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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 Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

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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.

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offsite link Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent

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

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offsite link Windless Week Leaves Britain Totally Dependent on Imported Electricity Tue Oct 21, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood
A windless week exposes that the UK is now totally dependent on importing electricity at times of stress. This is hardly the 'energy security' that Ed Miliband continually warbles on about, says Paul Homewood.
The post Windless Week Leaves Britain Totally Dependent on Imported Electricity appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Oct 21, 2025 01:23 | 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 Samuel Williams vs Lucy Connolly Mon Oct 20, 2025 19:00 | Nick Rendell
Will Samuel Williams be charged after calling for 'Zionists' to be killed? It depends whether the law deems 'Zionists' to be a racial group, says Nick Rendell ? as it did with 'migrants' in the Lucy Connolly case.
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offsite link Graham Linehan ?Will Face no Further Action? Over Trans Tweets That Saw Him Arrested by Armed Police... Mon Oct 20, 2025 17:33 | Will Jones
Father Ted creator?Graham Linehan?says he faces no further action over trans tweets that saw him arrested by armed officers at Heathrow airport ? but pledges to hold the police "accountable" for trying to silence him.
The post Graham Linehan “Will Face no Further Action” Over Trans Tweets That Saw Him Arrested by Armed Police at Heathrow Airport appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sadiq Khan Grooming Gang ?Cover-Up? Exposed Mon Oct 20, 2025 15:33 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan has been accused of covering up evidence of grooming gangs in London ? publicly denying there were any while reading behind closed doors reports of young girls being raped in hotels by groups of men.
The post Sadiq Khan Grooming Gang ‘Cover-Up’ Exposed appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday May 07, 2008 23:25 by Andrew   audio 1 audio file
Interview with IWW members Mark, Kate, Nathan in Eugene, Oregan. issues covered include local industry, gentrification of downtown, decline of radical organising, what remains, anarchism in Eugene today, the decline of primitivism, the IWW, organising hippie businessess, read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday May 05, 2008 22:37 by Andrew   audio 1 audio file
Interview with Class Action Alliance member and sex worker activist Christa. She talks about work in Olympia, homelessness, the port blockades of war equioment, ICE raids/ sanctuary city, local anarchist activity, the Utopian Design Collective and primitivism, sex workers in Seattle, going to the DNC and RNC mobilizations read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday April 29, 2008 18:22 by Andrew   audio 1 audio file
I'm now on the west coast on the final leg of the long trip and heading south towards LA. In Seattle In interviewed Rogue across a range of topics that included the legend of seattle, gentrification and public housing, prison abolition, left bank books, hoping freight trains, homeless at 15, punk v nazi fights in North carolina, IWW struggle to unionize Austin co-op, Class Action Alliance and Environmental activism, ACT-UP and condoms in prisons read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday April 24, 2008 19:23 by Andrew   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 24, 2008 21:13)   audio 1 audio file
An interview with Kieran in Minneapolis. He talks about employment in the 'twin cities' the loss of union jobs, the 1934 strike and Bloody Friday, the co-op movement in 60's and 70's, the American Indian Movement and Wounded Knee/Pine Ridge, influence of british anarchist groups and the formation of Love and Rage, Profane Existance and the punk scene and organising against the Republican National Convention and of course the elections read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday April 20, 2008 15:14 by Andrew   text 1 comment (last - monday april 21, 2008 00:18)   audio 1 audio file
An interview with Chris and Mike that looks at the radical history of Detroit and current anarchist activity in the city. Covers the period from the CIO upsurge and the mass migration to Detroit from the south, Black liberation movement and influence of maxism leninism to the formation of Anti-Racist Action (ARA). They also talk about issues in the city today and the formation of the new group Solidarity and Defence read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday April 14, 2008 21:28 by Andrew   audio 1 audio file
An interview with two anarchists in Pittsburgh, issues covered include the anarchist history of the city, transport cuts, current anarchist and left activity and of course their take on the US elections read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday April 13, 2008 22:17 by Andrew   audio 1 audio file
Interview with 3 members of the Capital Terminus Collective in Atlanta, Georgia. Interview covers hospital privitizations, housing, police corruption, segregation of the working class and ends with the usual question about the US election. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Sunday April 13, 2008 20:39 by Seán Ryan   text 25 comments (last - thursday april 17, 2008 12:31)   audio 1 audio file
A frank and open discussion with the Mainstream Media with regard to how they report the war. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday April 11, 2008 16:27 by Andrew   text 1 comment (last - friday april 11, 2008 17:08)   audio 1 audio file
An interview with James Schmidt of the Civic Media Center infoshop in Gainsville, central Florida. Interview covers student town, recession, CMC origins, IWW, homelessness, organic farms and farmwork and the elections read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday April 07, 2008 01:05 by Andrew   audio 1 audio file
Ashanti Alston Omowali is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party. He was a Black Liberation Army political prisoner for over 12 years, Last night while at the All Power to the Imagination conference in Sarasota, Florida I recorded his speech. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday April 04, 2008 03:41 by Andrew   text 3 comments (last - friday april 04, 2008 17:46)   audio 1 audio file
I'm continuing with what has become a mammoth 44 city speaking tour on the USA with a leg that is working up from Miami to Atlanta. In Miami I interviewed Patrick of the Black Mangrove Collective about struggles in that city and the political background. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday March 25, 2008 11:54 by 1 of Bookfair Organising Group   text 27 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 17:22)   audio 2 audio files
The Dublin Anarchist Bookfair – held this year on the weekend of 14th and 15th March – has firmly established itself as the biggest and most exciting event on the political left in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
meath / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday March 22, 2008 17:02 by Paula Geraghty   text 11 comments (last - wednesday march 26, 2008 17:50)   audio 2 audio files
"I saw the worst destruction, all in the name of construction" Squeek on Thursday's activities by the in the name of the NRA.

Listen to the full interview on the down loadable mp3 file, exactly 4 minutes long. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday March 21, 2008 11:27 by James R   text 8 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 18:59)   audio 1 audio file
Some weeks ago, with last weekend's Winter Soldier event on the horizon, I talked to David Zeiger, through the freebie magic of Skype. He's the directer of the documentary Sir, No Sir. It's a Displaced Films and BBC production that came out about two years ago, and focused on the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam.

It consists in part, of interviews with veterans explaining why they resisted the war, and in some cases went as far as to defect. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile, by 1971 it was a movement that in the words of one colonel had “infested the entire armed services” - yet few people today are aware of this soldiers movement against the war in Vietnam. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Thursday March 20, 2008 00:05 by safe legal and rare   text 62 comments (last - friday december 17, 2010 19:51)   audio 1 audio file
The Council of Europe has called on Ireland to decriminalise abortion.

This week , the Council of Europe's Committee on Equal Opportunities issued a report saying all member states should guarantee women the right to a safe termination of pregnancy.

The report states quite clearly: “the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men considers that a ban on abortions does not result in fewer abortions, but mainly leads to clandestine abortions, which are more traumatic and more dangerous.”

Some people estimate that the number of Irish women who travel to England every year is about 7,000. Since some women obviously use false British addresses, or disguise their origins in other ways, the true figure can never be known.
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international / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday March 18, 2008 15:06 by Andrew   audio 1 audio file
Interview with two members of the Syracuse Solidarity Network covering anarchist organising, local anti war and feminist movements and activism in a rust belt town. The second half is Stephen talking about how the experience of working with Common Ground in New Orleans after Kathrina radicalised him and is probably the most interesting segment of the six interviews I've done to date. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday March 14, 2008 15:49 by Andrew   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 16, 2008 17:54)   audio 2 audio files
Interviews with active anarchists in Washington DC and Richmond Virginia conducted in the last few days during my 'Building a Popular anarchism in Ireland' speaking tour. Covers the Richmond slave insurrection of 1800, anarchism in Richmond since 1995, homeless activism and the DC specific problem of building a popular anarchism in a city where there are several protests every day. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday March 09, 2008 00:20 by Edward Horgan, Conor Cregan   text 19 comments (last - thursday march 13, 2008 00:09)   audio 1 audio file
Tonight, 8 March 2008, Executive jet Gulfstream IV, number N478GS, with known associations with the CIA torture rendition programme landed at Shannon airport. Unusually on this occasion Conor and Edward were told they were not forbidden to take photos, but that the Gardai were not allowed to search this plane without higher authority because it was a US Government aircraft. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday March 04, 2008 17:12 by Andrew   text 3 comments (last - thursday march 06, 2008 13:40)   audio 1 audio file
Interview with Anne Marie an anarchist from North Hampton in Western Massachusetts on activism in a small town / rural setting, how she became an anarchist, the local anti-war movement and class struggle politics. read full story / add a comment
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