Mike Genito

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[Mike Genito @mtgenito]

My Aunt was an incredible woman who is missed beyond words every single day. 625,000+ deaths and counting and it’s easy to forget that behind every one of those numbers is a name, a face and a life lived. Thank you for sharing @FacesOfCOVID

[NeighborsTaken @NeighborsTaken]

MARY CURLEY MADSEN, 63, of Jacksonville, Florida, died of COVID on Feb. 13, 2021.

"An incredible mother, Mimi (grandmother), daughter, sister, aunt, Godmother and so much more...an amazing individual who touched countless lives and was taken from us way too soon."

[Mike Genito @mtgenito]

@Seamless_Care I got a refund on food but your delivery driver was absolute trash. I don’t even think I can reorder from the restaurant now. I want a refund PLUS the food redelivered ASAP please. Delivery driver didn’t even try. Absolutely abysmal. A $7 credit doesn’t cover it.

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

This explains a lot for The Simpsons.

[RetroNewsNow @RetroNewsNow]

🛶On October 14, 2005, while reporting on flooding in New Jersey for NBC’s ‘Today Show,’ correspondent Michelle Kosinski infamously paddled a canoe during a live segment, only for two pedestrians to stroll through the shot, revealing the water to be just a few inches deep

[CALLUM ABROAD @CallumAbroad]

Dark Tourism 🧵

1. Bin Laden Compound #Abbottabad Pakistan 🇵🇰

[Tavus @tavus]

Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.

48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.

It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Honky Chonk Beardonkadonk⁣⁣

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

- gotta sleep now
- thx for the prayers
- gratitude for Nurse Loven, and for a great chemo team (and for morphine, obv.)
- gemzar & abraxane: work yer poisonmagic. Let’s kick some tumor arse

[Mike Genito @mtgenito]

@BenSasse I know you prob won’t see this, but you are one heck of a fighter and show what principled leadership and courage look like. Your strength and humor in the face of cancer is beyond admirable. Prayers and well wishes for your chemo tomorrow 🙏🏼

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Big chemo trmw — thank you for continued prayers for fam and for med team.
Let’s roll!

[Mike Genito @mtgenito]

RT @BenSasse: Thx for the prayers — Turns out cutting out chunks of yer liver is no joke, man.

Good news, bad news, and next steps…
Good:…

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Iowa counties by how socially acceptable they are as baby names.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

No country on Earth assimilates better than America. These are football obsessed 2nd gen immigrant kids wearing cowboy hats, crushing beers, throwing up horns, and celebrating one of the greatest comebacks in school history.

THIS is why America rules the world.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

I’m begging you: if you wake up every morning with a sense of anxiety that just won’t go away, read what Marcus Aurelius wrote nearly 1,900 years ago.

He was Emperor of Rome from 161 to 180 AD. His reign was marked by plague, wars, political unrest, economic pressure, and devastating personal losses.

[S. Lant @Shiftant]

In 2002, the NYT mapped zip codes of where the 9/11 victims who died at the WTC lived. 45% of them lived in NYC. The zip code with the largest victim count was in the Upper East Side.

Hoboken, NJ, just an 11 minute subway ride across the Hudson from the WTC, was second.

[Complex @Complex]

Scientists may have found the real life SpongeBob and Patrick nearly 6,200 feet below the Atlantic.

A NOAA expedition captured a yellow sponge and pink sea star sitting side by side, and marine biologist Christopher Mah pointed out the obvious comparison.

[🎥: via/ NOAA]

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

On September 11, 2001, an iconic photo captured a woman covered head-to-toe in yellow-grey ash after escaping the North Tower. Her name was Marcy Borders, and the world came to know her as the "Dust Lady."

But her survival story didn't end that day - it took a tragic turn years later when 🧵/1

[ESPN @espn]

Welles Crowther, a former Boston College lacrosse player who had a trademark red bandana, was working in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.

This is the story of how he led people to safety after terrorists struck the World Trade Center.

[Josh Elman @joshelman]

Worth the read every year. #neverforget

Todd: Hello… Operator…listen to me…I can’t speak very loud. – This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco.. We have a situation here….Our plane has been hijacked…..can you understand me?

Lisa: (exhaling a deep breath to herself) I understand… Can the hijackers see you talking on the phone?

Todd: No

Lisa: Can you tell me how many hijackers are on the plane?

Todd: There are three that we know of.

Lisa: Can you see any weapons? What kind of weapons do they have?

Todd: Yes…. they don’t have guns….they have knives – they took over the plane with knives.

Lisa: Do you mean…like steak knives?

Todd: No, these are razor knives…like box cutters.

Lisa: Can you tell what country these people are from?

Todd: No…..I don’t know. They sound like they’re from the mid-east.

Lisa: Have they said what they want?

Todd: Someone announced from the cockpit that there was a bomb on board. He said he was the captain and to stay in our seats and stay quiet.
He said that they were meeting these men’s demands and returning to the airport… It was very broken English, and… I’m telling you…it sounded fake!

Lisa: Ok sir, please give me your name.

Todd: My name is Todd Beamer.

Lisa: Ok Todd….my name is Lisa…Do you know your flight number? If you can’t remember, it’s on your ticket.

Todd: It’s United Flight 93.

Lisa: Now Todd, can you try to tell me exactly what happened?

Todd: Two of the hijackers were sitting in first class near the cockpit. A third one was sitting near the back of the coach section. The two up. front got into the cockpit somehow; there was shouting. The third hijacker said he had a bomb. It looks like a bomb. He’s got it tied to his waist with a red belt of some kind.

Lisa: So is the door to the cockpit open?

Todd: No, the hijackers shut it behind them.

Lisa: Has anyone been injured?

Todd: Yes, ..they…they killed one passenger sitting in first class. There’s been lots of shouting. We don’t know if the pilots are dead or alive. A flight attendant told me that the pilot and copilot had been forced from the cockpit and may have been wounded.

Lisa: Where is the 3rd hijacker now Todd?

Todd: He’s near the back of the plane. They forced most of the passengers into first class. There are fourteen of us here in the back. Five are flight attendants. He hasn’t noticed that I slipped into this pantry to get the phone. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor in the rear of the plane……….oh Jesus.. Help!

Lisa: Todd….are you ok? Tell me what’s happening!

Todd: Hello…..We’re going down….I think we’re going to crash……Wait – wait a minute. No, we’re leveling off….we’re ok. I think we may be turning around…..That’s it – we changed directions. Do you hear me….we’re flying east again.

Lisa: Ok Todd…. What’s going on with the other passengers?

Todd: Everyone is… really scared. A few passengers with cell phones have made calls to relatives. A guy, Jeremy, was talking to his wife just before the hijacking started. She told him that hijackers had crashed two planes into the World Trade Center……Lisa is that true??

Lisa: Todd…..I have to tell you the truth…..it’s very bad. The World Trade Center is gone. Both of the towers have been destroyed.

Todd: Oh God —help us!

Lisa: A third plane was taken over by terrorists. It crashed into the Pentagon in Washington DC. Our country is under attack….and I’m afraid that your plane may be part of their plan.

Todd: Oh dear God. Dear God…….Lisa, will you do something for me?

Lisa: I’ll try….if I can….Yes.

Todd: I want you to call my wife and my kids for me and tell them what’s happened. Promise me you’ll call..

Lisa: I promise – I’ll call.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

The passenger uprising on Flight 93 still gets to me.

The indomitable power of the American spirit. Just absolute patriots and heroes of Western civilization. There should be statues to them.