STL: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
BuySTL 👜
- St. Louis gives Topgolf in Midtown a building permit, investment revealed – KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
- Central West End home to one of ‘Top 100 Brunch Spots’ in US – FOX 2
- The RBar Burger at Ruth’s Chris takes a sandwich staple to new heights – St. Louis Magazine
- Sugarfire brings back ‘best sandwich in the world’ on Tuesday for one day only – FOX 2
- Grace Meat +Three’s Sarah Furnas takes a ‘servant leadership’ approach to her general manager position – feastmagazine.com
STLfood ⚜️
- Seafood pizza? – r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡
- 1860s in the spotlight with the Soulard Business Association – 1860 Saloon, Game Room, & Hardshell Café
STL100 💯
- St. Louis has awesome greenways. This is the Fee Fee Greenway. – r/StLouis
- Man paddles pumpkin 38 miles down Missouri River – FOX 2
STL99 😱
- St. Louis County to euthanize more dogs as its shelter is overwhelmed by strays – stltoday.com
- Does This New Cardinals Hat Suggest Gun Violence? – RFT
- ‘It shouldn’t have happened’: Wentzville bus driver leaves student with autism at wrong location – KSDK
- ‘I’ll see you at Christmas’: Mother says man who looked like Santa attempted to abduct her children – KSDK
- Found the expired tag god – 2015?! C’mon man. On 270S during rush hour. – r/StLouis
WW99 😱
- ‘I cannot leave that person behind’: Missouri veteran still fighting to get Afghan comrade to safety – KSDK
- Chinese Hackers Target Energy Firms in South China Sea – SecurityWeek
Police 🚓
- 2 St. Louis County police officers rescue driver from flooded car – KSDK
- Driver thanks officers who rescued her during historic July floods – FOX 2
- Goat breaks into Alabama deputy’s squad car – FOX 2
- Cop Who Shot at Dog But Killed the Owner Instead Just Got Off – VICE US
- Arizona’s New ‘No Recording Cops Within 8 Feet’ Law Challenged In Court – Techdirt
DotGov 🏛
- California lawmakers approve online privacy law for kids. Which may turn websites into identity checkpoints – The Register
- California Senate Passes Three Awful Bills For The Internet; Will Newsom Sign Them? – Techdirt
CityGov 🏛
- Vote Centers for Sep 13 Election – stLouIST – a Better Bubble™
- Community Message about Voter ID from City Hall DMV License Office – City of St. Louis – News
- CRO Hotspot has returned! – City of St. Louis – News
- Absentee voting for next board of alderman pres. opens Aug. 30 – FOX 2
- New rules, polling places unveiled for special St. Louis primary election – stltoday.com
- Court weighs appeal of Missouri ruling that struck down local power to impose COVID-19 orders – Missouri Independent
- St. Louis mayor, Missouri attorney general trade barbs over handling of Hyundai, Kia theft epidemic – KSDK
- City of St. Louis demands action due to surge in car thefts – FOX 2
LocalGov 🏛
- St. Louis metro leaders vote Wednesday to decide fate of the Delmar Loop Trolley – FOX 2
- Pinner says she’s staying in St. Louis County Executive race – KSDK
- Republican candidate for St. Louis County Executive to remain in the race – FOX 2
- Katherine Pinner to stay in St. Louis County executive race. ‘I need to uphold my commitment.’ – stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
- Advocates praise Missouri’s new child trafficking law as promising first step – Missouri Independent
- ‘I think it makes it difficult’: St. Louis community reacts as some schools remove books under new state law – KSDK
- Missouri Supreme Court reprimands St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, issues $750 fine – KSDK
- Missouri Supreme Court fines Kim Gardner $750 for professional misconduct – Missouri Independent
- St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner reprimanded for handling of Greitens investigation – FOX 2
- St. Louis Circuit Attorney will pay $750 fee after state Supreme Court reprimand – stltoday.com
FedGov 🏛
- Navy Looking for Gamers After Disastrous Esports Launch – VICE US
- Judge: No Expectation Of Privacy In User Info Voluntarily Shared With Facebook, OKs FBI’s User Data Grab – Techdirt
Jobs 📄
- St. Louis job center creates initiative to certify commercial drivers for free – KSDK
History 🦕
- An American! An American! Fueled by raw eggs and brandy, a hero was crowned in the 1904 Olympic marathon – stltoday.com
- The Dog Wars – History Happens Here
Sustainability ♻️
- Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action – Nature Climate Change – Global Energy
- The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists. – Global Energy
- The planet is approaching 8B people. We’re not ready – Hacker News
Infrastructure 🚽
- Installation of Final Truss Marks One of the Last Major Milestones for Merchants Bridge Reconstruction Project – RiverBender
- Contra-rotating floating turbines promise unprecedented scale and power – New Atlas
- Governments Are Rethinking Nuclear Power – Gizmodo
Ecology 🦤
- The best-case scenario for Greenland ice melt just got worse – Grist
Twitter 🐦
- How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor – Waxy.org
- Twitter planned to build an OnlyFans clone, but CSAM issues reportedly derailed the plan – Engadget
- Twitter Circle is launching for your hottest takes and most unpopular opinions – Engadget
- Twitter Launches ‘Twitter Circle’ for Sharing Tweets With a Smaller Number of People – MacRumors
- Twitter is testing a new “Tweet Tiles” display for publisher links – Search Engine Land
- Musk tries to stall Twitter takeover trial following whistleblower claims – The Register
- The Twitter Whistleblower Says He Didn’t Do It for Elon Musk – Gizmodo
- Elon Musk is trying to stall his Twitter trial by a month – Engadget
- Elon Musk has a backup plan to kill his Twitter takeover – Engadget
WWW99 🕸
- Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture – Hacker News
- Chrome extensions with 1.4 million installs steal browsing data – BleepingComputer
- Truth Social’s inadequate moderation is keeping it off the Google Play Store – Engadget
- Google Won’t Allow Trump’s Truth Social App in Play Store Because the Content Is Insufficiently Moderated – Daring Fireball
- Starlink Internet Was Down, and Is Still a Little Spotty – Gizmodo
Space 🚀
- NASA locks in a second launch attempt for Artemis I – New Atlas
- NASA aims for Saturday launch of new moon rocket: Take 2 – FOX 2
- James Webb captures Phantom Galaxy’s spectacular spiraling arms – New Atlas
DIY 🪓
- Host your own OpenStreetMap Map Tiles – Hacker News
- apt_key deprecated in Debian/Ubuntu – how to fix in Ansible – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
- Xcode Cloud Subscriptions Now Available for Developers – MacRumors
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- ‘What, Me Worry?’ Celebrating 70 Years of Mad Magazine – HowStuffWorks
- Wikipedia Recent Changes Map – Hacker News
- Finally, Someone Made Speedos With Cargo Pockets – VICE US
- Republicans Have Realized That Forcing People to Give Birth Is Wildly Unpopular – VICE US