💌 Newsletter #008 - Of Age Gating (still), Claudia Delusions, and Getting Left Behind

✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: Of Claudia Delusions, "Tokenmaxxing", and goblins 📰 Long-Form Content: Yes, we're still on Age Gating 🌞 Good News!: Elected officials are warming up to the idea of alternative platforms; No, you won't get "left behind;" and more AI data centre bans are happening. 📯 The Post-Script: Terry Godier's The Boring Internet. 📟 Short-Form ContentChatbots ("AI") "You can't use an LLM in any context where being wrong is a problem" is a quote I came across on Mastodon, and as a data person who deeply cares about accuracy, data safety & security, proper access rights and PII management and all that good stuff, this resonates deeply with me. AI is excellent at moving fast and breaking things 🚀, like nuking your entire prod db in 9 seconds (including backups.) Remember, this is critical technology, and you'll be left behind if you don't let an LLM nuke your db into oblivion! Sometimes it even apologizes after, which is nice. The Claudia Delusion happened.…