KILL AI AND REBLOG AND CREATE ART IN 2026

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

Across much of the world, umbrellas are simply used to shield people from the rain or to shade them from the sun. And while visitors to Japan may see many locals using them for these purposes, parasols also serve a far more powerful role in Japanese culture: they're spiritual vessels. According to Tatsuo Danjyo, Professor Emeritus of humanities at Beppu University in Japan's Ōita prefecture, Japanese tradition holds that certain objects – including umbrellas – can serve as yorishiro (an object that attracts gods or spirits). This belief is deeply rooted in history. Umbrellas first appeared in Japan between the 9th and 11th Centuries, but instead of shielding people from the weather, they served as symbols of spiritual or political power. Early umbrellas, such as the long-handled sashikake-gasa, were reserved for religious and political figures and were held by attendants over the elite.

And I remember someone tracked down the actual article and discovered that (a) the authors were Indian, and (b) the answer was actually a super cool exploration of how Indian cookery uses spices to create contrasting flavours, unlike almost every other cuisine, which tries to pair similar/harmonising flavours.

AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires

AI is poised to drive 160% increase in data center power demand

no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)

you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results

okay this is a tricky part because I feel like you will get different answers from different people. but in my personal opinion? no, it doesn't count as ai. sure, it's translated by ai. but from how I personally see it, an "ai-generated fic" is a fic that is written from scratch by ai, entirely from start to finish (so no human input, except for the prompt).

Regardless, it still comes with many issues of AI work:

It’s still feeding the slop machine. It still feeds AI the original work and profit on human work for free.

In the professional workplace LLM have been used to make translators’ jobs obsolete.

Translation isn’t just producing a different language version, translation is also a point of interpretation: some words don’t have direct expressions, some words come in a variety of nuances in meaning, idioms need alternatives, syntax can deliver a certain tone, writing can convey hidden meanings parallels in etymology, syntax, paint pictures with words that simply don’t happen with LLM based translations.

If you’ve ever taken a foreign language in school and were frustrated with translation exercises getting marked up for using words that were too close to a common etymological root, that was because translations conveying the meaning of the text accurately are damn hard, and translators don’t get enough credit for literary interpretation.

LLMs *will* hallucinate a text that sounds right, even though it has the source material right there, inevitably altering the translation to be LLM-friendly, rather than an actual (literal or intentional) translation.

And, again, giving AI companies your original work is still feeding the machine and wasting water and energy (which often wastes more water).