#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)

Results are in! Small sample size (9), but Ziggy the Sunday funnies uh... I guess homunculus has narrowly won as the ziggiest Ziggy.

Howdy folks, it’s your old pal black-crowned night heron!

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when I say “Ziggy?”

I love this tidbit about the creator of Pokemon so much that I almost don't care if it's true:

"Satoshi Tajiri was a creative little boy who caught bugs outside his suburban Tokyo home. When he saw a new cable that connected two Game Boy systems for two-player play, he imagined an insect crawling across it like a tightrope."

https://popula.com/2019/05/23/do-you-play-pokemon/

It works like this:

I made a killswitch for my guitar! My first actually completed electronics project. The goose helps me remember which side is the input. I accidentally melted a bit of the plastic enclosure while soldering. That is how you can tell it’s homemade.

I've made a grave error at work. We were talking about one of our finance systems at work, called "Nexonia," and I accidentally called it "Exodia," which is actually this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPMztN1qHyY

Last weekend someone threw three Molotov cocktails at the synagogue I used to attend in Chicago. These conservative dopes are gonna have to just handle a milkshake.

"When someone disconnects their off-Facebook activity, we won't use the data they clear for targeting." This sounds a lot like saying "we're not really deleting it, we just promise we won't use it in this identifiable way anymore." We should all leave Facebook! It made my life a lot better to just get out!
https://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-prepares-advertisers-when-users-clear-history/2171436

One of Facebook's founders saying we should break up Facebook is a lukewarm, obvious, too-little-too-late take. And it's the one people will actually pay attention to, because of who wrote it. Why do we always wait to fix things until some rich and powerful bad actor turns good, while smart folks sound the alarm FOR YEARS?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html

It also has me thinking about how everyone knows Einstein's name and nobody knows Mendeleev's name, and that's basically a crime.

This observation is likely for a very very small audience, but: watching the lanthanides and actinides migrate into the regular periodic table, and seeing the new section being added at the bottom for the theoretical g-orbital elements, just makes me think about how giant the universe is and how deep its details go.

"As with any event, there were, of course, some queues in the first hour or so for certain things. However, there was loads of stuff happening all over the venue and 2 large areas where you could get access to cheese almost immediately"

This is a masterpiece of the written word: the "Giant Cheeseboard Festival" writing to defend against claims that the festival was a fraud and a disaster. https://www.facebook.com/TheGiantCheeseBoard/posts/168109800459694

This dude stole Lucky’s window perch and he does NOT care.

I asked a coworker to test a Google Form I configured before we send it to staff, and she left this comment at the end of the survey.