Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@robinshipton @skrishna How so? Especially given the overlap between the two subjects?

For example, posting about police abuse against POC. Is that minority experience that shouldn't get the CW or political and should get the CW?

@zep I'm pretty confident its the lines on the inside and outside. With strongly contrasting colors and the spin rate, our brains stop interpreting them as separate lines, and instead interpret them as motion blurs from the larger color blocks, leading to the perceived effect.

Two tests to confirm this theory:
1) Remove the lines. Does the effect go away?
2) Reverse the orientation of the lines. Does it reverse the perceived effect?

@mjbarton Considering how Twitter already masks most links into its "t.co" shortener, extremely easy.

As I understand it, there are *already* high profile examples, including a verified account pretending to be Twitter itself that was pushing a crypto scam.

Very happy to hear about the liberation of Kherson. Congrats to the Ukrainian army. It's always good to read about freedom prevailing.

@skrishna I agree with your point, but doesn't that same "don't look away" logic work for many political posts, too?

@SusantaC Unfortunately, the only answer is that it's a skill/muscle like any other.

Social media trained our brains for quick dopamine hits.

If you want to retrain for long-form reading, the only way I know of: practice. The more you do it, the easier it gets.

@RayPaseur @Senatorshoshana You can in the newest version, but not all servers are up to that version yet.

@Senatorshoshana Keep in mind these are privately-run servers. GIFs take a lot of space en masse, which is expensive.

Courtesy rules here are to either link to a GIF instead of uploading or to try to use the lower-footprint emojis instead.

Wait, how did I not know before that Elon has kids and named them like robots?

That's so extremely on-brand for his inhuman persona.

@VidaliaOnion Try a service like TweetDelete. It allows you to nuke the *content* of your account. Then you can leave it up as an empty account with a redirect to your new Mastodon address. Just be sure to delete DMs too. I definitely didn't want those in Elon's hands.

@evilattorney @briannawu The latter is definitely a concern, but I think the bigger issue leading to hackability is just the mass exodus of institutional knowledge.

@lucifargundam I was referring to a comments section on a website, not on the fediverse.