Latest Corrections
X May 25, 2026 at 09:42 PM
x.com/initjean/status/2058988989449736650
- This misstates Amodei’s comments. His reported “half of all” warning was about entry-level white-collar jobs over one to five years, while his “6–12 months” comment was about AI doing software engineers’ work end-to-end—not about Claude Code subscriptions.
Substack May 25, 2026 at 08:45 PM
www.theargumentmag.com/p/on-suicidal-penguins
- Locke, California is generally dated to 1915, not 1916. Official histories from the Locke Foundation and the National Park Service say the town was founded and built by Chinese immigrants in 1915.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 07:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Accords
- This skips Mauritania, which established full diplomatic relations with Israel in 1999. UAE and Bahrain were therefore not the first Arab countries to do so since Jordan in 1994.
- The date is wrong. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on January 27, and contemporaneous coverage of the Abraham Accords-related event places it on Jan. 27, 2021, not March 27.
X May 25, 2026 at 06:41 PM
x.com/bcherny/status/2058519809214607704
- Claude Code’s auto mode does not eliminate permission prompts in all cases. Anthropic’s docs say it reduces prompts, but it can fall back to manual approval after repeated blocked actions.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 06:01 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab-eating_macaque
- This is outdated/incorrect taxonomy and status. IUCN says *M. f. philippinensis* is under dispute, and it has been tentatively removed as a separate Red List assessment and included with *M. f. fascicularis*.
- These Red List statuses are wrong. In the 2022 IUCN updates, *M. f. condorensis* was listed as Endangered, while several other subspecies were assessed as Vulnerable or Critically Endangered rather than Data Deficient.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 06:01 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwalk,_California
- Tony Ayala is no longer Norwalk's mayor. The City of Norwalk's current mayor page identifies Jennifer Perez as mayor, while Ayala is listed as a councilmember.
- This routing is outdated. Metro says the C Line now runs from Norwalk to the LAX/Metro Transit Center, while the K Line serves Redondo Beach; airport shuttles run from the LAX/Metro Transit Center, not Aviation Station.
- A more recent City of Norwalk document says the Norwalk Sheriff's Station is currently staffed with 165 sworn personnel, not 206.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 05:53 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Zhong_and_Hua_Hua
- This contrast is inaccurate. Earlier monkey nuclear-transfer experiments also used fetal cells, including fetal fibroblasts, not just embryonic cells.
- The number 21 refers to surrogate monkeys, not ova. Reports on the experiment say 79 embryos were implanted into 21 surrogate mothers.
- Dolly was not the first cloned mammal overall. She was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 05:53 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
- ViaGen is not a Korean company. Its official contact information places it in Texas, and its cloning process is described as taking place in the United States.
- ViaGen's official pricing says cat cloning costs $50,000, not $30,000.
- 2018 was not the first successful primate cloning overall. A rhesus macaque named Tetra had already been cloned in 2000 by embryo splitting; 2018 was the first primate cloning by Dolly's SCNT method.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 05:50 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning
- This is outdated. Stem-cell therapies other than bone marrow transplantation are already used clinically, including the EMA-authorized limbal stem-cell treatment Holoclar.
- This is incorrect: regenerative medicine is already used clinically. FDA defines regenerative medicine to include cell therapies and related products, and it maintains a current list of many approved cellular and gene therapy products.
- This is false. Chinese Academy of Sciences sources report primate cloning from adult donor cells, including macaques cloned from adult-cell fibroblasts.
LessWrong May 25, 2026 at 04:52 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/5conQhfa4rgb4SaWx/site-guide-persona...
- This overstates the filtering: personal blogposts are hidden from the homepage’s Latest Posts list by default, but they still appear on the homepage in the Recent Discussion section.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 04:43 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Plenty
- This publisher is incorrect. Authoritative bibliographic records for *The Birth of Plenty* list the 2004 book as published by McGraw-Hill, while "Wiley" belongs to a different 2004 book with the unrelated ISBN shown in this infobox.
- This publication date is wrong for *The Birth of Plenty*. Bibliographic records place the book's 2004 McGraw-Hill edition in spring 2004; August 11, 2004 is the date of a different Wiley book whose metadata was apparently copied here.
- This page count is incorrect for *The Birth of Plenty*. Contemporary bibliographic sources list the 2004 book at 420 pages; "400" is part of the unrelated Wiley metadata copied into this infobox.
- This ISBN is incorrect. *The Birth of Plenty* is cataloged under ISBN 0071421920 / 9780071421928; 0471270474 belongs to David Darling's unrelated *The Universal Book of Mathematics*.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 04:41 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Splendid_Exchange
- This Atlantic Books edition was published in London, not in the United States.
- The ISBN shown corresponds to a 467-page edition, not a 400-page one.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 03:09 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Barnett
- This is outdated. Angelus Temple’s current official staff page lists Brad Reed and Stella Reed—not Matthew Barnett—as its lead pastors.
- The date is wrong. Dream Center’s own history and Los Angeles Times reporting both place the Queen of Angels purchase in 1996, not September 1994.
Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 05:39 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_of_San_Francisco
- The Presidio did not pass to Mexico in 1820. The National Park Service dates the Mexican period to 1822–1846 and says the revolution that created Mexico culminated in 1821.
- The site was not the Coast Guard for that entire period. NPS says it began in 1890 as a U.S. Life-Saving Station, and the Coast Guard—its successor—left in 1990.
- That schedule is outdated. As of May 25, 2026, the official National Park Service hours say Fort Point is open Thursday through Monday, not just Friday through Sunday.
- SFMOMA says the Fisher Collection was placed on long-term loan, not donated. The museum describes a 2009 partnership with the Fisher family rather than a transfer of ownership.
- That sanctuary name is outdated. NOAA officially changed it in 2015 from Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary to Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.
Wikipedia May 24, 2026 at 09:49 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried
- The December 2022 federal indictment was for eight counts, not seven.
- Recent reporting places Bankman-Fried at FCI Terminal Island, not FCI Lompoc I.
- Gary Wang testified that Alameda had a $65 billion line of credit, not that it took $65 billion from customers. Reporting on his testimony says Alameda withdrew about $8 billion in customer funds.
- Bankman-Fried was first arrested/apprehended on December 12, 2022. August 11, 2023 was when a judge revoked his bail and remanded him to jail.
Wikipedia May 24, 2026 at 03:21 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
- Python 2.0 added cycle-detecting garbage collection and Unicode support, but not reference counting. Python already used reference counting before 2.0.
- Slicing makes a shallow copy of the list itself, not shallow copies of each element. The elements in the new list are references to the same underlying objects.
- Reference counting plus cyclic GC is a CPython implementation detail, not a property of Python in general. Other Python implementations use different memory-management strategies.
- That support timeline is only fully true for Python 3.13 and later. Versions before 3.13 got 18 months of bugfix support, not two full years.
Wikipedia May 24, 2026 at 03:16 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum
- This incorrectly lists Guido van Rossum's University of Amsterdam degree as a BS. Van Rossum's own biography and resume say he graduated with a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Wikipedia May 24, 2026 at 01:29 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different
- The Japanese designer's name is spelled **Issey Miyake**, not "Issei Miyake."
Wikipedia May 24, 2026 at 01:26 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
- This date is incorrect. Ellsberg was charged in 1971; January 1973 was when his trial began, not when the charges were brought.
X May 23, 2026 at 10:18 PM
x.com/Nick_Davidov/status/2057841072169206071
- This is not generally how EB-1 works. A person already in the United States can often apply for an EB-1 green card through adjustment of status without returning to Russia.
- The United States still has an embassy in Russia: U.S. Embassy Moscow. Its staffing and services are limited, but it exists.