NPR does maintain a number of good RSS feeds ( https://feeds.npr.org/ ), which are being simulcasted onto Mastodon by press.coop. They are doing this for a ton of news organizations: https://press.coop/directory
Not Risky Business era Rom Cruise?
You know what would be great? Low-barrier non-predatory banking services for low-income people provided by the post office like basically every other country has.
Consumer Reports created an iOS and Android app that collects your account information for a bunch of businesses and provides the option of sending "do not sell" requests to them en-mass. It also helps you delete unwanted accounts and stay up to date on which businesses are doing what with your data.
Not bad, but it all depends on how much you trust Consumer Reports. It appears they have a fairly good reputation as a consumer advocacy non-profit, but I didn't do much deep dive research.
Ideally, this is something FTC would have a hand in for consumers in the United States -- improving EULA comprehension. I can imagine a world where businesses and applications have EULAs with ESRB-like ratings or tags: "location data", "purchase history", "3rd party data exports", "X year retention" to show what you're agreeing to. I'd love to brainstorm on how else that could change.
Junk email + VPN, but I've found that most free wifi services like this explicitly try to inhibit the functionality of mobile VPN clients.
United Auto Workers (UAW) creates a list of union-built cars every year. Here's the list for 2023: https://uaw.org/solidarity_magazine/2023-uaw-union-built-vehicle-guide/
Sadly there's only a handful of EVs in here.
I think that might be the point. If their audiences were waning, this is probably their gamble at a last hurrah. A last ditch attempt to pull in an audience before they’re shuffled off into celebrity podcast purgatory.
All together now…
👏 right
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👏 privacy
Sadly, this made me laugh more than anything in How Poopy Got His Poop Back.