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critical service design, speculative civics & mechanics of public trust. ex head of design at 18F. Organized pdx digital corps. incoming asst. prof. of practice at umich. skeeball pro.
ronbronson.design / co-host of @futureperfectbook.club
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Wild lapsang is a treat if you like bold bright black teas.
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One of the tough things about running all-volunteer professional non-profits is finding people who wanna help organize, plan & CONTRIBUTE.
But no way there isn't a space for more non-MLM non-religious civic & social orgs. Even if a dearth of people can run a good meeting.
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Better start jumping
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chase it with that dearadoorian lp that not enough of you heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD4r... #music
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It's so good I'm glad you got there
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First it was the furries. Then it was the resist blue teamers
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Oh no
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What a buddy
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lots of neat art-adjacent stuff and things targeted at "creatives" writ large, but not stuff aimed at people who work in product/delivery orgs or working on building stuff. i'd break my arm for a bathers library, strelka (rip), or even the museum of impossible forms here
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pdx doesn't have any of this stuff at all. when i meet someone in the wilderness (like you) i'm always like "omgz there are dozens of us" but yeah...the cool stuff is elsewhere, the critical stuff especially is not happening here. not in seattle really either tho.
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all the cool shit is happening not here, i have a friend i send events to all the time and it's maddening. there's some rad meetups happening the bay and other cities but they're one-offs
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the microcopy here "please give us feedback so we can improve the product for everyone" is meant to evoke a sense of civic responsibility in improving a tool that is replacing the commons.
I don't blame the content strategist who wrote that content. Making the most of a bad situation.
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If we were still naming dark patterns, we'd call this weaponized friction "the hostage negotiation"
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The audacity of charging someone MONEY and then having the NERVE not to let them CANCEL unless they give YOU feedback?!
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at least the security guard following me around the big box store was feedng his family and if he was from the neighborhood he left me alone.
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Its was horrifying not just for her career but player safety & it's galling how little was done after that. I'm glad she came back but nothing like before it.
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Yeah that's precisely what it is. I've been in states where it's 7 days or 5 days minimum.
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If designers had as much influence as everyone seems to post about here, it'd be amazing what they could actually build
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& no doubt this is enough for some folks to think I'm a BlueSky person who "hates AI" but that would be wrong - instead, I'm an OG QA person who hates poor-quality software. & crappy software is worse for a wide public than it is for a narrow one - skilled people can use imperfect tools thoughtfully
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Stapleton (i guess they call it central park now) in Denver but with even more density, basically. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...
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Might start with Henry Grabar’s Paved Paradise
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coloradosun.com/2023/08/21/c...
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Lol the niches of baseball and federal hiring are narrow slices indeed
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Haha
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I like when colleges post head coaching jobs for football or basketball for that reason
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location is bad, the secret owner not ideal & funding stadiums with jock taxes are a fantasy.
Where we choose to fast-track is curious & it's a study in political leadership's inability to understand how to appropriate small wins ..but if any market needs a narrative rehab it's this one.
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The same logic that ran off the AAA Portland Beavers is alive and well: rejecting imperfect civic projects because they’re not utopia. If we’d had more foresight then, we might not be scrambling now.
chatterbox.typepad.com/portlandarch...
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Kcrw, soundcloud and mixcloud still great. Record.club too
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I think much like we're seeing younger generations making vinyl popular or appreciating songs from bygone eras, craft and taste will drive people into curated spaces with less/no slop. we're in the transition space with it now