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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:273-AM JW Fri, 09/30/2022 - 08:06 STL: Friday, September 30, 2022 Events 📆

• 10 art exhibits to catch this month – St. Louis Magazine
• 2022 Fall Foliage Prediction Map – Hacker News

BuySTL 👜

• New Morgan Street Brewery Apartments Set To Be 24/7 Party – RFT
• Goodbye, Morgan Street Brewery; Laclede’s Landing property to be renovated – FOX 2
• Centene agrees to pay Massachusetts $14 million over Medicaid prescription claims – Missouri Independent

Restaurants 🍲

• Salt + Smoke spins off a new concept inside the Kirkwood Schnucks – St. Louis Magazine

STLfood ⚜️

• ‘Passing of the torch’: Ravioli maker to take over Mama Toscano’s space on The Hill – KSDK
• Is French Press Coffee the Best Coffee? – HowStuffWorks

STL100 💯

• ‘We go the extra mile’: Doctors volunteer to help immigrants and refugees at St. Louis nonprofit – KSDK

STL99 😱

• Rosati-Kain High School Should Stay Open, Leave Archdiocese – RFT
• Several St. Louis County cities express flood buyout interest, joining University City – KSDK
• Firefighters put out fire at scrap yard at I-44, 141 in St. Louis County – KSDK

WW99 😱

• NATO Says Nord Stream Pipeline Was Sabotaged, Promises to Defend Its Allies – VICE US
• Roskomnadzor Has Become Putin’s Personal Powerful Surveillance Network – Techdirt

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• Monkeypox cases per million residents by U.S. state.by… – Maps on the Web

DotGov 🏛

• Illinois prosecutors, governor feud over Safe-T Act – FOX 2

CityGov 🏛

• St. Louis aldermen chafe at continued virtual meetings – stltoday.com
• Airport Commission – Special Meeting – Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO

MoGov 🏛

• Missouri prosecutors blast marijuana legalization amendment – stltoday.com
• Missouri, other states spend federal COVID aid on roads, buildings – FOX 2
• Missouri lawmakers pass bill to cut income taxes – FOX 2
• Missouri lawmakers pass bill to cut income taxes, scrap plan to cut corporate taxes – KSDK
• Legislature sends $764 million income tax cut to Missouri governor – Missouri Independent
• Missouri, GOP-led states sue Biden administration to block student loan plan – stltoday.com
• GOP states sue Biden administration over student loan plan – FOX 2
• Eric Schmitt Can’t Help Himself, Sues Over Student Loan Relief – RFT
• Statue of Missouri’s Harry S. Truman dedicated at the U.S. Capitol – Missouri Independent

FedGov 🏛

• Elizabeth Warren Wants the FTC to Stop Amazon’s $1.7 Billion iRobot Acquisition – Gizmodo
• The CIA Wants to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth – Gizmodo
• How CIA betrayed informants with shoddy front websites built for covert comms – The Register
• FBI Arrests Former NSA Employee For Trying to Sell Top Secret Documents – VICE US
• Pentagon is far too tight with its security bug bounties – The Register

Jobs 📄

• Trial Adoption Coordinator – APA Adoption Center

Sustainability ♻️

• Wind, solar fulfill 10% of global electricity demand for first time – The Register
• Bitcoin’s climate damage is similar to beef and crude oil, says new study – Hacker News

Infrastructure 🚽

• Low water on the Mississippi River affecting barge traffic – stltoday.com
• Low water on the Mississippi River impacting barge traffic – FOX 2
• Grafton Secures IDOT Regional Ferry Study Grant – RiverBender
• Too Many Electric Cars Charging at Night May Overload Electrical Grid – ACM

Ecology 🦤

• The top underwater photos of 2022 in the Through Your Lens awards – New Atlas
• Nord Pipeline Explosion May Have Caused Single Biggest Methane Leak in History – Gizmodo
• Nord Stream gas leaks may be biggest ever, with warning of ‘large climate risk’ – Grist

WWwx 🌦

• Scientists Discover Arctic Waters Are Rapidly Becoming Acidic in Dire Climate Warning – VICE US
• Photos Show Hurricane Ian’s Path of Destruction – Gizmodo
• More Than 2.5M Households in Florida Without Power After Hurricane Ian, Biden Declares Major Disaster – Gizmodo
• Florida’s Shaky Insurance Market May Not Be Able to Handle Hurricane Ian – Gizmodo
• Here’s What Hurricane Ian Hath Wrought—and It’s Not Over Yet – VICE US

WWW99 🕸

• Google Shutting Down Stadia Cloud Gaming Platform – MacRumors
• Number of state subreddit subscribers per 100 people by U.S…. – Maps on the Web
• More Than Half of Security Pros Say Risks Higher in Cloud Than On Premise – SecurityWeek
• Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Exchange Server zero-day being actively exploited – The Register
• Hacking group hides backdoor malware inside Windows logo image – BleepingComputer
• Microsoft: Lazarus hackers are weaponizing open-source software – BleepingComputer
• Meta announces Make-A-Video, a text-to-video AI generator – Waxy.org
• Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring – Hacker News
• Meta ordered to pay $175M for copying Green Beret veteran’s app – Hacker News
• That Time The Former White House Photographer Was Threatened By A Copyright Troll Over His Own Public Domain Photo – Techdirt
• Is California’s Kids Code Screwing Up The Efforts For A Federal Privacy Law? – Techdirt

Twitter 🐦

• 30+ brands suspend their Twitter marketing campaigns after finding their ads next to child-pornography accounts – Search Engine Land
• Former eBay execs get prison time in cyberstalking case involving Twitter threats and fetal pig deliveries – Engadget
• Twitter Cloned Instagram Reels Which Cloned TikTok Because That’s What Everybody Does Now – Gizmodo
• Twitter has created 2 new video features – Search Engine Land
• Twitter embraces TikTok-style ‘immersive’ video – Engadget

Space 🚀

• NASA Just Dropped the First Close-Up Images of Europa in Decades and They’re Stunning – VICE US
• NASA and SpaceX explore idea of shifting Hubble to a more stable orbit – New Atlas
• James Webb and Hubble telescope images capture DART asteroid collision – Engadget
• Alien ‘Aqua Worlds’ Covered in Habitable Seawater More Abundant Than We Imagined, Study Proposes – VICE US

DIY 🪓

• Digital Ocean won’t let new customers create resources in four DCs, won’t say why – The Register
• Litelok X claimed to be world’s most angle-grinder-resistant U lock – New Atlas
• Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners – BleepingComputer
• NESOS – Waxy.org

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• The Banality of Surveillance – Hacker News
• State of Drupal presentation (September 2022) – Dries Buytaert
• Musk’s Pledge To Bring Starlink To Iran Didn’t Actually Do Anything. That Didn’t Stop The Hype Machine. – Techdirt
• Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever – Hacker News
• Bandit9’s shiny and affordable electric scooter rocks liquid-metal style – New Atlas

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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:269-PM JW Tue, 09/27/2022 - 04:06 STL: Monday, September 26, 2022 Events 📆

• 10 St. Louis pumpkin patches to visit this fall – St. Louis Magazine
• Fall maze made from hemp opens in Godfrey – FOX 2
• Taste of St. Louis drives economy during major festival weekend – KSDK

BuySTL 👜

• City Greens Market’s Liz Essman is dedicated to providing fresh produce in the food desert surrounding The Grove – feastmagazine.com
• Schnucks to acquire 2 Fricks Market locations in Franklin County – KSDK
• Schnucks makes deal to acquire stores from another family-owned grocer – St. Louis Business Journal
• Fricks grocery stores to become part of Schnucks chain – stltoday.com
• Busch Stadium customers’ credit cards were charged multiple times at one game – stltoday.com
• Popular bakery in the Metro East goes up in flames – FOX 2
• Schnucks buying remaining Fricks Market stores – FOX 2
• Boeing pays $200 million to settle SEC charges over 737 Max – FOX 2

Restaurants 🍲

• Havana’s Cuban Sandwich – r/StLouis
• Wood River’s 1929 Pizza And Wine Perimeter Wall Has Come Down – Set To Open In November – RiverBender

STLfood ⚜️

• Your new favorite tomato sauce? Try of these classics from The Hill – feastmagazine.com
• Italian Beef – r/StLouis
• The Long History of Frozen Pizza in the United States – Laughing Squid

Neighborhoods 🏡

• Project 5: STL ArtWorks adds color to the Delmar Loop – KSDK
• Herculaneum residents’ petition against proposed Love’s truck stop surpasses goal – KSDK
• Meetup At Aya Sofia – Lindenwood Park
• LinFest is Back! Saturday, October 1, 2022 – Lindenwood Park

STL100 💯

• St. Louis trucking firms gain drivers despite national shortage. Here’s how one did it. – KSDK
• St. Louis area trucking firms gain drivers in 2021, bucking national trends – St. Louis Regional Freightway
• The Biggest Tech Talent Hubs in the U.S. and Canada. – Maps on the Web

STL99 😱

• If you use gas to heat your home, expect to pay 34% more this winter – KSDK
• Body shop says cars are totaled ‘quite frequently’ from deer damage – KSDK

99MO 😱

• Where Missouri and Illinois place on the ‘happiness ranking’ – FOX 2

WW99 😱

• Putin bestows Russian citizenship upon Edward Snowden – Boing Boing
• Iran’s Internet Shutdown Hides a Deadly Crackdown – Hacker News
• You don’t understand how bad it could get in Europe this year – Hacker News
• Europe is in danger of rolling electricity shortages – Hacker News
• After Getting Blocked in Iran, Signal Wants You to Help Bypass Nation’s Restrictions – Gizmodo
• NSA super-leaker Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship – The Register
• Brazil’s Far-Right Embraced the NRA and Gun Sales Are Soaring – VICE US
• Russian recruitment officer in intensive care after draftee shoots him – Boing Boing
• Germany’s Government Continues To Lock People Up For Being Extremely Online – Techdirt
• 13 Regions of Russia where Russians are a Minority – Maps on the Web
• Are Russians allowed to enter your country? by @Atlasova_world – Maps on the Web
• Anti-government protests have been documented in 30 of… – Maps on the Web
• The G7 consumes the same amount of Carbon as China with half as… – Maps on the Web
• China emits more CO2 than the entire Western hemisphere – Maps on the Web

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• COVID pandemic isn’t over, says Missouri Democrat Valentine in break with Biden – stltoday.com
• What to know about this year’s flu season and getting your free flu shot – St. Louis Magazine
• Japan pledges $2 billion in funding for pandemic vaccine research initiative – Engadget

Police 🚓

• St. Louis Police Union Axes Jeff Roorda – RFT
• Jeff Roorda out as manager of St. Louis police union – stltoday.com
• Jeff Roorda out as manager of St. Louis police union – r/StLouis
• Legal fight over civilian oversight of St. Louis police could have statewide implications – FOX 2
• Lawsuit: Breckenridge Hills police have a pattern of abuse – stltoday.com
• Private policing problems pinpointed – stlamerican.com
• San Francisco Legislators Approve Bill Giving Cops Live, On Demand Access To Private Security Cameras – Techdirt
• Fifth Circuit Grants Immunity To Cop Who Decided To Violently Arrest Family That Called To Report A Crime – Techdirt

DotGov 🏛 CityGov 🏛

• Mayor: St. Louis needs citywide study for safer streets – stltoday.com
• No ‘courtesy’: Development bills sidestep alderman, St. Louis political tradition – stltoday.com
• St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners Expands Opportunities to Vote for November 8 General Election, Offers No-Excuse Absentee Voting Locations – City of St. Louis – News
• St. Louis Voters Can Choose Their Polling Location in November – RFT
• SLATE Job Fair for Administrative Positions – Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
• City of St. Louis is looking for experienced workers – r/StLouis
• Purchase of Tiny Homes – City of St. Louis

LocalGov 🏛

• Suburban school districts in St. Louis area more likely to ban books under new law – stltoday.com
• University City seeks federal funds to buy out flood-damaged homes – FOX 2
• University City seeks to buy out just 24 houses, way fewer than expected – r/StLouis

MoGov 🏛

• Top Missouri lawmaker urges federal prosecutors to intervene in Agape abuse case – Missouri Independent
• Missouri failed to extend Medicaid for new moms. Lawmakers vow to try again. – stltoday.com
• Missouri House speaker urges federal investigators to shut down Agape school – KSDK
• Missouri House Speaker urges feds to shut down Agape school – FOX 2
• Missouri’s foster care system in ‘desperate need,’ director says – stltoday.com
• Fixing Missouri child welfare: Darrell Missey has it backwards – Missouri Independent
• A conspiracy-fueled push to count ballots by hand gains traction – Missouri Independent
• Missouri House leaders scramble to save the governor’s agriculture incentives bill – Missouri Independent
• Missouri House barely passes agriculture tax credits legislation – FOX 2
• Eric Schmitt absent – stlamerican.com
• Missouri judge weighing lawsuits over photo ID law – FOX 2

FedGov 🏛

• FEMA approves over $35M in flood assistance. Here’s how you can apply – KSDK
• FEMA officials offer free repair and rebuild advice at 3 different Home Depot locations – KSDK
• The Fed plans to sharply boost unemployment – Hacker News
• FBI misled judge who signed warrant for seizure of $86M in cash – Hacker News
• The CIA’s New Podcast Is Propaganda That Aims to ‘Whitewash’ the Agency’s Dark History – Gizmodo
• The Oath Keepers’ Jan. 6 Trial Is Here. And It’s Going to Be Weird. – VICE US
• Conservatives Loved Expanding The 1st Amendment To Corporations… Until Last Year. Wonder Why? – Techdirt
• ‘Securing Open Source Software Act’ introduced to US Senate – Hacker News

Jobs 📄 History 🦕

• Incredible vintage film footage of STL! – r/StLouis
• Interactive Map of White Flight in STL by Decade – r/StLouis
• Irv’s Good Eats – St. Louis, MO – r/StLouis
• 150 years ago St. Louis started its brief experiment with legalized prostitution – stltoday.com
• HISTORY! Albert Pujols slugs 700th home run one at-bat after 699th – FOX 2
• The Ancient Maya Were Regularly Exposed to Toxic Mercury, Scientists Say – Gizmodo

Sustainability ♻️

• The Racism, and Resilience, Behind Today’s Salmon Crisis – ProPublica
• Jeff Bezos is buying up single-family homes to rent-trap humanity forever – Hacker News
• Offshore Wind 125 Times Better for Taxpayers Compared to Oil and Gas – Gizmodo
• California to phase out gas furnaces, water heaters by 2030 – The Register

Infrastructure 🚽

• A new mode of shipping aims to ease supply-chain pains and breathe new life into our rivers – St. Louis Magazine
• USDA to spend $500 million extending high-speed internet to rural America – FOX 2
• Learning from Cows: Community Owned WiFi-Mesh – Hacker News
• The robot solving America’s trash crisis – Freethink
• US Rail Network Map by Line Owner/Operator 2022 by u/Entroma – Maps on the Web
• How Netflix keeps its data infrastructure cost-effective – Hacker News

Ecology 🦤

• Rainscaping provides beauty and function when heavy rains fall – FOX 2
• Axolotls can regenerate their brains – Freethink
• The World’s Largest Organism Is ‘Breaking Up,’ Study Warns – VICE US
• Ultra-Rare Diamond Reveals Secrets of Oceans of Water Deep Inside the Earth, Scientists Say – VICE US
• World’s first cloned arctic wolf is now 100 days old – Freethink

WWwx 🌦

• This summer’s drought and floods may impact 2022’s fall foliage – FOX 2
• Summer 2022: A season of extreme St. Louis weather – FOX 2
• Studying how climate change shapes floods and river landscapes – FOX 2

WWW99 🕸

• Why Browsers Are Essential to the Internet and How OS Are Holding Them Back – Hacker News
• Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers – Hacker News
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai Tells Employees They Don’t Need Money to Have Fun Amid Cost Cuts – Gizmodo
• Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos – Hacker News
• When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” – Hacker News
• Whois: Fragile, Unparseable, Obsolete – Hacker News
• 3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror – Hacker News
• Google Is Showing Ads to Sell Your Kidney for $1M in India – Hacker News
• Hackers use PowerPoint files for ‘mouseover’ malware delivery – BleepingComputer
• Microsoft SQL servers hacked in TargetCompany ransomware attacks – BleepingComputer
• Number of users by country subreddits.by u/Dabatman565 – Maps on the Web

Space 🚀

• Don’t Miss Jupiter Shine Its Brightest in Almost 60 Years – HowStuffWorks
• The FCC Finally Starts Taking Space Junk Seriously – Techdirt
• Impact! NASA’s DART Spacecraft Crashes Head-On Into Asteroid – Gizmodo
• Why DART Is the Most Important Mission Ever Launched to Space – Gizmodo
• Watch Live: NASA’s DART Spacecraft Will Crash Into an Asteroid – Gizmodo
• Tropical Storm Ian Forces NASA to Postpone Upcoming Launch of Megarocket – Gizmodo
• This hero probe will smash into an asteroid to see if we can deflect future killer rocks – The Register
• NASA’s DART spacecraft is about to smash into an asteroid – Freethink
• Watch the First Asteroid Defense Test in History Happen Live in Space Tonight – VICE US
• NASA probe smashes into an asteroid in historic test for planetary defense – New Atlas
• The unpredictabilities of NASA’s wild plan to ram an asteroid off course – New Atlas
• NASA will roll Artemis 1 back to shelter it from Hurricane Ian – Engadget
• NASA battens down another Artemis launch window as hurricane approaches – The Register
• NASA’s Megarocket Heads for Shelter as Hurricane Ian Approaches – Gizmodo
• Elon Musk Says He’s Activating Starlink in Iran After U.S. Eases Restrictions on Tech Companies – Gizmodo
• Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured – Hacker News

DIY 🪓

• 10 Apple Recipes to Sweeten the Fall – Good Food St. Louis
• Tacos Dorados Recipe – VICE US
• Linus Torvalds predicts Linux Kernel 6.0 debut next week, dispels fear of delays – The Register
• Introducing Meridian – Manton Reece
• webЯcade – Waxy.org
• The Most Useful Twitter Bots – Digital Inspiration
• Real World OCaml: Functional Programming for the Masses – Hacker News
• Enhance: a web standards-based HTML framework – Hacker News
• 58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere – Hacker News
• How to Create Wavy Shapes & Patterns in CSS – CSS-Tricks
• How to 3D-Print One of the Strongest Stainless Steels – Hacker News
• macOS Free and Open-Source Security Tools by Objective-See – Hacker News
• Pdfgrep – a commandline utility to search text in PDF files – Hacker News
• Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring – Hacker News
• Harbor Freight price tracker – Boing Boing

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Aging programmer – Hacker News
• Ask HN: When did you stop using a printer and why? – Hacker News
• 25 Sep 2022 McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Association between meatless diet and depressive episodes – Hacker News
• ‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US – Hacker News
• Swatch Internet Time – Hacker News
• Remembering the Spoiler-Free Opinion Summary ↦ – Six Colors
• Watch the world’s first hydrofoiling ground effect vehicle take off – New Atlas
• 25 Furbies in conversation – Boing Boing

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Webster Groves banned my favorite paragraph JW Tue, 09/27/2022 - 02:51

Dwayne's only companion at night was a Labrador retriever named Sparky. Sparky could not wag his tail because of an automobile accident many years ago, so he had no way of telling other dogs how friendly he was. He had to fight all the time. His ears were in tatters. He was lumpy with scars.

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Painting the Berlin Wall JW Sun, 09/25/2022 - 18:32

I was lucky enough to spend a summer working in Germany, and one of the highlights was spending a week in Berlin.

My contribution to the Wall

50% discount auto paint

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A few years later...

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Checkpoint Charlie

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barely visible.

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Garden of the Gods JW Sat, 09/24/2022 - 15:40

This area is in Southern Illinois and I only heard about it a few years ago.

It's next on the list.

www.fs.usda.gov Tags Camping

SOTD: Re-Humanise Yourself JW Thu, 09/22/2022 - 19:34

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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:265-AM JW Thu, 09/22/2022 - 13:24 STL: Thursday, September 22, 2022 Events 📆

• Missouri Botanical Garden celebrates drop in temps with extended hours – FOX 2
• St. Mary’s Oktoberfest Returns With Strong Lineup Of Activities October 7-9 In Alton – RiverBender

BuySTL 👜

• What’s fresh at St. Louis-area farmers markets this week – feastmagazine.com
• Cardinals fans frenzy over legends’ bobbleheads – FOX 2
• The Armory, The Largest Indoor Entertainment Venue In St. Louis, Sets Opening Day – RiverBender

Restaurants 🍲

• Lucky Inn Chop Suey – stlamerican.com
• Carl’s Drive-In owner wants to create a new burger-and-entertainment destination in Winghaven – St. Louis Magazine
• Grab a burger, ride a go-kart! Carl’s Drive-In explores expansion in O’Fallon – FOX 2
• Carl’s Drive-In has expansion plans, and more in the news – 40 South News
• Sweetie Pie’s to close last St. Louis-area location on Delmar Boulevard – stltoday.com
• Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust announces closure – FOX 2
• Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust to Close September 25 – RFT
• Sweetie Pie’s announces closure of Upper Crust location – KSDK
• Founder thanks customers as Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust closes – FOX 2
• Assault Allegations Against St. Louis Chef Detail Pattern of Abuse – RFT
• Chef of popular new Tower Grove South restaurant Snō charged with domestic assault – stltoday.com
• Chef Tony Nguyen of Snō Charged with Felony Domestic Assault – RFT

STLfood ⚜️

• Why taco pizza is making a comeback in St. Louis – feastmagazine.com
• Papa John’s Pizza Bowls pose the important question "what is food?" – Boing Boing

Neighborhoods 🏡

• Latest closure brings South Grand vacancies to new high, official says – KSDK
• Neighbors push back against proposed Herculaneum truck stop – KSDK

STL100 💯

• The American Red Cross in need of volunteers for disaster response – FOX 2
• Less Visited Missouri State Parks that are Hidden Gems – Terrain Magazine

STL99 😱

• 13 pit bulls rescued from alleged dogfighting operation in north St. Louis County – KSDK
• Fox 2 anchor Vic Faust fired from TV station after tirade – stltoday.com
• Post-Dispatch Comics Page Shakeup Draws Ire — And Concern – RFT
• Construction Mishap Again Delays St. Louis Soccer Stadium Opening – RFT
• Driver fires shots during road rage over merge in north St. Louis – FOX 2
• Victim in I-64 fatality fell through sunroof, Illinois State Police says – FOX 2
• Police: Woman died after falling from sunroof of moving car on I-64 – stltoday.com
• Passenger falls out of car sunroof on I-64, dies from injuries sustained – KSDK

99MO 😱

• More states extend postpartum Medicaid since Roe’s demise – stltoday.com
• Doctor admits to fraud involving more than 2,000 Missouri patients – FOX 2

WW99 😱

• European Spyware Investigators Criticize Israel and Poland – SecurityWeek
• Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65 – Hacker News

Pox Populi™ 🦠 Police 🚓

• St. Louis family releases video clip of teen’s fatal police shooting – stltoday.com
• Killer of Officer Langsdorf sentenced to life in prison – KSDK
• Construction to start on new St. Louis County police stations at long last – stltoday.com
• San Francisco cops can use private cameras to live-monitor ‘significant events’ – The Register
• Police Tased and Hogtied a 12-Year-Old Autistic Boy – VICE US
• Ohio Supreme Court Says There’s Nothing Wrong With Cops Seizing A $31,000 Truck Over An $850 Criminal Offense – Techdirt

DotGov 🏛

• NY attorney general sues Donald Trump, 3 kids for alleged business fraud – FOX 2
• GOP Attorney General Nominee Wants to Ban Plan B, Compared It to Fentanyl – VICE US

CityGov 🏛

• Budget Analyst (Senior) – Jobs
• Administrative Hearing Officer Parking Commission RFP – City of St. Louis
• STL aldermen hold hearing on intersection safety for emergency vehicles – FOX 2
• Warrant pins new schemes on former St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad – KSDK
• BB 93 – Redevelopment Plan for the Cass Ave./N. 14th St./O’Fallon St./Hogan St. Redevelopment Area – Board Bills
• BB 89 – Green Street Armory Project TIF – Board Bills
• BB 92 – Yard Waste from Private Lawn Services – Board Bills
• BB 91 – Waste Disposal Fines – Board Bills
• BB 88 – Flora Place Community Improvement District – Board Bills
• BB 90 – Green Street Armory Project Redevelopment Agreement – Board Bills

LocalGov 🏛

• Water system failure reported by Moscow Mills – r/StLouis
• How this school district in St. Louis County is stopping phone use in class – KSDK

MoGov 🏛

• Schmitt signs onto brief backing Trump in legal battle with Justice Department over classified documents – stltoday.com
• Missouri judge again delays decision on Agape Boarding School as more abuse alleged – stltoday.com
• Missouri judge once again delays decision on closing Agape Boarding School – Missouri Independent
• Missouri’s Child Welfare Agency Is Dangerously Understaffed – RFT
• Missouri lawmakers push ahead on tax cuts, rural credits in special session – Missouri Independent
• Missouri Senate passes individual income tax cuts – FOX 2
• Scaled-Back Income Tax Cut Wins Initial Approval in Missouri Senate – RFT
• Missouri Senate passes individual income tax cuts, bill heads to House – KSDK
• Tax cut debate moves to Missouri House after Senate approves bill – stltoday.com
• Missourians Support Legal Weed By Wide Margin, New Poll Finds – RFT

FedGov 🏛

• The Senate just approved an international climate treaty, with bipartisan support – Grist
• Clash over climate change funding emerging in farm bill debate – Missouri Independent
• Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 75 basis points for the third time – Hacker News
• Fed raises rates by another 75 bps to fight inflation – Hacker News
• Whistleblower: Pentagon Purchased Mass Surveillance Tool Collecting Americans’ Web Browsing Data – Gizmodo
• US accident investigators want alcohol breathalyzers in all new vehicles – The Register
• Trump’s Business Empire Could Be Crushed With New Lawsuit – VICE US
• Majority of Republican Voters Want to Make Christianity the Official Religion – VICE US
• Republicans Want to Declare Fentanyl a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction.’ That’s a Terrible Idea. – VICE US
• Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data – VICE US

Jobs 📄

• The World’s Largest Four-Day Work Week Experiment Reveals Increase in Employee Wellbeing – Gizmodo
• There’s no labor shortage at fast food restaurants – Kevin Drum

History 🦕

• 75 years ago: How Cardinal Ritter’s firm hand led St. Louis Catholic schools to integrate – stltoday.com
• Missouri Town Was Founded as Atheist Utopia [PHOTOS] – RFT
• Segregated Schooling: Mapping St. Louis’s Colored Schools – History Happens Here

Sustainability ♻️

• Spotlight On: Midwest Recycling Center – Clean Air Partnership
• World’s largest geothermal lagoon planned for Canada – New Atlas
• Fluorescent molecule could verify recycled content of plastic products – New Atlas

Infrastructure 🚽

• Chicago’s Tap Water Contaminated With Lead, Analysis Finds – Gizmodo
• Tesla Megapack battery ignites at substation after less than 6 months – The Register
• Emissions-slashing hybrid trains to hit tracks in Europe – The Register
• How much has North American freight increased over the past year? – Kevin Drum
• There Have Been Decades Of Broadband Policy And Subsidies And We’re Only Just Now Accurately Measuring Their Impact – Techdirt

Ecology 🦤

• 230 Whales Mysteriously Stranded on Beach Exactly 2 Years After Similar Event – VICE US
• Study shows plastics disrupting metabolism of lung and liver cells – New Atlas
• Tiger population in India, 2018. – Maps on the Web

WWwx 🌦

• Photos: Monster Typhoon Smashes Into Japan – Gizmodo
• Puerto Ricans Now Face Heat Wave After Days Without Power and Water – Gizmodo
• UN climate report projects path into "uncharted territory of destruction" – New Atlas

WWW99 🕸

• Danish Data Protection Agency concludes Google Analytics cannot be used lawfully – Hacker News
• Meta and Google are cutting staff – Hacker News
• Getty Images will cease to accept art created using AI generative models – Hacker News
• Getty Says ‘No’ to AI-Generated Images Because it Doesn’t Want Any (More) Copyright Headaches – Gizmodo
• TikTok will start banning political campaign fundraising – Search Engine Land
• Antivirus Used by Millions Blocked All Google Sites by Mistake, Sowing Chaos – VICE US
• Domain shadowing becoming more popular among cybercriminals – BleepingComputer
• 2K confirms its support desk was hacked to send malware to gamers – Engadget
• On Bloomberg: De-platformed Disinfo Site Sees Resurgence with Help of Alt-Right Social Platforms and Ad Networks – EQ

Twitter 🐦

• Twitter is logging out some users following password reset ‘incident’ – Engadget

Space 🚀

• NASA Declares Tanking Test of SLS Megarocket a Success – Gizmodo
• Saudi Arabia Buys Two Tickets to the ISS Aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket – Gizmodo
• With War Raging in Ukraine, NASA Astronaut Flies to ISS Aboard Russian Rocket – Gizmodo
• Watch Live as Russia Launches the Next ISS Crew—Including a U.S. Astronaut—to Space – Gizmodo
• Scientists Think They’ve Solved the Mystery of a Bizarre Repeating Radio Signal from Space – VICE US
• James Webb Space Telescope captures the best image of Neptune’s rings in decades – Engadget
• New Webb image captures clearest view of Neptune’s rings in decades – Hacker News
• Bezos’s ‘Orbital Reef’ Space Station Is Set to Be Hollywood’s Newest Star – Gizmodo
• Giant Centrifuge Startup That Wants to Hurl Things Into Space Raises $71 Mil – Gizmodo
• Mars Is Littered With Over 7 Tons of Trash From Robotic Space Exploration – HowStuffWorks

DIY 🪓

• Pork and Veggie Pan-Seared Dumplings Recipe – VICE US
• A text adventure game on TypeScript’s type system – Hacker News
• Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI – Hacker News
• The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition – Hacker News
• Framework’s Chromebook Is Bringing Modularity to ChromeOS – Gizmodo
• Framework made a modular, repairable Chromebook – Engadget
• Websdr.org – Software-Defined Radio receiver connected to the internet – Hacker News
• Entitlement in Open Source – Hacker News
• The most controversial change in Emacs history (2021) – Hacker News
• Next steps for Rust in the kernel – Hacker News
• ‘I Don’t Care About Cookies’ extension sold to Avast – The Register
• Mapping the unknown – Steps to map any industry – Hacker News

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• The Deceiving Stretch of Water with 100% Mortality Rate – Hacker News
• Domesticated Prairie Dog Travels Across the United States With His Humans – Laughing Squid
• Apple’s next victim: the SIM card (Macworld/Jason Snell) – Six Colors
• What we learned from launching a hyperlocal news brand – Google
• Ultralight carbon teardrop utility camper tows via EV or motorcycle – New Atlas
• Renault electric camper urges solo nomads to ditch office, go outdoors – New Atlas
• Mercedes tempts freight operators with eActros LongHaul electric truck – New Atlas

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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:264-AM JW Wed, 09/21/2022 - 14:11 STL: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 – Wednesday, September 21, 2022 Events 📆

• Weekly Events Thread 9/19/21 – 9/25/22 – r/StLouis
• Tower Grove Pride returns this weekend – St. Louis Magazine
• Canine Carnival At The Alton Farmers’ & Artisans’ Market Set For Sept. 24th – RiverBender
• Maplewood Route 66 Celebration September 24 – Historic Downtown Maplewood Feast 9.22.22 – feastmagazine.com
• Maplewood pool becomes a ‘dog dish’ one day each year – KSDK
• Soulard Beer Fest – Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
• Food Truck Festival Returning To Wood River – RiverBender
• Out With The Corn, In With The Hemp – Great Godfrey Maze Back Open! – RiverBender
• 2nd Annual NASCAR Cup Series Race At World Wide Technology Raceway Confirmed – RiverBender
• Mississippi Earthtones Festival Attracts Thousands To Alton Riverfront – RiverBender
• Music at the Intersection Comes Into its Own in its Second Year – RFT
• Photos: Pearl Jam brings its long-awaited tour to Enterprise Center – St. Louis Magazine
• Even Non-Wiccans Can Celebrate Mabon, the ‘Pagan Thanksgiving’ – HowStuffWorks

BuySTL 👜

• Sugaree Baking Company combines art and quality ingredients to make flavorful sweets – feastmagazine.com
• World’s first official coloring book store opens in St. Louis – FOX 2
• Local/Regional Distillery Recommendations? – r/StLouis
• Hartmann: St. Louis Public Schools Are Not Your Bank, Cortex – RFT
• Travelers give St. Louis’ Lambert airport failing scores in new survey – stltoday.com
• Question emerges in push for new Lambert terminal: Will cost-conscious airlines pay for it? – KSDK
• Brentwood taps Green Street for Manchester Road redevelopment – stltoday.com
• Bold Recognized For Community Involvement By The North Alton Godfrey Business Council – RiverBender
• Hospital in south city being sold – KSDK
• Centene to pay $166 million to Texas in Medicaid drug pricing settlement – Missouri Independent
• Centene To Pay $166 Million in Medicaid Drug Pricing Settlement – RFT
• Centene Corp. reaches $165.6M settlement with Texas over pharmacy benefit practices – KSDK
• California-based company takes over operations at South City Hospital – stltoday.com

Restaurants 🍲

• Eat Crow Brings Heavy Metal and Mac and Cheese to Soulard – RFT
• Fire damages Vin de Set restaurant Monday morning – FOX 2
• Vin De Set had a serious fire last night. I assume they, along with PW Pizza, and 21st St Brewers bar will be closed for significant time – r/StLouis
• Overnight fire damages Vin de Set restaurant in Downtown West – stltoday.com
• Vin de Set ‘Closed Indefinitely’ After Early Morning Fire – RFT
• Fire damages Vin De Set in Lafayette Square, restaurant will be closed indefinitely – KSDK

STLfood ⚜️

• Pastry chef Amanda Leone crafts vegan baked goods for Protagonist Cafe and Pieces Board Game Bar and Cafe – feastmagazine.com
• C and B Boiled Bagels will soon debut in Wood River, Illinois – feastmagazine.com

Neighborhoods 🏡

• Keeping It Clean in Dutchtown! – SLACO
• Proposal calls for new bars in certain downtown areas to close by 1:30 a.m. – KSDK
• Latest closure brings South Grand vacancies to new high, official says – St. Louis Business Journal
• REMINDER: TGSNA General Meeting 09/21/2022 – IN PERSON – Tower Grove South Neighborhood Association–Active Members Archive Feed

STL100 💯

• St. Louis no longer nation’s murder capital – FOX 2
• After being away for 8 years, it’s great to be back in my hometown of STL. – r/StLouis
• Wow, last week St. Louis Code & Coffee Community Meetup blew up. It was the 3rd one and we had 50+ people showing up! This is evidence of the emerging tech scene right here in St. Louis. Thanks to all that came out, see you next week! TechArtista is an amazing place to work and host events. You can – r/StLouis
• New NBC Comedy to Highlight Andy Cohen’s St. Louis Upbringing – RFT

STL99 😱

• The Budweiser Brewery Tour isnt free anymore?! – r/StLouis
• Carl’s Drive-In owner wants to create a new burger-and-entertainment destination in Winghaven – St. Louis Magazine
• “The explosion was deafening” garbage truck fire caught on camera in Mehlville – FOX 2
• St. Louis City SC matches relocated as power issue at Centene Stadium continues – KSDK
• Another soccer match canceled at the new St. Louis stadium due to damage – FOX 2
• FOX 2 uncovers the story behind the damage to St. Louis soccer stadium – FOX 2
• Station management silent on status of Fox 2 anchor Vic Faust after tirade – stltoday.com
• One man linked to St. Louis ‘package killer’ serial murders after DNA breakthrough – stltoday.com
• Alleged serial killer charged with murders of 4 women 30 years after bodies found across St. Louis region – KSDK
• Gary Muehlberg, 73, Charged in ‘Package Killer’ Murders in 1990 St. Louis – RFT

99MO 😱

• Missouri Mom Drains ‘Huge’ Pond to Find Son’s Remains – RFT

MO100 💯

• Branson is #1 for smallmouth bass fishing in US – FOX 2
• U.S. center of population now located in Missouri Ozarks – FOX 2

WW99 😱

• The Sinaloa Cartel Is Controlling Water in Drought-Stricken Mexico – VICE US
• Mexico Wants the US to Hand Over El Chapo’s Godson for Killing of Legendary Journalist – VICE US
• In ten years, for the Asia-Pacific region alone, 225 million… – Maps on the Web
• The Japanese Empire at its greatest extent in 1942 – Maps on the Web
• President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia – Hacker News
• Germany’s blanket data retention law is illegal, EU top court says – Hacker News
• US Wealth dropped $6 Trillion in Q2 – Hacker News
• Saudi Prosecutors Are Targeting A US Citizen For Tweets Criticizing The Government – Techdirt
• Look who’s fallen foul of Europe’s data retention rules. France and Germany – The Register

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• St. Louis health specialists concerned about rise in STIs – KSDK
• BJC is offering free flu shots this fall. Here’s when, where you can get yours – KSDK
• The Pandemic May Be Over, but Covid-19 Isn’t – Gizmodo
• STD epidemic in US is "out of control," say public health experts – Boing Boing
• America’s Sexually Transmitted Disease Problem Is ‘Out of Control’ – Gizmodo

Police 🚓

• Sam Page to announce construction of two new police precincts – FOX 2
• Pine Lawn catches up on payments, St. Louis County prepared to police – stltoday.com
• St. Louis-area police departments struggle with staffing shortages – KSDK
• Hundreds More Cases Linked To Dirty NYPD Cops Dismissed By Prosecutors – Techdirt
• LA County Sheriff Still Targeting Critics, Searches Home Of Civilian Oversight Board – Techdirt
• Woman Hit by Freight Train While Detained in Cop Car Parked on the Tracks – VICE US
• Colorado police bind woman on railroad tracks, let her get hit by a locomotive – Boing Boing

DotGov 🏛

• An ‘unprecedented flood’ of book bans engulfs U.S. school districts, PEN report says – Missouri Independent

CityGov 🏛

• 3 finalists in contention for St. Louis personnel director job – stltoday.com
• Advocates call for transparency, better conditions after 6 St. Louis jail deaths – stltoday.com
• Request for Proposal to Operate a Cafeteria and/or Cart at St. Louis City Hall – City of St. Louis
• RFP for Hearing Officers – City of St. Louis
• Pay a traffic ticket recently? Your money may not have made it to the right place – FOX 2
• St. Louis aims to weaken alderman’s lawsuit claiming wrongful tear-gassing – stltoday.com
• Notice Regarding City Water Issue – City of St. Louis – News
• New claims of demands, bribes unsealed against St. Louis alderman. ‘He plays me. That’s bad business.’ – stltoday.com
• Warrant pins new schemes on former St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad – St. Louis Business Journal

LocalGov 🏛

• After taste and smell complaints, St. Charles says water is still safe to drink – KSDK
• U. City ‘Joker’ Barred From Wearing Costumes, Makeup in Public – RFT

MoGov 🏛

• Gov. Parson dampens hope for Missouri sports betting measure – KSDK
• Governor puts brakes on latest sports betting push in Missouri – stltoday.com
• Missouri AG says new abuse allegations at Agape school are ‘immediate’ safety concern – stltoday.com
• ‘This job is impossible’: High turnover, low morale plague Missouri child welfare agency – Missouri Independent
• Missouri Democrats decline to endorse marijuana ballot measure – stltoday.com
• Missouri Senate committee negotiates income tax cut – FOX 2
• Missouri Senate committee negotiates income tax cut during special session – KSDK
• Income tax cut plan heads to Missouri Senate floor for debate – Missouri Independent
• Missouri Senate moves on compromise plan to cut income taxes – FOX 2
• Scaled-back income tax cut wins initial approval in Missouri Senate – Missouri Independent
• Missouri Senate moves ahead with compromise plan to cut income taxes – KSDK
• Tax cut on track in Missouri Senate – stltoday.com
• Missouri AG’s lawsuit against St. Louis abortion access fund sent back to state court – Missouri Independent
• Missouri lawmaker files bill to repeal abortion ban – FOX 2
• Democrat files bill to repeal Missouri abortion ban – stltoday.com
• Missouri Supreme Court weighs whether counties can regulate CAFOs – Missouri Independent
• GOP leaders target ‘woke’ investments through state pension funds – Missouri Independent

FedGov 🏛

• ‘Dozens’ Of Broadband Providers Ripped Off Low Income COVID Relief Program, FCC Says – Techdirt
• The Pentagon Is Reportedly Auditing the U.S. Military’s Own Pro-America Social Media Psyop – Gizmodo
• Musk’s Starlink Says It’s ‘Unfair’ The FCC Pulled $886 Million In Subsidies Musk Claims He Doesn’t Want Anyway – Techdirt
• Musk says Starlink will ask for exemption to US sanctions on Iran – The Register
• Elon Musk Wants to Sell Satellite Internet to Iran If He Can Get an Exemption From Sanctions – Gizmodo

Jobs 📄

• Executive Assistant I – Jobs
• Neighborhood Improvement Specialist – Jobs
• Career Central: Looking for a job? These big-name employers are hiring – KSDK

History 🦕

• Maplewood History: The Fischer Bros. Meat Market – 40 South News
• Str. General Ashburn – The Waterways Journal
• St. Louis’s Architectural “Atrocity” – History Happens Here

Sustainability ♻️

• Research seeks ways to grow solar and crops together in the skeptical Corn Belt – stltoday.com
• St. Louis-led partnership wins $80M federal grant to develop ‘climate-smart’ agriculture production – St. Louis Regional Freightway
• MIT tech could keep items cool without using any electricity – New Atlas

Infrastructure 🚽

• Amid a massive American clean energy shift, grid operators play catch-up – Missouri Independent
• Midwestern partnership backs hydrogen as clean energy source – FOX 2
• Gov. Pritzker Announces Formation Of Midwest Hydrogen Coalition – RiverBender
• California County Tells People to Shelter In Place Because of Tesla Battery Fire – VICE US
• Hertz to purchase 175,000 General Motors EVs over the next five years – Engadget
• Massive Earthquake Hits Mexico for Third Time on Same Date – VICE US
• Watch Taiwan’s 660-Ton Skyscraper ‘Damper’ Swing During Magnitude-6.9 Earthquake – VICE US
• Watch the Tuned Mass Damper inside a Taipei skyscraper react to this weekend’s 6.9-magnitude earthquake – Boing Boing
• Schools are harnessing solar power in record numbers – Grist

Ecology 🦤

• Earth’s 20 Quadrillion Ants Outweigh All Wild Birds and Mammals, Combined – HowStuffWorks
• Scientists tally up the total number of ants on Earth – New Atlas
• Human Composting Now Legal in California – Gizmodo

WWwx 🌦

• In Oregon, farmers are revamping century-old irrigation canals to stem water loss – Grist
• Most Puerto Ricans Have No Electricity or Clean Water After Hurricane Fiona – Gizmodo
• Large Reservoirs Out West Could Dry Up in Just Three Years – Gizmodo

WWW99 🕸

• Uber Confirms Hacker Accessed Internal Tools, Bug Bounty Dashboard – SecurityWeek
• The Media Demanded That Airbnb Do More Background Checks; Now It’s Upset That Airbnb Is Banning People With Criminal Records – Techdirt
• A shadow library ban pits publishers against free information activists – Hacker News
• Judge Says Texas’ Bill to Stop Social Media From Curbing Hate Speech Will ‘Cultivate Ideas’ – Gizmodo
• DeepMind Says It Had Nothing to Do With Research Paper Saying AI Could End Humanity – VICE US
• Linux Foundation launches European division – The Register
• Document Foundation starts charging €8.99 for ‘free’ LibreOffice – The Register
• 2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer – Hacker News
• Rockstar Games confirms they were hacked by an outside party – Hacker News
• Twilio CEO announces 11% in ‘Anti-Racist’ focused layoffs – Hacker News
• Instacart teams with retailers to create grocery stores powered by its tech – Engadget
• VMware Warns of ‘ChromeLoader’ Delivering Ransomware, Destructive Malware – SecurityWeek
• DALL-E Users Can Now Upload and Edit Real Human Faces. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? – Gizmodo

Twitter 🐦

• Twitter Reacts to St. Louis Startup Shame – EQ
• The tyranny of the supertweeter – Hacker News

Space 🚀

• NASA Wants Ideas for a New Lunar Lander – Gizmodo
• NASA to live-stream SLS rocket fuel leak repair test – The Register
• This Reusable Space Freighter Would ‘Open the Door’ to European Space Exploration – Gizmodo
• Mars rover nears milestone in ambitious plan to return first rocks from another planet – Science Magazine
• The Space Force Now Has an Official Song – VICE US
• Internet Society recommends development of Solar-System-scale routing framework – The Register
• James Webb Space Telescope’s first pictures of Mars could reveal more about the atmosphere – Engadget
• One of Webb Telescope’s Tools Has a Glitch – Gizmodo
• ‘Guess Who’s Still on the Ground?’: NASA Administrator Taunts Boeing’s Failure to Launch Starliner – Gizmodo

DIY 🪓

• Melting Pot Bavarian Beer Cheese Fondue – feastmagazine.com
• Roasted Garlic and Parmesan Corn Pudding – feastmagazine.com
• Fresh Yeasted Pizza Dough – feastmagazine.com
• Lemon Spinach Ricotta Pan Pizza – feastmagazine.com
• Perfect Mashed Potatoes Recipe – VICE US
• Easy Collard Greens Recipe – VICE US
• The World’s Best Pancake Recipe – kottke.org
• This useful website helps you find recipies based on the content of your fridge – Boing Boing
• Reheat pizza like a pro with these tips from local chefs – feastmagazine.com
• This DIY strain wave gearbox is strong enough to pull a car – Arduino Blog
• A Clever Dishwasher Hack To Automatically Dry Wet Dishes At the End of the Cleaning Cycle – Laughing Squid
• Introductory-level educational COBOL materials with modern tooling – Hacker News

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Ask HN: Do you regret being a generalist? – Hacker News
• Want to Feel Old? the Emoticon Is 40 🙂 – Gizmodo
• Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated – Hacker News
• EU Open Web Search project kicked off – Hacker News
• Firefox 105 is here, and it’s faster and more memory-frugal – The Register
• Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird email client – Hacker News
• Forma Campers reshapes the teardrop trailer into spacious origami – New Atlas
• WB Yeats and Aleister Crowley once battled each other in an epic real-life magical duel – Boing Boing
• Narcissism of the Apocalypse – Michael Shellenberger – Hacker News
• Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann in the second move – Hacker News
• Bitcoin falls below $19,000 – Hacker News
• US Cultural Zones distinguished by counties – Maps on the Web
• Fork of the popular “I don’t care about cookies” extension – Hacker News
• gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client – Hacker News
• Meet the world’s greatest stone skipper – Boing Boing
• Now’s your chance, AI, to do good. Protect endangered eagles from wind turbines – The Register
• ‘Last man standing in the floppy disk business’ reckons his company has 4 years left – The Register

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ITR: Space Force Song JW Tue, 09/20/2022 - 23:01

First in the series of "is this real".

@TomTomorrow
That Tom Tomorrow guy   Sep 20, 2022 at 10:22 AM   you could tell me this was from a Galaxy Quest sequel I didn't know about and I would totally believe you Dave Brown
@dave_brown24 The moment you've all been waiting for: The Space Force has unveiled its official song Sep 20, 2022 at 8:32 AM   Tags Space Force

Dinosaur Jr. is Baaack. JW Tue, 09/20/2022 - 10:19

a ray of sunshine.

Turns out they're here on Friday, too...

Update: I missed the show, but Carrie got some great pics.

URL normanrecords.com Tags Dinosaur Jr. Captains Blog

Update Update JW Sun, 09/18/2022 - 21:01

OK, back on the Drupal to check out a couple of modules and theme.

I saw a post on HNN about the W3 framework, so that's what the theme is right now.
Pardon the mess. ;)

I also installed schema blueprint, which could be a game changer for stlouist.com.
I've tried to stick with using schema.org schemas, but when you're doing them all by hand...
 

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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:260-AM JW Sat, 09/17/2022 - 09:02 STL: Saturday, September 17, 2022 Events 📆

• The Best Concerts in St. Louis This Week: September 15 to 21 – RFT
• Great Forest Park Balloon Race festivities start today – FOX 2
• Grant’s Farm Oktoberfest kicks off today – FOX 2
• Fall festivals? We’ve got a list for that. – KSDK

BuySTL 👜

• 4 companies ink deals as demand grows for St. Louis-area warehouses – stltoday.com
• St. Louis-area store among 56 Bed Bath & Beyond locations slated to close – KSDK

Restaurants 🍲

• St. Louis Standards: Robust Bistro and Wine Bar Is the Toast of St. Louis – RFT
• ‘We’ll always be a roast beef place’: Inside Lion’s Choice’s counterintuitive new menu item – KSDK
• A signature move – stlamerican.com

STLfood ⚜️

• Plant Craft Kitchen’s Rachel Carr dishes on healthy recipes, restaurants, and more – St. Louis Magazine
• Mushrooms Naturally is growing high-quality mushrooms for St. Louis chefs and home cooks – feastmagazine.com
• Good morning donut lovers! Here’s the latest episode of the STL Donut Tour highlighting Glazed Cinnamon Twists! – r/StLouis

Neighborhoods 🏡

• Hundreds of St. Louis-area homeowners in limbo months after flood: Rebuild? Or not? – stltoday.com
• A New Mural Walk Will Beautify Midtown St. Louis – RFT

STL100 💯

• Over 100 area immigrants to become U.S. citizens today – FOX 2
• XFL to Keep St Louis Battlehawks name – r/StLouis

STL99 😱

• Carjackers ‘bump-and-rob’ man on I-64 in Illinois – FOX 2
• St. Louis Botched the Ballon Glow – r/StLouis
• Car wash considered for development at deadly Chippewa and Landowne Intersection – r/StLouis
• Stores install barriers after robberies at gun shops, dispensaries – r/StLouis
• ‘Sweetie Pie’s’ star Tim Norman guilty on all charges in murder-for-hire trial – stltoday.com
• Death decending – r/StLouis

99MO 😱 WW99 😱

• Thousands of Migrants Are Arriving in El Paso. They Have Nowhere to Sleep. – VICE US

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• Appointments available for monkeypox vaccine clinic in St. Louis Saturday – KSDK
• Illinois drops COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated school, child care employees – FOX 2
• Illinois governor ends COVID-19 test mandate for unvaccinated school and day care workers – stltoday.com

Police 🚓

• Tonight’s Guns ‘n Hoses Red and Blue Gala supports BackStoppers – FOX 2
• FBI investigates swatting calls at several Missouri schools – FOX 2
• Swatting incidents reported at multiple Kansas, Missouri high schools – FOX 2
• Friends say man was in crisis before St. Louis police shot him. But mental health team didn’t respond. – stltoday.com
• Video of fatal St. Louis police shooting shows teen reached for black object he dropped – stltoday.com
• Police allow reporters to view security video of deadly police shooting of 16-year-old – KSDK
• St. Louis Police Show Surveillance Video of Officers Shooting Teen – RFT
• Ferguson Activist Darren Seals Was Surveilled by FBI, File Shows – RFT
• Cop Who Shot and Killed 911 Caller Christian Glass Is Still on Duty – VICE US
• Cops Want Everyone to Chill on Questions About Mass Killer’s Death in Custody: ‘This Is Not a TV Drama’ – VICE US
• Only Black Cop in Florida K-9 Unit Says Colleagues Used the N-Word All the Time – VICE US

DotGov 🏛

• ‘Goliath is wobbling’: Louisiana court strikes blow to Formosa’s giant plastics plant – Grist

CityGov 🏛

• Testing Procedures for the Job Classification of Police Lieutenant RFP – City of St. Louis

LocalGov 🏛

• St. Louis County Council considering $300,000 study on building new morgue to solve space problems – FOX 2
• Department of Labor awards $5.8 million grant to be a part of the Apprenticeship Building America program – St. Louis Regional Freightway

MoGov 🏛

• Missouri law loomed over Kansas City’s work to design a climate plan – Missouri Independent
• Missouri lawmaker introduces new sports gambling bill – FOX 2
• GOP candidate Schmitt a no-show at Senate debate in Missouri – FOX 2
• Three US Senate candidates face questions at forum. Schmitt skips event. – stltoday.com
• GOP candidate Eric Schmitt a no-show at Senate candidate forum in Missouri – KSDK
• Schmitt no-shows Missouri Senate debate, Valentine slams Chinese ownership of farmland – Missouri Independent

FedGov 🏛

• CISA orders agencies to patch vulnerability used in Stuxnet attacks – BleepingComputer
• New federal guidance aims to strengthen Indigenous land management – Grist
• 5th Circuit Rewrites A Century Of 1st Amendment Law To Argue Internet Companies Have No Right To Moderate – Techdirt
• Congresswoman Urges FTC to Investigate Newly Revealed Police Software Surveilling Americans’ Movements – Gizmodo
• Trump’s Cronies Are Getting Slammed With Subpoenas – VICE US
• Stand back, the FTC is here to police gig work – The Register
• U.S. Safety Agency Warns People to Stop Buying Male-to-Male Extension Cords on Amazon – Gizmodo
• CPSC warns consumers to stop using male-to-male extension cords sold on Amazon – Hacker News
• Exclusive: Big Tech Spent Over $30 Billion Acquiring Companies While Regulators Tried to Reel Them In – Gizmodo

Jobs 📄

• Volunteer Manager – APA Adoption Center

History 🦕 Sustainability ♻️

• ACBL To Operate Forthcoming Mv. Hydrogen One – The Waterways Journal
• Reasons to be cheerful: ‘GPU mining is dead less than 24 hours after the merge’ – Hacker News
• GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge – Hacker News

Infrastructure 🚽

• Water Tank Management System Used Worldwide Has Unpatched Security Hole – SecurityWeek
• The Effort to Build the 700-Mile Trans Ozark Trail – Terrain Magazine
• Downtown’s Merchants Bridge reopens following decade-long, $222M replacement project – KSDK

Ecology 🦤

• Man catches giant 90-pound catfish near St. Louis – FOX 2

WWwx 🌦

• Massachusetts’ Cranberry Harvest Is in Peril Due to Northeast Drought – Gizmodo
• Is climate change to blame for the Pakistan floods? Here’s what we know. – Grist
• Scientists Have Already Attributed Pakistan’s Extreme 2022 Monsoon to Climate Change – Gizmodo
• Pakistan Lost $30 Billion in Floods. Should Rich Polluting Countries Pay Up? – VICE US

WWW99 🕸

• Mudge’s Testimony Shows He Was Acting As An Activist, Not An Executive – Techdirt
• Biden Falsely Claims That Removing Section 230 And Forced Transparency Will Stop Hatred; He’s Dangerously Wrong – Techdirt
• California’s Age Appropriate Design Code Is Radical Anti-Internet Policy – Techdirt
• Adobe Really Wants To Help Netflix With Its Dumb Password Sharing Cash Grab – Techdirt
• Akamai Sees Europe’s Biggest DDoS Attack to Date – SecurityWeek
• Uber Investigating Data Breach After Hacker Claims Extensive Compromise – SecurityWeek
• Uber finds ‘no evidence’ that sensitive user data was stolen in hack – Engadget
• Uber Investigating Massive Security Breach by Alleged Teen Hacker – Gizmodo
• UHaul Data Breach – Hacker News
• LastPass was hacked, but it says no user data was compromised – Engadget
• Microsoft Teams has been storing authentication tokens in plaintext – Engadget
• Let Them Fight: Feud Breaks Out Between 8kun and Kiwi Farms Founders – Gizmodo
• QAnon Celebrity and 8kun Owner Jim Watkins Claims He Bought Kiwi Farms – VICE US
• Parler Enters the Cloud Service Business on an ‘Uncancelable’ Crusade – Gizmodo
• Social media app Parler buys cloud-services provider – Hacker News
• This Hacker Stole Data From 200M Americans. Now He’s Infiltrating Scam Gangs. – VICE US

Space 🚀

• What is in the sky right now? From Dogtown. – r/StLouis
• Congress Requests More Transparency Into Probe of Blue Origin Rocket Mishap – Gizmodo
• NASA’s DART Deploys Camera Probe Ahead of Asteroid Impact – Gizmodo
• NASA Has Found Ingredients for Life in ‘Every Target That We’ve Observed’ on Mars – VICE US
• Galileo Project now fully funded for expedition to study an interstellar meteor – Hacker News

DIY 🪓

• Elecrow CrowPi L: Chromebook Killer for Creatives? – Make
• YouTubers try to protect their catalytic converters – Boing Boing
• Figma Alternatives – Hacker News
• Email deliverability: Everything you need to know – Hacker News
• Open standards body for digital wallets announced – The Register

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years – Hacker News
• The DC Film Universe Is Resurrecting Keanu Reeves in a Constantine Sequel – Gizmodo
• Linux luminaries discuss efforts to bring Rust to the kernel – The Register
• Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive – Hacker News
• The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020) – Hacker News
• Cloudflare has replaced Nginx with in-house, Rust-written Pingora – Hacker News
• Foldscope: The Paper Microscope – Hacker News
• Airstream entry-level (ish) camper van swerves toward off-grid freedom – New Atlas

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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:254-AM JW Sun, 09/11/2022 - 13:44 STL: Sunday, September 11, 2022 Events 📆

• The Best Things To Do in St. Louis During the Week, September 8 to September 14 – RFT
• Haunted houses opening for the 2022 season near St. Louis – FOX 2
• Alton Halloween Parade Date For 2022 Confirmed Back To October 31 – RiverBender

BuySTL 👜

• St. Louis-based appliance parts distributor hires execs for new unit – St. Louis Business Journal
• St. Louis small business owner gets results after waiting for city lifeline – FOX 2
• Bluff City Outdoors Opens State-of-the-Art Archery Center – RiverBender
• Investment firm to Build-A-Bear board: Buy back stock or resign – stltoday.com
• Coffeestamp opens a second location at Washington University in St. Louis – feastmagazine.com
• Webster Groves coffee shop named among Yelp’s Top 100 in US – FOX 2
• Lion’s Choice launches new “Educational Bonus Program” for employees – FOX 2

Restaurants 🍲

• Blueberry Hill celebrates 50 years of business in Delmar Loop – FOX 2
• Delmar Loop landmark Blueberry Hill celebrates 50th anniversary – stltoday.com
• St. Louis Restaurant Openings and Closings: August 2022 – RFT
• Review: Salve Osteria Dazzles With Mediterranean-Inspired Dishes – RFT
• Winnie’s Wine Bar opens in Lafayette Square – St. Louis Magazine
• Father-and-son duo serves up brunch fare at Hatch’d STL in south St. Louis – feastmagazine.com
• Taco Buddha: Fusion at Its Best – Good Food St. Louis
• Tabitha Craig-Robinson and Tab’s Cafe In Alton Prepare For "A Dream Come True Moment" – RiverBender
• Landlords pursue restaurant Layla at Grove, Webster Groves locations – KSDK

STLfood ⚜️

• St. Louis Standards: LeGrand’s Market & Catering Has What the People Love – RFT
• Joe Luckey of Fordo’s Killer Pizza dishes on dough and creative pizza toppings – feastmagazine.com
• Frozen Imo’s Pizza coming to area grocery stores – FOX 2
• Imo’s will sell frozen pizzas at area grocery stores – stltoday.com
• Imo’s to offer frozen pizza in St. Louis retail stores and 13 other states – KSDK
• Food prices going up? Don’t blame the grocery stores, says expert – stltoday.com

Neighborhoods 🏡

• WPLNA MEETING on Tuesday 9/13/22 at 7:00pm – West Pine Laclede Neighborhood Association

STL100 💯

• For St. Louis Foxes, a Happy Ending Thanks to Wildlife Rescue Center – RFT
• St. Louis native premiered featured film in south county – FOX 2
• City Hope St. Louis helps to combat the rise in homelessness across region – FOX 2
• Awarding $10,000 To Artists: Alton Main Street/Jacoby Arts Center Announce Mural Grant Program – RiverBender
• Grab your kayak! Dardenne Blueway is expanding, linking parks in the St. Charles area – KSDK

STL99 😱

• Drivers in this city do not care about safety. This is only what happened today. – r/StLouis
• Recently arrested St. Louis, Missouri, dogfighter Brian Maclin told police he’s been fighting dogs for 30 years. – r/StLouis

99MO 😱

• Agape Boarding School should be closed. New Missouri AG filing says abuse is systemic – stltoday.com
• Hearing to determine if Missouri boarding school will close – stltoday.com
• Court order would close Agape Boarding School after years of abuse allegations – Missouri Independent

WW99 😱

• Christian Missionaries Are Turning to the Gospel of Bitcoin in Latin America – Gizmodo

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• Percent of adult population currently experiencing long COVID.by… – Maps on the Web
• Self-assembling molecules suffocate cancer cells within hours – New Atlas

Police 🚓

• A Private Policing Company in St. Louis Is Staffed With Top Police Department Officers – ProPublica
• St. Louis’ Private Police Forces Make Security a Luxury of the Rich – ProPublica
• St. Louis’ private police forces make security a luxury of the rich – stltoday.com
• A private policing company in St. Louis is staffed with top police department officers – stltoday.com
• St. Louis County officers to move to 12-hour shifts starting Christmas day to combat officer shortage – KSDK
• Yet Another Data Broker Found To Give Massive Amounts Of Location Info To Law Enforcement – Techdirt
• What Is ‘Fog Reveal,’ the Police App Tracking Your Phone? – Gizmodo

DotGov 🏛

• Congress.gov API – Hacker News
• Age of Democracy by country in uninterrupted number of years.by… – Maps on the Web

CityGov 🏛

• City of St. Louis ends Fiscal Year 2022 with $49 million surplus – City of St. Louis – News
• St. Louis says it’s recycling despite viewer video – FOX 2
• RFQs related to North St. Louis City Commercial Corridors Program – Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
• Lighthouse Point on the Mississippi River may add to the Zoo’s plans – FOX 2
• Decision to create entertainment destination in North City is in Port Authority’s hands – r/StLouis
• Developer sees ‘huge opportunity’ in North City riverfront plans – KSDK

LocalGov 🏛

• First charter school in St. Louis County opens in the Normandy district – stltoday.com

MoGov 🏛

• Jay Ashcroft clarifies position in high-profile U.S. Supreme Court election case – Missouri Independent
• MoDOT says safety training was ignored before fatal work zone crash – FOX 2
• Recreational pot petition will stay on Missouri ballot; judge rules – FOX 2
• Lawsuit on recreational pot in Missouri nears end – FOX 2
• Lawsuit on recreational pot in Missouri nears end – stltoday.com
• Lawsuit on Missouri recreational pot ballot measure nears end – KSDK
• Judge tosses lawsuit targeting Missouri recreational marijuana question – stltoday.com
• Judge dismisses lawsuit that sought to block Missouri marijuana legalization from ballot – Missouri Independent
• Judge rules recreational marijuana stay on Missouri ballot – FOX 2
• Hearing on Missouri marijuana initiative scrutinizes unprecedented signature process – Missouri Independent

FedGov 🏛

• New disaster recovery center in south St. Louis opens to help flood victims – FOX 2
• FEMA to open in St. Louis in response to flooding – FOX 2
• FEMA adds south St. Louis disaster recovery center – stltoday.com
• St. Louis-area flood victims can apply for FEMA relief funds until Oct. 7 – stltoday.com
• St. Louis Residents Can Apply for FEMA Assistance through Oct. 7 – RFT
• The Navy Is Withholding Court Records in a High-Profile Ship Fire Case – ProPublica
• GOP balks at White House request for billions for public health, natural disasters, Ukraine – Missouri Independent
• Bill codifying same-sex marriage nears critical vote in U.S. Senate – Missouri Independent
• The TSA Is Hot Garbage. And We Will Never Be Rid Of It. – Techdirt
• Trump special master ruling ‘troubling,’ legal experts say – FOX 2
• Trump may have more classified documents in his possession, say prosecutors – Boing Boing
• Steve Bannon’s Criminal Nightmare Just Got Very Real – VICE US
• US seeks standards dominance, lets Huawei access previously forbidden crypto tech – The Register

Jobs 📄

• Intake Specialist – APA Adoption Center

History 🦕

• Maplewood house historically known as Woodside is for sale – 40 South News
• The ‘Piasa Bird’ still sits on Mississippi bluffs after centuries – FOX 2
• Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II dies at 96 – FOX 2

Sustainability ♻️

• What Will California’s 2035 Ban of Internal Combustion Engine Cars Mean to the St. Louis Region, If Anything? – UrbanReview | ST LOUIS
• Companies are buying large numbers of carbon offsets that don’t cut emissions – Hacker News
• ‘We don’t have enough’ lithium globally to meet EV targets, mining CEO says – Hacker News
• How does the land use of different electricity sources compare? – Hacker News
• South Korea takes massive step toward sustainable nuclear fusion reactions – The Register

Infrastructure 🚽

• St. Peters calls on MoDOT and Army Corps to look for flooding solution – FOX 2
• States wasting billions on new highways, rather than fixing old ones: report – FOX 2
• Ameren adding solar generation sites in north St. Louis, Jefferson County – FOX 2
• Where you can’t drink tap water in the US. – Maps on the Web

Ecology 🦤

• Oil Companies Want You to Buy Their New ‘Green’ Image – Gizmodo

WWwx 🌦

• The world may have already crossed 5 climate tipping points – Grist
• Major Climate ‘Tipping Points’ Are Just on the Horizon – Gizmodo
• Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points – Hacker News
• There Are Storms Off Both U.S. Coasts After an Unusually Quiet Summer – Gizmodo

WWW99 🕸

• Politico’s New Owner Heads To The Fainting Couch Over TikTok – Techdirt
• Patreon Cuts Its Security Team – Gizmodo
• Tim Cook’s response to improving Android texting compatibility: ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ – Engadget
• Tim Cook Shoots Down Idea of iOS Adopting RCS Messages: ‘Buy Your Mom an iPhone’ – MacRumors
• Elon Musk claims SpaceX was in talks with Apple on iPhone 14 satellite services – The Register
• Apple’s Emergency SOS link puts it into the satellite fight with SpaceX and more – Hacker News
• Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team – Hacker News
• Meta disbands team responsible for ensuring Facebook products are ethical – Hacker News
• Meta dissolves team responsible for discovering ‘potential harms to society’ – Hacker News
• Patreon laid off their security team – Hacker News
• Twitter Experiences Intermittent Outages Following Death of Queen Elizabeth II – VICE US
• Elon Musk, Once Again, Fails To Get His Big Asks From Delaware Chancery Court – Techdirt

Space 🚀

• SpaceX Starship Prototype Belches Superhot Debris, Causes Literal Dumpster Fire – Gizmodo
• NASA Needs Space Force’s Blessing for Late September Launch of Megarocket – Gizmodo
• The Pentagon Is Paying Private Rocket Firms for Ultra-Fast Cargo Deliveries Around the Globe – Gizmodo
• The FCC Wants a 5-Year Deadline to Deorbit Defunct Satellites – Gizmodo
• Scientists Find Bizarre ‘Water-Rich’ Worlds Around Red Dwarf Stars – VICE US
• Scientists found genetic mutations in every astronaut blood sample they studied – Hacker News

DIY 🪓

• Lionel semi flat black – The Silicon Underground
• Short is good – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
• Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor? – Hacker News
• Movim – A decentralized social platform built on XMPP – Hacker News
• Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions – Hacker News

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• If You Hate PHP – Hacker News
• Stop measuring community engagement – Hacker News
• The self-fulfilling prophecy of React – Hacker News
• Merriam-Webster just yeeted a bunch of internet slang into the dictionary – Engadget
• When Every Ketchup but One Went Extinct – Hacker News
• The North Korean Military Performs ‘Killing in the Name’ by Rage Against The Machine Through Clever Editing – Laughing Squid
• Rivian and Mercedes team up to accelerate production of electric vans – New Atlas
• VW adventure RV rides like panel van, lives like off-grid micro-lodge – New Atlas
• Startup fuses camper van & UTV into new breed of off-road electro RV – New Atlas
• Jeep announces plans to bring four new EV models to market by 2025 – Engadget
• Rivian and Mercedes are teaming up to build electric vans more quickly – Engadget
• Why UML “Really” Died – Hacker News
• Motorola goes camera crazy with 200-megapixel Edge 30 Ultra smartphone – New Atlas

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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:251-AM JW Thu, 09/08/2022 - 08:24 STL: Thursday, September 8, 2022 Events 📆

• Look for the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in the Metro East this weekend – FOX 2
• A guide to navigating Music at the Intersection – St. Louis Magazine
• The Chase celebrates 100 years with old-school glitzy dinner – St. Louis Magazine
• More than a flea market, Vintage Market Days is a three-day shopping experience – St. Louis Magazine
• Bike MS’s 2022 Gateway Getaway Ride Takes Off Sept. 10-11 – RiverBender

BuySTL 👜

• Bye bye, Bread Co. | St. Louis-based café chain announces Panera rebrand for some locations – KSDK
• St. Louis Bread Co. sign replaced in O’Fallon, more could be changed – FOX 2
• UPDATED: Bread Co. Betrays Us, Changes Name to Panera in Some Metro St. Louis Locations – RFT
• Developer pitches 67-acre entertainment destination along Mississippi riverfront, with marina, water park and themed hotels – St. Louis Business Journal
• Former North Shore Golf site near Interstate 270 eyed for marina, hotels – stltoday.com
• Procter & Gamble plans $180 million investment in north St. Louis factory – stltoday.com
• Peabody Energy to stay in downtown St. Louis – stltoday.com
• What Medical Marijuana dispensary in St. Louis has the best prices? – r/StLouis

Restaurants 🍲

• Layla, a Beloved Grove Mainstay, Has Closed – RFT
• Chess-themed local diner opens smaller concept – KSDK
• The Piccadilly at Manhattan crafts a show-stopping seafood pot pie – feastmagazine.com
• What’s your best middle eastern restaraunt? – r/StLouis

STLfood ⚜️

• What’s fresh at St. Louis-area farmers markets this week – feastmagazine.com
• Volpi Foods celebrates its 120th anniversary – FOX 2

Neighborhoods 🏡

• Inside the North St. Louis Rec Center That Built Jayson Tatum – RFT

STL100 💯

• St. Louis City County Fair – r/StLouis

STL99 😱

• 5 hour long standoff between police and suspect turns fatal – FOX 2
• Catalytic converter thief sentenced to prison and $46,000 in restitution – FOX 2
• Denny’s worker shoots manager during tardiness meeting – FOX 2
• Man shot in south St. Louis after checking on car alarm – FOX 2
• Hanley Hills man accused of animal abuse has been dog fighting for 30 years, charges say – stltoday.com
• Does anyone actually like living in St. Louis? – r/StLouis

99MO 😱

• Elected officials, police chiefs on leaked Oath Keepers list – stltoday.com

WW99 😱

• By the end of 2022, China will have stashed away 65% of the world’s corn and 53% of its wheat, for fear of a food crisis. – The Morning News

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• SSM health expert talks about new COVID-19 booster – FOX 2
• Scientists discovered two antibodies that beat all known COVID-19 strains with more than 90% efficacy – Boing Boing

DotGov 🏛

• Virginia Court Rejects Prior Restraint, Says Old Law Used In Attempt To Ban Books Is Unconstitutional – Techdirt

CityGov 🏛

• St. Louis leaders say top spending categories for $500 stimulus were food, utilities and gas – KSDK
• Mayor Tishaura O. Jones, Treasurer Adam Layne, Joined by DCA Participants, Highlight Program’s Positive Impact on More than 9,000 St. Louis Working Families – City of St. Louis – News
• RFB Janitorial Supplies – City of St. Louis
• RFB Paper, Bond, Data Processing – City of St. Louis

LocalGov 🏛

• St. Louis County Executive announces $5.4 million Airport Road improvement project Wednesday – KSDK
• $5.4 million invested for Airport Road upgrades in north St. Louis County – FOX 2

MoGov 🏛

• Missouri Senate hopefuls spar over debates, with press association forum set for next week – Missouri Independent
• Missouri secretary of state throws support behind controversial election theory – stltoday.com
• Missouri Secretary of State Supports Controversial Election Theory – RFT
• Democrats mine Missouri attorney general’s office for information on Hawley – stltoday.com

FedGov 🏛

• ATF offers reward after group steals 50 guns from local stores – stltoday.com
• Taking CHIPS Act cash? You’re banned from planting advanced fabs on Chinese soil – The Register
• Steve Bannon Says Authorities ‘Will Have to Kill Me,’ But He’s About to Turn Himself In – VICE US
• WaPo: Documents about foreign nation’s nuclear defenses among those seized from Donald Trump’s Florida compound – Boing Boing
• DEA Continues To Be The QAnon Of Drug Enforcement, Pretends Colorful Fentanyl Is Dealers Trying To Kill Children – Techdirt

Sustainability ♻️

• Talking trash: We don’t have to treat our farms like landfills – Missouri Independent
• Carbon capture has a long history. Of failure. – Global Energy
• What’s the true cost of an induction stove? – Grist
• Scientists pull hydrogen from thin air in promising clean energy move – The Register
• Hydrogen battery startup says it has $700M order backlog – Hacker News

Infrastructure 🚽

• America’s electric utilities spent decades spreading climate misinformation – Grist

Ecology 🦤

• Bugged by bugs: Insects swarming in late Summer wet and warmth – FOX 2
• You’ve Been Thinking of Australian Mammals All Wrong – Gizmodo

WWW99 🕸

• Ukraine dismantles more bot farms spreading Russian disinformation – BleepingComputer
• Nextdoor is trying to prevent neighbors from arguing about the midterms – Engadget
• Facebook engineers: we have no idea where we keep all your personal data – Hacker News
• Can We Save A Truly Global Internet? – Techdirt
• Reddit Is Changing the Way You Navigate Your Feeds – Gizmodo
• Google’s CEO Continues Hinting at Company Cuts – Gizmodo

Twitter 🐦

• Elon Musk can use whistleblower claims to try to get out of Twitter deal, judge rules – Engadget
• Elon Musk Denied Trial Delay in Delaware Court – Gizmodo
• Twitter is making Birdwatch, its crowd-sourced fact checks, much more prominent – Engadget
• Twitter will let you edit your tweets up to five times in 30 minutes – Engadget

Space 🚀

• SpaceX Rival Loses Hundreds of Millions Over Cancelled Russian Launches – Gizmodo
• NASA Opts to Fix Megarocket Hydrogen Leak at the Launch Pad – Gizmodo

DIY 🪓

• A YouTuber built a tool that beat Snap-On – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
• What raising the grain means – The Silicon Underground
• OVHcloud opens up Bring Your Own IP service for IPv4 failover – The Register
• Here’s how to write the alphabet in Egyptian hieroglyphs – Boing Boing

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Corn Kid named South Dakota’s cornbassador – Boing Boing
• Apple debuts iPhone 14, Watch 8, other sparkly things – The Register
• Toilet Paper Company Sues Rival for Selling Very Long Roll – VICE US
• The Chess World Is Absolutely Losing It Over Cheating Allegations After Massive Upset – VICE US
• A look at how the German propaganda machine spun D-Day – Boing Boing
• Further Thoughts On Cloudflare And Infrastructure Moderation – Techdirt
• Examining Black flight: why Black families have been absconding from cities for decades. – The Morning News

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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:250-AM JW Wed, 09/07/2022 - 11:01 STL: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 Events 📆

• 8 places to go apple picking near St. Louis – St. Louis Magazine
• 8 things to do this fall in the St. Louis area – KSDK
• What to expect from this year’s Saint Louis Art Fair – St. Louis Magazine

Restaurants 🍲

• Felix’s Pizza Pub – feastmagazine.com

STLfood ⚜️

• Best fries in STL bracket. Vote now on r/STLFood – r/StLouis

STL100 💯

• St. Louis named best city for new college graduates – FOX 2

STL99 😱

• Bicyclist killed in hit-and-run crash near Tower Grove Park in south St. Louis – KSDK
• Man on bike struck and killed in South Grand – FOX 2
• Bicyclist dead after hit-and-run near Tower Grove Park – stltoday.com
• Bicyclist’s Hit-And-Run Death on South Grand Part of Deadly Trend – RFT
• This is an outrage – r/StLouis

99MO 😱

• Missouri substantiated 10 claims of physical abuse at Agape in last four months – Missouri Independent

Pox Populi™ 🦠

• New COVID-19 vaccine boosters available soon – FOX 2

Police 🚓

• North county police release photos, video in dog fighting case – KSDK
• Man charged after police find alleged dog-fighting ring in north St. Louis County raid – KSDK
• ‘Your horror is over’ – Officer reacts to dog fighting bust – FOX 2
• Your Law Enforcement Dollars At Work: Deputies Drive 500 Miles To Seize A Young Girl’s Pet Goat – Techdirt

DotGov 🏛

• A New Mexico county commissioner has been removed from office over his participation in the January 6th insurrection – Boing Boing

CityGov 🏛

• City of St. Louis Department of Health Announces New Health Commissioner – City of St. Louis – News
• St. Louis health department names new second-in-command – stltoday.com
• City settlement with Ely Walker condo board requires security on site – stltoday.com
• Concessionaire and Operator of the Boathouse in Forest Park Request for Proposal – City of St. Louis
• Trash Pump – City of St. Louis
• Lighting Wire – City of St. Louis
• St. Louis trash piles up during driver shortage – FOX 2

LocalGov 🏛

• Jennings residents oppose plan to build new $14M city hall – FOX 2

MoGov 🏛

• Missouri secretary of state throws support behind controversial election theory – Missouri Independent
• Missouri Lawmakers hear testimony on upcoming ballot question to legalize marijuana – FOX 2
• Hartmann: New ‘Book Ban’ Is Legislative Porn for Missouri – RFT

FedGov 🏛

• In Washington, agricultural policymakers circulate among Farm Bureau, USDA and industry – Missouri Independent
• Biden administration reveals details of its $50 billion chip investment plan – Engadget
• Man Behind US Navy’s Largest Corruption Case Hires a U-Haul, Cuts Ankle Tag, and Flees – VICE US
• New Book Says NSA Pressured GCHQ To Shut Down Publication Of Snowden Leaks By UK Journalists – Techdirt

Sustainability ♻️

• ‘Make the clean stuff cheaper’: Did the IRA kill the carbon tax? – Grist

Infrastructure 🚽

• Electric vehicle infrastructure grows in the Bi-State – FOX 2
• Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year – Hacker News

Ecology 🦤

• New Research Crucial For Dragonfly And Damselfly Populations – RiverBender
• Study: Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’ could retreat faster than expected – Grist
• Identify and learn about bugs on BugGuide.net – Boing Boing
• Scientists Reveal How Tardigrades Can Survive Decades Without Water – VICE US
• The Oilfield That Made the Ocean Burn Last Year Is Now Spewing Methane – Gizmodo

WWwx 🌦

• Parched California prepares for first-ever Colorado River cuts – Grist

WWW99 🕸

• The Morning After: Meta gets fined $402 million – Engadget
• Instagram Fined $400 Million in EU Over Teenager’s Data – Gizmodo
• Everyone’s Mad At Cloudflare; Is There Room For Principled Takes On Moderation? – Techdirt
• Trump’s Truth Social Deal Is Reportedly Falling Apart – Gizmodo

Twitter 🐦

• Twitter’s lawyers say Elon Musk wanted out of the deal because of ‘World War 3,’ not bots – Engadget

Space 🚀

• The Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Just Got Hit by a Gigantic Outburst From the Sun – Gizmodo

DIY 🪓

• How Faraday Cages Work – HowStuffWorks
• How to download an MP4 from YouTube, every time – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
• YouTuber’s Laser-Powered Lawn Mower Looks Very Cool, Very Dangerous – Gizmodo

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Signal makes Google strike organizer Meredith Walker its first president – Engadget
• Signal Has a New President and She Wants You to Pay – Gizmodo
• Monocraft: A programming font based on the typeface used in Minecraft – Hacker News
• KeePass is the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager – Hacker News
• Slidge – XMPP bridges – Hacker News
• The path to meaning is paved with responsibility – David Heinemeier Hansson
• World’s most powerful electric boat torches speed record to hit 109 mph – New Atlas

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STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:249-AM JW Tue, 09/06/2022 - 05:39 STL: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 Events 📆

• Weekly Events Thread 9/5/21 – 9/11/22 – r/StLouis
• Paint Louis 2022 – r/StLouis
• Sinquefield Cup 2022 continues at World Chess Hall of Fame – FOX 2
• All the eyes of the chess world turn to the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis – KSDK
• Fall Park Clean-Up – Lindenwood Park
• 2022 LINEUP – Music At The Intersection – r/StLouis

Neighborhoods 🏡

• Quarterly Neighborhood Meeting – September 2022 – Lindenwood Park

STL99 😱

• MetroLink continues flood damage clean up – FOX 2

WW99 😱

• Keith Davis: He was protecting the oceans – then he disappeared – Hacker News
• Chilean voters resoundingly reject a new ‘ecological’ constitution – Science Magazine

LocalGov 🏛

• Free steering locks available to north St. Louis County residents – KSDK

Jobs 📄

• 10 Job Titles That Have Been Around for 2,000 Years – HowStuffWorks

Sustainability ♻️

• How sustainable are fake meats? – Hacker News

Infrastructure 🚽

• Cannabis legalization in US projected to cost big pharma billions – New Atlas

Ecology 🦤

• Conservationists celebrate milestone in effort to save Missouri’s endangered hellbenders – Missouri Independent
• Conservationists celebrate milestone in effort to save Missouri’s endangered hellbenders – FOX 2
• Killing invasive species is now a competitive sport – Hacker News
• Does a Wet Summer Mean a Brilliant Fall? – HowStuffWorks

WWwx 🌦

• Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier "hanging on by its fingernails" – New Atlas

WWW99 🕸

• TikTok hacked, over 2 bn user database records stolen: Security researchers – Hacker News
• TikTok denies security breach after hackers leak user data, source code – BleepingComputer
• TikTok denies security breach after hackers claim to have records of more than a billion users – Engadget

DIY 🪓

• Maker Spotlight: Rick Wilkinson – Make

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Toyota patents plans for EV with manual transmission and clutch – Hacker News
• Rivian’s "Camp Mode" auto-levels the vehicle for a good night’s rest – New Atlas
• Library of Database Schemas – Hacker News
• Is Employee Ownership a Good Business Model for Web Development Businesses? – noupe
• Watch a husky react to smelling durian – Boing Boing

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Update JW Mon, 08/08/2022 - 01:52

I've been "blogging" over at wp.jeffwiegand.com.

Long story short, I've switched to Wordpress for my personal blogging because it's cheaper and less time-consuming.

URL wp.jeffwiegand.com

Top Thai Restaurants ✅ JW Sun, 07/31/2022 - 23:30

• Sen Thai
• Change Mai
• Zen Thai
• King and I*
• Thai House in Columbia, IL.
• Thai Kitchen in Florissant
• Pearl Cafe in Florissant
• Pad Thai on Tesson
• Manee Thai in Manchester
• Simply Thai near the Hazelwood Post Office
• Pad Thai in Lamplighter Square.
• Chao Baan in the Grove
• Fork & Stix
• Thai 202
• Thai Nivas
• Thai Table in Maplewood.
• Thai Country Cafe
• Rice Thai Bistro
• Sweetie Cup Thai
• Thai Rama in Crystal City.
• Thai Asian in Butler Hill
• Blue Elephant
• Addies Thai House in West Co

*King and I getting some bad reviews recently…

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Visualized: The Top 25 U.S. Newspapers by Daily Circulation JW Sun, 07/31/2022 - 15:58

Visualized: The Top 25 U.S. Newspapers by Daily Circulation:

graphic (they said it was free to use) courtesy of Visual Capitalist. They lost me here, but I’ve already converted it to a PNG and they said all I had to do was attribute them.

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