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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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404media, The Intercept, Status Coup News, Where's Your Ed At, Andrew Callahan's Channel 5, Defector, the smattering of True Crime podcasts and journals... increasingly, it feels like if you want to know what the hell is going on in the world, you have to go to some indie website or YouTube channel with six substack reporters in a trench coat.

As a consequence of the mainstream NYT / CBS / BBC going to shit, they're the only outlets that stay current and do in depth coverage anymore. Everything else is either reactionary propaganda or AI slop.

Just being the last credible news sources standing seems to have an impact, as more people crowd in on the reliable venues for news in the void created by professionalized for-profit corporate media.

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Pretty much the only way to read news. The spin is always present, as long as you know which angles these people are pushing and what their intentions are (and which groups they don't want to disturb) you can get to some degree of truth.