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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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Why do I ever leave you, Colorado?
December 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
As Christmas approaches, I've been reflecting on the image of the Dormition of Mary—more common in the East than West. Why is Mary's soul a nonbinary baby? https://www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus/2025/12/12/mary-death-dormition-art/ […]

[Original post on social.coop]
December 12, 2025 at 10:33 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/
December 10, 2025 at 3:28 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: https://pod.link/1609313639/episode/NWRjNTkzZjEtNzczMS00Zjk1LTljMTUtYWQwZWRlMWFmM2Nl

It is […]

[Original post on social.coop]
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I'm all for Bitcoin cratering, but this is such a familiar ritual, where the NYT announces the demise of crypto while the dip is still above the last cycle's peak.
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 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 […]

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November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
And the last babysitter one: Rosalyn does the same, and the same thing happens. Weird.
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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.
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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
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
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. […]

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November 3, 2025 at 5:37 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 […]

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October 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I recently got back from a beautiful residency with the @disco_coop crew in a beautiful hilltop village in Spain. If you're reimagining the possibilities of tech, community, and care, consider getting yourself there: https://days.disco.coop/
October 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
@medlab is on 💥 while I'm on sabbatical
October 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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.
October 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
During the past year, my lab hosted a cohort of communities around the world adopting open social networks. Together, they've created a beautiful cookbook full of their lessons and reflections. Come to the launch event on November 3 […]

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October 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
At this week's Metagov Seminar, join me to celebrate my colleague Lori Emerson's gorgeous new book, Other Networks, a sourcebook of stories and designs for networks that are not the internet: https://luma.com/4kfjgd6a
October 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Grace Lee Boggs, one of the great guides of my life. In her spirit, let us always keep asking ourselves, "What time is it on the clock of the world?"

If you're in Detroit, consider going to this.
October 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Today, a last-minute pilgrimage in Bremen to the resting place of Ivan Illich, my guide for so many years. In a cemetery full of stone markers and manicured flowers, his is a simple wood cross in a patch of vernacular herbs.
October 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It has been the honor of my work life to serve the people of Colorado as a professor at CU Boulder, and to have my colleagues' support—today, with a medal recognizing tenure. I'm wearing a sweater from my grandfather, an earlier Prof. Schneider.
September 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Look here, @cyberlyra is at it again!
September 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM