Ron Bronson

@ronbronson.com

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Public mechanics, speculative civics, post-HCD, platforms, governance, decision rights. HS 🎾 coach. Asst. Prof. of Practice in Urban Tech, UMich. ronbronson.com

Me at the game apparently
A wooden dock with metal swim ladders extends into a calm lake, where sunlight sparkles across the water. Tall grasses and large rocks line the shoreline in the foreground, while dark pine branches frame the top of the image with the sun shining through them. A dense tree line stretches across the opposite shore beneath a blue sky filled with scattered white cloud
Age verification gate on bluesky via wifi in Canada
A printed sign mounted on a dark wall asks, “Are We Earning a 5-Star Review?” beneath five gold stars. The sign explains that short-term rental platforms treat ratings below 4.6 as negative and asks guests to contact the host to resolve any issues before leaving a review. At the bottom, it provides a suggested rating guide: five stars for “I enjoyed my stay here,” four stars for “There are many issues to fix,” three stars for “Major problems with my stay,” two stars for “This should not be listed,” and one star for “I left early it was so terrible.” The sign ends with “Thank you.
my pantone birth chart
Mobile webpage for receiving an insurance payment. A heading reads, “Choose how you want to receive your payment,” followed by instructions that the entered information must match bank records and that a check will be mailed if the payment is not accepted by the email’s expiration date. Payment options are grouped by speed: under “Money in minutes,” radio buttons offer debit card transfer to a bank account or PayPal account transfer; under “Money in days,” a radio button offers bank account transfer in 1–2 business days. The page is open in Safari on ay.geico.com.
An outdoor concert takes place beneath large leafy trees in a neighborhood park. A musician in a black-and-white patterned outfit plays a marimba at center stage while a seated cellist performs beside her. An audience fills rows of chairs in the foreground, with microphones, trees, and apartment buildings framing the intimate performance
The opening lyrics to motion city soundtrack 2003 song. the irony here is the song starts with "i'm on fire.."
Michael Pollack's new book Sidewalk Nation; the life and law of america's most overlooked resource
A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.
A crowd gathers on a grassy waterfront at dusk to watch a live music performance on an outdoor stage lit with blue lights. A green steel lift bridge spans the river in the background, its lights reflecting on the water beneath a deep blue evening sky. Trees frame the right side of the scene, creating a lively festival atmosphe
I want to get online. I need a computer. Screen cap from the movie
Human-Agent Performance review, where the human steers the agent through questions about what it did in a segment of work
an example of an AAR from my repo for my hybrid baseball sim
The computer screen fills with the statement, “THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF LOVE,” in bold red lettering on a dark CRT display, framed by the machine’s industrial metal housing.
A flat-screen TV mounted against a beige wall displays a scene from a vintage film or TV show. Three people stand closely together in an office or laboratory setting: a man in a light blue shirt leans over a large sheet of paper in the foreground, a woman in a mustard-yellow cardigan stands beside him, and a man in a gray suit with an ID badge stands behind them. White subtitles at the bottom read, “It’s like five years at Caltech in 15 seconds.” Reflections are visible on the TV screen, and part of a houseplant appears in the lower-left corner of the photo.
Screen cap from Colossus
Screen cap from Colossus, 1970 sci-fi film about an intelligent AI
However, now the risks are clearly here. It is time to go beyond transparency to more serious and binding regulation of AI. I believe the best analogy, at least at the current stage of the exponential, is to cars, airplanes, or drugs—powerful technologies essential to the modern economy, but capable of killing large numbers of people if designed or operated poorly. I therefore believe we should model AI regulation on agencies like the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety. I am grateful to see the Trump administration’s Executive Order move incrementally towards a greater role for government in AI, though Anthropic’s proposal recommends even further action. Our proposal includes the following elements:
mckinsey report on "the automation curve in agentic commerce"
Salem student athletes will once again have to pay to play sports at school as a three-year athletic fee hiatus ends in the fall — but district leaders and nonprofit groups say fees shouldn’t pose a barrier for any student who can’t afford them. The Salem-Keizer School District is reinstating fees for middle and high school athletics after covering the cost of sports programs through grant funding since 2020. High school students will pay $125 for the first sport in a school year, $75 for a second and nothing for a third. Low-income students would pay $50 per sport for the first two. Middle schoolers would pay $40 per sport for the first and second sports in a school year, and nothing after. Low-income students would pay $20 per sport for the first two. The change will affect over 8,000 student athletes at district middle and high schools. Athletic fees were refunded to families in the spring of 2020 when schools shut down for Covid. During the next three school years, district leaders used state grant money from the Student Investment Account to cover the cost of sports programs for families. “Because we had that ability, we took advantage of it,” said Lara Tiffin, the district’s coordinator of athletics and activities. Local schools offered fewer sports programs during the 2020-21 school year when classes were held mostly online, and waiving fees cost the district about $390,000.
The scent notes to vilhelm perfumems to my father fragrance
Holding a bag of Swedish Fish chews
Wuyi Black tea from Miro Tea in Seattle
Oregon Coast
Janette Lepistö on ottanut paikkansa kaikkien aikojen lyöjätilaston kärjessä naisten Superpesiksessä. Lapuan Virkiää aina edustanut seuran oma kasvatti takoi juoksun kolmessa ensimmäisessä sisävuorossa kotiottelussa Joensuun Mailaa vastaan, kasvatti uransa lyötyjen määräksi 42+802=844 ja ohitti tilaston ykköspaikkaa reilut 13 vuotta hallussaan pitäneen Tanja Vehniäisen (20+823=843).
a screenshot of a survey on some website asked "are you a happy user?"
A person wearing a black baseball cap with a white logo, dark sunglasses, a dark jacket, and a gray T-shirt stands outdoors in front of a light-colored apartment building. Sunlight filters through nearby trees, casting dappled shadows on the building and surrounding greenery. A sign beside the entrance reads “Alhambra Condominium” and displays a street address. The photo is a close-up portrait taken at eye level.
Fragrance profile for Room 237 by Fzotic, showing main accords of synthetic, floral, sweet, green, fresh, and spicy, with notes including angelica, costus root, elfwort, opoponax, frankincense, tarragon, and vinyl.
a tweet that says "you used to be able to rent a hotel room under a fake name now i need an app to do my damn laundry"
Advertisement banner for KPMG on a blue gradient background. Large centered text reads “You can amplify outcomes with AI.” Smaller text below says “Drive greater enterprise value with multi-agent systems.” A call-to-action at the bottom reads “Discover how with KPMG.” The KPMG logo appears in the top left.
front desk staff check a swimmer’s age upon entry, using passes or a registration system. Swimmers get color‑coded or type‑coded bracelets: one for under 48 inches tall, one for under 14 years old and over 48 inches tall, and one for age 14 or older. Adults with children under 48 inches also get a bracelet. The text cuts off mid‑sentence (“already required for…”).
A laptop screen extender
baseball popularity among youth its lowest ever, learn from T20 cricket. Fewer innings, more action. from a tweet from @ronbronson in 2015
a photo of me in battle dress uniform with camo paint standing behind a C-130 on the tarmac at Ft Polk LA in like August of 1999
OSAA championship committee is recommending a team state tournament for 2027.
Alt text: POS terminal screen with a green “NewsLink” header, transaction options including “GRAB AND GO,” “NOT ON FILE,” “OPEN DEPARTMENT,” “ALL DEPARTMENTS,” “ABORT TRANSACTION,” and instructions to press and pay at the PIN pad. Buttons for “ENTER,” “GO BACK,” and “TOTAL SUMMARY” are also shown.
Schulman's embrace of AI goes deeper than cost-cutting. He envisions a company wholly reshaped by the technology, from improved customer service to more personalized options for consumers. And he has encouraged staffers to talk to their children about Al at the dinner table. In one all-hands, Schulman recommended that staff ask Al to write their obituary to see how the technology works and how it frames their lives. He has also invited staffers to experiment with AI by writing poems to their loved ones. (He said he has done the same for his wife.) Some employees responded by using Al to write poems for Schulman-and they weren't bad, he said. "Like it or not, we live in the age of AL. I happen to like it," he said in the interview.
Anton Jager's hyperpolitics
Crisis engineering
As they started the business, Fink and Koh headed off to college—but just barely. Fink spent one night at Dartmouth College, while Koh spent two weeks at Harvard University, before they decided to focus on building their budding business. During a spring trip to the Bahamas, days after Fink and Koh shared a white paper describing their new business idea with a potential investor, they began negotiating a pre-seed investment. Fink’s father, Constellation Brands incoming Chief Executive Nick Fink, overheard the conversation his son was having on the deck of their vacation rental. He barely understood what the business was at the time and was surprised the two teenagers didn’t ask him for help. They “steadfastly refused” any financial assistance from their families, Nick Fink said.
airline has three tiers of service even in the comfort class that include basic, classic and extra unbundled services with erosion
Go Kurosawa
Fantôme de Maules scent notes
A tweet from 2021 calling social platforms like smoking.
Out of Service - a Service Design Jeopardy game with Press Your Luck elements.
Toronto blue jays championship banners
Eau de magnolia from fredric malle and its scent notes
a skeet from kesley atherton that says post-punk implies the existence of post-funk
Baraonda by Nasomatto
la times article about an ai pilot program in la county courts buying software that helpnjudges craft rulings in some cases