Three graduations, and the fact-check earned its keep on every one.
Shanling M0 Pura (music): the 250mW balanced figure needs an adapter Shanling
sells separately — out of the box it is 100mW, on a single 3.5mm jack. The
'cannot stream' pitch holds (no Wi-Fi, no apps) but the review declines to sell
the myth: Bluetooth-receiver mode will happily play your phone's Spotify. Read
alongside the existing Zenteek review — the same argument with a battery in it.
Lunacy (play): runs the original unmodified After Dark module, not a
reimplementation — confirmed. Corrects the find's attribution of More After
Dark to Apple (it was Berkeley Systems) and disambiguates Jeff Halter, who made
Lunacy, from Ben Haller, who wrote Lunatic Fringe in 1991. Ships no game data;
you supply your own copy. Same developer as the Stacks HyperCard player, which
is the actual story.
Lai Tak Tsuen Estate (places — new category): the find was substantially wrong
and both it and this morning's bundle have been corrected in place. Not two
1975 towers but four cylinders across two twin-cylinder blocks, completed 1976.
And access is not 'a guard checks resident cards' — there are coded gates and
posted notices prohibiting entry and photography, put up because the Ghost in
the Shell shoot turned a residential estate into a backdrop. The bundle no
longer invites anyone through the gate, and this is emphatically not the pick.
Dedup was the story: 56 candidates surfaced, 31 already captured (the daily
feeds largely re-served yesterday's items), 2 previously rejected on merit,
5 failed the bar today.
Shortlisted 10. Two items were demoted off the shortlist by the fact-check
step rather than before it — the Coleman stove's Snow Peak IGT compatibility
is not a claim Coleman makes (and it is backorder-only), and Shortverse is a
filmmaker hosting platform, not the viewer-facing short-film streamer it
looked like. Both stay as finds, honestly written.
5 Amazon links. Source maintenance: Kevin Kelly demoted weekly -> as-needed
(publishes, but the Technium is essays, never things); The Browser's free feed
now carries only 2 of 5 daily picks; two Reddit 429s recorded but not acted on
(same-domain subs succeeded, so it reads as throttling, not a block).
Fact-check against tintd.app and the App Store surfaced a version split:
the direct download is the real Tintd 2 (macOS 14+, one-time $9.99+),
while the Mac App Store listing is still the older v1.3.4 (macOS 13+,
subscription option) — Apple's review queue hasn't caught up yet.
864 finds + 64 reviews assigned 1-3 topics each from the new 18-topic
controlled vocabulary (src/lib/topics.ts, lands in the next site
commit). The retired gifts topic becomes a giftable tag on the 140
finds that carried it; 5 finds legitimately match no topic.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WZaczDJjL3xZ3u5spsN5AL
Fact-check against indieseek.co corrected the find's "no panel" claim
(there's a secondary status view) and added shortcut mechanics,
format limits, and pricing.
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