💌 Newsletter #016 - Chatbots and their "Safeguards," Alternative Navigation Apps - and a New Section!

✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: Chatbots & their "safeguards," eavesdroppy "Smart TVs," and how age gating still is not it. 🌞 Good News!: Alternative navigation apps exist!, AI bans in public schools, more digital sovereignty. 🐘 Toots and Memes and Such: On valid sources, connecting people, and moving carefully. 📯 The Post-Script: Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech, and Myths around AI and Labour. Original image by Tamas Tuzes-Katai on Unsplash. Glitched and cropped. 📟 Short-Form ContentChatbots ("AI") Things seem to be going very well over at OpenAI, which keeps bleeding executives. This time, it's the Head of Data Centres, totalling 13 (yes, thirteen) departed executives in 2026 alone. Things are also going very well with Claude, whose "safeguards" apparently can - and have been - circumvented in the context of topics as lighthearted and good-for-humanity as "bioweapons." 😳 All the "AI is here to stay" and the general cramming of the…