Author: Nathan
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Gender ideology redux
Now that “gender ideology” is a central concept of White House policy, it might be worth revisiting my 2023 article on the term’s origins among my co-religionists, and why it is a corruption of our faith: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/11/16/gender-ideology-catholic-246515
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WNV FTW
If you’re looking for grounded writing on strategies for the current political moment, get to know Waging Nonviolence. It’s a news platform I co-founded in 2009 and still serve on the board of, but real credit is to the team & writers making it thrive now: https://wagingnonviolence.org/
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Beautiful Solutions in Boulder—next week
A week from today, join me at Boulder’s worker-owned Trident bookstore to launch the new book Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation: https://www.tridentcafe.com/events/2025/2/4/trident-author-series-nathan-schneider Featuring two greats: Yessica Holguin and Minsun Ji.
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Two events in Boulder
2 events in Boulder I’m super excited about: 1/28 master class by the great tech activist Coraline Ada Ehmke:https://vast.colorado.edu/coraline-ada-ehmke/ 2/4 launch of my book Beautiful Solutions with two solidarity economy leaders, Yessica Holguin and Minsun Ji, at the worker-owned Trident bookstore:https://www.tridentcafe.com/events/2025/2/4/trident-author-series-nathan-schneider Join us!
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Accounting for Words
In which I follow Ivan Illich down a thought experiment about what it would look like to tabulate the cost of inventing words, and price out my own coinages. “An Accounting for Words,” just out in Flaming Hydra: https://flaminghydra.com/an-accounting-for-words/
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Why Meta fired its fact-checkers
New interview with me in CU Boulder Today: “Why Meta fired its fact-checkers and what you can do about it” https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/01/10/why-meta-fired-its-fact-checkers-and-what-you-can-do-about-it Basically, shilling the fediverse.
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Democracy and obedience
I hate to say it right now, but democracy depends on obedience. The question right now: Where does your obedience lie? Just out in America Magazine: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2025/01/08/democracy-trump-inauguration-249630
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On Terms of Service podcast
Now up—my conversation with Mary Camacho on the Terms of Service podcast, a really fun exchange on decentralization, governance, and power online. Enjoy! https://termsofservice.xyz/episodes/dynamics-of-digital-spaces-rethinking-democracy-o-7g_H6TrnPAq/
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Beautiful Solutions is hiring
Our team around the Beautiful Solutions book is hiring a Communications and Event Coordinator—could it be you? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B0Tei0C_UerjycAs8tinZxNLQXXWkvDFcL8sB6Ncgyk/mobilebasic#heading=h.tt5jhhfgc6g9
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Online community governance primer
I just posted a super-simple how-to guide for online community governance—basically just inviting communities to start with some important, often-neglected basics. If you know anyone who might appreciate this, please share! https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/12/18/how-build-governable-spaces-online-communities