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Seth B
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Sr. VFX Compositor in LA, working on TV & Film (The Muppets, Black Swan, Doom Patrol, and many others). Finally back at work in a studio, and looking forward to interesting projects.
Find me @ https://sethbrower.carrd.co/
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andycraig.bsky.social
Rep. Al Green spoke for ~20 minutes earlier this evening when he invoked Rule IX to force a vote on his resolution impeaching Trump for threatening members of Congress with death.

At the end, the speaker pro tem absurdly chided him for "engaging in personalities toward the president."
User Clip: Rep. Al Green Forces Impeachment Vote 12.10.25
Rep. Al Green invokes House Rule IX to impeach Trump for threatening members of Congress.
www.c-span.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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physicsmatt.bsky.social
I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
I love Cory
December 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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usapolling.bsky.social
"Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not."

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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ernie.tedium.co
Man, really not understanding the underpinnings of free speech

open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
SCOOP: Trump Admin Is Preparing to Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
Trump officials are considering revoking the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India
kidvanguard.bsky.social Kid Vanguard @kidvanguard.bsky.social · 7h
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
Special Benetits. For Individuals For Business Trump Gold Card For a $15,000 DHS processing fee* and, after background approval, a contribution of $1 million, receive U.S. residency in record time with the Trump Gold Card. *Additional small fees to the U.S. Department of State may apply depending on the applicant. Trump Platinum Card Coming Soon* An official website of the United States government Apply Now 个 Corporate Gold Card? The Trump Corporate Gold Card is issued to a corporate sponsor for one or more of the sponsor's employees. To apply, the corporate sponsor must pay a nonrefundable, $15,000 DHS processing fee per employee. Corporate sponsors may apply for multiple employees at once. A $2 million per employee gift upon completion of the employee's vetting is evidence that the employee will substantially benefit the United States. The advantage of the Trump Corporate Gold Card is that corporate sponsors may cease sponsoring one employee and use the gift contribution tied to the prior application as a basis for sponsoring a new employee, without a new $2 million gift. The Trump Corporate Gold Card is subject to a small, 1% annual maintenance fee and a 5% transfer fee, which includes the cost of a new DHS background check. Small additional fees to the U.S. Department of State may also apply depending on each employees circumstances.
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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shiv.ing
115 democrats just voted to establish the first federal statutory definition of sex, which could now be used to

• charge fraud for using documents that misrepresent “sex”
• reverse all federal records gender markers
• sue a future gov’t for attempting to rescind trump’s anti-trans exec orders
stephensemler.bsky.social Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 15h
As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
NDAA passes the House, 312 to 112. Republicans: 197 yea, 18 nay; Democrats: 115 yea, 94 nay
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
David Ellison appears to be mortified that CBS/60 Minutes is “going rogue” by covering the news and by keeping him “in the dark” about a segment critical of Trump.

Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work.

nypost.com/2025/12/10/m...
Sources say Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has told people close to Trump he was unaware of the broadcast until the day it ran, as was Jeff Shell, president of Paramount Skydance, and Weiss. • "They're saying those guys went rogue and when Paramount Skydance found out about it, they were caught flatfooted," said one person with direct knowledge of the matter. The sources say paramount's brass insists that "60 Minutes" staffers kept them mostly in the dark about the controversial interview that aired Sunday night - which provoked Trump to declare that Paramount Skydance and its management "ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP." "Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE!" Trump added of the Ellisons.
December 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Cut off from lavish Kremlin funding, Tim Pool says he's floundering and is thinking of shutting down his podcast. www.newsweek.com/tim-pool-pod...
Tim Pool says he may quit show as costs reach 'breaking point'
Tim Pool said security costs are threatening the future of TimCast IRL, days after he said shots were fired at his property
www.newsweek.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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danifroom.bsky.social
The woman the media is desperate to cast as a kinder, gentler Nazi, is spending her last month in Congress trying to imprison those who support trans kids.
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h
Marjorie Taylor Greene horse traded her vote on the NDAA for a floor vote for a felony ban on gender affirming care for trans youth that would criminalize parents and doctors for providing evidence based lifesaving care for their children.
A screenshot of a post on X by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG). The post reads: "I made a deal and changed my NO vote on the rule to a Yes in exchange for a floor vote next week on my bill that is one of President Trump’s key campaign promises and executive orders. Leader Steve Scalise has promised me that my bill Protect Children’s Innocence Act, H.R. 3492, will be brought to the floor for a vote next Wednesday, Dec 17th. This would make it a class c felony to trans a child under 18. Every Republican campaigned to protect kids from the trans agenda." The post is dated December 10, 2025, at 4:26 PM.
December 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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davidforbes.bsky.social
Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.
danifroom.bsky.social Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 12h
115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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theimeu.bsky.social
Israel’s military is arming and funding illegal militias of Israeli settlers. These violent, Israeli state-backed mobs are attacking Palestinian families in the West Bank more frequently and brutally than ever before.

Israel is giving violent settlers weapons to take over Palestinian land.
How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
What often appears as sporadic settler violence is in fact an organized system with an official structure fully operating as intended.
ow.ly
December 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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jmberger.com
If he can do this, the First Amendment is dead
December 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
It is intensely funny to me that tech bro CEOs on an annual salary of 15 petabillion dollars think data centres can go in space because it's very cold but actually they would get obscenely hot because heat won't radiate into the vacuum of space

taranis.ie/datacenters-...
cold coolant returned to the loop. Typically the coolant is cooled via convective cooling to the air, so one way or another this is how things work on Earth. In space, there is no air. The environment is close enough to a hard, total vacuum as makes no practical difference, so convection just doesn't happen. On the space engineering side, we typically think about thermal management, not just cooling. Thing is, space doesn't really have a temperature as-such. Only materials have a temperature. It may come as a surprise, but in the Earth-Moon system the average temperature of pretty much anything is basically the same as the average temperature of Earth, because this is why Earth has that particular temperature. If a satellite is rotating, a bit like a chicken on a rotisserie, it will tend toward having a consistent temperature that's roughly similar to that of the Earth surface. If it isn't rotating, the side pointing away from the sun will tend to get progressively colder, with a limit due to the cosmic microwave background, around 4 Kelvin, just a little bit above absolute zero. On the sunward side, things can get a bit cooked, hitting hundreds of centigrade. Thermal management therefore requires very careful design, making sure that heat is carefully directed where it needs to go. Because there is no convection in a vacuum, this can only be achieved by conduction, or via some kind of heat pump. I've designed space hardware that has flown in space. In one particular case, I designed a camera system that needed to be very small and lightweight, whilst still providing science-grade imaging capabilities. Thermal management was front and centre in the design process – it had to be, because power is scarce in small spacecraft, and thermal management has to be achieved whilst keeping mass to a minimum. So no heat pumps or fancy stuff for me – I went in the other direction, designing the system to draw a maximum of about 1 watt at peak, dropping to around 10% of that wh… Cooling even a single H200 will be an absolute nightmare. Clearly a heatsink and fan won't do anything at all, but there is a liquid cooled H200 variant. Let's say this was used. This heat would need to be transferred to a radiator panel – this isn't like the radiator in your car, no convection, remember? – which needs to radiate heat into space. Let's assume that we can point this away from the sun. The Active Thermal Control System (ATCS) on the ISS is an example of such a thermal control system. This is a very complex system, using an ammonia cooling loop and a large thermal radiator panel system. It has a dissipation limit of 16kW, so roughly 16 H200 GPUs, a bit over the equivalent to a quarter of a ground-based rack. The thermal radiator panel system measures 13.6m x 3.12 m, i.e., roughly 42.5 square metres. If we use 200kW as a baseline and assume all of that power will be fed to GPUs, we'd need a system 12.5 times bigger, i.e., roughly 531 square metres, or about 2.6 times the size of the relevant solar array. This is now going to be a very large satellite, dwarfing the ISS in area, all for the equivalent of three standard server racks on Earth.
December 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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gamerstavernshow.com
PS Dipshit: I do know what it costs. I get sent an itemized bill from my insurance. It lists everything they was covered and everything the insurance negotiated down.

IT'S REQUIRED BY FUCKING LAW YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT BEFORE RUNNING YOUR FUCKING MOUTH ABOUT HEALTHCARE LAWS.

FUCK.
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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yasharali.bsky.social
If they’re only blowing up narco boats, boats they are certain are carrying tons of drugs, why would she need to worry?

It’s almost as if…
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11h
Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado’s escape from Venezuela was particularly risky because her team had to inform the US military that she was escaping so they wouldn’t mistake her boat for an alleged narco boat and bomb it.

Full Story: bit.ly/3XJXIsh
Photo of María Corina Machado on a balcony in Oslo, Norway after escaping Venezuela. She had almost completed an escape that had been in the works for about two months and was carried out by a Venezuelan network that has helped other people to flee the country, the person close to the operation said. The group said it made an important call to the U.S. military before they set out to sea, warning American forces in the region of the vessel's occupants to avoid the kind of airstrike that has hit more than 20 other similar vessels in the past three months, killing more than 80 people. "We coordinated that she was going to leave by a specific area so that they would not blow up the boat," said the person close to the operation. The Trump administration was aware of the operation, said people familiar with the matter, but the extent of its involvement was unclear.
December 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Very sensitive intelligence methods like murdering the shit out of shipwrecked mariners.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
House Intel Chair Rick Crawford on why he doesn't want video of the second Sept 2 boat strike released: "What the trained eye can detect from these videos may reveal sources and methods that would imperil troops." (But releasing video of the first strike didn't?)
December 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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gamerstavernshow.com
Okay fucker, the difference is I CAN'T CHANGE DIALYSIS PROVIDERS.

There is no "price shopping" for a treatment I need to stay alive. I can't wait for a fucking sale you dipshit.

If you'd ever dealt with the ACTUAL medical system and not your taxpayer-funded free-ride insurance, you'd fucking know.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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aaronalexovich.bsky.social
Hey! My store now has DIGITAL DOWNLOAD power. If you've been weeping bitter tears over Serenity Rose being out of print, well mop your face and grab some pixels! heartshapedskull.bigcartel.com/product/sere...
SERENITY ROSE: 10 AWKWARD YEARS digital version
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December 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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joshablock.bsky.social
These “woke” regulations were over 50 years old!
paulwaldman.bsky.social Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 12h
Washington Post editorial board really speaking truth to power
Washington Post editorial: "Pam Bondi's welcome woke rollback"
December 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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senatorgiggity.bsky.social
They're selling just the dumbest magic beans
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
must suck for a white supremacist swine when white people from extremely white countries don’t want to be come to the shithole he’s making of his country because among other things they have democracy with sane leaders and health care
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
TRUMP: “I said why is it we only take people from shithole countries? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark… But we always take people from Somalia— places that are filthy, dirty, disgusting.”

Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
December 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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kendrawrites.com
If only there was a safe, cheap and effective way to halt its spread.
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15h
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM