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August 28, 2025

Lessons from the Chasqui Project

Centered on Argentina’s Chasqui Project, an e-commerce platform for socially and cooperatively produced goods, the report examines the project’s decade-long development as a collaborative endeavor between public universities, tech cooperatives, and grassroots organizations.

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August 27, 2025

Avoiding the AI Hypetrain

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.

July 28, 2025

All About the Soft Chaos Cooperative

In this episode, Squinky and Jess from Soft Chaos dive into the world of worker co-ops and how collective ownership fuels their bold, genre-defying work. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how they create deeply personal, experimental games and interactive art that push the boundaries of play.

July 21, 2025

What It's Like to Work at a Tech Worker Co-op

Catalyst Cooperative is an all-remote, 8-person, tech worker cooperative based in North America. The coop was founded in 2017 with the mission to make US energy system data more accessible. Catalyst's main objectives are to curate the free, open-source Public Utilities Data Liberation project (PUDL) and help clients navigate a myriad of energy or environmental data needs.

February 10, 2025

Varieties of Worker Cooperatives in Tech

I want to share a framework that explains the different varieties of tech worker cooperatives. This framework helps us understand the various pathways tech workers can take to join the tech worker cooperative movement.

September 30, 2024

An Interview with Yochai Gal of TechCollective

Co-founder of two worker co-ops, Yochai Gal, joins us to talk about his co-op's recent merger with another tech worker cooperative, and how the new co-op incorporated the best of both of the worker co-ops that formed it. Then Yochai shares his (rather critical) thoughts on the trajectory of the USFWC over the last several years, and why he thinks it has largely failed to fulfill it's original goals.

August 8, 2024

The Potential of Data Cooperatives in the Nonprofit and Social Service Sectors

Data management and work in nonprofit and social service agencies is generally less developed than the big data storage and analysis systems of platform capitalism. Data work in nonprofits is increasingly central to their operation, however, and the sector is experiencing rapid adoption of corporate data platforms. Given the value commitments of the sector, and this unique moment of development, the sector also presents strong opportunities for cooperativization.

June 17, 2024

Technology Cooperatives In The Movement - Where Are We Now?

Tech worker cooperatives have the potential to provide particularly crucial infrastructure for the communication and coordination necessary for a liberatory movement and a robust and just economy.

April 29, 2024

Fediverse Model Offers Social Media a Second Chance

The Fediverse, as Jakob Sitter Midttun writes, is an ensemble of interconnected – yet independent –  free, open source social media platforms utilizing federated protocols to seamlessly integrate with one another.