Latest Corrections
X Sep 28, 2026 at 06:51 AM
x.com/gabyvivassa/status/2104278477197529512
- Published linguistic analyses do not support the claim that Maltese is “70% Arabic.” University of Malta sources instead put Arabic/Semitic-origin vocabulary at roughly one-third of Maltese, with a majority of words coming from Sicilian/Italian and other non-Semitic sources.
X Sep 28, 2026 at 06:31 AM
x.com/ericjang11/status/2104429165910917225
- This is misleading because Qwen 3.8 Flash Next is not released as an open-source model in the standard licensing sense; Alibaba describes it as open-weight, and its custom license restricts some commercial uses.
X Sep 28, 2026 at 05:55 AM
x.com/KarbonVT/status/2103867756244582546
- This overstates the NRC rule. The aircraft-impact requirement is not for all U.S. nuclear plants, and the regulation does not specifically require proving survivability against a Boeing 747.
X Sep 28, 2026 at 05:50 AM
x.com/tadgh78/status/2104367502591697140
- This is incorrect because Facebook did not exist in 2003. Meta and The Harvard Crimson both state that Facebook launched on February 4, 2004.
LessWrong Sep 28, 2026 at 05:33 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/QKDoZe6EKhxnFjLWK/is-mythos-good-at-...
- Public MiniMax materials describe the M2 series as roughly 230B total parameters with about 10B activated parameters, not 20B.
Wikipedia Sep 28, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custard
- This misstates French culinary terminology. In French sources, *crème moulée* is a specific preparation derived from *crème anglaise*, not the general French term for 'custard,' and French *crèmes* also include starch-thickened preparations such as *crème pâtissière*.
X Sep 28, 2026 at 05:22 AM
x.com/hexprax/status/2104251717642842366
- At least one person featured on "To Catch a Predator" did not go to the sting house. Bill Conradt was included in the Murphy, Texas episode even though he never showed up at the meeting location.
- The public record does not support a claim that "over half" of the show's cases were impossible to prosecute. Contemporary reporting described hundreds of arrests and prosecutions, with the famously botched Murphy, Texas cases numbering about two dozen, not a majority.
Wikipedia Sep 28, 2026 at 05:22 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Response_Route
- The ARR was not operational in 2023. Official UK government guidance says it became operational in April 2024 and was discontinued on 4 July 2025.
- This is too broad. John Healey, who was Labour's Shadow Defence Secretary and part of the front bench, was officially briefed on the ARR on 12 December 2023, before the 2024 general election.
- The Rimmer review was not a 2024 review. Official sources say it was commissioned in early 2025 and concluded in June 2025.
- Official statements say ARR arrivals were included in regular Home Office statistics and existing migration figures, not excluded from immigration statistics.
Wikipedia Sep 28, 2026 at 04:57 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CornerShot
- The development period here is wrong. Contemporary reports and the manufacturer say South Korea’s CornerShot program started in September 2008 and was completed in February 2010, not in 2015.
X Sep 28, 2026 at 04:10 AM
x.com/MilkTFT/status/2104188181566435546
- This is false. Europe manufactures large volumes of goods; Eurostat reported the EU's sold industrial production at €6.09 trillion in 2025.
Wikipedia Sep 28, 2026 at 03:23 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian
- This is outdated: earlier obsidian tool use is documented at Melka Kunture, Ethiopia, around 1.7 million years ago, well before Kariandusi’s roughly 700,000-year-old evidence.
- For the large stone moai, the eye surrounds were coral, not bird bone. Sources describe white coral eyes with obsidian or red scoria pupils.
Wikipedia Sep 28, 2026 at 03:21 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian_(software)
- This stable-release version is outdated. Obsidian's official changelog shows a newer public desktop release, 1.13.7, published on August 12, 2026.
- This preview-release version is outdated. Obsidian's official changelog shows newer early-access (Catalyst) releases, including 1.14.2 Desktop on September 15, 2026.
- This language count is too low. Obsidian's official translations repository currently lists 51 app languages marked as available.
Wikipedia Sep 28, 2026 at 03:17 AM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupfersteinzeit
- Die Halaf-Kultur wird in der Forschung gewöhnlich als spätneolithisch, nicht als chalkolithisch, eingeordnet. Auch die übliche Datierung liegt deutlich früher, etwa bei 6100–5300/5100 v. Chr., nicht bei 5200–4500 v. Chr.
X Sep 28, 2026 at 03:11 AM
x.com/chr1sa/status/2104256047812861953
- This is too absolute. Genomics ethicists had already anticipated both relatives' privacy risks and law-enforcement uses of DNA years before consumer DNA databases became widespread.
- This is incorrect as stated. There are documented cases of insurers using genetic information against people, and U.S. law was later strengthened specifically to stop health plans from using genetic information to set premiums.
Wikipedia Sep 28, 2026 at 03:06 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayreuth
- This reopening date is outdated. Bayreuth’s official project pages say the renovation was delayed past 2023, with first events not before 2025 and the official opening planned for late August 2026.
- The percentage here is wrong. Bayreuth’s official 2026 local-election results list Die Unabhängigen (The Independents) at 3.6%, not 5.0%.
- That direct train claim is no longer true. Deutsche Bahn’s current journey page for Bayreuth–Dresden says there is no direct connection and at least one change is required.
- This is outdated. Bayreuth’s professional basketball club is currently in the BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga (ProA), not Germany’s top division.
- This is outdated. EHC Bayreuth’s official team page lists the senior side in the Landesliga Bayern for the 2026/27 season, not in DEL2.
- At least the SpVgg Bayreuth part of this is outdated. The club’s official fixture list shows its first team playing in the Regionalliga, not the Bavarian League.
LessWrong Sep 28, 2026 at 12:36 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/zxXPEtSSSEdwpjopb/we-ve-saved-the-wo...
- This compresses two inaccuracies: the post was published on September 20, 2026, but the Montreal Protocol was signed on September 16, 1987; and the original 1987 Protocol did not ban CFCs outright, but set a phased reduction schedule that was later strengthened.
- The Montreal Protocol is not the only universally ratified treaty: the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer also has universal ratification.
LessWrong Sep 27, 2026 at 10:06 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/LJbKwctaioqp2Hi4b/superintelligence-...
- Anthropic did not report that Claude had fully taken over 26% of all R&D. Its published metric says Claude "leads" 26% of Anthropic’s AI R&D work, with human supervision, and explicitly says Claude is not fully autonomous in any measured subset.
LessWrong Sep 27, 2026 at 08:06 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/6cb7qd3RSkgnviCpf/swarm-scaling
- Those totals are for OpenAI’s entire multi-problem effort, not for the Navier–Stokes run itself. OpenAI says the Navier–Stokes run used about 2.7 million messages and 130 billion output tokens.
- That multi-million-dollar estimate refers to OpenAI’s whole week-long 300B-token effort, not specifically to the 10,000-agent Navier–Stokes swarm. OpenAI says the Navier–Stokes run itself used about 130B output tokens, less than half of the total.
Wikipedia Sep 27, 2026 at 07:33 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_McNulty
- McNulty did not finish first at the 2026 Road World Championships in Montréal. Official results show he was 4th in the elite men's time trial.
- This table entry is wrong: McNulty finished 10th, not 6th, in the 2024 elite men's time trial at the Road World Championships.
Wikipedia Sep 27, 2026 at 05:52 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Onley
- This team name is outdated for Onley’s 2021–2022 seasons. Multiple cycling records list him with Development Team DSM, not Development Team Sunweb, in both years.