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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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This is terrible for privacy, and can be exploited by bad actors in a multitude of ways far worse than AI slop. A better option would be the ability to load your own cryptographic key into a device and "sign" images with an open standardized protocol in such a way that you can prove you took the image with x camera, and have the option to publicly attest that it was signed by your key at the moment of creation, but the camera images can't be cross referenced to a specific individual or camera otherwise. If someone is posting unmodified content to social media, it's in their interests to sign and attest that authenticity. You could also give users the choice to hide everything not attested.
This is how software is signed and released by (not shit) developers currently. It's also optional, so you can write and release code anonymously if you choose.
Why is it in their interests?
Later, they may find copies of their original content, with trivial edits and others' signatures attesting to the authenticity of "their" work, even though "they" didn't travel to Antarctica and spend the winter to get that photo of the emperors incubating their eggs...