Jeremy Merrill
dad, a reporter, data reporter (writing about tech at The Washington Post)
I don't have digital; I don't have diddly squat.
Linguistics, NLP, news, Jews, Atlanta, crypto regs/politics, ads, fraud, etc.
- 27 crypto wallets acquired ~$1,000,000+ of the president's memecoin after top holders were invited to a special dinner with Trump. It "creates the specter of a pay-to-play deal". So who are payers? There are hints that many aren't even American. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- Newsmax just went public. Its 10-K annual report says: "A diverse and inclusive workplace is not merely a strategy or business objective; it is fundamentally woven in the fabric of the Company." www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
- There’s no more Gulf of Mexico Division of the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s now the Gulf of America Division. As of Wednesday, the agency has also renamed the body of water even on obscure pages about mangrove swamps. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- analytics.usa.gov says the US Government's official National Strategic Dad Joke Reserve website only got 861 pageviews in the past month. I think we can do better than that.
- ... ... did you know the US government has a dad joke website? www.fatherhood.gov/for-dads/dad...
- ... ... did you know the US government has a dad joke website? www.fatherhood.gov/for-dads/dad...
- "Gulf of America" first sprung up in a pretty unexpected place. One of the first references I can find to the idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico? Comes from Stephen Colbert and partially sponsored by... Bing. From 15ish years ago: news.softpedia.com/news/Bing-Do...
- more like justin trudeaun't amirite
- Elon Musk's total view count on Twitter is way way bigger (16x) than that of Congress as a whole. chart by @kevinschaul.bsky.social
- Elon Musk has a political megaphone unmatched in modern society. He got a total of 133 billion views since July, and ~1/3 of his posts are about politics. His typical tweet gets more than 2.4 million views in just one hour, according to our novel view-count time-series dataset. 🎁: wapo.st/3VLjlI6
- I like this chart. It tells a story. It's a bimodal distribution, which is my favorite kind of chart. It tells me that I've got two kinds of things: A bunch of the things on the right, centered at 0.8 and some of the things on the left, around 0.1 to 0.2.
- Yup.
- There's an imposter of me DMing people tips on how to make $700,000 via digital marketing. Real: @jeremybmerrill.com Fake: @jeremybmerrill.bsky.app Convincing. But it's not me.
- oh hey this was my chart that my job posted on this website, check out this chart I made last week
- A remarkable thing happened Tuesday night on an “election integrity” discussion page on the social media platform X, as it became clear that former president Donald Trump was headed to a decisive victory against Vice President Kamala Harris. It got quiet. wapo.st/40VIxPB
- TikTok's algorithm is super personalized -- and super opaque. So, my colleagues and I asked 1,000 people to send us their browsing histories, and we found: Most people get about 8% politics in their feeds, but a few get as much as 30%. gift link: wapo.st/40uSUJG
- If accelerationism is increasing every day, should we call it jerk-ism? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(p...
- I'm so jealous of this
- logging back into this website (and to Threads, and to Facebook) was a mistake.
- Idk that pie shop in Charlottesville and the too-good-for-the-South Jewish deli in Richmond would both be dangerous
- Much blame for AI that supposedly detects media bias belongs at the feet of "media bias fact check" -- some random folks' crappy opinion displayed in an infographic that ML engineers (true to form!) repeatedly mistake for ground-truth training data.
- AI to ✌️detect media bias✌️ continues to be the stupidest idea.
- After taking a look at which news articles have earned “very high reliability” scores from AI company Seekr, we only have more questions. www.niemanlab.org/2023/10/the-...
- Sham trials for the real president Real trials for the sham president (but he says they're sham trials)
- Which "champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends"-style toast is better? 1. ChatGPT's "Confetti for my loyal friends, bitter truth for my deceitful friends" Or 2. My algorithm's: "focus for my real friends, real cuss for my faux friends"
- Looking into this.
