Latest Corrections
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 07:15 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_of_the_Army_(United_States)
- General of the Army is not the highest rank in the U.S. Army. General of the Armies is senior to it.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 06:51 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_Sr.
- This job description is wrong. Sources say Obama first worked for an oil company, and only later worked as a government economist.
- This reverses the timeline. Obama returned to Kenya in July 1964, but Harvard says his master’s degree was awarded in 1965.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 06:49 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham
- University of Hawaiʻi sources identify Dunham’s degrees as BA ’67 in Mathematics, MA ’83 in Anthropology, and PhD ’92 in Anthropology—not BA/MA in anthropology with the MA in 1974.
- This gets both the rank and timing wrong: Indonesia’s official honors hierarchy places Bintang Jasa below Bintang Republik Indonesia and Bintang Mahaputera, and archival records date Dunham’s Bintang Jasa Utama certificate to March 18, 2010, not December 2010.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 06:46 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Young_Truman
- The Trumans’ first child was recorded as stillborn, not as dying a few days after birth.
LessWrong Jun 12, 2026 at 06:09 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/TTHi7yNheaoepWKfR/reward-hacking-at-...
- This is incorrect because communism is not "long gone": multiple present-day states still define themselves as socialist and are led by communist parties.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 06:00 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Story_(rower)
- Chris Pincher’s 2017 office of Comptroller of HM Household was a Government Whip role, not an Assistant Whip role. Official government records list "Assistant Government Whip" as a separate earlier post that ended before he became Comptroller.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 05:57 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pincher
- This is incorrect: after June 2022, Pincher continued to participate in Commons business by submitting written parliamentary questions in 2023.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 05:54 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restore_Britain
- UK Parliament’s official record shows Rupert Lowe’s parliamentary party affiliation to Restore Britain began on 20 March 2026, not 23 March 2026.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 05:53 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pincher_scandal
- The July 2023 report on Pincher was published by the House of Commons Committee on Standards, based on an investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards—not by a body called the "Parliamentary Standards Commission."
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 05:52 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader_of_Reform_UK
- Nigel Farage was not the founder of the party that became Reform UK. The Brexit Party was founded by Catherine Blaiklock, who was also its first leader.
- Boris Johnson was not prime minister during Catherine Blaiklock's January-March 2019 tenure. Theresa May was prime minister until 24 July 2019.
LessWrong Jun 12, 2026 at 05:00 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gBtGLsqshdTdis7Yn/how-bad-would-it-b...
- This overstates first-year U.S. COVID mortality. CDC reported 513,122 total U.S. COVID deaths by March 2, 2021, and a national analysis covering March 2020 through April 2021 counted 519,320 official COVID deaths.
LessWrong Jun 12, 2026 at 04:41 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gBtGLsqshdTdis7Yn/how-bad-would-it-b...
- The well-known Newark jammer incident affected Newark Liberty Airport’s GPS-based aviation system, not the Port of Newark or harbor operations.
- That overstates the NIST findings. NIST says wireless service would degrade after about 48 hours, but experts disagreed on timing; one estimated complete failure after about 2 weeks, while others expected some voice/text service even after 30 days.
- That death count is too high for the pandemic’s first year in the U.S. By late April 2021, CDC had reported about 566,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths, and a peer-reviewed excess-mortality estimate for March 2020–April 2021 was 666,000 total excess deaths.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 03:06 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Bores
- The gene-synthesis biosecurity bill was sponsored by Alex Bores, not merely co-sponsored by him.
- The federal agency’s official name is the Department of Veterans Affairs, not the "Department of Veteran Affairs."
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 03:01 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Lasher
- Official NYC Board of Elections results do not support 52.82%. Lasher received 7,410 votes out of 14,081 votes cast for candidates in the primary, which is about 52.6% (or 52.63%), not 52.82%.
Substack Jun 12, 2026 at 03:00 PM
www.slowboring.com/p/hard-work-is-good
- This sentence groups together governors who did different things. John Bel Edwards did expand Medicaid in Louisiana, but Kansas had still not adopted Medicaid expansion as of May–June 2026, so Laura Kelly had not "solved" that issue; and Kentucky’s original expansion was adopted under former Gov. Steve Beshear, not Andy Beshear.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 11:29 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn?utm_source=newsletter&utm_med...
- This overstates the scope of the Apple deal. Reactor later corrected its report after hearing from Sanderson’s agent, saying Apple acquired adaptation rights only for Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive, not the entire Cosmere universe.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 09:19 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karstadt
- Karstadt’s 2013 operating income was not €2.673 billion. Contemporary reporting shows Karstadt’s 2012/13 EBIT was negative, while roughly €2.7 billion was its revenue.
- Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt was not Karstadt’s continuing CEO. She resigned on 7 July 2014, and Stephan Fanderl was appointed the new Karstadt chief in October 2014.
- This ownership statement is outdated. Since 2024, Central Group has taken over the remaining Signa stake, so Signa no longer holds a 49% minority shareholding in the KaDeWe Group.
- This is no longer true. Galeria moved its headquarters from Essen to Düsseldorf in 2025.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 09:18 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karstadt
- Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH was not dissolved by being merged into Kaufhof. The legal merger was completed only in January 2020, and Kaufhof’s rights and obligations transferred to Karstadt as the surviving entity.
- July 1, 2020 was the date insolvency proceedings were opened, not the date the insolvency filing was made. The debtor’s application was received on April 1, 2020.
- March 25, 2019 was the launch of the joint GALERIA brand, not the dissolution date of Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH. The legal merger happened in January 2020.
Substack Jun 12, 2026 at 08:04 AM
www.kennethpayne.uk/p/shall-we-play-a-game
- The paper does not report a 25% de-escalation rate for tactical nuclear use. It says 25% applies to all nuclear-level actions, while tactical nuclear use specifically produced lower de-escalation rates.
Wikipedia Jun 12, 2026 at 07:25 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
- Hoover led the FBI, but he did not found it. The Bureau traces its origin to 1908, and the FBI identifies Stanley Finch as the Bureau’s first leader.
- Hoover was not the first unelected government official to lie in state in the Capitol. The Architect of the Capitol lists several earlier unelected honorees, including George Dewey, John J. Pershing, and Douglas MacArthur.
- At Little Bohemia, the gangsters were not in FBI custody and did not ‘free themselves from captivity.’ FBI histories say agents attempted a raid, but the gangsters escaped before agents had fully surrounded the lodge.
- At Little Bohemia, one FBI agent and one civilian were killed—not two agents and one civilian. FBI histories identify Agent W. Carter Baum and a civilian Conservation Corps worker as the fatalities.