Category: Posts
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Call for papers: Why We Come Together
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
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Timnit Gebru on Looks Like New
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/
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The U.S. government is at war with the Catholic Church
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/
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I’m organizing a panel at 4S!
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
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ETHBoulder talk published
My talk and the new ETHBoulder conference is now up—”From Determinism to Determinism in Online Governance”: https://x.com/ethereumboulder/status/2022687420194427344 More or less the written version is here: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/02/constitutional-agents-for-online-governance/
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On Claude’s Constitution
My latest in America Magazine: Why Anthropic treats its chatbot Claude like a person and apologizes to it for capitalism. https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/02/12/talking-to-claude-why-anthropic-treats-its-chatbot-like-a-person-and-not-a-tool/
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Agentic coding mentor
I’ve just pushed a simple AGENTS.md file that asks the agent to teach while it codes. https://git.medlab.host/ntnsndr/agentic-coding-mentor/
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Mary is more than a mother
As Christmas approaches, I’ve been reflecting on the image of the Dormition of Mary—more common in the East than West. Why is Mary’s soul a nonbinary baby? https://www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus/2025/12/12/mary-death-dormition-art/
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Now Out: Collective Governance for AI
AI doesn’t have to be run only by and for a few enormous companies. Just out from Metagov! A digital zine listing the MANY ways that people are trying to make AI more governable, accountable, and community-controlled: https://metagov.org/cg-ai/
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On network nations with Audrey Tang
Over the weekend, the GreenPill podcast dropped this conversation I had with one of the governance technologists I admire most, former Taiwan digital minister Audrey Tang: https://pod.link/1609313639/episode/NWRjNTkzZjEtNzczMS00Zjk1LTljMTUtYWQwZWRlMWFmM2Nl It is pretty sci-fi. But in times like these, sci-fi is at least part of what we need.