#sep11 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sep11, aggregated by home.social.
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From #LouisRossmann, for anyone concerned with #surveillance and #faceRecognition:
The image recognition component of #Google #Gemini insists that multiple contemporary photos of American repair technician and #rightToRepair advocate Steven Rhine are definitely photos of an (obviously long-dead) #Sep11 hijacker.
As is said in the video, “what the #flock!”
(Yes, it’s a different image matching program returning a false positive, but Flock warrants becoming a curse.)
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#Sep11 We’re up to 24 years ago now. I, of course, remember the day like it was yesterday. At the time, I was dealing with some heavy emotional stuff. My dad had died almost exactly a year before; the anniversary of his death was coming up the following Monday. And I was in the throes of grief 2.0. At the time I was having issues doing much of anything, which was frustrating, as I had gone through all of this already the year before. Nonetheless, I woke up that Tuesday morning with the blues. Just the week before, I had purchased my first really serious PC. It had what I considered an incredible amount of space on the drive, 60 gigabytes! I would have no trouble staying in that parameter. I had learned how to burn CD’s, so on that morning, I was up by 5:30 in the morning, as was my norm, and fired up my filesharing program to start loading the download queue. Just a bit after 6:00, I began noticing a significant decrease in download speed. Other than mild annoyance, I didn’t think too much about it. At around 6:30, I opened my Email. The first one I saw was from a group I belonged to for adult children of deceased parents talking about a plane hitting the World Trade Center. In my current state of mind my brain couldn’t make sense of that. So I turned on my radio to the all-news station, which by then was simulcasting WCBS. That’s when I learned what was happening. And what a day it was. May we never see its like again.
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"It’s easy to lionize courage. It’s harder to reconcile it with queerness — especially when you’re a country still unsure how to celebrate a gay man without special qualifiers. In the aftermath of 9/11, Mark was praised as a patriot. But he was rarely acknowledged as a gay patriot.
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Because to some, queerness complicates the hero archetype.It shouldn’t.
But it does."
https://stranger.social/@prismnpen/114653839513843318
@prismnpen
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-gay-hero-saved-the-u-s-capitol-and-changed-the-course-of-history-59745be9fe2b?sk=5ebaeba3eee7d75faae5e363eabc1530#LGBTQ #QueerHistory #Sep11#MarkBingham #Gay
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Mark Bingham saved lives. But his sexuality made his story harder for America to embrace. And so it did what it always does when queerness challenges its myths: it trimmed the truth down to something more comfortable. More palatable. More straight.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-gay-hero-saved-the-u-s-capitol-and-changed-the-course-of-history-59745be9fe2b?sk=5ebaeba3eee7d75faae5e363eabc1530#LGBTQ #QueerHistory #Sep11#MarkBingham #Gay
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Comparing #Oct7 to #Sep11 was going to inevitably result in a #truther culture.
The reality is that neither the #American people nor those of #Israel want to accept both as failures of the State to protect citizens, because then they’d have to actually hold “leadership” accountable while also being terrified.
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Today is a date that lives in infamy.
Remember?
https://sampathpanini.medium.com/dates-of-infamy-3d009ff99ab0
#history @histodons #Dec7 #Oct7 #Sep11 #trauma #tragedy #consequences #LessonsLearned
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So #Trump allegedly committed at least two crimes on the anniversary of 9/11 in his first year of his presidency. I’m not surprised. #sep11 #trumpindicted #trumpindictment