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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23m

It's a weird feeling that there are now several members at inference.coop using the service more than I am. It feels kinda like when I built a checkers bot in college that could beat me. Spooky. But this time it's humans, coming into community together.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Where have you switched from relying on deterministic systems to nondeterministic systems?

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I hope you've had good popcorn today if you're on the @AoIR list.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Oh goodness, just got an AI agent email asking me about worker ownership buyout provisions. Tried really hard not to respond in a way that discriminates against agents. Pointed them to an AI-driven EO advising company. What a world.

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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 · 09/10/2026

What global AI race? At inference.coop, we're running largely Chinese models, distilled with US models, on EU servers w/ EU privacy and green energy, channeled through a server in Latin America. Where they we competition, we see collaboration.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Just waved a bittersweet goodbye to XFCE+i3. Now am @system76 COSMIC on all machines, including with @pop_os_official, @fedora, and @CachyOS

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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 · 02/10/2026

We had a fun first meeting of the Inference Cooperative today. It is shaping up to be a highly participatory, hands-on community, which was not necessarily what I was expecting. But I suspect it is going to have a lot of resemblances with what we've done at Social.coop. Check it out: inference.coop

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Inference.coop has reached recursive self-improvement (running the models that is building itself)

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Jonathan Schuster @jschuster.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: social.coop/@ntnsndr/11733430628528… Well this sounds intriguing. Anyone in my corner of the fediverse have experience (positive or negative) with this project?

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

If you have some time this weekend to change your relationship to the weirdness of AI, want to try being an early adopter of the Inference Cooperative—a member-governed platform with private, green-energy, and public models: inference.coop It's an attempt to build for AI what […]

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@strypey yes, that book was an important guide for this project.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@evan FYI, now that we have multiple model providers, I've had to do a global renaming of models, so you'll have to update your API setup. The API docs are updated. Sorry about this!

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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 · 17/09/2026

@gedankenstuecke @apostolis @alineblankertz @malteengeler @lavaeolus Platform cooperativism initially had nothing to do with blockchains, though several of us explored that technology as a potential infrastructure for cooperativism. Many of us have been deeply connected with post-capitalist […]

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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 · 15/09/2026

It's funny/sad how email senders assume I'm not getting their messages because I don't load their tracking pixels

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

And, I should say, rather exhausting

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

It is remarkable how many new one-person, AI-generated startup websites there are selling some version of "protocol" (health, mostly) since I last looked.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

One silver lining of the whole chatbot thing is it gives me more interlocutors actually willing to use @matrix with me.

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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 · 04/09/2026

It's striking that, in my class on Future Histories, none of the students seem to envision futures that involve less inequality than we have now. It's always radically more.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

It is kinda annoying, but I also kinda love that when you register a .coop domain you get personally interrogated about whether you're really a co-op.

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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

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" [LWN.net] lwn.net/Articles/1091231 Where else can we put AI use to a vote?

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Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

(BTW that picture is from the doorway of the house Illich lived in near Cuernavaca, where I stopped a few months ago.)

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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

@aris I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. But I do think there is nothing worse for transformative social movements than building prefigurations that collapse under their own weight, which I have seen happen over and over and over. A radical vision can find expression in very focused […]

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

@laurenshof @serapio one approach to that would be to share "agents" that users create, as on ChatGPT. Those could include specific datasets.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

@serapio @laurenshof yes, I love this! But I think it would only make sense in a purpose-constrained context (like Transkribus or Land O'Lakes) rather than general-purpose.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

@evan it should be a false dichotomy, but in terms of bootstrapping with existing services, from what I can find it is one or the other, at least for a maximalist approach.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

If you were to use a co-op for AI services, would you prioritize privacy or renewable energy first?

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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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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

New article: How do governments rewire science and the tech industry by threatening scholars? And how can we make science and tech resilient to that intimidation? Writing for the Union of Concerned Scientists, I share practical efforts by scholarly and professional societies to protect science […]

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Oh goodness my kids are playing a game that involves claiming to be the god of AI and Facebook and Covid-19, what have we done

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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

It is glorious to see a bunch of crypto folks joyfully governing offchain

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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 · 14/08/2026

@neilk yeah I agree. Would AI be less evil if the builders didn't assume it would be?

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