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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!

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/

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.

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

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/

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

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

Just published! A book chapter with Morshed Mannan and Tara Merk on “Cooperative Online Communities,” open acess for all: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003449850-32/cooperative-online-communities-morshed-mannan-nathan-schneider-tara-merk

Get a taste of our new book, Beautiful Solutions, in YES! Magazine, featuring excerpts and a reflection by my co-editor Eli Feghali: https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2024/12/10/the-power-of-beautiful-solutions

This idea keeps sticking with me—that we have just seen a transformation in US national politics, from “campaign finance” to “campaign financialization,” from funding campaigns to campaigns as vehicles for explicit investment and speculation. https://nathanschneider.info/2024/11/the-age-of-campaign-financialization-is-here/ Does this seem right?