Skip to contentSTL: Friday, September 30, 2022
Events 📆
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 🍲
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™ 🦠
DotGov 🏛
- Illinois prosecutors, governor feud over Safe-T Act – FOX 2
CityGov 🏛
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 📄
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
