Absurdos Estocásticos

Capsule #0002 — The future is not missing: Mozilla's campaign against platform realism

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 16:10:00 +0000

Project presentation, reposted from Substack.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Iara Passos — background in humanities and exact sciences: sociologist (MA), statistician, data engineer and scientist. I work with complex pipelines in R, Python and SQL, on Linux. My focus lies at the intersection of technology, digital sovereignty and critical social research.

The name: “absurd” (absurdo) — hello, existentialists! — meets “stochastic” (estocástico) — random complex processes. Combined with 89 seconds to midnight of the Doomsday Clock: the absurd, complex and stochastic challenges of the third millennium.