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Substack Jun 17, 2026 at 03:57 AM
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-it...
- This is incorrect because Meta already has both first-party hardware and its own operating system: Meta Quest headsets run on Meta Horizon OS.
- The month is wrong: Meta announced Llama 2 on July 18, 2023, not in June 2023.
LessWrong Jun 17, 2026 at 03:21 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/Pw2BAEP6iEoxAaTH4/parkinson-s-heuris...
- This overstates Amazon’s PR/FAQ process. Amazon’s own materials say Working Backwards was used for **most major products and initiatives since 2004**, not literally **all projects** at Amazon.
LessWrong Jun 17, 2026 at 03:10 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/SGRNbiMi8cojHYtk5/a-400-year-timelin...
- The boy’s name is recorded as Andrew Branning/Brenning, not “Benning,” and archival records show he was still alive after 1801, so the claim that he was hanged is incorrect.
- This overstates the buying power of 12 pence. In Æthelstan’s reign, an ox was valued at a mancus, and a mancus was worth 30 silver pennies.
- William Petty was not Oxford’s professor of medicine. He studied medicine and held anatomy posts there, especially Tomlins Reader/Professor of Anatomy.
Wikipedia Jun 17, 2026 at 02:29 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_FTX
- This reverses the timeline. The Bahamian regulator froze FTX Digital Markets’ assets on November 10, 2022, while FTX’s Chapter 11 petitions were filed on November 11, 2022.
- This gets the sequence wrong. NYDFS says it closed Signature because the bank could not provide a credible liquidity plan; the federal systemic-risk exception was announced afterward, once the bank had already been closed.
Wikipedia Jun 17, 2026 at 02:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTX
- FTX Trading Ltd. operated the FTX exchange, but the crypto hedge fund was Alameda Research, a separate company. Official SEC and CFTC filings describe FTX and Alameda as distinct entities.
- Caroline Ellison was not an Alameda founder. Alameda's own 2021 announcement says Ellison joined the firm in March 2018, after its 2017 founding.
- By December 13, 2022, Bankman-Fried was no longer FTX's CEO. He resigned on November 11, 2022, and John J. Ray III became CEO.
Wikipedia Jun 17, 2026 at 01:24 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_C._M._Paine
- The book’s title is listed incorrectly here: Routledge and Google Play give it as “Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars,” not “...Warfare.”
X Jun 16, 2026 at 09:16 PM
x.com/elder_plinius/status/2066199564936413360
- This was not the first time U.S. export controls were applied to frontier AI. BIS had already announced controls on certain closed AI model weights in January 2025, explicitly describing them as controls on "frontier AI technology."
LessWrong Jun 16, 2026 at 08:48 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/SGRNbiMi8cojHYtk5/a-400-year-timelin...
- The surviving official record says the boy’s death sentence was commuted to transportation for life, not carried out by hanging.
LessWrong Jun 16, 2026 at 08:44 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/BAmPQWsmvBmwdwgWd/does-preservation-...
- Normal adult ventricular volume is much smaller than 200 mL. Standard references put ventricular CSF at roughly 25 mL, with total CSF around 150 mL.
- The cited fixation study does not support a 60-second near-complete immobilization claim. It reports aldehyde fixation times in the range of minutes to over an hour, with glutaraldehyde fixing cytosolic proteins in under 4 minutes, not 60 seconds.
- White matter is not fixed during learning. Reviews of human and animal work report learning-related structural changes in white matter, including myelination and other tract-level changes.
- The figure and paper are about EEG, not ECG. Stecker et al. studied electroencephalogram changes during cooling toward electrocerebral silence.
- The cited DHCA paper does not show that brain activity reliably 'stops completely' at about 16°C. It found substantial inter-patient variability, with complete EEG silence not guaranteed even by 18°C or 30 minutes of cooling.
Wikipedia Jun 16, 2026 at 08:33 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_Culkin
- This is incorrect because Culkin appeared in films before 2010, including Lymelife (2008) and Paper Man (2009). Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was not his first film role after a six-year gap.
- The film title is misspelled here. The 2016 movie Kieran Culkin appeared in is titled *Wiener-Dog*, not *Weiner-Dog*.
Wikipedia Jun 16, 2026 at 08:31 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Reckoning
- Jeff Horwitz was the Wall Street Journal reporter on the story, not a co-whistleblower behind the Facebook leak.
X Jun 16, 2026 at 08:26 PM
x.com/kimmonismus/status/2066459604741997053
- This is misleading on timing and status: Trump fired Chris Krebs in November 2020, not “just” before this June 2026 post. In April 2025, Trump ordered an investigation and revoked any active security clearance held by Krebs, who was already a former official.
Wikipedia Jun 16, 2026 at 08:17 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_la_Vida
- Hannover 96 no longer uses “Viva la Vida” as its goal song; the club says it retired that track, and later identified “Freed From Desire” as the stadium’s goal music.
Wikipedia Jun 16, 2026 at 03:43 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Salerno
- The "without parole" part is incorrect. Salerno's federal sentence was imposed before November 1, 1987, when federal parole was abolished, and contemporaneous reporting stated he had an earliest possible parole date in 2016.
- This is overstated. Contemporary reporting said Salerno was found guilty on 28 counts but acquitted on five, including the Teamsters-election tampering allegations.
Wikipedia Jun 16, 2026 at 02:51 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Moussouris
- The MIT Press book containing that chapter was published in January 2018, not 2017.
Wikipedia Jun 16, 2026 at 01:49 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Cullotta
- Multiple reliable sources place Cullotta’s move to Las Vegas in 1978, not early 1979.
Wikipedia Jun 16, 2026 at 10:19 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab-el-Mandeb
- French Somaliland did not cover the whole 1862–1967 period. The French possession from 1862 to 1896 was the Obock Territory; French Somaliland was established only in 1896 and renamed in 1967.
- This date and description do not match the reported Houthi announcements. Reuters documented a May 3, 2024 threat against ships heading to Israeli ports, while the June 8, 2026 Houthi statement was a Red Sea ban on Israeli maritime navigation—not a May 3, 2026 closure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
X Jun 16, 2026 at 10:16 AM
x.com/HormuzLetter/status/2066604902080491890
- This overstates the deal terms. As of June 15–16, 2026, U.S. officials said no Iranian funds had been released, said "$24 billion" was not in the text they discussed, and described any $300 billion reconstruction fund as conditional rather than money Iran was already receiving.
LessWrong Jun 16, 2026 at 03:59 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/jsmNCj9QKcfdg8fJk/an-introduction-to...
- Anthropic’s policy does not define an “actual capability” this way. The quoted language is part of Anthropic’s definition of an **ASL-3 model**, not a general definition of an AI system’s actual capability.
LessWrong Jun 15, 2026 at 07:53 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/SacB4mg6nJWATKB3Y/a-proposal-for-a-c...
- This boiloff-time formula is too optimistic. For a vented liquid-nitrogen tank, boiloff is set by latent heat only, not latent heat plus warming the gas to room temperature.