Jeremy Merrill

@jeremybmerrill.com

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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.

a frame from a hockey game, with gambling references circled
an event plot shows minutes in a typical hour of six sports featuring a gambling reference. NCAA women's basketball is the most, but it's almost all ESPN ticker's with odds. NHL hockey is second, with forty minutes shaded, mostly from in-arena ads. NBA basketball has the third-most. NFL football, NCAA basketball and NCAA men's basketball have the least -- about 4 to 5 minutes a game.
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A screenshot of EPA's Mangrove Swamps website, saying "Four species of tropical mangroves can be found around the Gulf of America. Their extensive root systems protect the coast from erosion and storm damage. The mangrove here (inset) is a red mangrove."
A bubble chart shows one huge orange bubble for Elon Musk's 127.6 billion views and a bunch of small and tiny green bubbles for Congress's 7.1 billion views
A chart shows the view count trajectory of Elon Musk's and Donald Trump's tweets, titled "Views of each X post in 26 days around the election". Elon Musk has many above 100 million, while Trump's are all less than 100 million.
an untitled bimodal distribution, with a bit spike around 0.8 and a much smaller spike around 0.1. y-axis goes to 350 from 0.
A histogram of the proportion of TikTok feeds that is about politics or social issues. The big peak is around 6-10%, with a long right tail towards 25% or 30%, and a small left tail towards 1% and 2%.
A screenshot of an email that says "Bidens found guilty of crimes by citizens court" with the logo of freedom Watch
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metrics for my real friends, real tricks for my meh friends focus for my real friends, real cuss for my faux friends shamrocks for my real friends, real rocks for my sham friends folkrock for my real friends, real croc for my faux friends photos for my real friends, real toes for my faux friends midrash for my real friends, real rash for my mid friends medics for my real friends, real dicks for my meh friends crappie for my real friends, real pee for my crap friends
“Laughter for my true friends, heartfelt tears for my false friends.” “Confetti for my loyal friends, bitter truth for my deceitful friends.” “Hugs for my genuine friends, icy distance for my deceptive friends.” “Sunshine for my authentic friends, thunderstorms for my treacherous friends.”
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A screenshot of a phone notification that says Do you stand with crypto? This week is Stand with Crypto Day and it's time to take action. Email your Representative to su...
a screenshot of a book page: All Western Romance languages had V2 in medieval times, perhaps a vestige from some ancestral language. All these languages, however, lost V2 later on, and all of them were pronoun-drop languages.
A screenshot of a book page, saying (highlighted), if the child picks the German grammar during the natural selection of langauge learning, it will work most of the time even when she has just heard an English sentence. ... the payoff the German grammar outweights that of the English grammar.
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a screenshot of a court filing that says Pursuant to Section 7 of the Court’s Standing Order, ECF No. 13, Plaintiffs Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), the States (as defined in the First Amended Complaint, or “FAC” (ECF No. 104) and Defendants Safeguard Metals LLC and Jeffrey S. Santulan (collectively the “Parties”), hereby stipulate as follows: Whereas, Plaintiffs and Defendants have reached a settlement in principle, subject to approval by the CFTC’s Commission and the various state authorities, on the issue of liability and as to a permanent injunction and other statutory and equitable relief, as set forth in a Proposed Consent Order that the parties will file with the Court for its consideration within the next 45 days following the filing of this Notice and Stipulation.
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a photograph of successively grayer mountains fading into the background and blending into the cloudy sky, with some trees in the very bottom of the foreground.
a screenshot from Facebook with the header "Suggested groups". the first entry says "The World Needs RFK Jr" with metadata 1.5K members, 4 posts a day. The second entry says "CMC community".
three red boxes aligned vertically and labeled A B and C
A picture of an old external frame hiking backpack leaned up against a big rock with carved into it Appalachian Trail, Hogpen Gap
an AI generated picture of an astronaut in space holding a pizza, but inside the helmet of the space suit is another pizza. earth is in the background.
a chart showing an initial spike in April, then a sort of steady level since, of bud light mentions by right-wing influencers
a screenshot of Trump's Truth Social post from June 13 that says "Will Deranged Jack Smith be looking at the thousands of pages of documents that Biden had in Chinatown then, when caught, quickly sent up to Boston? What about the 1,850 Boxes that Biden is fighting to keep secret. How about Hillary’s 33,000 emails that she deleted and acid washed? Will he be looking at the $5,000,000 bribe that was paid to Biden but that the Justice Department is trying to hide? Much more coming on that! We are living in a Third World Country. No Borders, Rigged Elections!" with "How about Hillary’s 33,000 emails that she deleted and acid washed?" highlighted
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a screenshot of an email that says Breaking News from Newsmax.com Even Fox News Is Banning This Book! Urgent Message from David Horowitz Dear Friend, My new book has been a runaway bestseller. But it’s being censored. Almost a total ban. Even though my book sales far, far surpassed other bestsellers – the New York Times won’t include me on their bestseller list. All the major networks – including Fox News – won’t even mention “Final Battle: The Next Election Could Be the Last.”
Oh, just a Supreme Court opinion casually citing Statista and a Forbes contributor , both of which cite the same viral infographic by a software company, which itself is aggregated from other, poorly labeled sources that are years out of date. YouTube, 510,000 comments are posted on Facebook and 247,000 tweets are sent on Twitter. See Statista, Media Usage in an Internet Minute as of April 2022 (2023), ....,; Statista YouTube--Statistics & Facts; B. Marr, How Much Data Do We Create Every Day? Forbes, May 21 2018
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