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

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!

"Students can experience AI models as not just something someone else does for you but something that can happen in your own community": https://nathanschneider.info/2026/05/a-defunct-email-service-as-a-template-for-campus-ai/

Includes a reference to @ethanz on loyal clients—thanks for the earlier discussion on that:)

A defunct email service as a template for campus AI—lessons from Dartmouth's BlitzMail: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/05/a-defunct-email-service-as-a-template-for-campus-ai/

Grr, how am I supposed to write this when the @internetarchive Wayback Machine is down? Long live digital public infrastructure.

@ethanz Yeah, in different ways, and with some caveats, I think they are. At least in developer ecosystems, I think there's some really interesting loyalty dynamics at play in this industry.

Would things like Open Router, Ollama, Duck.ai, etc. count as middleware for AI? cc: @ethanz

Is there an advantage to using a tiling terminal emulator if you already have a tiling window manager?

@Aepasek what an honor!

"Why This Is Not a Newsletter"—a preface to my summer blogging practice. Hope you'll join me along the way: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/05/why-this-is-not-a-newsletter/

This is hilarious, and guilty as charged, and it's a reason that the fully-foldable @frameworkcomputer 12 is great. https://www.businessinsider.com/coders-keep-laptops-open-in-public-ai-agent-2026-5

@murena @gael Will the Murena message app support E2E with iMessage? https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/11/finally-texts-between-android-and-iphone-users-can-be-end-to-end-encrypted/

This is feeling very good: @fedora + @pop_os_official COSMIC on @frameworkcomputer

@Matt_Noyes @zhiganov TBD, I suppose. A growing share of people reaching out about my work seem to be encountering it through LLMs. A tool that helps them make better use of it is something I'm open to.

@Laura Ooh, that's an interesting theory!

@pete @celesteh This will give you a sense:) https://postmeritocracy.org/

I've recently been getting a lot of brief emails that are like "I've been getting interested in your work on economic democracy [or whatever]. Can you tell me how I can learn more?"

If I reply with a further question, there is no answer.

The frequency and pattern suggests AI, but I don't understand what the scam is. Confirming email addresses maybe?

Oh this is something: There's now an MCP server for my book Governable Spaces, thanks to @zhiganov—point your agents here:)

URL: https://bookpower.org/governable-spaces/
Source: github.com/zhiganov/governable-spaces-mcp