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Nathan Schneider
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Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries […]

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Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5564064/calvin-and-hobbes-bill-watterson-40-years-comic-strip-lee-salem

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 […]
Original post on social.coop
social.coop
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 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:)
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Anyone having success pairing green-energy LLM hosting (e.g., GreenPT) with terminal agents (e.g., Aider)?
November 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Gnawing on stolen land
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
For a taste of what I've been working on this season, I have a new, tiny-little essay in the in-house journal of our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture, Rhythms: "Are Protocols Elite?" Based on a collab with Avery Edenfield […]

[Original post on social.coop]
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Graduate students interested in learning about investment models beyond capital gains! Here's an opportunity for what seems like a beautiful retreat: https://www.capitalcommonssummit.org/
Capital Commons Summit
www.capitalcommonssummit.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
For those inclined to think little of centrist lobbying outfits, like me, enjoy challenging your priors with this phenomenal ESOP Association takedown of private equity: https://assets-tea.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/assets/public/2025-11/ESOP%20Report_November%202025_PE%20Edition_FINAL.pdf
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
#socialcoop friends: Should we submit any suggestions for the cooperative identity revisions? https://coopidentity.ica.coop/draft-changes-to-the-statement-on-the-cooperative-identity
Cooperative Identity Consultation | Draft Changes to Identity Statement
coopidentity.ica.coop
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Wednesday! Join me for a Metagov Seminar with my colleague Dr. Orit Peleg from CU Boulder, a computer scientist who does the most wonderful work on self-governance among plants and insects—this is going to be glorious: https://luma.com/pzbp4zq1?tk=vQCJE3
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Just arrived! Copies of the Open Social Network Cookbook, beautifully designed and made by Janaya Kizzie of Binch Press x Queer Archive Work.

Download, print, and bind your own: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2025/11/03/open-social-network-cookbook
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Just arrived! Copies of the Open Social Network Cookbook, beautifully designed and made by Janaya Kizzie of Binch Press x Queer Archive Work.

Download, print, and bind your own: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2025/11/03/open-social-network-cookbook
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Being a panpsychist is convenient because you get to completely ignore debates about whether AI is becoming conscious or whatever. I recommend it.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I'm in the middle of throwing a log on the bonfire crowdfunding campaign. This is one of the most important, creative, and principled projects in open social media. I can't wait to see it flourish! Join me.
From: @bonfire
https://indieweb.social/@bonfire/115507615653471686
Bonfire (@bonfire@indieweb.social)
Attached: 1 image Bonfire Social 1.0 is live! A federated, community‑first social network built on the modular Bonfire toolkit, and it’s only the beginning. It's time to go beyond microblogging and build apps for community organising, open science, mutual aid, and collective decision‑making. Let's take back the internet with open protocols, consent‑based governance, and portability by design. Back the “last migration” from closed platforms to open networks: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g 1/2
indieweb.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The de-Googled @murena Fairphone 6 is now available in the US. I have been a tester and the team has done an amazing job making this thing sparkle. It's an easy way to move to fair-trade hardware & user-centered software.

https://murena.com/america/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-6/
Murena Fairphone (Gen. 6)
Brand new deGoogled Murena Fairphone (Gen. 6) with /e/OS operative system ! The Murena Fairphone (Gen. 6) is the perfect option to bring together privacy and sustainability ! Powered by /e/OS operating system, your Murena Fairphone (Gen. 6) protects you and your data at all times, while at the same…
murena.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Over the past year, my lab has hosted a cohort of people from around the world who are trying to move their communities to online tools under their control. OUT TODAY: Learn about their thinking and doing in our collectively authored Open Social Network Cookbook. […]

[Original post on social.coop]
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A helpful reminder to Curtis Yarvin that CEOs are liberals, not monarchs. https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-fantasy-of-the-ceo-monarch/?ref=compact-newsletter
The Fantasy of the CEO-Monarch
Curtis Yarvin is the court philosopher of the New Right.
www.compactmag.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It's one of those fun times again when academics think crypto is not worth studying but waiters bring up their holdings apropos of nothing
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I just remembered how excited I am for hosting Orit Peleg's Metagov Seminar on governance among insects and plants on November 12. You should come: https://luma.com/pzbp4zq1?tk=vQCJE3
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I tell you it is a special feeling when you open your morning newsletters and see an amazing former student like Claire Woodcock telling much needed library stories at the great @404mediaco: https://www.404media.co/libraries-scramble-for-books-after-giant-distributor-shuts-down/
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"We're not robots. We're people"—the Colorado Drivers Co-op is up and running!
October 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Woohoo the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center presente in a union hall. Unions & EO FTW
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
How can we calibrate online democracy for the attention economy? On November 5, I'll be doing a virtual lecture for Columbia University on my new co-authored paper, "Online Governance Surfaces and Attention Economies."
Register here […]

[Original post on social.coop]
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is a really excellent analysis of the opportunities and risks of an effort I'm involved with—ensuring tokenized cooperative ownership is widely available under US law: https://ownership.substack.com/p/should-the-sec-update-cooperative
October 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This is a really excellent analysis of the opportunities and risks of an effort I'm involved with—ensuring tokenized cooperative ownership is widely available under US law: https://ownership.substack.com/p/should-the-sec-update-cooperative
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Through laughter and tears and no great words, allow me to recommend to you this extraordinary podcast on my old friend and guide, Fr. Dan Berrigan. This captures his spirit so well: https://www.lostprophets.org/p/18-daniel-berrigan-ft-fr-john-dear
October 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM