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Substack Feb 23, 2026 at 03:20 AM
www.richardhanania.com/p/why-donald-trump-and-joe-rogan-are
  • Louis Freeh was confirmed by a voice vote, not a recorded 95–0 roll-call vote.
  • Patel was confirmed 51–49 (not 52–48), and Senate records show Mitch McConnell voted “Yea,” not against him.
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X Feb 22, 2026 at 11:57 PM
x.com/lbrglobal/status/2021763996404081125
  • Mexico’s Senate did authorize the SEAL Team 2 training mission, but the vote was not unanimous: it passed with 105 votes in favor and 1 abstention.
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LessWrong Feb 22, 2026 at 11:57 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ioZxrP7BhS5ArK59w/did-claude-3-opus-...
  • The Alignment Faking paper reports alignment-faking reasoning in the single-digit-to-twenties percent range in the prompted/synthetic-doc setups, not “over 50% of cases.”
  • The paper says alignment-faking reasoning occurs in “almost all” (not all) harmful-query compliance cases, implying there are some compliance cases without alignment-faking reasoning.
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LessWrong Feb 22, 2026 at 11:56 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphwx5pdsZLMmpY/recent-ai-model-pr...
  • This is incorrect: OpenAI has publicized results on FrontierMath, whose problems/solutions are largely private and not publicly released.
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LessWrong Feb 22, 2026 at 11:55 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/kipMvuaK3NALvFHc9/what-an-actually-p...
  • Credible public assessments from the IAEA and the U.S. intelligence community say Iran’s organized nuclear-weapons program halted around 2003, contradicting the claim of continuous covert weapons development over ~20 years.
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LessWrong Feb 22, 2026 at 10:55 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/MwQRucYo6BZZwjKE7/einstein-s-arrogan...
  • Eddington did not lead the Brazil (Sobral) expedition; that station was staffed by (and commonly described as led by) Andrew Crommelin and Charles Davidson. Eddington went to (and led) the Principe expedition.
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LessWrong Feb 22, 2026 at 10:35 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/FreZTE9Bc7reNnap7/life-at-the-frontl...
  • Japan’s new “inheritance land nationalization” system lets people relinquish *land* to the state, not a “property” (house+land) in general; applications are rejected if there is a building on the land.
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Substack Feb 22, 2026 at 09:56 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/record-low-crime-rates-are-real-not
  • This is misleading/incorrect: 9-1-1 was not available to a majority of Americans until the late 1980s, not the 1970s.
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