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Away from keyboard…
May. 4th, 2024 05:50 pm…quite literally, as my (twelve-year-old) laptop, which worked as normal (and started up more quickly than my six-month-old work laptop, as always) on Wednesday night refused to switch on and stopped holding charge on Thursday night. I took it into the Apple store on Friday, but as I feared, it was too old for them to be prepared to do anything to fix it. I hate writing on a touchscreen, I’m not going to use a work laptop for personal stuff, so until I can get a replacement, I’ll be a rather ghost-like presence around these parts.
Given I spent most of last night seething with irritation that a not insignificant number of Instagram friends/people I follow were sharing a photo of a protester at the massive anti-government rallies in Tbilisi from accounts which had copied the photo and claimed it was from a US campus protest (at least Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja corrected his mistake and tweeted out support for the Georgian protesters), anything keeping me from spending more time on the internet at the moment is probably a good thing. It sounds so insignificant, but it’s part of this wider problem that I keep deploring: lazy sharing of social media content if it aligns with the sharer’s politics or values, without any effort to check the veracity of the content or the broader output of the source.
In any case, until I can again type on something other than a touchscreen, expect very little from me to appear on Dreamwidth.
Given I spent most of last night seething with irritation that a not insignificant number of Instagram friends/people I follow were sharing a photo of a protester at the massive anti-government rallies in Tbilisi from accounts which had copied the photo and claimed it was from a US campus protest (at least Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja corrected his mistake and tweeted out support for the Georgian protesters), anything keeping me from spending more time on the internet at the moment is probably a good thing. It sounds so insignificant, but it’s part of this wider problem that I keep deploring: lazy sharing of social media content if it aligns with the sharer’s politics or values, without any effort to check the veracity of the content or the broader output of the source.
In any case, until I can again type on something other than a touchscreen, expect very little from me to appear on Dreamwidth.