from the ctrl-alt-speech dept

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation ‘s Ben Whitelaw.

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In this week’s episode, Mike and Ben cover:

The Boring Internet (Terry Godier)

Orkney Library & Archive (Bluesky)

Silicon Valley takes its AI pitch to the pope (Politico)

Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah’s remarks on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical “Magnifica humanitas” (Anthropic)

Vance calls Pope Leo’s AI warnings ‘profound’ (NBC News)

American heresy: should Peter Thiel be burned at the stake?…