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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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • 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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are lots of resources already on this. Just use a search engine. There are even apps and software to poison images and videos before you upload them to social media.

[–] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

That's one of them.

I heard about multiple ones from this video.

Hope this helps. https://youtu.be/zF-mbwc5Mmw?is=sq7HWI2q3IwwhicT

I heard of the nightshade from that video but they mention others. The better ones are from universities.

You can poison YouTube videos by making subtitles off screen or transparent. that is nonsense text or add a clip at the end that's about something unrelated.

You can poison resumes and such by having text that's "white" or a super tiny font. And have that text have commands or nonsense.

You have to poison images/videos before uploading/posting. You can't do much once it's already out there.

[–] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

helps a lot! thanks!