Stephen @makingarecord@friend.camp

#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)

My trainer code is: 0716 9543 6715

Or you can just tell me yours!

We are watching a movie called "Karate Dog," and the dog's name is Cho Cho, but it sounds like JoJo, and so of course I keep thinking this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsxXvKnuZ7s

Actually now I'm thinking about what this show would be if the talents on display were like, glass blowing and cake baking and model railroad building.

I've been watching lots of clips from America's Got Talent etc. recently, and I'm only now realizing that there's a widespread and mainstream love for ventriloquism in this country!

A lot of "the" bands represented in this little stack (Turtles, Mirettes, Carpenters, Seekers, Escorts, Sandpipers, Troggs, Falcons, Angels), some I've heard of and some I've not. I don't have a record player, but I'm looking them all up and trying them out.

My parents are cleaning out the basement and sent me a shoebox full of 45s from the 60s. On the one hand I thought they might be sorta lame because of my vision of my parents' taste. On the other hand, they are singles from the late 60s, so of course there's great stuff in there! For instance this cover is new to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DM6I8O6l6s

There's a "creative technologist" position open at the Brown Institute at Columbia in NYC. Not sure if folks here knew about it, but here it is: https://brown.columbia.edu/were-hiring-2/

Y'all I was not expecting to enjoy this Rocko's Modern Life revival too much (even as a kid I sometimes found the original show not exactly for me), but it was genuinely touching and smart! Anyone else try it out?

Also the stoic way he responds to all of it really sells how disconnected from and disillusioned with that world he has become, but also how inevitable these violent, rich, power-hungry bastards are.

The way the movie presents him gearing up (a ritzy sommelier delightedly selling him guns, a smug upscale tailor making tactical clothing, etc.) ties violence to wealth in a really concrete and satisfying way.