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Jungle Cyberpunk: How the Amazon's Indigenous Are Rewriting Tomorrow
Forget eco-tragedy. Native creators build solar-punk megacities where they pilot the future.
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What machines imagine when we sleep.
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Preservation or Extinction? Inside the Algorithmic Threat to Indigenous Languages in Brazil
Brazil’s BILingo project promises inclusion and innovation—but Indigenous leaders warn it may be the latest vehicle for digital extraction and algorithmic genocide.
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The New Digital Colonizers: AI “Indigenous Girls” Are Brazil’s Latest Extraction Industry
AI-generated "Amazon girls" are flooding Instagram, turning Indigenous identity into algorithmic porn. The platforms profit. And colonialism just got a software update.
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Teenagers Saw Portugal’s Forests Burn. So They Built a Six-Legged Robot to Replant Them.
After years of watching summers turn into firestorms, two students designed an autonomous hexapod built to survive the ashes—and seed the next forest.
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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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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.