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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 2h

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.

Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 6h

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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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I keep having to force myself not to refer to certain citations as "famous" because, when I step back and think about it, the things I feel the need to call famous are probably entirely unknown to most of my readers, and only famous in my head.

Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 2d

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

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 3d

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.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Coming this month! The Co-op Cincy Symposium, which has been the leading edge of connecting co-ops and unions. https://coopcincy.org/events/2025/2/6/union-co-op-symposium

Union Co-op Symposium — Co-op Cincy

🌍 Celebrate the Year of the Cooperative at the 7th Union Co-op Symposium! October 17–18, 2025 | Cincinnati, Ohio From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Building a Stronger Community In a time when so many systems are failing us, cooperatives are showing the world what’s possible. That’s why

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 7d

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.

Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Can we repurpose the word "sloppy" for when people misuse AI in ways when they should have been thinking for themselves?

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11d

I'm really looking forward to hosting this @Metagov seminar on the governance of bees, fireflies, and plants with my colleage @oritpeleg: https://luma.com/pzbp4zq1

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11d

I keep thinking about this cade say on AI and nuclear reactions. https://zenodo.org/records/17180091

Meltdown

This essay explores the concept of "Regulative AI": artificial intelligence systems designed to monitor, validate, align, or constrain other systems – especially generative ones – in order to enforce rules, constraints, or norms through feedback and oversight. Regulative AI is not opposed to generative AI; instead, it makes generative systems viable through the intelligent application of steering, brakes, filters, and correctives that keep them from self-destructing. With generative AI triggering a runaway chain reaction, regulative AI provides the necessary structure for channeling those outputs toward purpose.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Congratulations to my local computer company, @system76, for the beta release of @pop_os_official COSMIC. I've been running the alpha happily for months on my Lemur and Colorado-built Thelio. Thanks to open source, plus a visionary team, a small business can be a world leader in manufacturing […]

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13d

After experiencing a wonderful panel on my Exit to Community concept, I learned that the Trump administration is targeting the foundation that initially funded that work.

Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Yet another day of seeing people trying to do the right thing run aground on a system that has no place for them to land.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17d

I'm sometimes tempted to set up a home server on a raspberry pi and manage our house with it until I remember (in a flood of relief) how none of our utilities or whatever are capable of connecting to wifi.

Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17d

So what is the deal with @matrix android clients? The fully featured Element is no longer supported, and Element X is not fully featured (and won't connect to my server). Third party apps are not fully featured. What is one to do?

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18d

I just spent the morning as an observer at the first @Boulder community assembly. It is a work in progress, and I am so proud of my town. At a time when democracy is falling apart, there is hope when we come together for real problem solving. https://bouldercolorado.gov/community-assembly

Community Assembly | City of Boulder

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19d

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.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20d

I had a dream about a social network spread across the solar system, with distributed, redundant data stores permissioned with zero-knowledge proofs. It ended in a gunfight.

Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Happy Occupy day. If you can't remember a world before this regime, or have no idea what I'm talking about, I wrote a book about it: https://nathanschneider.info/books/thank-you-anarchy/

Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21d

It's pretty ridiculous that the shipping container standard is denominated in feet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_668

ISO 668 - Wikipedia

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21d

If you need some magic to curl up with tonight, there's a new interview with tarot artist and reader @[email protected] Hornbein: https://protocol.ecologies.info/interviews/hornbein-tarot/

Drew is also a dear old friend and built the gorgeous website where this appears.

Drew Hornbein: Tarot

Summoning experiences of magic through art, divination, tattooing, and software.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22d

And wow it is pretty shocking how much AI slop passes for Bible commentary on the Web these days.

Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Varying weights, varying measures, are both an abomination to the LORD.
Proverbs 20:10

Standards FTW

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

I'm having the experience that diverse LLMs are uniformly lousy at building readable ASCII diagrams with uniform widths

Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27d

Today after some wrangling I got the community-developed Arch build for the @pine64 PineNote working. It was not easy for the likes of me, but with the help of other community members on @matrix I got it, and it is a huge improvement.

Yes, I could have bought a just-works e-ink tablet, but this […]

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