Your account and your email.
Google sign-in and the Latent Space newsletter are separate choices. You can read public articles without an account.
Signing in with Google
We use your Google account identifier, name, and email address to create and recognize your reader account. This sign-in does not request access to Gmail, Drive, or your Google password.
Account records are stored in our Cloudflare database. A secure sign-in cookie keeps you signed in for up to 30 days. A separate short-lived cookie protects the sign-in request. Signing out ends the current session. This browser remembers an explicit sign-out until you sign in again.
Community news
If you join the news board, choose a public username for your stories, votes and discussions. The board receives that username and an account identifier. Your Google name and email stay with your reader account. Signing out of Latent Space also ends access to posting and voting on the board.
The newsletter is optional
After creating an account, choose whether to subscribe. We send your email to beehiiv only when you select Finish with the newsletter checkbox checked. Unchecking it or closing that panel creates an account without a new newsletter subscription.
We record your choice, its time, and signup attribution such as campaign or referral codes. If you subscribe, beehiiv processes your email and subscription status to deliver the newsletter. Some addresses require email confirmation. Existing unsubscribe preferences are preserved; signing in again does not resubscribe you.
Email-only signup also uses beehiiv, with Cloudflare Turnstile to help prevent abuse. You can unsubscribe through the link in any newsletter email, or on your account page when signed in with Google. Signing out of your reader account does not unsubscribe an existing newsletter subscription.
Recommendations and membership
After newsletter signup, beehiiv can show optional newsletter recommendations using the email you provided, so you do not need to type it again. Other newsletters receive your signup only if you choose to subscribe to them. You can skip recommendations and paid membership. Paid plans and checkout are hosted by beehiiv; creating a reader account does not purchase a plan.
Website analytics
With your permission, we use PostHog to measure visits, page performance and interactions and to record masked browsing sessions. Search metrics include the mode, whether results appeared, approximate speed and when a result is opened. Search events do not include search terms, authors, result titles or URLs. Newsletter analytics record signup stages without email addresses. Browser errors omit messages and retain only limited site code locations. Text, images, form values and account dialogs are masked or blocked in recordings; analytics events do not contain URL query strings. PostHog uses cookies to measure visits; you can change your choice on this browser at any time.
Podcast delivery measurement
For audio served directly by podcast.latent.space, we measure bytes sent and combine repeat requests to estimate downloads. We use an episode-specific identifier derived from your network address and player identifier that changes each UTC day. This measurement does not store raw network addresses or player identifiers, use cookies, or link to your reader account. Request-level records expire after 30 days; aggregate reports may be retained. We exclude recognized automated requests and honor Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control when supplied. Download estimates are not proof of listening. Audio hosted by beehiiv uses its separate measurement.
Deleting your account
Request deletion of your reader account. Sign in with Google and confirm your request. Deletion removes your account record, sign-in sessions and saved newsletter choices, and ends news board sign-ins; you can also unsubscribe from all newsletter emails in the same step. Stories and comments you posted on the news board remain public unless you ask us to remove them. Paid memberships are billed by beehiiv and must be cancelled there.
We record each confirmed deletion request so we can follow up if it fails. Once deletion completes, the receipt keeps its reference, timing and outcome without your account identifier.
Questions
Contact business@latent.space about your reader data, news board content, or if you can’t sign in to delete your account. Your account and newsletter choices remain stored until removed; sign-in sessions expire separately.
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