Time to pop the champagne — or, in my case (and Lula’s), drink some cachaça. — Bolsonaro lost. I don’t know if he will leave the government peacefully, after all, he has spent years threatening a coup and now that he has lost he must be more desperate than ever because he could go to jail along with his family for his countless crimes. But one…

Bolsonaro actually went to an event with ambassadors (thus foreigners) to complain about the electoral system of his own country. Yes, the president of Brazil went to cry his heart out about the Brazilian electoral system to representatives of foreign countries. Bolsonaro’s “luck” is that he doesn’t effectively expose any…

On November 16, I published at Remezcla a shorter version of three interviews I made with Brazilian afrofuturist authors. 3 Brazilian Authors Explain Why Afrofuturism Matters Lead Photo: Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla. Pop culture is full of movies, books, and comics that try to predict…remezcla.com I decided to publish a longer version in English and an even longer one with all the original content, in Portuguese.

This article was originally published in the Slovenian magazine Razpotja, in Slovenian (translated by Luka Lisjak) as “Narod brez države v večnarodni državi: primer Baskov.” Here’s the full version in English. Before the idea of Nation-States was born — commonly associated with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, but with…

The EU has firm stances on democracy and freedom of expression when it comes to pressuring countries outside the union. Once the topic shifts towards internal EU affairs, things get a little complicated — to say the least. Take Catalonia for instance. The EU speaks loudly and clumsy against Russia…

This article was originally written before OnlyFans’ decision to give up on baning sex and pornography from its website. However, I believe that the main argumentos on freedom of speech, sex as driver of innovation and the whole background to OnlyFan’s initial decision remain the same. Sex has been a…

Last year, state congressman Douglas Garcia, a staunchy supporter of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, called his supporters on Twitter to send him names and personal data of “anti-fascists” to compile a list. The list was compiled by Garcia and published on social media (or leaked, as some would say)— it…

Back in March, I wrote about the death of content curation using Medium’s recent changes as an example — the service seems to be metamorphosing into a sub-Substack of sorts. But here I’d like to think a bit more about content curation and its relationship with journalism and less about…