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R. Trebor Scholz
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Prof at The New School | Founder, Platform Cooperativism Consortium + Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy | Author, OWN THIS! (2023) + UBER-WORKED & UNDERPAID (2016) | Faculty Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center | Advocate for Digital Labor Rights |
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A few years of work in this report. Worth the read! platform.coop/blog/new-pcc...
And here the reflections after the event platform.coop/blog/when-wo...
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Tired of the AI hype, backlash, and “AI for Good” events? Join us in Istanbul for Cooperative AI—4 days linking tech to real movements. 30+ countries, scholars, data labelers, union organizers, co-op leaders. Join the network reimagining AI beyond Big Tech. platform.coop/events/coope...
October 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Trump officials will limit intl. students to 4 years (median to finish PhD: 5.7 years). The justification? DHS claims to protect national security it hopes a threat files an extension after 4 years so USCIS reviews their application. @mclem.org @erikbryn.bsky.social
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students
Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.
www.forbes.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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What if the digital economy worked for communities, not corporations? A/Prof Trebor Scholz @trebors2025.bsky.social shares real-world alternatives from over 60 countries in this presentation. Listen now on the ADM+S Podcast bit.ly/4fBkbzT
#DigitalCoops #PlatformCooperativism #DigitalEconomy
August 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The syllabus of my online course 'AI Without Bosses'
ia601403.us.archive.org/14/items/pub...

Enrollment is now open to everyone (15 weeks, free with registration, starts on Aug 28th)
cpe.newschool.edu/search/publi...

Image credit: Clarote & AI4Media / Better Images of AI
August 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Join us Sept 11 for "Beyond Democracy Theater" w/ Dan McQuillan, Emily Tseng, Joan Kinyua, Anna Iovine, Dorleta Urrutia-Oñate, Linda Huber & Trebor Scholz—on worker power + AI alternatives.

Register newschool.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #coops #ai #platformcoops

Details:
platform.coop/blog/beyondd...
August 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Givit, Europe’s largest platform cooperative for delivery, grew 60% in 2024, reaching €9 million in revenue and 837 worker-owners. [article in Spanish]

www-eleconomista-es.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.elec...
July 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Great report by Mosa Tsay on Groupmuse

platform.coop/blog/icde-re...
July 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Next Tuesday at Columbia U
July 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A few years of work in this report. Worth the read! platform.coop/blog/new-pcc...
June 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Coming up:
Trebor Scholz — From Vibe to Viability: A Methodology for Building Transformative Alternatives in the Digital Economy

Friday 16 May
5:30pm – 7:00pm
RMIT Storey Hall
336 Swanston Street, Melbourne
May 6, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I’m excited to share the publication of my book Own This! —now not only in Italian, but also in Mandarin, and published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House.
June 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Less than a week left to submit an abstract for the conference 'Countervailing Platform Power', Florence, June 26-27.
March 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Here's an expert saying that "constitutional crisis" isn't the right term **because it doesn't go far enough.**

"The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
March 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Ramadan Mubarak from all of us at Signalise! 🌙
February 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Excited to speak at Rutgers’ Childhood Studies Center this morning
February 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Only two days left to apply.
The information session for our fellowship is starting in 1.5 hours
February 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
delivering a university lecture at Rutgers on Thursday. DM me if you want to join.
February 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Just spoke with South African truckers about their new unionized platform co-op—exciting stuff! They are unstoppable.
February 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The early ’90s in E Germany didn’t feel like the present moment, though there are parallels—twenty-year-olds shutting down factories they deemed unfit to survive. But for a faint moment then at least, it felt like the possibility of something better.
@nilsgilman.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“Sonne statt Reagan,
Sonne statt Regen,
Lasst die Sonne scheinen
In die Herzen hinein!”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ1_...
Joseph Beuys - Sonne statt Reagan 1982
YouTube video by fritz51238
www.youtube.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
“Brazil’s attorney general, Paulo Gonet Branco, indicted Mr. Bolsonaro and 33 other people for a series of crimes against Brazil’s democracy. “
February 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM