Josh Renaud

Trees are silhouetted against the sunrise. The river can be seen through the trees.

For all the problems with St. Louis’s Riverfront Trail, I will never tire of looking across the river at dawn — a view with no manmade lights, no dumping, no industry.

The good: Saw a bald eagle and a skunk during my ride.

The bad: None of the dump sites along the trail have been cleaned and many of them are worse than my last ride a month ago.

Trees are silhouetted against the sunrise. The river can be seen through the trees.

For all the problems with St. Louis’s Riverfront Trail, I will never tire of looking across the river at dawn — a view with no manmade lights, no dumping, no industry.

Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece Will an A.I. restoration of “The Magnificent Ambersons” right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic?

In 1942, RKO slashed 43 minutes from Orson Welles's "The Magnificent Ambersons" and slapped on a happy ending. Now, an A.I. company wants to restore what was lost. Are they righting a historic wrong or descrating a classic? My deep dive, in this week's New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

reminder that Discord has such a sketchy-ass age verification service that personally identifying information on at least 70,000 users (the hackers claimed 2m+) was compromised within weeks of its rollout

A Florissant renter knew her $12,000 water bill was wrong. She's being evicted for it. Patricia Felton called her landlord, the water company and a plumber, but the exorbitant bills continued.

In May, Patricia Felton's water bill jumped a few thousand dollars. Felton tried to alert her landlord and the water company, but fell through the cracks of their automated systems. Now she faces bills and eviction. "It's outrageous conduct," her attorney said.
Story by @jacobbarker27.bsky.social

Didn't know that story! As a Jaguar owner since 1993, I genuinely love Cybermorph. No LSD needed.

I am LOVING this Super Bowl, @pdpj.bsky.social!

Owner of St. Louis' AT&T tower renews push for public support of redevelopment plan The owner of the vacant AT&T office tower in downtown St. Louis is renewing his push for state and local support of his $350 million redevelopment plan, saying the central

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McBride plans 178-home development in Wellston on land owned by St. Louis County The project is the second in several months involving St. Louis County-controlled land in Wellston, signs of progress on redevelopment that officials said decades ago they wanted to facilitate.

More of this across North County, please. And in north St. Louis, too.
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Credit where credit is due — SLMPD took just one day to fulfill my annual request for a list of last year's homicide victims. They usually handle it quickly each year.

St. Louis County PD, on the other hand, has historically taken far longer to fulfill the same records requests.

#sunshinelaw

MCCA is out with their data on 67 agencies with 2024 and 2025 data. They find large drops in violent crime in 2025 which matches the drop shown in the RTCI sample
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Student journalism strikes again.

St. Louis had its own Harlem. What happened to it? Rediscovering Mill Creek Valley Mill Creek Valley was once an epicenter of Black commerce, activism and culture within the city.

Mill Creek Valley was once an epicenter of Black commerce, activism and culture within the city.

The St. Louis Development Corporation posted for the first time on 🦋 this morning. ⬇️

Holleman: Ed Martin loses another high-profile job. St. Louis has seen this show. Seems like another "ended-badly" ending may be in the cards for lawyer and St. Louis native Ed Martin.

Seems like another "ended-badly" ending may be in the cards for lawyer and St. Louis native Ed Martin.

Strengthen the Reporter-Source Privilege Defending press freedom for the next generation

Journalist Seth Harp may be subpoenaed, prosecuted, or both for reporting the publicly available online bio of a Delta Force commander involved in the Maduro abduction.

Use our action center to tell Congress this is unconstitutional and inexcusable.

This screenshot shows the blackjack game "Wildcardz!" There are two hands of cards shown, one for the player and one for the dealer.

Tonight I succeeded in bringing a vaporware game from 1993 back to life!

It's a blackjack game for BBSes called "Wildcardz!", built using a unique protocol for the Atari ST called "Instant Graphics and Sound" (IGS).

(1/x)

#atari #atarist #digipres #igs #retrocomputing #bbs #retrogaming #gamdev

This all stems from the IGS history I published in 2024, profiling the people who made and used this unique protocol to create amazing art and animation — at a time when most BBSes were limited to text.

I think it's a fascinating #retrocomputing #longreads:
breakintochat.com/blog/categor...

One of the people I most wanted to interview for that series never answered my inquiries. But he read my series after it published.

He finally got in touch this week. He sent me the C source code to his unfinished blackjack game "Wildcardz!"

I ported it to Javascript. Now it's running on my BBS!

One of the people I most wanted to interview for that series never answered my inquiries. But he read my series after it published.

He finally got in touch this week. He sent me the C source code to his unfinished blackjack game "Wildcardz!"

I ported it to Javascript. Now it's running on my BBS!

This all stems from the IGS history I published in 2024, profiling the people who made and used this unique protocol to create amazing art and animation — at a time when most BBSes were limited to text.

I think it's a fascinating #retrocomputing #longreads:
breakintochat.com/blog/categor...

This screenshot shows the blackjack game "Wildcardz!" There are two hands of cards shown, one for the player and one for the dealer.

Tonight I succeeded in bringing a vaporware game from 1993 back to life!

It's a blackjack game for BBSes called "Wildcardz!", built using a unique protocol for the Atari ST called "Instant Graphics and Sound" (IGS).

(1/x)

#atari #atarist #digipres #igs #retrocomputing #bbs #retrogaming #gamdev

The number of homicides in the tracker has decreased every year. 2021: 388 people were killed.

St. Louis Homicide Tracker Learn about homicide victims and trends with this database from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Reporters and editors with @stltoday.com have tracked homicides in the region since 2021. The 2026 version of the tracker has been published.
Our reporting shows that, in 2025, at least 273 people were killed in the St. Louis region. At least 27 were children.

Your STacy looks fantastic!

St. Louis to host early rounds of 2028 Olympic soccer tournament Energizer Park will be one of the sites for early play in the men's and women's soccer tournaments for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics

The Olympics are coming back to St. Louis! (a few games, at least)
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Deanne Lane, former longtime TV anchor and reporter, dead at 65 She died Friday at a hospital after suffering a stroke earlier this week.

She died Friday at a hospital after suffering a stroke earlier this week.

NABJ OUTRAGED AT ARRESTS OF DON LEMON, GEORGIA FORT ‘THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS NOT OPTIONAL’ The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is outraged and deeply alarmed by the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort by federal agents, and […]

We are OUTRAGED and deeply alarmed by the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort by federal agents, and by the government’s escalating effort to criminalize and threaten press freedom under the guise of law enforcement.

The First Amendment is not optional and journalism is not a crime.