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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 3d

Our latest post on Dripline cuts through the AI hype and questions how we relate to intelligence, labor, power, and cooperation. Dive in → buff.ly/5wXplV8

In the widening gyre or thoughts on our AI epoch

Text about artificial intelligence mostly written by a human

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 7d

The 2025 CWCF conference program has been released. Hypha members will be in attendance once again this year. Check out the complete schedule here:

2025 CWCF Conference Conference Program

2025 CWCF Conference Program Worker Co-ops Build a Better World Democracy, Diversity, and Justice CONTENTS Tuesday, November 18th Wednesday, November 19th Thursday, November 20th Tuesday,…

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 8d

Foundations for the Digital Commons is a two-day gathering focused on citizens' assemblies, data cooperatives, and democratic digital infrastructure.

For more information, visit: buff.ly/6YjUpn0

Foundations for the Digital Commons

Foundation for the Digital Commons brings together leaders, builders & civic technologists to explore the future of tech, policy & digital infrastructure.

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 9d

Other Internet is unveiling their book this week in both Berlin and Lisbon. You can find more details at: buff.ly/GDTjff4

OI Book Launch: Berlin & Lisbon

Join us this Tuesday and Friday, + book shipping update

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 16d

Hypha collaborator @mai.bsky.social wrote about how DWeb Camp Cascadia went! (Spoiler: it was great)

DWeb Camp Cascadia 2025: Canada’s First Regional Decentralized Web Camp in the Pacific Northwest | Internet Archive Blogs

We’re thrilled to see how much our hope for DWeb to decentralize globally has been fulfilled this year. In our blog announcing the Core team’s decision to take a hiatus from holding DWeb Camp in…

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 17d

This Monday was #InternationalDayOfDemocracy, and the Canadian Democracy Delegation was launched, a network working to strengthen democracy.

"Pluralism is not a fixed achievement - it’s a constant practice that both strengthens democracy and forces us to face its hardest tensions."

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Canadian Democracy Delegation — The Democratic Engagement Exchange

On #InternationalDayOfDemocracy, we’re proud to introduce the Canadian Democracy Delegation - a powerful network uniting leaders from civil society, academia, journalism, and philanthropy. This marks…

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · 21d

🚨Publication alert! Learn about the first decentralized, p2p mobile backend we built w/ @hypha.coop in our white paper.

Why?

🌍Distributed Storage.
🤝Community-Run: by us, for us.
🧱Redundancy, by design.
🫶🏼More autonomy & integrity.
🙏w/ the support of @ffdweb.org
www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph...

OpenArchive

Explore the research, development, and deployment processes that we and Hypha Co-Operative used to co-create the first secure, decentralized mobile media storage backend.

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 22d

@makeworld.space is presenting go-dasl at this event today!

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 22d

He built Narrative Engine, which uses AI to react to survey results and guide you through an immersive storytelling experience.

Try it out below or get the source code: github.com/tripledouble...

Global Dialogues Narrative Explorer

Global Dialogues delivers research data providing diverse public perspectives on AI. The survey consisted of open-ended opinion questions about the future of AI.

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 22d

Hypha member @charlebois.info participated in the Global Dialogues Challenge by @cip.org this summer -- a challenge to build a creative project atop a dataset of opinions on AI.

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 24d

“We’re considering what a cooperative values-driven AI would look like... We want to explore what values mean in practice” - Hypha member @andia.bsky.social

Co-op AI Aims to Offer an Alternative to Corporate Platforms - Canadian Worker Co-op Federation

By Kenzie Love The problems with AI are well-known, and the promise of this technology is likely overstated. Thus as David Montgomery observes, “it’s risky to leave it in the hands of distant…

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 28d

Did you know Hypha has a newsletter? Sign up to get our upcoming issue in your inbox, as well as future blog posts!

(Or paste the link into your feed reader, we won't stop you 😄)

Beyond the Dripline

Cultivating stories about co-operative technology

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · Aug 20

"No matter how confident we are in our vision of reality, we don't know what we're missing until someone else points it out." From Nadia Asparouhova's new book "Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading." What are we missing by following all the bright shiny things? buff.ly/aI7mPfE

Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

Why do some ideas spread like wildfire, while others resist being seen — despite their importance? A new book by Nadia Asparouhova explores the emerging phenomenon of antimemetics. Published by the…

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makeworld @makeworld.space · Aug 18

A Go reference library for DASL is in the works! Please try out our early releases and let us know what you think. Thank you @ipfs.tech for funding this!

github.com/hyphacoop/go...

GitHub - hyphacoop/go-dasl: A Go reference library for DASL.

A Go reference library for DASL. Contribute to hyphacoop/go-dasl development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · Aug 19

Love this piece by Humphrey Obuobi about the various and unsung utility of telephone poles. Infrastructure FTW buff.ly/LAn7JBI

📏Tall Dead Trees

From Kernel 5: Telephone poles as guerrilla public infrastructure

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · Aug 18

Hypha members are working alongside @iame.li‬ and ‪@iroh.computer on Streamplace. More here on what we're building and how it'll work buff.ly/xqpYeZ8

How Streamplace Works: Signing and Segmentation

TLDR: You put the stream through one of those cheese slicers and sign your name on every slice.

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · Aug 15

We're excited about sparking new ideas + connections (see what we did there, heh) at the Civic Spark conference, starting tomorrow. Hard to believe that CivicTech TO is 10 years old! buff.ly/hrkV5GF

Conference | Schedule

Saturday, August 16, 2025 – Talks, sessions, and shared lessons from the field.

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · Aug 14

ICYMI, @makeworld.space's post on our DASL work. Thanks for the support IPFS Foundation!

IPFS @ipfs.tech · Aug 14

Without interoperability there is no protocol, and without tests there is not interoperability.

Here's how @makeworld.space from @hypha.coop is making DASL work better for the rest of us!
ipfsfoundation.org/hypha-dasl-t...

Hypha ♥️ DASL: the test suite

Following the completion of the last session of the IPFS Utilities grant we are reposting this blog from our most excellent friends at the Hypha Worker Co-operative in which Cole explains the work the...

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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · Aug 8

in the latest issue of @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social, i wrote about how working class musicians are (still) bearing the brunt of COVID-19, more than five years into this pandemic.

newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/c...

COVID Is (Still) A Working Class Issue

Michael Rancic goes long on the class-based disparities affecting how musicians navigate COVID in 2025

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IPFS @ipfs.tech · Aug 12

From the fine folks at @hypha.coop: "Our new CAR Content Locator solves the challenge of tracking individual files in large archives across Filecoin and IPFS networks." dispatch.starlinglab.org/p/finding-yo...

Finding Your Files in Decentralized Storage Just Got Easier

Our new CAR Content Locator solves the challenge of tracking individual files in large archives across Filecoin and IPFS networks.

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · Aug 12

We've recently wrapped an IPFS Implementation Grant. Read about our DASL testing and a big thanks to the funders for making this work happen.

Hypha ♥️ DASL: the test suite

Writing 102 tests for science

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · Aug 11

The final report from Project Liberty on the potential of mutualised data and data coops is now out. A must-read if you're interested in practical ideas for how co-ops can contribute to the Fair Data Economy (plus Hypha members contributed to the report!)

As the tech revolution accelerates, Project Liberty calls for mutualised data

The co-op model can empower people in a world dominated by tech giants, because it fits with notions of collective consent

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · Aug 11

"The median lifespan of a web page is only 2.3 years". How do we protect digital records that we care about?

Saving the Story: Preserving Journalism in the Age of Digital Decay | Filecoin Foundation

Saving the Story: Preserving Journalism in the Age of Digital Decay | Filecoin Foundation

Today, we’re excited to share that Filecoin Foundation’s sister non-profit, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW), is working with Fasila to help fortify media infrastructures for the…

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · Aug 7

Here's to a wonderful time at #DWebCampCascadia for everyone attending!
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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · Aug 5

The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives has put together an Immigrant Support Resource Hub, also available in Spanish: buff.ly/VUHtNlT
#cooperatives #immigrants #inmigrantes

Immigrant Support Resource Hub – U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

Whether you’re a member of a worker co-op with immigant worker-owners or clients or an immigrant worker-owner yourself, you’ll find resources below that will help you learn how to keep yourself, your…

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