pickledredonions

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here's a link to the original essay on Doctorow's own site (no paywall): https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The creator has a webpage with more stuff, including a short video giving some history of freeway construction and advocating for an end to expansions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks amazing, thanks for posting. Do you have a dedicated deep fryer, or just use a dutch oven or something like that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure why the first image isn't loading. Still getting the hang of posting here. This is what's supposed to be there:

Godfather costumes

 

The exhibition "Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971" is incredible, and there's a big exhibit on The Godfather movies. Smaller but fascinating rooms on Casablanca and Boyz in the Hood. All the galleries change content occasionally, the big show on Black Cinema closes mid-July.

The Godfather office

old film posters

R2D2

Ursula maquette

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's going to take time to rebuild communities to the activity level we're used to. Lemmy's had lots of growth but it's still a tiny fraction of the size of what reddit was. Most people here are still getting their bearings on how to do basics like subscribe, let alone contribute.

I think making comments and having person-to-person engagement is the most critical at this stage. Comments and votes will rise posts up and onto the main page for visibility. That's how a lot of people will find things. A lot of the "active" conversations are dominated by technical Q&A and complaining/schadenfreude about reddit. If we can get on-topic threads going in communities, that will help diversify conversations and seed more discussions.

I'm working to get over my natural lurker inclination because Lemmy needs the human conversations that make threaded platforms useful and engaging.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you haven't found them already, here's two communities on maps: https://lemmy.world/c/mapporn https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Buy in El Monte, your ancestors will have waterfront land for the new port. https://brilliantmaps.com/los-angeles-under-water/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've found a few, but always looking for more:

https://lemmy.world/c/birding

Species specific: https://lemmy.world/c/cockatiel

Not exclusively birds, but many of them: https://lemmy.world/c/wildlifephotography

Glad to see this made the migration: https://lemmy.world/c/superbowl

 

If you haven't bought a fan or A/C unit and were planning to, this is probably your last chance before they sell out and become hard to come by.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Captured it really nicely! Any idea what species of bird?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never heard of this species before, very cool looking bird. Great photo!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Smaller dice on the tomatoes, perhaps. Flavor was good, but it's hard to go wrong with simple ingredients. I know some folks prefer sliced olives instead of, or in addition to, jalepenos, but I didn't have any on hand at the time.

 
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