Nathan Schneider
@ntnsndr
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.
The Conflict Systems zine, on designing online communities with conflict in mind, is NOW OUT. The digital version is here: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2026/08/12/conflict-systems And there are still a few print copies available here! https://cloud.medlab.host/apps/forms/s/4Ys2HkNo23WB9pBn2c
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: https://flaminghydra.com/issue-617/#beyond-luddism
Amia Srinivasan in the house with Hermione Hoby at magicmountaintalks.org
"What are apps worth anymore?" An introduction to a couple of my recent experiments, and why they do and don't matter: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/07/what-are-apps-worth-anymore/
Technology as "an all-purpose agent of change": https://nathanschneider.info/2026/07/technology-as-an-all-purpose-agent-of-change/
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: https://www.start.coop/accelerator
Humanity without superiority—or, why it is a lost cause to ground our value in what seems to make us unique or better: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/06/humanity-without-superiority/
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: https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/how-can-vr-tell-the-story-of-genocide/ Gaza is
A case for AI taboos: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/06/a-case-for-ai-taboos/
Students and academics especially, I'd love your feedback on this proposal: "an inference cooperative for academic AI" https://nathanschneider.info/2026/06/an-inference-cooperative-for-academic-ai/
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...
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.
Three questions on AI for you, from Pope Leo: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/06/three-questions-on-ai-for-you-from-pope-leo/
Toward a durable writing stack—some notes on the tools I currently use: nathanschneider.info/2026/06/towa...
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: https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/05/29/the-dueling-a-i-apocalypses-and-what-pope-leo-has-to-say-about-both/
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: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/03/26/why-we-come-together-media-religion-and-community
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: https://theconversation.com/pope-leo-xiv-compares-ai-to-the-industrial-revolution-as-new-alternatives-to-big-ai-firms-take-shape-283249
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!
The tech industry as a grass fire: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/05/the-tech-industry-as-a-grass-fire/
A defunct email service as a template for campus AI—lessons from Dartmouth's BlitzMail: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/05/a-defunct-email-service-as-a-template-for-campus-ai/
"Why This Is Not a Newsletter"—a preface to my summer blogging practice. Hope you'll join me along the way: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/05/why-this-is-not-a-newsletter/
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!
Gosh it is nice to hear some real gospel sometimes. Thanks @jamestalarico.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...
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/
And the last babysitter one: Rosalyn does the same, and the same thing happens. Weird.
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.