Skip to contentSTL: Friday, September 2, 2022
Events 📆
- What to do in the Lou for Labor Day weekend – KSDK
- The Best Concerts in St. Louis This Week: September 1 to 7 – RFT
- The Best Things To Do in St. Louis During the Week, September 1 to September 7 – RFT
- The Best Things To Do in St. Louis During the Weekend, September 2 to September 4 – RFT
- Lend A Hand At The 16th Annual Great Mississippi River Clean-Up – RiverBender
- First official soccer match coming to Centene Stadium in mid-September – FOX 2
- New St. Louis soccer stadium hosts first match – FOX 2
Restaurants 🍲
- Five Aces Bar-B-Que serves true St. Louis-style barbecue in St. Louis’ Shaw neighborhood – feastmagazine.com
- Review: Midtown’s Latte Lounge Serves Thrilling Brunch Fare – RFT
STLfood ⚜️
- The best food and drink events in St. Louis this Labor Day weekend: Sept. 2-5 – feastmagazine.com
- The Riverfront Times’ 2022 Food Lover’s Guide – RFT
- THC-infused Red Hot Riplet brownies to come to dispensaries this month – KSDK
- Red Hot Riplets brand enters new territory with THC-infused brownies – FOX 2
- ALDI to open new south St. Louis County store next week – FOX 2
Neighborhoods 🏡
- City of St. Louis Completes Traffic Calming, Neighborhood Branding Project on the Hill – City of St. Louis – News
- St. Louis project gives crosswalks a new look, promotes safety around The Hill – FOX 2
- Meta is shutting down Facebook ‘Neighborhoods’ for local communities – Engadget
STL99 😱
- Moving Forward – A Series on Reducing Traffic Violence in St. Louis – Part 1: Redesigning Our City – NextSTL – r/StLouis
- Hyundai and Kia thefts hit insurance and appraisal industry – KSDK
- A prolific and controversial developer of city apartments expands to St. Louis County – KSDK
- Edwardsville police warning of utility service phone scam – KSDK
- Loop Trolley approved for 2-year grant – KSDK
99MO 😱
- Parents outrages over hateful remarks by Missouri school board member – FOX 2
Police 🚓
- Home surveillance used to identify St. Louis County shooting suspect – FOX 2
- Two officers hospitalized after chemical exposure in St. Louis – FOX 2
- Why bother with warrants when cops can buy location data for under $10k? – The Register
- Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused – Hacker News
- Why bother with warrants when cops can buy location data for under $10k? – Hacker News
- Here Is the Manual for the Mass Surveillance Tool Cops Use to Track Phones – VICE US
CityGov 🏛
- St. Louis police told City Justice Center is too crowded to take in new arrestees – KSDK
- Missouri Abortion Lawsuit Could Have National Consequences – RFT
- Abortion-rights groups alarmed by St. Louis moving AG lawsuit to federal court – Missouri Independent
LocalGov 🏛
- Two St. Louis County staffers will replace outgoing director of public health – stltoday.com
- Maryland Heights considers granting a permit for an indoor cannabis farm – stltoday.com
- Brentwood Board of Alderman approves additional money for new destination park – KSDK
MoGov 🏛
- Lawsuit seeking to knock marijuana legalization off Missouri ballot faces tight deadline – Missouri Independent
FedGov 🏛
- Biden delivers prime-time ‘Soul of the Nation’ speech – FOX 2
- Sounding the alarm on extremism, Biden says ‘MAGA Republicans’ pose threat to democracy – Missouri Independent
- US Government, Which Once Tried To Regulate Disinformation, Engaged In Targeted Disinformation Campaigns – Techdirt
- U.S. Bans Chipmakers From Sending AI Training Chips to China and Russia – Gizmodo
Jobs 📄
- These are the hardest roles for St. Louis employers to fill – KSDK
History 🦕
- VintageKSDK | Car bombs and shootings: When St. Louis crime families were at war – KSDK
- The opening of Union Station turned St. Louis into a national crossroads – stltoday.com
Sustainability ♻️
- Germany’s ultra-cheap train ticket saved 1.8M tons of CO2 – Hacker News
- Aluminum-gallium powder bubbles hydrogen out of dirty water – New Atlas
- Engineered yeast produces complex cancer drug, saving tons of flowers – New Atlas
- Zinc battery made with crab shells safely degrades and recycles – New Atlas
- Solix Sprayer agricultural robot autonomously seeks and destroys weeds – New Atlas
Infrastructure 🚽
- California Lawmakers Vote to Save State’s Last Nuclear Plant – Gizmodo
- Drilling setbacks, net-zero, and a nuclear lifeline. Here’s what just happened in California. – Grist
- Micron confirms first US memory fab on home soil in 20 years – The Register
Ecology 🦤
- Increasing the Health of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers – Terrain Magazine
- Court sends 2 Gulf oil leases back to the Department of the Interior – Grist
- Harm-free rat control in Phoenix, Arizona – Boing Boing
- 8 New Geckos Just Dropped – Gizmodo
WWwx 🌦
- Extent of Flooding across Pakistan based on Satellite… – Maps on the Web
- Another Heat Dome Is Roasting the West, Threatening California’s Grid – Gizmodo
WWW99 🕸
- GM’s Cruise revises self-driving software after San Francisco crash – The Register
- Merge requests and insecure GitHub workflows may lead to supply-chain attacks – The Register
- Hardcoded AWS Credentials in 1,800 Mobile Apps Highlight Supply Chain Issues – SecurityWeek
- Chrome Bug Allows Webpages to Replace Clipboard Contents – SecurityWeek
- Content Moderation Strikes Again: Google Won’t Approve Truth Social Android App Over Content Moderation Concerns – Techdirt
- Cloudflare Rejects Role as Internet or Piracy Police – TorrentFreak
- Cruise Recalled 80 Vehicles Following Software-Related Crash – Gizmodo
Twitter 🐦
- Twitter edit button coming later this month … for some – The Register
- Twitter still hasn’t addressed ‘egregious’ whistleblower claims – Engadget
- Elon Musk Tries, Tries Again To Come Up With A Better Excuse To Get Out Of Buying Twitter – Techdirt
- After 15 Years, Twitter Is Giving Its Paid Users an Edit Button – Gizmodo
Space 🚀
- How this Mars rover used its MOXIE to convert CO2 into precious oxygen – The Register
- Newly discovered exoplanet may be first covered in liquid water – Hacker News
- Engineers fixed Voyager space probe’s mysterious glitch but found another that’s even stranger – Boing Boing
- Europe’s New Robotic Arm Completes Its First Task Outside the ISS – Gizmodo
- SpaceX Signs Deal With NASA to Provide 5 More Crewed Trips to the ISS – Gizmodo
- SpaceX secures five more NASA astronaut missions as part of a $1.4 billion contract – Engadget
- NASA fixed the glitch that caused Voyager 1 to send back jumbled data – Engadget
DIY 🪓
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- 18-foot-long anaconda J-Lo dies at Saint Louis Zoo – KSDK
- St. Louis Zoo mourns loss of beloved snake J-Lo – FOX 2
- macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance – Hacker News
- Study debunks "stoner" myth that cannabis users are lazy & unmotivated – New Atlas
