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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 13m

Had to cancel the preinstalled xfinity service in my apt & not only do you have to call to cancel but the agent on the phone explains the flow to you in extremely detailed fashion.

4-steps requiring like 20 minutes including insisting they can transfer service.

Been a while since I had a CX gripe

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 16m

a man in a suit and bow tie is listening with his hand to his ear .

ALT: a man in a suit and bow tie is listening with his hand to his ear .

media.tenor.com

Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 21h

seems like hot garbage that the NFL downgraded them from playoff games to "exhbitions" though.

Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 21h

I forgot the NFL apparently used to stage a losers bowl called the Playoff Bowl in the 60s before the players complained too much. Also, someone from @theringer.com.web.brid.gy wrote about my revived idea in 2019, but I'm thinking about baseball. www.theringer.com/2019/01/25/n...

The NFL Should Replace the Pro Bowl With a Third-Place Game

If you’re not first, you could still not be fourth

www.theringer.com

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 1d

There's a duckpin bowling joint. Also you should visit Tiger Records. Oh and haralds vaffel

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 1d

You can find the Public AI Decision Patterns project on aistatements.org

Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 1d

This was not a weekend for a side project
and yet, started on Friday
and finished on a plane today:

AI Decision Disclosure templates.

If we're going to rush down the river in a flume
to implement AI IN EVERYTHING,
the minimum standard should be
a template structure for disclosure.

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 1d

consider this more performance art + discursive design project than "a thing I expect everyone will use" but...this is the sort of thing that would've been foregrounded in the early civic tech era that now seems like an afterthought.

I welcome far better iterations, I just wanted a signpost

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 1d

This was not a weekend for a side project
and yet, started on Friday
and finished on a plane today:

AI Decision Disclosure templates.

If we're going to rush down the river in a flume
to implement AI IN EVERYTHING,
the minimum standard should be
a template structure for disclosure.

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 1d

FYI: I'm going to be talking about public mechanics at CUGOS Fall Fling next month in Seattle cugos.org/2025-fall-fl...

CUGOS - 2025 Fall Fling

cugos.org

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 1d

I've been watching a lot of Finnish baseball the past few years and barely any American baseball. Alas...

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 1d

no way a third-place series is less interesting than a Commissioners Cup or mid-season fake trophy that we hang banners for (hello NBA)

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 1d

Third place games make sense there because ticket sales are still important to bottom lines for teams and they draw fairly well across sports there. I don't think they would here, but not convinced that even a half-sellout would be the worst thing in the world. Every few years, it'd generate cinema

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 1d

I've been watching too much Pesäpallo and this is mildly Finnish-pilled of me, but convinced after watching this Brewers game that having a "third-place series" in American sports would work. Throw the semi-finalists in their own best-of-3.

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 1d

So long as they win the whole damn thing, all for it. Jays getting past Yankees with a flawed lineup that clicked at the right time feels fitting. Not rolling over, but 3 games at home if not now when.

Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 1d

Saya Gray tiny desk which I didn't see when it came out, but have been kind of obsessed with her 2025 album. I don't think I listened to her at all before this year.

youtu.be/MQBuO2yWsFQ?...

Saya Gray: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

youtu.be

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 2d

This is a common complaint about the Jays, who are forever removing starters too early. Mariners are far better built for
a World Series run, too.

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 2d

Blue Jays having no bullpen arms & the manager refusing to let anyone pitch past the 4th inning. What a clown show. #alcs #baseball

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 2d

truly an awful law with untold havoc on running a functioning state

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 2d

would have been my reply too

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 2d

That's Boise, you're thinking of Boise.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”

collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

collectivefutures.blog

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.

This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.

AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.

"Just doing things" is not a path to value

Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 4d

Hadn't realized they were playing there again for one game, but was happy to see it. Stadium should be used for stuff besides soccer like it used to.

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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 4d

This was a great reflection piece both about the inner mechanics of work & motivation for pushing through the dip en route to life milestones

Face it: you're a crazy person

OR: why your brain needs a boxcutter

www.experimental-history.com

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