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Missouri's state capital, the most forgettable in U.S.

2 years 5 months ago
JOPLIN, Mo. — If you had just 10 minutes to name all fifty state capitals, do you think you would get most of them correct? Which ones would you forget and which would you remember? The folks at BetMissouri.com also had those same questions, and thought it would be interesting to see which state capitals [...]
Dustin Lattimer

Please Explain Governor Mike Parson's Taylor Swift Tweet to Us

2 years 5 months ago
We know who Taylor Swift is, having not been under a rock the last two decades. We, of course, know all too well who Governor Mike Parson is. Yet somehow we have no idea what anything in this five-sentence tweet by Parson about Swift means.
Riverfront Times Staff

WATCH: Gov. Pritzker announces program to improve roadways in Illinois

2 years 5 months ago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) -- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced a multi-year program to improve roadways in Illinois at 9:30 a.m. Friday. The Fiscal Year 2024-29 Proposed Highway and Multimodal Improvement Program is expected to invest more than $40 billion into improving roads, bridges, bike and pedestrian accommodations, railways, airports, and waterways. “Over the next six [...]
Sean Lisitza

Copyright As Harassment: The DMCA Attack On IPFS Gateways

2 years 5 months ago
The Internet is amazing, but it’s not perfect. There are many aspects that are unsatisfactory – its protocols are inefficient, and it is far from resilient. The InterPlanetary File System, created in 2014, aims to address some of these deficiencies. On its main site it is described as: A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s […]
Mike Masnick