Hypha Worker Co-operative

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

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…

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

The Work Read Guy Elston's poem "The Work" in the double issue of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the winners of the 2024 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

...and poetry! buff.ly/4vuKMC8

Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body Biohybrid machine ushers new era of robotics, scientists say

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

The cultural memory lab supports decentralized archival for libraries and cultural institutions. You, too, can run your own decentralized archive! Learn how to save culture for posterity by uploading public collections to IPFS: buff.ly/gXzE4J2

You are programmed to trust computer programs! Deprogram yourself:
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Psst! Your co-operative future just dropped Welcome to our summer newsletter! The UN-designated year of the cooperative is filling our nights with intensely vivid dreams of co-operative futures, and we recently thought of bringing a notepad to…

What if your bank, barista, and browser all ran on co-operation?

Our latest newsletter dreams big, then wakes up in a world already halfway there.

Read Beyond the Dripline:
newsletter.hypha.coop/psst-your-co...

ICA CCR 2025 Conference The ICA CCR Global Research Conference 2025 will bring together numerous stakeholders from the international cooperative ecosystem and will be held in Montreal, Canada.

Hypha is at ICA CCR Global Research Conference this week in Montréal.

On Thursday, we will be presenting our research on governance innovation in cooperatives by focusing on co-created tools and processes.

Come say hi and talk intercooperation!
Visit icaccr2025.org for more information

JUST RELEASED: In collaboration with @rightscon.org @getdweb.net @strangehorizons.bsky.social @dragoncon.org & @compost.bsky.social: a new resource has emerged for storytellers to clap back at encroaching fascism: stopcopaganda.compost.digital

Are we a credit card yet? A blockchain performance experiment We used experimental data to increase a blockchain’s transactions per second by 35%.

We cleaned up memory usage and got 35% more transactions per second.

Are we a credit card yet?

COMPOST's latest issue is out now!

1RG member @wxs.ca on his complicated relationship with tech, returning to the soul of interest of a mathematical and technical orientation towards the world, and the early days of 1RG.

Hear more from Xavier in our first Member Spotlight: words.1rg.space/member-spotl...

DWeb Camp Cascadia, Aug 8-10th, Salt Spring Island, BC DWeb Camp Cascadia takes place August 8th to 10th, 2025, at the Salt Spring Island Farmers' Institute in the Southern Gulf Islands, BC, Canada. Join us for an outdoor, camping-focused gathering of…

DWeb Camp is coming to the Pacific North West this summer!

Aug 8-10
Salt Spring Island, BC, 🇨🇦

dwebyvr.org/camp/

You can view a demo of our dashboard at hyphacoop.github.io/governance-e... and see the the code on GitHub: github.com/hyphacoop/go...

Like the others in the cohort, we designed around simple file import and export. Anyone who's worked with government data can tell you how valuable good exports are!

Interop1: Building the Foundations of a More Interoperable Deliberation Ecosystem What does it take to build a digital democracy that isn’t owned or dominated by any single platform?

As part of @metagov.bsky.social's Interop Program, Hypha built an "excellently documented" 😄 governance dashboard. metagov.substack.com/p/interop1-b...

That's us! 😁

Screenshot of testing results dashboard: https://hyphacoop.github.io/dasl-testing/

If you're interested in CID, IPLD, or DASL interoperability, check out this nice new testing suite & dashboard! Screenshot of testing results dashboard: hyphacoop.github.io/dasl-testing/

Cole Anthony Capilongo from @hypha.coop will be presenting this at CID Congress #3 on Wed 6/25: lu.ma/ofjr7mgd

Exploring Authenticity in NeRF and Gaussian Splatting Why researchers must explore “authenticity” in realistic VR technologies like NeRF and Gaussian Splatting

In their latest blog post, Hypha collaborator Starling Lab unpacks 3D reconstruction technology and how to keep it authentic: dispatch.starlinglab.org/p/exploring-...

In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data Brazil is piloting dWallet, a project that lets citizens earn money from their data. It is ahead of similar U.S.-based initiatives.

Brazil is trying out a digital wallet that lets citizen financially benefit from their data. Would you want to use something like this? We've seen more conversation recently about data trusts and data co-op and their use case for this type of thing restofworld.org/2025/brazil-...

Poster for Building Alternative Systems event, showing one person helping another up

Hypha is representing at the Architecture Lobby Toronto's Building Alternative Systems event tomorrow. In-person tickets are sold out, but you can still join online www.eventbrite.ca/e/building-a...

Timely message, interesting project (given the state of the internet on this particular Thursday afternoon).

The Canadian Workers Cooperative Federation is looking for presenters for their 2025 conference. There are just a few days to reply. #cooperatives #canada

We're excited to present this #governance research at the ICA CCR conference in Montreal in a few weeks icaccr2025.org

The work Camille Acey is doing with The Wind Down is really necessary - especially in a culture that is so focused on novelty and newness. Take a look at these beautiful cards from the Tending to Endings project: www.wind-down.org/community-of...

📣 Just published! Our new anthology reframes the question of trust and technology away from whether a particular technology is trustworthy and toward how trust shapes institutions, bodies, and knowledge. 1/5 datasociety.net/library/trus...

Co-op Camp Challenge | Send Youth to Camp This cross-Canada fundraising initiative brings together co-operators and community members from coast to coast to send youth to co-operative camps across the country. Join the Co-op Camp Challenge to...

Would you like to support co-op summer camps in Canada? The Co-op Camp Challenge will help you do just that!

Civic Spark August 16-17, 2025 Toronto civic-spark.com

We’re putting on a conference!

Join us at Civic Spark 💥 August 16-17, 2025

civic-spark.com

Maybe you’ve felt the gap — between the problems we face and the systems meant to solve them. Maybe you’ve seen how those closest to the issues are pushed aside.

Help change that. 🧵

Projects End, Data Lives: Archiving with Distributed Press · Luma Distributed Press is a publishing tool for the distributed web. The DP team will join us to share more about how they are working to ensure more individuals…

Projects end, data lives.

Join us June 19 at the Practices of Composting and Hospicing Community gathering featuring Distributed Press.

We’ll explore resilient ways to publish and preserve content beyond platforms with tools that support autonomy.

https://lu.ma/ozkv3f7k