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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
How 'Safety' Risks Slipping Toward Surveillance
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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
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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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A People’s History of the Tech Revolution
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Sep 4 • 
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Who Capacitates Whom?
Considerations on the New Digital Colonialism
Aug 31 • 
Michael L. Bąk
The Exit Row is No Shortcut to Trust
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Aug 27 • 
Michael L. Bąk
What If We Took the Mic away from Big Tech?
Imagining new narratives shaped by leaders from the margins
Aug 23 • 
Michael L. Bąk
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Two Faces: AI for Good, Or Good for AI?
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Aug 20 • 
Michael L. Bąk
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America’s War with ‘Woke’
New AI Harms for the Global Majority
Aug 16 • 
Michael L. Bąk
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Global South: Beware the $1 AI Trap
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Aug 13 • 
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