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Hey if you missed it at #TrustCon yesterday, our live Ctrl-Alt-Speech is now on the podcast feed! With special guests [@aagh.bsky.social](
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Alice Hunsberger (@aagh.bsky.social)
Trust & Safety loudmouth. (Head of T&S at Musbi; writes T&S Insider; host of Trust in Tech podcast) More here: https://alicelinks.com/about-alice
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ashkhen (@ashkhen.bsky.social)
Tech law & policy. Football. Russia raised, Armenian blood, DC living. Views are just mine, in case you were wondering
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Live at TrustCon 2025 - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
Our second annual live at TrustCon recording of Ctrl-Alt-Speech! Ben was unable to make the trip halfway around the world, but Mike was joined by t...
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Live at TrustCon 2025 - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
Our second annual live at TrustCon recording of Ctrl-Alt-Speech! Ben was unable to make the trip halfway around the world, but Mike was joined by t...
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What an incredible admission of failure to do your job, [@senangusking.bsky.social](
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Senator Angus King (@senangusking.bsky.social)
News from the office of Independent U.S. Senator Angus King of Maine. Following/reposting does not equal an endorsement.
 ). You didn't do the most basic research? You asked one of the least trustworthy, most partisan Senators in the Senate and just went with it? Embarrassing. RE:
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Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social)
NEW: Sen. Angus King admits he made "a mistake" when he voted Tuesday to confirm Josh Divine, an 35-year-old archconservative with a long record of...
I mean. This certainly seems like it should raise First Amendment concerns. You know, if we believed in those sorts of things. [www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/m...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/media/fcc-skydance-paramount-merger-approved ) https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreif2ikhiyw3334zr4eheoxw7exbxssiwp24txdhep3dvuvet7wmpn4
Which year? RE:
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FinTwitter (@fintwitter.bsky.social)
TESLA CEO MUSK SAYS UNSUPERVISED FSD LIKELY TO BE AVAILABLE FOR PERSONAL USE BY END OF YEAR
It's even dumber. Because Mr. "No this is not genocide" got mad about the bed bug joke because he claimed calling him a bedbug was basically one step towards actual genocide. [www.techdirt.com/2019/09/03/b...](
Techdirt
Bedbug Privilege: Bret Stephens Uses His NY Times Column To Suggest Jokingly Comparing Him To A Bedbug Is Prelude To Ethnic Genocide
It’s one thing to trigger a massive Streisand Effect. It’s another to keep on making it worse. Bret Stephens is entering new territory ...
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Fucking Bitch Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
In evaluating Brett Stephens’ claim that it is inappropriate to use the term “genocide” to describe Gaza, bear in mind he once complained to ...
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Bedbug Privilege: Bret Stephens Uses His NY Times Column To Suggest Jokingly Comparing Him To A Bedbug Is Prelude To Ethnic Genocide
It’s one thing to trigger a massive Streisand Effect. It’s another to keep on making it worse. Bret Stephens is entering new territory ...
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Embarrassing RE:
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Kevin Carey (@kevincarey1.bsky.social)
Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole dis...
Remember, Tulsi sued Hillary for saying she's a "favorite" of the Russians. Wild that she now gets to use her government job to do this. [www.techdirt.com/2020/01/27/a...](
Techdirt
As Tulsi Gabbard's Silly Attention Seeking Lawsuit Against Google Falters, She Files Equally Silly Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton
As you may recall, last year, Presidential candidate and current Congressional Rep. Tulsi Gabbard filed a laughably silly lawsuit against Google. W...
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Tulsi Gabbard is using a White House press briefing to accuse Hillary Clinton of using tranquilizers. Dystopian stuff.
 [As Tulsi Gabbard's Silly Atten...](
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As Tulsi Gabbard's Silly Attention Seeking Lawsuit Against Google Falters, She Files Equally Silly Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton
As you may recall, last year, Presidential candidate and current Congressional Rep. Tulsi Gabbard filed a laughably silly lawsuit against Google. W...
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Reminder! Ben and I are going to record a few "behind the scenes" banked Ctrl-Alt-Speech shows for August and if anyone has anything they'd like us to talk about, let us know! RE:
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Ben Whitelaw (@benwhitelaw.bsky.social)
Question for Ctrl Alt Speech listeners: @mmasnick.bsky.social and I will be doing some pre-recorded ‘behind the scenes’ / how the-sausage-is-ma...
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So sick of this Orwellian nonsense. Everyone knows that "objective and free from top-down ideological bias" means "biased towards maga views and against anything we suddenly declare is 'woke'" https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreih2zzjeqkdz7qam3bidigimtfldqnk64iccpvzvoi3faaepxv3q34