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Insights for policy and change makers on tech, power, and governance—creating a just digital future rooted in global solidarity.
Jun 8 • 
Michael L. Bąk
Filosofia de Boteco
From Privileged Policy to Empathic Policymaking
Nov 2 • 
Michael L. Bąk
Are We Each Living in Our Own AI Reality?
< Unbounded: 2 Mins Edgewise
Oct 24 • 
Michael L. Bąk
Building Bridges, Every Day
From a Washed-Out Bridge in Banteay Meanchey to AI Governance
Oct 19 • 
Michael L. Bąk
Meta Is Reading Your AI Chats — and You Can’t Opt Out
< Unbounded: 2 Mins Edgewise
Oct 13 • 
Michael L. Bąk
Techno-authoritarianism & Technocolonialism
Two Faces of Digital Power, Quietly Converging
Oct 9 • 
Michael L. Bąk
How LLM Grooming Can Shape, Erase, and Distort
A Case Study: Israel + Control Tower X
Oct 5 • 
Michael L. Bąk
Bandung 2.ai
Non-Aligned and Sovereign, in the Age of Technocolonialism
Sep 28 • 
Michael L. Bąk
How 'Safety' Risks Slipping Toward Surveillance
< Unbounded: 2 Mins Edgewise
Sep 25 • 
Michael L. Bąk
Translating, from the Margins In
Thoughts on a Sovereign Southeast Asian Knowledge Ecosystem
Sep 20 • 
Michael L. Bąk
Part 2: When the AI Leaderboard Just Doesn’t Look Like You
Interrogating Time’s 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025 List
Sep 11 • 
Michael L. Bąk
Part 1: When the AI Leaderboard Just Doesn’t Look Like You
Interrogating Time’s 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025 List
Sep 7 • 
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