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LessWrong Oct 20, 2026 at 09:26 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/m4fWCPqWkpb39SKi7/a-chinese-perspect...
- This gets the timeline wrong. Official Chinese government sources say most provincial-level regions had already ended the arts/science stream split by 2024, not 2025.
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 09:21 AM
ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9k%C3%A8%27
- This etymology is incorrect. Scholarly and primary-source evidence shows forms of Igbo "beke/becca" were already in use for Europeans decades before William Balfour Baikie traveled up the Niger.
X Oct 20, 2026 at 09:16 AM
x.com/Panchenko_X/status/2112114561184674300
- Official Maidan case records reviewed by the Council of Europe say the 13 law-enforcement deaths in Kyiv were from gunshot/firearm wounds, not from being burned alive by Molotov cocktails.
Substack Oct 20, 2026 at 08:53 AM
thezvi.substack.com/p/monthly-roundup-47-october-2026?open=f...
- Baidu’s own 2026 disclosures say Apollo Go operated in far more than six cities.
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 08:32 AM
ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A7%E...
- This is outdated. Signal removed SMS support from its Android app, so it no longer functions as an SMS app.
- The date is wrong. French women obtained the right to vote on April 21, 1944; on October 21, 1945 they voted for the first time in a national election.
- This appears to misidentify the location. The major October 19, 1991 earthquake with about 2,000 deaths was in Uttarkashi/Uttaranchal, India, not northern Italy.
X Oct 20, 2026 at 08:06 AM
x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2112295219765137570
- Anthropic’s published figure was not 0% in March. Its own release says Claude led 26% of AI R&D as of August 2026, and reports on that release put the earlier figure at about 1% in March (or under 1% in February).
X Oct 20, 2026 at 07:20 AM
x.com/BoringBiz_/status/2112333071898882297
- This line contains a math error: 300 hours × $154/hour equals $46,200, not $38K/year.
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 07:08 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Chicago_Bulls_season
- DeRozan's buzzer-beaters were not the first back-to-back game-winning buzzer-beaters in NBA history. They were the first on consecutive days; Larry Bird had already done it in consecutive games in January 1985.
X Oct 20, 2026 at 06:17 AM
x.com/peter_sarris/status/2112205356868804632
- Reporting does confirm two Bangladeshis were executed in Saudi Arabia, but available evidence does not support that they were newly married or that the execution was for a forehead kiss. Saudi and Bangladeshi reporting instead describes the case as an "indecent/immoral act" or adultery allegation, and Nazrul Islam’s father said the two were not married.
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 03:43 AM
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E6%A9%8B%E7%A5%90%E7%B4%80
- この代表データの更新日付は誤りです。JFA公式記録では大橋祐紀のA代表1試合目は2024年11月15日、2試合目は2025年6月5日で、2024年11月16日時点で2試合にはなっていません。
LessWrong Oct 20, 2026 at 01:46 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ozbbzsh49wvgfbCDp/twitch-plays-ai-in...
- The project's own merge-procedure docs say CI re-scores only up to two new results per pull request, not every submitted result.
Wikipedia Oct 20, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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- 2012年に公式戦出場がなかったというのは誤りです。NPB公式の二軍（ウエスタン・リーグ）成績では、山下斐紹は2012年に多数の公式戦へ出場しています。
X Oct 19, 2026 at 10:31 PM
x.com/5VBZER0/status/2110865966251085905
- This points-per-game comparison is backwards. Ja Morant averaged 27.4 PPG in 2021-22 and 26.2 PPG in 2022-23 with Memphis' Morant/Bane/Jaren Jackson Jr. core, while Damian Lillard averaged 24.3 and 24.9 PPG in his two Milwaukee seasons with Giannis.
X Oct 19, 2026 at 10:16 PM
x.com/brasablazers/status/2112289215971221690
- Henderson cannot enter the 2026-27 season as a restricted free agent. As a 2023 first-round pick, he would only become an RFA in 2027, after completing his fourth rookie-contract season and receiving a qualifying offer.
Substack Oct 19, 2026 at 08:49 PM
leahgarces.substack.com/p/what-we-got-wrong-about-animal-pai...
- The 1984 paper did not claim insects categorically lack pain receptors. It said the absence of known candidate nociceptors was "of doubtful significance" and explicitly noted that finding such receptors would not, by itself, settle whether insects feel pain.
Wikipedia Oct 19, 2026 at 08:16 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_bread
- Baking powder was available decades before the 1930s. The first modern baking powder was patented in 1856, and Library of Congress materials show it was being advertised commercially by 1885.
Wikipedia Oct 19, 2026 at 08:16 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_cake
- Eid al-Fitr is not a festival that occurs during Ramadan; it is the holiday that marks Ramadan’s end.
Wikipedia Oct 19, 2026 at 08:16 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1nh_chu%E1%BB%91i
- Bánh chuối chiên is commonly described as a fried banana fritter made by flattening banana and dipping it in batter, not as a sticky-rice fritter.
Wikipedia Oct 19, 2026 at 06:37 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_and_icehouse_Earth
- This mixes up events that were separated by roughly 1.7 billion years. The Great Oxygenation Event happened around 2.4 billion years ago, while the Cryogenian “Snowball Earth” episodes occurred much later, around 720–635 million years ago.
- The Eemian was not a future interglacial; it was the last interglacial before the present Holocene. Under natural conditions, the next major transition after the current interglacial would be toward glaciation, not into the Eemian.
- 250 ppm is not close to today’s atmospheric CO2 level. NOAA reports atmospheric CO2 around 426 ppm in September 2026, and even preindustrial levels were about 270–280 ppm.
X Oct 19, 2026 at 06:17 PM
x.com/BrankoMilan/status/2112013888573083723
- The Baltic states' combined population is about 6.09 million, not 5.7 million.
- This overstates the Russian share of the Baltic population and is wrong that they ‘cannot get citizenship.’ Russians are far below one-third of the population, and Estonia and Latvia both have formal naturalization procedures.