STL: Friday, September 16, 2022
Events 📆
- The Best Things To Do in St. Louis During the Weekend, September 16 to September 18 – RFT
- The Best Things To Do in St. Louis During the Week, September 15 to September 21 – RFT
- Enjoy Illinois 300 Race returns to St. Louis next summer – FOX 2
- NASCAR set to return to St. Louis region – KSDK
- Why City SC’s match Sunday opening Centene Stadium has been relocated – KSDK
- St. Louis soccer stadium is on hold due to damage from a city project – FOX 2
BuySTL 👜
- Aldi relocates Crestwood store – stltoday.com
Restaurants 🍲
- Sugarfire Celebrates 10 Years With Specials, Giveaways – RFT
- Vicia’s Taqueria Morita Serves Baja-Style Edible Bliss – RFT
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Hill 2000 Neighborhood Board Minutes Sept 10, 2022 – The Hill Saint Louis
STL100 💯
- St. Louis City SC shows off its new training facility – KSDK
- Introducing the First Ever APA Lifetime Advocate Award – APA Adoption Center
STL99 😱
- Tower Grove Boil Order? – r/StLouis
- is anyone else’s water messed up? – r/StLouis
- Man shot inside Soulard bar overnight – KSDK
- Man shot in Soulard early Thursday morning – FOX 2
- Man critically injured after shooting in Soulard bar – r/StLouis
- Man critically hurt in shooting at Soulard bar – stltoday.com
- Soulard Alderman, business owner say bar shooting is ‘isolated incident’ – KSDK
- Marijuana dispensaries damaged overnight in attempted robberies – KSDK
- Archdiocese of St. Louis to hold listening sessions on ‘All Things New’ plan – KSDK
- St. Louis Catholic Church wants to hear feedback on upcoming changes – FOX 2
- Jury pushes for day 3 of deliberations in Tim Norman murder-for-hire trial – FOX 2
- Jury deliberation in trial of ‘Sweetie Pie’s’ star Tim Norman goes into third day – stltoday.com
- Jury in ‘Sweetie Pie’s’ Murder Trial in 13th Hour of Deliberations – RFT
99MO 😱
- Small earthquake hits Missouri bootheel – FOX 2
WW99 😱
- NHS data platform procurement delayed for a second time – The Register
Police 🚓
- I-Team: Former officer shares experience working undercover as dogfighter in Missouri, Illinois – KSDK
- Pine Lawn may lose police service in 26 days – FOX 2
- North County police co-op says department is dropping Pine Lawn over late payments – KSDK
- Police respond to prank call at Roosevelt High School – FOX 2
- Police receive false call of a shooting at Roosevelt High School – stltoday.com
DotGov 🏛
- Gavin Newsom Fucks Over The Open Internet, Signs Disastrously Stupid Age Appropriate Design Code – Techdirt
- ‘A real slap in the face’: State retiree health insurance plan finalized – FOX 2
- Mexico Just Arrested an Army General in Connection With the Murder and Disappearance of 43 Students – VICE US
- Ron DeSantis Sent Planes Full of Confused Migrant Families to Martha’s Vineyard – VICE US
CityGov 🏛
- St. Louis releases payroll records after months of delays – stltoday.com
- Request to hire even more consultants raises eyebrows at St. Louis agency – stltoday.com
- SLDC Releases Roadmap to Economic Justice with $250M already earmarked – NextSTL – r/StLouis
LocalGov 🏛
- St. Louis County Employees Told To Keep It in Their Pants on County Property – RFT
- Voters, local election officials working to navigate Missouri’s new voting law – Missouri Independent
MoGov 🏛
- Tax cut plan elusive for Missouri lawmakers – stltoday.com
FedGov 🏛
- FEMA Opens New Disaster Resource Center in South City Ahead of October 8 Relief Application Deadline – City of St. Louis – News
- Nearly 2 months after historic flooding, Metro East residents still wait for federal help – KSDK
- U.S. Senate delays same-sex marriage vote until after midterm elections – Missouri Independent
- Surprise: Telecom Giants Are Exploiting State Corruption To Undeservingly Funnel A Disproportionate Chunk Of The Massive Broadband Infrastructure Stimulus To Themselves – Techdirt
- Even The Copyright Office Doesn’t Want What The JCPA Is Selling – Techdirt
- Border Agents Are Grabbing Data From Americans’ Phones Without Warrants and Storing It for 15 Years – Gizmodo
- Blake Masters Wants to Fire All Generals and Replace Them With Conservatives – VICE US
Jobs 📄
- Bridgeton event seeks to address looming construction labor shortage – FOX 2
History 🦕
- St. Louis, 1907 Bird’s Eye View Map – r/StLouis
Sustainability ♻️
- Structure-inflating construction tech could give 3D printing a run for its money – New Atlas
- "Brick toaster" aims to cut global CO2 emissions by 15% in 15 years – New Atlas
- Food security group, Linux Foundation working on crop data standard – The Register
- Earth is now our only shareholder – Hacker News
- Patagonia Billionaire Who Gave Up Company Skirts $700M Tax Hit – Hacker News
Infrastructure 🚽
- Merchants Bridge reopens after four-year $222M project – FOX 2
- Grand Reopening Celebration Marks Completion of New Merchants Bridge – St. Louis Regional Freightway
- Manchester Road in Brentwood to reopen next week after flooding delay – KSDK
- BREAKING NEWS: Rail companies, union negotiators reach tentative agreement – The Waterways Journal
- Tentative railway labor deal reached to avert strike, Biden says – FOX 2
- Freight Rail Workers Can Take Doctors Appointments Without Blowback Under Tentative Deal – Gizmodo
- 28 Freight Rail Workers Tell Us What They Want You to Know About Their Lives – VICE US
- Freight Rail Unions Reach Tentative Agreement That May Avoid Strike – VICE US
Ecology 🦤
- Wetland restoration helped reduce recent flood impacts in Metro East, mayor says – stltoday.com
- Chaos researchers can now predict perilous points of no return – Hacker News
WWwx 🌦
- Historic famine looms as drought grips East Africa – Grist
WWW99 🕸
- Adobe to Acquire Figma for $20 Billion – Daring Fireball
- Adobe acquires Figma – Hacker News
- Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B – Hacker News
- Adobe acquires collaborative design platform Figma for $20 billion – Engadget
- Facebook spied on private messages of Americans who questioned 2020 election – Hacker News
- Instagram’s Flopping TikTok Knockoff, Reels, Shows That Big Companies Can’t Just Copy Their Way To Success – Techdirt
- TechCrunch: ‘Google Cancels Half the Projects at Its Internal R&D Group Area 120’ – Daring Fireball
- Cloudflare Vows to Fight Global 1.1.1.1 DNS Blocking Orders – TorrentFreak
- Akamai stopped new record-breaking DDoS attack in Europe – BleepingComputer
- Tik Tok executive refuses to say it will stop sending U.S. user data to China – Boing Boing
- Zoom suffered a major outage that may have cancelled your video meetings – Engadget
- Hackers trojanize PuTTY SSH client to backdoor media company – BleepingComputer
- New malware bundle self-spreads through YouTube gaming videos – BleepingComputer
- Twilio CEO: Layoffs were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens – Hacker News
- Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business – Hacker News
- Ethereum completes the ‘merge’ that will make its crypto transactions greener – Engadget
- Merge shifts Ethereum to full proof-of-stake, price slumps – The Register
- 46% of ETH POS post merge is just two addresses – Hacker News
- Vitalik: Ethereum Merge Just Finalized – Hacker News
- “No politics” Coinbase rolls out feature to promote crypto-friendly politicians – Hacker News
Twitter 🐦
- SpaceX’s Starlink internet reaches Antarctica, touching all 7 continents – New Atlas
Space 🚀
- What to Expect from NASA’s DART Mission to Deflect an Asteroid – Gizmodo
- China can destroy US space assets, Space Force ops nominee warns – The Register
- Testing of Starlink internet under way in Antarctica – The Register
- Boffins spot baby planet forming around young star – and that’s rather cool – The Register
DIY 🪓
- BliKVM PCIe puts a computer in your computer – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
- How To Make Syncronized LED Disney Mouse Ears – Make
- 12 WordPress site settings that are critical to your SEO success – Search Engine Land
- Vegetarian Recipes for Cozy Days – NYT > Food
- Show HN: WunderBase – Serverless OSS database on top of SQLite, Firecracker – Hacker News
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- John Lydon alleges Sex Pistols bandmates are trying to profit from Queen Elizabeth’s death – 105.7 The Point
- Why Are Rich People So Obsessed With Proving US Cities Are Dystopian Hellholes? – VICE US
- McDonald’s CEO sounds the alarm over crime in Chicago – Hacker News