STL: Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Events 📆
- 8 places to go apple picking near St. Louis – St. Louis Magazine
- 8 things to do this fall in the St. Louis area – KSDK
- What to expect from this year’s Saint Louis Art Fair – St. Louis Magazine
Restaurants 🍲
- Felix’s Pizza Pub – feastmagazine.com
STLfood ⚜️
- Best fries in STL bracket. Vote now on r/STLFood – r/StLouis
STL100 💯
- St. Louis named best city for new college graduates – FOX 2
STL99 😱
- Bicyclist killed in hit-and-run crash near Tower Grove Park in south St. Louis – KSDK
- Man on bike struck and killed in South Grand – FOX 2
- Bicyclist dead after hit-and-run near Tower Grove Park – stltoday.com
- Bicyclist’s Hit-And-Run Death on South Grand Part of Deadly Trend – RFT
- This is an outrage – r/StLouis
99MO 😱
- Missouri substantiated 10 claims of physical abuse at Agape in last four months – Missouri Independent
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- New COVID-19 vaccine boosters available soon – FOX 2
Police 🚓
- North county police release photos, video in dog fighting case – KSDK
- Man charged after police find alleged dog-fighting ring in north St. Louis County raid – KSDK
- ‘Your horror is over’ – Officer reacts to dog fighting bust – FOX 2
- Your Law Enforcement Dollars At Work: Deputies Drive 500 Miles To Seize A Young Girl’s Pet Goat – Techdirt
DotGov 🏛
- A New Mexico county commissioner has been removed from office over his participation in the January 6th insurrection – Boing Boing
CityGov 🏛
- City of St. Louis Department of Health Announces New Health Commissioner – City of St. Louis – News
- St. Louis health department names new second-in-command – stltoday.com
- City settlement with Ely Walker condo board requires security on site – stltoday.com
- Concessionaire and Operator of the Boathouse in Forest Park Request for Proposal – City of St. Louis
- Trash Pump – City of St. Louis
- Lighting Wire – City of St. Louis
- St. Louis trash piles up during driver shortage – FOX 2
LocalGov 🏛
- Jennings residents oppose plan to build new $14M city hall – FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
- Missouri secretary of state throws support behind controversial election theory – Missouri Independent
- Missouri Lawmakers hear testimony on upcoming ballot question to legalize marijuana – FOX 2
- Hartmann: New ‘Book Ban’ Is Legislative Porn for Missouri – RFT
FedGov 🏛
- In Washington, agricultural policymakers circulate among Farm Bureau, USDA and industry – Missouri Independent
- Biden administration reveals details of its $50 billion chip investment plan – Engadget
- Man Behind US Navy’s Largest Corruption Case Hires a U-Haul, Cuts Ankle Tag, and Flees – VICE US
- New Book Says NSA Pressured GCHQ To Shut Down Publication Of Snowden Leaks By UK Journalists – Techdirt
Sustainability ♻️
- ‘Make the clean stuff cheaper’: Did the IRA kill the carbon tax? – Grist
Infrastructure 🚽
- Electric vehicle infrastructure grows in the Bi-State – FOX 2
- Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year – Hacker News
Ecology 🦤
- New Research Crucial For Dragonfly And Damselfly Populations – RiverBender
- Study: Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’ could retreat faster than expected – Grist
- Identify and learn about bugs on BugGuide.net – Boing Boing
- Scientists Reveal How Tardigrades Can Survive Decades Without Water – VICE US
- The Oilfield That Made the Ocean Burn Last Year Is Now Spewing Methane – Gizmodo
WWwx 🌦
- Parched California prepares for first-ever Colorado River cuts – Grist
WWW99 🕸
- The Morning After: Meta gets fined $402 million – Engadget
- Instagram Fined $400 Million in EU Over Teenager’s Data – Gizmodo
- Everyone’s Mad At Cloudflare; Is There Room For Principled Takes On Moderation? – Techdirt
- Trump’s Truth Social Deal Is Reportedly Falling Apart – Gizmodo
Twitter 🐦
- Twitter’s lawyers say Elon Musk wanted out of the deal because of ‘World War 3,’ not bots – Engadget
Space 🚀
- The Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Just Got Hit by a Gigantic Outburst From the Sun – Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
- How Faraday Cages Work – HowStuffWorks
- How to download an MP4 from YouTube, every time – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
- YouTuber’s Laser-Powered Lawn Mower Looks Very Cool, Very Dangerous – Gizmodo
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Signal makes Google strike organizer Meredith Walker its first president – Engadget
- Signal Has a New President and She Wants You to Pay – Gizmodo
- Monocraft: A programming font based on the typeface used in Minecraft – Hacker News
- KeePass is the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager – Hacker News
- Slidge – XMPP bridges – Hacker News
- The path to meaning is paved with responsibility – David Heinemeier Hansson
- World’s most powerful electric boat torches speed record to hit 109 mph – New Atlas