R. Trebor Scholz

Givit, Europe’s largest platform cooperative for delivery, grew 60% in 2024, reaching €9 million in revenue and 837 worker-owners. [article in Spanish]

www-eleconomista-es.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.elec...

Great report by Mosa Tsay on Groupmuse

platform.coop/blog/icde-re...

Next Tuesday at Columbia U

Glad to share our new piece in Harvard Business Review hbr.org/2025/06/5-wa...

A few years of work in this report. Worth the read! platform.coop/blog/new-pcc...

Coming up:
Trebor Scholz — From Vibe to Viability: A Methodology for Building Transformative Alternatives in the Digital Economy

Friday 16 May
5:30pm – 7:00pm
RMIT Storey Hall
336 Swanston Street, Melbourne

I’m excited to share the publication of my book Own This! —now not only in Italian, but also in Mandarin, and published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House.

Less than a week left to submit an abstract for the conference 'Countervailing Platform Power', Florence, June 26-27.

"the president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”

Here's an expert saying that "constitutional crisis" isn't the right term **because it doesn't go far enough.**

"The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

Ramadan Mubarak from all of us at Signalise! 🌙

Excited to speak at Rutgers’ Childhood Studies Center this morning

Post owner Bezos announces shift in opinions section; Shipley to leave In an email and social media post, Jeff Bezos outlined dramatic changes to The Washington Post’s opinions section, and announced that opinions editor David Shipley has resigned.

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Only two days left to apply.

delivering a university lecture at Rutgers on Thursday. DM me if you want to join.

Just spoke with South African truckers about their new unionized platform co-op—exciting stuff! They are unstoppable.

The early ’90s in E Germany didn’t feel like the present moment, though there are parallels—twenty-year-olds shutting down factories they deemed unfit to survive. But for a faint moment then at least, it felt like the possibility of something better.
@nilsgilman.bsky.social

YouTube video by fritz51238 Joseph Beuys - Sonne statt Reagan 1982

“Sonne statt Reagan,
Sonne statt Regen,
Lasst die Sonne scheinen
In die Herzen hinein!”
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“Brazil’s attorney general, Paulo Gonet Branco, indicted Mr. Bolsonaro and 33 other people for a series of crimes against Brazil’s democracy. “

In the words of Molly Ivins: “It sounded better in the original German”

New pc for job seekers in the social economy. upmeup.es

AI conferences celebrate bold ideas—just not the ones that expose Big Tech monopolies, labor exploitation, or AI’s dangers. It’s time they made room for cooperative technologists, open-source rebels, and whistleblowers telling it like it is.

Great to see an ICDE fellow Cecilia Muñoz Cancela
present on Chasqui, a cooperative e-commerce platform and federation of 30+ cooperative online marketplaces in Argentina! Built by Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Chasqui allows for group purchasing and distribution management. proyectochasqui.com

Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of accepting over $100,000 in illegal contributions and lavish travel perks and fraudulently obtaining more than $10 million in public funds through illicit campaign contributions. No matter the legal outcome, how can New Yorkers trust him as their leader?

The information session for our fellowship is starting in 1.5 hours

We Care– A Platform Cooperative Supporting South African Domestic Workers | Platform Cooperativism Consortium Domestic work is the fourth-largest employer of women in South Africa, yet it remains one of the most undervalued professions. Over 800,000 women work in this sector, often informally and without the…

platform.coop/blog/we-care...

"Crypto as Bribery for the Lumpenproletariat"

“By establishing clear guidelines for data protection and algorithmic transparency through frameworks like the GDPR, Europe has built a foundation of trust crucial for the adoption of AI-driven solutions in the digital identity space.”

Great to have Josie West give a talk on cooperatives in online sex work.

Open Call for Applications: The 2025-2026 ICDE Fellowship Program | Platform Cooperativism Consortium The Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at The New School invites applications for the 2025-2026 Fellowship Program, a leading opportunity for scholars researching cooperatives…

The Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at @thenewschool.bsky.social is accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Fellowship Program. Apply by Feb 28, 2025: platform.coop/blog/open-ca... cc: @nssrnews.bsky.social @netzpolitik.bsky.social

Here you can buy e-books from local book stores. bookshop.org/ebooks