Ok Bluesky, let’s give this a go: I found this postcard in the back of a photo frame I bought at a London thrift shop.
It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!).
I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?
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Ben Whitelaw
Ben Whitelaw
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The safety policies of generative AI companies — and the subsequent threat of regulation — has been in the headlines for a while.
This week, two companies facing big legal cases — OpenAI and [Character.ai](
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character.ai | AI Chat, Reimagined–Your Words. Your World.
Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Chat Bot Your Tongue?
@benwhitelaw.bsky.social spend most of the episode talking about a variety of stories regarding AI chat...
It's Ctrl-Alt-Speech recording day and @Mike Masnick is back in the proverbial chair.
What stories are you reading? What should we pick apart? And crucially, which website/app user prompt should we use to start today's episode?
We didn’t talk about Charlie Kirk in last week’s podcast because so little was known when we recorded. Seven days later, there was *too* much to wade through. @Mike Masnick and I tried our best to make sense of the platform and political chaos [podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...](
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[From 'Free Speech' To 'Flag Th...]( )
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From 'Free Speech' To 'Flag This' - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:How platforms are respo...
Buzzsprout
From 'Free Speech' To 'Flag This' - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:How platforms are respo...
I wanted to call this episode ‘Jim and Jon, the Conspiracy Men’ in a nod to the famous British children’s cartoon ‘Bill and Ben’ but @Mike Masnick overruled me and tbh, that’s 100% the right decision
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is BACK! New episode: The Haidt of Hypocrisy: https://podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/episodes/17792429-the-haidt-of-hypocrisy
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I listened back to the new episode of Ctrl Alt Speech at x2 speed because @Mike Masnick told me I’d sound smarter and I can confirm that is not the case [podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...]( )
[You Asked, We Answered - Ctrl-...]( )
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You Asked, We Answered - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
This is the second of our special episodes for the month of August. Last time, we talked a bit about the past and future of Ctrl-Alt-Speech; this t...
Buzzsprout
You Asked, We Answered - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
This is the second of our special episodes for the month of August. Last time, we talked a bit about the past and future of Ctrl-Alt-Speech; this t...
Question for Ctrl Alt Speech listeners: @Mike Masnick and I will be doing some pre-recorded ‘behind the scenes’ / how the-sausage-is-made type episodes over summer so we can take a few weeks off - what kind of stuff would you be interested in?
I wanted to call this episode "If you authenticate this, then your children will be next" before agreeing with @Mike Masnick that number of people who listen to both Ctrl-Alt-Speech and the Manic Street Preacher is, very likely, in the single digits
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The UK Wants Us To Ask Your Age Before You Listen
This week, we talk about AI repositories struggling with people uploading m...
We're two days on from the Meta announcement. What questions do folks have about fact-checking/Texas-based mod ops/Zuck's hairdresser? @Mike Masnick and I will attempt to answer them in tomorrow's podcast (ok, maybe not the last one)
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Ben Whitelaw (@benwhitelaw.bsky.social)
I wondered what @mmasnick.bsky.social and I would talk about in the first Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast of 2025 and now we know https://about.fb.com/news...
I wondered what @Mike Masnick and I would talk about in the first Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast of 2025 and now we know [about.fb.com/news/2025/01...](
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More Speech and Fewer Mistakes
We're ending our third party fact checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.
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More Speech and Fewer Mistakes
We're ending our third party fact checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.