Nathan Schneider
@ntnsndr.in
Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
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Hot off the Substack press!
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention (Digital Zine Release)
Check out our latest community-led research output and learn about how to leverage Metagov's community infrastructure for collaborations.
metagov.substack.com/p/collective...
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention (Digital Zine Release)
Check out our latest community-led research output and learn about how to leverage Metagov's community infrastructure for collaborations.
metagov.substack.com/p/collective...
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention (Digital Zine Release)
Check out our latest community-led research output and learn about how to leverage Metagov's community infrastructure for collaborations.
metagov.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hot off the Substack press!
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention (Digital Zine Release)
Check out our latest community-led research output and learn about how to leverage Metagov's community infrastructure for collaborations.
metagov.substack.com/p/collective...
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention (Digital Zine Release)
Check out our latest community-led research output and learn about how to leverage Metagov's community infrastructure for collaborations.
metagov.substack.com/p/collective...
People keep figuring this out. One by one we'll get there.
NEW: Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives.
In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP.
We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.
In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP.
We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.
We Found A Solution To America's Inequality. It's Not Where You'd Expect.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:43 AM
People keep figuring this out. One by one we'll get there.
This is an extraordinary summary of the state of crypto-authoritarianism by @joseatiles.bsky.social: botpopuli.net/the-crypto-s...
The Crypto-State
A familiar story about cryptocurrencies is that they emerged under the promise of financial emancipation. Crypto-assets and blockchain technologies were ...
botpopuli.net
December 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is an extraordinary summary of the state of crypto-authoritarianism by @joseatiles.bsky.social: botpopuli.net/the-crypto-s...
It feels especially horrific that the president is dismantling Colorado's atmospheric research gem the same week that we are home from work and school because of apocalyptic winds. weatherkit.apple.com/alertDetails...
Weather Alert
weatherkit.apple.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It feels especially horrific that the president is dismantling Colorado's atmospheric research gem the same week that we are home from work and school because of apocalyptic winds. weatherkit.apple.com/alertDetails...
It is misery that Alex Karp has just bought this holy place, where I've been praying when I can for 20 years. www.realtor.com/news/celebri...
www.realtor.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It is misery that Alex Karp has just bought this holy place, where I've been praying when I can for 20 years. www.realtor.com/news/celebri...
When a math problem is hard, break it up into smaller problems that aren't so hard. Same with political economy.
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention metagov.org/cg-ai/
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention metagov.org/cg-ai/
December 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
When a math problem is hard, break it up into smaller problems that aren't so hard. Same with political economy.
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention metagov.org/cg-ai/
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention metagov.org/cg-ai/
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Good read. @ntnsndr.in interviews @bnewbold.net about the history of Bluesky from his perspective as a protocol engineer. A great deal of pragmatism and such a unique set of circumstances allowed the network to succeed as it did. protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/n...
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Good read. @ntnsndr.in interviews @bnewbold.net about the history of Bluesky from his perspective as a protocol engineer. A great deal of pragmatism and such a unique set of circumstances allowed the network to succeed as it did. protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/n...
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Like many collaborations in our community, it all started with a shared Google Doc (s/o @ntnsndr.in)...
The Metagov community proudly presents "Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention"
metagov.org/cg-ai/
The Metagov community proudly presents "Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention"
metagov.org/cg-ai/
Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention
metagov.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Like many collaborations in our community, it all started with a shared Google Doc (s/o @ntnsndr.in)...
The Metagov community proudly presents "Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention"
metagov.org/cg-ai/
The Metagov community proudly presents "Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention"
metagov.org/cg-ai/
AI doesn't have to be run only by and for a few enormous companies.
Just out from Metagov! A digital zine listing the MANY ways that people are trying to make AI more governable, accountable, and community-controlled: https://metagov.org/cg-ai/
Just out from Metagov! A digital zine listing the MANY ways that people are trying to make AI more governable, accountable, and community-controlled: https://metagov.org/cg-ai/
December 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
AI doesn't have to be run only by and for a few enormous companies.
Just out from Metagov! A digital zine listing the MANY ways that people are trying to make AI more governable, accountable, and community-controlled: https://metagov.org/cg-ai/
Just out from Metagov! A digital zine listing the MANY ways that people are trying to make AI more governable, accountable, and community-controlled: https://metagov.org/cg-ai/
Over the weekend, the GreenPill podcast dropped this conversation I had with one of the governance technologists I admire most, former Taiwan digital minister Audrey Tang: pod.link/1609313639/e...
It is pretty sci-fi. But in times like these, sci-fi is at least part of what we need.
It is pretty sci-fi. But in times like these, sci-fi is at least part of what we need.
pod.link
December 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Over the weekend, the GreenPill podcast dropped this conversation I had with one of the governance technologists I admire most, former Taiwan digital minister Audrey Tang: pod.link/1609313639/e...
It is pretty sci-fi. But in times like these, sci-fi is at least part of what we need.
It is pretty sci-fi. But in times like these, sci-fi is at least part of what we need.
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The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-co...
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-co...
Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse
Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to your personal feed, but each group having a specific pu...
bonfirenetworks.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-co...
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-co...
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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
The vision behind Pope Leo's call for students not to do homework with AI: "Christian education is a collective endeavour: no one educates alone." www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Apostolic Letter ‘Drawing New Maps of Hope’ of Pope Leo XIV on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Conciliar Declaration
Apostolic Letter DRAWING NEW MAPS OF HOPE of Pope Leo XIV on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Conciliar Declaration Gravissimum educationis
www.vatican.va
December 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The vision behind Pope Leo's call for students not to do homework with AI: "Christian education is a collective endeavour: no one educates alone." www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
In case anyone wants to write a college paper that makes Christian arguments in favor of an expansive and creative view of gender: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/1...
The trouble with ‘gender ideology’
Can we learn to see gender in its real complexity?
www.americamagazine.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
In case anyone wants to write a college paper that makes Christian arguments in favor of an expansive and creative view of gender: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/1...
If it would be helpful for you to meticulously examine the rituals you observe this Thanksgiving, for those who celebrate, I invite you to do so with the inaugural release of the Protocol Bicorder: medlab.host/bicorder/
Let me know how it goes!
Let me know how it goes!
Protocol Bicorder
A diagnostic tool for the study of protocols
medlab.host
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If it would be helpful for you to meticulously examine the rituals you observe this Thanksgiving, for those who celebrate, I invite you to do so with the inaugural release of the Protocol Bicorder: medlab.host/bicorder/
Let me know how it goes!
Let me know how it goes!
Dropped out of computer science, dropped out of religious studies, can't stop doing both
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Dropped out of computer science, dropped out of religious studies, can't stop doing both
Whatever else happens, there will always have been tonight
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Whatever else happens, there will always have been tonight
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‼️ The deadline (December 1, 2025) for our Call for Abstracts on “THE IMAGINATIVE #LANDSCAPE OF #AI – VISIONS, POSITIONS, CONFLICTS” is approaching.
I am very happy to edit this thematic issue of @ijoc-usc.bsky.social with @ntnsndr.in
#openaccess.
More information:
comai.space/en/call-for-...
I am very happy to edit this thematic issue of @ijoc-usc.bsky.social with @ntnsndr.in
#openaccess.
More information:
comai.space/en/call-for-...
Call for Papers: The Imaginative Landscape of AI – Visions, Positions, Conflicts
Few technological developments spark more debate today than artificial intelligence. From promises of human advancement to fears of existential risk, AI generat
comai.space
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
‼️ The deadline (December 1, 2025) for our Call for Abstracts on “THE IMAGINATIVE #LANDSCAPE OF #AI – VISIONS, POSITIONS, CONFLICTS” is approaching.
I am very happy to edit this thematic issue of @ijoc-usc.bsky.social with @ntnsndr.in
#openaccess.
More information:
comai.space/en/call-for-...
I am very happy to edit this thematic issue of @ijoc-usc.bsky.social with @ntnsndr.in
#openaccess.
More information:
comai.space/en/call-for-...
Abstracts due on 12/1: I'm editing a special issue of the Int'l Journal of Communication on "the imaginative landscape of AI." Help us map the imaginaries of this stuff beyond the tech industry fluff: https://comai.space/en/call-for-papers-the-imaginative-landscape-of-ai-visions-positions-conflicts-
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Abstracts due on 12/1: I'm editing a special issue of the Int'l Journal of Communication on "the imaginative landscape of AI." Help us map the imaginaries of this stuff beyond the tech industry fluff: https://comai.space/en/call-for-papers-the-imaginative-landscape-of-ai-visions-positions-conflicts-
The @defector.com annual reports are always spectacular works of art, but this one by @jaspercwang.bsky.social is a particular gem. Especially on the power of journalists building together rather than substacking it alone. defector.com/reflections-...
Reflections On Five Years In Worker-Owned Media | Defector
As I finally got to work on writing Defector’s fifth Annual Report, I found myself noodling on some broader thoughts about the worker-owned media landscape. Tom said some sections would work as a stan...
defector.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The @defector.com annual reports are always spectacular works of art, but this one by @jaspercwang.bsky.social is a particular gem. Especially on the power of journalists building together rather than substacking it alone. defector.com/reflections-...
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"Are Protocols Elite?" by @ntnsndr.in (2025)
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"Are Protocols Elite?" by @ntnsndr.in (2025)
Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes. www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...
It was only when reading it with my kids that I realized the secret message: Calvin acts like Calvin because adults almost never play with him. Like, actually play.
It was only when reading it with my kids that I realized the secret message: Calvin acts like Calvin because adults almost never play with him. Like, actually play.
'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40: Bill Watterson's comic strip transmogrified everything : NPR
The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.
www.npr.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes. www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...
It was only when reading it with my kids that I realized the secret message: Calvin acts like Calvin because adults almost never play with him. Like, actually play.
It was only when reading it with my kids that I realized the secret message: Calvin acts like Calvin because adults almost never play with him. Like, actually play.
Your #ExitToCommunity of the day is Eldora ski resort, in the process of being bought by the town of Nederland. Good for the sellers, good for the workers, good for the town.
Still early in the season tho:)
Still early in the season tho:)
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Your #ExitToCommunity of the day is Eldora ski resort, in the process of being bought by the town of Nederland. Good for the sellers, good for the workers, good for the town.
Still early in the season tho:)
Still early in the season tho:)
Are you going to Start.coop’s Graduation Showcase for the Black Community Wealth Accelerator? I sure am! Learn about 12 amazing new Black-led co-op startups. �� https://www.eventbrite.com/e/graduation-showcase-startcoops-black-community-wealth-accelerator-tickets-1901897991089?aff=oddtdtcreatator
Graduation Showcase | Start.coop's Black Community Wealth Accelerator
Join us to meet and celebrate our cohort of twelve Black-owned cooperatives as they share the incredible, impactful work they do!
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November 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Are you going to Start.coop’s Graduation Showcase for the Black Community Wealth Accelerator? I sure am! Learn about 12 amazing new Black-led co-op startups. �� https://www.eventbrite.com/e/graduation-showcase-startcoops-black-community-wealth-accelerator-tickets-1901897991089?aff=oddtdtcreatator
Gnawing on stolen land
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Gnawing on stolen land