I Break The News

Hello everybody, Welcome back to your favorite blog about no-expenses-spared birthday festivities! I created this blog in 2012, when I had just recently started studying Journalism in London. It was a time filled with a lot of uncertainty. All I knew, was that I wanted to create my own little corner on the chaotic internet. A place for self-expression, observations and calm.     If my blog were a child, I would now have a bratty teenager on my hands. 💁🏼‍♀️ But my path turned out a bit differently.  Maybe unusual even, for someone from my region. No herd mentality for me. Especially not in my younger years. I had this calling, I just could not silence. It somehow had to do with music and journalism.  It was never easy, but it was also necessary, to follow it. Would I have ever thought, when I started this blog,  that the world would be in the state it is currently in - 14 years later?  Absolutely not, because I had high hopes. Still, this is a place for ...

Hello everyone, Welcome back to your favorite blog about modern life! I hope you are doing well. Before we peace out into the weekend, we would like to close off this week with an insightful video. Maur is questioning the perks of the modern life concept we are being told is the right way to go and also asks whether there are any perks if we live as isolated as we are supposed to in 2026.  A great video to make you think. 🧠 Our take: the promotion of hyper-individualism can turn isolation and loneliness into something we are taught to see as freedom, independence or success. When in reality, we are built for connection, community and belonging, to share our lives with others, in person. No man or woman is an island. So ask yourself: to meet this promoted 'ideal', you follow the script, but are you truly doing well in this setup? At the end of the day, you only have one life, so who are you trying to impress, what are you really chasing and is it not time to truly connect? Als...

 

Guys - It's a Movement! Take Back the Web: Why Switching to Brave Matters For years, we've been told that Google's tracking, Meta's surveillance-driven advertising, YouTube's algorithms and Big Tech's enormous appetite for personal data are simply the price of using the internet. They aren't. We have been conditioned to accept a web where a handful of enormous corporations monitor our behavior, profile our interests, compete for our attention and turn our personal information into an incredibly valuable commercial asset. The problem isn't just one company. It's the model. And if we want that model to change, we need to stop treating our own participation as inevitable. Brave browser for your phone -  brave.com Switching to Brave is a small act of resistance Changing your browser might sound insignificant. But it is one of the easiest places to start. Brave is designed to block many of the trackers, advertising technologies, cross-site tracking mechan...