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Substack Apr 16, 2026 at 11:21 AM
metatrends.substack.com/p/the-organizational-singularity-is
  • This quote misstates Dario Amodei’s warning. Public reporting quotes him as saying AI could eliminate about half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years—not that it would imminently replace a majority of all white-collar workers.
  • The time frame is wrong. Reporting on Jensen Huang’s remarks says he was talking about an annual token budget worth about half an engineer’s base salary, not spending that amount every month.
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LessWrong Apr 15, 2026 at 11:20 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/5tYTKX4pNpiG4vzYg/towards-a-scale-fr...
  • This has the trading direction backwards. In prediction markets, traders buy when they think a contract is underpriced relative to the true probability, and sell when they think it is overpriced.
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Wikipedia Apr 15, 2026 at 10:35 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Line_(Sound_Transit)
  • This is outdated: the bridge has already been modified for rail and 2 Line trains began carrying passengers across it on March 28, 2026.
  • This extension is no longer future work: Downtown Redmond and Marymoor Village opened on May 10, 2025, and Downtown Redmond is already the 2 Line’s terminal.
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Wikipedia Apr 15, 2026 at 10:34 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Line_%28Sound_Transit%29
  • This service description is outdated. Sound Transit says that after the March 28, 2026 service change, 1 Line/2 Line service runs about 5 a.m. to 12 a.m. seven days a week, and 1 Line peak service is every 8 minutes, not 6.
  • This misstates who checks fares. Sound Transit says Fare Ambassadors—not transit police—are the fare-compliance staff who inspect proof of payment.
  • The contract-expiration date here is wrong. Sound Transit’s 2024 annual report says the current Link light-rail agreement with King County expires on December 31, 2025, not at the end of 2023.
  • This schedule is outdated. Sound Transit says that since the March 28, 2026 service change, 1 Line/2 Line service runs about 5 a.m. to 12 a.m. seven days a week.
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Wikipedia Apr 15, 2026 at 02:15 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_fiction#Prominent_examples
  • This entry gives the wrong publication year. J. G. Ballard’s *The Crystal World* was first published in 1966, not 1988.
  • Marcus Sedgwick was British, not American. Multiple sources identify him as a British writer.
  • Julie Bertagna is not American. Publisher and author-directory pages identify her as a Scottish author based in Glasgow.
  • Stephen Baxter is a UK author, not a U.S. one. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction explicitly identifies him as a UK author.
  • This is outdated. Maja Lunde’s fourth Climate Quartet novel, *The Dream of a Tree*, was published in 2022.
  • This author label is wrong in two ways: the writer’s name is Maggie Gee, not “Magee Gee,” and she is British rather than American.
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Wikipedia Apr 15, 2026 at 02:12 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saci_Lloyd#The_Carbon_Diaries:_2015
  • This gets the book’s original publication year wrong. The UK publisher lists the novel as going on sale on September 4, 2008; 2009 refers to a later Holiday House edition.
  • The infobox publication date is incorrect for the UK edition. Hachette Children’s UK lists the book as going on sale on September 4, 2008.
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Wikipedia Apr 15, 2026 at 02:09 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson
  • Kim Stanley Robinson received the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation’s Imagination in Service to Society award in 2017, not 2018.
  • The scholar’s name is spelled Fredric Jameson, not Frederic Jameson.
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Wikipedia Apr 15, 2026 at 07:13 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design_pattern
  • This row incorrectly says Extension Object is in the GoF *Design Patterns* book. The publisher’s contents list all 23 GoF patterns, and Extension Object is not among them.
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X Apr 15, 2026 at 03:31 AM
x.com/nickjfuentes/status/2044176749916049426
  • Vance had announced the book, but as of April 14, 2026 it had not been published yet. Multiple sources said it was still on preorder with a June 16, 2026 release date.
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Wikipedia Apr 15, 2026 at 02:18 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8C%82%E5%8D%97%E7%99%BD%E8%AF%9D#c...
  • 这条书目信息把《茂名市志》的出版地写成了“郑州”，但图书馆目录记录的出版地是“北京”。
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Wikipedia Apr 15, 2026 at 01:46 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Esperanto
  • This date is off by a year: Zamenhof’s reform proposal is documented as a 1894 project, not a 1893 one.
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LessWrong Apr 15, 2026 at 12:59 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/JANqfGrMyBgcKtGgK/about-30-of-humani...
  • The revised HLE paper reports an expert disagreement rate of about 18%, not a confirmed 18% error rate.
  • This is too broad. Oganesson’s chemical and bulk physical properties have not been directly measured, but at least some properties—such as its isotope’s half-life—have been measured or estimated experimentally.
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Substack Apr 14, 2026 at 08:54 PM
www.mangosorbananas.com/p/what-is-preventing-haiti-from-havi...
  • Jamaica became the world’s leading producer of bauxite in 1957, not aluminum. Jamaica mined bauxite and refined alumina, but official Jamaican sources say no aluminum smelters were built there.
  • The 2006 environmental decree was issued by Haiti’s transitional government before René Préval took office, not by Préval’s government.
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LessWrong Apr 14, 2026 at 04:37 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/LqsctjJbk5HHPD4Jm/the-math-and-the-t...
  • The article cited here was written by Joel Best, not John Best.
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Wikipedia Apr 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2000
  • Office 2000 did not have a single suite-wide default font. Word 2000 used Times New Roman 10 pt by default, but Excel 2000 used Arial 10 pt.
  • Office 2000's anti-piracy registration was not Internet-only. Microsoft said users could complete it by Internet, e-mail, postal mail, fax, or telephone.
  • Microsoft's June 7, 1999 launch announcement says Office 2000 would reach retail later that week, on June 10, 1999 — not June 7.
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Wikipedia Apr 14, 2026 at 12:43 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_95
  • Office 95 was not limited to Windows NT. Microsoft's own minimum requirements say Office 7.0 runs on either Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or later.
  • Microsoft's system requirements do not say Office 95 required only Windows NT 3.51. They list Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or later.
  • Microsoft's requirements split RAM by operating system: 8 MB was for Windows 95, while Windows NT Workstation needed 16 MB to run two Office programs.
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Wikipedia Apr 14, 2026 at 12:42 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_97
  • This list omits Office 97 VAR Edition. Microsoft itself announced VAR Edition as an additional Office 97 edition, so the suite was released in more than the five editions named here.
  • The article names only two applications, not three: Word and Excel. The pinball game and the developer-credits sequence are both in Word 97, while the flight simulator is in Excel 97.
  • Microsoft announced Office 98 Macintosh Edition on January 6, 1998, but said broad availability would come later. The official press release says it was unveiled that day and expected to be widely available in March 1998.
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Wikipedia Apr 14, 2026 at 04:59 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_literacy
  • This ministry name is wrong. The Polish ministry is the Ministry of National Education, and the study described here says it was commissioned by that ministry.
  • This institution name is incorrect. The U.S. library’s official name is the National Library of Medicine.
  • The school name is misspelled here. Official Kerala government records list the school as St Aloysius HSS Kollam, not “St Aloysious.”
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X Apr 14, 2026 at 03:36 AM
x.com/justalexoki/status/2043797557118177652
  • This sentence is false because it treats "Jews control the world" as a real fact. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum explicitly says claims that Jews control parts or all of the world are antisemitic conspiracy theories and "None of these accusations are true."
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Substack Apr 13, 2026 at 09:24 PM
metatrends.substack.com/p/proof-of-abundance-and-how-to-surv...
  • The cited numbers are not the price of a whole battery. They are lithium-ion battery-cell prices per kilowatt-hour, so the article drops the unit and changes the meaning.
  • Pakistan is not getting most of its energy from solar. Recent credible estimates put solar at roughly one-fifth of Pakistan's electricity, not a majority of its energy supply.
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