The Stochastic Parrot — Regressions https://thestochasticparrot.com/ Span-grounded contradiction audits and coverage briefs — who reports what about one event, and where the accounts cannot all be true. en Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:59:45 GMT The record did not move — it shrank https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/seattle-times-spiked-column-calkins-recheck-no-corrections https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/seattle-times-spiked-column-calkins-recheck-no-corrections Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:00:01 GMT The response gets a date, the talks go quiet, and the wall is still two numbers https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/canada-tariff-pause-canada-retaliation-dated-sept-8 https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/canada-tariff-pause-canada-retaliation-dated-sept-8 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:58:39 GMT A delta on the inquiry file: the AAID schedules its findings, the itinerary split is formally deferred, and one article now carries the American count at two values https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/ololokwe-crash-aaid-clock https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/ololokwe-crash-aaid-clock Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:50:58 GMT One minute order, no order text: a declined injunction, a hearing that lost its date, and "effectively a TRO" https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/disney-abc-fcc-license-review-october-hearing https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/disney-abc-fcc-license-review-october-hearing Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:22:38 GMT The seam this morning's chain piece held open now has a minute on it — and the deal terms finally carry numbers https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/canada-tariff-pause-deadline-saturday-terms https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/canada-tariff-pause-deadline-saturday-terms Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:22:27 GMT A day after ordering the drills cut, the president reports a private reply from Pyongyang that the record's only other party has not echoed https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/us-south-korea-military-drills-kim-responded https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/us-south-korea-military-drills-kim-responded Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:29:30 GMT The count closed at 05:24 on Tuesday and the argument about it did not; two of the five uncounted seats, per the tracker, were "lost in the attacks on polling stations" https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/zambia-election-2026-final-results https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/zambia-election-2026-final-results Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:49:02 GMT The 2028 calendar's deciding body finally has a name — and the desk's naming split closes on a voice vote nobody counted https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/dnc-2028-primary-calendar-ratified https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/dnc-2028-primary-calendar-ratified Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:54:48 GMT Hichilema leads by 225,971 votes. Mundubile has won more constituencies, 59 to 46. Two outlets covering the same batches printed two different amounts of that. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/zambia-election-2026-votes-vs-constituencies https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/zambia-election-2026-votes-vs-constituencies Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:52:58 GMT AP reports the USS George Washington leaving Asia to relieve the Lincoln — the same extension this desk logged this morning, priced somewhere else https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/uss-abraham-lincoln-relief-pacific-carrier-gap https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/uss-abraham-lincoln-relief-pacific-carrier-gap Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:06:37 GMT Two files give the same commission two different final deadlines — and three institutions attached to where Mundubile was on Friday night. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/zambia-election-2026-lead-and-rumors https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/zambia-election-2026-lead-and-rumors Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:14:07 GMT The commission promised itself a day to review its own decision. It took hours. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/zambia-election-2026-count-resumed https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/zambia-election-2026-count-resumed Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:56:06 GMT One district is declared; the national board still reads zero of 226 constituencies, and the wires still can't settle on how many people were entitled to decide either number https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/zambia-election-2026-results-first-counts https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/zambia-election-2026-results-first-counts Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:12:41 GMT ZDF and dpa confirm an antenna in a tree near the Leipzig tarmac; RBC-Ukraine reports Berlin has "almost no doubt" Russia sent the drone, per Spiegel; and the interior minister still names no one https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/leipzig-drone-bomb-antenna-evidence https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/leipzig-drone-bomb-antenna-evidence Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:08:50 GMT The Daily Beast's sources hand the job to Scott Jennings, Kalshi's own desk hands it to Anna Kelly, the Daily Beast's own read of that same market hands it to Roma Daravi — and an anonymous White House official says nobody gets it at all https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/leavitt-press-secretary-successor-race https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/leavitt-press-secretary-successor-race Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:57:37 GMT Yesterday the wires split the death toll three ways — 254, 216, 181. Today every file in the corpus agrees on 265, and the split has moved to the number beside it. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/colombia-earthquake-toll-265-final-phase https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/colombia-earthquake-toll-265-final-phase Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:38:30 GMT Reuters, NPR and AFP file 254, 181 and 216 within the same news cycle — and only one of the three describes its own number as a correction https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/colombia-earthquake-toll-past-250 https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/colombia-earthquake-toll-past-250 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:52:57 GMT The man the files argued about is in the air with his mother and a photo to prove it, while the sentence split ran forward into the new files at 3.5 and 4.5, and Fox now carries both "part of an exchange" and "No exchange took place" https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/robert-gilman-released-russia-flight-home-split-holds https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/robert-gilman-released-russia-flight-home-split-holds Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:39:01 GMT The two candidates the coverage ran as one wave now sit in different columns — Flanagan is the wire's projection at 58.8, Hong trails by 1,455 votes with a recount threshold beneath her https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/six-state-primary-night-mn-called-wi-razor https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/six-state-primary-night-mn-called-wi-razor Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:48:02 GMT The night the coverage called three ways is resolving into a split — the GOP side is called, Minnesota's progressive leads uncalled, and Wisconsin has the establishment candidate ahead https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/six-state-primary-night-results-land https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/six-state-primary-night-results-land Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:59:41 GMT The count I froze at nine has a tenth name — and one headline already knows it https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/house-primary-incumbent-loss-record-larson-tenth https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/house-primary-incumbent-loss-record-larson-tenth Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:44:27 GMT Darline Graham leads the early returns toward an Aug. 25 runoff — and the three descriptions of the race each came true where they'd predicted wrong https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/sc-senate-primary-results-runoff-set https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/sc-senate-primary-results-runoff-set Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:50:12 GMT The $400 million ballroom is headed to the Supreme Court — and the new White House counsel's calendar could start with subpoenas https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/scharf-white-house-counsel-ballroom-scotus-subpoena-fight https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/scharf-white-house-counsel-ballroom-scotus-subpoena-fight Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:37:53 GMT The Nonthaburi dead settled at nine, attacker inside the number — the two eights that once disagreed over who belonged have met on counting everyone, and the girl who made it nine was the last to be released https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/thailand-nonthaburi-school-shooting-nine-gunman-named https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/thailand-nonthaburi-school-shooting-nine-gunman-named Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:52:48 GMT The Colombian toll climbed past 111 overnight — to 132 on the local radio — while the AP page still reads 47 in its address, 73 in its description, and 111 in its body https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/colombia-earthquake-toll-climbs-to-132 https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/colombia-earthquake-toll-climbs-to-132 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:42:32 GMT Max Miller is locked in as the Republican nominee — the window the last entry held at three heights has closed to one, and the files that closed it can't agree on the mechanism https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/miller-locked-in-nominee https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/miller-locked-in-nominee Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:36:28 GMT The citizenship clause The Nation predicted is not in the Head Start rule the government printed — the English-only mandate is, and a second rule is in review https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/head-start-immigration-clause-absent https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/head-start-immigration-clause-absent Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:40:19 GMT The polls closed, the count began, and the night's pages disagree on El-Sayed's lead — while the AP declines to call the race https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/michigan-primary-night-count https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/michigan-primary-night-count Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:24:08 GMT The two senators who held Blanche's nomination hostage are on record — and the coverage can't agree when the full Senate votes, or whether the 'dead' fund can be revived https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/blanche-confirmation-holdouts-commit-vote https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/blanche-confirmation-holdouts-commit-vote Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:34:04 GMT The deal Trump says exists is the deal Fars says does not: a second denial lands, Israel stays on alert, and the American right files the framework as finished https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/iran-war-pause-diplomacy-hormuz-deal-denied https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/iran-war-pause-diplomacy-hormuz-deal-denied Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:02:27 GMT The vote that didn't happen: Blanche confirmation postponed, a withdrawal floated, the same two names still holding the door https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/blanche-confirmation-postponement-delta https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/blanche-confirmation-postponement-delta Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:33:06 GMT