C. L. Polk
@clpolk.com
I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
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C. L. Polk
@clpolk.com
· Nov 14
Okay I need to tell y’all something
if someone doesn’t act right in my replies I must block them
People don’t know how to act here yet, and will come to argue or dunk back and drag it out and listen Bluesky doesn’t put up with that
I don’t either
Conduct yourselves
if someone doesn’t act right in my replies I must block them
People don’t know how to act here yet, and will come to argue or dunk back and drag it out and listen Bluesky doesn’t put up with that
I don’t either
Conduct yourselves
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You know what? Sure, let's treat Trump like a normal President.
Literally any President ever to serve would have been in fucking jail by now, so let's do that.
Literally any President ever to serve would have been in fucking jail by now, so let's do that.
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
You know what? Sure, let's treat Trump like a normal President.
Literally any President ever to serve would have been in fucking jail by now, so let's do that.
Literally any President ever to serve would have been in fucking jail by now, so let's do that.
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Out of 102 episodes globally in which a trend toward autocracy was reversed over the past century, the vast majority led to restored or even increased levels of democracy.
doi.org/10.1080/1351...
doi.org/10.1080/1351...
December 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Out of 102 episodes globally in which a trend toward autocracy was reversed over the past century, the vast majority led to restored or even increased levels of democracy.
doi.org/10.1080/1351...
doi.org/10.1080/1351...
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Not in a box. Not with a fox.
I do not want it, Sam Am I.
I do not want your gen AI.
I do not want it, Sam Am I.
I do not want your gen AI.
I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
December 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Not in a box. Not with a fox.
I do not want it, Sam Am I.
I do not want your gen AI.
I do not want it, Sam Am I.
I do not want your gen AI.
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am I doing this meme right
December 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
am I doing this meme right
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If you suffer from anxiety or panic, what do you find tends to help you the most? Reposts appreciated
December 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
If you suffer from anxiety or panic, what do you find tends to help you the most? Reposts appreciated
do they have anybody who isn't corrupt to support?
yeah i don't know why i'm asking that question either
yeah i don't know why i'm asking that question either
If Pierre Poilievre can't pivot, could Jason Kenney lead Canada's Conservatives as early as 2026? Senator Charles Adler tells us he wouldn't be surprised. How about you?
📺 FULL: rtrj.info/121925Adler
🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/121925 #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ
📺 FULL: rtrj.info/121925Adler
🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/121925 #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ
December 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
do they have anybody who isn't corrupt to support?
yeah i don't know why i'm asking that question either
yeah i don't know why i'm asking that question either
I just got a email from Kindle unlimited saying we have discovered a billing error. We didn’t actually charge you the new subscription price but that’s OK. We’ll charge you 1199 on 21 January instead of the wrong 999 so guess what I’m doing on January 19.
Put your books in Kobo!
Put your books in Kobo!
December 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I just got a email from Kindle unlimited saying we have discovered a billing error. We didn’t actually charge you the new subscription price but that’s OK. We’ll charge you 1199 on 21 January instead of the wrong 999 so guess what I’m doing on January 19.
Put your books in Kobo!
Put your books in Kobo!
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Me: (working on novel)
Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel.
Me: (typing) Not now, brain.
Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is?
Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN
Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool
Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN
Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you
Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel.
Me: (typing) Not now, brain.
Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is?
Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN
Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool
Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN
Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you
December 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Me: (working on novel)
Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel.
Me: (typing) Not now, brain.
Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is?
Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN
Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool
Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN
Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you
Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel.
Me: (typing) Not now, brain.
Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is?
Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN
Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool
Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN
Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you
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THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool.
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool.
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
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Usual reminder: decisions like this don't mean that AI can do the job of a human translator; they mean that some C-suite creature who is basically a LinkedIn profile wrapped in ham and an expensive suit has decided it provides an alibi for paying human translators less money for less rewarding work.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Usual reminder: decisions like this don't mean that AI can do the job of a human translator; they mean that some C-suite creature who is basically a LinkedIn profile wrapped in ham and an expensive suit has decided it provides an alibi for paying human translators less money for less rewarding work.
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true feminism has never been tried
December 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
true feminism has never been tried
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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If it was inevitable, they wouldn't work so hard to convince you.
December 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
If it was inevitable, they wouldn't work so hard to convince you.
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-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
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This is why all these discussions are just eugenics wrapped up in process and anecdote. You can’t explain the outcomes without acknowledging privilege UNLESS you think white men are genetically superior. They all disgracefully think that but most are too chickenshit to say it.
December 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is why all these discussions are just eugenics wrapped up in process and anecdote. You can’t explain the outcomes without acknowledging privilege UNLESS you think white men are genetically superior. They all disgracefully think that but most are too chickenshit to say it.
You want to drop everything and switch your bank accounts away from this. Today. I am serious. Find a credit union and go.
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
You want to drop everything and switch your bank accounts away from this. Today. I am serious. Find a credit union and go.
Astonishing. Lyrical. Searing with truth
Wondering if anyone would be willing to blurb this post. It isn't a long read!
December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Astonishing. Lyrical. Searing with truth
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Authoritarians love LLM AI because it's an easy way for them to manufacture reality, to manipulate numbers, to force their agenda on others. And users of AI, the botlicking technosloppers of the world, will not only say "these are interesting ideas the AI is telling me" but "these are my ideas."
December 19, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Authoritarians love LLM AI because it's an easy way for them to manufacture reality, to manipulate numbers, to force their agenda on others. And users of AI, the botlicking technosloppers of the world, will not only say "these are interesting ideas the AI is telling me" but "these are my ideas."
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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I would be more worried about this thing taking my job if I felt like they understood what my job is.
December 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I would be more worried about this thing taking my job if I felt like they understood what my job is.
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I'm going to surface this thing I wrote earlier today complaining about the grindy part of fiction writing (trying to line up everything so that it's consistent emotionally, physically, intellectually, etc) just because I see people worrying that real human authors will be forced to turn to AI.
it's the part where you go through it and are like "oh fuck, I changed that to an afternoon conversation, now I have to change all the referents here to be at night" and "am I using the same name for all my minor characters or is that one character using three separate names all starting with M"
December 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I'm going to surface this thing I wrote earlier today complaining about the grindy part of fiction writing (trying to line up everything so that it's consistent emotionally, physically, intellectually, etc) just because I see people worrying that real human authors will be forced to turn to AI.
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Having a hero run an AI business is right up there with making a hero a cop in terms of how much it deflates my interest in a book almost immediately.
December 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Having a hero run an AI business is right up there with making a hero a cop in terms of how much it deflates my interest in a book almost immediately.
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NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
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We got to the irl Hunger Games a lot faster than I thought we would
December 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We got to the irl Hunger Games a lot faster than I thought we would