Shifting Grounds
A Man with a Shovel: The Trees That Hélio Built
One man’s quiet campaign to reforest São Paulo, tree by tree.
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Random Urgencies
From Sugar Plantations to Server Farms: Big Tech's Colonial Playbook
Cloud colonialism is extracting data and labor from the Global South to power AI systems that enrich Silicon Valley—and the Portuguese-speaking world is ground zero.
System Hacks
Carnival or Coup? How Spectacle Masks Political Rot in Brazil and Beyond
From Lava Jato to Bolsonaro, the line between theatre and tyranny grows dangerously thin.
Street Syntax
The Glyph Code: When Cities Use AI to See Their Scars
Can a machine decode urban rebellion—or only erase it faster?
Coded Dreams
Afrofuturism as Weapon: Fighting Erasure with Imagination
To be Black in Brazil often meant being trapped in a looping present: silenced, excluded, and hyper-visible only as stereotype.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Diaspora, Dust, and the Dream of Continuity: Bissau’s Creative Insistence
How Artists Carve Meaning in a Country That Forgot to Fund Culture.
Ancestral Echoes
A Feathered Disguise: Cultural Appropriation, Congressional Edition
When a party that destroys Indigenous lands puts on feathers to speak for them, it’s not representation — it’s theatre.
Sonic Cartographies
The Bloco That Refused to Bow: Cacique de Ramos, Where the Drum Never Dies
He turned samba into sanctuary. With headdress and banjo, Bira Presidente led a revolution in rhythm — not to entertain, but to endure. From the streets of Ramos to the soul of Brazil, his beat lives on.
Random Urgencies
Profiting from Climate Catastrophe: Brazil's Data Center Dystopia
Big tech's billion-dollar land grab exploits climate disasters and bypasses communities in a textbook case of digital colonialism.
Coded Dreams
Relooted: The Video Game That Turns Looting Into Liberation
Seventy real African artifacts. One stealth mission. A future where restitution isn’t requested—it’s reclaimed.
Shifting Grounds
Postcards from Nowhere: The False Paradise of Portugal’s Coastal Boom
The Coast Is Clear—Of Locals, Laws, and Limits.
Ancestral Echoes
The Poisoned Earth: Agrotoxins, Monoculture, and the Betrayal of Indigenous Sanctuaries
When rivers carry poison instead of fish, it’s not just nature that’s dying—it’s memory, ritual, and the right to exist.