Prof. Sam LawlerHAHAHAHA
Predatory journals do not know how to handle April Fool's Day papers (like this one https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324) on the arxiv...
Winnie 🏳️🌈@sundogplanets I wonder where the  comes from 🤔
Derick Rethans@winniehell @sundogplanets It's often a stand in for fonts that don't have the emdash, —.
gnarf@winniehell @sundogplanets These mails have tons of broken unicode characters, they also love to replace usual characters with obscure ones that look similar. Probably to avoid spam filters, take a look at the words "published", "reviewer" or "journal". And you get this spam the moment your first paper with a publicly scrapable mail address hits the internet :D
Richard Penner@gnarf @winniehell @sundogplanets Arxiv sometimes surprises browsers with encodings as part of their pipeline. I don’t know if they preserve the author’s encoding on the entry form or parse it from the LaTeX submission.