Latest Corrections
X Oct 9, 2026 at 03:46 AM
x.com/RealAirPower1/status/2107916731377480047
- This is incorrect because B-17 tail gunners had a designated emergency exit. USAAF bailout instructions explicitly told the tail gunner to leave via the tail gunner’s emergency exit.
X Oct 8, 2026 at 05:56 PM
x.com/lefineder/status/2108157632506654891
- The final Oxford Archaeology study did not find 54 young men. It concluded the grave contained between 47 and 52 individuals, and the age range included teenagers and at least one man over 50.
- The excavation report does not support a 'three missing heads' conclusion. Its final analysis compared 47 skulls with 52 skeletons, and it says there is no conclusive evidence that heads were displayed on stakes at Ridgeway Hill.
X Oct 8, 2026 at 05:35 PM
x.com/GonZalocla/status/2108151566784209028
- OpenAI did not say it used 3 hours per problem. Its repo says 3 hours per result, while the model was posed about 4,000 problems, so the 12,000-hour calculation is based on a misquote.
Substack Oct 8, 2026 at 04:13 PM
unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-most-important-tim...
- This is incorrect: Google Cloud was still offering TPUs to external customers, including Trillium and TPU v5e, rather than keeping all TPU capacity for internal use only.
- This overstates what DeepSeek did. The released DeepSeek-R1 system was not trained purely without human input; its own paper says it used supervised fine-tuning stages and alignment to human preferences.
- This is too broad. At the time, at least Meta had not announced that it was building or reopening a reactor; it had only launched an RFP to identify potential nuclear developers.
- This materially overstates recent U.S. wind-and-solar growth. EIA data show wind plus solar generation rose by about 96 TWh from 2023 to 2024, not ~200 TWh.
Wikipedia Oct 8, 2026 at 12:48 PM
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_(wyspa)
- To nie zgadza się z chronologią rewolucji haitańskiej: Haiti ogłosiło niepodległość w 1804, a konstytucja z 1801 r. pozostawiała Saint-Domingue kolonią Francji.
- Po ogłoszeniu niepodległości siły haitańskie rzeczywiście najechały wschodnią część wyspy, ale nie utrzymały jej wtedy pod trwałą kontrolą i wycofały się w 1805 r.
Wikipedia Oct 8, 2026 at 12:13 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull
- The first Barbados HARP test firings were in late January 1963, not January 1962. McGill sources say the gun installation was only completed by January 1963.
- The seizure happened after Bull's March 22, 1990 assassination, not in March itself. BBC and contemporary reporting place the UK customs seizure in April 1990.
Wikipedia Oct 8, 2026 at 11:34 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP
- Errol Barrow was not Prime Minister at that time. In 1962 he was Premier of Barbados; the office was redesignated Prime Minister only in November 1966.
- The record shot is documented as occurring on 19 November 1966, not 18 November, and reaching 180 km rather than 179 km.
Wikipedia Oct 8, 2026 at 11:18 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationale_Atomzeit
- Die PTB war schon deutlich vor 2018 der zentrale Bezugspunkt im UTC-Linknetz. BIPM-Dokumente zeigen ein PTB-zentriertes Ein-Pivot-Netz bereits 2011.
Wikipedia Oct 8, 2026 at 11:18 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomuhr
- Rabi erhielt den Physik-Nobelpreis 1944 nicht für die Entwicklung der Atomuhr, sondern für seine Resonanzmethode zur Messung magnetischer Eigenschaften von Atomkernen.
- Die Angabe verwechselt NIST-F1 mit dem späteren NIST-F2/NIST-F4-Niveau: NIST ordnet NIST-F1 etwa 3×10⁻¹⁶ bzw. rund 1 Sekunde in 100 Millionen Jahren zu, nicht 300 Millionen Jahren.
Wikipedia Oct 8, 2026 at 10:20 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Kaminsky
- The remote-detection technique for Conficker was discovered by Honeynet Project researchers Tillmann Werner and Felix Leder, not by Dan Kaminsky.
- Kaminsky’s Sony estimate was about networks that likely contained at least one infected machine, not a direct count of 568,000 infected computers.
Wikipedia Oct 8, 2026 at 10:18 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker
- Microsoft's own malware documentation dates Conficker.A to November 21, 2008, not early November.
- Microsoft announced the Conficker reward on February 12, 2009, not February 13.
Wikipedia Oct 8, 2026 at 07:38 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Idaho_student_murders
- This sentence collapses two different events. Kohberger’s first Idaho court appearance was in January 2023, but the grand jury indictment was not returned until May 16, 2023.
- This misstates both who granted the motion and when Ada County was assigned. The venue motion was granted by the Latah County district court, and the Idaho Supreme Court later transferred the case to Ada County and assigned Judge Steven Hippler.
Wikipedia Oct 8, 2026 at 07:35 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_Pike
- This misstates the 2022 Booker ruling. Tennessee’s Supreme Court struck down the mandatory juvenile life sentence that required at least 51 years before release eligibility, not a law automatically imposing life without parole.
Substack Oct 8, 2026 at 02:34 AM
earnedintuition.substack.com/p/involution-without-export-is-...
- Being on the BIS Entity List is not a blanket ban on doing business with a company. It creates export-control licensing requirements and red flags, but BIS says U.S. companies can still have dealings or purchases in some circumstances.
- This is too absolute. Chinese state-owned and public-sector organizations also buy cloud services: Tencent says it serves Bank of China and State Grid via Tencent Cloud, and Alibaba markets a government cloud specifically for state-owned enterprises.
- Not all Qwen weights are under Apache 2.0. Official Qwen model pages show some released weights use the Qwen Research License instead.
X Oct 7, 2026 at 06:42 PM
x.com/StokeyyG2/status/2107529555074506867
- That broader “first person” claim is wrong. Guinness says the first verified circumnavigation by walking was completed by David Kunst in 1974; Bushby’s bid is the narrower feat of an unbroken round-the-world walk without transport.
X Oct 7, 2026 at 06:36 PM
x.com/StokeyyG2/status/2107529555074506867
- Bushby is not attempting to be the first person ever to walk around the world. Guinness World Records says the first verified walking circumnavigation was completed by David Kunst in 1974; Bushby’s challenge is a more specific 'unbroken' no-transport version.
Wikipedia Oct 7, 2026 at 06:27 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_games_conjecture
- In the Min vertex cover row, the NP-hardness factor is not 2−ε. The unconditional NP-hardness cited in the literature is √2−o(1); 2−ε is the stronger hardness known under the Unique Games Conjecture.
X Oct 7, 2026 at 06:23 PM
x.com/konstiwohlwend/status/2107872422825537599
- This misdescribes why the published exponents look 'ugly.' In the cited papers, those exponents are the actual theorem or abstract bounds proved for all input sizes/asymptotically, not artifacts of restricting the proof to some arbitrary cutoff like 2^50.
X Oct 7, 2026 at 06:13 PM
x.com/ereliuer_eteer/status/2107618065869574208
- The repo's manuscript filenames span at least September 17, 2026 to October 5, 2026, not September 23 to October 3. That makes the "ten days" estimate too short.
Wikipedia Oct 7, 2026 at 04:13 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan
- Hasan’s Virginia Tech degree was a Bachelor of Science, not a Bachelor of Arts.
- The Army Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Hasan’s sentence on December 11, 2020, not December 7, 2020.
- CAAF’s decision affirming Hasan’s sentence was issued on March 4, 2024, not September 11, 2023.