Cracks in the code where resistance blooms.
System Hacks
Angola’s liberation movement defeated colonial power — only to replicate its architecture of control. What happens when freedom becomes governance, and governance becomes greed?
System Hacks
A Natural Disaster Helped Trigger a Revolution.
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At the tail end of a chaotic 2025 — a year of climate backslides, algorithmic delusions, and resurgent fascisms — Lisbon wants to compost it all.
System Hacks
The Cinemateca Portuguesa digs up the 60s and 70s avant-garde — when artists like Ana Hatherly and Julião Sarmento turned their cameras on life, politics, and each other.
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Born in a dictatorship’s prison, the Comando Vermelho evolved into a parallel republic—proving that Brazil’s war on crime was never about justice, but about preserving power.
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The dictatorship wanted unity. The exiles gave it noise, color, and chaos.
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From donating oxygen in Manaus to raising funds for Indigenous communities, Whindersson Nunes embodies an inversion of roles: the clown gives life while the politician plays games.
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The Black Europeans Lisbon Summit forces Portugal to confront the history it has long silenced — and the racism that still shapes the present.
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A R$100 million lawsuit shows how Flamengo embodies the contradiction of Brazilian football: diverse on the pitch, exclusive off it.
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How a school science project from Brazil could flip the script on packaging waste.
System Hacks
Tracing the unpolished, improbable rise of a politician who doesn’t know how to bow.
System Hacks
Suffocated in the storefront, the real Brazil resists in rhythm, verse, and absence.