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Hot Dog Cooker Flashbacks

JW Blog
2 months 2 weeks ago
Hot Dog Cooker Flashbacks JW Sun, 01/08/2023 - 04:56

The I will now open the pickles Tik Tok reminded me of when my old man helped me with a science fair project for 5th grade.

I think I've mentioned it.

Mine had a wooden base with the nails protruding.

The hotdog cooked in a few seconds. ;)

Ms. Tuttle tried to kill me by plugging it in while I was putting the hot dog on.

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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:299-AM

JW Blog
5 months ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:299-AM JW Wed, 10/26/2022 - 08:25 STL: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 Events 📆
  • St. Louis Water Division issues boil advisory for parts of north and south city – FOX 2
  • Precautionary Water Boil Advisory Issued 10/25-10/26 for Parts of North and South City – Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
  • Precautionary water boil advisory issued for two areas in St. Louis – KSDK
  • City of St. Louis Issues Precautionary Water Boil Advisory – RFT
  • Bethalto Halloween Parade Date Moved From Tuesday, Oct. 25, To Thursday, Oct. 27 – RiverBender
  • Metro Spooktacular | Friday, October 28 – BSD
  • Fall colors: Missouri forester shares best statewide sites for season views – FOX 2
  • Recommendations needed for places where the fall colors looks gorgeous around STL and vicinity!! – r/StLouis
BuySTL 👜
  • 4 Hands Brewing Co. to expand St. Louis facility – stltoday.com
  • Old Bakery Beer and Flourish Farmstead release Herbarium sparkling herbal tea line – St. Louis Magazine
  • ‘ssippi brings a natural wine bar to Cherokee Street – feastmagazine.com
  • 5 things to know about the new Costco opening in University City – KSDK
  • Centene outsources big part of its business. A local company won the work. – St. Louis Business Journal
  • Centene backs out of St. Louis soccer stadium naming deal – stltoday.com
  • St. Louis City SC renames Centene Stadium to CITYPARK – FOX 2
  • St. Louis CITY SC changes stadium name to CITYPARK – St. Louis Magazine
  • Schnucks Now: Grocery chain offers 30-minute delivery through Instacart – KSDK
  • Schnucks Launching 30-Minute Delivery Partnership with Instacart – RFT
Restaurants 🍲
  • Lion’s Choice celebrates 55 years in St. Louis on Wednesday with a bargain roast beef meal deal – St. Louis Magazine
  • Chicken Scratch Expands to Glendale after City Foundry Success – RFT
  • Chicken Scratch to open second location in Glendale – St. Louis Magazine
Neighborhoods 🏡 STL100 💯
  • A mecca for the misfits: The City Museum dazzled from the start 25 years ago – stltoday.com
  • What are the things you like about STL? Yes I’m being serious. – r/StLouis
  • Kwame completes Freedom Suits Memorial to honor enslaved plaintiffs who sued for freedom – stlamerican.com
  • Plans emerge for Negro Leagues Baseball museum in north St. Louis – stltoday.com
STL99 😱
  • Vin De Set Fire Was Caused by Slow-Burning Cigarettes, Video Shows – RFT
  • Heavy fire broke out at vacant warehouse in north St. Louis – FOX 2
  • Wind-fueled fire rips through vacant warehouse near St. Louis riverfront – stltoday.com
  • 100 firefighters battling fire at vacant warehouse near riverfront in St. Louis – KSDK
  • Students Arrested for Bringing Guns, Ammunition to Belleville East and Hazelwood West High Schools – RiverBender
  • Student arrested for bringing handgun to Hazelwood West High School – FOX 2
  • Two teens in custody after bringing firearm to Belleville East High School – FOX 2
  • A ghost named ‘Rachel’ is haunting Stifel Theatre, staff members say – KSDK

CPVA Shooting

  • ‘I hope, I beg, that we learn a lesson’: School leader calls for change after school shooting – KSDK
  • ‘I’ve been an isolated loner my entire life’: New details emerge about Central VPA gunman – KSDK
  • ‘My mom is a hero’: Loved ones remember teacher killed in CVPA school shooting – KSDK
  • ‘She never gave up on me’: Remembering lives lost in St. Louis school shooting – stlamerican.com
  • ‘This is a trend that must stop,’ Central VPA High School moves to virtual learning after Monday shooting – KSDK
  • ‘We have got to do better’: Emotional message after St. Louis school shooting – FOX 2
  • ‘We were prepared’: Community leaders praise first responders, school security for quick response – KSDK
  • Community remembers teacher and student lost in shooting – FOX 2
  • CVPA shooter had enough ammo to create more havoc – FOX 2
  • Despite latest school shooting, Missouri Democrats and Republicans remain split on gun safety – stltoday.com
  • FBI searches for motive in CVPA High School shooting – FOX 2
  • FBI Seeks Public’s Help Investigating St. Louis School Shooting – RFT
  • GoFundMe created in the memory of victims of STL school shooting – FOX 2
  • GoFundMe page asks for $50,000 to help with medical bills for CVPA student ‘shot through his hands’ – St. Louis Magazine
  • Help is Available – BSD
  • Hundreds gather at vigil to call for change after St. Louis school shooting – KSDK
  • It could be weeks before SLPS students at schools involved in shooting return to campus – stlamerican.com
  • Mental health counselor addresses manifesto, opportunities for parents, school leaders after shooting – KSDK
  • Messenger: Another school shooting. More thoughts and prayers. This is not OK. – stltoday.com
  • Messenger: St. Louis faith leaders plead for gun safety and to ‘stir up the courage’ – stltoday.com
  • More Learned About St. Louis School Shooter, His Motive At Press Conference – RiverBender
  • Police: Suspect barricaded himself in classroom after St. Louis high school shooting – stltoday.com
  • Read St. Louis school board president’s comments on school shooting – stltoday.com
  • Reopening Central, Collegiate could take months, St. Louis school officials say – stltoday.com
  • Resources for those affected by the St. Louis school shooting – KSDK
  • Saint Louis Story Stitchers to host event addressing gun violence and trauma following school shooting at CVPA – St. Louis Magazine
  • St. Louis school gunman left note describing lonely life, ‘perfect storm’ for mass shooting – stltoday.com
  • St. Louis shooter left handwritten note, brought 600 rounds of ammo – FOX 2
  • Suspect In St. Louis School Shooting Had Manifesto, Police Say – RFT
  • Traversing the Trauma: Prioritizing mental health after the deadly CVPA shooting – FOX 2
  • With no help from Jeff City, St. Louis must get creative to address gun violence, leaders say – stltoday.com
WW99 😱
  • SAP struggles to exit Russia after sale of support unit stalled – The Register
  • Russia Accused Ukraine of Making a Dirty Bomb Using Images From Movies and 9/11 – VICE US
  • ‘Winner Takes All’: What Xi Jinping’s Grip on China Means for the World – VICE US
Elections 🗳
  • Missouri begins no-excuse early voting under new ID law – stltoday.com
  • Schmitt says Valentine supports ‘defunding the police.’ Valentine calls Schmitt a ‘habitual liar.’ – stltoday.com
  • Election deniers ramp up public records requests in Missouri, across the country – FOX 2
  • More Missouri legislative races could be competitive this year thanks to a new map – FOX 2
  • Missouri voter guide for Nov. 8 general election – FOX 2
  • Where you can vote for the 2022 midterm elections today in the St. Louis area – FOX 2
  • Early voting begins in Missouri Tuesday, Oct. 25 – FOX 2
  • 2022 Illinois general election: Voter guide for St. Louis area – KSDK
  • 2022 Missouri general election: Voter guide for St. Louis area – KSDK
  • More Missouri legislative races could be competitive this year thanks to a new map – Missouri Independent
CityGov 🏛
  • Church to be demolished for new Ronald McDonald House despite alderman’s opposition – stltoday.com
  • IBM Mainframe Professional Services Request for Proposals – City of St. Louis
LocalGov 🏛
  • Corrections officer accused of helping juveniles get away after escaping St. Louis County detention center – KSDK
  • St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Issues Warrants On Suspect For Hindering Prosecution – RiverBender
  • St. Louis County jail guard charged with helping teen son’s jailbreak – stltoday.com
  • Ballwin to grow: Two St. Louis County subdivisions expected to join – stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
  • Missouri Attorney General Appears To Be Using Open Records Requests To Intimidate His Critics – Techdirt
FedGov 🏛
  • White House Calls for ‘Additional Action’ After St. Louis Shooting – RFT
Jobs 📄 History 🦕 Sustainability ♻️ Infrastructure 🚽
  • Chip fab locations more important than oil well placement, says Gelsinger – The Register
  • SpaceX launches Starlink ‘flat high-performance’ dish for moving vehicles – Hacker News
  • GM: Seeing as all y’all like our electric cars, we’ll double output next year – The Register
WWwx 🌦
  • New Research Bolsters Theory that Climate Change Will Make Our Space Trash Problem Even Worse – Gizmodo
WWW99 🕸
  • If GitHub Copilot Is A Copyright Problem, Perhaps The Problem Is Copyright – Techdirt
Twitter 🐦
  • Twitter Asks: Where Have All the Tweeters Gone? – Gizmodo
Space 🚀
  • NASA names 16-person panel tasked with investigating UFOs – Engadget
  • NASA’s Big UFO Study Has Officially Begun, With an A-Team of Scientists – VICE US
DIY 🪓
  • Building The World’s Fastest Racing Roomba – Laughing Squid
  • Python team wraps version 3.11.0 – The Register
  • Python 3.11.0 final – Hacker News
  • Three California Women Makers Who Have Started New Kit Businesses – Make
  • A fantasy console dev kit in your pocket – Boing Boing
  • Rust in the Linux Kernel: Just the Beginning – Hacker News
  • Emacs User Survey (2022) – Hacker News
Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️
  • The McRib Is Back at McDonald’s for the ‘Last’ Time – HowStuffWorks
  • Watch as the crowd rushes in to balance a failing carnival ride – Boing Boing
  • How Ben Franklin Helped Ignite the Jersey Devil Hysteria – HowStuffWorks
  • macOS Ventura – Hacker News
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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:298-AM

JW Blog
5 months ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:298-AM JW Tue, 10/25/2022 - 08:39 STL: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 Events 📆
  • Leaf-Peeping Season Is Officially Upon Us, St. Louis – RFT
  • "Tom Hück: The Devil is in The Details" captures 25 years of printmaker Tom Hück’s signature style – St. Louis Magazine
BuySTL 👜 Restaurants 🍲
  • Fourth City Barbecue serves up grab-and go wood-smoked meats and sides in Benton Park – feastmagazine.com
  • ‘Farewell Tour’: McDonald’s puts McRib back on the menu again, suggests it’s the last time. – r/StLouis
STLfood ⚜️
  • Food Recommendations – r/StLouis
  • Some Bob Evans’ Italian Sausage Has Been Recalled – RiverBender
Neighborhoods 🏡
  • FYI, I have created an /r/Olivette subreddit… – r/StLouis
  • UPDATE: Boil Order Lifted for Edwardsville – RiverBender
  • South Roxana Halloween Parade Cancelled Because Of Weather Forecast, But Trunk Or Treat Will Be Sunday – RiverBender
  • 2022 LASM Trivia Night – Lindenwood Park
  • Meetup At LoRusso’s – Lindenwood Park
  • Wildwood’s first mayor dies after cycling accident – FOX 2
STL100 💯
  • Aerie’s Resort’s new Alpine coaster offers four minutes of family-friendly thrills just outside of St. Louis – St. Louis Magazine
STL99 😱
  • Corps starts testing Jana Elementary for radioactive contamination; neighbors call for more – stltoday.com
  • St. Louis among cities with highest homicide rate increases – FOX 2
  • Students transition to virtual learning after radioactive lead found at Jana Elementary – KSDK

CPVA Shooting

  • ‘All of y’all are going to die’: Students describe coming face-to-face with school shooter – KSDK
  • ‘It’s a nightmare’: Father in disbelief after daughter killed in shooting at St. Louis high school – KSDK
  • ‘My God, what were you shot with?’ | Teacher recalls surviving school shooting with his son – KSDK
  • ‘She was a great teacher:’ Missouri lawmaker pays tribute to former teacher killed in school shooting – KSDK
  • 3 Dead After Shooting at South St. Louis High School – RFT
  • All SLPS schools on ‘hard lockdown’, Central VPA students can be picked up at Gateway STEM – KSDK
  • All St. Louis Public Schools on lockdown after CVPA shooting – FOX 2
  • At least two dead in shooting at Central Visual Performing Arts high school in south St. Louis – stlamerican.com
  • Barricaded students record sound of encroaching gunfire – FOX 2
  • Central Visual and Performing Arts High School evacuated following shooting Monday morning – St. Louis Magazine
  • Central Visual and Performing Arts High School In St. Louis Has Morning Shooting – RiverBender
  • Classes canceled at Central VPA, Collegiate as shooting investigation continues – KSDK
  • CVPA Shooter Yelled, ‘All of You Are Gonna Die,’ Student Says – RFT
  • Elected officials react to St. Louis school shooting – stltoday.com
  • FBI asking for photos, videos from CVPA shooting – FOX 2
  • FBI looking for photos, video of south St. Louis school shooting – KSDK
  • Free Mental Health Counseling on Offer After St. Louis School Shooting – RFT
  • Health teacher killed in south St. Louis school shooting ‘loved her students’ – stltoday.com
  • Illinois Federation of Teachers Statement on the St. Louis School Shooting – RiverBender
  • Leaders react to shooting at south St. Louis high school – KSDK
  • Lockdown at STLCC Forest Park campus – stlamerican.com
  • Missouri senator says laws should have already been in place to prevent shooting at CVPA – FOX 2
  • Pictures: Students run from a St. Louis school shooting – FOX 2
  • Police: Former Student Orlando Harris Is Suspect in St. Louis School Shooting – RFT
  • Police: Shooter at CVPA identified as former student; no motive discussed – FOX 2
  • Politicians react to Central VPA High School shooting – FOX 2
  • Shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School Sends Students Fleeing – RFT
  • Six people, including suspect, injured in shooting at St. Louis school – stlamerican.com
  • St. Louis high school student: ‘Mom, hurry up. They’re shooting.’ – stltoday.com
  • STLCC Forest Park campus on lockdown – FOX 2
  • Student describes being in St. Louis school during shooting – FOX 2
  • Student killed in St. Louis school shooting loved art and was ‘always smiling’ – stltoday.com
  • Student texts family farewell during St. Louis school shooting – FOX 2
  • Students are posting these messages on there stories about their encounters w/ 2 more active shooters. So sorry you all had to experience this type of pain 😓 – r/StLouis
  • Suspect killed, 2 others dead after south St. Louis high school shooting – FOX 2
  • Teacher and teen killed in shooting at south St. Louis high school. Suspect is dead. – stltoday.com
  • Teacher Jean Kuczka Identified as Central VPA Shooting Victim – RFT
  • Teacher Jean Kuczka killed in Central Visual and Performing Arts High School shooting – FOX 2
  • Teacher, teenage girl killed, 4 other teens shot at south St. Louis high school – KSDK
  • Teacher, teenage girl killed, 4 other teens shot at south St. Louis high school – St. Louis Business Journal
  • Three dead, including gunman, after Central Visual and Performing Arts shootings – stlamerican.com
  • Timeline: 3 dead, including suspect, after shooting at south St. Louis high school – KSDK
  • Vigil held at Tower Grove Park for school shooting victims – FOX 2
99MO 😱
  • ‘It was gut-wrenching’ Wooldridge starts cleanup after fire burned down half the village – FOX 2
  • Election deniers ramp up public records requests in Missouri, across the country – Missouri Independent
WW99 😱
  • Vladimir Putin says the world’s energy infrastructure is at risk – Hacker News
  • U.S. Claims Chinese Intelligence Seeking Confidential Huawei Information Were Duped by FBI Double Agent – Gizmodo
Pox Populi™ 🦠
  • Millions of workers are dealing with long COVID. Advocates call for expanding social safety net – Missouri Independent
  • From E. Coli to Flesh-Eating Bacteria, Floodwaters Are a Health Nightmare – Gizmodo
DotGov 🏛
  • Armed folks intimidate voters near drop boxes in Arizona (and nobody has been arrested) – Boing Boing
CityGov 🏛
  • Fight to save Rosati-Kain gets boost from St. Louis Preservation Board – stltoday.com
LocalGov 🏛
  • St. Louis County Animal Control Shredding Followed $2,200 Orkin Bill – RFT
MoGov 🏛
  • Missouri Lottery hires former highway patrol captain as new director – stltoday.com
  • Marijuana legalization promises jobs in Missouri. But how many? – stltoday.com
  • Missouri voters to decide if the state can dictate increased Kansas City police funding – Missouri Independent
FedGov 🏛
  • White House asks for assault weapons ban after St. Louis school shooting – FOX 2
  • White House calls for assault weapon ban after St. Louis school shooting – KSDK
  • Justice Department alleges Chinese spies tried to disrupt a criminal investigation into Huawei – Engadget
  • Pete Buttigieg on Elon Musk’s Hyperloop: ‘Not on Our Dime’ – Gizmodo
Jobs 📄
  • Program Manager I (Family Community School Health) – Jobs
  • Chemist II – Jobs
History 🦕
  • Behind the Veil: The Secret Society of St. Louis Elites – History Happens Here
  • Black Civil War veterans honored in ceremony at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery – KSDK
Sustainability ♻️
  • Spire Missouri’s proposed rate hike draws ire of Kansas City officials, residents – Missouri Independent
  • 380 million tons of plastic are made every year. None of it is truly recyclable. – Grist
  • Plastic Recycling Is a Disaster and a ‘Myth,’ Report Says – VICE US
  • Plastic recycling remains a ‘myth’: Greenpeace study – Hacker News
  • Plastic recycling labeled "a myth" as US rates sink to 5% – New Atlas
Infrastructure 🚽 Ecology 🦤
  • Forest ReLeaf Plants 1,000 Trees Across Missouri – Terrain Magazine
  • Exposure to environmental toxins may be root of rise in neurological disorders – Hacker News
WWW99 🕸
  • Critical Flaws in Abode Home Security Kit Allow Hackers to Hijack, Disable Cameras – SecurityWeek
  • Adobe Illustrator Vulnerabilities Rated Critical, But Exploitation Not Easy – SecurityWeek
  • Most Metaverse business projects will be dead by 2025 – The Register
  • Ring Cameras Are Going to Get More People Killed – VICE US
Twitter 🐦
  • As Elon Gets Ready To Take Over Twitter, Bluesky Takes A Big Step Forward – Techdirt
  • Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social, the Decentralized Twitter-Killer – Hacker News
  • Jack Dorsey-endorsed “decentralized Twitter” protocol specified – Hacker News
  • You don’t want Twitter to be a free speech zone – Hacker News
Space 🚀
  • Starlink decoded for use as GPS alternative – without Elon Musk’s help – The Register
  • After Fallout With Russia, SpaceX Rival Launches 36 Satellites Aboard India’s Big Rocket – Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
  • Batch transcode a folder of videos with Handbrake’s CLI – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
  • A guide for getting started with self hosting – Hacker News
  • Get Clear Insights Into Cloudy Water With the Open Colorimeter – Hackaday
  • DIY Bike Wheels Welded With Rebar – Hackaday
  • How The Art-Generating AI of Stable Diffusion Works – Hackaday
  • My thoughts on the Framework laptop – Hacker News
  • Show HN: IHP v1.0 – Batteries-included web framework built on Haskell and Nix – Hacker News
  • Show HN: Bolt.css – Another classless CSS library – Hacker News
  • Every Door – OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances – Hacker News
  • The Docker+WASM Technical Preview – Hacker News
Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️
  • Tomorrow the Unix timestamp will get to 1,666,666,666 – Hacker News
  • Guy turned his eye into a flashlight – Hacker News
  • My next Mac might be the last – Hacker News
  • Good news for Europe – Kevin Drum
  • Ask HN: What Is the Hype with Docker? – Hacker News
  • EU Gives Final Approval to Law That Will Force iPhone to Switch to USB-C – MacRumors
  • Is There Too Much CSS Now? – CSS-Tricks
  • I’m Not Sure That (If?) GitHub Copilot Is a Problem – Hacker News
  • RISC-V Celebrates Upstreaming of Android Open Source Project RISC-V Port – Hacker News
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stLouISTs: 🍟 French Fries

JW Blog
5 months ago
stLouISTs: 🍟 French Fries JW Sat, 10/22/2022 - 21:47 Best French Fries in STL
  • Edibles and Essentials
  • Grace Meat & 3
  • Jack Nolan's
  • Urban Chestnut
  • The Golden Hoosier
  • The Drawing Board
  • The Vine
  • Beast
  • Shake Shack
  • Salt and Smoke
  • Alpha Brewing
  • Frazer's
  • Bailey's Range
  • City Park Grill
  • Brasserie
  • Shaved Duck
  • Planter's House
  • Chicken Out
  • Schlafly
  • Bolyard's
  • O'Connells
  • Nomads
  • Mac's Local Eats
  • Dalie's Smokehouse
  • Fast Eddies
  • Hodak's (well done)
  • Lion's Choice
  • Steak and Shake
  • McDonalds
  • Freddy's
  • Penn Station
  • 5 Guys
  • Rallys
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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:294-AM

JW Blog
5 months ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:294-AM JW Fri, 10/21/2022 - 08:41 STL: Friday, October 21, 2022 Events 📆 BuySTL 👜
  • 3 major manufacturing plants coming to the St. Louis area – KSDK
  • $430M factory in south St. Louis will produce component of lithium batteries – FOX 2
  • International company plans $400M electric battery factory in St. Louis – KSDK
  • New $400M plant to support EV battery production slated for St. Louis’ Carondelet area – stltoday.com
  • St. Louis-based manufacturing plant receives grant to build battery components – FOX 2
  • Reports Say Tesla Leases Huge Nearly 700,000-Square-Foot Warehouse In Pontoon Beach For Future – RiverBender
  • St. Louis company Build-A-Bear expands to cruises and online sales – stltoday.com
  • Century-old St. Louis business to be sold to public company – KSDK
  • Grant’s Farm, under family control, looks to boost attendance, be ‘self-sustaining’ – KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
  • Lalo’s Grill & Pizza opens in Maryland Heights – St. Louis Magazine
  • Taqueria Morita Will Move Into Winslow’s Table This Winter – RFT
  • This St. Louis-area restaurant just won one of the nation’s biggest barbeque competitions. Here’s what comes next – KSDK
  • Hi-Pointe Drive-In spinoff concept to open Sunday in Ballwin – FOX 2
  • Hi-Pointe Drive-In spinoff opening this weekend in Ballwin – St. Louis Magazine
  • Hi-Pointe’s spin-off concept, A Little Hi, will open Oct. 23 in Ballwin – feastmagazine.com
  • Sweetie Pie’s auctioning off assets weeks after St. Louis restaurant closes doors – FOX 2
  • Restaurants like The Fatted Calf? – r/StLouis
STLfood ⚜️
  • Nestlé USA Announces Voluntary Recall of NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® STUFFED Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough with Fudge Filling Products – RiverBender
  • What’s fresh at St. Louis-area farmers markets this week – feastmagazine.com
  • The Chili Time of the Year – Good Food St. Louis
  • Sugarwitch now open in Carondelet, featuring ice cream sandwiches and novelties, coffee and more – feastmagazine.com
  • ‘Global Munchies’ Subscription Lets You Get Your Snack On – RFT
  • Foodscaping is the new landscaping in St. Louis – KSDK
Neighborhoods 🏡 STL100 💯
  • Stan Kroenke Loses a Chunk of The Money He Married Into – RFT
  • Kroenke ordered to pay $571 million of Rams settlement – r/StLouis
  • Two years after launching The Missouri Independent, we’re still detectives for the people – Missouri Independent
  • 5 Missouri destinations make TripSavvy’s 2022 Editors’ Choice list – FOX 2
  • JB Marine Receives AEU Safety Award – The Waterways Journal
  • Missouri’s Elephant Rocks voted America’s 3rd favorite natural landmark – FOX 2
STL99 😱
  • Corps to conduct further testing at contaminated school – FOX 2
  • Hazelwood to close Jana Elementary School – stlamerican.com
  • Jana Elementary parent describes years of stonewalling by the government – FOX 2
  • US Army Corps to test Jana Elementary for radiation starting Monday – KSDK
  • Gun safety education begins next week for some St. Louis schools – FOX 2
Pox Populi™ 🦠
  • Here’s who is eligible and where to get the monkeypox vaccine in St. Louis region – KSDK
Police 🚓
  • Alton Police Department Receives More Than $500,000 In Grant Funding – RiverBender
  • Calverton Park Police Department partnering with car dealership to stop car thefts – FOX 2
  • Illinois State Police Trooper Struck And Two Fatalities In Two Separate Scott’s Law Related Crashes Less Than An Hour Apart – RiverBender
  • Local police chief facing drug charges after man overdoses, dies inside apartment – KSDK
  • Missouri police chief, girlfriend face drug dealing charges – KSDK
  • Small-town Missouri police chief, his girlfriend charged after overdose death at home – FOX 2
  • St. Louis residents dig up remains after failed police search; department apologizes – stltoday.com
CityGov 🏛 LocalGov 🏛
  • $30K COVID-19 mortgage relief reopened in Illinois – FOX 2
  • Animal rescue advocate sues St. Louis County alleging illegal destruction of records – stltoday.com
  • Kampsville Mayor Gibson, Village Clerk, Treasurer, Board Member, All Resign On October 17 – RiverBender
  • St. Louis Public Schools, Confluence Academies to add gun safety lessons to curriculums – KSDK
MoGov 🏛
  • What IDs are now accepted at Missouri polling places? – FOX 2
  • Missouri district defends response to slavery petition – FOX 2
  • Missouri Highway Patrol says it didn’t OK marijuana legalization ad featuring agency – stltoday.com
  • Missouri knew of contamination in Springfield’s groundwater decades before anyone told residents – Missouri Independent
  • Missouri officials look to shine light on tax issues affecting solar farms – stltoday.com
  • Task force discusses how to resolve tax issues on Missouri solar farms – FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
  • Federal judge dismisses Missouri’s challenge to Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan – stltoday.com
  • Judge dismisses effort to halt student loan forgiveness plan – FOX 2
Jobs 📄
  • Employment and Training Specialist I – Jobs
  • MoDOT and IDOT facing staff shortages ahead of winter season – KSDK
  • Who needs college? St. Louis-area students learn about construction trades at expo – stltoday.com
History 🦕
  • New views of St. Louis from the International Space Station – FOX 2
  • Origins of waste: St. Louis’ role in The Manhattan Project – FOX 2
  • What St. Louis looked like at the turn of the 20th Century – r/StLouis
Sustainability ♻️
  • Who can pay for flood buyouts in the St. Louis region? Not us, says MSD – stltoday.com
  • How the Mississippi River is impacting the economy – KSDK
  • Low water level in Mississippi is dream for some, nightmare for others – FOX 2
Infrastructure 🚽
  • Constellation NewEnergy Announced as New Electricity Program Supplier – RiverBender
  • City of Wood River Renews Municipal Electricity Aggregation Program With New Supplier, Constellation NewEnergy – RiverBender
  • Godfrey Mayor Mike McCormick Urges Residents To Stay With Electricity Aggregation Program – RiverBender
Ecology 🦤
  • Lesser-known Missouri fruit is thought to predict winter weather severity – FOX 2
  • The Invasive Joro Spider Is Getting Cozy in the U.S. – HowStuffWorks
  • Is the Spotted Lanternfly Takeover Inevitable? – Gizmodo
  • Why do mosquitos attack some folks and ignore others? Science has an answer – Boing Boing
WWwx 🌦
  • Meanwhile, Antarctica’s snow is turning green – Freethink
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My Top Drupal Modules

JW Blog
5 months ago
My Top Drupal Modules JW Thu, 10/20/2022 - 21:40

In an interview today, I got asked what my favorite modules where.

Here's the list, links coming later.

Modules Theme
  • Bootstrap, but switching to W3.css or ...
  • Gin Admin
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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:291-AM

JW Blog
5 months 1 week ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:291-AM JW Tue, 10/18/2022 - 12:24 STL: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 Events 📆
  • Diwali: What to know about the 5-day festival – KSDK
  • Where to see fall foliage in the St. Louis area – KSDK
BuySTL 👜
  • Tesla to open massive warehouse in Metro East – stltoday.com
  • Luxury Sweets & Treats Makes the Confections of Your Dreams – RFT
Restaurants 🍲 STLfood ⚜️
  • Chili Drive-Thru Events Coming Up at Resurrection Lutheran Church – RiverBender
Neighborhoods 🏡
  • I’m Now More Optimistic (Less Pessimistic?) About The Next NGA West Campus – UrbanReview
STL100 💯
  • Low Mississippi River levels has many walking to the Tower Rock – FOX 2
STL99 😱
  • Radioactive waste found at Missouri elementary school – The Big 550 KTRS
  • Parents demand action after report of radioactive contamination at Florissant school – stltoday.com
  • An Elementary School Near a Nuclear Dump Site Is Teeming With Radioactivity – Gizmodo
  • St. Louis-area teacher shortage means more online classes in school – stltoday.com
  • St. Louis Catalytic Converter Thieves Charged with Conspiracy Against US – RFT
  • 9 Bronze River Des Peres Greenway trail markers stolen – FOX 2
  • Burglar on parole accused of more than a dozen new break-ins – FOX 2
  • Central West End restaurant broken into overnight – FOX 2
99MO 😱
  • Report: Missouri faces highest turnover, vacancy of nurses in history – FOX 2
  • Proposal to close 10 schools in Kansas City, improve academics hinges on community support – Missouri Independent
  • Drought Pattern Continues In Missouri Basin – The Waterways Journal
  • Severe drought triggers assistance in nearly all of Kansas, half of Missouri – Missouri Independent
WW99 😱
  • China’s economy must be worse than we thought – Kevin Drum
  • The Morning After: SpaceX will keep paying for Ukraine’s access to Starlink – Engadget
Police 🚓
  • Survey Says… More Than Half Of Households With LAPD Officers Support Dismantling The LAPD – Techdirt
DotGov 🏛
  • Data Governance Webinar Notes – JW
CityGov 🏛
  • St. Louis Mayor Vows to Create Reparations Commission – RFT
  • Mayor Jones proposes safety improvements on Grand Boulevard – FOX 2
  • City of St. Louis holds North Grand corridor meeting to talk traffic concerns – KSDK
  • St. Louis mayor’s plan to make city streets safer – KSDK
  • Notice of meeting for PSA committee for Mainframe Support Services – Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
LocalGov 🏛
  • Court fight over St. Charles Convention Center delays new projects – stltoday.com
  • Abandoned properties are piling up in St. Louis County. Lawmaker says it’s time for a land bank. – stltoday.com
  • University City threatens to take homeowner to court, saying she got weeds – FOX 2
  • 5 license plate reading cameras installed in Brentwood to make community safer – KSDK
MoGov 🏛
  • Jay Ashcroft, potential Missouri governor candidate, floats library book ban proposal – stltoday.com
  • Cost of Missouri’s recent special session on taxes tops $164,000 – stltoday.com
  • Pro-union ruling reversed by Missouri Supreme Court – The Labor Tribune
  • Overdoses Rise in Missouri Prisons Despite Strict New Mail Policy – RFT
FedGov 🏛
  • Flood aid deadline is almost here. FEMA has paid $100 million in St. Louis so far. – stltoday.com
  • You Can Now Apply For Federal Student Loan Relief — Here’s How – RFT
  • Student loan forgiveness application is now open: Here’s how to apply – FOX 2
  • Federal Judge Says FBI Misled Magistrate When Seeking Safe Deposit Warrants, OKs Searches Anyway – Techdirt
Jobs 📄
  • AmeriCorps St. Louis is looking for new team members – KSDK
  • Microsoft reportedly lays off hundreds of employees – Engadget
History 🦕 Sustainability ♻️
  • Low water disrupts industry along lower Mississippi River – FOX 2
  • The West’s biggest source of renewable energy depends on water. Will it survive the drought? – Grist
Infrastructure 🚽
  • ‘Water Batteries’ Could Power 135,000 Homes in San Diego – Gizmodo
  • Giant, megawatt-scale wave energy generator to be tested in Scotland – New Atlas
  • Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants – Hacker News
  • Engineered duckweed could be a more sustainable source of biofuel – New Atlas
Ecology 🦤
  • Cities want more trees. Drought is complicating their efforts. – Grist
  • All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too – Grist
  • Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped – Hacker News
WWW99 🕸
  • TikTok is Introducing an Adults-Only Content Option – Gizmodo
  • Mark Zuckerberg: WhatsApp Is ‘Far More Private and Secure’ Than iMessage – MacRumors
  • Artist formerly known as Kanye reveals Parler trick: Buying the far-right haven – The Register
  • Starlink, shot by both sides in Ukrainian fracas, lives to fight on – The Register
  • Elon Musk Tweets Then Deletes Dragon Ball Z Meme With His Pal Kanye West – Gizmodo
  • ‘Elon Musk’s X App for “Everything” Might Be a Non-Starter in the U.S.’ – Daring Fireball
  • Kanye West is buying controversial ‘free speech’ app Parler – Engadget
  • Kanye West, Recently Suspended by Twitter and Instagram Over Unhinged Antisemitic Posts, to Acquire Parler – Daring Fireball
Space 🚀
  • Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school – The Register
  • Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5B yrs – Hacker News
DIY 🪓 Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️ Tags STLduJournal ⏳

Data Governance Webinar Notes

JW Blog
5 months 1 week ago
Data Governance Webinar Notes JW Mon, 10/17/2022 - 23:31 Tags MetaGov Captains Blog 🏴‍☠️

STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:290-AM

JW Blog
5 months 1 week ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:290-AM JW Mon, 10/17/2022 - 07:42 STL: Monday, October 17, 2022 Events 📆
  • Freezing temperatures expected Monday night in St. Louis – stltoday.com
  • Grant’s Farm Halloween Nights are back again – FOX 2
  • Check out the current fall foliage map in the St. Louis area – KSDK
  • Photos: The Who "Hits Back!" at Enterprise Center – St. Louis Magazine
BuySTL 👜
  • ‘The hard part is leaving this’: Sugaree Baking Company to close its doors at end of year – KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
  • Non-kid friendly restaurants for parent date night? – r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡
  • Residents, volunteers come together to clean up St. Louis’ Hyde Park neighborhood – stltoday.com
  • Dutchtown basketball court dedicated to family that changed the neighborhood – KSDK
STL99 😱
  • Hyundai, Kia thefts 10 times higher in St. Louis City, County compared to last year – FOX 2
99MO 😱
  • Incomes are too damn low in Kansas City – Kevin Drum
Pox Populi™ 🦠
  • High demand for flu shots at SSM clinics and drive-thrus – FOX 2
  • Illinois mask recommendations now include vaccinated individuals – FOX 2
DotGov 🏛
  • Chaos Computer Club saves the German healthcare system 400M Euros – Hacker News
FedGov 🏛
  • $101.2M of approved in funding for St. Louis area flood assistance – FOX 2
  • Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC – Hacker News
History 🦕
  • Thomas Hart Benton Speaks for the Railroad – History Happens Here
  • Maplewood History: The Rise and Fall of the Maplewood K-Mart – 40 South News
  • ‘Haunted’ Alton hotel featured on Ghost Adventures TV show – FOX 2
  • SS Admiral – 1957 – r/StLouis
Sustainability ♻️
  • ACT Test Scores Drop to Lowest Levels in More Than 30 Years – Hacker News
  • Rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why – Hacker News
  • Why there’s no such thing as a good billionaire – Hacker News
Infrastructure 🚽
  • Tesla fires after hurricane raises alarm for Florida officials – Hacker News
  • Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on – Hacker News
  • The Moorish invention that tamed Spain’s mountains – Hacker News
WWW99 🕸
  • Datacenter fire takes out South Korea’s top two web giants – The Register
  • Pirate Sites That Rip-Off Other Pirate Sites’ Branding Are About to Regret It – TorrentFreak
  • GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code – Hacker News
  • Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career – Hacker News
  • Elon Musk says SpaceX will keep paying for Ukraine’s access to Starlink – Engadget
  • Sad Numbers for Facebook’s Horizon Worlds – Daring Fireball
DIY 🪓
  • How to Carve a Pumpkin – HowStuffWorks
  • Everything You Wanted to See About Restoring a 1956 Radio – Hackaday
  • 1956 Philips 353A Bakelite Vacuum Tube Radio Repair and Restoration – Hacker News
  • PETamentor2 Is Latest To Turn Bottles Into Filament – Hackaday
  • Privacy respecting weather app for Android – Hacker News
  • A Simple Stove, Built for Beans – Hackaday
  • Ghidra: Software reverse engineering suite developed by NSA – Hacker News
  • VS Code Org Mode – Hacker News
Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️
  • The Dead End – Hacker News
  • Why Do People Find Leaf Blowers So Irritating? – HowStuffWorks
  • Celebrating 50 years of the Unix Operating system (2018) – Hacker News
  • Internet Archive to Honor Carl Malamud with 2022 Hero Award – Hacker News
Tags STLduJournal ⏳

STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:288-AM

JW Blog
5 months 1 week ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:288-AM JW Sat, 10/15/2022 - 06:35 STL: Saturday, October 15, 2022 Events 📆
  • Hot Dog! Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Coming To A Schnucks Location Near You This Weekend – RiverBender
  • Cherokee Street Jazz Crawl will celebrate 10 years with its biggest lineup yet – St. Louis Magazine
  • 25th annual Bands of America returns to St. Louis – FOX 2
  • Peak fall colors may come to St. Louis sooner than expected – FOX 2
  • The City Museum is turning 25, here’s how you can join the celebration – KSDK
  • The best food and drink events in St. Louis this weekend: Oct. 14-16 – feastmagazine.com
BuySTL 👜
  • St. Louis Alamo Drafthouse opening in November – FOX 2
  • Grant’s Farm make changes after complaints from guests about traffic at Halloween Nights – FOX 2
  • Here’s how many hotel rooms and apartments are planned at historic Jefferson Arms building – KSDK
  • Teams behind City Foundry, Old Rock house move ahead with plans for a new St. Louis concert venue – KSDK
  • Bunge joint venture seeks to turn cooking oil into fuel – St. Louis Business Journal
  • Missouri clinics offer free vasectomies, citing a surge in demand – KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
  • St. Louis Standards: La Pizza Is a Slice of New York in University City – RFT
  • The Fattened Caf Fosters Collaborations for Filipino American History Month – RFT
  • Karen’s Diner opening permanent location in south St. Louis – FOX 2
  • 12oh7 Herban Eatery cooks up casual plant-based cuisine in the Delmar Loop – feastmagazine.com
  • Look for Lions Choice ‘golden tickets’ to win free food for a year – FOX 2
STLfood ⚜️
  • Ice cream maker expands to North City: ‘We want to see change happen’ – KSDK
  • Earthbound’s All Flannel Everything – feastmagazine.com
Neighborhoods 🏡 STL100 💯
  • City Museum 25-year anniversary defies early predictions – FOX 2
  • St. Louis Character: How Dave Blum created a one-of-a-kind skate park inside a neo-Gothic church – St. Louis Business Journal
  • Renovations of local historic landmark back on track – FOX 2
  • Urban League opens Save Our Sons location on city’s southside – stlamerican.com
STL99 😱
  • High levels of radioactive lead found at Jana Elementary School | ‘This has been here since the 1940s’ – KSDK
  • Kia, Hyundai thefts still booming in St. Louis area despite prevention efforts – stltoday.com
  • Metro East business owner acquires 300 catalytic converters illegally – FOX 2
  • East Alton scrap-metal dealer closes after 287 catalytic converters seized by investigators – KSDK
  • Scrapyard closing after catalytic converter sting – FOX 2
  • Spire seeking a 10% rate increase on natural gas – stltoday.com
  • Let’s Convert the Loop Trolley Into a Rolling Bathroom – RFT
  • Police release image of object that killed driver on I-64 – FOX 2
  • Police recover metal that struck woman’s car before deadly St. Louis crash – FOX 2
  • Police arrest suspect in wire theft, resulting in mass internet outages in St. Louis – FOX 2
  • FBI and Illinois State Police warn of rideshare carjackings on the rise – FOX 2
  • ‘I did not feel safe’: Former rideshare driver not surprised by FBI carjacking warning – KSDK
  • HBCU football game in St. Louis this weekend canceled – stlamerican.com
  • University, tourism officials say organizer dropped ball for weekend football game at Dome – stltoday.com
  • KIPP High School in St. Louis shifts to online learning after another student brings gun on campus – KSDK
  • Soulard bar owner says break-ins are bringing down business – KSDK
  • ‘He told me to shoot the dogs’: Mother says she can’t get help with stray dogs that bit her daughter – KSDK
  • St. Louis advocates optimistic the city’s reparations effort will advance – Missouri Independent
WW99 😱
  • Elon Musk Says He’s Just Following Ukraine’s Suggestion to ‘F*ck Off’ by Asking Pentagon to Fund Starlink – Gizmodo
  • Elon Musk’s SpaceX Isn’t Willing to Fund Starlink in Ukraine, Wants Pentagon to Pay for It – VICE US
  • SpaceX reportedly fed up with providing free Starlink to Ukraine – The Register
  • ‘He’s God’: China’s Top Leadership Is Set for a Reshuffle. But Xi Jinping Is Here to Stay. – VICE US
  • New Chinese Cyberespionage Group WIP19 Targets Telcos, IT Service Providers – SecurityWeek
  • Chinese Cyberspies Targeting US State Legislature – SecurityWeek
  • China doesn’t need to take Taiwan’s fabs to escape US trade bans – The Register
Police 🚓
  • St. Louis police find more than 20 stolen vehicles during raid of Dogtown ‘chop shop’ – stltoday.com
  • Aldermen endorse better pay, benefits for St. Louis police – stltoday.com
  • Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Goes Completely Rogue, Blocks Inspector General’s Access To Files, Facilities – Techdirt
  • Police tricks DeadBolt ransomware out of 155 decryption keys – BleepingComputer
  • Ex Police Officer Used Law Enforcement Tech to Hack Women’s Explicit Photos – Hacker News
DotGov 🏛
  • D.C. Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Republican Governors’ Shipping of Immigrants to the Capital – ProPublica
  • Illinois charges extra $100 for electric vehicle license plate renewal – FOX 2
CityGov 🏛 LocalGov 🏛
  • New Missouri state web portal designed to boost local government transparency – stltoday.com
  • Rams settlement money moved into higher-yielding account – KSDK
  • Jones, Page agree to move Rams money to higher-yielding investments – stltoday.com
  • How Independence, Missouri, Spends Its COVID-Relief Money on Police – RFT
  • New license plate reading cameras installed in Brentwood – FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
  • Medical marijuana companies pour money into legalization PAC in Missouri campaign’s homestretch – FOX 2
  • Missouri’s public education funding formula is due for a tune up – Missouri Independent
  • REAL ID deadline less a year away: What Missourians need to know – FOX 2
  • New Missouri voter ID law survives legal challenge – stltoday.com
  • Lawsuit over Missouri Photo ID dismissed ahead of November election – FOX 2
  • Indictment: State employee from Jefferson County stole $140,500 in unemployment benefits – stltoday.com
  • Missouri Unemployment Worker Gave Free Money to Friends, Feds Say – RFT
  • Missouri state employee accused of stealing public money for friends and relatives – KSDK
FedGov 🏛
  • Trump ordered classified documents moved after realizing the feds knew he had them – Boing Boing
  • New Secret Service Messages Show They Were Warned About Jan. 6: ‘Their Plan Is to Literally Kill People’ – VICE US
  • Congress Just Subpoenaed Donald Trump over the January 6 Riot – VICE US
  • Jan. 6 committee votes unanimously to subpoena Trump – FOX 2
  • Texas’ Ridiculous Content Moderation Bill Put On Hold Until The Supreme Court Can Consider It – Techdirt
  • Most PPP loans have been forgiven, despite signs of possible fraud – Hacker News
Jobs 📄
  • Kodak Is Hiring Film Technicians: ‘We Cannot Keep Up with Demand’ – Hacker News
  • Beyond Meat Plans to Chew Out 19% of Workforce as It Sees Revenue Drops – Gizmodo
  • Oracle lays off more than 200 California-based workers – Hacker News
History 🦕
  • The night the 66 Park-In Theater closed. Do you remember these other lost St. Louis treasures? – stltoday.com
Sustainability ♻️
  • New process could make plastic recycling more profitable – Freethink
Infrastructure 🚽
  • Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential – The Register
  • An (Im)perfect Way Forward On Infrastructure Moderation? – Techdirt
Ecology 🦤
  • Alaska Canceled Snow Crab Season for the First Time Ever Because All the Crabs Are Gone – VICE US
  • The ‘Deadliest Catch’ Disappears: Alaska’s Snow Crabs Have Vanished – Gizmodo
  • ‘Double Whammy’ Could Wipe Out Carnivorous Plants – Gizmodo
WWW99 🕸
  • Streaming services lost the plot – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
  • Meta’s New Headset Will Track Your Eyes for Targeted Ads – Gizmodo
  • Sci-Fi Reddit Community Bans AI-Art for Being ‘Low Effort’ Posting – VICE US
Twitter 🐦
  • Twitter is testing a way for users to limit their mentions – Engadget
Space 🚀
  • Astronomers Detect What Could Be Most Powerful Explosion Ever Recorded – Gizmodo
  • Black Hole Pukes Up Star Years After Eating It – Gizmodo
  • NASA’s Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Is in Safe Mode After Possible Computer Glitch – Gizmodo
  • Scottish space upstart’s rocket crashes into the drink – The Register
  • Japan space agency blows up eight satellites aboard Epsilon rocket – The Register
  • Near-Earth asteroid tally ticks over 30,000 milestone – New Atlas
DIY 🪓
  • Some Things I Took Away From An Event Apart 2022 in Denver – CSS-Tricks
  • 5 Best SMTP Plugins for WordPress – noupe
  • Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go – Hacker News
  • Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest – Hacker News
  • An Open-Source HDMI Capture Card – Hacker News
  • Show HN: Circumflex, browse HN in your terminal – Hacker News
Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️
  • Fat Bear Election Scandal Exposes Cheating Bear, Restores Faith in Democracy – VICE US
  • Internet Archive to open their physical archive for a rare behind-the-scenes tour – Boing Boing
  • Toteable PC Is Inspired By Macs Of Days Gone By – Hackaday
  • Sony Hopes the $500 ZV-1F Will Convince Content Creators To Ditch Their Phone For a Dedicated Camera – Gizmodo
  • Tesla has lost more market cap in 30 days than any other company in history – Hacker News
  • On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage – Hacker News
  • Why I Don’t Use Netscape (1999) – Hacker News
Tags STLduJournal ⏳

STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:286-AM

JW Blog
5 months 1 week ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:286-AM JW Thu, 10/13/2022 - 07:31 STL: Thursday, October 13, 2022 Events 📆
  • Cleanup is underway at Dome lot downtown – FOX 2
  • Where to celebrate Halloween with your teen in St. Louis – St. Louis Magazine
  • Schlafly’s Full Moon Festival to Return in November – RFT
BuySTL 👜
  • Spire gas company holds first public rate hike hearing in St. Louis – KSDK
  • Report: Peabody in talks with Australian coal mining company – stltoday.com
  • St. Louis entrepreneur to appear on ‘Shark Tank’ – St. Louis Magazine
  • Former St. Louis TV journalist is now creating a drone that fits in a backpack – St. Louis Business Journal
  • City Foundry STL’s delayed movie theater, Alamo Drafthouse, to open in November – stltoday.com
  • Alamo Drafthouse scheduled to open at City Foundry STL in November – St. Louis Magazine
  • Alamo Drafthouse Coming to St. Louis Next Month – RFT
  • Austin-based cinema-eatery opening at City Foundry STL this November – KSDK
Restaurants 🍲 STLfood ⚜️
  • Sugaree closing retail business – r/StLouis
  • Meal prep service to take over former Copper Pig restaurant on Macklind – KSDK
STL100 💯
  • New report reveals strengths, shortfalls in St. Louis tech employment – stltoday.com
  • Great Rivers Greenways looks at the Meramec, Dardenne, and Deer Creek Greenways – FOX 2
  • Two SLPS schools named ‘all-stars’ – FOX 2
  • Transit Center transformation at North Hanley stop – FOX 2
  • Rescuing architecture: a visit to the National Building Arts Center just across the river – r/StLouis
STL99 😱
  • St. Louis says Shell station is nuisance, but doesn’t produce records to prove it – stltoday.com
  • Holleman: St. Louis again ranks as least-safe city. The mayor blames state lawmakers. – stltoday.com
  • “Trash everywhere, it’s a never ending cycle” concerns grow over road safety after driver is killed by piece of metal – FOX 2
  • St. Louis finishes last in ‘safest US cities’ study – FOX 2
  • St. Louis finishes last in ‘safest US cities’ study – r/StLouis
  • River City HBCU Classic canceled 4 days before the event – KSDK
  • Haine Seeks Forfeiture Of 287 Catalytic Converters Seized From Premises Of Business – RiverBender
WW99 😱
  • Ukrainian City Removes Elon Musk’s Face from Celebratory Billboard – VICE US
  • Taiwan Official Explains With Extreme Calm Why the U.S. Doesn’t Need to Blow Up TSMC if China Invades – Gizmodo
  • French Parliament Wants To Make People Pay A License Fee To Use Public Domain Works – Techdirt
Pox Populi™ 🦠
  • Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds – Hacker News
  • China’s ‘Zero COVID’ Policy Is Going to Last a Whole Lot Longer – VICE US
Police 🚓
  • St. Louis-area police say Missouri’s juvenile crime point system needs update – FOX 2
CityGov 🏛
  • What the mayor says about St. Louis being labeled the ‘least safe’ city in the country – KSDK
  • New 14-member health bureau to address St. Louis’ overdose deaths – stltoday.com
  • City of St. Louis announce new bureau to tackle drug abuse and mental health – FOX 2
  • City of St. Louis Department of Health Announced Launch of New Behavioral Health Bureau – City of St. Louis – News
  • BB 103 – Four-Way Stop Site at the Intersection of St. Louis Avenue and Bishop PL Scott Avenue – Board Bills
  • BB 102 – Airport Revenue Bonds – Board Bills
LocalGov 🏛
  • A St. Louis County Mayor Went Big for Bitcoin, Now He’s Fighting to Stay in Office – RFT
  • APA Adoption Center to Operate Pet Adoption Services for St. Louis County – APA Adoption Center
  • Animal Protective Adoption Center slated to operate pet adoption services for St. Louis County – KSDK
  • St. Louis County Failed to Fully Sedate Dogs Before Euthanasia, Staffer Says – RFT
MoGov 🏛
  • Messenger: Ethics complaint targets Eric Schmitt’s legal role in the Big Lie – stltoday.com
  • Eric Schmitt deletes pro-Kanye West tweet amid backlash over rapper’s anti-Semitic remarks – KSDK
  • Six states cite ‘harms’ over Biden’s student loan plan in St. Louis hearing – FOX 2
  • Eric Schmitt Picks Unusual Time to Become a Kanye West Fan – RFT
FedGov 🏛
  • Student loan lawsuit hearing at Federal Court Building today – FOX 2
  • Federal judge in St. Louis weighs effort to halt student loan forgiveness – KSDK
  • Missouri judge hears lawsuit challenging Biden student debt relief plan – Missouri Independent
  • US Federal Courts Agree To Refund Fees They Overcharged People For Access To PACER – Techdirt
  • Biden’s Executive Order On Surveillance Doesn’t Do Nearly Enough To Protect Privacy; Playing Word Games Doesn’t Actually Limit NSA Surveillance – Techdirt
Jobs 📄
  • 2023 – 2024 Type 1 Ambulance/Medic – City of St. Louis
  • Labor Supervisor (Forestry Division) – Jobs
  • Attorney II (Transactions) – Jobs
Sustainability ♻️
  • The Mississippi River is Our Greatest Force for Building Land – Environmental Defense
  • Pittsburgh Airport installs an algae air purifier – Hacker News
  • An Australian startup is “growing” water for drought-parched California – Hacker News
Infrastructure 🚽
  • Mike Kehoe to announce high-speed internet expansion in Pike County Wednesday morning – FOX 2
  • Intel fires up internal foundry model to make its own chips – The Register
  • GM races after Tesla with battery pack tech and solar deal – The Register
  • High-density EV battery puts 10-minute charge times on the table – New Atlas
Ecology 🦤
  • America’s Birds Are in Big Trouble – Gizmodo
  • Antarctic Researchers Report a ‘Dramatic Decline’ in Adélie Penguin – Gizmodo
  • New Study Maps Over 50,000 Sites In the U.S. That Are Likely Contaminated With ‘Forever Chemicals’ – Gizmodo
WWwx 🌦
  • Climate Change Is Causing Wetter, Heavier Rainfall, New Study Shows – Gizmodo
WWW99 🕸
  • How to keep getting local news as Facebook changes – FOX 2
  • TikTok’s Allegedly Pocketing Up to 70% of Donations Raised by Desperate, Begging Syrian Refugees – Gizmodo
  • Employees Reveal Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Vision Is A Clunky, Boring, Ego-Driven Mess – Techdirt
  • Microsoft and Meta promise facehugger PCs piping cloud desktops into VR headsets – The Register
  • Microsoft’s new AI graphic design app is built on DALL-E – Engadget
  • Hyundai wants all of its vehicles to support over-the-air updates by 2025 – Engadget
Space 🚀
  • Bigger, Better, Cheaper: How India Is Building a Private Empire in Space – VICE US
  • Astronomers can’t explain a black hole "burp" years after it ate a star – New Atlas
  • Starlight interstellar probe – Hacker News
  • James Webb Telescope captures unique dust rings surrounding two stars – Engadget
  • NASA is now targeting November 14th for the Artemis 1 launch – Engadget
DIY 🪓
  • Users Are Building Their Own AI-Powered Alternatives to Amazon’s Ring Cameras – VICE US
  • How a smart home can be a safer home – Arduino Blog
  • Barilla and Arduino: This is not your grandma’s pasta! – Arduino Blog
Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi died while attempting to save the lives of people drowning – Boing Boing
  • Animated Googly Eyes Could Make Autonomous Cars Safer For Pedestrians – Gizmodo
  • Connecticut Jury Orders Alex Jones and Infowars to Pay $965 Million to Sandy Hook Families – VICE US
  • Scientists got lab-grown human brain cells to play ‘Pong’ – Engadget
  • Dutch hospital ZGT achieves digital sovereignty with Nextcloud – Hacker News
  • Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) – Hacker News
Tags STLduJournal ⏳

STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:284-PM

JW Blog
5 months 2 weeks ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:284-PM JW Wed, 10/12/2022 - 06:18 STL: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 Events 📆
  • Wienermobile headed to St. Louis October 13 to 16 – KSDK
  • The Gateway Arch Gets Spooky for Halloween This Weekend – RFT
  • DEA: No connection between rainbow fentanyl and Halloween – FOX 2
  • Aerie’s Winery Holds Ribbon Cutting For Brand New Alpine Coaster – Ride Is Now Open – RiverBender
  • Head to Steelville to mark major anniversaries with The Ozark Mountain Daredevils and Wildwood Springs Lodge – St. Louis Magazine
BuySTL 👜
  • Mixed Results One Year in for Carondelet Co-Op Grocer – RFT
  • BNSF lifts embargo on St. Louis cargo after 5 weeks – FOX 2
  • City Foundry’s mini-golf venue opens this winter after raising $150M – FOX 2
  • Costco opening in University City in two weeks – FOX 2
  • St. Louis’ Railway Exchange ‘held hostage’ by past attempts, preservationist says – stltoday.com
  • Construction starts on Topgolf in St. Louis City’s Midtown – FOX 2
  • Residents concerned new Topgolf could bring unwanted traffic to Midtown St. Louis – KSDK
  • Topgolf is coming to Midtown – St. Louis Magazine
  • Topgolf begins construction on new venue in Midtown, 2nd St. Louis area location – KSDK
  • Topgolf to open near St. Louis University in late 2023 – stltoday.com
  • Peabody Energy decided to stay in St. Louis after debating leaving due to increase in crime – FOX 2
  • Peabody Recommits to Downtown St. Louis – City of St. Louis – News
Restaurants 🍲
  • This St. Louis diner is opening a location at Lambert Airport this spring – KSDK
  • Shift into soup mode at one of these 11 St. Louis restaurants – feastmagazine.com
  • Best restaurant in STL where you can walk in with 20 bucks (or less) and be happy? – r/StLouis
STLfood ⚜️
  • Aldi announces recall of frozen falafels amid E. coli outbreak – FOX 2
Neighborhoods 🏡 STL100 💯
  • Nobel Prize-winning professor slept in, missed important call – FOX 2
  • (FOX2) St. Louis Name #1 City where minority-owned startups thrive – 39 North
  • Colorful Fall Foliage Hikes in Missouri and Illinois – Terrain Magazine
STL99 😱
  • Driver Shortage Forces MCT To Consider Service Reductions – RiverBender
  • Catholics make sure to go your parish listening session. I went to one. – r/StLouis
  • Rosati-Kain alumnae proposing plan to keep school open – KSDK
  • Missouri Man Gets Prison Time for $7.5M Health Care Fraud – RFT
  • Hit-and-run driver kills pedestrian on St. Charles Rock Road – stltoday.com
  • Second Fatal Hit and Run in St. Louis Metro This Week – RFT
  • Residents disgusted by eyesore weeds, trash at Dome downtown – FOX 2
  • Police correction: Woman still alive after being hit by vehicle – FOX 2
  • Woman hit by car, injured Monday night in Jennings – KSDK
  • 5-vehicle crash kills pedestrian Monday in Overland – KSDK
  • Pedestrian Fatally Struck at Jennings Station Road and Florence Place – RiverBender
  • 4 Pedestrians Fatally Hit by Cars in St. Louis in Less than 48 Hours – RFT
99MO 😱
  • What to do if you hit a deer with your vehicle in Missouri – FOX 2
  • 7 dogs rescued in raid on notorious breeder in rural Missouri – FOX 2
  • Missouri Humane Society saves 7 terriers from one of worst dog breeders in the country Tuesday – KSDK
Pox Populi™ 🦠
  • Rapid Rise in Monkeypox Cases in St. Louis – RFT
Police 🚓
  • Three St. Louis police officers didn’t cause fatal crash, appeals court rules – stltoday.com
  • Police look for solutions to juvenile crime explosion – FOX 2
  • I-Team: St. Louis County police precinct costs soar following five years of delays – KSDK
  • VIDEO: Woman Steals and Crashes Cop Car in Front of 2 Cops – RFT
  • Police Are Using DNA to Generate 3D Images of Suspects They’ve Never Seen – VICE US
DotGov 🏛
  • As electric vehicles shrink gas tax revenue, more states may tax mileage – Missouri Independent
  • California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles – The Register
CityGov 🏛 LocalGov 🏛
  • St. Louis County considers service cuts, tax hikes to fill $41 million budget hole – stltoday.com
  • Conservative political action committees inject millions into local school races – stltoday.com
  • St. Peters man returns to court over too many sunflowers in yard – FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
  • Court says cost of clearing pot convictions in Missouri could top $6.5 million – stltoday.com
  • ‘Invading academic freedom:’ Missouri AG’s probe for university emails raises concerns – FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
  • $39 Million In Marine Highway Grants Awarded – St. Louis Regional Freightway
  • Wait. Biden is mad at the Saudis because they sided with Republicans? – Kevin Drum
  • Justice Department Files Disgusting Attack On Journalist Jason Leopold For Being Good At His Job – Techdirt
  • Immigration advocates call again for DACA renewal in Congress, as possible end looms – Missouri Independent
Jobs 📄
  • Why is unemployment lasting so long these days? – Kevin Drum
  • Maybe job growth isn’t as great as we think – Kevin Drum
Sustainability ♻️
  • Automotive Security Threats Are More Critical Than Ever – SecurityWeek
  • Coastal algae farms proposed as solution to future food crisis – New Atlas
  • Record energy haul: Offshore prototype operates over capacity for 24 hrs – New Atlas
  • Report: World Bank invested nearly $15 billion in fossil fuel projects despite climate commitment – Grist
  • GM created a new energy business to sell batteries and solar panels – Hacker News
  • GM is using its Ultium battery tech for a lot more than EVs – Engadget
  • Geothermal may beat batteries for energy storage – Hacker News
  • Researchers develop thermoformable ceramics, ‘a new frontier in materials’ – Hacker News
  • Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste overseas? – Our World in Data
Infrastructure 🚽
  • Freight Rail Union Rejects Tentative Agreement, Previewing Messy and Prolonged Labor Fight – VICE US
  • Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, with connecting regional… – Maps on the Web
  • Map of Every Power Plant in the United States, 2020. – Maps on the Web
  • Google Fiber Shows Signs Of Life, Promises 100 Gbps Service – Techdirt
WWwx 🌦
  • Climate reparations are on the agenda at COP27 — whether wealthy nations like it or not – Grist
WWW99 🕸
  • LofyGang Cybercrime Group Used 200 Malicious NPM Packages for Supply Chain Attacks – SecurityWeek
  • University Rolls Back Bizarre Laboratory Surveillance Tech Deployment After Students Call Bullshit – Techdirt
  • Google Still Does Not Use HTML lang Attribute (2022 Edition) – Search Engine Roundtable
Twitter 🐦
  • Elon Musk Claims Twitter Forced Whistleblower to Burn Evidence – Gizmodo
  • If Musk Completes His Twitter Takeover, His Fans Might Want To Start Supporting Section 230 – Techdirt
Space 🚀
  • NASA regains control of CAPSTONE lunar orbiter after a tumble – The Register
  • NASA Successfully Punched an Asteroid Off-Course in Planetary Defense Test, Agency Announces – VICE US
  • NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of an asteroid – Engadget
  • NASA’s asteroid-deflection test surpasses expectations – Science Magazine
  • NASA’s asteroid-ramming mission shortened Dimorphos’ orbit by 32 minutes – New Atlas
  • Mars ‘Very Likely’ Hosted Subterranean Alien Life, And May Still, Scientists Say – VICE US
  • Ancient Martian life may have died out in self-induced climate change – New Atlas
DIY 🪓
  • Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid – Hacker News
  • Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Front End – CSS-Tricks
  • A guide to Google Analytics 4 for marketing agencies – Search Engine Land
  • Pico.js – A face-detection library in 200 lines of JavaScript (2018) – Hacker News
Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️
  • Intel chips in on optical modem for DARPA’s ‘internet of satellites’ – The Register
  • An unexpected revival of Firefox OS – Hacker News
  • World’s first VW ID. Buzz electric camper kit launches for under $3K – New Atlas
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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:284-AM

JW Blog
5 months 2 weeks ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:284-AM JW Tue, 10/11/2022 - 08:48 STL: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 Events 📆
  • Jane Goodall visits new exhibit at Saint Louis Science Center, speaks to students - KSDK
  • Mark your calendar for an evening of family-friendly spooky stories at the St. Louis Storytelling Festival - St. Louis Magazine
  • Pickin’ in the Pumpkin Patch - Good Food St. Louis
  • Artica 2022 - r/StLouis
  • Keg Tapping, German Food, Music, Mass In Grass, Play Big Part Of Oktoberfest Saturday/Sunday - RiverBender
  • Granite City Is Loaded With Halloween Activities Through October - RiverBender
  • Granite City's Month Of Magic & Mayhem Kicks Off With Impressive Parade/Monster Dance Party - RiverBender
BuySTL 👜
  • St. Louis startup developing self-driving railcar expands to new HQ - St. Louis Regional Freightway
  • St. Louis-based global packaging business to expand European reach with acquisition - KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
  • New brunch spot to open in Eat-Rite building - r/StLouis
  • Chuck’s Hot Chicken opening Rock Hill location on October 13 - St. Louis Magazine
  • Kingside Diner arriving soon at St. Louis Lambert International Airport’s Terminal 1 - St. Louis Magazine
  • At Gokul Indian Restaurant, Jitendra Sandhe is serving up a wide range of exclusively vegetarian and kosher fare - feastmagazine.com
  • Arzola’s Fajitas & Margaritas cooks up Tex-Mex in Benton Park inspired by three generations - feastmagazine.com
STLfood ⚜️
  • St. Louis Taco Week Is Here: $5 Taco Specials at Area Restaurants - RFT
  • St. Louis Taco Week starts Monday, Oct. 10 - FOX 2
  • St Louis themed cookbooks - r/StLouis
STL100 💯
  • Tina Farmer Is Now the RFT's Theatre Critic - RFT
  • Coast Guard: Mississippi River reopens to barge traffic after low water closures - stltoday.com
  • Washington University professor shares economics Nobel Prize for crisis research - stltoday.com
  • Washington University Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Economics - RFT
  • WashU professor among economic scientists awarded Nobel Prize - KSDK
  • St. Louisan wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences - FOX 2
  • The Nobel Prize Goes to Bernanke and Diamond and Dybvig - Marginal REVOLUTION
STL99 😱
  • Airport websites in St. Louis, other cities go offline; cause being investigated - stltoday.com
  • Lambert Airport website restored after apparent cyberattack, flights not affected - KSDK
  • St. Louis Lambert International Airport website targeted by Russian hackers - FOX 2
  • Woman killed by hit-and-run driver in Tower Grove South neighborhood - stltoday.com
  • Hit-and-run crash on Gravois Avenue leaves pedestrian dead - KSDK
  • Another Pedestrian Killed by Driver in St. Louis' South City - RFT
  • Car slams into building early Monday at Gravois, Nebraska avenues - KSDK
99MO 😱
  • Missouri participation in public benefits program WIC fell sharply during pandemic - Missouri Independent
WW99 😱
  • Making Workers Keep Their Webcams on Is a Human Rights Violation, According to Dutch Judge - Gizmodo
  • Elon Musk Praised by China for Suggesting Communists Exert Control in Taiwan - Gizmodo
  • Leaked Emails Show Mexico’s Military Sold Grenades to the Cartels - VICE US
  • German Cybersecurity Chief to be Sacked Over Alleged Russia Ties: Sources - SecurityWeek
  • Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv - Hacker News
CityGov 🏛 LocalGov 🏛
  • Saint Louis Public Schools picks interim superintendent, launches national search for permanent job - KSDK
MoGov 🏛
  • Mike Parson Won't Offer Mass Pardons for Marijuana Offenses - RFT
FedGov 🏛
  • Biden’s Weed Pardon Won’t Get Anyone Out of Prison—But It’s Still a Huge Deal - VICE US
  • U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace - Hacker News
Jobs 📄
  • Schnucks, union try out new flexible option for grocery workers - stltoday.com
  • Client Service Coordinator II (Department of Human Services) - Jobs
  • Program Manager I (Homeless Services) - Jobs
  • Public Information Officer I - Jobs
Sustainability ♻️
  • To stay or to go: Increased flooding forces towns to make hard choices - stltoday.com
  • Making room for the river: Communities look at nature-based solutions - stltoday.com
  • This California City Is Rapidly Running Out of Water - Gizmodo
Infrastructure 🚽
  • Rivian recalls nearly every vehicle it has sold - The Register
Ecology 🦤
  • Assessing Air Quality Conditions in the St. Louis Region as the 2022 Forecasting Season Wraps Up - Clean Air Partnership
  • The Southwest's Famous Cacti Are in Trouble - Gizmodo
WWW99 🕸
  • Hackers forced more than a dozen US public airport websites offline - Engadget
  • US airports' sites taken down in DDoS attacks by pro-Russian hackers - BleepingComputer
  • PayPal Still fining $2500 for Promoting anything “Discriminatory”, “Intolerance” - Hacker News
  • PayPal decides fining people $2,500 for 'misinformation' wasn't a great idea - The Register
  • Telegram Piracy: Police Target 545 Channels & Eight Suspected Admins - TorrentFreak
  • An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets - Hacker News
Space 🚀
  • William Shatner writes about going to space - Waxy.org
  • Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient Mars - The Big 550 KTRS
  • NASA’s InSight Lander Hunkers Down as Martian Storm Moves In - Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
  • Command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving application - Hacker News
  • Big improvements to ActivityPub on Micro.blog - Manton Reece
Tags STLduJournal ⏳

STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:284-AM

JW Blog
5 months 2 weeks ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:284-AM JW Tue, 10/11/2022 - 08:37 STL: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 Events 📆
  • Jane Goodall visits new exhibit at Saint Louis Science Center, speaks to students – KSDK
  • Mark your calendar for an evening of family-friendly spooky stories at the St. Louis Storytelling Festival – St. Louis Magazine
  • Pickin’ in the Pumpkin Patch – Good Food St. Louis
  • Artica 2022 – r/StLouis
  • Keg Tapping, German Food, Music, Mass In Grass, Play Big Part Of Oktoberfest Saturday/Sunday – RiverBender
  • Granite City Is Loaded With Halloween Activities Through October – RiverBender
  • Granite City’s Month Of Magic & Mayhem Kicks Off With Impressive Parade/Monster Dance Party – RiverBender
BuySTL 👜
  • St. Louis startup developing self-driving railcar expands to new HQ – St. Louis Regional Freightway
  • St. Louis-based global packaging business to expand European reach with acquisition – KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
  • New brunch spot to open in Eat-Rite building – r/StLouis
  • Chuck’s Hot Chicken opening Rock Hill location on October 13 – St. Louis Magazine
  • Kingside Diner arriving soon at St. Louis Lambert International Airport’s Terminal 1 – St. Louis Magazine
  • At Gokul Indian Restaurant, Jitendra Sandhe is serving up a wide range of exclusively vegetarian and kosher fare – feastmagazine.com
  • Arzola’s Fajitas & Margaritas cooks up Tex-Mex in Benton Park inspired by three generations – feastmagazine.com
STLfood ⚜️
  • St. Louis Taco Week Is Here: $5 Taco Specials at Area Restaurants – RFT
  • St. Louis Taco Week starts Monday, Oct. 10 – FOX 2
  • St Louis themed cookbooks – r/StLouis
STL100 💯
  • Tina Farmer Is Now the RFT’s Theatre Critic – RFT
  • Coast Guard: Mississippi River reopens to barge traffic after low water closures – stltoday.com
  • Washington University professor shares economics Nobel Prize for crisis research – stltoday.com
  • Washington University Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Economics – RFT
  • WashU professor among economic scientists awarded Nobel Prize – KSDK
  • St. Louisan wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences – FOX 2
  • The Nobel Prize Goes to Bernanke and Diamond and Dybvig – Marginal REVOLUTION
STL99 😱
  • Airport websites in St. Louis, other cities go offline; cause being investigated – stltoday.com
  • Lambert Airport website restored after apparent cyberattack, flights not affected – KSDK
  • St. Louis Lambert International Airport website targeted by Russian hackers – FOX 2
  • Woman killed by hit-and-run driver in Tower Grove South neighborhood – stltoday.com
  • Hit-and-run crash on Gravois Avenue leaves pedestrian dead – KSDK
  • Another Pedestrian Killed by Driver in St. Louis’ South City – RFT
  • Car slams into building early Monday at Gravois, Nebraska avenues – KSDK
99MO 😱
  • Missouri participation in public benefits program WIC fell sharply during pandemic – Missouri Independent
WW99 😱
  • Making Workers Keep Their Webcams on Is a Human Rights Violation, According to Dutch Judge – Gizmodo
  • Elon Musk Praised by China for Suggesting Communists Exert Control in Taiwan – Gizmodo
  • Leaked Emails Show Mexico’s Military Sold Grenades to the Cartels – VICE US
  • German Cybersecurity Chief to be Sacked Over Alleged Russia Ties: Sources – SecurityWeek
  • Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv – Hacker News
CityGov 🏛 LocalGov 🏛
  • Saint Louis Public Schools picks interim superintendent, launches national search for permanent job – KSDK
MoGov 🏛
  • Mike Parson Won’t Offer Mass Pardons for Marijuana Offenses – RFT
FedGov 🏛
  • Biden’s Weed Pardon Won’t Get Anyone Out of Prison—But It’s Still a Huge Deal – VICE US
  • U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace – Hacker News
Jobs 📄
  • Schnucks, union try out new flexible option for grocery workers – stltoday.com
  • Client Service Coordinator II (Department of Human Services) – Jobs
  • Program Manager I (Homeless Services) – Jobs
  • Public Information Officer I – Jobs
Sustainability ♻️
  • To stay or to go: Increased flooding forces towns to make hard choices – stltoday.com
  • Making room for the river: Communities look at nature-based solutions – stltoday.com
  • This California City Is Rapidly Running Out of Water – Gizmodo
Infrastructure 🚽
  • Rivian recalls nearly every vehicle it has sold – The Register
Ecology 🦤
  • Assessing Air Quality Conditions in the St. Louis Region as the 2022 Forecasting Season Wraps Up – Clean Air Partnership
  • The Southwest’s Famous Cacti Are in Trouble – Gizmodo
WWW99 🕸
  • Hackers forced more than a dozen US public airport websites offline – Engadget
  • US airports’ sites taken down in DDoS attacks by pro-Russian hackers – BleepingComputer
  • PayPal Still fining $2500 for Promoting anything “Discriminatory”, “Intolerance” – Hacker News
  • PayPal decides fining people $2,500 for ‘misinformation’ wasn’t a great idea – The Register
  • Telegram Piracy: Police Target 545 Channels & Eight Suspected Admins – TorrentFreak
  • An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets – Hacker News
Space 🚀
  • William Shatner writes about going to space – Waxy.org
  • Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient Mars – The Big 550 KTRS
  • NASA’s InSight Lander Hunkers Down as Martian Storm Moves In – Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
  • Command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving application – Hacker News
  • Big improvements to ActivityPub on Micro.blog – Manton Reece
Tags STLduJournal ⏳

STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:283-AM

JW Blog
5 months 2 weeks ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:283-AM JW Mon, 10/10/2022 - 13:08 STL: Sunday, October 9, 2022 Events 📆 BuySTL 👜
  • Huge barge backup eases on Mississippi River, freeing tons of cargo - stltoday.com
  • Manufacturers report too much inventory, retailers too little - stltoday.com
  • Lighthouse St. Louis TDD - stLouIST - a Better Bubble™
  • Developer walks away from rehab of St. Louis' second-largest office building - r/StLouis
  • United Airlines cuts nonstop route from St. Louis to San Francisco - r/StLouis
Restaurants 🍲 STLfood ⚜️
  • St. Louis Standards: The Wine & Cheese Place Has Been Spreading Joy for 40 Years - RFT
  • Is it just me or have Red Hot Riplets gotten way worse? - r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡 STL100 💯
  • Busch Stadium packs largest crowd in its postseason history - FOX 2
  • Budweiser Clydesdales welcome new members to the herd - KSDK
STL99 😱
  • Grover the river otter dies at the Saint Louis Zoo - FOX 2
  • STL County woman sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison after reaping fraud pandemic funds - FOX 2
  • Gas leak prompts evacuations in Dutchtown neighborhood - stltoday.com
  • Residents in south St. Louis rush out of their homes after a construction crew hit gas line - FOX 2
  • Homes evacuated after south St. Louis natural gas leak - FOX 2
  • Residents in south St. Louis evacuated after gas main hit - KSDK
99MO 😱
  • Potential $30 Million International Arms Deal Plays Out in Eureka, Missouri - RFT
WW99 😱
  • Frontline Ukraine troops are reportedly enduring Starlink outages - Engadget
Pox Populi™ 🦠
  • As Omicron mutates wildly the virus shows first signs of convergent evolution - New Atlas
Police 🚓
  • Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department looking to hire officers - KSDK
DotGov 🏛
  • California to discontinue plastic grocery bags - Hacker News
CityGov 🏛
  • Messenger: More problems with open records in St. Louis, this time from Kim Gardner - stltoday.com
  • St. Louis mayor hires new personnel director - stltoday.com
  • St. Louis hires new personnel director - FOX 2
  • Mayor Tishaura O. Jones Proposes at Least $40 Million in American Rescue Plan Funding to Make Streets Safer Following Extensive Community Input - RiverBender
  • BB 101 - Community Development Agency (CDA) HUD 2023 Action Plan - Board Bills
  • BB 100 - Speed Humps Various Location 27th Ward - Board Bills
LocalGov 🏛
  • St. Louis County now expects $3.86M tax gain due to higher used-vehicle values - stltoday.com
  • Auditor grilled at 3-hour meeting, but St. Louis County Council won't reveal details - stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
  • Eric Schmitt says children are exposed to ‘radical ideology’ in schools - stltoday.com
  • Missouri state government has more than 7,500 vacancies. Parson pledges to keep raising pay. - stltoday.com
  • Some Missouri lawmakers concerned foreign farms could benefit from agriculture tax credits - FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
  • Declassified US nuclear targets – interactive map - Hacker News
Jobs 📄 History 🦕
  • A St. Louis-bred mobster had his flashy last ride home in 1933 - stltoday.com
  • The day they fired Harry Caray: a shock to Cardinal fans - stltoday.com
  • Southtown - c.1970 - r/StLouis
Sustainability ♻️ Infrastructure 🚽
  • Spire gas bills in St. Louis to go up slightly. Bigger proposed rate hikes loom. - stltoday.com
  • Satellite power grid would beam energy around the globe just like data - New Atlas
  • Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers - Hacker News
  • Interactive Submarine Cable Map - Hacker News
Ecology 🦤
  • The Rainbow Eucalyptus is the world's most colorful tree - Boing Boing
WWW99 🕸
  • That thing to help protect internet traffic from hijacking? It's broken - The Register
  • Amazon Scraps Scout Home Delivery Robot Tests - Gizmodo
Twitter 🐦
  • Kanye West Locked Out of Twitter for Antisemitic Tweet One Day After Being Restricted From Instagram - Gizmodo
  • Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge - Hacker News
  • Twitter's edit button finally debuts in the United States, but you'll have to pay for it - Engadget
Space 🚀
  • How NASA plans to stop killer asteroids - Freethink
  • SpaceX gives another four astronauts a lift to International Space Station - The Register
  • SpaceX to Attempt Rare Launch of Falcon Heavy Later This Month - Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
  • Building an FM radio from $3 radio chip and an 84MHz ARM Arduino - Hacker News
  • PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools - Hacker News
  • Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog - Hacker News
  • Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit - Hacker News
  • TypeScript is now officially 10 years old - Hacker News
  • Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac - Hacker News
  • Adding Fluid Typography Support to WordPress Block Themes - CSS-Tricks
Captain's Blog 🏴‍☠️
  • Sad - Scripting News
  • Virgina Air Hyperloop's pod on display at Kirkwood museum - FOX 2
  • A look back at children's TV show pioneer, Captain Kangaroo - Boing Boing
  • These McDonaldLand brand guidelines are like the handbook for a horror RPG - Boing Boing
  • Ask HN: Why do people come to HN for Stripe resolutions? - Hacker News
  • Stripe is PayPal circa 2010 - Hacker News
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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:283-AM

JW Blog
5 months 2 weeks ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:283-AM JW Mon, 10/10/2022 - 06:03 STL: Sunday, October 9, 2022 Events 📆 BuySTL 👜
  • Huge barge backup eases on Mississippi River, freeing tons of cargo - stltoday.com
  • Manufacturers report too much inventory, retailers too little - stltoday.com
  • Lighthouse St. Louis TDD - stLouIST - a Better Bubble™
  • Developer walks away from rehab of St. Louis' second-largest office building - r/StLouis
  • United Airlines cuts nonstop route from St. Louis to San Francisco - r/StLouis
Restaurants 🍲 STLfood ⚜️
  • St. Louis Standards: The Wine & Cheese Place Has Been Spreading Joy for 40 Years - RFT
  • Is it just me or have Red Hot Riplets gotten way worse? - r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡 STL100 💯
  • Busch Stadium packs largest crowd in its postseason history - FOX 2
  • Budweiser Clydesdales welcome new members to the herd - KSDK
STL99 😱
  • Grover the river otter dies at the Saint Louis Zoo - FOX 2
  • STL County woman sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison after reaping fraud pandemic funds - FOX 2
  • Gas leak prompts evacuations in Dutchtown neighborhood - stltoday.com
  • Residents in south St. Louis rush out of their homes after a construction crew hit gas line - FOX 2
  • Homes evacuated after south St. Louis natural gas leak - FOX 2
  • Residents in south St. Louis evacuated after gas main hit - KSDK
99MO 😱
  • Potential $30 Million International Arms Deal Plays Out in Eureka, Missouri - RFT
WW99 😱
  • Frontline Ukraine troops are reportedly enduring Starlink outages - Engadget
Pox Populi™ 🦠
  • As Omicron mutates wildly the virus shows first signs of convergent evolution - New Atlas
Police 🚓
  • Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department looking to hire officers - KSDK
DotGov 🏛
  • California to discontinue plastic grocery bags - Hacker News
CityGov 🏛
  • Messenger: More problems with open records in St. Louis, this time from Kim Gardner - stltoday.com
  • St. Louis mayor hires new personnel director - stltoday.com
  • St. Louis hires new personnel director - FOX 2
  • Mayor Tishaura O. Jones Proposes at Least $40 Million in American Rescue Plan Funding to Make Streets Safer Following Extensive Community Input - RiverBender
  • BB 101 - Community Development Agency (CDA) HUD 2023 Action Plan - Board Bills
  • BB 100 - Speed Humps Various Location 27th Ward - Board Bills
LocalGov 🏛
  • St. Louis County now expects $3.86M tax gain due to higher used-vehicle values - stltoday.com
  • Auditor grilled at 3-hour meeting, but St. Louis County Council won't reveal details - stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
  • Eric Schmitt says children are exposed to ‘radical ideology’ in schools - stltoday.com
  • Missouri state government has more than 7,500 vacancies. Parson pledges to keep raising pay. - stltoday.com
  • Some Missouri lawmakers concerned foreign farms could benefit from agriculture tax credits - FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
  • Declassified US nuclear targets – interactive map - Hacker News
Jobs 📄 History 🦕
  • A St. Louis-bred mobster had his flashy last ride home in 1933 - stltoday.com
  • The day they fired Harry Caray: a shock to Cardinal fans - stltoday.com
  • Southtown - c.1970 - r/StLouis
Sustainability ♻️ Infrastructure 🚽
  • Spire gas bills in St. Louis to go up slightly. Bigger proposed rate hikes loom. - stltoday.com
  • Satellite power grid would beam energy around the globe just like data - New Atlas
  • Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers - Hacker News
  • Interactive Submarine Cable Map - Hacker News
Ecology 🦤
  • The Rainbow Eucalyptus is the world's most colorful tree - Boing Boing
WWW99 🕸
  • That thing to help protect internet traffic from hijacking? It's broken - The Register
  • Amazon Scraps Scout Home Delivery Robot Tests - Gizmodo
Twitter 🐦
  • Kanye West Locked Out of Twitter for Antisemitic Tweet One Day After Being Restricted From Instagram - Gizmodo
  • Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge - Hacker News
  • Twitter's edit button finally debuts in the United States, but you'll have to pay for it - Engadget
Space 🚀
  • How NASA plans to stop killer asteroids - Freethink
  • SpaceX gives another four astronauts a lift to International Space Station - The Register
  • SpaceX to Attempt Rare Launch of Falcon Heavy Later This Month - Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
  • Building an FM radio from $3 radio chip and an 84MHz ARM Arduino - Hacker News
  • PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools - Hacker News
  • Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog - Hacker News
  • Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit - Hacker News
  • TypeScript is now officially 10 years old - Hacker News
  • Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac - Hacker News
  • Adding Fluid Typography Support to WordPress Block Themes - CSS-Tricks
Captain's Blog 🏴‍☠️
  • Sad - Scripting News
  • Virgina Air Hyperloop's pod on display at Kirkwood museum - FOX 2
  • A look back at children's TV show pioneer, Captain Kangaroo - Boing Boing
  • These McDonaldLand brand guidelines are like the handbook for a horror RPG - Boing Boing
  • Ask HN: Why do people come to HN for Stripe resolutions? - Hacker News
  • Stripe is PayPal circa 2010 - Hacker News
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