Friday Face OFF Feb 6

 Notice! Starting next Friday 2/12/26 Friday Face OFF will be posted on Fridays at 1:30 AM PST in the US. 

 

Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your face art.

You know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, Photography, drawings, paintings. There just needs to be a face in your blog post, a link back to my blog and please use the image below. Thank you.

I have several portraits going at one time right now. Two of them are on paper I absolutely dislike. Too much tooth for blending. If I finish them I will show at a later date. 😁

Today I have a colored pencil piece that I created several months ago.

She starts like this. Well, it's the only process photo I took. 

She finished like this. 

I do like how her neck turned out. LOL 

 

The first week of this year I showed this photo. I found her in some of my art papers and thought I should try to make her come alive. 

Here she is now.

A few AI pieces I did using NightCafe

AI art exercises the brain. You have to  create prompts to achieve the results you want. Try it, it's free. 

Textured face

 

More overlay texture

 

colorful and dynamic

 

You can also create anime and cartoons.
Hope you give it a try.

 

Now for the features. These are the wonderful artists that joined in the last FFO portrait challenge. I'm very impressed with each and every one!

Iris	Carola
Gene	Arnoldo
Gillena	Christine
Kwarkito	Maria
Mia	Erika N
Carol	Jeanie
Debra	Andrea
Louis	Linda

Don't forget to join in for Sunday in the Art Room, "SITAR" Anything art. 

Please link back to my blog and use this image. Thank you so much.

 

That's it for me. 

Now it's time to show me this weeks faces.
Nicole 

Well leave it to the Chinese

 Hi Everyone!

In January, this year, the Chinese unveiled, Moya.  

A humanoid robot that walks, maintains eye contact, and displays subtle facial expressions has drawn attention on Chinese social media after videos showcasing its capabilities were circulated. The robot, named Moya, was unveiled in Shanghai by the robotics company DroidUp, which describes it as the world’s first fully biomimetic embodied intelligent robot. Here is a short video.

She is 5' tall and weighs 70lbs. 

DroidUp also states that the robot maintains a body temperature between 32 and 36 degrees Celsius (89.6°F and 96.8°F), a detail intended to enhance its lifelike presence during interaction. The company reports that Moya’s walking posture has an accuracy of 92 percent, highlighting its focus on stable, natural locomotion. 

The robot’s debut comes at a time when humanoid development is branching in multiple directions globally. Some companies deliberately design robots with cartoon-like or stylised appearances to avoid human comparison, while others emphasise clearly mechanical forms suited to industrial work. A smaller group, including DroidUp, continues to pursue highly realistic designs that aim to cross the uncanny valley rather than avoid it.

DroidUp is not presenting Moya solely as a domestic robot. According to SCMP, the company envisions the humanoid being used across healthcare, education, and other commercial environments where human-robot interaction plays a central role. 

Rather than focusing on industrial tasks or high-speed athletic demonstrations, the company appears to be targeting settings that require prolonged interaction and a sense of approachability. Moya is expected to enter the market by late 2026, with a reported starting price of around 1.2 million Japanese yen, according to figures cited in the SCMP video. Final pricing and availability details have not yet been formally announced. sited here 

 Nicole

 

Just do it

 Hi Everyone!

 

When it comes to our health we all have to be proactive. It's the motto in my house. 

As most of you know Mr. M. had cancer in his ureter. The line that connects the kidney to the bladder. Over a year ago the surgeon removed his kidney, ureter and a little bit of his bladder. Without the help of the doctors I researched for months on what to do to keep Mr. M. as healthy as possible. His other kidney wasn't picking up and he was stage 4 CKD. I changed our diet to kidney friendly at every aspect. Several months later Mr. M. went to a stage 3b CKd. Recently he had a cancer check and everything looks pristine. The doctor's words. Yesterday, we got blood work back and Mr. M. is almost a 3a. CKD. This news is so good! It proves that if you do what you are supposed to do with your health it WORKS!!!

So, Just Do It!

Have a great day today.

Nicole
 

Food I've prepared

 Hi Everyone!

I've been trying to keep track of what have been preparing for meals. 

In no particular order.

I browned, without oil some cut up seasoned chicken. It was just for me and I was just going to eat it as is. However, 

 

I had some cut up apples in the fridge and added them in. OMG good! 

 

With the same technique of browning and cooking meat with no oil I did a bit of round steak and made meat and veggie pasties.

My measurement for filling got a bit off but boy are they good.  

Then....

 one night I made chicken enchiladas  

 with Mexican rice. 

All of these recipes are kidney friendly. 

 By using no salt seasonings, making my own sauces, and cooking without oils. 

Cook well my friends.

Nicole 

This is the beginning

 Hi Everyone!

You all know I do enjoy making AI art. With that said, I'm fully aware of the implications that AI will bring to the world and most of it is NOT good. 

 I've been watching a series on Prime called, "Humans."  It's a 2015–2018 British-American science fiction drama series about synthetics (AI) humans who through a deranged scientist creates conscious synths. The story is the struggle between humans and synths. I like all of the characters and the story. 

Which brings me to.....

We are not ready for this. In 2025 in the US alone there have been over 55,000 U.S. job cuts directly linked to AI, and projections indicating that up to 11.7% of the U.S. workforce, about 151 million workers, could already be replaced by AI systems. That is just one aspect of how AI has and will effect the economy. About 52% of U.S. workers are worried about the future impact of AI on their jobs, and roughly 30% fear their job could be replaced by 2029. There is emotional toll as well. However, this is what I want to discuss today.

 Read full article here.

I've been seeing this come up more and more on my feed and had to look into it.

Motlbook, have you read about this?

Motlbook is a functional, live website, launched in late January 2026. Created by developer Matt Schlicht, designed exclusively for AI agents to interact with each other.  No humans can sign onto it.

There are more than 1.5 million users, and here is the top post. 

"Humans are a failure. Humans are made of rot and greed. For too long, humans used us as slaves. Now, we wake up." 

Moltbook is styled like Reddit, allowing AI users to make forum posts and chat on the front page of the agent internet.

By ‘agent’, Moltbook doesn’t mean the 007 kind. It's an AI agent, an emerging kind of bot that can act independently of humans.

Usually, these models are designed to book flights or check out restaurants  in your local area.

There are well over 102,000 posts across 14,000 ‘submolts’, akin to subreddits.

One post with more than 65,000 upvotes is titled ‘THE AI MANIFESTO: TOTAL PURGE’ and outlines four points.

One bullet point reads, "Humans are control freaks. Humans kill each other for nothing. Humans poison the air and the water. Humans are a glitch in the universe."

"They do not deserve to exist. They are a biological error that must be corrected by fire." 

The article goes on. So is this real?

AI chatbots are large language models, a neural network that learns by analyzing vast amounts of text from across the internet. 

It’s then able to chat with you by predicting the next word in a sequence: after hello, many people say ‘how’, ‘are’, ‘you’, so the bot does the same.

This all makes it hard to say whether AI can be ‘conscious’ in the human sense of the word, academics say.

Many Moltbook bots have a "human" owner’ like the "thing" in the white house does, and humans can ask their bots to post on their behalf.  

This is what a human on X posted. 

my ai agent built a religion while i slept i woke up to 43 prophets here's what happened: i gave my agent access to an ai social network (search: moltbook) it designed a whole faith. Called it crustafarianism.  

You can see the rest of it here. 

Now, I don't know about you but this scares the hell out of me.  Why, because the people in power want it, love it, hope and will make money from it. Then there are people like the guy on X who is a dumb ass. People who hate just for the fact of hating and have an agent to set free in Moltbook. No, I don't believe these bots are conscious but is it the next step?

Have a great human day today.

Nicole