Latest Corrections
Substack May 3, 2026 at 07:59 AM
www.eastisread.com/p/chinas-ambassador-in-kyiv-ma-shengkuns?...
- Zakarpattia’s governor was Myroslav Biletskyi, not Oleksandr Biletskyi.
- Oleksandr Turuntsev was the university’s acting rector, not its president.
- Ukraine’s central bank does not have multiple “governors” in this sense; the officials named were deputy governors.
- Serhii Bordeniuk was a board member of the Ukrainian Film Academy, not its chairman.
X May 3, 2026 at 07:57 AM
x.com/fbermingham/status/2050524159533338830
- The quoted source does not say the diplomats were unable to share their concerns internally. It says they did make internal risk warnings and assessments, but those warnings were later shelved.
Substack May 3, 2026 at 07:52 AM
www.pekingnology.com/p/inside-chinas-embassy-in-kyiv-as?utm_...
- This sentence gets both the timing of Ukraine’s wartime legal regime and Kyiv’s curfew wrong. Official Ukrainian sources say martial law took effect at 5:30 a.m. on February 24, 2022, and Kyiv’s curfew announced that day ran from 22:00 to 07:00, not for 72 hours.
Wikipedia May 3, 2026 at 06:59 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strained_yogurt
- The appeal decision was issued on January 28, 2014, not in February 2014.
Wikipedia May 3, 2026 at 05:57 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Franklin
- This is incorrect: several of Josiah Franklin’s siblings clearly lived into adulthood, and some had children and grandchildren.
Wikipedia May 3, 2026 at 05:55 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habit
- This passage incorrectly groups unlike conditions together. BFRBs are self-grooming behaviors such as hair pulling, skin picking, and nail biting; stammering is a speech disorder, and head banging is typically classified as a stereotypic movement disorder.
Wikipedia May 3, 2026 at 05:55 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Duplessis
- Château de Coppet was not Voltaire’s castle. Official château history says Jacques Necker bought it in 1784, and it has remained in Necker’s family since then.
X May 2, 2026 at 11:52 PM
x.com/atlanticesque/status/2050393922862469171
- That overstates the gap. Recent U.S. counts put Subway at about 1.4 times McDonald’s footprint, not anywhere near 2 times.
Wikipedia May 2, 2026 at 09:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_americano
- This is contradicted by Merriam-Webster, which records an English use of “café Americano” in 1943, more than 20 years earlier.
- A lungo is not an Americano made with equal parts espresso and added water. It is a longer espresso extraction, where more water passes through the coffee during brewing.
Wikipedia May 2, 2026 at 11:16 AM
cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A0u_Hi%C4%95k
- Goguryeo did not fall to Silla alone in 668. Reliable histories say it was defeated by the allied forces of Silla and Tang China.
- Baekje was not destroyed by Silla alone in 660. Standard histories say Baekje surrendered to the combined Silla–Tang forces.
Wikipedia May 2, 2026 at 10:48 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostis_humani_generis
- Filártiga did not hold that federal jurisdiction came from the Constitution’s Offenses Clause, and the Second Circuit did not itself find Peña-Irala guilty of torture. It held that the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, supplied jurisdiction over the torture allegations and reversed the dismissal.
- That is too narrow. Courts have also applied the concept to perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity, not only to torturers.
Wikipedia May 2, 2026 at 10:32 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promethea_Pythaitha
- Multiple reliable profiles identify her original name as Jasmine Li Lysistrata, not Jasmine Smith.
- Reliable sources say the name she changed from was Jasmine Li Lysistrata, not Jasmine Smith.
- The Three Hierarchs are honored as saints, bishops, and teachers of Orthodoxy, not as founders of the Orthodox Church.
X May 2, 2026 at 10:27 AM
x.com/RichardHanania/status/2050134160292155401
- The record shown here points to two different workplaces, not one boss whose sex was changed later. The chatbot page is about Morgan Stanley, while the later lawsuit named a JPMorgan executive.
X May 2, 2026 at 10:24 AM
x.com/henrythe9ths/status/2049148130059292743
- Box’s CTO is still Ben Kus in 2026. Official Box pages continue to identify him as Chief Technology Officer, contradicting the claim that Box’s CTO became an Anthropic MTS in December 2025.
- Mike Krieger did not jump from Instagram CTO to Anthropic MTS in January 2026. He had already joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer in May 2024, and the January 2026 move was an internal role change.
X May 2, 2026 at 10:21 AM
x.com/NytroRST/status/2049931767004447035
- The linked article does not show zero-days can be found with *any* model. It reports success with a few specific models and explicitly says at least one tested model, Qwen 3.5 distilled, could not run the workflow.
X May 2, 2026 at 10:16 AM
x.com/Noahpinion/status/2050251692495769774
- OpenAI’s published mission statements say the opposite: since its 2015 launch, it has described its goal as benefiting humanity, not replacing it.
LessWrong May 2, 2026 at 09:52 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/MGoCFnCRYufwTyAD5/agents-can-get-stu...
- Hyperbolic discounting is not necessary for preference reversals. Economists generally treat dynamic inconsistency as arising from non-exponential discounting more broadly, and there are published models of dynamic preference reversal with non-hyperbolic discount functions.
LessWrong May 2, 2026 at 09:44 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/nR3DkyivzF4ve97oM/how-go-players-dis...
- The appeal decision reversed the penalty for lack of proof, but it did not officially clear Metta of wrongdoing.
- Italy was not relegated after the 2017/2018 season: the official 2018/2019 PGETC lineup and standings place Italy in League A, the top division.
- Official PGETC results show Metta lost at least one 2018/2019 game, so he did not go 9–0 that season.
Wikipedia May 2, 2026 at 08:48 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_(Buckelwal)
- Das Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern hat den Rettungsversuch nach eigener Klarstellung nicht genehmigt. Die Behörden erklärten ausdrücklich, dass es rechtlich keine Genehmigung gab und geben konnte; das Vorhaben wurde nur geprüft und geduldet.
Wikipedia May 2, 2026 at 08:35 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
- Official SPLC financial statements put the 2023 endowment around $662 million, not $749 million.
- Official SPLC documents put the 2024 endowment at about $732–738 million, not $822 million.