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Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
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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 […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.coop/@ntnsndr, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
A month ago, I found myself in the unexpected position of founding an AI startup. Today, the Inference Co-op adopted its first real governance charter. We can't make AI good, but we can own our choices, and make them together. Want to join? inference.coop
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Yay Drivers Cooperative rideshare at the People's Festival today in Denver!
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
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 […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
Are you looking to deepen your thinking and practice in transforming media systems? Consider coming to grad school with me and my colleagues. Let me know if you have questions:) MA: www.colorado.edu/cmdi/mdst/ma PhD: www.colorado.edu/cmdi/mdst/phd
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Oh goodness, people are hosting gatherings to celebrate Ivan Illich around the world! I just signed up to host. aschoolcalledhome.org/illich-at-100
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Against commune-ism in cooperatives: nathanschneider.info/2026/08/agains…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
What is to be done with the perpetrators of climate change?: nathanschneider.info/2026/08/what-i…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
Next month, it will be 15 years since Occupy Wall Street took over the 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 from Future Hindsight […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
Getting to experience an actual board meeting of the new Techne.coop at RegenHub.xyz, where they are figuring out board officers in public. I hereby testify it is happening.
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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! […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
AI, I tried to love you—reflections on spending too much time trying to get this stuff to work: nathanschneider.info/2026/08/ai-i-t…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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-…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026
These pair well, unfortunately
Two books side by side: Empire of Cotton and Empire of AI
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
Technology as "an all-purpose agent of change": nathanschneider.info/2026/07/techno…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026
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 […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
A case for AI taboos: nathanschneider.info/2026/06/a-case…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
Some anarchy here too
Anarchist sticker on a water fountain
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
Co-ops are normal at DCA airport, and they could be everywhere else, too.
Airport ad for electric co-ops, "Reliable Power for America's Future"
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
Three questions on AI for you, from Pope Leo: nathanschneider.info/2026/06/three-…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026
If the @mediaarchaeologylab were a business it would be Arcade Laradise up the road in Laramie.
Glorious vintage arcade with old Nintendos and arcade games
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026
Guerrilla donation to the @mediaarchaeologylab from my last trip to Mexico
Cover of "Guia comunitaria de technologias libres"
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
The tech industry as a grass fire: nathanschneider.info/2026/05/the-te…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
What a thrill to be at the blessing of the new building for @KGNU radio, lifted up by Amy Goodman on @democracynow today!
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026
A defunct email service as a template for campus AI—lessons from Dartmouth's BlitzMail: nathanschneider.info/2026/05/a-defu…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 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.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026
I never actually knew what this is a reference now, upon attempting to install Tie Fighter on Windows 98
Windows 98 screen with "Stack Overflow!" error in a terminal
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026
Media makers, spiritual innovators, activists—especially in Colorado: Please consider applying for our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture's $25,000 Liberatory Media Residency for next academic year. www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/04/17/op…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026
Our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture's next conference is on the radical arts of gathering. Join us—along with Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, and more speakers TBA. The call for abstracts is out, due May 1 […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
I'm thrilled to share that my lab's podcast, Looks Like New, just hosted the brilliant Timnit Gebru on the possibilities of community-serving AI—listen and subscribe here: lookslikenew.net/podcast/can-ai-be-…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026
My latest piece in America Magazine lays bare the extent to which US government policy seems to be going in outright opposition to decades of Catholic teaching—particularly on climate, war, and civil discourse. Catholics, we cannot participate in this […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
For the first time, I'm organizing a panel at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science, in Toronto. I love this conference. If you do too, please consider submitting a paper! www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_pane…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026
My talk and the new ETHBoulder conference is now up—"From Determinism to Determinism in Online Governance": x.com/ethereumboulder/status/202268… More or less the written version is here: nathanschneider.info/2026/02/consti…
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
We are so lucky to have @timnitGebru visiting us tonight at @CU Boulder. 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.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026
New blog post: "Constitutional Agents for Online Governance": nathanschneider.info/2026/02/consti…
Generic AI generated picture
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026
And humanity is a union
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026
Gosh it is nice to hear some real gospel sometimes. Thanks @jamestalarico.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/opinion/…
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