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Wikipedia Jun 7, 2026 at 03:00 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille
- Calonne was not Necker’s direct replacement. After Necker left office in 1781, Jean‑François Joly de Fleury and then Lefèvre d’Ormesson headed finances before Calonne was appointed in 1783.
Substack Jun 7, 2026 at 02:46 PM
aiprospects.substack.com/p/security-without-dystopia-new-opt...
- The U.S. and Soviet Union did not actually reach that agreement. Eisenhower proposed reciprocal overflights in 1955, but the Soviet Union rejected it; the Open Skies Treaty enabling such flights was signed in 1992 by a larger group of states after the Cold War.
Wikipedia Jun 7, 2026 at 02:10 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem
- This misstates the Campbell–Kelly result. Campbell and Kelly’s theorem is a strategy-proofness characterization of majority rule on a Condorcet domain, not a theorem about spoiler effects or the comparative spoiler-resistance of Condorcet methods.
- This overstates Gibbard’s theorem. Gibbard–Satterthwaite applies only under additional conditions such as universal domain and more than two possible outcomes; strategy-proof voting rules can exist in restricted domains or dictatorial/two-outcome cases.
Wikipedia Jun 6, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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- Густав фон Кар не был начальником полиции Баварии. Он был баварским министром-президентом, а затем генеральным государственным комиссаром; во время Пивного путча главой баварской государственной полиции был Ханс фон Зайссер.
- Герман Эрхардт действительно был одним из деятелей Капповского путча, но участником Пивного путча Гитлера не был. Напротив, в ноябре 1923 года его силы встали на сторону Густава фон Кара против путчистов.
Wikipedia Jun 5, 2026 at 10:47 PM
ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8B
- Здесь неверно объяснён термин jus connubii: это не «римское гражданство», а право на юридически признанный брак.
X Jun 5, 2026 at 09:55 PM
x.com/BullTheoryio/status/2062965545881010557
- This reverses what SemiAnalysis actually wrote. Its March 2026 report says Nvidia’s next-generation platforms require more memory, not half as much.
- Anthropic did not call for an immediate blanket pause. Its post said the world should have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development under coordinated, verifiable conditions if risks escalate.
Wikipedia Jun 5, 2026 at 09:04 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blomberg%E2%80%93Fritsch_affair
- This is chronologically wrong: Hitler had already assumed direct personal command of the entire Wehrmacht in February 1938. In December 1941 he newly took over the Army (OKH), not the Wehrmacht as a whole.
Wikipedia Jun 5, 2026 at 06:00 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricks_%26_Minifigs%E2%80%93Reckless_B...
- The Utah case was filed on May 27, 2026, not May 30.
- Contemporaneous court reporting said Schneider's next hearing on the misdemeanor charges was July 1, not June 8.
Substack Jun 5, 2026 at 01:55 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-left-kidney
- The cited U.S. study did not include 347 donors; it analyzed 80,347 live kidney donors with a median follow-up of 6.3 years.
- This overstates how kidney-donation vouchers work. The National Kidney Registry’s family-voucher program is limited to up to five family members, gives priority within NKR matching rather than simply moving people to the top of the transplant list, and explicitly says there is no guarantee a voucher holder will be matched or transplanted.
Substack Jun 5, 2026 at 08:02 AM
birdhistory.substack.com/p/the-100-greatest-bird-names-of-al...
- 1989 was the ʻōʻū’s last confirmed sighting, not a documented extinction year. Official sources describe the species as presumed or possibly extinct, meaning the extinction date is uncertain.
X Jun 5, 2026 at 06:56 AM
x.com/atmoio/status/2062613571100356668
- This misstates Anthropic's article. The piece argues AI is already accelerating AI development and could have major positive and disruptive effects; the quoted passage only says recursive improvement would still face real-world bottlenecks.
X Jun 5, 2026 at 03:26 AM
x.com/Cointelegraph/status/2062680953579819102
- Anthropic did not call for an immediate global pause. Its June 2026 paper says a slowdown or pause would only make sense if it were coordinated and verifiable, and says the company wants the world to have that option—not that it is demanding a pause now.
LessWrong Jun 5, 2026 at 01:06 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/KQpcGSxcHGveWRuek/rent-from-oil-a-go...
- This overstates what the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal means. Official UN sources say a temporary or single-year breach of 1.5°C does not mean the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature goal has already been failed.
Wikipedia Jun 4, 2026 at 09:52 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsession_(2025_film)
- The Rotten Tomatoes stat is outdated. Rotten Tomatoes currently lists the film at 95% based on 253 reviews, not 96% based on 251.
- The soundtrack album has 26 songs, not 18. Apple Music’s official album page lists it as a 26-song release.
Wikipedia Jun 4, 2026 at 11:34 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituals
- This date is too late. Credible references place Africans in the Americas decades earlier, with New World Black slavery beginning in 1502 and Africans present in Spanish America in the early 1500s.
- This sentence mixes up the ships’ intended destination with where the captives actually arrived. The well-documented 1619 group was taken to Point Comfort in Virginia, not to Mexico.
- The date is off by a year. The University of Denver says The Spirituals Project was formally incorporated in December 1998.
Substack Jun 4, 2026 at 11:23 AM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/bounded-distrust
- This overstates what the Washington Post article says. The piece argued Lincoln and Marx were "friendly" and influenced each other, but it also explicitly said Lincoln was not a socialist, communist, or Marxist and that he "never took up the mantle of socialism."
- This misdescribes the data issue. The study used linked individual-level register data under an ethics permit; the dispute was whether the approved permit covered this particular use of sensitive personal data and research questions, not merely whether the authors forgot to ask permission to include "publicly accessible" ethnicity statistics.
Wikipedia Jun 4, 2026 at 11:18 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2025_deaths_in_popular_music
- Later court findings in Singapore said Zubeen Garg died from accidental drowning while swimming, not in a scuba-diving accident.
- Mark Snow was reported to have died at his home in Connecticut; the listing’s placement of Connecticut in Massachusetts is wrong.
Wikipedia Jun 4, 2026 at 10:53 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slay_(slang)
- This mixes up the ancient verb with the much newer slang. Reliable dictionaries date the base word "slay" to Old English/before 900, while sources on the modern slang trace that usage to 1970s–80s ballroom culture.
Wikipedia Jun 3, 2026 at 11:50 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Wembanyama
- Kung fu did not originate at Shaolin Monastery. Chinese martial arts predate the fifth-century temple by many centuries; Shaolin later became famous for developing its own Shaolin kung fu tradition.
LessWrong Jun 3, 2026 at 06:02 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/L8YFcCw5ex3qjLyoJ/outrunning-your-he...
- This misdescribes dissociative fugue. In DSM-5, fugue is a specifier of dissociative amnesia centered on purposeful travel or bewildered wandering with autobiographical/identity amnesia—not simply “sudden awakening followed by distress.”