Skip to contentSTL: Saturday, September 17, 2022
Events 📆
- The Best Concerts in St. Louis This Week: September 15 to 21 – RFT
- Great Forest Park Balloon Race festivities start today – FOX 2
- Grant’s Farm Oktoberfest kicks off today – FOX 2
- Fall festivals? We’ve got a list for that. – KSDK
BuySTL 👜
- 4 companies ink deals as demand grows for St. Louis-area warehouses – stltoday.com
- St. Louis-area store among 56 Bed Bath & Beyond locations slated to close – KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
- St. Louis Standards: Robust Bistro and Wine Bar Is the Toast of St. Louis – RFT
- ‘We’ll always be a roast beef place’: Inside Lion’s Choice’s counterintuitive new menu item – KSDK
- A signature move – stlamerican.com
STLfood ⚜️
- Plant Craft Kitchen’s Rachel Carr dishes on healthy recipes, restaurants, and more – St. Louis Magazine
- Mushrooms Naturally is growing high-quality mushrooms for St. Louis chefs and home cooks – feastmagazine.com
- Good morning donut lovers! Here’s the latest episode of the STL Donut Tour highlighting Glazed Cinnamon Twists! – r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Hundreds of St. Louis-area homeowners in limbo months after flood: Rebuild? Or not? – stltoday.com
- A New Mural Walk Will Beautify Midtown St. Louis – RFT
STL100 💯
- Over 100 area immigrants to become U.S. citizens today – FOX 2
- XFL to Keep St Louis Battlehawks name – r/StLouis
STL99 😱
- Carjackers ‘bump-and-rob’ man on I-64 in Illinois – FOX 2
- St. Louis Botched the Ballon Glow – r/StLouis
- Car wash considered for development at deadly Chippewa and Landowne Intersection – r/StLouis
- Stores install barriers after robberies at gun shops, dispensaries – r/StLouis
- ‘Sweetie Pie’s’ star Tim Norman guilty on all charges in murder-for-hire trial – stltoday.com
- Death decending – r/StLouis
99MO 😱
WW99 😱
- Thousands of Migrants Are Arriving in El Paso. They Have Nowhere to Sleep. – VICE US
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- Appointments available for monkeypox vaccine clinic in St. Louis Saturday – KSDK
- Illinois drops COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated school, child care employees – FOX 2
- Illinois governor ends COVID-19 test mandate for unvaccinated school and day care workers – stltoday.com
Police 🚓
- Tonight’s Guns ‘n Hoses Red and Blue Gala supports BackStoppers – FOX 2
- FBI investigates swatting calls at several Missouri schools – FOX 2
- Swatting incidents reported at multiple Kansas, Missouri high schools – FOX 2
- Friends say man was in crisis before St. Louis police shot him. But mental health team didn’t respond. – stltoday.com
- Video of fatal St. Louis police shooting shows teen reached for black object he dropped – stltoday.com
- Police allow reporters to view security video of deadly police shooting of 16-year-old – KSDK
- St. Louis Police Show Surveillance Video of Officers Shooting Teen – RFT
- Ferguson Activist Darren Seals Was Surveilled by FBI, File Shows – RFT
- Cop Who Shot and Killed 911 Caller Christian Glass Is Still on Duty – VICE US
- Cops Want Everyone to Chill on Questions About Mass Killer’s Death in Custody: ‘This Is Not a TV Drama’ – VICE US
- Only Black Cop in Florida K-9 Unit Says Colleagues Used the N-Word All the Time – VICE US
DotGov 🏛
- ‘Goliath is wobbling’: Louisiana court strikes blow to Formosa’s giant plastics plant – Grist
CityGov 🏛
- Testing Procedures for the Job Classification of Police Lieutenant RFP – City of St. Louis
LocalGov 🏛
- St. Louis County Council considering $300,000 study on building new morgue to solve space problems – FOX 2
- Department of Labor awards $5.8 million grant to be a part of the Apprenticeship Building America program – St. Louis Regional Freightway
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri law loomed over Kansas City’s work to design a climate plan – Missouri Independent
- Missouri lawmaker introduces new sports gambling bill – FOX 2
- GOP candidate Schmitt a no-show at Senate debate in Missouri – FOX 2
- Three US Senate candidates face questions at forum. Schmitt skips event. – stltoday.com
- GOP candidate Eric Schmitt a no-show at Senate candidate forum in Missouri – KSDK
- Schmitt no-shows Missouri Senate debate, Valentine slams Chinese ownership of farmland – Missouri Independent
FedGov 🏛
- CISA orders agencies to patch vulnerability used in Stuxnet attacks – BleepingComputer
- New federal guidance aims to strengthen Indigenous land management – Grist
- 5th Circuit Rewrites A Century Of 1st Amendment Law To Argue Internet Companies Have No Right To Moderate – Techdirt
- Congresswoman Urges FTC to Investigate Newly Revealed Police Software Surveilling Americans’ Movements – Gizmodo
- Trump’s Cronies Are Getting Slammed With Subpoenas – VICE US
- Stand back, the FTC is here to police gig work – The Register
- U.S. Safety Agency Warns People to Stop Buying Male-to-Male Extension Cords on Amazon – Gizmodo
- CPSC warns consumers to stop using male-to-male extension cords sold on Amazon – Hacker News
- Exclusive: Big Tech Spent Over $30 Billion Acquiring Companies While Regulators Tried to Reel Them In – Gizmodo
Jobs 📄
History 🦕
Sustainability ♻️
- ACBL To Operate Forthcoming Mv. Hydrogen One – The Waterways Journal
- Reasons to be cheerful: ‘GPU mining is dead less than 24 hours after the merge’ – Hacker News
- GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge – Hacker News
Infrastructure 🚽
- Water Tank Management System Used Worldwide Has Unpatched Security Hole – SecurityWeek
- The Effort to Build the 700-Mile Trans Ozark Trail – Terrain Magazine
- Downtown’s Merchants Bridge reopens following decade-long, $222M replacement project – KSDK
Ecology 🦤
- Man catches giant 90-pound catfish near St. Louis – FOX 2
WWwx 🌦
- Massachusetts’ Cranberry Harvest Is in Peril Due to Northeast Drought – Gizmodo
- Is climate change to blame for the Pakistan floods? Here’s what we know. – Grist
- Scientists Have Already Attributed Pakistan’s Extreme 2022 Monsoon to Climate Change – Gizmodo
- Pakistan Lost $30 Billion in Floods. Should Rich Polluting Countries Pay Up? – VICE US
WWW99 🕸
- Mudge’s Testimony Shows He Was Acting As An Activist, Not An Executive – Techdirt
- Biden Falsely Claims That Removing Section 230 And Forced Transparency Will Stop Hatred; He’s Dangerously Wrong – Techdirt
- California’s Age Appropriate Design Code Is Radical Anti-Internet Policy – Techdirt
- Adobe Really Wants To Help Netflix With Its Dumb Password Sharing Cash Grab – Techdirt
- Akamai Sees Europe’s Biggest DDoS Attack to Date – SecurityWeek
- Uber Investigating Data Breach After Hacker Claims Extensive Compromise – SecurityWeek
- Uber finds ‘no evidence’ that sensitive user data was stolen in hack – Engadget
- Uber Investigating Massive Security Breach by Alleged Teen Hacker – Gizmodo
- UHaul Data Breach – Hacker News
- LastPass was hacked, but it says no user data was compromised – Engadget
- Microsoft Teams has been storing authentication tokens in plaintext – Engadget
- Let Them Fight: Feud Breaks Out Between 8kun and Kiwi Farms Founders – Gizmodo
- QAnon Celebrity and 8kun Owner Jim Watkins Claims He Bought Kiwi Farms – VICE US
- Parler Enters the Cloud Service Business on an ‘Uncancelable’ Crusade – Gizmodo
- Social media app Parler buys cloud-services provider – Hacker News
- This Hacker Stole Data From 200M Americans. Now He’s Infiltrating Scam Gangs. – VICE US
Space 🚀
- What is in the sky right now? From Dogtown. – r/StLouis
- Congress Requests More Transparency Into Probe of Blue Origin Rocket Mishap – Gizmodo
- NASA’s DART Deploys Camera Probe Ahead of Asteroid Impact – Gizmodo
- NASA Has Found Ingredients for Life in ‘Every Target That We’ve Observed’ on Mars – VICE US
- Galileo Project now fully funded for expedition to study an interstellar meteor – Hacker News
DIY 🪓
- Elecrow CrowPi L: Chromebook Killer for Creatives? – Make
- YouTubers try to protect their catalytic converters – Boing Boing
- Figma Alternatives – Hacker News
- Email deliverability: Everything you need to know – Hacker News
- Open standards body for digital wallets announced – The Register
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years – Hacker News
- The DC Film Universe Is Resurrecting Keanu Reeves in a Constantine Sequel – Gizmodo
- Linux luminaries discuss efforts to bring Rust to the kernel – The Register
- Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive – Hacker News
- The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020) – Hacker News
- Cloudflare has replaced Nginx with in-house, Rust-written Pingora – Hacker News
- Foldscope: The Paper Microscope – Hacker News
- Airstream entry-level (ish) camper van swerves toward off-grid freedom – New Atlas
