Welcome back to another week in Rosieland.
🔥 It's been a tough week watching the LA fires, it's likely we all know of someone who may be impacted. In the community space Jenny lost her home, there is a fundraiser should you wish to support her rebuild her life.
🌈 On Rosieland this week:
The Third Space in Udaipur, India, is a community space that mixes old and new | Icon
The biggest takeaway from this building for us is that it is designed to age, adapt, change and grow according to the needs of the people. Third Space has been designed as a canvas, there is graffiti on the walls. There is a real sense of people owning the building in a way that most architects find incredibly hard. In this situation, we wanted to make sure the building was a canvas on which people could start making their own
The Walmart Effect | The Atlantic
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
Fully assessing the impact of an entity as dominant as Walmart, however, is a complicated task. The cost savings for consumers are simple to calculate but don’t capture the company’s total effect on a community. The arrival of a Walmart ripples through a local economy, causing consumers to change their shopping habits, workers to switch jobs, competitors to shift their strategies, and suppliers to alter their output.
Death Of A Forum: How The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Killing Communities | Mike Masnick
We’ve been warning for years that the UK’s Online Safety Act would be a disaster for the open internet. Its supporters accused us of exaggerating, or “shilling” for Big Tech. But as we’ve long argued, while tech giants like Facebook and Google might be able to shoulder the law’s immense regulatory burdens, smaller sites would crumble.
In 2024, using social media felt worse than ever
Will we look back on our lives and be thankful for the time we spent on social? Or would we have preferred to spend our time elsewhere? Maybe it's time we invested in creating better communities? I may be biased. 😅
Third Space? You Can't Handle a Third Space | Anna Pomplio
Well, this made me somewhat laugh, and nod.
Community: Papers We Love
🛠️ Tools
- Surf: The first browser for the open social web, from Flipboard.
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- Bonfire: The Open Source Toolkit for Network Societies
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