Greg Sleap
@paladinsmeg.bsky.social
Trekkie, amateur astrophotographer, humanist, skeptic, IT, software and Rado astronomy geek. Climate change is real, it's happening and will be bad unless we act now. Get vaccinated -they are modern miracles. Be kind - people are people. He/him
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they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
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a fun new horror of being alive in 2025 is that if you make a memorial post tagging a friend who has passed away, dozens of AI malware sites will scrape your friend's social media pages to make fake AI obituaries for them, because AI slop is now inescapable even in death
August 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
a fun new horror of being alive in 2025 is that if you make a memorial post tagging a friend who has passed away, dozens of AI malware sites will scrape your friend's social media pages to make fake AI obituaries for them, because AI slop is now inescapable even in death
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Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born #OTD in 1868. She established the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars, an essential tool for understanding the scale of our Universe. 🧪 👩🔬 🔭
Image: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Image: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
July 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born #OTD in 1868. She established the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars, an essential tool for understanding the scale of our Universe. 🧪 👩🔬 🔭
Image: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Image: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Or to put it another way - Victoria is now a more affordable place to buy a home.
Points out that changes to tax have made property more affordable in Victoria... and paints that as terrible.
Cripes the way housing prices are reported is truly broken
Points out that changes to tax have made property more affordable in Victoria... and paints that as terrible.
Cripes the way housing prices are reported is truly broken
June 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Or to put it another way - Victoria is now a more affordable place to buy a home.
Points out that changes to tax have made property more affordable in Victoria... and paints that as terrible.
Cripes the way housing prices are reported is truly broken
Points out that changes to tax have made property more affordable in Victoria... and paints that as terrible.
Cripes the way housing prices are reported is truly broken
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
June 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
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"The government sacrificed sovereignty to get security & it looks like we're going to lose both."
@turnbullmalcolm.bsky.social & @emmashortis.bsky.social lay out the problems with the AUKUS deal.
"The only people we can truly count on are each other: Australians." #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4e6moCB
@turnbullmalcolm.bsky.social & @emmashortis.bsky.social lay out the problems with the AUKUS deal.
"The only people we can truly count on are each other: Australians." #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4e6moCB
June 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
"The government sacrificed sovereignty to get security & it looks like we're going to lose both."
@turnbullmalcolm.bsky.social & @emmashortis.bsky.social lay out the problems with the AUKUS deal.
"The only people we can truly count on are each other: Australians." #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4e6moCB
@turnbullmalcolm.bsky.social & @emmashortis.bsky.social lay out the problems with the AUKUS deal.
"The only people we can truly count on are each other: Australians." #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4e6moCB
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Our global petition to save NASA science closes this Thursday, and we’re just shy of 15,000 signatures! Every name counts, this petition will be hand-delivered to members of Congress. Add yours today, Save NASA Science.
planet.ly/petition
planet.ly/petition
June 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Our global petition to save NASA science closes this Thursday, and we’re just shy of 15,000 signatures! Every name counts, this petition will be hand-delivered to members of Congress. Add yours today, Save NASA Science.
planet.ly/petition
planet.ly/petition
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"I asked ChatGPT, and--" ...the ghost of Ada Lovelace appeared and punched you in the face, I hope.
May 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"I asked ChatGPT, and--" ...the ghost of Ada Lovelace appeared and punched you in the face, I hope.
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I give it a month before they realise this is a monumental error. I've experienced a few YouTube shorts with AI narration and even that is like having wet sand poured into your ear canal. 4+ hours of that? Nobody is going to want it.
That’s audiobooks fucked then: www.thebookseller.com/news/audible... oh well. It was good while it lasted.
Audible to use AI technology to produce audiobooks
Audible is set to offer "end-to-end" AI production technology – including translation and narration – for audiobooks.
www.thebookseller.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I give it a month before they realise this is a monumental error. I've experienced a few YouTube shorts with AI narration and even that is like having wet sand poured into your ear canal. 4+ hours of that? Nobody is going to want it.
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Exciting Aussie Space Industry news! 🚀
Regulatory bodies have given permission for Gilmore Space Technologies to launch their orbital class Eris rocket from the Bowen spaceport this week!
Window: 0730-1730, 15 May
Eris will be our first orbital rocket for ~50 years, designed/built in Australia
Regulatory bodies have given permission for Gilmore Space Technologies to launch their orbital class Eris rocket from the Bowen spaceport this week!
Window: 0730-1730, 15 May
Eris will be our first orbital rocket for ~50 years, designed/built in Australia
May 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Exciting Aussie Space Industry news! 🚀
Regulatory bodies have given permission for Gilmore Space Technologies to launch their orbital class Eris rocket from the Bowen spaceport this week!
Window: 0730-1730, 15 May
Eris will be our first orbital rocket for ~50 years, designed/built in Australia
Regulatory bodies have given permission for Gilmore Space Technologies to launch their orbital class Eris rocket from the Bowen spaceport this week!
Window: 0730-1730, 15 May
Eris will be our first orbital rocket for ~50 years, designed/built in Australia
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Ironically, if there's one thing DOGE has done it's to make me think there is much less fraud and waste in the (non-DOD) government than I thought. If after months of practically unlimited access all they're able to find is research and grants that they disagree with, there must not be much
May 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Ironically, if there's one thing DOGE has done it's to make me think there is much less fraud and waste in the (non-DOD) government than I thought. If after months of practically unlimited access all they're able to find is research and grants that they disagree with, there must not be much
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Always worth remembering the Liberal Party is now a minor party of the Coaltion
May 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Always worth remembering the Liberal Party is now a minor party of the Coaltion
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Waking up and grasping just how irrelevant news.corp and their racist-culture war agenda is.
Time for the ALP take this win as a marker in time.
Time for the ALP take this win as a marker in time.
May 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Waking up and grasping just how irrelevant news.corp and their racist-culture war agenda is.
Time for the ALP take this win as a marker in time.
Time for the ALP take this win as a marker in time.
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Pay attention dickheads:
Unless you are Indigenous you are a colonist or migrant. We don’t own the land.
Welcome to Country refers to a SPECIFIC area of the country, not the whole thing.
WTC predates European settlement, Ernie Dingo did not “invent it”.
Unless you are Indigenous you are a colonist or migrant. We don’t own the land.
Welcome to Country refers to a SPECIFIC area of the country, not the whole thing.
WTC predates European settlement, Ernie Dingo did not “invent it”.
April 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Pay attention dickheads:
Unless you are Indigenous you are a colonist or migrant. We don’t own the land.
Welcome to Country refers to a SPECIFIC area of the country, not the whole thing.
WTC predates European settlement, Ernie Dingo did not “invent it”.
Unless you are Indigenous you are a colonist or migrant. We don’t own the land.
Welcome to Country refers to a SPECIFIC area of the country, not the whole thing.
WTC predates European settlement, Ernie Dingo did not “invent it”.
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You’re not going to Mars and you won’t live forever—exploding Silicon Valley’s ideology. Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, "More Everything Forever." arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
You’re not going to Mars and you won’t live forever—exploding Silicon Valley’s ideology
Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.
arstechnica.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You’re not going to Mars and you won’t live forever—exploding Silicon Valley’s ideology. Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, "More Everything Forever." arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
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Not sure it's well recognised within Aus just how weirdly emissions intensive its vehicle fleet is
theicct.org/publication/...
theicct.org/publication/...
April 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Not sure it's well recognised within Aus just how weirdly emissions intensive its vehicle fleet is
theicct.org/publication/...
theicct.org/publication/...
Hope you have your 50 billion SFP sunscreen!
April 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Hope you have your 50 billion SFP sunscreen!
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American companies quite literally lost one trillion dollars in a single day but on the other hand Dave from accounts receivable doesn't have to worry about using they/them pronouns when he sees Leslie in the break room
April 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
American companies quite literally lost one trillion dollars in a single day but on the other hand Dave from accounts receivable doesn't have to worry about using they/them pronouns when he sees Leslie in the break room
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Hope it’s not too late to wish you all a happy #TransDayofVisability
April 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Hope it’s not too late to wish you all a happy #TransDayofVisability
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Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
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The Government is rushing changes through Parliament set to weaken environmental protection laws and benefit destructive industries.
Today, 50 environment organisations have joined an open letter demanding that these changes are rejected.
Published in The Aus, Cbr Times, Fin Review, SMH & the Age.
Today, 50 environment organisations have joined an open letter demanding that these changes are rejected.
Published in The Aus, Cbr Times, Fin Review, SMH & the Age.
March 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The Government is rushing changes through Parliament set to weaken environmental protection laws and benefit destructive industries.
Today, 50 environment organisations have joined an open letter demanding that these changes are rejected.
Published in The Aus, Cbr Times, Fin Review, SMH & the Age.
Today, 50 environment organisations have joined an open letter demanding that these changes are rejected.
Published in The Aus, Cbr Times, Fin Review, SMH & the Age.
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The new EULICD data release is AMAZING! 🔭
Here's a before / after of a random galaxy I found in one of the new images, comparing against the Digitized Sky Survey.
I highly recommend taking a look around on ESA Sky - it's fun! Link: sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ...
Here's a before / after of a random galaxy I found in one of the new images, comparing against the Digitized Sky Survey.
I highly recommend taking a look around on ESA Sky - it's fun! Link: sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ...
March 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The new EULICD data release is AMAZING! 🔭
Here's a before / after of a random galaxy I found in one of the new images, comparing against the Digitized Sky Survey.
I highly recommend taking a look around on ESA Sky - it's fun! Link: sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ...
Here's a before / after of a random galaxy I found in one of the new images, comparing against the Digitized Sky Survey.
I highly recommend taking a look around on ESA Sky - it's fun! Link: sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ...
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My mind is still a bit blown from @ec-euclid.bsky.social images last night.
When I zoomed in on a tiny patch of sky — FoV: 7.1' x 3.6, which is about the size of a grain of rice held at arms length — there was so much to see.
Walls and walls of galaxies.
We are tiny tiny creatures. 🔭
When I zoomed in on a tiny patch of sky — FoV: 7.1' x 3.6, which is about the size of a grain of rice held at arms length — there was so much to see.
Walls and walls of galaxies.
We are tiny tiny creatures. 🔭
March 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
My mind is still a bit blown from @ec-euclid.bsky.social images last night.
When I zoomed in on a tiny patch of sky — FoV: 7.1' x 3.6, which is about the size of a grain of rice held at arms length — there was so much to see.
Walls and walls of galaxies.
We are tiny tiny creatures. 🔭
When I zoomed in on a tiny patch of sky — FoV: 7.1' x 3.6, which is about the size of a grain of rice held at arms length — there was so much to see.
Walls and walls of galaxies.
We are tiny tiny creatures. 🔭