#twintowers — Public Fediverse posts
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"Twin towers" in San Gimignano
#fotografia #sangimignano #tuscany #italy #TwinTowers #newyork @[email protected] @foto
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@dalereardon
I have no idea, nor does anyone in the press corps either. Our govt is keeping mum. But, to prevent unwarranted access (whatever that means to the #Merikans under #tRump these days) there would probably need to be some data front end with some very stringent privacy controls to avoid massive data leaks to the #US #Feds (and who knows whom else!)Wise choice too BYW, I’ve not been StatesSide for decades, ever since the #TwinTowers attack prompted invasive/transit entry requirements to come into force.
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@dalereardon
I have no idea, nor does anyone in the press corps either. Our govt is keeping mum. But, to prevent unwarranted access (whatever that means to the #Merikans under #tRump these days) there would probably need to be some data front end with some very stringent privacy controls to avoid massive data leaks to the #US #Feds (and who knows whom else!)Wise choice too BYW, I’ve not been StatesSide for decades, ever since the #TwinTowers attack prompted invasive/transit entry requirements to come into force.
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@dalereardon
I have no idea, nor does anyone in the press corps either. Our govt is keeping mum. But, to prevent unwarranted access (whatever that means to the #Merikans under #tRump these days) there would probably need to be some data front end with some very stringent privacy controls to avoid massive data leaks to the #US #Feds (and who knows whom else!)Wise choice too BYW, I’ve not been StatesSide for decades, ever since the #TwinTowers attack prompted invasive/transit entry requirements to come into force.
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@dalereardon
I have no idea, nor does anyone in the press corps either. Our govt is keeping mum. But, to prevent unwarranted access (whatever that means to the #Merikans under #tRump these days) there would probably need to be some data front end with some very stringent privacy controls to avoid massive data leaks to the #US #Feds (and who knows whom else!)Wise choice too BYW, I’ve not been StatesSide for decades, ever since the #TwinTowers attack prompted invasive/transit entry requirements to come into force.
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@dalereardon
I have no idea, nor does anyone in the press corps either. Our govt is keeping mum. But, to prevent unwarranted access (whatever that means to the #Merikans under #tRump these days) there would probably need to be some data front end with some very stringent privacy controls to avoid massive data leaks to the #US #Feds (and who knows whom else!)Wise choice too BYW, I’ve not been StatesSide for decades, ever since the #TwinTowers attack prompted invasive/transit entry requirements to come into force.
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Dated 1979, quite unsettling.
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11 settembre, la prova generale è stata in Brasile
#boomerissimo #brasile #dirottamento #11settembre #9/11 #twintowers #wtc
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My new report argues that the Petronas Twin Towers were built on the broken backs of Sabah and Sarawak. It's time to demand the return of our Maruah and reject the gaslighting of Federal elites.
#Sabah #Sarawak #MA63 #Petronas #MalaysiaPolitics #EconomicExploitation #SocialJustice #Borneo #OilAndGas #Federalism #Dignity #Maruah #Activism #Energy #ResourceControl #Politics #CurrentAffairs #Corruption #History #Inequality #TwinTowers #Truth #Advocacy #DigitalWeblog
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NewsLib and Sept. 11, 2001 – Internet Archive – 9/11 – We Will Never Forget
https://web.archive.org/web/20040617130947/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NewsLibtulloch.html
AprJunDec1720032004200517 captures, 6 Dec 2003 – 16 Aug 2013
Paula Hane, a contributing editor to Information Today and editor of Newsbreaks, issued an editorial on September 17, 2001 entitled, “Information Professionals Respond Following Terrorist Attacks.” (1) This article inspired me to look at a specific group of information professionals. This group of information professionals performs both ready-reference and in-depth research for its clients. Most members of this group are true generalists, make little money, and work on extremely tight deadlines. (Perhaps not surprisingly, their interactions on their newsgroup – NewsLib — seem similar in many ways to our own ESU-SLIM class listgroups.) The individuals in this group of information professionals are generally known as news librarians or news researchers. To gain some insight into their work, I followed their interactions in the NewsLib group from September 11, 2001 to September 21, 2001.
From my review of approximately 300 email postings during the period from September 11, 2001 to September 21, 2001, I gathered three distinct impressions of news librarians/news researchers. I was impressed by their professionalism, the diversity within the group, and, perhaps, most of all, by their willingness to share and assist each other – their sense of community — especially during such a difficult time in our history.
Professionalism
Postings to NewsLib in the days prior to September 11, 2001 consisted of many of the issues that other librarians and researchers face. Postings included solicitations for help in finding resources, accessing resources, verifying resources, and assessing the quality of resources. Other topics included the following: a discussion about when news researchers “should” and “should not” receive research credit in a story; a discussion about copyright infringement; and, a survey solicitation by a group of researchers wanting to gather data on the “state of news libraries” for an upcoming conference. (2)
From September 11, 2001 to September 14, 2001 postings increased four-fold on NewsLib as news librarians and researchers searched for information on behalf of a stunned public. These people seemed to understand that they had a job that HAD to be done and they searched, shared, and asked for help, all in an extremely professional but human manner. The first question on the morning of September 11 was posted by Shelley Lavey of the Detroit Free Press at 9:24 am EST. Shelley asked the question that probably crossed the public’s mind later in the day. “Has anyone come across any significance to the date of September 11 that might be related to the events at the World Trade Center today?” (3)
In the midst of postings about the possible significance of September 11, Mike Reilly, a professor of journalism, offered his professional support. “For those of you researching and backgrounding air disasters, there are reliable resources at www.journaliststoolbox.com It has an entire section on airline disasters. Share with your newsrooms. Take care, Mike Reilly.” By 11:00 am EST, Abigail Brigham at the CNN library in New York shared a link to a list of tenants at the World Trade Center. By noon, Mari Keefe of ComputerWorld posted specific facts (and their sources) about the World Trade Center in response to the frantic inquiry, “Anybody got the fast facts like how many tons of concrete, etc? I keep getting a 404 message! “ by Suzanne Henderson of the Charleston Post and Courier.
In the few hours following the attacks, other news librarians shared information about web sites that track enroute flights. They also shared their frustration with these flight-tracking sites and other sites being overwhelmed, as well as reporting to each other that the live feed for the FAA flight-tracking web site had been suspended. Other requests and responses on NewsLib focused on gathering and putting together timelines of terrorist activities over the last twenty years.
Later in the day on September 11, researchers tried to verify among each other stories about price gouging at gas station. They also took “roll” on who had put out special edition newspapers (4). Finally, they continued to share resources. By early evening Gary Price, an “information and Internet consultant” in Washington DC, announced that he had begun compiling links to transcripts of world leaders’ responses to the attacks on his web site. At 7:30 pm EST, Jill Konieczko, MLS, a Lexis-Nexis marketing manager announced to her colleagues that beginning at 9pm EST, special packaged content would be available for free.
By early evening Gary Price, an “information and Internet consultant” in Washington DC, announced that he had begun compiling links to transcripts of world leaders’ responses to the attacks on his web site.
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Noted Konieczko, “Our own information professionals at Lexis-Nexis are crafting searches to deliver on-point information for analysis and crisis management on the following topics:
News and Background Terrorism Legislation Other Attacks on the U.S.
Terrorist Groups Victims of Terrorism Act Oklahoma City
Terrorist Organizations Terrorism: Selected Statutory U.S. Embassy Bombing
U.S. Response to Terrorism Materials Kenya and Tanzania (1988)
Osama Bin Laden World Trade Center (1993) Pearl Harbor (1941) “Ms. Konieczcko encouraged her colleagues to contact her to suggest additional topics and said that her own team would be continuously adding content.
What most impressed me about Ms. Koniecscko’s letter to her colleagues and patrons on NewsLib was her acknowledgment of the difficult job that they were doing and would continue to do in the days ahead. On September 11, when I remember doing little but watch the news coverage that these individuals helped to produce, these information professionals knew they had a job to do and they did it. Ms. Koniecscko described this situation well in her note to NewsLib. “We rely on your coverage to grapple with the details, understand the weight of the day’s events, and persevere… Again, please know that we are thinking of you, and please let us know what we at LexisNexis can do to better assist you in your research in these very difficult times.”
On September 11, when I remember doing little but watch the news coverage that these individuals helped to produce, these information professionals knew they had a job to do and they did it.
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Diversity:
In addition to the professionalism displayed by NewsLibbers, I was struck by the diversity of the group. NewsLib has over 1250 subscribers from 22 different countries. These statistics certainly speak to the diversity of its members, but what impresses and surprises me is the diversity of news organizations that contribute to NewsLib. Researchers from newspapers and news organizations with circulations/audiences of 100,000 have equal footing with organizations with circulations/audiences of 1,000,000 on NewsLib. A researcher from the Seattle Times soliciting information from the NewsLib group might receive responses from a researcher at NBC, a news librarian at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, an independent information professional, or a researcher from the Brazilian National News Agency. NewsLibbers also recognize the value of diverse opinions. Researchers in the United States called on Canadian researchers to get the facts on Gordon Sinclair, whose column about America had been circulating over the Internet in the day or two following the attacks. Similarly, early this week, a colleague in Belgium answered a question from a colleague in the United States about production of American flags outside of the United States. The NewsLib group highlights the democratic nature of information (information wants to be free!) and the value of different sources of information.
Community:
My final and over-riding impression of NewsLibbers is their commitment to assist each other in a common goal: to disseminate specific, validated, usable information to the public as quickly as possible. I have already noted examples of the sharing of information that goes on among NewsLibbers; now let me share a few additional examples of NewsLibbers’ “community spirit.” At 3 pm EST on September 11, Richard Geiger of the San Francisco Chronicle couldn’t access the “Government Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan (pdf)” (January 2001) from the FBI web site, so he asked for assistance and received the document as an attachment from a colleague. Also on September 11, Mari Keefe of Computer World happened to be working remotely and could not reach some co-workers that normally assisted her in acquiring photos. In the absence of direct assistance from her co-workers, Leigh Montgomery of The Christian Science Monitor came to Mari’s aid by providing all of the contact names and numbers necessary for Mari to purchase photos from Reuters. This happened within 8 minutes of Mari posting her initial request for assistance. Later in the week, the same kind of “community spirit” was evident. A news librarian in the Netherlands received a faxed copy of a 1980 article from the Far Eastern Economic Review from a colleague in Canada. The Canadian librarian found the article – an article about the last king of Afghanistan – copied it, and sent it to the Dutch librarian… all within 20 minutes of the initial request. If NewsLibbers are representative of news librarians overall, they are a tight-knit community indeed.
Closing Remarks
In closing, I want to introduce you to the moderator of the NewsLib group. Her name is Barbara Semonche ( [email protected] ) and she is Library Director at the University of North Carolina –Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communications. On September 13, she announced that she had gathered the threads of the conversations and organized the resources for the benefit of the news community on a web site entitled: September 11, 2001: NewsLib research queries following the World Trade Center Attack. In her closing remarks, Barbara Semonche said, “May I say that you are all extraordinary in your efforts to research and share data and information during this tragedy. You are truly impressive under deadline pressure, way beyond ‘just doing your job.’” Indeed. I will be contacting Barbara by email in the upcoming weeks to gain more insight into NewsLib, news librarians, and her assessment of how this group performed in the midst of this crisis. I will keep you posted!
(1) Full text available at: http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb010917-1.htm
- (2) News Libraries: An Assessment A lot of changes are taking place in newsrooms and news research libraries across the country. Ownership changes, new content management concerns, tightening budgets, and expanding publication / distribution options are creating new opportunities, and new challenges. The University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies and Minnesota Journalism Center are planning a summit meeting on these changes, opportunities and challenges to be held Nov. 15-16, 2001. An important step in preparing for the summit is to get a full picture of where the changes are occurring, and the impact of these changes on the dynamic relationship between newsrooms and news libraries. Please an overview of this research project and the summit at http://www.inms.umn.edu/research/newslib/overview.htm.
- (3) Three days later, that question was still being debated on NewsLib. The only consensus reached on an accurate and direct connection on the significance of September 11 was this: September 11 was the 10th anniversary of the United Nation’s sponsored Day of Peace.
- (4) Many reported that these special editions were the first their papers had published since the Kennedy assassination.
Thankfully, this post and article remains in the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine. Never Forget…
See also: The companion piece showing the messages, the work, the help. https://web.archive.org/web/20040617101301/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NWSworldtradecenter.html
We lost Barbara in 2015. RIP.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newsobserver/name/barbara-semonche-obituary?id=12173408
#2025 #911 #America #BarbaraSemonche #CNN #Education #Film #Films #GaryPrice #History #JillKonieczko #Libraries #Library #Memorial #NationalPublicRadio #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NewsLibrarians #NewsLib #Politics #Reading #Resistance #September112001 #Television #TerroristAttacks #TheParkLibrary #TheUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtChapelHill #TwinTowers #UnitedStates #WorldTradeCenter #YouTube
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I wrote a version of this on Fedi a year ago, and thought I'd tighten it up a little and post it to my personal blog today.
CW: 9/11, gender, a bit of snark prompted by a bad joke.
https://robvincent.net/2025/09/11/the-twin-towers-and-gender/
#TwinTowers #WTC #WorldTradeCenter #September11th #Gender #OffensiveHumor #NYC #NYCHistory
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ca. ein halbes Jahr vorher war ich in #newyork und konnte einen wundervollen Schnappschuss machen (naja eigentlich war es meine damalige Freundin 😉)
zum gedenken an die #twintowers und die vielen #opfer heute vor 24 jahren und danach
😢🕯
#911Memorial
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CW: Twin Towers, 9/11, USpol, gender issues, snark, really long-ass post
There's a certain attempt at offensive humor which has been circulating for a long time now, and I've found myself thinking about it today. Please note this is me quoting the line for criticism, not endorsing it as a joke at all:
"Genders are like the Twin Towers. There used to be two of them, and now its a really sensitive subject."
As a New Yorker who grew up in the latter chunk of the 20th century, there's something that has particularly struck me about the parallel drawn in this unfunny attempt at a joke. An explanation of what I'm feeling about this requires a big chunk of of background.
It can be confusing to think about now, given what the Twin Towers have come to represent since their destruction 23 years ago, but when they were introduced New Yorkers did not like them. They were pretty generally despised among the locals.
During a period of extreme economic downturn, the New York City government had used Eminent Domain to claim the land area for the construction of the Twin Towers and the rest of the World Trade Center complex. In this way the government dissolved the existing neighborhood and forced out the area's diverse population of residents and businesses. Many of the workers and residents displaced by the WTC project were immigrants of Middle-Eastern origin and their families. Radio Row, an area concentrated with mostly immigrant-owned and operated businesses, was torn down, along with what remained of Little Syria after most of it had been eradicated a generation earlier by the construction of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. The self-labeled "center" of "world trade" came into being by forcing a whole lot of people - many poor, mostly non-white - out of work and out of their homes.
Beyond the immediate human cost, there were architectural and aesthetic concerns.
In a city full of classically-shaped and artsy skyscrapers in all sorts of imaginative shapes and styles - the glowing ziggurat spire of the Empire State Building, the regally-ornamented crown of the Chrysler Building, and so on - the Twin Towers' utilitarian plain-ass big-ass rectangles were seen by many as ugly and devoid of imagination. A common quip thrown around back then was that the two crate-like Towers were "the boxes the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings came in." In architectural terms the Twin Towers were front-runners of a still-ongoing wave of plain, dull, cheap-looking but expensive-to-rent buildings big business loves for the efficiency with which they can stuff their bullshit inside with no consideration for basic aesthetics or impact on the skyline or community.
Inside the Towers, meanwhile, while the tourist-friendly upper-level observation decks and restaurants featured huge glass portals to the highest view in town and an excuse for all those tourism-hungry government subsidies, the utilitarian working floors below were mostly oppressive spaces. I'd visited some of the non-touristy offices and working areas over the years, and I found them surprisingly gross places to be. The windows were very narrow 18-inch slits sandwiched between fat pillars, giving the place a jail-like feel for those who had to work in them. The promise of the highest views of the city possible was dashed by the fact that you had to look at it filtered through thick bars. Low ceilings on many of the floors only added to the stifling nature of the surroundings. To top it all off, or maybe bottom it all off, due to clueless engineering decisions the Towers regularly drew rapid winds down into their own central pedestrian plaza forcefully enough to make it physically uncomfortable to walk, stand, or even sit. You could walk through the WTC plaza on a calm day and get your hat blown off your head.
For all the deep and meaningful things the World Trade Center and Twin Towers incidentally came to represent upon their destruction, to people around in the Towers' generation of origin they mainly represented pure concentrated gentrification in an unavoidable form. The concept, construction, and achievement of the WTC and Twin Towers were a public monument to the fact that the privileged could bust in and do what they wanted without regard for the area's preexisting community, personality, or value in its own right. The Towers were a forced landmark in the form of two big middle fingers extended toward anyone in view who remembered things being nicer before they were around.
During their existence the Twin Towers were their era's symbol of how the loud and powerful could decide things for everyone around them at a whim just because they say so, regardless of the real impact on the lives and well-being of the thinking, feeling individuals poorly affected by the situation who never asked for any of it...
...and that's something that could also be said for the social construct of rigid binary gender.
Maybe gender *is* like the Twin Towers, in that there are a lot of loud, powerful people trying their hardest to decide what's best regardless of their ignorance of vital facts and the great deal of harm their ideas and decisions directly inflict upon a lot of vulnerable people.
Trans rights are human rights. Protect trans kids, and uplift trans adults. Address people by their preferred names and pronouns. Think things through and consider how they affect people. Work to understand the various medical and social needs folks have, especially if they're significantly unlike your own. Act with kindness and empathy, and fucking vote with them as well.
#TwinTowers #WTC #September11th #Gender #OffensiveHumor #NYC #NYCHistory
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We will never forget!
Today is certainly a day that I'll never forget where I was, what I was doing and how I heard about the tragedy of 9/11. Such an unforgettable day.
I've also had the pleasure of visiting the memorials at Ground Zero, and what an experience that was.
To all of those that lost their lives and to those that had family or friends who lost their lives, WE WILL NEVER FORGET!
#911 #September11th #NeverForget #TwinTowers #GroundZero #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC
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One score and three years
Nearly three thousand lost souls
Never forget them#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #NineEleven #911day #Terrorism #World #USA #UN #NATO #WorldPeace #Firefighters #Police #FirstResponders #NYPD #NYFD #Flight93 #Shanksville #TwinTowers #WTC #WorldTradeCenter #Pentagon #Heroes #NeverForget
September 11, 2024
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One score and three years
Nearly three thousand lost souls
Never forget them#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #NineEleven #911day #Terrorism #World #USA #UN #NATO #WorldPeace #Firefighters #Police #FirstResponders #NYPD #NYFD #Flight93 #Shanksville #TwinTowers #WTC #WorldTradeCenter #Pentagon #Heroes #NeverForget
September 11, 2024
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SPECIALE 11 SETTEMBRE
La tragedia e Jackie Chan#boomerissimo #jackiechan #brucelee #ipman #twintowers
https://boomerissimo.it/2024/01/05/jackie-chan-e-l11-settembre-questo-film-non-sha-da-fare/
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1970s Photos of Lower Manhattan Revealed America’s Decay https://petapixel.com/2024/06/07/1970s-photos-of-lower-manhattan-revealed-americas-decay/ #worldtradecenter #documerica #twintowers #manhattan #Features #history #newyork #1970s #epa
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TheOnion: 9/11 Truther Questions Why There Were 2 Huge Bull’s-Eyes Painted On Side Of Twin Towers https://www.theonion.com/9-11-truther-questions-why-there-were-2-huge-bull-s-eye-1850775644?utm_source=regular #september11attacks #worldtradecenter #petronastowers #georgewbush #twintowers #ethanguske #truther #bull #911
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After the #dotComCrash we may have questioned our so-called #capitalism more — if we didn't have the #twinTowers collapse, that is.
Meanwhile don't look at the bloated #stockMarket and our #dotConMonopolies.
Look at evil #Russia and China.
#diversion #lies #smokeAndMirrors #WMDs #ASPI #MICIMATT #nAToeXpansion #september11 #mindControl #nAToAggression #CBDCs #bitcoinFixesThis
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After the #dotComCrash we may have questioned our so-called #capitalism more — if we didn't have the #twinTowers collapse, that is.
Meanwhile don't look at the bloated #stockMarket and our #dotConMonopolies.
Look at evil #Russia and China.#diversion #lies #smokeAndMirrors #WMDs #ASPI #MICIMATT #nAToeXpansion #september11 #mindControl #nAToAggression #CBDCs #bitcoinFixesThis
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Heute vor 20 Jahren las ich zu allererst auf @spiegelonline, dass ein Flugzeug in the #TwinTowers in #NewYork geflogen war. Danach stand ich stundenlang fassungslos und mit wachsenden Entsetzen vor dem Radio, später vor einem Fernseher irgendwo in Köln. #11september2001
