The de-Googled @murena-com.bsky.social Fairphone 6 is now available in the US. I have been a tester and the team has done an amazing job making this thing sparkle. It's an easy way to move to fair-trade hardware & user-centered software. murena.com/america/shop...

"At the heart of our work together was the question: How can the online communities that we participate in use tools that truly reflect our values?" This looks so useful for #TeamRhetoric folks seeking to reframe our social media pedagogy!

Hey! My piece "Being Open, Social, and Protective" is out in the Open Social Network Cookbook zine created by a wonderful cohort of community/tech from folks around the world. My recipe offers a 101 guide for curating healthy & happy social media accts. Check it out! www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/m...

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. https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/

A helpful reminder to Curtis Yarvin that CEOs are liberals, not monarchs. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

Bsky needs some #gobuffs @colorado.edu

They literally ruin everything they touch

Happy Halloween

I just remembered how excited I am for hosting Orit Peleg's Metagov Seminar on governance among insects and plants on November 12. You should come: luma.com/pzbp4zq1?tk=...

Similar to "governance overload" phenomena we discussed in osf.io/preprints/me... @ntnsndr.in @kelsiemvn.bsky.social @mzargham.bsky.social

I tell you it is a special feeling when you open your morning newsletters and see an amazing former student like @clurrese.bsky.social telling much needed library stories at the great @404media.co: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Hello world, @visualevidencelab.bsky.social! Everyone, time to follow the work of my colleague @sristovska.bsky.social if you're not already. More on the lab here: www.colorado.edu/lab/visualev...

If ur interested in democratic governance - both online & in political life - this one is full of strong thinking w/ a nice side of ‘make governance fun!’, a mantra I bring to my gov work. Need someone to make this into a dad cap!🧢 @thedrc.bsky.social @ntnsndr.in podfollow.com/techquitable...

"We're not robots. We're people"—the Colorado Drivers Co-op is up and running!

Woohoo the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center presente in a union hall. Unions & EO FTW

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: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DZfEoh2lTva

I got this perfect pin today from @nobordersbooks.bsky.social 🪶🐦

This is a really excellent analysis of the opportunities and risks of an effort I'm involved with—ensuring tokenized cooperative ownership is widely available under US law: ownership.substack.com/p/should-the...

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

Today I am remembering two things I've been told. "No marches or rallies," from George Lakey, challenging activists to sharpen their direct action tactics around winnable campaigns. & "if you don't preach to the choir they won't come to church," from Rebecca Solnit via Fr. Louis Vitale. #NoKings

Through laughter and tears and no great words, allow me to recommend to you this extraordinary podcast on my old friend and guide, Fr. Dan Berrigan. This captures his spirit so well: www.lostprophets.org/p/18-daniel-...

Ever notice the most privileged people (this is Forbes) are telling you you don’t need to go to school? Think they’re giving their children the same advice? No they’re still sending them to elite schools. Now why do you think this is?

Thank GOODNESS that the Vatican has improved the typography and layout of its document pages. And, far more importantly, Pope Leo has just issued an encyclical about care for the poor: www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Some Catholics may be having a vigil for Charlie Kirk & some other Catholics may very well be housing & clothing poor people & fighting for immigrants.

@medlabboulder.bsky.social is on 💥 while I'm on sabbatical

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.

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: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2025/launch-event-open-social-

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

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.

Wow!

Many Blessings on the Feast of St. Francis!

I find some guidance in @ntnsndr.in's works, namely www.ucpress.edu/books/govern... (which looks back to see how we can go forward)

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

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.

"Implicit Feudalism: Why Online Communities Still Haven’t Caught Up with My Mother’s Garden Club" by Nathan Schneider (2021) www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2...

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

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

I keep thinking about this cade say on AI and nuclear reactions. zenodo.org/records/1718...

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.

Wow, this is insanely exciting, via @atproto.com: A new 2SLGBTQIA+ Bluesky platform, @transrights.northsky.social, structured as a worker co-op! atprotocol.dev/the-first-in... Now we only need a million more of these:)

Elders need to act like elders

My dept at Fordham is hiring a TT Assistant Prof of Media Policy and Platform Governance. "We are especially interested in someone whose research and teaching speaks to policy or legal implications of internet-based platforms and AI systems..." Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174378

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.

What better alternatives are there to waiting for the perfect charismatic leader?

How did "columnist" become a lifetime appointment? Seems like prominent roles in public discourse should be subject to more frequent rotation.

I just spent the morning as an observer at the first @bouldercolorado.bsky.social 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. bouldercolorado.gov/community-as...

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

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.

... the deal with @rude1.blacksky.team and Blacksky that's so compelling and gives me goddamn hope about the future is that it's community-first design, communities deciding what their needs are + tech *to meet those needs*, plus a stab at a sustainable means of funding commons