Notices by Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop), page 3

Three questions on AI for you, from Pope Leo: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/06/three-questions-on-ai-for-you-from-pope-leo/

Wanted: @ollama, except a co-op

Featuring tech from @system76 @frameworkcomputer @pandoc @emacs @neovim @zotero @revealjs @nextcloud @murena @pine64 @remarkablepaper @ollama

I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of plain-text writing. Every aspect of it has changed over that period, but the some basic goals and flows have been with me through the writing of my college thesis, five books, and hundreds of ...

Delegation may be the most important skill for an "agentic" world, but it is telling that some of my favorite people in the world are the people it comes least easily to

Compendium of my Magnifica Humanitas takes:

The Dueling A.I. Apocalypses—and What Pope Leo Has to Say about Both https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/05/29/the-dueling-a-i-apocalypses-and-what-pope-leo-has-to-say-about-both/

Pope Leo XIV Compares AI to the Industrial Revolution—as New Alternatives to Big AI Firms Take Shape https://theconversation.com/pope-leo-xiv-compares-ai-to-the-industrial-revolution-as-new-alternatives-to-big-ai-firms-take-shape-283249

If you're looking for a way to hold the anniversary of this troubled United States, the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant are on @gutenberg_org: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4367

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/

If the @mediaarchaeologylab were a business it would be Arcade Laradise up the road in Laramie.

I've really come around to the @nextcloud News app for RSS feeds. I can't recommend enough taking the time to cultivate an excellent and diverse set of feeds for yourself.

Finally, a ride-share union: https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-05-26/uber-lyft-drivers-in-massachusetts-form-first-us-ride-share-union Congratulations!

RE: https://social.medlab.host/@medlab/116642148819698706

More evidence that students are thinking about AI way more clearly than most of their teachers.

Guerrilla donation to the @mediaarchaeologylab from my last trip to Mexico

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

The tech industry as a grass fire: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/05/the-tech-industry-as-a-grass-fire/

What a thrill to be at the blessing of the new building for @KGNU radio, lifted up by Amy Goodman on @democracynow today!

I'm embarrassed that, after years of critique and whatever about the gig economy, this week I did my first ride-along with a friend doing app-based delivery.

RE: https://social.coop/@ntnsndr/116575061133046095

Is your campus teaching AI as a monopoly fait accompli?

RE: https://flipboard.com/@404media/404-media-qvt3vv94z/-/a-c0vhBz5YTG6lNJS6lipOcw%3Aa%3A4082434389-%2F0

Great conversation on protocols and rural utility co-ops and more!