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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 […] [bridged from https://social.coop/@ntnsndr on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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These are good times to be reading Yertle the Turtle to one's kids and oneself. https://archive.org/details/yertle-the-turtle-and-other-stories

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Cathedrals have not usually been built by top down design, as Eric Raymond assumed. Like the bazaar, they are made from the commons—the overlapping tradition, creativity, and agency distributed across a community. Unlike the bazaar, they invite people into an interest bigger than themselves.

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The best co-ops are sometimes the temporary ones

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Colorado is solidarity

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Really helpful reframing of AI as cultural and social technology: https://henryfarrell.net/large-ai-models-are-cultural-and-social-technologies/ thanks for sharing @henryfarrell

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The success of an AI model should be the number of people it ushers into luxury communism. But no, instead those companies are forcing people to go to offices and be extremely hardcore.

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Any favorite books about Mussolini?

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Billionaire-proof open social media is now mission-critical infrastructure for the future of democracy.

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What do you know, the mother of all conspiracy theories is a nothingburger. Turns out governments are not all-knowing masters of the universe but are fumbling through the mess like the rest of us.

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Union power at @colorado.edu! @ucwcolorado in force against fascism.

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We need a "politics of yes." In a new interview at Nonprofit Quarterly, my Beautiful Solutions co-editors describe our attempts at the "nonextractive storytelling" that our movements need right now […] [Original post on social.coop]

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While you oppose, don't forget to propose. (Cribbing the old slogan from Movement for a New Society.)

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Toward a platform - Free education - Social security for sabbaticals and retirement - End tax advantaged investment accounts - Work from wherever - No AI without UBI - Wealth tax asymptotically approaches 100% at $1b

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wherefore Your absolutely courageous and ruthless self-testing alone can and does absolutely guarantee total conservation of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe (Bucky Fuller)

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For the first time in my life, I am running for something. The national co-op association, NCBA CLUSA, is in a decisive time of crisis and opportunity, and I feel the call to serve […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Why does it take longer for my computer to respond to an incorrect password than a correct one (specifically on the GNOME login screen)?

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Any recommendations for good gifts from a UK-based cooperative?

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confession: as someone totally behind on modern frameworks and libraries and whatever, Claude Code has made programming fun again for me.

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Any politics premised on making things worse so they can get better should be suspect.

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If there were a bot that enabled the members of a Mastodon instance to govern themselves (e.g., setting rules, moderating users/instances, assigning admins), do you think your instance would use it?

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Don't let technology, no matter how fancy, be a substitute for visionary politics. https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13668

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I'm so proud that we have the great @safiyanoble with us at @cubouldercmci! She is tracing her path from growing up in a segregated food desert to studying algorithmic racism.

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For folks in the co-op sector interested in ethical AI, check out this community of practice that's forming: https://icin.coop/lets-talk/join-the-international-community-of-practice-for-innovation-in-responsible-ai/

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This is glorious: https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

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I just learned that TODAY is the release date of the book by one of my great heroes, Coraline Ada Ehmke. She is an engineer who created the most widely adopted code of conduct in tech, and her wisdom and courage overflow everywhere she goes. Get it now: https://thehammerbook.com

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Is there such a thing as a paid subscription for access to cloud versions of top downloadable LLMs that runs only on green energy?

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

For those of us bracing ourselves for Lent, the [email protected] episode is a great way to start: https://www.americamagazine.org/jesuiticalshow

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This podcast on the Canadian Indigenous artist Robert Houle is fabulous: https://www.tvo.org/podcasts/the-art-of-sovereignty/robert-houle

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My lab has been focused on dispute protocols lately, and so I'm really looking forward to (remotely) participating in this conference on digital justice: https://blog.kleros.io/mechanism-design-for-decentralised-justice-law-in-the-age-of-crowds-and-code/

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Super excited about my first ride with the Colorado Drivers Co-op rideshare! Super affordable and quick pickup. https://www.coloradodrivers.coop/

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Join Diana Daly and me for a session on our work about "Textbooks as Evolutionary Media: The Governance of Open Educational Resources" on March 4—register here: https://colorado.libcal.com/calendar/events/OERPanel25

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Lots of great organizing advice from @msifry here: https://theconnector.substack.com/p/organizing-how-tos-and-how-not-tos If you need help making some basic rules poke around our https://communityrule.info

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It only took us 6 years, but @medlab finally has stickers.

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Just got my copy of the new edition of one of my favorite books. Congratulations, @davidbollier

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Do Linux users get more captchas?

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Excited about this new book: "Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation" https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/indigenous-intellectual-property cc @luis_in_brief

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The world might be devolving into madness, but I have at last got my vim setup to a very sensible and pleasurable place. Not much to it, either: https://gitlab.com/ntnsndr/dotfiles/-/blob/master/.vimrc?ref_type=heads

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Cutting the military budget is good.

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The power of DOGE, argues @zeynep, stems from the power of the sysadmin: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/opinion/musk-doge-personal-data.html In chapter 2 of Governable Spaces, I warned that the logic of the sysadmin has become a model for political power: https://ntnsndr.in/govbook

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Now X, Meta, and TikTok appear to be operating significantly at the pleasure of the president of the United States. The urgency of building decentralized social has just gotten a whole lot more real. This is news to some communities more than others, I know. There are many lessons to be […]

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On March 11, join me for a panel celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis's Laudato Si' encyclical on "integral ecology." I'll be echoing Francis's insistence that, despite what it might seem, "Truly, much can be done!" https://www.jcu.edu/livable-future

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I love this @sean @hello essay on how what the fediverse needs to grow is creative people and communities, not just copycat tech. That's the motivation behind our Open Social Incubator project at @medlab: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/09/11/open-call-join-open-social-incubator

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Co-op business + citizen assemblies FTW https://www.demnext.org/projects/democratising-workplace-decision-making

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Are you passionate about teaching media literacy? My lovely little department is hiring TWO teaching professors in multi-year, renewable positions: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Assistant-Teaching-Professor-of-Media-Studies/61458

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What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an authoritarian power-grab—new from @wagingnv : https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/02/lessons-from-south-koreans-who-stopped-martial-law-coup/

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This country be like

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