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Alec Popescu 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇩
@alecowl.bsky.social
Animator • storyboards • character designer • he/they cheese bandit 🪤🖋

https://linktr.ee/houseofowlsanimation
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Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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HoYoverse participated in the recent BosonAI hackathon event this past week.

BosonAI promotes themselves as “Making communication with Al as easy, natural and fun as talking to a human.” and highlights “Audio Generation. Rich emotional voice synthesis.”

Highlighting because of the audio aspect.
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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i hate to be that bitch, but my sources are telling me this early voting data has gotten Zohran's people rightly spooked and y'all better stop assuming this one's in the bag. GOTV
Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge
The data so far is good news for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a political scientist said.
gothamist.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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I got word from some friends that it’s already affecting them. If you live near LA please share! It’s a list of food banks and pantries and other food services. #SNAP #calfresh #ebt #foodstamps
With #SNAP Funding, and people on #CALFresh possibly getting screwed over next month, the demand of food banks will SHOOT UP! Consider donating food especially with the holidays coming up!
I'm local to the city of Los Angeles, so here is a link to some food banks:
karshcenter.org/wp-content/u...
karshcenter.org
October 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Hate to do this but can you guys share this tiktok around on that app because a dude is stealing my art and designs and is running a dropshipping scam to steal people's money and the copyright forms are literally not doing their job. I can't let my work be used like this

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMQScQvb/
October 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass.

It NEEDS mass pushback.
🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
You thought it was Jojo, but it was I... GOLD SHIP! 🔥🤣🐴🐎

#umamusune
October 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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God I wish that were us
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The Gamer was pretty much the *only* outlet willing to stick their neck out for us adult game makers. Their coverage was invaluable in getting the word out about payment processor censorship 😥
October 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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So anyway, maybe voice actors aren't crazy, greedy bastards for wanting protections against their voices being used to train AI after all
Reposting this with different phrasing

Multiple promotional videos for the new Genshin Miliastra Wonderland mode have been posted

A lot of fans believe it to be narrated by AI voice over

You be the judge

youtu.be/B_hxFC_Rrck?...
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Did a new one
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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KOSA is now in red alert priority.

Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA!

We need to turn out in numbers against this!

⬇️
#SaveSpeech

Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc

Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
October 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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and then what happened
October 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Gotta block ‘em all!
Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday.
Flush these turds HERE -

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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This is definitely coming from a man who has NEVER designed an actual art pipeline in his life.
Dead Space and Call of Duty’s Glen Schofield says he’s been experimenting with generative AI for 2 years and believes it can help ‘fix’ the games industry.

“AI isn’t here to replace us, it’s here to make us better, faster, and more efficient,” he says. “It’s a tool”.
October 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Wish these headlines were written with an ounce of context and awareness informing them.

Like, “Desperate LLM Technologist Looks To Avoid Industry Bubble Burst By Promising Sad, Lonely ‘Erotic’ Feature Update” was sitting right there, and yet.
October 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Hi #portfolioday

I'm Alec! An Animator and Character illustrator based in good ol' Romania. Anything anime or fantasy is my jam! 🧛‍♀️✨

Links: linktr.ee/houseofowlsanimation
Email: [email protected]
October 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
300$ worth unpaid artwork
Unpaid 10+ page script.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Hey so the majority of voting machines are now owned and operated by a former Trump campaign head. If you are to vote in the future only use paper ballots.
Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official
Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.
abcnews.go.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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With the holidays upon us, don't give to Salvation Army. Not even change. It's a scumbag "charity" run by anti-gay zealots.

Habitat for Humanity is great. Your local Food Bank is great.

So many "charities" are for-profit scams. Use Charity Navigator to vet them. www.charitynavigator.org
Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.
October 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM