Hypha Worker Co-op

Next week! Hypha will be representing tech coops at the launch of the Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work book launch. There are still a few tickets left. Come hear some different takes on transforming the economy https://www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-community-book-launch-tickets-1983210616340?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios&sg=b273bfb322761806b0ecae2275a8a7def55895ff7749e3078c2fb4d079a61e6360972331e4354bc6f5253f45cf4dffb1f54a2ba712c6205283803a351bd9d3217dc3b16f7d2fb9722c0883

Interested in how the co-op model works for creative studios? Check out this free webinar coming up Jan 20: https://www.ontario.coop/events?utm_campaign=957f3efb-fd45-43cd-b04b-690168bc1590&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=3b2ff7fa-197e-4809-9f23-b9107302778a#!event/2026/1/20/co-ops-for-creatives

A very comprehensive overview of the Cooperative AI conference we attended last month in Istanbul. Love that the group photo has a cat in it - so typical. https://www.thenews.coop/ai-will-change-the-world-can-co-ops-give-control-to-the-people/

Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention https://metagov.org/cg-ai/

This year, we wrapped a huge milestone on our Distributed Press project. Read our reflections on the highs and lows of running a multi-year open source project. Sending love out to the team that made this work possible - ¡Gracias a todos! and thank you 🪴 https://hypha.coop/dripline/distributed-press-building-the-road/

Instead of building our own clouds, I want us to own the cloud. Keep all of the great parts about this feat of technical infrastructure, but put it in the hands of the people rather than corporations. This article prompted a bunch of discussion at Hypha - what do you think? https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/

It's the final days to complete our Cooperative AI survey. Love AI? Great, fill in our survey and let us know why. Hate AI? Great, fill in our survey and let us know why. You get the idea. Help us develop better tech! https://survey.cooperativeblueprint.ai/776588?newtest=Y&lang=en

Welcome back, Outland! We're excited to see what comes out of this new nonprofit art-tech publication.

https://outlandart.substack.com/p/learning-in-public

@dweb@social.coop gave us a shoutout in their recent newsletter because we host their website, and a Discord-Matrix bridge. We like running infrastructure for our friends :)

https://mailchi.mp/archive/2025-10-october-special-issue

Back in the summer, Hypha member @v@chateau.social presented our governance work at this global co-op research event #IYC2025 https://www.thenews.coop/montreal-welcomes-global-co-op-research-event-for-iyc2025/

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Join Join No Azure for Apartheid for a virtual panel with leading voices in the tech organizing space, to confront urgent question: What role do tech workers play in perpetuating or resisting the genocide and apartheid in Palestine?

"As the culture wars are now being fought over digital infrastructure, we need to build it on a radically different set of principles to serve our needs." https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-personal/the-post-naive-internet-era/

The internet is broken today but it's not a mystery as to why:

"AWS competes with Google's and Microsoft's cloud services, with the three comprising about 63 per cent of the cloud infrastructures market. AWS has long been the market share leader." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/amazon-web-services-outage-9.6944889

We've partnered with our friends at CanTrust Hosting Co-op to collect feedback on AI use in cooperatives (and other social purpose orgs). The anonymized data will go into a report looking at AI energy use, and proposing options for more open source and value-aligned AI tools. Complete the survey here: https://survey.cooperativeblueprint.ai/776588

Our latest post on Dripline cuts through the AI hype and questions how we relate to intelligence, labor, power, and cooperation. Dive in → hypha.coop/dripline/in-the-widening-gyre-or-thoughts-on-our-ai-epoch