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News worth interrupting you for.
Interrupt watches official feeds and trusted outlets, and alerts you only when a real event clears the bar you set. For a typical profile that is about two alerts a month.
FAA grounds all US flights
The FAA has halted all departures across the United States.
The case this was built for: a nationwide ground stop that went unnoticed until the end of a working day.
Events, not stories.
An event is discrete and confirmed, and it disrupts normal life at scale. A story is a process with no moment where the world changed. The test for any headline: would a reasonable person interrupt you in a meeting to tell you this?
ALERTS YOU
- Flights halted nationwide
- An evacuation or shelter in place order in your county
- A state of emergency in your home region
- A mass casualty attack
- A nuclear incident, or war between major powers
NEVER ALERTS
- Scandals, indictments, hearings, polls and bills moving
- Predictions, warnings and "could" stories
- Ordinary market moves, celebrity, sports and opinion
- Follow-ups to an event that already alerted you
- A claim no trusted outlet states as fact
The bar rises with distance.
Close to home, anything that affects safety or movement gets through. A crisis in a distant state only gets through if it is national news in its own right.
An evacuation, shelter in place, a major highway closed, a widespread outage, an active threat.
A state of emergency, a mass casualty event, or a major infrastructure failure: the grid, a major airport shut down, a bridge or rail line closed.
A nationwide disruption of flights, telecom or payments, a major cyberattack, a mass casualty attack, the country entering military conflict, or a market trading halt.
War between major powers, a nuclear incident, a pandemic declaration, a catastrophe with a very high death toll, or an occurrence people will remember the date of.
How it works.
- 01PollEvery 15 minutes it reads official feeds (NWS, FAA, USGS, GDACS), national outlets and your area's local news.
- 02Judge onceEach headline is scored against a fixed rubric. Repeat coverage is merged into one event.
- 03ConfirmNothing alerts until an official source or two trusted outlets report it as fact.
- 04InterruptYou get a text, a phone call or a webhook, once per event, and again only if it materially escalates.
Your bar, your channels.
You do not write topics. You choose a home location, which rings you want, which packs are on, and how each kind of alert reaches you.
- Text
- What happened and a link to the first source.
- Phone call
- Kept for the most severe events, if you want it.
- Webhook
- A signed POST, so your own programs can react.
NOT AN EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
Interrupt does not replace official emergency alerts. Keep Wireless Emergency Alerts turned on. The service reports its own health, so a quiet day and a failed poll never look the same.
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