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Tucker Lieberman
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January 11, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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I went Looney Tunes at 10 p.m. in a public park ("meeep meeep!") and roadrunnered full speed into a rock.
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January 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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Best color for a spiral notebook?
Three pencils lying on a closed spiral notebook
January 5, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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It's always a good day to make your own text and images. Even if you did not comb the little sprig of hair you have. It's still better than "AI."
Tucker Lieberman, smiling selfie closeup in front of bookshelf, there's a burro statue on the shelf
January 4, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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the salmon are not fooled
advertisement headline: 'salmon sperm facials are having a moment, and this $13 mask lets you do it at home.' the image is of someone wearing a beauty mask that wraps their face in strips of white cloth. under that, for comparison, is a photo of an actual salmon. it's a long, silver fish with a beaky face and spots along its top half.
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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laws are irrelevant
beliefs are irrelevant
who is Tim Kaine
CNN headline: Tim Kaine believes Venezuela strikes are 'illegal'
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Target has been collecting data on shoppers for decades. (Charles Duhigg wrote about it in the NYT in 2012.) How much easier if the shopper would, at long last, casually cough up their information in "private conversation" with an LLM. web.archive.org/web/20120303...
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: 'If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that?' Pole has a master’s degree in statistics and another in economics, and has been obsessed with the intersection of data and human behavior most of his life. Almost every major retailer, from grocery chains to investment banks to the U.S. Postal Service, has a 'predictive analytics' department devoted to understanding not just consumers’ shopping habits but also their personal habits, so as to more efficiently market to them. 'But Target has always been one of the smartest at this,' says Eric Siegel, a consultant and the chairman of a conference called Predictive Analytics World. 'We’re living through a golden age of behavioral research. It’s amazing how much we can figure out about how people think now.' And among life events, none are more important than the arrival of a baby. At that moment, new parents' habits are more flexible than at almost any other time in their adult lives. If companies can identify pregnant shoppers, they can earn millions. The only problem is that identifying pregnant customers is harder than it sounds. Target has a baby-shower registry, and Pole started there, observing how shopping habits changed as a woman approached her due date, which women on the registry had willingly disclosed. He ran test after test, analyzing the data, and before long some useful patterns emerged. Lotions, for example. Lots of people buy lotion, but one of Pole’s colleagues noticed that women on the baby registry were buying larger quantities of unscented lotion around the beginning of their second trimester. Another analyst noted that sometime in the first 20 weeks, pregnant women loaded up on supplements like calcium, magnesium and zinc. Many shoppers purchase soap and cotton balls, but when someone suddenly starts buying lots of scent-free soap and extra-big bags of cotton balls, in addition to hand sanitizers and washcloths, it signals they could be getting close to their delivery date. About a year after Pole created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man walked into a Target outside Minneapolis and demanded to see the manager. He was clutching coupons that had been sent to his daughter, and he was angry, according to an employee who participated in the conversation. 'My daughter got this in the mail!' he said. 'She's still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?' The manager didn’t have any idea what the man was talking about. He looked at the mailer. Sure enough, it was addressed to the man’s daughter and contained advertisements for maternity clothing, nursery furniture and pictures of smiling infants. The manager apologized and then called a few days later to apologize again. On the phone, though, the father was somewhat abashed. 'I had a talk with my daughter,' he said. 'It turns out there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely aware of. She's due in August. I owe you an apology.'
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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This guy just joined Bluesky (and followed me) 👎
Michael J. Knowles. Bluesky handle: michael-knowles.bsky.social. 0 followers, 68 following, 2 posts. Website is michaeljknowles.com. The screenshot shows that he followed me.
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Not what I was going to suggest, but ok
Google search in-progress for 'what do you do with a' (typing not complete yet) auto-suggests 'what do you do with a drunken sailor lyrics'
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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incredible

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I vividly recall the case of a professor who had had a sudden vision and thought he was insane. He came to see me in a state of complete panic. I simply took a 400-year-old book from the shelf and showed him an old woodcut depicting his very vision. 'There's no reason for you to believe that you're insane,' I said to him. 'They knew about your vision 400 years ago.' Whereupon he sat down entirely deflated, but once more normal.
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
tweet from Ben Zeisloft @BenZeisloft: Various transgenders, sodomites, apostates, and critical theorists
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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The President says he will not appear on his tricycle for the rest of the day
White House calls a lid, offering no update on Epstein bill. From CNN's Alejandra Jaramillo. The White House issued a travel/photo lid Wednesday evening, offering no indication of whether President Donald Trump signed the Epstein files bill, or whether he planned to sign it before the night’s end. A travel/photo lid signals that the press will not see the president again for the remainder of the day, effectively shutting down any on-camera opportunities from the White House.
November 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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A gorgeous fawn poem. In part:

"How fast blood

must pump to stay
this ready. Your body

enters the clearing

tracked and scoped.
And yet the clover.

The goldenrod. The flush

of acorns says surrender
your alarm."

— Melody S. Gee, "Learn to Walk," in THE CONVERT'S HEART IS GOOD TO EAT
The Convert's Heart is Good to Eat by Melody S. Gee
November 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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"mulls options" as if we're getting quality spiced apple cider out of the White House
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
Trump is mulling military operations in Venezuela. Here's what to know. From CNN's Betsy Klein, Kevin Liptak, Haley Britzky and Kylie Atwood. Another key element of President Donald Trump’s agenda we’ll be tracking today involves growing tensions in the Caribbean, where the administration has been mounting a show of force as it targets alleged drug traffickers in the region. Here’s what to know: Trump mulls options: The president suggested last week that he has made up his mind on a course of action in the South American country following multiple high-level briefings this week.
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Promising not to lie *at all, ever* sounds pretty normal.

Promising not to lie *in one specific way* sounds bad, actually.

www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution headline: Ossoff pledges not to use deepfake campaign videos, while Collins digs in
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Bedtime! Yes, you too.
#dogs
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November 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Then Cuomo tied up the victim's wife, dragged her to the basement, and made her vote for him...*by mail.* That's how bad things are in New York.
Social media post with profile pic blurred, as shared in the original post in this thread: Cuomo murdered my husband and I am voting for him. That's how bad things are in New York.
November 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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There are discrepancies in numbers.
Wikipedia’s article on the January 6th Committee (the House investigation) says that “the Committee held ten live televised public hearings that presented evidence,” while Grokipedia says the committee “held eight public hearings.” Wikipedia says “the committee released a 154-page executive summary of its findings” that introduced its “845-page final report,” while Grokipedia mentions “an 88-page executive summary” as part of a “full report, spanning 814 pages.”
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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The whole world knows this. Everyone knows it from childhood:

"if a deal is accompanied by coercion and its outcome is predetermined, it is not a deal but rather an imposition and bullying" — Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran
www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-l...
HuffPost screenshot of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Donald Trump. The paragraph says: 'Trump says he is a dealmaker, but if a deal is accompanied by coercion and its outcome is predetermined, it is not a deal but rather an imposition and bullying,' Khamenei said according to state media.
October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Good Sunday morning! 🔵☁️ (I always remember the Judith Viorst children's book whenever I say that)

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cover of SUNDAY MORNING, a children's picture book by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Hilary Knight
October 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.
October 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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No matter what's happening in the world, what fires we're putting out, how much it matters if we lose, we'll always have to deal with this during lunchbreak.
An online commenter says: Apparently you failed to read the article you references [sic]. Tucker Lieberman responds: I am the author of the article I referenced.
October 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Please do not disturb me when I am in my medbed

[American Tourister ad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-qP... ]
ventriloquist dummy sitting up inside an open suitcase, in a fancy train carriage with curtains and a silver tea kettle on a plate ventriloquist dummy reclining in a suitcase, about to close himself inside it
October 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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He seems to equate "wokeness" with "cancel culture," i.e., censoriousness.
I guess it’s clarifying, at least. Wokeness — with its censorious attempt to control minds by threats — is not dead. It’s just on both sides now — and involves government. Cancel culture has leapt from the social and horizontal to the political and vertical.
September 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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i mean,
HuffPost headline: TOO MUCH FOR *TUCKER* with a thin stripe of a photograph under it that shows Trump's face in front of a US flag
September 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM