dancaroselli.bsky.social
Public Servant @ City of L.A. | LA stuff | architecture appreciator | maps/charts/tables when I have the time
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The cult of “Justifiable Homicide.”
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Yup you were right — just checked on Zillow and 1345 for the top floor. So yeah this building is a little bigger than I was thinking.
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Maybe i’m not getting the size right. What sq footage are these buildings or units?
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I would have expected this is one or two units
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Hass Avocado!
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He probably thought it was a shirt for the band Ween?
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Thanks! I found this and tried to send her a little $ but needed the phone number to verify…
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Looks like nanas_foods1
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I can’t quite make it out
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Did you take a photo of her Venmo?
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Also, before I opened the images I thought this was Immanuel Presbyterian here in LA.
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That tower is really cool
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Only way
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Fascinating! Just looked it up and it’s from 1924 — very late for Prairie/Sullivanesque.
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F triangle
M circle
K square
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Also, do you know of a way to combine all uses of structures together into one metric? I’ve long dreamed of a nationwide assessors data standard to maybe make this possible (via sq footage)
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To clarify I just meant they have similarities in the original street grid / lot sizes etc. Obviously a lot of different trajectories in this cohort since they were laid out / subdivided.
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Yeah I think people get tripped up thinking there are only two styles of urban development in this country: “northeast” and “sunbelt.” LA is a Western city like Seattle, Denver, etc.
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But yeah I think you’re spot on. AI is just a continuation of a trend started with social media of saturating society with opportunities for exploitation.
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I guess I always thought this is what AI doomers were (fearing that AI is going to corrupt every facet of our society like an exploitation virus). But I guess there are real skynet-type doomers out there?
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I love when the old building signage is still there.
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Ha. Eh I’m sure I’ll find it anyway
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Where is this?
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As I see it, this next-gen AI video is like the atomic bomb. Nothing good can come of it. The narrative succession of how it rolls out to the public will determine how much damage it can do (for an extended period, IMO, just based on how public narratives form and persist). 4/4
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But if an undetectable deepfake of Trump comes first, then the R’s will be forced to say “you can’t trust video anymore,” at least short term. This is an exponentially better outcome, even if the R’s will start talking out both sides of their mouths once a Dem-compromising one comes out. 3/4
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If a convincing undetectable deepfake of Biden or whomever comes out first, we’re screwed for a long time during which Dems will be playing ongoing defense against all imaginable accusations. Any successive deepfake vids compromising to R’s will be labeled “pathetic attempts by D’s to distract.” 2/4
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(I should be clear here I’m talking about the 1920s beaux arts revival)
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So cool. I love that pre-beaux arts-mania period when people were trying out more eclectic design languages for ornamentation. I’m not sure what I’m seeing here and I love it!
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I would, in fact, buy that for a dollar
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We haven’t even reckoned with *Facebook*
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It really is maddening to me that even after *two* fake news elections that brought us to the brink of/early stages of fascism, we still look to things like inflation when it is *so obvious* that in the future the common explanation for this period will be rough technology transition.
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Eggs? What are you, old or something? It’s all about tacos now.
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Thank you! Makes sense!
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What are these from? I love stuff like this
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It really is quite incredible how the Canadians didn’t just like, you know, tear everything down and replace it with empty lots, on-ramps, and gas stations
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Kinda feels like Better Denver
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*streetviews Ottawa for first time ever* by god, you’re right
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I still refuse to see this movie or the sequel
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It really feels like we’re coming to the culmination of the whole thing that started with Google and Gmail. All of the investment over decades predicated on a hypothetical “pounce” onto full control of people. And now some at least appear to be ready to strike.
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Yep. The Dems have wound up in a position where they are the lone champions of competence as a basic virtue. It’s like what happens when an actual popular kid runs for student body in High School. The whole farce of anyone actually caring about whatever it used to be about goes out the window.
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I just watched a fascinating visionary tv program called “The Jetsons”