Josh Renaud

Students battle for spot in national Braille competition at Missouri School for the Blind Visually-impaired students at Missouri School for the Blind competed to qualify for spot at the national Braille championship in Los Angeles.

Visually-impaired students at Missouri School for the Blind competed to qualify for spot at the national Braille championship in Los Angeles.

Ronald Wade, Post-Dispatch news editor, dies at 62 He worked at the highest editing levels at newspapers around the country.

His obituary from the Post-Dispatch:
www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...

And the Chicago Tribune:
www.chicagotribune.com/2017/02/07/r...

One worthy cause is the Ronald Wade journalism scholarship for minority students, via the St. Louis Press Club. Ron Wade was the Sunday editor at the P-D for many years, and I worked closely with him on the night desk.
stlpressclub.org/RonWadeDonat...

Just got rickrolled at Missouri School for the Blind

Biked to work again today, and saw there has been some cleanup along the Riverfront Trail since last week.

But many tire piles and dump piles remain — though some may be on private land.

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
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Read more via @techdirt.com 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

We can't let large language models take the em dash from us — it's too important

We liked Cisco Heat, too. It was all we had and all we knew!

I hope you’ll get to Lotus III. That’s the one I grew up playing with my brothers.

Spent several hours last night rewriting and optimising the 68k code that draws the rev counter on the #AtariST version of Lotus 2 to use the Blitter chip instead.

These are the lengths that us ST folks are willing to go to in order to compete with that other machine. 😉

Actor Robert Duvall, who went to school in St. Louis, dies at 95 LOS ANGELES — Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor of matchless versatility and dedication whose classic roles included the intrepid consigliere of the first two "Godfather" movies and the over-the-hill country

LOS ANGELES — Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor of matchless versatility and dedication whose classic roles included the intrepid consigliere of the first two "Godfather" movies and the over-the-hill country music singer in "Tender Mercies," has died at age 95.

I see people are swarming about @benjedwards.com with the long knives. If you're out to push him to the gallows, take me along too to stand beside him.

Overworked, sick with Covid, Benj fucked up a workflow. I've read hundreds of articles and writings from him, and been featured in many.

Thanks for being honest and explaining, Benj.

I have tried AI a few times recently to see if it could help find quotes in large corpuses for my Break Into Chat research. And it fabricated quotes multiple times.

So infuriating.

I am already writing my posts in Markdown in Wordpress. So I guess I need to look for a way to get WP to serve that source rather than rendering it to HTML when a request asks for it.

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!

“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤

A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

QGIS would like to have a word.

A fish tank, furniture, and other trash are strewn along the grassy area between the Riverfront Trail and the treeline.

Couches, chairs, mattress, and other trash are strewn between the Riverfront Trail and the treeline.

A headline on a flyer for the Mississippi Greenway and Mississippi Trail reads "Enjoy views of the working riverfront and Mississippi River that even most native St. Louisans have never seen before."

Here's how parts of the Riverfront Trail look in the light of day.

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

www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...

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.
www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...

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
majorcitieschiefs.com/wp-content/u...

Student journalism strikes again.