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LessWrong Mar 21, 2026 at 10:53 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/reitXJgJXFzKpdKyd/beware-trivial-inc...
- China’s internet censorship has never removed *all* politically sensitive content. Credible reporting and later large-scale research both describe it as selective and incomplete, with some criticism and dissident material remaining accessible.
LessWrong Mar 21, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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- This overstates the difference. Reported CO2 levels in submarines and spacecraft are usually only a few times higher than ordinary indoor air, not 10–100× higher, and submarine averages can overlap common civilian exposure limits.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 09:42 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool
- This is incorrect: English sources used the word "maelstrom" centuries before Poe. Major dictionaries date its first known English use to 1588 and describe Poe as helping popularize it, not coin it.
- This widely repeated figure is wrong. Credible university sources describe Lake Peigneur after the disaster as about 200 feet deep, not 1,300 feet deep.
- These casualty counts are far too high. Credible accounts of the Lake Peigneur disaster report 11 barges and one tugboat being swallowed, not 19 barges and 8 tugboats.
- The speed figure here is overstated. Norwegian reference and oceanographic sources describe Moskstraumen at roughly 6 knots (about 11 km/h) to 5 m/s (about 18 km/h), not 32 km/h.
LessWrong Mar 21, 2026 at 06:45 PM
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- Shiu et al.'s 2024 model was not a full model of every neuron and connection in the adult fly brain. The paper says it was built from the adult Drosophila central brain connectome and modeled about 127,400 neurons, whereas the whole-brain FlyWire connectome contains 139,255 neurons.
Substack Mar 21, 2026 at 04:43 PM
peterwildeford.substack.com/p/the-fordow-paradox-where-do-ir...
- The pre-2231 UN sanctions on Iran were targeted measures, not a blanket ban on all trade with Iran, and UN Security Council sanctions do not automatically create U.S.-style worldwide secondary sanctions.
Substack Mar 21, 2026 at 04:40 PM
peterwildeford.substack.com/p/the-pentagons-war-on-anthropic
- That misstates how broad the Defense Production Act is. The DPA is also used for preparedness and emergency response, including natural disasters and COVID-era industrial-base and medical-supply efforts — not only acute national-security emergencies.
Substack Mar 21, 2026 at 04:37 PM
nathanpmyoung.substack.com/p/my-vibes-are-shifting-on-ai-ris...
- ChatGPT did not launch in 2024. OpenAI publicly released ChatGPT on November 30, 2022.
Substack Mar 21, 2026 at 04:24 PM
sortega.substack.com/p/interesting-reading-in-november-60d
- The book title is incorrect: Max Harms’s novel is titled *Red Heart*, not *Read Heart*.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 01:13 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(web_standard)
- This overstates the difference from AtomPub. Micropub does use OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens, but AtomPub does not mandate HTTP Basic Authentication as its authentication method.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 10:57 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk
- This overstates how deer musk is obtained. Authoritative sources say musk has traditionally been harvested by killing musk deer, but it can also be extracted from live adult males.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 10:47 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
- This list of “gateway providers” is inaccurate. IPFS is the network/protocol itself, not a provider, and the complaint identified the gateway companies as Cloudflare, Protocol Labs (IPFS.io), and Pinata.
- The $30 million default judgment was entered on September 24, 2024, not September 26, 2024.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 10:44 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-library
- The underlying traffic source reports about 2.84 million visits, not 2.84 million users.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 02:16 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_objectification
- Cahill’s term is "derivatization," not "derivitization." Her book title page, description, and chapter list consistently use the spelling "derivatization."
- Cahill calls this concept "derivatization," not "derivitization." The sentence is describing the right idea under the wrong term.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 02:07 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites
- The Yahoo! News Japan entry’s country is wrong. LY Corporation, which operates Yahoo! JAPAN services, is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, not the United States.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 02:04 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornification
- Carl's Jr.'s shift away from sexualized ads began in March 2017, not 2019. Multiple contemporaneous reports describe the brand's 'food, not boobs' rebrand as launching in 2017.
- The cited Friends study did not find that teens changed their sexual behavior. It measured recall, beliefs, self-reported learning, and parent discussions—not whether teens engaged in safer sexual activity.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 02:00 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreimo
- This credits Airi Mori as the writer of the Kuroneko If manga, but official KADOKAWA listings credit Tsukasa Fushimi as the original author and Airi Mori as the manga artist.
- The two seasons do not have the exact same staff. Official staff lists show multiple changes beyond the studio switch, including different art director and editor credits.
- The July 27 date for volume 8 is correct, but volume 7 did not release on June 27. The official Blu-ray/DVD page lists volume 7 as releasing on June 22, 2011.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 01:58 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Japan#Pornographic_censo...
- This is overstated. SCAP removed Japan’s prewar censorship laws, but the occupation authorities also imposed their own press censorship immediately afterward.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 01:55 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8D_Nakata
- This misstates both the date and the legal action. On July 3, 2019, Tokyo police referred the case to prosecutors; they did not "charge" Nakata on July 2.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 01:54 AM
jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/lo_jbobau
- This consonant count is wrong: `denpa bu` (the period) is a mandatory pause marker, not a consonant, and the apostrophe is a special phoneme rather than an ordinary consonant.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 01:44 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut
- These figures do not match the 2016 census. Statistics Canada reports 65,025 Inuit in 2016 and 36,185 people with Inuktitut as a mother tongue, not 70,540 and 37,570.
- This count is wrong. The Northwest Territories currently recognizes nine official Aboriginal languages, not eight.