"FOI'd emails obtained by Dispatch from Gov depts reveal that old buses, car parks, a train station in Dunboyne, nursing homes, old boats, cruise ships, and the Polefield Site in East Wall all considered for asylum accommodation"
https://twitter.com/Mullins77David/status/1620461339717279746

There are more male migrants in Dublin with destroyed documents than Ukrainian males between the ages of 20 and 54

In Q3 2022 a rape was reported in Kerry every 3 days compared to every 5 days before the pandemic.

I'm not on twitter, nor will I be for the foreseeable future. Please share and disseminate.

Blackmail is becoming fashionable...

Any requests / ideas? Feel free

Hmmm. Number of mentions of the words "far right" in the media since 2022 would be awesome. Very very time consuming though. Getting the data is the hardest part .. especially when you need to generate the stats yourself.

Garda Density (Per 100 Sq Km)

% Increase in all Thefts. Pre Pandemic vs Q3 2022. Wexford is getting fleeced.

Theft is one of the best metrics for measuring overall crime, because there are so many reported. Going from 1 murder to 2 is a 100% increase but doesn't say much.. going from 1000 to 2000 thefts says alot more.

Reported Thefts per 1000 population Q3 2022. Dublin, Limerick,Waterford, Louth and Wesmeath top the list.

RIght, that was fun, I learned loads but I need to take break for a few days. Before leaving let me show you a great tool for creating these visual maps. Datawrapper is a free online application for all kinds of Data Visualisation requirements. All you need is an excel sheet with data and you are good to go. They have map templates for Ireland by County, Garda Division etc.. just need to have the correct county/division names and it will pick them up. I highly encourage people to play around with this using some of the csvs and excels I have posted in the past. Teach a man to fish and all that! https://www.datawrapper.de/

“Where there is data smoke, there is a government fire.”

I was looking into crowdmapping platforms and came across this. Ushahidi.. Its African and very good. Can be used for community incident /crime reporting / citizen journalists/ election monitoring/ mapping. This is the type of software that NGOs fund and actively encourage in developing counties. The same NGOs would have a meltdown if Europeans adopted the same tech to report on current events.

You might curse the NGOs, but they have built alot of tools that can be used by anyone from anyside of the political spectrum.

What is Ushahidi?
Ushahidi is an open source web application for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. It helps you to collect info from: SMS, Twitter, RSS feeds, Email. It helps you to process that information, categorize it, geo-locate it and publish it on a map.

https://www.ushahidi.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushahidi

The missing Q4 details for Ukrainian accommodation was released. Thanks to Gerry O'Neill from the wests awake for bringing it to my attention in his post. https://westawake.substack.com/p/85000000-in-new-contracts-target?sd=pf Attached is a CSV with all contracts awarded for the four quarters of 2022. 278 million in total.

Mark Little (Our AI disinformation overlord) has a new podcast. Worth a listen. Know thy enemy in the information/disinformation media battle ahead. https://linktr.ee/historyofthefuture

"The Network State pdf"
Balaji Srinivasan is one of my tech heros and definitely a "good guy" in these times. His latest book "The Network State" is a must read as we move into a world where trust in institutions break down and parallel network states start to emerge. He has done great work in the past outlining how the information supply chain in the west is broken.. and how to fix it. Facts that cant be tampered are written onto blockchains (eg cso / vaccination stats) using oracles.. only then should narratives can be written about these censorship resistant facts ..

I sometimes think that Hate Speech / Misinformation Monitoring & Legislation is a preventative measure to stop pools of "radioactive data" emerging, data that could be used to train AI with the wrong aka "correct" opinions.

Data / Digital hoarding will be deemed a mental disorder and frowned upon activity in the near future. A quick Google search on the topic confirms my suspicion.. but why would it be framed like this? Well, what happens when access to quality/online data for training your AI models becomes severly restricted? In 2023 people should be downloading and archiving as much media as they can, especially high quality pdfs / books / papers etc. These pools of knowledge could be used to create personal style chatGPT assitants that sit out side of big tech and government control. Buy yourself a nice big hardrive this year.