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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: 1

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People of the future might think that we deliberately messed up the hands of AI-generated people (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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"In the early 21st century, there was a genre of art where hands were drawn either with an incorrect number of fingers or other mutations. We believe this style of art was used for ritual purposes. Strangely, this movement of art lasted a very short period of time, from 2023 before gradually disappearing by around 2025"

EDIT for those who didn't get it, it's because some newer image generators draw better hands

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Drag thinks pretending that only electronics are technology is disrespectful to the scientists and engineers of the past who created technologies like the aqueducts, the roads, ships, kilns, swords, and recreational marijuana use. And it limits our ideas about what the future of technology can be, constraining us to a single vision of ever-more-complex computer systems as technology. Drag thinks we need a change in language to provoke a change in thinking. That will open up new directions in science. For example, meditation is a technology, and in the last 15 years psychologists have been pushing scientifically backed up meditation practices to help people. That's technological progress and it's good. We need to open our minds to possibilities like that.

Also here's a wikipedia article on the history of computer science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_science. Drag learned about the history of computer science from drag's teachers in school. Alan Turing and Von Neumann and Charles Babbage.

[–] frostysauce 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Stop referring to yourself in the third person using a screen name. Fuckin'... Just damn weird, man...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Let drag do dragggg !!… they’re feeling their oats

(this is an idiotic deep cut referencing a drag queen on Drag Race who was portrayed, by edit or by reality, as colossally dumb, but like, HILARIOUSLY so.)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago

Drag is referring to dragself in the first person using drag's drag/dragself pronouns.