9/ From the moment of the power failure to the moment units were alerted to close the bridge, 156 seconds elapsed.
1:24:59 am to 1:27:25 am.
2 minutes, 26 seconds—from first sign of trouble to the bridge being closed.
That's truly astonishing. That first call saved lives.
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I know it’s a long shot, but does anyone know an engineer at Airbnb named Jeroen who’s using my listing (Room.first) as sample data for testing? If so, could you please ask him to find a different room?
My 2 litmus tests for whether or not a stranger is a good person:
1: They put the shopping cart back where it belongs
2: They stand a few feet back from the airport baggage claim until they see their bag, instead of cutting in front and blocking people's view for no reason
As Twitter makes some historically bad decisions under Elon Musk’s leadership, a lot of “alternatives” to Twitter are going to pop up. Some of these platforms will be meant for social good. Others will be set up specifically to harvest your data and sell it. So be careful.
👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B
Those calling for more shelter in place training or armed teachers or more guns are part of the problem, not the solution. At the Parkland shooting, a school resource officer arrived within 99 seconds of the first shot fired, but 21 people had already been shot by then.
Breaking News: Finland and Sweden formally asked to join NATO, casting aside decades of neutrality after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended European security.
https://t.co/LbLHJdVr5K
2. Let’s begin with total death rate, *including* the deaths caused by nuclear accidents, but *excluding* the deaths attributable to coal and caused by climate breakdown. As you can see, nuclear is massively safer.