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May 30 7 tweets 3 min read
I seem to have accidentally created an abstract image that reliably triggers #Twitter to suspend your account for awhile

To make it a bit of a fun/creepy coincidence, the image is based on a representation of Covid's RNA

cc @Twitter @TwitterEng @TwitterSupport #HackerNews
The image in question is this one: imgur.com/a/v9qFjdA

It was supposed to just be an artsy follow up to my previous tweet. Its a representaton of Covid's genome but with colourful dots.
In order to further test this I made a couple new accounts:
twitter.com/SecretGioLab001
twitter.com/SecretGioLab002

(one using the VPN I usually use and one not to see if this was the reason) and sure enough, both got suspended upon posting it.
To be clear, what I am saying is that if you save and then post that image, your account is going to be locked for 12 hours. So probably dont do it, or do it in a test account.

P.S. This btw is precisely why A.I.s will kill us all (since I assume its a fancy ML "bug") :p
(Some replication by others would be nice. So as to see if it is only happening to me)
One small addendum to this. I see some people posting a picture which doesn't work for them, but it is of much reduced quality.

Usually the account seems to be posting from an iphone and so assume that there is some mobile carrier data compression going on.
The file you need to have must be 2480 x 3508 in size and about 3.20 Mb.

I have also added it as a google drive file here:

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A bit of a random comparison, but here's how the Earth/Moon system compares with Mars and the orbit radii of its two little Moons (Phobos & Deimos)

Moon's orbit radius: 384,400 km
Phobos's orbit radius: 9,376 km
Deimos's orbit radius: 23,463 km Image
Phobos is practically a ready made low orbit space station for it. (The size of London)

But even Deimos is actually quite close to it.

Phobos would in fact be orbiting under the altitude of the GPS satellites if it did so around Earth. And Deimos is at almost exactly their alt.
View of #Mars from Phobos simulated in the @SpaceEngineSim

Also added tiny starship.

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