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Just 23% Of Americans Know The U.S. Has Failed To Pass An Internet-Era Privacy Law

3 years 1 month ago
We’ve noted repeatedly how the hyperventilation about TikTok privacy is largely just a distraction from the U.S.’ ongoing failure to pass even a basic privacy law or meaningfully regulate data brokers. We haven’t done those things for two reasons. One, the dysfunctional status quo (where companies mindlessly over-collect data and fail to secure it, resulting […]
Karl Bode

In Between Two Worlds, a Journalist Goes Undercover with the Working Class

3 years 1 month ago
Freshly divorced and effectively destitute, former homemaker Marianne (Juliette Binoche) arrives in the northwestern French coastal city of Caen seeking a fresh start. She haunts employment offices and job fairs, looking for an employer who will take a chance on a middle-aged woman with a 23-year gap in her résumé.
Andrew Wyatt

Can I bring my weed into the music festival at the public park?

3 years 1 month ago

So you’re heading to the Evolution Festival this weekend in St. Louis, and you picked up a “music festival fanny pack” stuffed with pre-rolled joints, vapes, THC-infused mints, and the works at Hippos dispensary in Chesterfield.  Now that recreational marijuana is legal, you’re thinking you can roll right through the gate with your Barbie-pink fanny […]

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Rebecca Rivas

Southwest Missouri river’s listing as polluted may set up fight over meatpacker permit

3 years 1 month ago

The Pomme de Terre River’s status as an impaired waterway is poised to set up a fight between environmentalists and a meatpacking plant in Southwest Missouri. Missouri Prime Beef Packers has requested permission from the state to discharge treated wastewater from its facility near Pleasant Hope directly into the river. It currently applies the water […]

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Allison Kite