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Links For October 2025 - by Scott Alexander

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[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links post are wrong or misleading. I correct these as I see them, and will highlight important corrections later, but I can’t guarantee I will have caught them all by the time you read this.] 1: In 1876, a woman named Mary Tyler claimed to be the Mary of “Mary Had A Little Lamb”. Her story is plausible - she was a schoolchild in Sterling Massachussetts in the 1810s, and the author of the song was a schoolteacher in Sterling in the 1810s - but some key details don’t line up (she remembers her pet lamb being observed by a man, but the author was a woman). After she became famous, she “helped save the Old South Meeting House in Boston by selling fleece from her pet lamb as attachments on autograph cards”. 2: Prediction by Jurgen Gravestein: “I don’t think people realize what kind of ads are coming. If the Sora app has your face, you will in the n

[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links post are wrong or misleading. I correct these as I see them, and will highlight important corrections later, but I can’t guarantee I will have caught them all by the time you read this.] 1: In 1876, a woman named Mary Tyler claimed to be the Mary of “Mary Had A Little Lamb”. Her story is plausible - she was a schoolchild in Sterling Massachussetts in the 1810s, and the author of the song was a schoolteacher in Sterling in the 1810s - but some…

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