"$LANG is just a tool" has never been right. The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (or the blub lang analogy - and not the smug part - for programmers) is still true to this day.

tl;dr: Just a tool, but "we shape our tools and then our tools shape us".

Why did you write "re-mastered" instead of simply "mastered" for ADD/DDD?

Because most of my CDs are older and had previously been released as pure analog, so that's how I think of them, and that's where my experience is --- fair point though, putting parentheses around (re-) would have been better.

Sounds like dithering to me.

Same, still 5€/month for my (now discontinued, apparently) VLE-2 box. Current VPS line-up (Intel based, though) is still quite cheap: https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/vps/

If your tree is so weak that a single breeze can knock it off, why blame the wind? Disclaimer: I hate social media of all kinds, it's just that you're missing the forest.

The force of social media these past 20 years has been massive. We're talking radical change to the structure of information flow in society. That's not just a small breeze.

The breeze is more like a 2 ton harvester expertly engineered to knock your tree down.

I'm part of one and I don't think it really promotes discoverability. What could work would be some kind of search engine restricted to said webring to make a button to list similar articles. At least I would click on such a button!

I'm on the Merveilles ring and it has such a local/"neighbourhood" search, hosted by one of the members: https://lieu.cblgh.org

Pretty cool, and seems easy to set up

Maybe the coffin's interior having very round corners would help?

That reason being that there is a minority of people who reach out to anything instead of just using what they're given. Compounded by baby duck syndrome, of course.

Did you read the text? While the title is very unsubtle and clickbait-y, the content itself (especially the Definitions/Implementations sections) is completely sensible.

Yes it's very short.

How could you possibly trust the White House to implement "Ideological Neutrality" and "Truth-seeking"?

Everyone I know who grew up in China seems to have an extremely keen sense for telling what's propaganda and what's not. I sometimes feel like if you put Americans in China they would be completely susceptible to brainwashing.

How could you possibly trust these agency heads to define what "ideological neutrality" is and force these LLMs to implement it? Even if you DO completely trust them, it's still explicit speech control

Trust is an entirely separate question, the point is that if taken at face value, the text doesn't warrant that outrage.

Said separate question isn't unwarranted though, but you should phrase it differently: do you trust them less than the very nebulous powers behind insidious "AI model alignment" or not? I think the answer isn't clear cut for anyone sensible.