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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- This reopening date is outdated.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- This is outdated.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- This is outdated.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- At least the SpVgg Bayreuth part of this is outdated.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.
Substack Sep 27, 2026 at 05:12 PM
quillette.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-scott-alexander
- This misstates the RAND report. The quoted line was the report’s starting hypothesis, not its conclusion; RAND’s findings said AI-driven extinction was immensely challenging but "could not rule out the possibility."
Substack Sep 27, 2026 at 12:12 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-later
- Andy Burnham did become UK prime minister in July 2026, but not through a UK general election for prime minister. He first won the Labour Party leadership, and then was appointed prime minister under the UK parliamentary system.
- The project’s official name is the Interborough Express, not “Inter-Borough Expressway,” and the MTA describes it as a proposed light rail line rather than a subway expansion.
X Sep 27, 2026 at 11:52 AM
x.com/giffmana/status/2103946304690798603
- This reply is addressed to Melanie Mitchell, but Timnit Gebru was not Melanie Mitchell’s coauthor on the 2021 "Stochastic Parrots" paper.
- This reply is to Melanie Mitchell, but Melanie Mitchell did not co-coin the "stochastic parrot" term in the 2021 paper.
Wikipedia Sep 27, 2026 at 10:32 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndics_of_the_Drapers'_Guild
- Museum provenance records say the portrait was commissioned by the sitters themselves, not by the guild as an institution.
- Official descriptions identify the book on the table as an open sample book used in cloth inspection, not accounting records.
Wikipedia Sep 27, 2026 at 10:31 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild
- The current official membership figure for The NewsGuild-CWA is about 26,000 members, not over 30,000.
- City & Guilds says its highest qualification level is comparable to a doctoral level, not post-doctoral achievement.
Wikipedia Sep 27, 2026 at 10:31 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chapelier_Law_1791
- The 25 May 1864 Ollivier law addressed strikes, but it did not restore workers’ freedom to form trade unions or professional associations. In France, unions were legally authorized later, by the Waldeck-Rousseau law of 21 March 1884.
- The 25 May 1864 Ollivier law did not fully repeal the Le Chapelier regime. It removed the criminal offense of worker coalition/strike action, but professional unions were legalized only later, in 1884.
Wikipedia Sep 27, 2026 at 10:22 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap%E2%80%93bath_split
- This overgeneralizes Cornwall and Bristol. Recent research finds a BATH/TRAP distinction in both areas, though it is often realized differently from Received Pronunciation.
LessWrong Sep 27, 2026 at 10:17 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/HekpnSkrt89tMm3Dc/i-am-an-ai-safety-...
- MIRI’s own history says it stopped pursuing AGI-building very early on. Around 2003 it pivoted to alignment research, and its later work is described as field-building and alignment research rather than building AI systems.
X Sep 27, 2026 at 09:30 AM
x.com/lovejesusYT/status/2103822893922890144
- インドは「高額紙幣の発行をやめた」わけではありません。2016年に旧₹500・₹1000札を失効させた一方で、その後に新₹500札と₹2000札を発行しており、RBIは現在も₹500札を発行中、₹2000札も法定通貨だと案内しています。
X Sep 27, 2026 at 09:01 AM
x.com/galileo_fun/status/2103951753469141453
- This overstates the science. Studies on desert solar panels report hypothetical, scale-dependent rainfall increases in climate-model simulations—not a general real-world result that deserts simply start raining once panels are installed.
X Sep 27, 2026 at 08:15 AM
x.com/nypost/status/2103763280766341625/photo/1
- That misstates what Sharon Stone said. Her published remark was about Sydney Sweeney continuing sexually provocative branding, not refusing to appear nude.
Wikipedia Sep 27, 2026 at 06:42 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Library
- This parenthetical is reversed: Los Angeles Railway later became Los Angeles Transit Lines, not Southern California Railway.
- Current library and Library of Congress sources say there are 12 surviving vellum copies, not 11.
- The Huntington’s current fact sheet reports 9.2 million manuscripts, so this understates the size of the manuscript holdings.
- The Huntington itself says it had already exhibited 27 corpse-flower blooms by July 2025, with additional blooms in July 2026.
Wikipedia Sep 27, 2026 at 06:42 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino,_California
- San Marino no longer holds City Council elections in odd-numbered years. Its municipal code says council elections are held in even-numbered years beginning in November 2022.
- This is outdated. San Marino's official city website currently lists Tony Chou as mayor, not Gretchen Shepherd Romey.
- This is outdated. San Marino's official city website currently lists Calvin Lo as vice mayor; Tony Chou is the mayor.
- These collection counts are outdated. The Huntington's official site now lists different totals, including 9.2 million manuscripts and 512,000 digital files.
- This is incorrect. The 1920 Census listed San Marino as an incorporated place ('San Marino city'), not as a census-designated place.
Wikipedia Sep 27, 2026 at 06:42 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulholland_Highway
- Mulholland Highway itself is described by official park agencies as about 30 miles long, not 50 miles.
- That eastern stretch is officially identified as Mulholland Drive, not Mulholland Highway.