On this night...25 years ago, 246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights. 2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning tomorrow. 343 firefighters went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift. 60 police officers went to sleep in preparation for morning patrol. 8 paramedics went to sleep in preparation for the morning shift of saving lives. None of them saw past 10:00 am Sept 11, 2001. In one single moment life may never be the same. As you live and enjoy the breaths you take today and tonight before you go to sleep in preparation for your life tomorrow, kiss the ones you love, snuggle a little tighter, and never take one second of your life for granted
Never forget. 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇲🦅
What some don’t quite understand, because they didn’t live it, was September 11 was an ongoing thing as we experienced it. A plane hits a tower. Then another. Then another hits the pentagon. Then another crashes. One tower falls, another soon after. It was a building trauma.
There’s a lot you can say about the legacy of GWB but this and the heater he threw at Yankee stadium are two of the most important moments in American history and he rose to both occasions in spectacular fashion.
9/11 was so shattering, so singular. It is strange that it has so little presence in popular culture.
Where are the great 9/11 movies - or the bad ones? How many stories have even alluded to it? Just references, the idea that 9/11 happened and people heard of it.
People are responding to this with specific 9/11-themed movies like THE 25TH HOUR or UNITED 93 or <shudder> WORLD TRADE CENTER but nearly all American TV shows and films made subsequently reflect 9/11 and the War on Terror in some ways. It shifted the whole culture.
Sharing a gift link to the New York Times' devastating minute by minute report of the World Trade Center's last 102 minutes, based on the hundreds of last calls and emails people made.
Never forget.
https://t.co/NrmvjVdVSz
Yeah I’m not sure anyone should be asked to work tomorrow. I think we should all gather and talk about this stuff and these heroes. Feels like we lost a lot of this over the last twenty five years.
Welles Crowther is a hero. A @BCEagles graduate. A son, a brother & friend. At 24, he saved over a dozen lives on 9/11. And he’s known as the “Man in the Red Bandana”.
This story is a must watch every year. May Welles’ memory continue to be a blessing.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
In grad school, my roommate and I would wake up at 6 AM to watch "Sunrise Earth," and it was an all-time high. This is as close as I've ever gotten again.