caitbsky.bsky.social
@caitbsky.bsky.social
Idealist, planetist, geek #CrisisData
Was @cait on Twitter.
#CovidIsNotOver

Anyone got an Emergency Management starter pack?
The more slop produced, the more it gets re-ingested and regurgitated, getting dumber each time.

Summaries are already conflating human beings who share names, quoting fake citations, it doesn’t take long for the garbage output to be used as training data, an ongoing degradation of quality.
December 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
If this were true, wouldn’t the USA have a lower death rate from shootings than other countries?

More guns doesn’t mean more safety.
December 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This!

It’s a research citation.

If you aren’t going to check citations, don’t pretend you did.

The robot is making up the citation.

The author is already pretending it’s a citation & didn’t check

Authors need real citations for #Credibility

#AcademicSlop
#AIslop
#GarbageInGarbageOut
#GIGO
December 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Reposted
This Italian lit review, funded by the Italian ministry of health and Italian society for pediatric endocrinology is criminally underreported on considering it found enough moderate and high quality studies on blockers to call out Cass directly.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists in transgender and gender diverse youth: a systematic review
Puberty suppression using gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRHa) is a reversible medical intervention that halts endogenous puberty, allowing transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) adolescents to avoid the development of secondary sexual ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Publish the names of people who make claims & citations without checking the facts.

This is about #Integrity You can’t outsource your integrity to a robot without consequences.

The professionalism of journalists is no longer what it once was.

Researchers need #Accountability
December 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The predictable hateful language from the #Telegraph. Always short words, big ones too hard.

Still can’t write a headline without hating someone.

Go touch grass Telegraph minions, you sound unhinged.
a yellow minion wearing goggles and overalls
Alt: a yellow minion wearing goggles and overalls, looking around with hateful eyes, unhinged
media.tenor.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
and some hospitals, in the ward!!! You’d get an ashtray!
December 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Even robots 🤖 have better policies:

First Law of Robotics
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Inaction is a choice.
December 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Directly impacted by cancelled services and pandemic infections.

Many immunocompromised people can’t even access safe medical care with basic infection control (masking), also denied access to antivirals, it’s not surprising schools are living with the consequences of chronic sickness in families
December 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
One has been supported by an influencer with 8.8 Million global followers.
December 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If you’re not going to include poverty, transport gaps, impact of infectious transmission to households, pandemic-caused disabilities, access to vaccines and antivirals, cancelled services, this is pointless.

Families want education #AusPol
Accessing it shouldn’t come with insurmountable barriers
December 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
That’s the pre-tariff percentage

#Tariffs
#Math
December 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Reposted
To quote the song

Hey,
Rowling,
Leave those kids alone.
December 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
You can’t drink a hot cup of data centre, or grow potatoes or feed your cows or pigs with them. Nothing like butter.

#DataCentres
#WastedWater
#Farmers
#Ireland
#WaterSovereignty
#GlobalWarming
December 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If they’re adding 22% strain on national infrastructure, they should be paying AT LEAST 22% extra tax and treated like the threat to national infrastructure that they are.

#NationalInfrastructure
#NotToysForBillionaires
#Governance

If they don’t like it #Disconnect them.
#Enshittification
December 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM