STLduJour(nal) ⏳ – MMXXII:291-AM

STL: Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Events 📆

• Diwali: What to know about the 5-day festival – KSDK
• Where to see fall foliage in the St. Louis area – KSDK

BuySTL 👜

• Tesla to open massive warehouse in Metro East – stltoday.com
• Luxury Sweets & Treats Makes the Confections of Your Dreams – RFT

Restaurants 🍲

• St. Louis CITY SC shows off local food options at Centene Stadium – St. Louis Magazine

STLfood ⚜️

• Chili Drive-Thru Events Coming Up at Resurrection Lutheran Church – RiverBender

Neighborhoods 🏡

• I’m Now More Optimistic (Less Pessimistic?) About The Next NGA West Campus – UrbanReview

STL100 💯

• Low Mississippi River levels has many walking to the Tower Rock – FOX 2

STL99 😱

• Radioactive waste found at Missouri elementary school – The Big 550 KTRS
• Parents demand action after report of radioactive contamination at Florissant school – stltoday.com
• An Elementary School Near a Nuclear Dump Site Is Teeming With Radioactivity – Gizmodo
• St. Louis-area teacher shortage means more online classes in school – stltoday.com
• St. Louis Catalytic Converter Thieves Charged with Conspiracy Against US – RFT
• 9 Bronze River Des Peres Greenway trail markers stolen – FOX 2
• Burglar on parole accused of more than a dozen new break-ins – FOX 2
• Central West End restaurant broken into overnight – FOX 2

99MO 😱

• Report: Missouri faces highest turnover, vacancy of nurses in history – FOX 2
• Proposal to close 10 schools in Kansas City, improve academics hinges on community support – Missouri Independent
• Drought Pattern Continues In Missouri Basin – The Waterways Journal
• Severe drought triggers assistance in nearly all of Kansas, half of Missouri – Missouri Independent

WW99 😱

• China’s economy must be worse than we thought – Kevin Drum
• The Morning After: SpaceX will keep paying for Ukraine’s access to Starlink – Engadget

Police 🚓

• Survey Says… More Than Half Of Households With LAPD Officers Support Dismantling The LAPD – Techdirt

DotGov 🏛

• Data Governance Webinar Notes – JW

CityGov 🏛

• St. Louis Mayor Vows to Create Reparations Commission – RFT
• Mayor Jones proposes safety improvements on Grand Boulevard – FOX 2
• City of St. Louis holds North Grand corridor meeting to talk traffic concerns – KSDK
• St. Louis mayor’s plan to make city streets safer – KSDK
• Notice of meeting for PSA committee for Mainframe Support Services – Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO

LocalGov 🏛

• Court fight over St. Charles Convention Center delays new projects – stltoday.com
• Abandoned properties are piling up in St. Louis County. Lawmaker says it’s time for a land bank. – stltoday.com
• University City threatens to take homeowner to court, saying she got weeds – FOX 2
• 5 license plate reading cameras installed in Brentwood to make community safer – KSDK

MoGov 🏛

• Jay Ashcroft, potential Missouri governor candidate, floats library book ban proposal – stltoday.com
• Cost of Missouri’s recent special session on taxes tops $164,000 – stltoday.com
• Pro-union ruling reversed by Missouri Supreme Court – The Labor Tribune
• Overdoses Rise in Missouri Prisons Despite Strict New Mail Policy – RFT

FedGov 🏛

• Flood aid deadline is almost here. FEMA has paid $100 million in St. Louis so far. – stltoday.com
• You Can Now Apply For Federal Student Loan Relief — Here’s How – RFT
• Student loan forgiveness application is now open: Here’s how to apply – FOX 2
• Federal Judge Says FBI Misled Magistrate When Seeking Safe Deposit Warrants, OKs Searches Anyway – Techdirt

Jobs 📄

• AmeriCorps St. Louis is looking for new team members – KSDK
• Microsoft reportedly lays off hundreds of employees – Engadget

History 🦕

• Paducah Citizens Were Levied For Loss Of Sam Orr – The Waterways Journal

Sustainability ♻️

• Low water disrupts industry along lower Mississippi River – FOX 2
• The West’s biggest source of renewable energy depends on water. Will it survive the drought? – Grist

Infrastructure 🚽

• ‘Water Batteries’ Could Power 135,000 Homes in San Diego – Gizmodo
• Giant, megawatt-scale wave energy generator to be tested in Scotland – New Atlas
• Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants – Hacker News
• Engineered duckweed could be a more sustainable source of biofuel – New Atlas

Ecology 🦤

• Cities want more trees. Drought is complicating their efforts. – Grist
• All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too – Grist
• Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped – Hacker News

WWW99 🕸

• TikTok is Introducing an Adults-Only Content Option – Gizmodo
• Mark Zuckerberg: WhatsApp Is ‘Far More Private and Secure’ Than iMessage – MacRumors
• Artist formerly known as Kanye reveals Parler trick: Buying the far-right haven – The Register
• Starlink, shot by both sides in Ukrainian fracas, lives to fight on – The Register
• Elon Musk Tweets Then Deletes Dragon Ball Z Meme With His Pal Kanye West – Gizmodo
• ‘Elon Musk’s X App for “Everything” Might Be a Non-Starter in the U.S.’ – Daring Fireball
• Kanye West is buying controversial ‘free speech’ app Parler – Engadget
• Kanye West, Recently Suspended by Twitter and Instagram Over Unhinged Antisemitic Posts, to Acquire Parler – Daring Fireball

Space 🚀

• Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school – The Register
• Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5B yrs – Hacker News

DIY 🪓

• Barilla’s Open Source Tool for Perfect Pasta – Hackaday
• Shoot an Email to Get a Shot – Hackaday
• Pure CSS Bezier Curve Motion Paths – CSS-Tricks
• Google: Leave Alt Text Empty For Decorative Images & So Does W3C – Search Engine Roundtable
• How to become a pirate archivist – Hacker News
• Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe – Hacker News

Captain’s Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Nothing Says over 40 Like Two Spaces After a Period – Hacker News
• Check Out 7 of the Most Beautiful Libraries in the World – HowStuffWorks
• Playdate Handheld Turned Typewriter – Hackaday
• Pluralistic: 17 Oct 2022 A giant grocery merger will send "inflation" through the roof – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• FeedLand screen shot – Scripting News
• NetNewsWire – Orange Crate Art
• Former FBI director said blockchain is easier to trace than paper money – Hacker News