls again on Friday 2nd October to be good ‘wee’ Europeans and deliver the ‘right’ vote this time around on the Lisbon Treaty. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / press release Tuesday September 29, 2009 08:23 by W. Tone
A new film about protests in Germany against the Lisbon Treaty (including the demonstration in Berlin in early September) has just been released on YouTube etc. See:

http://www.nuoviso.tv/krieg-und-frieden/wehret-den-anfa....html

(Click on the arrow icon in the bottom right corner for the sub-menu, and on CC in that sub-menu, to activate the English subtitles)

The demonstrators say they are counting on the Irish to vote NO, since they can't. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Tuesday September 29, 2009 01:12 by O.O'C   text 4 comments (last - tuesday september 29, 2009 21:14)   image 1 image
Below for your information is a copy of the letter that was delivered to Mr Justice Frank Clarke, Chairman of the Referendum Commission, from Anthony Coughlan last Thursday, with the most relevant passages highlighted in bold read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / opinion/analysis Monday September 28, 2009 18:20 by Terawrizt   text 5 comments (last - wednesday september 30, 2009 13:00)   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
New anti-Lisbon treaty music video i have released in aid of the No campaign. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Sunday September 27, 2009 20:16 by 32CSM   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 29, 2009 14:25)   1 attached file
Statement From Francie Mackey. 32CSM Chairman read full story / add a comment
international / eu / press release Saturday September 26, 2009 15:59 by Citizen X
The NeoConOpticon report, released today by the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Statewatch,
reveals the extent to which Europe’s largest defence and IT contractors are benefitting from a €1.4
billion EU “security research” programme that has the explicit aim of fostering a European Homeland
Security industry to compete globally with the USA in a fast growing market. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Saturday September 26, 2009 12:33 by PBPA
People Before Profit Condemns Gilmores Attack on the Left
The People Before Profit Alliance today condemned Labour Party Eamonn Gilmore for his cynical attack on left wing parties who are campaigning against the Lisbon Treaty.

They called on him to engage in an honest debate on the Treaty rather than trying to scare voters into voting yes. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Thursday September 24, 2009 19:11 by PRO Workers Solidarity Movement   text 4 comments (last - monday september 28, 2009 15:29)
Anarchist organisation, Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) has attacked Michael O'Leary's support for the Lisbon treaty, describing O'Leary as "one of Ireland's most notorious anti-union employers"
read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Wednesday September 23, 2009 14:25 by Patricia McKenna
It is truly ironic that the EU Commission is here in Ireland urging Irish voters to vote Yes to the Lisbon Treaty under the guise of jobs and the economy, while it is allowing new member states, like Poland, to provide massive financial bribes to companies to move their operations out of Ireland. - The EU Commission could not care less about Irish jobs. They just want Lisbon passed so they can get more power for themselves at the expense of the people. says McKenna read full story / add a comment
Fantastic Mr. Cox and Friends
national / eu / news report Wednesday September 23, 2009 09:41 by Citizen X   text 7 comments (last - sunday october 04, 2009 01:41)   image 1 image
There are about 6 stories to Pat Cox: the Public Pat, Pat the Builder (aka the Eastern Adventurer), Dr. Cox - Medicine Man, Our Friend in Washington, the Cox Crusader, and lastly, Forty-Hat Pat. Let's meet them all. read full story / add a comment
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin
national / eu / feature Tuesday September 22, 2009 15:51 by Joe Higgins MEP   text 24 comments (last - sunday october 25, 2009 10:10)   image 4 images
Many issues have come up so far in the Lisbon debate, some very relevant, some less so. The key issues the Socialist Party have been raising so far are workers rights, public services and miltarisation. Elsewhere Jow Higgins has looked at the issue of workers' rights (http://www.joehiggins.eu/510) and public services (http://www.joehiggins.eu/489). Here, he goes into precisely how Lisbon boosts the armaments industry and is another step towards a militarised EU. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Tuesday September 22, 2009 13:40 by Taru   2 attached files
You are free to use our artworks for e-mail circulation or as ready-to-print posters etc. for the No campaign read full story / add a comment
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