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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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What machines imagine when we sleep.
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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.
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Digital Warriors: How Indigenous Voices Are Rewriting the Algorithm for Climate Justice
From forest floors to global platforms, a new generation of Indigenous activists is dismantling colonial narratives through strategic media sovereignty.
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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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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.