#nowreading
"The Welfare Marketplace: Privatization and Welfare Reform" by Mary Bryna Sanger.

Hello! I'm Stephen. Here's a real #intro:

I've been a lawyer for ~8 years. For 6 years I represented marginalized folks in Ohio's courts, mostly appeals. For the last 2 years I've worked in systems and data for public defenders. Now I live in NYC and work in the Bronx.

I work with #data, #ethicaltech, process/systems improvement, #policy, #communications, #cjreform, and where all of that intersects. Let me know if you want to talk about any of that! (Also into #maps, #scifi, #hiking, my cat)

Tonight me and my Discord movie friends watched "Jingle All the Way" and "Brazil." I definitely forgot how good "Brazil" is. (I have nothing to say about "Jingle All the Way.")

@emma Foley Rae Jepsen? That is nothing, I'm sorry

This one is really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IPxIvbc_cs

I could watch videos of Foley artists doing their work all day long.

Taking a long distance train for the first time in more than a decade. It’s still great!

Can’t resist a Christmas market.

I just learned about this: Banksy painted a mural called "The Mild Mild West," and an anti-graffiti group graffiti'd it in protest, so the town came together and repaired the original painting. Seems like nobody knows what graffiti even is anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mild_Mild_West

I see people talk about monetizing their side-projects and hobbies, and all I can think is “how do I best enact my anti-capitalist and social-justice values while making a bunch of electronic buzzing noises with a Sepak-and-Spell?”

Also I’ll keep posting video on Instagram as I keep messing with this stuff, if that’s something you are interested in. https://www.instagram.com/makingarecord/

I made an annoying drone oscillator tonight! And I already have ideas for some improvements. Here are some snaps from the process.

Firefox just sent me an email notification that they've "teamed up" with Live Nation to present a "free" concert series. When I unsubscribed, they characterized the original promotional email as one in "a series of emails about setting up your account." So in short, no company, no matter how good, is immune to this weird internet ecosystem we have created.

Smokey Robinson singing a ballad with an overbearing letter U. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws_vnXup7so

Obviously I'm not in love with the increasing commercialization of the McElroy empire, but I am very into their generic podcast merch. https://store.dftba.com/collections/mcelroy?_=pf&pf_t_collection=Generic%20Podcast

- The mullets in the 1984 version.
- The synthesizers in the 1984 version.
- Sting gets to sing the word "Sting" in the 1984 version.
- Almost nothing from the 1989 version.
- The Dizzee Rascal parts of the 2004 version.
- Some people in the 2004 and 2014 versions have actual good and interesting voices.
- Particularly Guy Garvey and Seal in the 2014 version.
- Sinead O'Connor in the 2014 version.

Here's my running playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/zapp645/playlist/3EDxGhcPZJevM185zne09s?si=_T037Q5oQDmjOhd8TuFlOQ

Friends, I am a big holiday-season fan, and I like to listen to holiday music basically perpetually all through December. Please share your recommendations / playlists with me!

This youtube video I'm watching just said that Nickelodeon's branding strategy was to feel like it was a television network FOR kids that was actually RUN by kids, unlike its more corporate counterparts (e.g. Disney), and that feels really accurate to me.

I have seriously compromised on my ethics: I turned YouTube watch history back on. I was just tired of being recommended videos I've already watched a bunch of times. I'm not proud.