Josh Merfeld

Development, labor, and nerdy measurement stuff | Sr. Lecturer, @UQ_News | @iza_bonn | @jpal | insulin addict | dad of an awesome girl | previous @kdi_school

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

“Even crappier MDPI journal” made me laugh

[Mauro Lago-Docampo @MuruLago]

In January, I reviewed a Review for a crappy MDPI journal.

It was 100% AI, missing citations, etc. I sent a massive report, and the authors withdrew it.

Today, I see it published without a single change in another even crappier MDPI journal.

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

@singhabhi Not for me. I don’t particularly care 🙃

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

@ash_craig @UQ_News

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

Can we do this @UQ_News ?

[The Chicago Maroon @ChicagoMaroon]

UChicago announced today that it had partnered with AI company Anthropic to give students, faculty, and staff access to Claude Enterprise services on a rolling basis starting in July. All University community members will have access by fall quarter. Story to come.

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

@ash_craig @UQ_News Nah we’re doing fine lol

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

@ash_craig @UQ_News Big words coming from someone at ANU lol

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@DavidSacks If Trump really were "the most pro-innovation president we’ve ever had" he would not attempt to cut research budgets by half.

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

[capybara @thecapytoken]

i don’t know why you need this information, but these are the aerodynamics of a capybara.

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

The comments to this are *insane*

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals.

As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them.

Go Knicks.

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

What about trees? Did they cut down a bunch of trees?

[shelby @thetrueshelby]

Serious question: is the grass just fucked?

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

One of our society's worst brainworms is this compulsive tearing down of anyone who tries to do anything good.

Bill Gates is the most ethical and pro-social billionaire that we have. If all the billionaires were like him, our world would be better in many many ways.

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

@ash_craig So you mean you have a layover that’s long enough to go into town and have a meal?

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

It’s a weird location between sejong and daejeon that not many bike riders use.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

This bike lane covered in solar panels in South Korea provides protection from the sun for cyclists, and produces 6 megawatts of electricity per day, enough to power 600 households.

📽: Janbaz Salehi

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

@Hanakookie1 @Allusernamesdur @minilek No they don’t. My wife got hers through adjustment of status at a USCIS office in NYC. Which is exactly what the intent of the law passed by congress was.

[Jelani Nelson @minilek]

I’m seeing lots of reposts on this focused on contributions to industry and scientific discovery.

How about: let’s not disrupt families?

A grad student comes on an F-1, falls in love and marries an American, then has children. This policy would send them back out the country.

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

@ViewFromAS46610 @tom_sattler Huh? I literally just said the majority are not fake, so no I don’t “know that a majority of them are fake”.

How does preserving green cards for legitimate relationships fuck over hundreds of thousands of “legit” Americans?

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

This is completely insane. Will literally rip families apart.

[USCIS @USCIS]

USCIS is applying long-standing law and prior court decisions to require certain aliens with temporary visas who decide they want to permanently reside in the U.S. to return to their home countries to apply for permanent visas through the @StateDept.

We're returning to the original intent of the law to ensure aliens navigate our nation’s immigration system properly.

Here’s what you should know: https://t.co/GeaZd3BeV2

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

@ViewFromAS46610 @tom_sattler Who are “these people”? Most marriages are authentic, not shams. I’d much rather err on the side of making sure all Americans in legitimate marriages get to stay together.

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

@MaraInAmerica So foreigners in America owe their allegiance to their native country but Americans in other country don’t owe their allegiance to America. Yah okay.

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

@ViewFromAS46610 @tom_sattler A non American parent. An American parent. An American child. Saying “all of you leave so the non American can wait a year for their green card” is ASININE.