Jason Gantenberg

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Beautiful bow echo!

We had a few of these squall line systems in Illinois years back. Created big derecho events. I'm happy I don't have to worry about storm season in New England!

Dunno. I think this list is pretty wack. Ferrell and Stiller belong nowhere on it. No *Life of Brian*, no *Ghostbusters*. Lebowski and others ranked way too low (below *The Waterboy*?!). Missing essential Chaplin, Anderson, Cohens. *Office Space* could replace a handful of the '90s picks.

Losing to Richard Ayoade is a great honor!

Heyo! Gemini 3 Pro actually does the tool call. gemini.google.com/share/f88a98...

The "Crafting a Fake Persona" step in Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning when creating the character of Begbie from Irvine Welsh's *Trainspotting*.

One "upgrade" in Gemini 3 Pro is that my "Asshole" gem, which I instructed to be a complete asshole to me, no longer works. Flagged as abusive and profane.

As an alternative, Gemini suggests roleplay a specific character. So I said "embody Begbie from Trainspotting".

The funniest "thinking" step:

in my post-academic era i have become extremely scathing of the way academia considers papers to the primary outcome of intellectual work, and refuses to give credit to academics who write software or build other tooling. in industry we very rarely read your papers; but we always use your software

It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr

I was opposed to the deal Brown struck with Trump over the summer, knowing full well it would probably cost me my job if the university didn't do it.

I am happy they rejected this compact, at the very least, though I would have liked a more forceful statement.

This is a good one. I've got some remedial reading to do.

New post on what happens when you can't press undo, from research and banking to cryptography and modern AI: kucharski.substack.com/p/not-going-...

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Truth Cartels? The DOJ’s Misguided Leap into Viewpoint Regulation In a surprising move, the U.S. Justice Department’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division has thrown its weight behind a lawsuit that could reshape how courts—and antitrust enforcers—think about competition in dig...

truthonthemarket.com/2025/08/12/t...

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Palmer is a libertarian, so when he says "liberalism" he's referring to the small-l variety. I agree wholeheartedly with this quote.

I admit, I had to look it up

That warm feeling when someone cites your paper for... *skims article*... the background claim for which you cited the original source.

He will get much use out of both!

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We have established that were you to combine the worst comedic timing, instincts, skill, and craft, you would come up with Adam Sandler. If you add to that mixture the sun shining on a horse's ass twice a day, you'd get Will Ferrell.

Yeah, same chat