I did have a relatively easy idea which was a quick draft before my actual post of the day.

So, here’s a list of things I still do as a young adult that most of society expects me to stop doing, or something?

Whatever, here it goes:

• Moving my legs a lot while standing up. I do little dance steps and I turn around smoothly and all that. Some times people say it looks like I want to use the restroom, but I’m just vibing! Probably hyperactive.

• Play with my handheld consoles on the bus. This should not be weird at all, but I do feel a certain pressure to not do it, especially on the transport to work, purely because nobody else does. Maybe nobody cares but I feel like they do.

• Send messages stating what I need and not much else. I am very annoyed by messages that are “Hey” and then “Can you help me” without saying anything useful for me. I always send a full, specific message when I need something.

• Wearing shorts. You can even see it on my pixel art profile picture. A lot of adult men at least in my city/culture only use jeans unless going to the gym. I’d wear shorts everyday if I could.

• Running up or down staircases. Even skipping two steps at a time. Why does everyone have to go so slow? It’s not just age, since my school days I was held back by my friend group lol

The more I go the more I feel like there’s probably other people doing this actually and I’m just doing one of those “am I the only one that does this?” posts that proceed to describe the most common thing ever.

But hey, this is Blaugust and I’m already one day behind so, you take it or leave it.

Wait a minute, could this post be that so-called “human slop”? Perhaps that could be a question to reply later, or not, who has time for that?

This is day 11 of #100DaysToOffload and day 6 of #Blaugust2026

I assisted to a webinar about “the potential of AI” in the workplace, and you can already guess what sort of conference I had to go through yesterday. I shared a livestream of my thoughts on my Polymaths’ profile in case you want to see my reactons to what was said there, it’s hilarious stuff.

Something I didn’t mention on that thread was a little quizz at the start, where people filled out polls and the like, and one of the pages was actually a word cloud, they asked “what words come to mind when you think about AI?”.

Of course, I typed a few: “Wasteful”, “lazy”, “slop”, “unethical”… there was no limit I found to how many I could add, but I stopped with those. They didn’t even show up in the word cloud.

“Useful”, “automation”, “future”, “tool”, “assistant”.

Each word got bigger as more and more people typed them in real time.

This wasn’t a multiple choice question, they were chosen and submitted by many.

It is unfortunate, and undeniable, how many people today are perfectly okay with all this, even when they are aware of the bad they caused and continue to cause—they simply look the other way.

“It’s a necessary evil now, there’s nothing we can do about it.”

“We need to catch up with the times, it’s the same as the calculator or the personal computer”

One of the common themes during the presentation was how “you should learn how to use it, don’t stay behind”, because “you will not be replaced by it, but by those who know how to use it”.

Honestly though, as grim as it sounds, I couldn’t help but cringe at every example and slide showed through the whole thing. The generated graphics, the generated prompts, pretty much all the information there was not made by the presentator, none of the examples or problems solved were real.

It’s such a big charade, and the fact everything started with how much running these things can cost and how “it’s not that the AI is inneficient, it’s just that you don’t prompt it properly” let me know it’s all just a joke.

At some point the host shared their screen and started to copy-paste example prompts, while the sidebar featuring a chat history was in full display. “Answer this email”, “summarise this email”, and almost out of frame… “I’m doing a webinar about[…]”.

Check the thread if you want, it’s a good laugh. Watching the bubble pop will be fun.

This is day 98 of #100DaysToOffload.