Stephen @makingarecord@friend.camp

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)

I'm at the American Society of Criminology conference, and I just watched a woman lie that she was next in line to skip a ten minute wait for coffee. Who has takes on this for me?

Surprising nobody, I am going straight to a park to look at birds.

Was the absolute pits. But I'm in San Francisco!

Also I keep seeing people holding their phones in front of their faces and talking into them and narrating what they're doing, but it's hard to tell the difference between video chatters and Content Creators.

Living in Washington Heights and working in the Bronx for a year and a half has heightened my sense of how extremely white some places are, e.g. this airport in Charlotte, NC.

Why is what should be the Arabic phrase for "fruit flavored turkish delight" coming through Google translate as "fruit flavored larynx problem?"

Possibly the most classic-me thing ever: walking around on an overcast fall day listening to the "Halloween" movie soundtrack, but also trying to figure out how to bail on a Halloween party later this week because I don't actually love this holiday.

Has there ever been a replacement for Mastodon Bridge? I like to periodically check if any of my Twitter folks are making their way into the federated universe, but I haven't seen a good tool for doing this.

Do you have a musician (or musical piece or whatever) that you go a long time without listening to, but when you come back, you always think "oh right, this is my favorite music"? Mine is The Books.

I keep putting "Discovery" project materials in my "Evaluations" project folder. Something about these two project names has me mixing them up constantly.

I went to Michael's and got some stickers for some of my gear to make things easier AND prettier. I re-labeled the patch banks with numbers (more useful than the default text labels), put markers on the two most useful function keys, and put a bird on my looper.

No place like (cardboard) home.

Sorry for the reddit link, but this video re: a baseball anime is too good not to watch like ten times. https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/dfnuxh/anime_is_so_unrealistic/

Today near our office in the Bronx, the city put up these big metal gates to close people out of these arches. Many people with no place to go used to take refuge there. The fact that they're doing this when it's about to get a lot colder is either a coincidence, or overt malice.

What a good kid.

Y'all are a LOT more helpful than Twitter, SURPRISE!

Serious question: I think the suffix "Esq." for signature lines is generally insufferable, but a lot of people I interact with daily don't know I'm a lawyer, and it might help them understand my approach if they DID know that. I'm now thinking about using it, but the pretentiousness might outweigh the usefulness! What do you think?