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1. ​ Fashion Cycles

2. Accelerating dynamics of collective attention

3. Links 3/17: Relinkquishment

4. Israel Arrests Hacker Linked to Threats on US Jewish Centers

5. The Dangers of Blaming Trump for Anti-Semitism: The Arrest of an Israeli American for Making Bomb Threats Points to the Flaws in the Narrative That Many Jews Have Constructed about President Donald Trump and His Supporters.

6. Israeli-American Who Terrorized U.S. Jews With Thousands of Bomb Threats Jailed for 10 Years

7. Methods for Studying Coincidences

8. A Museum Soup-Thrower’s Worst Nightmare: Patrick Bringley, Who Spent a Decade As a Guard at the Met, Tours His Old Workplace and Considers the People between the Picasso and a Fistful of Mashed Potatoes

9. Milord L'Arsouille

10. Paris Anecdote

11. Paris Inconnu

12. Anecdotes, Faits Divers, and the Literary

13. ‘Vegan Bodybuilder’: How YouTube Attacker, Nasim Aghdam, Went Viral in Iran

14. https://www.thedailybeast.com/vegan-youtube-is-imploding-as-stars-like-rawvana-bonny-rebecca-and-stella-rae-change-diets

15. ‘U Want Me 2 Kill Him?’ When a 14-Year-Old British Boy Was Savagely Stabbed, No One Could Have Imagined the Bizarre Chat-Room Fantasy World That Lay behind the Attack. A Story of a Near-Fatal Internet Attraction.

16. ​ ‘parasociality’ directory

17. https://stevecoast.com/2015/03/27/the-world-will-only-get-weirder/

18. What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447: Two Years After the Airbus 330 Plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, Air France 447's Flight-Data Recorders Finally Turned Up. The Revelations from the Pilot Transcript Paint a Surprising Picture of Chaos in the Cockpit, and Confusion between the Pilots That Led to the Crash

19. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About X

20. The Garden of Forking Paths: Why Multiple Comparisons Can Be a Problem, Even When There Is No `fishing Expedition` or `p-Hacking` and the Research Hypothesis Was Posited ahead of Time

21. ​ Everything Is Correlated

22. ​ The Replication Crisis: Flaws in Mainstream Science

23. ​ ‘Lizardman survey constant’ directory

24. I’m paid biweekly, just not by leprechauns: Evaluating valid-but-incorrect response rates to attention check items

25. Teddy Roosevelt on a Moose: Fake News, or Fake Fake News? An old photo of a US president on mooseback is often used to illustrate the deep roots of media deception. The real story may not back that up.

26. https://x.com/shockproofbeats/status/1247522391892230144

27. NOT a 3 Year Old Chimney Sweep

28. ‘A Video Shows the Aftermath of a School Prank in Which a Student Spiked Lemonade With Laxatives’: False

29. That Viral Video of a Convenience Store Robbery Is Worse Than Fake

30. TV Peaks Again in 2016: Could It Hit 500 Shows in 2017?

31. The Claim of a Video That Shows Kidnapped Children by Organ Traffickers in Syria

32. Hi All Only Just Catching up With This—I Thought the Interview Was Lighthearted and Playful but Genuinely Carle, and Had Seen It Cited in Various Other Places. I Cleared This Quote With the Paris Review and Entered Detailed Correspondence With Them on How I Would Use It 1/2

33. Adding Up to Normality

34. Trove

35. https://www.boringreport.org/app

36. https://x.com/_onerandomtweet

37. https://ground.news/blindspot

38. The Second Century CE Roman Watermills of Barbegal: Unraveling the Enigma of One of the Oldest Industrial Complexes

39. Ancient Theories of Gravity: What Was Lost?

40. Heliocentrism in the Ancient Era

41. Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia: A Revolutionary American Scientist Is Using Subatomic Physics to Decipher 2,000-Year-Old Texts from the Early Days of Western Civilization

42. ​ Language-Conditioned Absolute Unit NNs

43. Piecing Together the Secrets of the Stasi: After the Berlin Wall fell, agents of East Germany’s secret police frantically tore apart their records. Archivists have spent the past 30 years trying to restore them

44. ‘Clouds of Unknowing’: Edward Quin’s Historical Atlas (1830)

45. Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet

46. ​ Internet Search Tips

47. ​ Leprechaun Hunting & Citogenesis

48. ​ question#fantasies

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49. Hume Texts Online

50. Hume on Religion

51. Miracles

52. Extraordinary Physics

53. https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/extraord.pdf

54. Man-Bites-Dog Contagion: Disproportionate Diffusion of Information about Rare Categories of Events

55. Is There Sufficient Historical Evidence to Establish the Resurrection of Jesus?

56. Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary

57. The Argument from Witness Testimony

58. 2012-decruz-trustintestimonyandmiracles.html

59. ​ One Man’s Modus Ponens

60. https://omega0.xyz/omega8008/ETJ-PDF/cc5d.pdf

61. https://web.archive.org/web/20120304012147/https://blog.chron.com/climateabyss/2011/12/e-t-jaynes-explains-why-people-aren%E2%80%99t-convinced-by-climate-change-evidence/

62. Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Chapter 11: Concerning the Probabilities of Testimonies

63. Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation

64. Cardiologists and Chinese Robbers

65. Might People On The Internet Sometimes Lie?

66. The Media Very Rarely Lies

67. Different Worlds

68. Beware The Man Of One Study

69. The Control Group Is Out Of Control

70. The Virtue of Silence

71. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/against-learning-from-dramatic-events

72. https://rjlipton.com/2017/03/17/leprechauns-are-multiplying/

73. https://wiki.quanticle.net/Main/TrustMeImLyingConfessionsOfAMediaManipulator

74. Reddit's R/relationships Has Some 3 Million Fans, Lapping up Stories of Bizarre Relationship Quirks. We Spoke to Some of the People Who Fabricate Those Stories.

75. How I Used Lies About A Cartoon to Prove History Is Meaningless on the Internet

76. The Toxoplasma Of Rage

77. https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/

78. https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/aetmh9/why_does_high_school_musicals_corbin_bleu_have/

79. https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/dk17c9/wikipedia_the_admin_who_created_80000_pages_about/

80. https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/173kbpn/why_is_everyones_photo_on_wikipedia_a_picture_of/k43hb0h/

81. Do police killings of unarmed persons really have spillover effects? Reanalyzing Bor et al 2018

82. https://x.com/EMicrostate/status/1491057267063484426

83. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/nov/09/secrets-of-top-serial-killer-expert-france-stephane-bourgoin

84. The Novelist Whose Inventions Went Too Far

85. Did This Writer Actually Know Tennessee Williams?

86. Around the World in Eighty Lies

87. Why on Earth Is Someone Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts?

88. The Mysterious Figure Stealing Books Before Their Release

89. FBI Arrests Man Accused of Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts: Filippo Bernardini, an Italian citizen who worked in publishing, was charged with wire fraud and identity theft for a scheme that prosecutors said affected hundreds of people over 5 or more years

90. Someone Offered 'Harvard' Jobs to Known Women in India. It Was a Scam.

91. The Razor Blade in the Apple: The Social Construction of Urban Legends

92. https://www.science.org/content/article/researcher-center-epic-fraud-remains-enigma-those-who-exposed-him

93. Did Jesus Have a Wife?

94. Karen King Says the ‘Jesus's Wife’ Papyrus Fragment Is Likely a Forgery

95. James Lasdun

96. How a Literary Prank Convinced Germany That ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Was Real: A 1963 book purported to prove that the siblings were murderous bakers

97. When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life

98. Sort By Controversial

99. A Vast Web of Vengeance

100. A Student Stole My Academic Work, Copied My Tattoos and Gave Talks Pretending To Be Me

101. We Walk Among You

102. Table of Contents

103. We Are All MsScribe

104. Dr. Eben Alexander Proof of Heaven Investigation - Proof of Heaven Factual Omissions

105. 2014-meganc-obsessedbenedictcumberbatchfanstriedtohavemefired.html

106. The Internet of Fake-Baby Conspiracy Theories

107. https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ji50tz/adam_driver_standom_adam_driver_makes_fun_of_a/

108. Jack Grealish’s girlfriend Sasha Attwood ‘received 200 death threats a day’

109. https://www.thedailybeast.com/4-accusers-speak-out-about-how-broadway-star-alice-ripley-traumatized-her-young-fans

110. https://tracingwoodgrains.medium.com/how-one-tight-knit-circle-of-internet-troublemakers-convinced-professional-journalists-they-were-ac05459aa4c5

111. 404: This Page Could Not Be Found

112. I Randomly Had Coffee This Weekend With a Guy Who Admitted to Me He Wrote One of the Recent Letters. He Said It Was Super Easy and Fun

113. https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-immunologist/fact-check-tweet-purportedly-sent-from-immunologist-warning-of-deaths-due-to-covid-19-vaccine-is-fake-and-was-tweeted-as-a-social-experiment-idUSL1N2SH128

114. Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phones In A Trailer

115. 668: The Long Fuse

116. Politics for Software Engineers, Part 3

117. https://www.patreon.com/posts/32921860

118. A 20^th-Century Master Scam

119. How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People

120. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/10/inside-wealth-conference-con-man-anthony-ritossas-wild-web-of-lies

121. Fantasia for Piano

122. Former University of Iowa Hospital Employee Used Fake Identity for 35 Years

123. A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed.

124. The Jungle Prince of Delhi

125. The Man With Two Heads

126. Scary Clowns Are Not Coming for Your Children.

127. The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds From China

128. Mithradites of Fond Du Lac

129. https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/snakebite-antivenom-tim-friede/

130. The Speedrunner Who Wasn’t: How a Community Dealt With an Elaborate Cheater

131. Operation Easter

132. Over the Years, Hundreds of People Online Have Shared Memories of a Cheesy Nineties Movie Called Shazaam. There Is No Evidence That Such a Film Was Ever Made. What Does This Tell Us about the Quirks of Collective Memory?

133. My Collection of AITA Troll Posts

134. https://x.com/netflix/status/940051734650503168

135. 2017 on Netflix: A Year in Bingeing

136. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/13/mysterious-circumstances

137. The Chameleon

138. When Kyle De Rothschild Deschanel Arrived in New York Nightlife and Venture Fundraising Circles a Few Years Ago, He Was an Instant Hit. Equal Parts Charm, Enterprise, and Fabulous Family Wealth, He Seemed to Live on a 24/7 Carousel of Mega-Dollar Deals and Raucous Parties. It Was Almost As If He Had Conjured His Entire Existence out of Thin Air. What If He Had?

139. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/richard-walter-criminal-profiler-fraud.html

140. A conversation with a sociopath

141. Finally, the Truth behind the 'Haunted' Dybbuk Box Can Be Revealed

142. Why Three Investigators Blame a Rash of Drowning Deaths on a Gang of Killers: Despite Little Hard Evidence, Some People Believe These Drownings Aren’t Accidents, They’re the Work of the ‘Smiley Face Killers’

143. About Henry Darger

144. The Oil Bible of Dalton, Georgia: How a Miracle Fell Apart

145. Your Book Review: Real Raw News

146. The Intrepid Mother and Son Who Unraveled a Geographic Hoax: Atlas Obscura had a page for something called Moose Boulder, until fan Roger Dickey called us on it.

147. ‘Nothing on This Page Is Real’: How Lies Become Truth in Online America

148. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/03/master-of-make-believe

149. Is Bruce Hay the Most Gullible Man in Cambridge?

150. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.541599/gov.uscourts.nysd.541599.1.0.pdf

151. Jealousy Led Montana Chemist to Taint Colleague’s Water Tests

152. The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined

153. The Accusations Were Lies. But Could We Prove It?

154. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/swatting-nikki-haley-trump-fbi-stalkers-b2494097.html

155. https://www.science.org/content/article/invented-persona-behind-key-pandemic-database

156. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/15/j-r-moehringer-ghostwriter-prince-harry-memoir-spare

157. https://www.schneier.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Common_Knowledge_Attacks-2.pdf

158. https://highscalability.com/google-taming-the-long-latency-tail-when-more-machines-equal/

159. https://cacm.acm.org/research/the-tail-at-scale/

160. Books For Site Reliability Engineering

161. "One in a million" is next Tuesday

162. Language ID in the Wild: Unexpected Challenges on the Path to a Thousand-Language Web Text Corpus

163. Cores that don’t count

164. Silent Data Corruptions at Scale

165. Detecting silent data corruptions in the wild

166. Texting Robots: Taming Robots.txt With Rust and 34 Million Tests

167. https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-metadata/wiki/YouTube-Oddities

168. https://radiolab.org/podcast/null/transcript

169. Solving the Mystery of Link Imbalance: A Metastable Failure State at Scale

170. The Mystery Machine: End-to-end performance analysis of large-scale Internet services

171. The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People

172. Naked Security

173. https://spectrum.ieee.org/drams-damning-defects-and-how-they-cripple-computers

174. Why Fake Miniatures Depicting Islamic Science Are Everywhere

175. https://www.bbc.com/news/the-reporters-63622746

176. Death of a Kinkster

177. Late Night Thoughts on Reading Scientology

178. The Lying Disease

179. The Tinder Hacker

180. Network Heuristics

181. Recognition Is Futile: Why Checklist Approaches to Information Literacy Fail and What To Do About It

182. Chain Letter Evolution § Origins of Testimonials

183. https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/the_joy_of_righ.html

184. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2eotFCxvFjXH7zNNw/people-will-sometimes-just-lie-about-you

185. https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/mack-mccormick-quest-to-find-real-robert-johnson/

186. XKCD #1053: Ten Thousand

187. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18700656

188. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22319466

189. https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/a6pdk7/littlewoods_law_and_the_global_media/

190. Littlewood's Law and the Global Media

191. Wikipedia Bibliography:

     1. 2017 Jewish Community Center bomb threats  :

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Jewish_Community_Center_bomb_threats

     2. Patrol 36  :

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrol_36

     3. Littlewood's law

     4. Just Stop Oil  :

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Stop_Oil

     5. Last Generation (climate movement)  :

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Generation_(climate_movement)

     6. Metropolitan Museum of Art

     7. The Shadow of the Torturer

     8. Gene Wolfe

     9. Henry Mayhew  :

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mayhew

     10. London Labour and the London Poor

     11. Tim Powers  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Powers

     12. The Anubis Gates  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anubis_Gates

     13. Graham Robb  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Robb

     14. The Discovery of France

     15. Jean-Marie Déguignet  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_D%C3%A9guignet

     16. Category:Obsolete occupations  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Obsolete_occupations

     17. Knocker-up  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker-up

     18. Eugène Sue  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Sue

     19. The Mysteries of Paris  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysteries_of_Paris

     20. Juan M. Thompson  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_M._Thompson

     21. YouTube headquarters shooting

     22. Darwin Awards  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards

     23. Lone wolf attack § Stochastic terrorism  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_wolf_attack#Stochastic_terrorism

     24. Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh_assassination_plot

     25. Replay attack  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_attack

     26. Germanwings Flight 9525  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

     27. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

     28. Byte

     29. Duhem–Quine thesis

     30. The Onion

     31. The Babylon Bee  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babylon_Bee

     32. Underwood & Underwood  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwood_%26_Underwood

     33. 1912 United States presidential election  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_United_States_presidential_election

     34. William Howard Taft

     35. Woodrow Wilson  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson

     36. Eric Carle  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Carle

     37. The Very Hungry Caterpillar  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Hungry_Caterpillar

     38. The Paris Review

     39. Three men make a tiger

     40. Totalitarian principle  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian_principle

     41. Ludwig Wittgenstein

     42. Norman Malcolm  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Malcolm

     43. List of assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassination_attempts_on_Adolf_Hitler

     44. Sensory homunculus  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_homunculus

     45. Isochrone map  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrone_map

     46. Peak–end rule  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%E2%80%93end_rule

     47. De rerum natura

     48. Antikythera mechanism

     49. Nemi ships

     50. Archimedes Palimpsest

     51. Barbegal aqueduct and mills

     52. Mark and recapture

     53. Truncation (statistics)

     54. Herculaneum papyri

     55. Villa of the Papyri

     56. Philodemus  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philodemus

     57. Nag Hammadi library

     58. Dead Sea Scrolls  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls

     59. Epic of Gilgamesh  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh

     60. Codex Seraphinianus  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus

     61. Robust statistics

     62. Thomas Browne

     63. Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

     64. Paracosm

     65. Fantasy-prone personality  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy-prone_personality

     66. Maladaptive daydreaming

     67. Ostension § In folklore  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostension#In_folklore

     68. The Dark Forest  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest

     69. Of Miracles

     70. Death by coconut § Death by falling coconut  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_coconut#Death_by_falling_coconut

     71. False memory § Mandela effect  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect

     72. Pathological lying

     73. 2020 Twitter account hijacking  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twitter_account_hijacking

     74. Great Wall of China hoax  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China_hoax

     75. Mark Hofmann  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hofmann

     76. Bob's Game  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Game

     77. John Drewe

     78. Jeffrey Epstein  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

     79. Joyce Hatto  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Hatto

     80. Raymond L. Wallace  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_L._Wallace

     81. Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragments:_Memories_of_a_Wartime_Childhood

     82. Brushing (e-commerce)  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing_(e-commerce)

     83. Richard Lancelyn Green  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lancelyn_Green

     84. Ronald Reagan

     85. John Drewe § Career as a forger  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Drewe#Career_as_a_forger

     86. Brígido Lara (forger)  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%ADgido_Lara

     87. Momo Challenge hoax  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_Challenge_hoax

     88. Blue Whale Challenge

     89. Smiley face murder theory  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_face_murder_theory

     90. Sture Bergwall  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sture_Bergwall

     91. Henry Darger

     92. Tucson artifacts  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson_artifacts

     93. Cardiff Giant  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant

     94. Canneto, Caronia § Canneto di Caronia fires  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canneto,_Caronia#Canneto_di_Caronia_fires

     95. Strip search phone call scam

     96. Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia

     97. Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jagged 85  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Jagged_85

     98. Jess Wade  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess_Wade