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Ocean aficionado. Feels strongly about trees. Balancing motherhood with working at Hypha Worker Co-op.
I wrote a thing last week. Check it oot
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
hypha.coop
February 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I wrote a thing last week. Check it oot
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Legends like Isaac Hayes, Bob Marley, BB King and more came to the Harriet Tubman Centre at St. Clair and Oakwood in the ’70s – a thriving hub for Black Torontonians.
Its founder, Ken Jeffers, recalls its impact and finds in its undoing a familiar story.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/form...
Its founder, Ken Jeffers, recalls its impact and finds in its undoing a familiar story.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/form...
A FORMER BLACK ARTS CENTRE OFFERS LESSONS FOR THE PRESENT — West End Phoenix
Legends like Isaac Hayes, Bob Marley, BB King and more came to the Harriet Tubman Centre at St. Clair and Oakwood in the ’70s – a thriving hub for Black Torontonians. Its founder, Ken Jeffers, recalls...
www.westendphoenix.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Legends like Isaac Hayes, Bob Marley, BB King and more came to the Harriet Tubman Centre at St. Clair and Oakwood in the ’70s – a thriving hub for Black Torontonians.
Its founder, Ken Jeffers, recalls its impact and finds in its undoing a familiar story.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/form...
Its founder, Ken Jeffers, recalls its impact and finds in its undoing a familiar story.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/form...
"Paid advertising in AI search, and AI models generally, could look very different from traditional web search. It has the potential to influence your thinking, spending patterns and even personal beliefs in much more subtle ways." Are you paying attention yet? theconversation.com/could-chatgp...
Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something? Threat of manipulation looms as AI companies gear up to sell ads
AI companies are gearing up to follow the social media model of monetizing their platforms through advertising. The danger for consumers with AI goes beyond data privacy to covert manipulation.
theconversation.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:04 PM
"Paid advertising in AI search, and AI models generally, could look very different from traditional web search. It has the potential to influence your thinking, spending patterns and even personal beliefs in much more subtle ways." Are you paying attention yet? theconversation.com/could-chatgp...
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Who took this photo? When? Where? You can answer these questions with cryptography. Read our new post to learn how: https://hypha.coop/dripline/who-took-this-photo/
February 4, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Who took this photo? When? Where? You can answer these questions with cryptography. Read our new post to learn how: https://hypha.coop/dripline/who-took-this-photo/
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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Add this to your must-reads this week, yes?
@makeworld.space spends a lot of time correcting our use of words here at Hypha, so we thought we'd ask him to write a glossary of some commonly used terms in the spaces of provenance and digital trust. Never let a good deed go unpunished!
Digital Trust Glossary
Ironing out definitions for integrity, authenticity, privacy, and more
hypha.coop
February 3, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Add this to your must-reads this week, yes?
Interesting post and thread about the loooong awaited community centre in my hood. Agree that Canadians generally have a consultation problem but the characterization of public input as 'loud neighbours' seems dismissive. Ultimately, it would be nice to get the darn thing built tho
We have a consultation problem. I write about a Toronto rec centre that will have taken 14 years to plan, cost at least three times the original budget - and be a bad building.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
What is the cost of consultation?
Toronto recreation centre that started as $40-million project in 2016 has ballooned to nearly $113-million before construction even starts
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Interesting post and thread about the loooong awaited community centre in my hood. Agree that Canadians generally have a consultation problem but the characterization of public input as 'loud neighbours' seems dismissive. Ultimately, it would be nice to get the darn thing built tho
*Looks outside* sNooooooooo
February 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM
*Looks outside* sNooooooooo
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Toronto!! This is next week! I'm really excited about this conversation, Parker is very smart and has lots of interesting things to say that you should come listen to.
There are still tickets left to our first Wayfinding event next week!
Come hear hear @phirephoenix.com and @xor.blue in conversation about privacy!
luma.com/wayfinding1
Come hear hear @phirephoenix.com and @xor.blue in conversation about privacy!
luma.com/wayfinding1
Wayfinding: Privacy · Luma
Wayfinding: conversations about navigating the tensions of tech in modern life.
We live in a moment where our trust in tech companies to protect our privacy…
luma.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Toronto!! This is next week! I'm really excited about this conversation, Parker is very smart and has lots of interesting things to say that you should come listen to.
Speaking of a different kind of salt, Molly White's recap post is 🎯 www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-...
The year of technoligarchy
In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall.
www.citationneeded.news
January 20, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Speaking of a different kind of salt, Molly White's recap post is 🎯 www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-...
THIS. Toronto's wanton salting makes me crazy. My anti-salt stance is partly stemming from former dog ownership (salty paws are sad paws) and partly from the no-brainer that salt is bad for gardens, fresh water, basically anything living.
Toronto is going to have hypertension
January 20, 2026 at 2:10 AM
THIS. Toronto's wanton salting makes me crazy. My anti-salt stance is partly stemming from former dog ownership (salty paws are sad paws) and partly from the no-brainer that salt is bad for gardens, fresh water, basically anything living.
Grief has come up in a number of recent conversations, and then I came across this apt quote: "Without grief and praise, life is only hate and mediocrity.” - Martin Prechtel, via open.substack.com/pub/solidari...
In the Bardo of Grief
What happens when a culture lacks the public rituals needed to "metabolize" decades of shared suffering?
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Grief has come up in a number of recent conversations, and then I came across this apt quote: "Without grief and praise, life is only hate and mediocrity.” - Martin Prechtel, via open.substack.com/pub/solidari...
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Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
January 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
Imagine if they put that money towards health care or education instead. What a crazy idea!!
Your tax dollars at work: Ontario has spent nearly $270,000 in external legal fees (not including their own in-house lawyers or $200,000 awarded in costs) to attack your Charter rights and amplify a bad faith culture war contrary to the advice of their own experts.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario government has spent $270K on outside lawyers in fight to remove bike lanes: FOI | CBC News
Information obtained through a freedom of information request and shared with CBC News shows how much money the province spent on external lawyer fees to fight a court challenge against a law to remov...
www.cbc.ca
January 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Imagine if they put that money towards health care or education instead. What a crazy idea!!
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"Your tastebuds are not deceiving you. Mangoes from independent grocers likely do taste better than those available at larger grocery chains."
We took a look indie grocers in the West End and how they measure up against the chain store giants.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/chai...
We took a look indie grocers in the West End and how they measure up against the chain store giants.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/chai...
Chain Reaction — West End Phoenix
These stories and infographics are part of a larger story from the October issue, focused on independent grocers and how they're working to level the playing field between themselves and the Loblaws o...
www.westendphoenix.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Your tastebuds are not deceiving you. Mangoes from independent grocers likely do taste better than those available at larger grocery chains."
We took a look indie grocers in the West End and how they measure up against the chain store giants.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/chai...
We took a look indie grocers in the West End and how they measure up against the chain store giants.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/chai...
I love everything about this post by @thelocal.to on the opening of the Finch West LRT - local reporting, talking to the people whose lives have been and are affected by this transit project, and their hopeful skepticism that just seems so Toronto thelocal.to/finch-west-l...
Can the Finch West LRT Keep Up With Its Promises? | The Local
After years of delay, Line 6 is now running across a historically isolated part of the city. At its launch, politicians posed, transit enthusiasts assembled, and some locals wondered if it was worth t...
thelocal.to
December 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I love everything about this post by @thelocal.to on the opening of the Finch West LRT - local reporting, talking to the people whose lives have been and are affected by this transit project, and their hopeful skepticism that just seems so Toronto thelocal.to/finch-west-l...
Lots of appreciation for shivani mehta bhatia's thoughts on conflict. Relevant to all of us (unless you live a life of solitude, in which case congrats). She brings much needed nuance to thinking about conflict because things are never as clear-cut as they seem shivanimehtabhatia.kit.com
intimate practice
I help justice-rooted leaders navigate rupture and build relational resilience.
shivanimehtabhatia.kit.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Lots of appreciation for shivani mehta bhatia's thoughts on conflict. Relevant to all of us (unless you live a life of solitude, in which case congrats). She brings much needed nuance to thinking about conflict because things are never as clear-cut as they seem shivanimehtabhatia.kit.com
*Sheds a little tear of happiness*
Wow. Huge news for the Bruce Trail & Beaver Valley. There were fears the old ski resort was to become a sprawl housing development.
BTC purchases former Talisman Mountain Resort lands | Bruce Trail Conservancy
The Bruce Trail Conservancy (BTC) is excited to announce the purchase of the former Talisman Mountain Resort lands in the Beaver Valley. This landmark
brucetrail.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
*Sheds a little tear of happiness*
Giving Tuesday reminder. If you can, give. I donated to The Zaynab Project: GAZA Relief chuffed.org/project/zayn...
The Zaynab Project: GAZA Relief
Our name is inspired by Zaynab bint Jahsh (RA) — wife of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, renowned for her extraordinary compassion and generosity.She was called the shelter for orphans, widows, and the needy....
chuffed.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Giving Tuesday reminder. If you can, give. I donated to The Zaynab Project: GAZA Relief chuffed.org/project/zayn...
Today’s conference cat has gotten much more up close and personal #cooperativeAI
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Today’s conference cat has gotten much more up close and personal #cooperativeAI
Second day, final session. @marcelovieta.bsky.social ‘s slide does a great job of capturing the complexity of AI #cooperativeAI
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Second day, final session. @marcelovieta.bsky.social ‘s slide does a great job of capturing the complexity of AI #cooperativeAI
On the topic of co-ops, if you're part of one, please fill in the survey we're running this month on cooperative AI options: survey.cooperativeblueprint.ai/776588?newte...
AI Use in Cooperatives and Social Purpose Organizations
survey.cooperativeblueprint.ai
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
On the topic of co-ops, if you're part of one, please fill in the survey we're running this month on cooperative AI options: survey.cooperativeblueprint.ai/776588?newte...
First day, final session of the #coopAI conference in Istanbul. @trebors2025.bsky.social sharing his thoughts on the Solidarity Stack. Looking forward to tomorrow (+ being less jet lagged!)
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
First day, final session of the #coopAI conference in Istanbul. @trebors2025.bsky.social sharing his thoughts on the Solidarity Stack. Looking forward to tomorrow (+ being less jet lagged!)