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Data, critical theory and digital sovereignty.
Essays live here — written by those who build what they analyze.
Capsule #0002 — The future is not missing: Mozilla's campaign against platform realism
Start of Capsule #0002 This week, the Mozilla Foundation launched an advertising campaign against the tech billionaire class1 — and I am featured in it. One of the posters, plastered on walls in New York, places me alongside Mark Zuckerberg: he builds surveillance glasses and makes it easier for creeps and abusers to commit more crimes. I, on the other hand, build local artificial intelligence to expose violence in Brazil — a project in partnership with the Fogo Cruzado Institute2. I am writing about the campaign not as a neutral analyst, but as a subject of the piece itself — and it is precisely from this dual position, as someone who is part of the very object being analyzed, that this text begins. ...
Capsule #0001 — Live from the end of the world
Start of Capsule #0001 Hello, Observers of the end of the world! Finally, I decided to take the idea of writing out of my head — literally, since it hadn’t even made it to paper yet. I had been thinking about it for a long time, but various things held me back: fear, embarrassment, laziness, and even a lack of time. But then I stepped away from Instagram and started spending more time here; there was a whole migration to this space, and a lot of people began writing. That fueled the desire further. Perhaps it’s a touch of nostalgia—after all, years ago I ran a few blogs, either solo or in partnerships, back in the pre-social media boom era—but it’s also a genuine urge to write about what I’ve been studying, researching, and thinking about. ...