And I’m on the list again , for the second year in a row— the 99 key journalists of Twitter in Brazil=)

Revista Bula is one of the leading online culture magazines in the country. Here’s the full list of those who were mentioned by the magazine’s followers as key journalists.

So, Medium’s publications are basically dead. They paid handsomely. Not anymore.

I’ll miss publishing at OneZero and Level, but more than that, I’ll miss the business model — professional writers getting paid by publications with a whole editorial structure. Not so much the long wait to hear back from editors as, like most good pubs, they were always overwhelmed with pitches, but definitely the quality of the edits, the exchanges, etc.

Although we don’t know yet what Medium’s planning, I’d bet they are moving towards a “substack” model, ie, they’ll select a few star writers, people already famous and capable…

Last year, state congressman Douglas Garcia, one of the main allies of Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, asked his followers on Twitter to send him the data of anti-fascist activists (in short, any activist opposed to his president’s government). On June 2, Garcia proudly posted a video on his Twitter with (blurry) images of the list he would have compiled with data from hundreds of so-called antifascists or “antifas”.

On June 4, another video of the congressman holding what seems to be hundreds of pages of paper announcing that he would make police reports against the “antifas” on the list…

Considero o Wilson Gomes um intelectual necessário e bastante coerente, daí minha surpresa ao vê-lo se alinhar ao mesmíssimo discurso petista de que 2013 fez nascer o fascismo, como se fosse possível traçar uma linha direta entre os maiores protestos que o país viu até então — por direitos, por tarifa zero, contra violência policial, etc — e a eleição de Bolsonaro.

Oras, eu sequer consigo ver uma linha direta entre 2013 e a fundação do MBL — grupo fundamental para o crescimento e eleição de Bolsonaro e da extrema-direita brasileira.

A galera do “2013 fez nascer o fascismo” parece…

There is a (mistaken) perception that journalistic work is, in general, something simple to do. Well, anyone can talk to 2–3 people and write something, right? Wrong.

I published last week, with Study Hall, an article that I started researching and pitching back in…. 2019! It took me over a year between having the idea, researching, convincing an editor to pay for the story, interviewing over a dozen people (to end up using only part of what I collected), writing, and going through several rounds of editing.

By the end of 2020, finally, all done.

But at the end of…

The coronavirus pandemic unleashed a new era in surveillance technology, and arguably no group has felt this more acutely than refugees. Even before the pandemic, refugees were subjected to contact tracing, drone and LIDAR tracking, and facial recognition en masse. Since the pandemic, it’s only gotten worse. For a microcosm of how bad the pandemic has been for refugees — both in terms of civil liberties and suffering under the virus — look no further than Greece.

Greek refugee camps are among the largest in Europe, and they are overpopulated, with scarce access to water, food, and basic necessities, and…

O Brasil é governado por um psicopata sem qualquer escrúpulo ou qualquer preocupação pela vida humana e que acredita piamente nas loucuras que fala — que são basicamente ódio em todas as suas representações e negacionismo científico com doses cavalares de burrice e da mais completa, primordial e pura estupidez.

Mas esse nem é o pior dos problemas. Ele foi eleito. E foi eleito sem esconder nada desse discurso. Bolsonaro sempre foi ódio puro, sempre foi um doente perigoso, sempre pregou homofobia.

E mesmo nunca escondendo quem ele era e é foi eleito. E segue tendo apoio de 30% da…

Theo, um jovem de 14 anos que vive no Rio de Janeiro, sofre de um tipo de epilepsia que causa crises de ausência — convulsões que levam a lapsos de consciência. “Não são exatamente essas convulsões que conhecemos onde a pessoa cai no chão, mas elas são desafiadoras e difíceis de controlar e têm um impacto sobre sua qualidade de vida”, disse a mãe de Theo, Rita Carvana, à Filter. Theo foi diagnosticado quando tinha 12 anos. O primeiro medicamento prescrito por seu neurologista teve pouco efeito. O segundo tampouco teve grande efeito. Carvana decidiu experimentar a cannabis ou maconha…