Latest Corrections
Substack Jun 20, 2026 at 09:11 AM
itsnotgambling.substack.com/p/representative-futarchy
- Rome did not solve this by creating a representative legislature; Roman citizens still voted directly in assemblies, and Britannica notes that electing representatives was a solution that came ‘two millennia later.’
LessWrong Jun 20, 2026 at 08:08 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/nSqB3qYP36enJLRq2/gears-for-politica...
- For federal campaigns, $3,500 is the limit per election, not the total per person. In the 2025–2026 cycle, an individual can generally give $3,500 for the primary and another $3,500 for the general election.
Wikipedia Jun 20, 2026 at 01:17 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Vend%C3%A9miaire
- This misidentifies both Carrier’s role and the “infernal columns.” Carrier was a Convention representative on mission at Nantes, not a field general, and the “infernal columns” were the punitive columns organized under General Turreau in early 1794.
- This gets both the date and the history wrong. Savenay was fought on 23 December 1793, and it did not end the Chouannerie, which continued as a distinct uprising until 1800.
- This conflates the Chouannerie with the Vendée uprising. Charette’s February 1795 peace was the Vendéan treaty of La Jaunaye, while the Chouans’ truce was the separate treaty of La Mabilais in April 1795.
Wikipedia Jun 19, 2026 at 08:40 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Saunders_(British_Army_officer...
- Contemporaneous reports said Saunders died about three-and-a-half hours after the shooting, not two hours later.
Wikipedia Jun 19, 2026 at 08:40 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Organization_17_November
- Koufontinas was transferred to an agricultural prison in 2018; he was not paroled. Contemporary reports say the move followed a transfer decision/request while he remained incarcerated.
- The order was issued by the Lamia prosecutor’s office, not by “the courts,” and it was issued on February 23, 2021, immediately after doctors’ request—not “a few days later.”
Wikipedia Jun 19, 2026 at 07:28 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon#Old_Overholt_whiskey
- The company was not renamed "Alcoa" in 1907. In 1907 it became the Aluminum Company of America; "Alcoa" became the official company name much later.
- This misidentifies Old Overholt's partners. Brand histories identify Henry Clay Frick's partners as Andrew Mellon and Charles W. Mauck/Mauk, not Richard Mellon.
Wikipedia Jun 19, 2026 at 07:21 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_revolution
- Ceaușescu was not re-elected on November 20, 1989. He was re-elected on November 24, 1989, at the close of the Romanian Communist Party’s 14th Congress.
Wikipedia Jun 19, 2026 at 05:52 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupita_Nyong%27o
- This is incorrect: Vogue itself described Lupita Nyong’o’s July 2014 issue as her first Vogue cover and the October 2015 issue as her second. Those covers were 15 months apart, so they were not consecutive.
- The director’s name is misspelled here. Credible coverage of this Public Theater production identifies the director as Saheem Ali, not “Shahem Ali.”
Wikipedia Jun 19, 2026 at 05:50 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_Capital
- Bain Capital’s current AUM is higher than this. The firm’s own leadership page says Bain Capital has approximately $215 billion in assets under management.
- Bain Capital Credit’s current AUM is higher than this. Its official About page says Bain Capital Credit has $65 billion in assets under management.
- Jonathan Lavine’s current title at Bain Capital is different. Bain Capital’s own people page identifies him as a Senior Advisory Partner, not “senior advisor.”
Wikipedia Jun 19, 2026 at 04:23 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Milley
- Milley was not a Naval War College student from 1980 to 1984; official Army records place him in operational assignments then, and at the Naval War College only in 1999–2000.
Wikipedia Jun 19, 2026 at 03:56 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pulte
- This timing is wrong. Donald Trump’s second inauguration was on January 20, 2025, so January 16 was four days before his inauguration, not one day after.
- The hearing date is incorrect. Senate records show Pulte’s nomination hearing before the Banking Committee was on February 27, 2025, not February 20.
X Jun 19, 2026 at 03:27 PM
x.com/theojaffee/status/2067305700636991618
- The CAIS dashboard this post is referring to does not rank Timnit Gebru first for GPT-5.5. In the dashboard’s published People ranking, she appears below multiple other people, including Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell.
Wikipedia Jun 19, 2026 at 03:10 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Garfield
- That box-office total is incorrect. Box Office Mojo lists The Amazing Spider-Man at $757,930,663 for its original 2012 release and $758,725,893 overall including later re-releases.
LessWrong Jun 19, 2026 at 03:01 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ko9GngKMJ8AccBJA7/fable-and-mythos-m...
- Anthropic did not withdraw that safeguard. It said it would keep the frontier-LLM-development safeguard but make it visible to users, with flagged requests falling back visibly to Opus 4.8.
Wikipedia Jun 19, 2026 at 09:32 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Shazeer
- Shazeer was born in 1976, not “1975 or 1976.” Contemporary and retrospective sources identify 1976 specifically.
Wikipedia Jun 19, 2026 at 05:20 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1
- Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment was not a division of Warner Communications alone; it was a joint venture between Warner Communications and American Express.
- This is outdated: VH1 Denmark was shut down and replaced by Nick Music in spring 2024, so it no longer had any current programming.
- VH1 Soul did not first become BET Jams. VH1 Soul was renamed directly to BET Soul on December 28, 2015; BET Jams is a separate channel.
Wikipedia Jun 19, 2026 at 05:18 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award
- The Grammy Trustees Award is not simply an award for “non-performers.” The Recording Academy defines it as honoring contributions other than performance, and its official recipient list includes performers.
Wikipedia Jun 18, 2026 at 10:43 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikariat_(evangelisch)
- Die Formulierung benennt die Rechtsgrundlage falsch: Vikar*innen handeln nicht „kraft der Ordination“ ihrer Mentor*innen. Offizielle Kirchenquellen beschreiben stattdessen eine eigene Beauftragung/Erlaubnis für den Vorbereitungsdienst sowie Aufsicht und Verantwortung der Ausbilder.
- Die genannte Mindestdauer ist zu hoch verallgemeinert. Im geltenden Pfarrausbildungsgesetz der UEK soll das Gemeindevikariat mindestens sechs Monate dauern, nicht mindestens ein Jahr.
Wikipedia Jun 18, 2026 at 10:12 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_squid
- This misstates the photophores’ position. Te Papa’s anatomical description places each ocular photophore on the rear of the eyeball, beside the outer edge of the lens—not on the front.
- 120 m is not the upper limit of sperm whale sonar range. The eye-size paper this topic comes from explicitly says sperm whale sonar exceeds 120 m, and later field studies report sensing ranges over 1,000 m.
LessWrong Jun 18, 2026 at 09:42 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaTcbGYsCmqu/the-rise-of-parasi...
- OpenAI did not officially retire GPT-4o on August 7, 2025. During the GPT-5 launch, 4o was deprecated/removed from normal access and then restored on August 12; OpenAI lists GPT-4o’s actual ChatGPT retirement date as February 13, 2026.