Miraz Jordan

There were about 20 Kawau | Pied Shags at the edge of the sea today. And 20 more nearby but out of shot.

The sea was moving in with some energy.

Oops, I stumbled across the 2023 Eurovision Semi-Final 1 and thought I’d have it in the background while doing whatever else. Instead I’m hooked, watching it…

Enjoying (quite a lot of) the music. 🎶

And then there’s this: Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” Performed by Kerry Washington

This poem, and video, is so powerful: AI, Ain’t I A Woman? - Joy Buolamwini.

a spoken word piece that highlights the ways in which artificial intelligence can misinterpret the images of iconic black women: Oprah, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, and Shirley Chisholm

We had an old iPhone 5 with a dead battery. The phone’s so cute I wanted to keep it and use it as a radio. With a new battery and toolkit (NZ$20), and the help of an excellent video, it took me 10 minutes to install the battery. 5 minutes were spent putting back 2 pinhead sized screws.

In 1963 our family moved from England to Aotearoa New Zealand. Back in London our phone number was like this: CROWN42. That’s fake, just to be on the safe side, but yes, it had a word and numbers.

So when an online service years ago had me set up challenge questions, and before the days when I was smart enough to make up random answers*, a challenge that asked for my first phone number was answered with CROWN42.

Then today I was challenged on login, and the challenge form told me to enter numbers only. I duly entered 42 and was rejected! I tried again. Same result (funnily enough), with 3 tries remaining…

In the end I entered CROWN42 and achieved login.

So, there’s something wrong in that system. The creator of the challenge didn’t know that phone numbers could contain letters. The system allowed me to enter letters — both in setup and then in the form that claimed I should only enter numbers.

• These days I’m so much smarter when setting up challenge questions: they ask for mother’s maiden name so I enter something made up on the spur of the moment like blueberriestastegood. Then I make sure to record these questions and random answers somewhere safe.

Covid booster finally achieved 👍

Why we perceive ourselves negatively as we age:

As we get older … there is a subtle decline in memory, but we overstate it… older people blaming every memory failure they experience on their age is a symptom of ageism… Everyone has memory failures, but … as we get older we blame it on our age.

I've never seen Kosher salt in any NZ shop so looked it up, since it seems to be in most (overseas) recipes I see.

Thrilled to boost 2023 Micro Camp:

Micro Camp Presenter Topics and Schedule micro.camp

My session — Take the Captain’s Chair of your Micro.Blog with the MarsEdit App for Mac: Time Travel, Replicators, Warp Speed and More.

Looking at In photos: Coronation for King Charles III. Zoom in to see how a coloured collar, Charles's posture and the lines on a clerical vestment line up so it looks like he's on a lead.

As usual, The Spinoff wins at commentary:

The “robe of righteousness” and the “gown of salvation” were put on his heaving shoulders, while those at home watched on in a cardigan of bewilderment.

Everything you missed from King Charles’ coronation

This morning we have gunshots at dawn … thanks to the opening of Game Bird Hunting Season, and the fact we have lakes nearby (not the lakes I post photos of).

Hoping our dog neighbour Willow isn’t freaking out.

Bad time for the birds too.