Tracy Wise

A huge night for Democrats:

—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.

🧵

AVA - Use AI to revise submission feedback Impact: Instructor Updated Help Topic: Grade Assignments with Flexible Grading and Grade Tests with Flexible Grading Idea Exchange ID: Not applicable The new AI-powered Rewrite option in Flexible Grading helps instructors improve the clarity and tone of their feedback. This tool uses generative AI to reword instructor-authored comments—whether they are rough notes, bullet points, or complete sentences—into more polished and student-friendly language. The Rewrite option supports iterative editing and is designed to help instructors deliver clearer, more impactful feedback with less effort.

If I can't even write my own grading feedback why would I be qualified to grade student writing?

🧵

This is what they've done.

This physics professor transformed his country to 98% renewable energy in five years Ramón Méndez Galain was a Urguayan theoretical physics professor studying the Big Bang when the president of Uruguay shocked him with a phone call in 2008 asking him to be the country's energy secreta...

I wrote on @boingboing.net about the physics professor who became Uruguay's energy secretary, and within five years had the country on 98% renewable energy.

NOT ONLY CAN IT BE DONE, IT WAS AN ECONOMIC BOON THE THE COUNTRY.

boingboing.net/2025/12/09/t...

The Venezuela boat murders are meant to be a gateway drug to domestic murders. The “you can’t let this MAGA regime out of power now because you military are going to jail if we leave” is a powerful cooption technique but not atypical for authoritarian regimes

Everyone I know is sick, almost all of them sound like Dracula, and I'm coming to the realization we will not have any idea what any of this shit even is until the Felchfather is out of office.

*this*👇👇👇👇

So grateful I got the shingles vax (I got the old shingles vax, then was able to get Shingrix when it came out the next year).
Yes, I had to take a nap the afternoon after each vax.

But a little discomfort vs getting shingles itself? Plus the bonus of dementia protection? *No contest.*

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.

I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Red rose in a blue glass vase

Red rose in a white ceramic vase

Taking a breath...appreciating the roses.

Passengers disrupted by A320 software update not entitled to airline compensation, USDOT says Airlines that delayed or canceled U.S. flights last month due to an emergency government directive to update the software on Airbus A320 planes were not required to provide hotels, meals or other benefits to impacted passengers, the U.S. Transportation Department said Tuesday.

Passengers disrupted by A320 software update not entitled to airline compensation, USDOT says reut.rs/4q4oOGJ

👀👀👀👀👀

What we see here with crystal clarity is Altman's facile understanding of intelligence as a process of input/output. Perhaps he will learn, as so many parents do, that things are not nearly as linear with human beings, and that creativity and joy are not easily converted to data. Perhaps. /end

this is insane

The DOJ has confirmed that President Trump blocked the release of more than 4,100 documents requested as part of a lawsuit brought by injured January 6 police officers.

With this action, the president is directly blocking a case alleging that he helped to fuel the deadly riot. trib.al/o6IVFjF

🚨 MAJOR WIN: A federal judge has ruled that Ghislaine Maxwell's grand jury records can be unsealed.

We're one step closer to delivering justice for the survivors. Pam Bondi and the DOJ must comply with the law and turn these files over to our Committee IMMEDIATELY.

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

Individuals who completed all requirements to become citizens were prohibited from taking the oath to become US citizens for no reason other than this administration's blatant racism.

The actions of this administration are nothing but shameful & disgusting.

🧵

As I was just saying.

They will scale up random “schools” based on market speculation and then close them down when demand wanes. Thats the plan.

When a US Admiral feels the need to ask an attorney what the definition of "shipwreck" is, he's a liability – a danger to his fellow sailors and the country which he claims to defend.

$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.

Whoa … this is really strange.

Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.

🎁 link ⤵️

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore

Truly! Chris is so right here. It's astounding. www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth risked the safety of U.S. forces with use of Signal A forthcoming inspector general report finds that had intel shared by Hegseth been intercepted by an adversary, it would have endangered servicemembers, according to a source who viewed the findings.

Now, our military has deliberately killed two survivors clinging to a boat. A likely war crime and act of murder.

Hegseth must be held accountable. His firing is the first step.
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

I think some folks wonder how six Supreme Court Justices could just totally cave for Trump on so many rulings.

These folks never actually had principles—of any kind. Some of them were masters at pretending they did. And now they have been able to release that pretense.