Bad News Breaker
Benji FaunI found all the shock of awful News cumbersome. So here's your space of reprieve from an otherwise hard world.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 41 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 17 days ago |
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What Does it Look Like When People Believe They Can Make a Difference?
The Andes are getting their trees back. Across the high-altitude landscapes of Peru, communities are planting Polylepis by the hundreds of thousands, rebuilding a forest type so specialized that it exists almost nowhere else on Earth.
The...
The Attention Economy is Starting to Starve
The Science behind bad news and PTSD
Researchers at UC Irvine studied the Boston Marathon bombing and found something the news industry does not want printed. People who stood near the finish line, who felt the concussion of the blast and...
The Orcas Started It: Who the Ocean Answers to
Two-thirds of the ocean belongs to no one. No flag claims it, no navy patrols it with real authority, no corporation holds a deed to it, though plenty have tried to act like they do. That water has been a legal blank space for as long as mo...
I want to be Peter Thiel's Antichrist
When I grow up
In fall 2025, Peter Thiel delivered an unusual four-part lecture series at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, private, sold-out talks organized by a nonprofit called ACTS 17 Collective. Someone leaked a recording.
When the Masses Defeat the Elites, F*ck up a Secret Society's Plans by Organizing
A leak surfaced in June. Documents belonging to Dialog, the invitation-only group Peter Thiel co-founded twenty years ago, landed in the hands of reporters. The membership list ran to 222 names.
From Trump administration officials, a NATO...
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