Corrections
How to report a real error
Timeline B publishes fiction, so the stories themselves cannot be factually wrong — they are not claims about the world. What can be wrong is the real half of a story: the market question, the market-implied probability, the observation date, the resolution date, the volume, or the link to the source market.
If one of those is wrong, email [email protected] with the story link and what you believe the correct figure is. We fix confirmed errors in the market snapshot, and note the change on the story. We also act on requests about the depiction of a real person — see About and Terms of Use.
We do not correct the fiction, and we do not remove a story for being improbable. That is the point of it. How we read the market sets out which numbers are real.
The corrections column
Everything below this line is part of the satire — an invented newsroom correcting invented mistakes in an invented universe. None of it is a real correction to a real report.
Timeline B corrects the record when our universe and theirs disagree. All corrections are, like everything here, clearly-labeled fiction.
On the Golden Boot. An earlier dispatch stated that Harry Kane won the World Cup Golden Boot from his sofa. In Timeline B, this is accurate. In our universe, he did not, and the sofa remains uninvolved. We regret the divergence.
On monetary policy. We reported that forward guidance "declined to comment, citing exhaustion." Forward guidance has since clarified that it is a concept and cannot be tired. Timeline B stands by the vibe if not the physiology.
On the Strait of Hormuz. A previous edition described forty ships doing "absolutely nothing interesting in a row." The Meridian Shipping Desk now counts forty-one. The record is corrected upward, with apologies to the forty-first ship.
On artificial intelligence. The Bureau of Vibes and Evals wishes to clarify that "a very good demo" was, on review, only a good demo. The leaderboard has been notified. The leaderboard has already changed.