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Imagine this scenario: You've just ground through a whole day at the office, and you're dragging hard. But you still have to go to the grocery store for a few items and, Shoot, you've got to feed your family tonight, too. But instead of running through the store and then running home and cooking up something slapdash, imagine you could just pick up a full dinner, shop a little more leisurely and then be a hero by bringing home a hot meal.

Forty years ago today, Bruce Springsteen took fans on an unexpected detour down the sonic equivalent of a bleak, deserted rural highway with the release of his sixth album, Nebraska.…

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Of all the seemingly inconsequential decisions made as World War II was upon us, this was perhaps one of the deadliest of them all.

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If we can dethrone the reign of Big Finance and Big Tech, what new worlds can we imagine?

Tech entrepreneur Brandon Williams’s past clients include a company partly owned by the Chinese government. But he has earned Steve Bannon’s backing as a MAGA Republican.

Nina Totenberg’s new book is roasted by the unlikeliest publication imaginable.

Clever Real Estate hires three; Cromwell joins West Community CU; Signature Medical Group adds two physicians; CMT names new board members, officers

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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Eric Prenzel of St. Charles, MO joined the Real Rock Army today

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Drivers, start your engines. The biggest drag race of the year is coming to World Wide Technology Raceway from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2.  

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LGBTQIA+ communities have been contributing to St. Louis’s history for centuries. Now the Gateway to Pride virtual exhibit will begin to uncover the rarely-shared or

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A former MoDOT crew leader says she was just fired, so that the state could say it’s making safety changes after last year’s deadly work zone crash.

"The only frightening moment was when the hurricane passed right by our faces. It truly sounded like a freight train. I'm ready to move," said Craig Wolf.

Clayton's firefighters made a big surprise for one Meramec student Thursday, who got a ride home from school in a fire truck.

SEMA said there are 93 possible properties that could be considered for buyouts after historic flooding.

A massive fire erupted Thursday afternoon at a scrap metal company near Interstate 44 and 141 in Valley Park.

A showdown is brewing over the Safe-T Act in Illinois, a new law designed to free thousands from county jails at the start of the new year.

Downtown St. Louis will be packed with St. Louis Cardinals fans this weekend. Tributes to Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols will be part of the allure, drawing fans to see the playoff-bound Cardinals close out the regular season.