he nailed it so good that people think it's like a hundred years old. i see some wild ass misattributions
April 10, 2024 at 8:04 PM
he nailed it so good that people think it's like a hundred years old. i see some wild ass misattributions
Many "false flags" I've seen on Canadian lists are sincere initial misattributions
March 23, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Many "false flags" I've seen on Canadian lists are sincere initial misattributions
A major original art auction site has multiple misattributions this week that I pray remain uncorrected until such time as I can yoink out some treasures on the cheap.
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 AM
A major original art auction site has multiple misattributions this week that I pray remain uncorrected until such time as I can yoink out some treasures on the cheap.
Alt text is like having a special room in the house just for making errors in; a gallery to exhibit all your hasty misperceptions, misconceptions, misattributions, mistranslations
June 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Alt text is like having a special room in the house just for making errors in; a gallery to exhibit all your hasty misperceptions, misconceptions, misattributions, mistranslations
I mean, I don't know what they expected. RFK Jr has form with spurious misattributions. He's let a good Palestinian man rot in jail for fifty years when he knows perfectly well his dad's head just did that
September 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I mean, I don't know what they expected. RFK Jr has form with spurious misattributions. He's let a good Palestinian man rot in jail for fifty years when he knows perfectly well his dad's head just did that
I went back and looked at the entire thread, it's full of bizarre misinterpretations and misattributions, but also there's no further explanation on that one.
December 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM
I went back and looked at the entire thread, it's full of bizarre misinterpretations and misattributions, but also there's no further explanation on that one.
fun fact: we actually don't have any skulls that can be confidently assigned to diplodocus; previous purported examples are mostly considered to be misattributions, such as AMNH 969, now known as galeamopus
February 18, 2026 at 9:24 PM
fun fact: we actually don't have any skulls that can be confidently assigned to diplodocus; previous purported examples are mostly considered to be misattributions, such as AMNH 969, now known as galeamopus
Father-in-law, film professor, shares his name with an expert on nuclear proliferation, which throughout the years produced a variety of hilarious misattributions for both.
July 7, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Father-in-law, film professor, shares his name with an expert on nuclear proliferation, which throughout the years produced a variety of hilarious misattributions for both.
Analysis reveals factual misattributions, phantom network names, and exaggerated legal crises.
Resulting Judgement: (-0.8, -0.9) — Lesser Evil
Resulting Judgement: (-0.8, -0.9) — Lesser Evil
September 24, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Analysis reveals factual misattributions, phantom network names, and exaggerated legal crises.
Resulting Judgement: (-0.8, -0.9) — Lesser Evil
Resulting Judgement: (-0.8, -0.9) — Lesser Evil
Autodidact friends, moot needs help finding possibly AI-generated nonsense quotes. They can be anything from wholesale fabrication to misattributions, if you’re familiar, take a peek
These are all possibly fake but! In the interests of fairness I thought I’d ask and see if anyone can find any of these actually existing anywhere. All the following posts will be different passages copied directly from the book:
March 27, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Autodidact friends, moot needs help finding possibly AI-generated nonsense quotes. They can be anything from wholesale fabrication to misattributions, if you’re familiar, take a peek
Really amazing that NYT will make possible academic misattributions a national story when it’s the president of Harvard but have no interest in highlighting that the President of the United States cannot speak for more than 5 seconds without uttering easily disprovable lies
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
September 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Really amazing that NYT will make possible academic misattributions a national story when it’s the president of Harvard but have no interest in highlighting that the President of the United States cannot speak for more than 5 seconds without uttering easily disprovable lies
Just off-the-cuff, I’d say Boomer Slop is a particular flavor of engagement bait, engineered to appeal to demographics that are prone to emotional and psychological manipulation. Often featuring AI imagery, cliched idioms, misattributions, and anthropomorphized animals.
February 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just off-the-cuff, I’d say Boomer Slop is a particular flavor of engagement bait, engineered to appeal to demographics that are prone to emotional and psychological manipulation. Often featuring AI imagery, cliched idioms, misattributions, and anthropomorphized animals.
True. I think Aristotle et al. have a fair share of misattributions,
mea culpa.
mea culpa.
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 AM
True. I think Aristotle et al. have a fair share of misattributions,
mea culpa.
mea culpa.
The funniest thing about this thread is that Carl Sagan didn't say this and the internet is full of misattributions
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The funniest thing about this thread is that Carl Sagan didn't say this and the internet is full of misattributions
Where are they getting all these misattributions?
Big banner with a Teddy quote about courage on the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, headquarters of OPM. Only discrepancy is that the 26th president never said this.
June 15, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Where are they getting all these misattributions?
All too often, when a #JaneAusten quote comes to mind, it turns out that said quote is not, in fact, by Jane Austen.
Mercifully, @deborahyaffe.bsky.social amuses herself by pointing out such online misattributions --- a Sisyphean task indeed
www.deborahyaffe.com/post/sourcin...
Mercifully, @deborahyaffe.bsky.social amuses herself by pointing out such online misattributions --- a Sisyphean task indeed
www.deborahyaffe.com/post/sourcin...
Sourcing and citation
Earlier this month, a man from the Maryland suburbs sent a letter to the Washington Post. “When I was reading Colbert I. King’s July 29 op-ed ‘Why do car thieves, porch pirates and shoplifters feel s...
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September 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
All too often, when a #JaneAusten quote comes to mind, it turns out that said quote is not, in fact, by Jane Austen.
Mercifully, @deborahyaffe.bsky.social amuses herself by pointing out such online misattributions --- a Sisyphean task indeed
www.deborahyaffe.com/post/sourcin...
Mercifully, @deborahyaffe.bsky.social amuses herself by pointing out such online misattributions --- a Sisyphean task indeed
www.deborahyaffe.com/post/sourcin...
Over time, popular culture, social media, and misattributions transformed Nietzsche’s actual parable into the modern, psychological phrasing about not throwing away the "best of yourself" when trying to purge personal flaws.
September 24, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Over time, popular culture, social media, and misattributions transformed Nietzsche’s actual parable into the modern, psychological phrasing about not throwing away the "best of yourself" when trying to purge personal flaws.
It's kinda like, there are sooooooo many misattributions and some of them are dreadful and I respect literacy which includes a basic knowledge of the sources or a respect for such knowledge...there are reasons, many reasons. We're so prone to just kneejerk responses on the web...
February 22, 2026 at 8:49 PM
It's kinda like, there are sooooooo many misattributions and some of them are dreadful and I respect literacy which includes a basic knowledge of the sources or a respect for such knowledge...there are reasons, many reasons. We're so prone to just kneejerk responses on the web...
While the opening line is one of Isaac Asimov's most famous lines, only the first sentence is actually from him. The additional sentences are later expansions and misattributions that circulated online rather than words from Asimov's original text.
So get the ink!
So get the ink!
August 22, 2026 at 6:52 PM
While the opening line is one of Isaac Asimov's most famous lines, only the first sentence is actually from him. The additional sentences are later expansions and misattributions that circulated online rather than words from Asimov's original text.
So get the ink!
So get the ink!
Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Albert Einstein attract numerous misattributions. They are quotation magnets / flypaper figures.
Top 100 names listed here are based on number of QI articles. Large type face means more articles. Admittedly, this is a biased sample:
quoteinvestigator.com/search/
Top 100 names listed here are based on number of QI articles. Large type face means more articles. Admittedly, this is a biased sample:
quoteinvestigator.com/search/
Search & Authors – Quote Investigator®
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March 6, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Albert Einstein attract numerous misattributions. They are quotation magnets / flypaper figures.
Top 100 names listed here are based on number of QI articles. Large type face means more articles. Admittedly, this is a biased sample:
quoteinvestigator.com/search/
Top 100 names listed here are based on number of QI articles. Large type face means more articles. Admittedly, this is a biased sample:
quoteinvestigator.com/search/
Well, victimized again by a) misattributions on the Internet and b) not doing my due diligence to verify (aka, posting too quickly).
That first picture, credited to Curt Swan, is from Adventure 332, “The Super Moby Dick of Space”, and is actually by John Forte and Milton Snapinn.
My apologies.
That first picture, credited to Curt Swan, is from Adventure 332, “The Super Moby Dick of Space”, and is actually by John Forte and Milton Snapinn.
My apologies.
Lightning Lad, by…
Curt Swan
Karl Kesel
Dave Cockrum
Mike Grell
Curt Swan
Karl Kesel
Dave Cockrum
Mike Grell
March 28, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Well, victimized again by a) misattributions on the Internet and b) not doing my due diligence to verify (aka, posting too quickly).
That first picture, credited to Curt Swan, is from Adventure 332, “The Super Moby Dick of Space”, and is actually by John Forte and Milton Snapinn.
My apologies.
That first picture, credited to Curt Swan, is from Adventure 332, “The Super Moby Dick of Space”, and is actually by John Forte and Milton Snapinn.
My apologies.
August 14, 2026 at 3:59 PM
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
–Sam Keen (born Samuel McMurray Keen) (1931–2025)
From “To Love and Be Loved” (1997)
#writerslift #life #authors #love #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #samkeen #misattributions
–Sam Keen (born Samuel McMurray Keen) (1931–2025)
From “To Love and Be Loved” (1997)
#writerslift #life #authors #love #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #samkeen #misattributions
September 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
–Sam Keen (born Samuel McMurray Keen) (1931–2025)
From “To Love and Be Loved” (1997)
#writerslift #life #authors #love #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #samkeen #misattributions
–Sam Keen (born Samuel McMurray Keen) (1931–2025)
From “To Love and Be Loved” (1997)
#writerslift #life #authors #love #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #samkeen #misattributions