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founding member @hypha.coop garden: https://spores.garden/@udit.bsky.social
Better technology starts with democratic organizations. That's why we co-founded Tech Co-ops Canada, a new coalition promoting worker ownership in the tech industry. Join us!
Tech Coops Canada
Better technology starts with democratic organizations.
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The new episode of Future Mending Radio is about a worker coop in Toronto -- @hypha.coop -- that is implementing image verification technologies for journalists. www.buzzsprout.com/2396702/epis...
Digital Trust in the Age of AI - Future Mending Radio
Matt sits down with Cole Anthony Capilongo, from Hypha Coop, to talk about what it's like to work at a worker coop that does tech consultancy. We talk about how Hypha makes decisions with a flat...
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This is an extremely concerning development. Designing systems to be insecure makes everyone less secure, no matter who holds the keys to the backdoor.
Canada is about to end private digital conversation — Bill C-22
Bill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a backdoor — and track all your activity for one year. Apple says no. Signal says they'll leave.
dontsurveil.me
We’re live. Two years ago, we released a plan. Today, our collectively owned music platform is open. Explore. Support artists directly. Join the co-op. It’s only the beginning. Sincerely Ours, Subvert
one of my favorite things about the atmosphere community is that so many of you also love coops
Limeleaf Worker Collective@limeleaf.coop · 3mo agoExtra! Extra! A new episode of the Limeleaf Podcast has taken to the ether. Stephen Giordano from Interstitial Technology and Ethan Winn from Obran Cooperative join us to talk about one of our favorite topics: worker #coops! Tune in now at limeleaf.coop/podcast/epis... !
what an incredible turn out! can't wait to see you all next time!
ATProto Toronto@atproto.to · 3mo agoThanks everyone for coming out! Really great to see how much interest and chat there was. Stay tuned for updates!
Added a real Pollen claim for the first time thanks to this post
Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 3mo agooh wow antropic actually listened to @hailey.at
excited to share lichen.page, a cms for static site generators, built on atproto there are also a number of other strange things about it. I would describe it as a sort of software as research, but you can also use it, and curious what people make of it
My project for the last year, Orbital Studies Issue № 0 is available now! Orbital Studies is a literary science magazine. We publish writing and art in service of a more beautiful scientific culture. Includes work from @philipcball.bsky.social, @spencer.place, Michael Levin... orbitalstudies.com
Our Pollen browser extension is now live on Chrome and Firefox! It's an experimental tool for adding "claims" to images on Bluesky (commentary, provenance, facts) directly attached to the image content itself. nectar.hypha.coop
In case you missed our talk at #AtmosphereConf, it's now up on YouTube!
Pollen: feed transparency | ATmosphereConf 2026
YouTube video by HYPHA Worker Co-operative
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this is honestly THE best write up of how CSAM detection and perceptual handing works. the visual aids are very helpful in understanding how content is transformed and how detection methods work mahmoud-salem.net/the-invisibl...
How Do You Find an Illegal Image Without Looking at It?
61.8 million files of suspected child abuse were reported in 2025 alone. This is how machines detect them at internet scale — without any human ever seeing the content.
mahmoud-salem.net
If anyone believes their project should run as public infrastructure - come talk to us. If you believe that running components as public infrastructure is beneficial to the ecosystem and you have institutional funds available - come talk to us. @modalfoundation.eurosky.social Please RT
excited to peer-pressure @makeworld.space and @udit.bsky.social into organizing some atmosphere meetups at @hypha.coop back in toronto! (i will help)
would like to see pollen claims or some version of community notes on perceptual hashes widely adopted
Atmosphere Community@atmosphere.community · 4mo ago@hypha.coop is at #AtmosphereConf and launching Nectar, a new API that allows searching for similar images across the Atmosphere. Use it to track reposts, make image annotations, watch social trends, and more. Learn more here: nectar.hypha.coop/
Great example of ATmospheric dev infrastructure by @hypha.coop.
Atmosphere Community@atmosphere.community · 4mo ago@hypha.coop is at #AtmosphereConf and launching Nectar, a new API that allows searching for similar images across the Atmosphere. Use it to track reposts, make image annotations, watch social trends, and more. Learn more here: nectar.hypha.coop/
@hypha.coop is at #AtmosphereConf and launching Nectar, a new API that allows searching for similar images across the Atmosphere. Use it to track reposts, make image annotations, watch social trends, and more. Learn more here: nectar.hypha.coop/
Reminder we are giving a lightning talk on Saturday! Come watch @udit.bsky.social and I talk about fighting misinformation with perceptual hashes! atmosphereconf.org/event/7Rr2zW6
Journalism coops give me — and most of the journalists I know — a lot of hope for the industry. But I've been curious: What's it like to actually work at one? I spent the last few months talking to a bunch of brilliant worker-owners to find out. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...
Journalism coops seem utopian. What’s it like working in one?
"If I was less self-directed, I'd probably be freaking out."
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If you want to put perceptual hashes on ATproto, this is a draft spec explaining how to do that. Let's chat!
Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · 5mo agoAnd another DASL spec! This is an early release of Perceptual Fingerprints, brought to you by @makeworld.space. Wicked cool stuff! dasl.ing/pfp.html
folks it is not every day that you get to post a 4500-word essay on communications theory on the corporate blog. pls go read it so i can go back to coding for our clients.
Hypha Worker Co-operative@hypha.coop · 5mo agoHave you noticed how some people have bad takes? Horrid! Couldn't we empower them to engage with unfamiliar topics in an informed way? How do we make context travel? In our latest dripline post, @literaryarsonist.press uses the 1700s as a lens to explore the structure of online discourse.
suuuper cool and fascinating. didn't realize mp4s were so non-deterministic. Also plays into perceptual hashing which @hypha.coop has got me interested in and will likely be really important going forward in identifying AI generated/modified video content.
Eli Mallon@iame.li · 6mo agoExcited to announce our collaboration with @ipfs.tech and https://dasl.ing on two new standards for the next thousand years of decentralized social video: S2PA and MUXL! Together they give us a standard for self-certifying and content-addressable media in the decentralized social ecosystem.
Excited to announce our collaboration with @ipfs.tech and https://dasl.ing on two new standards for the next thousand years of decentralized social video: S2PA and MUXL! Together they give us a standard for self-certifying and content-addressable media in the decentralized social ecosystem.
S2PA and MUXL: Bringing Video to Content-Addressed Systems
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love this! web ring as virtual garden is great (collect & plant flowers! search for & steal spores!) also, @standard.site spotted :) 👀
Hypha Worker Co-operative@hypha.coop · 6mo agoWe built you a garden! Spores.garden is a personal site where you can curate your thoughts and explore other people’s gardens by following a trail of digital flowers. We’re still building and adding to it, so let us know what you like and what features you’d want to see!
really excited about the perceptual hashing projects Hypha's currently working on. stay tuned for more!
Hypha Worker Co-operative@hypha.coop · 6mo agoHumans are really good at recognizing an image even when it's been cropped, rotated, deep-fried, de-saturated, etc. Computers, in general, aren't as good: different bits=different image. Our latest dripline post discusses some techniques that allow computers to recognize similarity at scale
We built you a garden! Spores.garden is a personal site where you can curate your thoughts and explore other people’s gardens by following a trail of digital flowers. We’re still building and adding to it, so let us know what you like and what features you’d want to see!
Trust is multi-layered. To trust a claim, you must be able to trust the chain that relayed it (cryptography helps, but isn't enough), AND the originating institution. When claims are AI-generated, who do we trust? Our new piece argues that trust in AI providers equals trust in incentives and values.
The Other AI
Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure
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