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Meta Is Reading Your AI Chats — and You Can’t Opt Out
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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
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September 2025

Bandung 2.ai
Non-Aligned and Sovereign, in the Age of Technocolonialism
Sep 28 • 
Michael L. Bąk
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How 'Safety' Risks Slipping Toward Surveillance
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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
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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 • 
Michael L. Bąk
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A People’s History of the Tech Revolution
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Sep 4 • 
Michael L. Bąk
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August 2025

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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