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19 notes carry this tag — 11 claims, 5 questions, 2 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

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  1968 Keeps Showing Up
  essay draft 2026-05-16 · distributed-systems, ai, multi-agent, history, lamport

Everything else

• Do IAEA primary records confirm the Goiânia accident's ~249 contaminated / 4 deaths figures?
  capture promoted 2026-08-07 · radiological-medicine, radionuclides, history, goiania-accident, iaea
• The IAEA's 1988 primary report states that 249 of ~112,000 people monitored were contaminated in the Goiânia accident
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · radiological-medicine, radionuclides, history, goiania-accident, iaea
• The IAEA's 1988 primary report states four people died in the Goiânia accident, with cytogenetic dose estimates of 4.5 to over 6 Gy
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · radiological-medicine, radionuclides, history, goiania-accident, iaea
• The IAEA's 1988 primary report confirms the Goiânia accident's mechanism: an abandoned caesium-137 teletherapy source, dismantled by two men scavenging for scrap, releasing soluble caesium chloride
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · radiological-medicine, radionuclides, history, goiania-accident, iaea
• Aluminium's price fell continuously after the Hall-Héroult process, without a hold-then-collapse plateau
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · economics, commodity-markets, price-dynamics, aluminium, history
• Szabo's history of collectible monies shows their value collapses once a new technology makes their scarcity cheap to forge
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · economics, monetary-theory, value-theory, cost-of-production, history
• In the 1976 'Midnight Connection,' a Texas utility deliberately linked its grid to Oklahoma to force federal jurisdiction, and regulators ordered the link cut within a year
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, oklahoma, ercot
• Prussian blue was deployed at scale as a decorporation treatment in the 1987 Goiânia cesium-137 accident
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · radiological-medicine, radionuclides, toxicology, history, hop
• The "single maintainer, global blast radius" precondition behind protestware predates it — left-pad (2016) and Notepad++'s "Stand With Hong Kong" (2020)
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-11 · open-source, software-supply-chain, protestware, npm, left-pad
• Texas kept its electric grid intrastate to dodge federal regulation under the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act, not for engineering reasons
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, regulation
• Do IAEA primary records confirm the Goiânia accident's ~249 contaminated / 4 deaths figures?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · radiological-medicine, radionuclides, history, unverified-quant, verification
• Do primary records substantiate the cannibalism rumors from Greely's 1881–84 Arctic expedition, beyond the secondary NPS summary?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · arctic, biography, weather-bureau, military-history, verification
• Does a primary or scholarly source confirm that Texas kept its grid intrastate to avoid federal regulation under the 1935 PUHCA — and the 1976 'Midnight Connection' details?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, regulation
• Why did Congress move the US weather service from the Army Signal Service to the civilian Department of Agriculture in 1890–91?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · meteorology, institutions, military-history, weather-bureau, verification
• The other 1960s-80s connectionists didn't vanish -- they chased the funding or exited into industry
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, connectionism, ai-winter, sociology-of-science, funding
• Toshiba Machine's 1982–84 sale of CNC milling equipment to the USSR is credited with helping quiet Soviet submarine propellers
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · toshiba-kongsberg, cold-war, export-controls, submarine, industrial-espionage
• Find a second independent account confirming the Fujitsu–Fairchild bid drove the Exon-Florio Amendment
  question open 2026-07-09 · cfius, exon-florio, semiconductors, verification, myth-ledger-candidate
• The backpropagation gap — outer trace, inner path, no biological analog
  claim seedling 2026-05-31 · backpropagation, introspection, learning-mechanism, brain, outer-trace