Recently I have found an Instagram of artist from Tomsk, Evgeny Schwenk – he redraws characters from Soviet cartoons as if they were real people. I have applied neural.love neural network which made his drawings even more realistic. Just a bit of Photoshop (mainly for hats) and here we go.
Recently I have found an Instagram of artist from Tomsk, Evgeny Schwenk – he redraws characters from Soviet cartoons as if they were real people. I have applied neural.love neural network which made his drawings even more realistic. Just a bit of Photoshop (mainly for hats) and here we go.
After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy." He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information.
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