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. 🐈

Imagine a __________ AI. Fill in the blank with your choice of inspired adjective from this new Metagov zine -> Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention buff.ly/TMQCQ1l

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 🪴

We're at #NeurIPS2025 with papers, posters, workshops, fireside chats, & talks across the conference. Come learn about our latest research + see live demos!

To celebrate, we’ve partnered with Parasail to offer free access to Olmo 3-Think (32B), our flagship fully open reasoning model, through Dec 22. Try it here: www.saas.parasail.io/serverless?n... & openrouter.ai/allenai/olmo...

"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?

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! buff.ly/jsbEheV

🎉🎉🎉

Can't wait to see your talks!

Some vague (😅) updates on our next event, a call for help, #Eurosky, AI journos caught in the act, users showing their own agency, and much more in this edition of #ProtocolsForPublishers! protocolsforpublishers.com/dont-let-tec...

What are some good conferences for us to attend in the coming year? It's been fun meeting you all IRL in November

Our platform is here for you to test. After a year of building with 15,000+ co-op members, our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor is live for testing at alpha.subvert.fm Join today to help test it before public launch.

“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers. The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social

And here the reflections after the event platform.coop/blog/when-wo...

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

@getdweb.net 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 :)

Survey is still open! Give us your opinions 📊

Hypha ❤️ @stream.place ❤️ C2PA

buff.ly/5BbVc9g Join No Azure for Apartheid for a virtual panel with leading voices in the tech organizing space, to confront the 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." buff.ly/gnbCZ92

"Decentralized public broadcast" is something we can definitely get behind, and we're proud to be working with Eli and the @iroh.computer team on this release.

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.

Hypha members will be there! Looking forward to the discussions - they're bound to be spicy 🌶️

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

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

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

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

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

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." buff.ly/eqQFTG5

🚨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...

@makeworld.space is presenting go-dasl at this event today! github.com/hyphacoop/go...

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.

“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

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 😄)

"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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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!)

"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

Here's to a wonderful time at #DWebCampCascadia for everyone attending! dwebyvr.org/camp/

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

Break room convos: fungi droids and poetry! Straight from our water-coolest channel, wonder at the intersection of mushrooms and technology buff.ly/NEd3nUi

How did we get from big zip files containing archival data to cryptographically verifiable evidence? Let friend of Hypha Basile Simon walk you through verifiable archival tech buff.ly/r7EGMMx