Notices by Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻 (veronica@mastodon.online)

Happy Towel Day to all who celebrate!

These two small white toy mice have been on my desk since I bought them for Towel Day 2018.

#TowelDay #HHGTTG #HitchhikersGuide #SciFi

The amount of Trump stuff in US late night shows is, like it was last time, tiring. However, Colbert's "Tariff Fairy" bit is both funny, and on point. 😆

"I don't change my mind, but I'm flexible" says the guy who changes his mind on policy at a whim. 🙄

#USPol #Colbert #Trump #Tariffs

I'm on a serious Star Wars binge right now.

So far, I've rewatched:
* The Mandalorian S1 and S2
* Episode I, II and III
* Andor S1
* Solo
* Andor S2 (not a rewatch, obviously)
* Rogue One
* Episodes IV, V and VI

In between I've also been watching:
* The Clone Wars S4-S7, almost done.

I'm also continuing:
* The Book of Boba Fett
* The Mandalorian S3
* Ahsoka
* Episodes VII, VIII and IX

I'm also considering watching Andor S1 and S2 one more time, because it's just that good.

#StarWars #SciFi

Please do not share your password with alternate versions of yourself from parallel universes.

You never know which one is evil and which one is not.

(A beard is not a reliable indicator.)

#Security #Tips #Multiverse #SciFi

Non-political my ass. Eurovision is making a political choice either way, and they chose evil. I will never forget it. Seeing it unfold makes me sick. I'm logging off until this is over.

@aral Watching them perform on stage while their soldiers commit unspeakable crimes is so far beyond anything I can stomach. It's sickening how people pretend it is business as usual.

@georgetakei Yeah, it's baffling that people keep believing it. I guess there is a lot of truth to the saying that refuting a lie is a lot harder than making the lie.

The latest chapter of Andor ... holy shit what a tense and emotional ride. Not only is it excellent story telling, but it also feels very much relevant for our time.

"We have friends everywhere."

#StarWars #Andor #TV #SciFi

@the5thColumnist @jkmcnk Scotland and Canada should both just join the EU.

If Australia can be in Eurovision, certainly Canada can join the EU.

This is the way.

I went back to my home town yesterday for an overnight trip, and this moring I drove to the small town my dad grew up in, which sits in a narrow Norwegian fjorth surrounded by steep mountains.

These images are from the innermost part of the fjorth where the two oldest remaining houses stand. My great grandfather was born there in 1892.

The rock overhang is below a large cliff face, and there are traces of habitants dating back about 6000 years. The site is now a historical site.

#Norway

Excellent!

A Norwegian court has determined that crypto mining is not "industry", and therefore can be excluded in local zoning plans for industry.

Municipalities in Norway want to exclude them because of the huge energy demands and very few jobs created.

This is a good decision. These data centres are a massive waste of energy and resources.

#Crypto #Miming #Energy #Law #Norway

https://rett24.no/articles/staten-vant-ankesak-om-reguleringsplan--kryptoutvinning-er-ikke-industri

I just felt like sharing some random every day thing.

It's my birthday, so I took the day off from work and instead had lunch with my sister. I missed her baby shower last month since I was sick that weekend, so we went shopping for some things for her soon to arrive baby. I also got her other kid a toy. An alpaca, and apparently she loved it! She's almost 2. 😊

Glad to see she's inherited the "must have lots of stuffed animal toys" gene the rest of us possess!

Norwegians are notoriously bad at caring about information security. I'm sure the fact that we in general have a high confidence in our government has much to do with it. As a people we tend to be incredibly naïve when it comes to Big Tech.

But I'm glad to see that Signal has risen in the top downloads in the Play Store since Signalgate broke. It was at 72nd place then, and just now it sits at 19th.

I would love it if more people dropped Messenger!

#Signal #Signalgate #Meta #BigTech #Norway

@aral @SeaFury @sarajw Same!

Haha, good one!

#Cryptography

Whatever it is those incompetent clowns are doing over there in 'murica, I got multiple contacts who weren't on Signal popping up there in the last day or two.

It's good advertising for the service at least!

#Signal

"We noticed that you have maybe not had the time yet to complete our Guest Satisfaction Survey following your stay at the hotel ..."

Yes, that must be it. As opposed to being so fed up with my inbox being filled with surveys, customer feedback and review requests multiple times for every interaction I have with a business that I'm just about to add a spam filter dedicated to blocking this noise.

#Feedback #Spam #CustomerSatisfaction

When watching SciFi series like Babylon 5 in the past I always thought it was a little unrealistic how obvious these fascists were.

Looking at the US today I realise that this isn't unrealistic at all. These people aren't subtle. They don't have to be, because enough people, who'd otherwise agree this was wrong if it happens elsewhere or at another time, will go to great lengths to convince themselves this is fine and it doesn't affect them.

The Trump regime has already threatened legal actions against businesses w/DEIA policies. Now he's threatening universities that allow "illegal" protests, and threatening to imprison, expel or deport students.

This is another step towards the criminalisation of dissent, and full-on fascism. No doubt inspired by Putin. Whether it will get that far remains to be seen, but it's inching closer.

This reminds me of the same steps from the 90s SciFi series Babylon 5.

#UsPol #Fascism #Trump #Babylon5

After each Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode has been upscaled and encoded, I need to double check with my media library what the correct episode name is. They aren't always in the correct order on the DVD.

One thing I notice when doing this is how many episodes I recognise and can match to the correct title after just seing a few seconds of it. I may have watched DS9 too many times? 😁

Nah. Unpossible.

#SciFi #StarTrek #DS9 #Upscale