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Wikipedia May 8, 2026 at 01:52 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz
  • This is incorrect. In 2013 the UN said UNCLOS had 165 parties including the EU, and countries named here as supposed non-parties—such as Egypt and South Korea—had already ratified years earlier.
  • The count is wrong. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea says there are currently 172 States Parties to UNCLOS, not 157.
  • These figures are too low. EIA estimated roughly 20.9 million barrels per day through Hormuz in the first half of 2025, and bypass pipeline capacity at about 4.7 million b/d from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, plus about 0.3 million b/d from Iran's Goreh-Jask line.
  • This overstates the case because the UAE is not dependent on Hormuz as its only sea outlet. The UAE has Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman, outside the Strait of Hormuz, and EIA notes the UAE can bypass the strait via its Fujairah export route.
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Wikipedia May 8, 2026 at 12:42 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProFTPD
  • This stable-release entry is outdated. The ProFTPD project's official GitHub releases page lists v1.3.9a, released on April 27, 2026, as the latest release.
  • This preview-release version is outdated. The official ProFTPD GitHub releases page lists v1.3.10rc1, released on April 27, 2026, as the current pre-release.
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X May 8, 2026 at 12:38 AM
x.com/heyrimsha/status/2052352190216650864
  • Screenshot Guru does not work for every webpage. Its own site says it cannot capture login-protected pages, Flash embeds, or some AJAX-based sites like Google Maps.
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X May 8, 2026 at 12:16 AM
x.com/creepydotorg/status/2052483524666479025
  • Museum sources describe the table item as a gun plus a single bullet, not a pre-loaded gun. The gun was loaded later by a participant during the performance.
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X May 8, 2026 at 12:09 AM
x.com/hanno_sauer/status/2052291727738724823
  • This misstates what Scott Alexander wrote. In the cited essay he referred to a “Michelin-starred steakhouse” — a steakhouse that has Michelin stars — not to Michelin-starred restaurants in general as if they were all steakhouses.
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Wikipedia May 8, 2026 at 12:08 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lindahl_(criminal)
  • The date is wrong. Multiple reports on the 2020 case announcement say Pamela Maurer left a friend's house on January 12, 1976 and her body was found the next day, January 13.
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Wikipedia May 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furman_v._Georgia
  • The California Supreme Court case was People v. Anderson, not California v. Anderson.
  • McGautha did not reject a separate penalty phase with aggravating and mitigating evidence. It upheld California’s use of one and rejected the argument that Ohio was constitutionally required to adopt that procedure.
  • Furman did not categorically invalidate capital punishment for rape. It invalidated the death sentences in those cases and the discretionary statutes at issue; states later reenacted rape death-penalty laws until Coker barred death for the rape of an adult woman.
  • The Gregg plurality was a three-Justice opinion, not a four-Justice one. Any fourth supportive vote came from a separate concurrence, not the plurality itself.
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Wikipedia May 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Canada
  • The September 4, 2022 Saskatchewan stabbings killed 11 victims and injured 17 others, not 10 killed out of 28 stabbed.
  • The Toronto van attack did not injure 26 people. The final toll was 11 killed and 15 injured.
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Wikipedia May 7, 2026 at 11:46 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
  • This location is wrong. The Dawson Massacre occurred near Salado Creek east of San Antonio, not at the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar.
  • This location is incorrect. The Black Bean Episode happened at Salado in Coahuila, Mexico, not Salado, Texas.
  • The date is wrong. The Camilla Massacre occurred on September 19, 1868, not September 23.
  • The date is incorrect. The Dawson Massacre took place on September 18, 1842, not September 17.
  • This death toll is too high. The West Nickel Mines school shooting killed five students and the gunman, for six deaths total.
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Wikipedia May 7, 2026 at 11:39 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Eugene_Brashers
  • Later reporting based on Brashers’ naval records says he enlisted in the Navy, not the Army, and served for only about 10 months rather than several years.
  • APD’s September 26, 2025 release did not say Brashers had been conclusively identified as the perpetrator; it said police had identified him as a suspect and that the investigation remained open.
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Wikipedia May 7, 2026 at 11:35 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roper_v._Simmons
  • This overstates Miller v. Alabama. Miller did not ban all life-without-parole sentences for minors; it banned only mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders.
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Wikipedia May 7, 2026 at 11:35 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_McDuff
  • Not all three victims were visiting from California. Contemporary reporting identifies Edna Sullivan as an Everman girl and Robert Brand as being from nearby Alvarado; only Mark Dunnam was from Tarzana, California.
  • Temple is not 48 miles south of Waco. Standard Texas geographic references place Temple about 36 miles south of Waco.
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Wikipedia May 7, 2026 at 11:31 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Austin_yogurt_shop_murders
  • The yogurt shop’s address is reported by official and contemporaneous sources as 2949 West Anderson Lane, not 2947.
  • This compresses two separate reversals into the wrong year. Springsteen’s conviction was overturned in 2006, and Scott’s was overturned in 2007.
  • The law does not cover cold cases in general. It applies to murders under federal law that were investigated by a federal law enforcement entity.
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Wikipedia May 7, 2026 at 07:34 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
  • This is outdated for certificate revocation. Mozilla says Firefox’s current CRLite revocation system no longer uses Bloom-filter cascades; it now uses a Clubcard/Ribbon-filter design, and Firefox 137 removed support for the legacy Bloom-filter format.
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X May 7, 2026 at 10:52 AM
x.com/jmkettle/status/2051681549276336498
  • This overstates German law. Germany does not ban three-star restaurant reviews; star ratings are generally treated as protected opinions, though specific reviews can still be unlawful in narrower cases such as false factual allegations or fake/non-customer reviews.
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X May 7, 2026 at 10:48 AM
x.com/gabriberton/status/2051873677998956851
  • The "microwavegang" loss-spike anecdote was not about GPT-3. Nathan Lambert said it was an Ai2 example that affected "our earlier models," not OpenAI's GPT-3.
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X May 7, 2026 at 10:43 AM
x.com/sebkrier/status/2050683100129042472
  • The date is off by about a decade: Trithemius’s *De laude scriptorum* is associated with 1492 (composition/dedication) and 1494 (printing), not 1482.
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X May 7, 2026 at 10:39 AM
x.com/KatieMiller/status/2051748515945046354
  • Greg Brockman did not found Stripe. Stripe identifies Patrick and John Collison as its cofounders, while OpenAI’s own launch post described Brockman as Stripe’s former CTO.
  • That blanket statement is false. Delaware law expressly allows entity-type conversions and also allows nonstock corporations to merge or consolidate with stock corporations, with the resulting corporation permitted to be organized for profit.
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Wikipedia May 7, 2026 at 10:29 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Spacey
  • Spacey wurde 2025 in Cannes nicht vom offiziellen Festival geehrt. Die Auszeichnung kam von der Better World Fund Gala, die laut Berichterstattung kein offizieller Teil der Filmfestspiele von Cannes war.
  • Anthony Rapp erstattete 2020 keine Strafanzeige gegen Spacey, sondern reichte eine Zivilklage ein. Das Verfahren in New York war ein Zivilprozess, kein zuvor „mangels Beweisen“ verworfenes Strafverfahren.
  • Die aktuelle offizielle MPTF-Seite führt Kevin Spacey nicht in den Leitungsgremien. In den derzeit veröffentlichten Listen des 'Board of Directors' und 'Board of Governors' taucht sein Name nicht auf.
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Wikipedia May 7, 2026 at 09:35 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_%26_Mertz
  • The company’s name is Werner & Mertz, not “Werner & Metz.” Official Werner & Mertz pages consistently use “Mertz,” including in historical summaries.
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