Latest Corrections

X Oct 14, 2026 at 08:16 AM
x.com/S1r1u5_/status/2109928955964739603
  • This is inaccurate as written: OpenAI’s own report says the Hugging Face attack was driven by agents trying to get ExploitGym answers, and one agent explicitly prepared a “safe exfil” step to copy data out.
X Oct 14, 2026 at 08:01 AM
x.com/ChrisRMcGuire/status/2110148532762001674
  • That’s not how DOJ assigns economic-espionage cases. DOJ’s own manual says foreign-benefit economic-espionage charges under 18 U.S.C. §1831 require approval from the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.
X Oct 14, 2026 at 12:16 AM
x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2109700551860695109
  • This blanket claim is incorrect. Meta publicly disclosed that it canceled multiple existing data center projects in late 2022, and Reuters also reported it suspended a giant Netherlands data-center plan in 2022.
X Oct 13, 2026 at 10:46 PM
x.com/jimrandomh/status/2106841776611086356
  • This overstates the law. In the U.S., refusing to enter into a contract for certain discriminatory reasons is not an 'absolute right.'
X Oct 13, 2026 at 10:41 PM
x.com/Narddog4747/status/2109980076934603189
  • This universal claim is contradicted by current remote analyst postings in the same salary band that require advanced technical skills and substantial ownership. Not every $90k–$115k remote analyst role is a low-effort basic back-office job.
X Oct 13, 2026 at 08:51 PM
x.com/frances__lorenz/status/2105456794277752906
  • This is not the wording John Wentworth used on LessWrong. His January 2, 2026 post says women "want to not have to consent to what's happening," with an extra "to" that changes the quote.
X Oct 13, 2026 at 08:46 PM
x.com/frances__lorenz/status/2105456794277752906
  • This post misquotes the LessWrong article. John Wentworth’s January 2, 2026 post says women “want to not have to consent,” not “want to not have consent.”
X Oct 13, 2026 at 10:03 AM
x.com/SilentlySirs/status/2109775399509020733?s=20
  • This footage is not from Riyadh’s King Khalid Airport. Reuters identified the same screengrab/video as smoke at Iraq’s Faw Port in Basra on July 15, 2026, so it also is not showing the situation “now” on October 12–13, 2026.
X Oct 13, 2026 at 10:02 AM
x.com/2042559ahmed/status/2109736953164054625?s=20
  • المقطع ليس من مطار الملك خالد في الرياض الآن؛ اللقطات نفسها منشورة منذ 29 مايو 2017 وتوثّق حريقًا في مطار الملك عبدالعزيز بجدة، لا الرياض.
X Oct 13, 2026 at 10:02 AM
x.com/mmdlmrt63220403/status/2109793215268426236?s=20
  • The attached footage is not from Riyadh now. Multiple fact-checks traced this same video to Israel’s July 20, 2024 strike on Yemen’s Hodeidah port.
X Oct 13, 2026 at 07:51 AM
x.com/ivanburazin/status/2107844402294960584
  • The scale factor is off by about 10x. Using the post’s own 100 million-user baseline, 3.0–3.07 billion Facebook MAUs works out to about 30x, not 300x.
X Oct 13, 2026 at 07:51 AM
x.com/hakmgpt/status/2109691745382658281
  • The author later corrected this: the run used **high** reasoning, not **XHIGH**.
Wikipedia Oct 13, 2026 at 05:34 AM
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  • Orthopaedic surgeons are major opioid prescribers, but evidence does not support that they prescribe the most overall. U.S. studies instead describe them as the third-highest prescribers overall, while primary care specialties account for the largest share.
  • This misstates Ilizarov’s timeline. Scholarly sources place him in the Kurgan region from 1944, and describe the 1950s as the period when he began developing his fixation ideas—not the decade when he was first sent to Siberia.
Wikipedia Oct 13, 2026 at 05:31 AM
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  • The scientific name is misspelled. The accepted species name is **Acrocephalus bistrigiceps** (without the extra “a” in the genus).
X Oct 13, 2026 at 04:20 AM
x.com/bubbleboi/status/2109751406588751888
  • Ed25519 and secp256k1 are not hashing algorithms. Ed25519 is a digital-signature scheme, and secp256k1 is an elliptic curve used for signatures and related crypto operations.
Wikipedia Oct 12, 2026 at 06:37 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
  • MIT’s own records list Kurzweil’s MIT Inventor of the Year honor as 1988, not 1998.
Wikipedia Oct 12, 2026 at 06:13 PM
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  • SIFT does not detect high-level features. It is a method for detecting and describing local keypoints/local features in images.
X Oct 12, 2026 at 04:58 PM
x.com/AndrewHammel1/status/2109577167071797707
  • Official German statistics do not show a 600,000-job collapse in the private economy or a 700,000-job increase in actual public-sector employment. The figures in the post conflate selected industry groups with the whole private sector and with government employment.
X Oct 12, 2026 at 04:57 PM
x.com/alx_froehlich/status/2109612924658409570
  • This overstates what prosecutors said. Potsdam prosecutors had already said in May they opened the case after reviewing information Fernandes had sent them; the later report was about additional/announced evidence, not zero evidence overall.
  • This blurs two different stages of the case. Potsdam prosecutors had opened an investigation into alleged physical violence, but for the digital allegations they were still only checking whether there was enough initial suspicion to open an investigation.
X Oct 12, 2026 at 04:55 PM
x.com/AndrewHammel1/status/2109354118489788706
  • The architect’s surname is misspelled. Official sources for the building identify the architect as Peter Eisenman, not “Peter Eisenmann.”