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

Drones, blockchains, and climate: The nation-state is not that old, and probably not long for this world.
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/a-shakeup-is-coming-for-the-nation-state

@fpianz thanks! What about paywalled journals?

Academics: what is your annual quota for peer reviewing papers, and what proportion of invitations do you reject?

I honestly have no idea what is normal or expected.

Our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture's next conference is on the radical arts of gathering. Join us—along with Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, and more speakers TBA.

The call for abstracts is out, due May 1: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/03/26/why-we-come-together-media-religion-and-community

I'm thrilled to share that my lab's podcast, Looks Like New, just hosted the brilliant Timnit Gebru on the possibilities of community-serving AI—listen and subscribe here: https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/can-ai-be-rebuilt-to-serve-communities/

https://hci.social/@bkeegan/116295809905217444

Great stuff from @loriemerson on our fight against CU's OpenAI deal: https://www.axios.com/local/boulder/2026/03/23/cu-boulder-professors-concerns-openai-chatgpt-deal

Please share this primer on open protocols with your favorite government officials. https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/a-government-guide-to-open-protocols

My latest piece in America Magazine lays bare the extent to which US government policy seems to be going in outright opposition to decades of Catholic teaching—particularly on climate, war, and civil discourse. Catholics, we cannot participate in this: https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/03/19/government-trump-america-catholic-church/

Just read. This is great, @LaurensHof!

In my forthcoming protocol book, I explicitly define protocols as *not meaning*, which is consistent with the pattern you identify. Meaning begins where protocols end.

This also extends the notion of power vacuums that I develop a bit in ch. 1 of Governable Spaces. And I think in ch. 4 I make clear that the fediverse does not address these but replicates implicit feudalism (which is not quite a vacuum but a specific theory of governance embedded in software like Mastodon).

Thank you for further making the case for why we need real governance design for a truly decentralized social.

I think more general

Good point

And stay tuned for my next book, all about protocols!

Upcoming report launch on "member-owned social spaces in local communities and neighbourhood renewal": https://airtable.com/appjkcMPBl4LcoiIX/pagWcBQ8z9HRIBaQe/form?mc_cid=33c56c2acd

Yeah, ESOPs are a version of that, abeit often with a pretty constrained view of worker interest. A charity, also, might encounter tension between a charitable charter and worker interest. Why not just do it as a cooperative to start with?

I love how @404mediaco understands exactly what we're all going through right now: "How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'" https://www.404media.co/ai-psychosis-help-gemini-chatgpt-claude-chatbot-delusions/

I don't use it for much else, but somehow Gemini got way better than other AIs at resolving Arch package issues.

This post against "age certification" laws is yet another reason I'm proud of our local Colorado Linux computer factory, @system76 https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification/

Data centers aren't just noxious, they're targets in war: https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-amazon-data-center-strikes/

Decentralize the data. And end the wars.

For the first time, I'm organizing a panel at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science, in Toronto. I love this conference. If you do too, please consider submitting a paper! https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_toronto.php