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@EliotHiggins
Nov 20, 2021 • 58 tweets • 18 min read • Read on X
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I asked Neural Blender for pictures of Frank Zappa by famous artists. Pablo Picasso, HR Giger, Francis Bacon, Frida Khalo.
Frank Zappa by Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, Johannes Vermeer.
Frank Zappa by Leonardo da Vinci, Susan Ryder, Kehinde Wiley, Rembrandt
"A painted portrait of Taylor Swift by Pablo Picasso."
"A painted portrait of Taylor Swift by Leonardo Da Vinci"
Now for David Bowie painted by various artists, via NeuralBlender. Pablo Picasso, Bob Ross, Francis Bacon, Vincent van Gogh
David Bowie painted by various artists, via NeuralBlender. HR Giger, Frida Khalo, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt
"David Bowie painted by Johannas Vermeer"
I tried @PaulHollywood painted by Pablo Picasso in NeuralBlender
Donald Trump painted by Frida Khalo, really captures his essence.
"Alan Partridge painted by Frida Kahlo"
I managed to get a fairly realistic Alan from "Alan Partridge in the style of a North Korean propaganda poster."
I tried to see how making the text more descriptive could make the image more precise. I think this is a partial success for "Prue Leith, Paul Hollywood, Noel Fielding, and Matt Lucas eating slices of cake in a tent. The tent is large and white." I think Prue is missing.
TinTin by Jack Kirby
"Vladimir Putin painted by Gustav Klimt" gave my favourite result so far
"Vladimir Putin painted by HR Giger" gave what's probably the scariest
"Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh" worked better than I thought it would.
I felt so clever after my Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh image I decided to do "Donald Trump as a giant baby" and now regret my previous arrogance.
As a palate cleanser I tried "President Joe Biden driving a 1967 Chevrolet car, painted by Norman Rockwell." but it ended up looking like a future Dead Kennedy's album cover
Good enough that I probably can't fly to China anymore?
"Teletubbies by Zdzisław Beksiński"
Paw Patrol by Zdzisław Beksiński
"Mr Tumble by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Octonauts by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Hey Dougie by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Go Jetters by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Peter Hitchens painted by Degas"
"Boris Johnson painted by HR Giger"
"Iron Man painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Marvel's Black Widow painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Ant-Man painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"The Incredible Hulk painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Spider-man painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Thor painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Superman painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Cyborg painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Two-face painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Storming Capitol Hill by Hieronymus Bosch"
"Hillary Clinton painted by Pablo Picasso"
"Downton Abbey painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
This came out surprisingly well "Harry Styles painted by Andy Warhol"
Since I did it to Boris I thought it was only fair "Keir Starmer painted by HR Giger"
Tried Robocop by various artists, I think it must struggle with cyborgs. Robocop by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, HR Giger and Degas
"Boris Johnson by Salvador Dali"
"Robocop painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
loss.jpg painted by Hieronymus Bosch
"Captain America painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Black Panther painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Doctor Strange painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Captain Marvel painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Batman painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"The Joker painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Judge Dredd painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Judge Death painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Weird Al Yankovic painted by Zdzisław Beksiński"
"Vladimir Putin painted by Edvard Munch"
"Ruslan Boshirov by Pablo Picasso"

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Nov 4
It's been brought to my attention that there's videos published on social media claiming I've made various statements about the US election, related to election integrity. These are part of a Russian disinformation campaign, and the quotes are fabricated, but it's nice to know the Russians hold the value of my opinions in such high regard.
I've previously discussed other videos in this campaign in the below thread:
More details of the campaign can be found in this thread
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Oct 22
🧵 1/7: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favor of Russian NGOs and media groups (including @Bellingcat), declaring Russia's "foreign agent" legislation a violation of fundamental human rights. The court found that the law imposes undue restrictions on freedom of expression & association.
2/7: The law requires NGOs & individuals receiving foreign funds to register as “foreign agents,” facing stigma, harsh reporting requirements, and severe penalties. This label implies foreign control—without proof—and misleads the public
3/7: The Court noted that the "foreign agent" label, linked to spies & traitors, damages the reputation of those designated and leads to a chilling effect on civil society and public discourse.
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Oct 15
It's currently 9:11am, this post has 3 views, and no retweets or likes on an account with 75 followers. Let's see how long it takes for it to get several hundred retweets, and a few tens of thousands of views. Image
In the last 15 minutes, that tweet just gained 15.7k views, 187 likes, with no retweets. Two other tweets with similarly fake stores, posted around the same time, with similar profiles, have also suddenly gain a couple of hundred likes and around the same amount of views. This is, in real time, how a Russian disinformation campaign is using Twitter to promote its fake stories.Image
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The thing is, nearly all of this engagement, apart from about 10 views and none of the likes, are entirely inauthentic. This doesn't help them reach genuine audiences, it's just boosting their stats so when they report back to their paymasters they can tell them how many views, likes and retweets they got, but they're all fake. It's effectively the people running these campaigns scamming their paymasters to make them think it's working, when it's not at all.
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Sep 25
A new fake Bellingcat story, from a fake video claiming to be from Fox News. What's interesting about this one is I viewed the tweet 10 minutes ago, and it had 5 views, and suddenly it jumped to 12.5k, then 16.2k views in less than 5 minutes, with zero retweets or likes. Image
To me this suggests there's a bot network being used to boost views of tweets used in this disinformation campaign.
In 90 seconds this tweet just gained 154 retweets, another sign of bot activity. Image
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Sep 10
It's clear this is a coordinated attack from pro-Orban media which they really don't want being noticed outside of Hungary, but what they don't seem to realise is I'm now going to use what they did at every presentation I do on disinformation to audiences across the world.
What's notable is the accusations made against Bellingcat were all taken (uncredited) from an article publishing by MintPress claiming we've loads of intelligence agents working for us, which even the original MintPress article fails to prove.
Which to me just means I get to add a couple more slides to the presentation I'll be doing about this, to audiences made up of exactly the sort of people they didn't want to find out about this.
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Sep 5
State actors see alternative media ecosystems as a vehicle for promoting their agendas, and take advantage of that by not just covertly funding them, but also giving them access to their officials and platforming them at places like the UN.
A recent example of that is Jackson Hinkle going to Eastern Ukraine, then getting invited to the UN by Russia to speak at a press conference, and that footage being used by state media as evidence of "experts" rejecting the "mainstream narratives" on Ukraine.
A lack of transparency around the funding of the individuals and websites that are part of these alternative media ecosystems allows for state actors to get away with their covert influence, a clear example of which we've seen over the last 24 hours.
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