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Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr.in
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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. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 05/10/2026
The effort to turn Letterboxd community-owned is live! This is a powerful, creative opportunity to make Exit to Community a reality. Website: www.letterboxd4all.com Wefunder: wefunder.com/intrinsic.letterboxd GoFundMe: gofund.me/f75e3253d
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 17/09/2026
15 years ago today, I was there with my notebook when a few 100 people hunkered down to Occupy Wall Street. A lot happened after, but what I remember best is meeting some of the bravest, most hopeful people in the world. We need more of that today. Here's what I saw: nathanschneider.info/b
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 15/09/2026
I just realized it was 17 YEARS AGO that I cofounded Waging Nonviolence. I've moved on, but all this time they've been reporting on social movements grounded in strategy, hope, and justice. If you value that like I do, please help make it happen. WNV's survival depends not on big grants or ads but
Woodcut of Daniel Berrigan by Alice Hendrickson from the Catholic Worker
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 04/09/2026
Ivan Illich was born 100 years ago today. This is a picture I took in April of the door to the house where he once lived. There is no better place to start getting to know him than this Lost Prophets podcast: www.lostprophets.org/p/4-ivan-illic… Or his smile: vimeo.
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 28/08/2026
Against commune-ism in cooperatives: nathanschneider.info/2026/08/agains…
Everything for Everyone crop of book cover
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 20/08/2026
You might remember that I co-edited a book, Beautiful Solutions, that tells stories of solidarity economies around the world. Well, now it is A FREE, ONLINE TOOLBOX, thanks to the good folks at Beautiful Trouble: beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/bsol Use this, share this, teach with this. I hav
Beautiful Solutions toolbox
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 20/08/2026
What is to be done with the perpetrators of climate change?: nathanschneider.info/2026/08/what-i…
Red sun over a highway
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 15/08/2026
Next month it will be 15 years since Occupy Wall St took over Lower Manhattan and other bits of the world. I was anxious to revisit it, but I've really been appreciating this new podcast on the story: www.futurehindsight.com/occupy I also wrote a book on it:) nathanschneider.info/books/thank-...
Poster for Occupy! podcast
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 12/08/2026
The Conflict Systems zine, on designing online communities with conflict in mind, is NOW OUT. The digital version is here: www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2026/08… And there are still a few print copies available here! cloud.medlab.host/apps/forms/s/4Ys2…
Conflict Systems zine cover
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 10/08/2026
MEDLab's new Conflict Systems zine drops Wednesday—all about the need for building habits and tools for conflict into online spaces. Celebrate the launch: luma.com/vqlxb7dy Request a print copy: cloud.medlab.host/apps/forms/s/4Ys2…
Conflict Systems zine cover
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 07/08/2026
Thank goodness ChatGPT is harder to verb than Google.
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 31/07/2026
I am in awe of the Tillamook creamery as a feat of co-op storytelling. Focused on the glory of the product but full of reminders that farmer ownership makes it all possible.
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 30/07/2026
What comes after Luddism? In a special free issue of the mighty co-op Flaming Hydra, I probe the limits of centering resistence to big tech around the lore of the Luddites: flaminghydra.com/issue-617/#beyond-…
Flaming Hydra screenshot
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 17/07/2026
Amia Srinivasan in the house with Hermione Hoby at magicmountaintalks.org
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 16/07/2026
"What are apps worth anymore?" An introduction to a couple of my recent experiments, and why they do and don't matter: nathanschneider.info/2026/07/what-a…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 15/07/2026
For the past two years, my lab has been exploring how to create online spaces designed for a basic human activity: conflict. See what we've learned on August 12, when we release our new zine, Conflict Systems, at the Metagov Seminar: luma.com/vqlxb7dy
Conflict Systems zine cover
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 02/07/2026
Technology as "an all-purpose agent of change": nathanschneider.info/2026/07/techno…
Shells and peripherals
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 01/07/2026
Are you building a cooperative newsroom or media project? Apply to be part of Start.coop's Accelerator for Worker-Friendly Media, including financial and technical support, plus a week with my lab here in Boulder. Learn more here: www.start.coop/accelerator
Accelerator for Worker Friendly Media
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 27/06/2026
Humanity without superiority—or, why it is a lost cause to ground our value in what seems to make us unique or better: nathanschneider.info/2026/06/humani…
A blooming tree
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 26/06/2026
Listen! My lab's radio show this month features the extraordinary Dr. Naim Aburradi. He and his friends have risked their safety to document life in Gaza, with a 360-degree camera, before and since the ongoing genocide: lookslikenew.net/podcast/how-can-vr… Gaza is
Screenshot from the Phoenix of Gaza XR website
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 24/06/2026
A case for AI taboos: nathanschneider.info/2026/06/a-case…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 14/06/2026
Students and academics especially, I'd love your feedback on this proposal: "an inference cooperative for academic AI" nathanschneider.info/2026/06/an-inf…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 14/06/2026
Just walking by Trident and am so looking forward to sharing space here Thursday with @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Register here, in-person only, no recordings: magicmountaintalks.org/event/jeff-s...
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 13/06/2026
At a fundraiser just now, @philweiser.bsky.social suggests we need to consider reducing work time alongside any automation gains. I would add: let's build on the strongest employee ownership policies in the country and ensure workers reap their equity, not just wages.
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 08/06/2026
Three questions on AI for you, from Pope Leo: nathanschneider.info/2026/06/three-…
St. Peter's Basillica in the rain
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 07/06/2026
Toward a durable writing stack—some notes on the tools I currently use: nathanschneider.info/2026/06/towa...
Terminal split screen
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 29/05/2026
New in America, I argue that a central thread of Pope Leo's encyclical is to counter the secular apocalypses that have spread in AI culture: www.americamagazine.org/short-take/…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 26/05/2026
Deadline extended to May 30! Submit your abstracts for "Why We Come Together: Media, Religion, and Community" and come visit us in Boulder this October, along with Fred Moten, Jen Deerinwater, and more: www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/03/26/wh…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 26/05/2026
Just out in The Conversation, I explore how Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical could reshape the AI industry, akin to what his predecessor did in the Gilded Age: theconversation.com/pope-leo-xiv-co…
Screenshot of a headline in The Conversation
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 22/05/2026
What a thrill to be at the blessing of the new building for @kgnu.bsky.social, lifted up by Amy Goodman on @democracynow.org today!
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 22/05/2026
The tech industry as a grass fire: nathanschneider.info/2026/05/the-te…
A photo of red-orange clouds in a sunet
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 14/05/2026
A defunct email service as a template for campus AI—lessons from Dartmouth's BlitzMail: nathanschneider.info/2026/05/a-defu…
An ant on sticks
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 12/05/2026
"Why This Is Not a Newsletter"—a preface to my summer blogging practice. Hope you'll join me along the way: nathanschneider.info/2026/05/why-th…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 14/03/2026
Yay my grocery store is on TV!
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 11/02/2026
We are so lucky to have @timnitgebru.bsky.social visiting us tonight at @colorado.edu. Thank you for being so gracious to our students and shredding the latest billionaire religion!
Timnit Gebru at the podium at the start of a talk
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 22/01/2026
And humanity is a union
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 14/01/2026
Gosh it is nice to hear some real gospel sometimes. Thanks @jamestalarico.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 15/12/2025
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/
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 20/11/2025
And the last babysitter one: Rosalyn does the same, and the same thing happens. Weird.
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 20/11/2025
This becomes clear in just a few strips, the exceptions. Like the one where his dad finally drops his work and runs around with Calvin for a day. And everything goes great.
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 17/11/2025
Gnawing on stolen land
A deer buck on the main quad at CU Boulder
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 10/11/2025
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: www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2...
Yellow bound zines: Open Social Network Cookbook
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 10/11/2025
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: www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2...
Yellow bound zines: Open Social Network Cookbook
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 02/11/2025
Bsky needs some #gobuffs @colorado.edu
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 24/10/2025
"We're not robots. We're people"—the Colorado Drivers Co-op is up and running!
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 24/10/2025
Woohoo the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center presente in a union hall. Unions & EO FTW
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 08/10/2025
@medlabboulder.bsky.social is on 💥 while I'm on sabbatical
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 08/10/2025
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaking with employee ownership advocates, remembering how he started his campaign at an EO grocery store. And he has ensured we have the best EO policy in the country.
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 19/09/2025
Poster with glasses and sweater and blue sky above, in front of the university library
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 17/09/2025
If you take the headlines as a true representation of what this world is, what a heartless world. May we notice that there is so much good around us, and let us help that grow.
Juxtaposition of NYT headlines—expulsion from Gaza City and S&P 500 booming
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