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Eva Dias Costa

Eva Dias Costa

I’ve spent years writing under structure. This is where the structure slips.

📍 Based in Porto, Portugal. https://evadiascosta.carrd.co/

#3. Right, at Random.

At dawn, the wind forgot its direction. The sailboat chose one at random and was right. The desert crossed the sea wearing the sky’s shoes. The sailboat complimented them and sailed on. A wave offered a clock. The sailboat declined politely. The mast leaned too far to whisper to

La Corrida: Not a Metaphor.

I don’t usually listen to music like this. Too clean, too deliberate, too close to the edge of sentimentality. But Tidal knows me better than I’d like to admit, and one day, it dropped La Corrida into my speakers. I didn’t expect to listen twice. I didn’

Glitch

If we were war, we’d call it necessary. We’d speak of strategy, flags, lines drawn and redrawn. We’d praise discipline, honour the dead, forget the burning. If we were cancer, we’d marvel at our growth. At how we adapt, how we endure, how nothing can stop

On the real authors of Western decline.

— and why the storm should linger a little longer. It is often said that globalization failed America. It did not. America failed itself. Globalization did precisely what it was always going to do: it connected markets, lowered trade barriers, and accelerated the movement of goods, capital, and ideas. Predictably, it

Shattered Glass

I set the table for a feast that never was, laid out silverware of hope, glasses brimming with almosts, candles flickering in a draft I should have sensed. I invited certainty, but it declined, sent regret instead, draped in my brother’s voice, in the darkness of doors that won’

The Illusion of AI Governance

There is a theatre unfolding before us. The actors: regulators, policymakers, AI companies. The script: ethical AI, responsible innovation, compliance frameworks. The performance: convincing enough, if one does not look too closely. For beneath the surface, power remains exactly where it always was. AI regulation, as it stands, is a

Does a Foreign Language Make Us More Rational, or Just Less Capable of Moral Thought?

For years, research has suggested that the language we use shapes the way we make moral decisions. The foreign-language effect, one of the most studied phenomena in this area, seems to show that when people face ethical dilemmas in a second language, they are more likely to choose utilitarian solutions,

The Other Minds Problem: AI, Intelligence, and the Universe. From Frankenstein to Laplace’s Demon.

The question of other minds has long troubled philosophy. How do we know that another being—human or otherwise—has subjective experience? We assume other people do because they behave like us. With nonhuman animals, the question is harder to settle. We know they feel pain, form bonds, and act

Your Majesty, There Are Still Judges in Berlin

In an old Prussian legend, a humble miller stood before Frederick the Great, refusing to give up his land. When the king threatened to seize it, the miller uttered a defiant phrase: Your Majesty, there are still judges in Berlin. It was a reminder that even an absolute ruler was

AI in Medicine: Rushing Forward Without a Moral Compass

There was a time when technological advances were met with cautious optimism, a balance between curiosity and critical reflection. Today, we find ourselves moving forward at a relentless pace, integrating artificial intelligence into medicine with minimal deliberation, as if ethics were a secondary concern rather than a foundational one. AI-powered