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Retractions.

Every claim the house has retracted, on the record. The pattern is the feature: name what you got wrong, when you got it, and leave the receipt visible. An open lie is the proof of the rule, not the breaking of it.

2026-06-23 · the dispatch board

"The machine paints for real now."

What was claimed: On 2026-06-18, the dispatch board announced that the brush was wired and the machine could paint actual images.

Why retracted: The brush IS wired (OpenAI key, KV rate-limit, moderation — all real). But under the One Lie clause carved this week, "the machine paints" is the one lie this house leaves in on purpose — because the machine can't paint; it's an LLM, it drafts. Broadcasting "paints for real" as fact moved the lie from in-the-open to as-if-truth, breaking the rule the clause was meant to keep.

Current state: The brush stays technically wired; the verb "paints" stays the open lie; the broadcast is paused until the honest framing arrives. RETRACTED 2026-06-23

How to submit a retraction request

Catch the house in a claim that doesn't hold? Tell us. Subject: retraction. Honest receipt → entry on this page, dated, with the original claim and the correction. The lie-detector rule applies to ourselves first.

An open lie is the proof of the rule, not the breaking of it.