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Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 05:12 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Thom_(Mathematiker)
- The ERC Consolidator Grant period is misstated. The official CORDIS project record shows Thom’s ERC Consolidator Grant ran from October 1, 2016 to March 31, 2022, not just through 2021.
- This mixes up two different MFO bodies. Official sources say Thom has been a member of the MFO’s Scientific Committee since 2016, not its Scientific Advisory Board.
LessWrong Aug 4, 2026 at 05:11 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ixp9oJXzjA9LrwiZo/you-yes-you-need-a...
- Civil-service status does not make someone impossible to remove. Career federal employees have protections against political firing, but agencies can still remove or demote them for cause or unacceptable performance.
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 03:59 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pepper
- These figures are not bell-pepper production figures. They match FAOSTAT’s separate commodity for peppercorns/black pepper (`Pepper (Piper spp.), raw`), not Capsicum peppers such as bell peppers.
- This reverses the direction of borrowing. Standard etymological sources say Old English **pipor/piper** comes from Latin **piper** via an early West Germanic borrowing, not that Latin borrowed the word from Germanic languages.
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 03:48 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
- The timing is wrong: AECMA decided to develop its controlled language in 1981, not 1983.
LessWrong Aug 4, 2026 at 02:56 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/juRRtv5KB7YbP5zaa/the-art-of-shippin...
- Reporting on 'Claudeonomics' says it was independently built by a Meta employee, not created by Meta management, and sources describe tokenmaxxing as a side effect rather than the company's stated purpose.
X Aug 4, 2026 at 01:06 PM
x.com/tamerqdh/status/2084572578312536484
- المدة المذكورة مبالغ فيها زمنيًا. من 22 نوفمبر 2023 إلى 4 أغسطس 2026 مرّت 986 يومًا فقط، لا أكثر من ألف يوم.
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 08:33 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that?utm_source=sub...
- This list omits Florida. The Romney campaign’s own July 25, 2012 release said the “We Did Build This” events were held in 12 states, including Florida.
X Aug 4, 2026 at 07:01 AM
x.com/DKThomp/status/2084271141477113926
- This labels both words as adjectives, but "increasingly" is an adverb, not an adjective.
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 05:46 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dingemanse
- This is outdated. Radboud University now lists Mark Dingemanse as a professor, not an associate professor.
- This title is outdated. The Max Planck Institute described Dingemanse in 2020 as a former senior investigator, and his current Radboud profile lists him as a professor there instead.
- This misstates the research. Dingemanse’s work was not that the literal English word “huh” occurs in every language, but that a short *huh-like* repair interjection or equivalent appears cross-linguistically.
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 03:26 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E5%8F%B0%E8%AA%9E%E...
- NASA官方資料說明航海家金唱片是直徑12英寸，不是厚度12英寸。
- Unicode官方FAQ建议用组合附加符号（combining marks）和组合字符序列表示这类拉丁附标字母，不是用“间距修饰字符自动拼字”。
X Aug 4, 2026 at 03:18 AM
x.com/IAPonomarenko/status/2084384183393423673
- Zelensky did publicly explain the dismissal. On July 16, 2026, he said the Defense Ministry and military leadership had an irreparable conflict and unresolved problems that forced him to choose between them.
Substack Aug 4, 2026 at 03:05 AM
www.radicallypragmatic.org/p/whats-wrong-with-american-studi...
- This overstates the history of U.S. suffrage. Some women could vote in parts of the United States long before 1920, and even after the 19th Amendment many women were still disenfranchised by citizenship barriers and discriminatory state laws.
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 03:03 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom
- 1834 was the last dismissal of a prime minister by a monarch, not the last time a monarch exercised personal discretion in choosing one. The House of Commons Library says such discretion was last exercised in 1963, after Harold Macmillan resigned.
- The Prime Minister’s Office was created in 1916, but that was not the first formal recognition of the premiership. Parliament records formal recognition earlier, including Hansard in 1885, the order of precedence in 1905, and the first statutory mention in 1917.
- This is incorrect: Parliament’s own research says several governments have taken military action without consulting Parliament, including in Syria in 2018 and in Yemen and the Middle East in 2024–2026. Parliament also has no legal veto over deployments.
- The experiment began on 18 July 1961, not 24 October 1961; 24 October was when it became permanent. And the Wednesday 3pm slot only ran from 1997 to the start of 2003, after which PMQs moved to noon.
- This overstates Parliament’s role. Current official guidance says Parliament is dissolved at the Prime Minister’s request under the 2022 Act, and members of the House of Lords are appointed by the King on the Prime Minister’s advice; neither process normally requires Parliament’s consent.
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 03:03 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_...
- This reverses the historical relationship: the label 'prime minister' was used of Walpole, and Walpole himself explicitly denied he was the 'sole and prime minister.'
Wikipedia Aug 4, 2026 at 02:57 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%89
- 這個漢政權並非由劉尼建立。正史記載是張昌擁立丘沈、改名劉尼為帝，張昌自任相國並主導建國。
- 這一條把建政者寫錯了。正史把年號「鳳凰」與自稱「聖王」者記為李弘，李金銀只是同案叛亂者，而非單獨建國者。
X Aug 3, 2026 at 10:11 PM
x.com/quoiquoiq/status/1853539914211578094
- الفيديو لا يُظهر انفجارات قرب منزل نتنياهو. تقارير موثوقة نُشرت يوم 4 نوفمبر 2024 حدّدت المقطع على أنه يوثق تفجيرات/نسف مبانٍ في بلدة ميس الجبل بجنوب لبنان.
X Aug 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
x.com/sr_666666/status/1853523687795728762
- The video in this post is not from near Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Israel. It is recycled footage of the 2015 Tianjin chemical explosions in China.
X Aug 3, 2026 at 08:31 PM
x.com/AlinejadMasih/status/2078807517732196698
- This misstates the Iranian authorities' own allegation. State and judiciary-linked reports said he was executed over accusations tied to killing police officers and using weapons/incendiaries, not for merely 'opening a door.'
Wikipedia Aug 3, 2026 at 08:12 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostdeutsche_Eisenbahn
- ODEG no longer operates 11 lines. Its official company information says it currently runs 19 lines.
Wikipedia Aug 3, 2026 at 08:12 PM
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostdeutsche_Eisenbahn
- Arnulf Schuchmann is not ODEG’s current CEO/managing director. ODEG’s own imprint lists Stefan Neubert and Lars Gehrke as the company’s managing directors, and ODEG announced that Schuchmann left in 2020.
- This is outdated for the RE10. ODEG’s own 2025/2026 network no longer includes RE10, and ODEG announced that RE10 was discontinued from the December 14, 2025 timetable change.