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Cabo Verde Is Done Waiting for Silicon Valley to Validate It
A new wave of digital thinking centers local context, small businesses, and diaspora feedback loops — not imported tech fantasies.
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What machines imagine when we sleep.
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From Territory to Timeline: Brazil's Digital Gang Frontier
How Brazilian criminal organizations turned Instagram and TikTok into recruitment pipelines, territorial markers, and status displays — and why police can't keep up.
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The Remote Work Trap: A Brazilian Architect Lost in Asia’s Fraud Machine
What happens when ambition meets automation, and the promise of remote work becomes a digital cage?
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Deep Waters, Soft Circuits: Caparica’s Periphera Festival Plugs Art into the Tide
From the cloisters of the Convento dos Capuchos to the old prison of Trafaria, Festival Periphera turns Almada’s periphery into a portal — where art hacks technology, and community rewrites the future.
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Democracy.exe: Brazil’s Unexpected Lead in Digital Governance
While the West keeps talking about AI ethics and digital transparency, Brazil just went ahead and built it — no hype, no moonshots, just governance that works.
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The Syntax of Violence: When Data Becomes Propaganda
A data analysis of nearly 300,000 social media posts reveals how right-wing narratives drowned out outrage over one of Rio de Janeiro’s deadliest police operations.
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From the Sertão to the Server: Brazil's Digital Backlands and the Ghosts of Hunger
How Brazil’s most stigmatized region hacked the algorithm, rewired its accent, and turned drought into data.
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Chavoso da USP: The Periphery’s Professor
How a gay kid from Brasilândia became a new kind of Brazilian intellectual—unfiltered, fearless, and impossible to ignore.
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Felca vs. The Algorithm: The Influencer Who Refused 50 Million
Felca never asked to be a moral compass, but his viral takedowns of beauty scams, betting apps, and child exploitation made him one anyway.
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Alessandra Araújo: The Blogueira Raiz Who Hacked the Global Runway
From cassava-root beauty hacks to couture made of corn husks, Alessandra Araújo proves you don’t need Milan or Paris when you have Wi-Fi and red dirt roads.
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Tropical Glitch: How Brazil's 1926 Futurist Hack Prefigured Everything
The machine age hits the jungle and something breaks. Not the machine, not the jungle, but the logic that keeps them separate.
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The Cyber-Tropical Mutation: Rewired Science Fiction from the Margins
From analog favelas to intergalactic terraforming, Brazilian science fiction is hacking colonial narratives, building weird futures, and exporting glitch aesthetics to the world.