💌 Newsletter #007 - Of Age-Gating, Belonging, and AI Being Blazing Fast 🚀 (at Enshittifying)

✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: Of eyeballs for "human verification;" yes can I please get a venti oh shoot I didn't prompt it right; and age gating 🤝 Android getting locked down 🤝 anti-3D printing bills. 📰 Long-Form Content: Age Gating isn't It, Fam 🌞 Good News!: Open printers and repairable e-readers; the people are pushing back on slop factories and mandatory ID apps; the EU bans their staff from using AI-generated visuals in official comms; disentangling yourself from "Sign in with Google." 📯 The Post-Script: Do I belong in tech anymore?; Sam Altman and eyeballs; and how our digital devices put our privacy at risk. Image by Egor Vikhrev on Unsplash. Glitched. 📟 Short-Form ContentChatbots ("AI") So, uh, there is now a human verification company that has partnered with Zoom to verify that who's on the call is actually... humans, and not robots. That's 2026 enough alright, but get this: This company is owned by Sam Altman. Yep, that Sam Altman. Of Open AI fame. Which builds…