Josh Davis's blog

A Minnesota Credit Union is partnering with a crypto firm that is currently being sued for misappropriating customer funds.

Generative AI is almost entirely hype. The tools are not what they claim to be, they are unreliable and insecure, and nearly no businesses have managed to turn a profit using them. Co-ops should stay far, far away.

This blog will make the case that it would be beneficial for worker co-ops in the US to both issue preferred shares and purchase them from other co-ops. 

What is the meaning of meaning, and how can we fill our lives with it once we've figured out what it is?

Why we are still on Twitter (and other corporate-owned social media platforms).

The Argentine government has recently suspended 11,000 worker co-ops on flimsy reasoning. Argentine worker cooperators call for a reversal of that policy and solidarity from the international community.

DAO tooling is a poor fit for co-ops (and everyone else too).

DAOs have a fundamental flaw that make them inappropriate for cooperatives: they are written in code.

There are a lot of misconceptions in the US about the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation. A conversation happened online recently that highlighted some of those.

Thinking as a movement requires public conversations about where we do and do not agree with one another.

A bill in California would create a very strange kind of worker co-op federation.

Why the metaphor of a cooperative ecosystem should be changed to a metaphor of a cooperative organism.

It is important that non-profit cooperative developers democratize their own work places.

We need to think about how we approach and use leftist lingo in the cooperative movement.

There are times and places where alleviating some suffering for the short term is valuable and desirable, but there are plenty of others where easing pain in the short-term is actually harmful.  Pain, after all, isn't just some negative sensation — it's a signal that we're being damaged in some way and need to do something to stop that damage from occuring.

A story about how cooperation used to work.

In a "letter from Mondragon", recently published by on the Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative (CUCI) website, Armin Isasti, makes some incisive and thought-provoking observations that I think we in the worker co-op movement would do well to consider.  Below are some quotes from his letter along with my thoughts and comments.

Imagining a multi-generational ecovillage.