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From Empire to Innovation: Macau’s South-South Circuit
A Brazilian startup wins big in Macau’s innovation circuit — revealing how a once-colonial outpost is becoming the Global South’s soft-tech gateway to China.
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What machines imagine when we sleep.
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AI Doesn’t Dream in Tupi – But It Might Learn Nheengatu
Brazil's forgotten Indigenous language is finding new life through artificial intelligence. Can algorithms help revive what colonisation tried to erase?
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Cosmic Quilombos and Digital Orishas: Hacking History with Candomblé and Code
How a new wave of Black Brazilian authors is building alternate timelines, digital ancestries, and cosmic counterattacks to whitewashed history
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The Algorithm Speaks Portuguese: Digital Colonialism in the Age of TikTok
How Lusophone Africa's Cultural Export Fuels Global Platforms While Creators Remain Economically Marginalized.
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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.
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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.
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Firewalls & Freedom: Where Ancestry Meets Encryption
In a country that kills Black youth daily and sells WiFi as salvation, a new generation is building its own Internet underground: coded, encrypted, and rooted in the wisdom of rebellion.
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Amazofuturism: Tupinambá Time Machines
They say the forest holds the memory of all things. That the river doesn’t forget the footsteps of the jaguar, nor the whisper of a canoe gliding across its surface at dawn.
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Intergalactic Bapho: How Pajubá Became the Operating System of AfroTranstopia
By speaking from the scar, we write ourselves into the future.
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Blackout Protocol: Fictions from a Post-Data Underground
What if the power failure wasn’t the end—but the return of ancestral intelligence?
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The Future Was Always Ours: Inside the Radical Dreamscape of Favela Futurism
The favela was never a failure. It was a prototype. An open-source operating system written in blood, rhythm, memory, and joy. And now, it’s rewriting the code of the future.