potemkin

The result is a world of Potemkin software which appears to be enormously useful, even revolutionary.

Your recollection of the history of feminism is pure fantasy, a Potemkin village constructed solely to assuage yourself apparently.

Sort of it makes me think of a potemkin village except it is not.

How about making the paying Amtrak experience nice instead of making a Potemkin ride?

Pretty sure that the baby carriage is a reference to Battleship Potemkin [1].

The people showing up to these Potemkin companies don't get paid.

Show trials; pointless dig-and-fill exercises; five year plans; Potemkin villages; lunatic dictates from unaccountable leaders; and shadow economies.

For the most part they are a true Potemkin village.

There's a lot of Potemkin posturing going around.

I am sure you have heard the term Potemkin village.

Instead, these algorithms have built a Potemkin village that works well on naturally occuring data, but is exposed as a fake when one visits points in space that do not have high probability in the data distribution.

The preceding paragraphs before that line all attack the press concept of the Chinese ghost city though, so in the context of that line, ghost city is meaning 'normal city still under construction' rather than 'giant Potemkin village never to be filled'.

I also didn't get the "Potemkin" reference.

She also compared the experience to the Truman Show and interpreted even relatively innocuous things like a computer lab full of rather robotic "students" as an "e-Potemkin village".

This is generally focused on valuing the company and may be a long, protracted, affair or a cursory,"these are not the droids you're looking for," check for any crazy liabilities or Potemkin villages.

The commuters around us immediately pulled out flashlights, which they presumably carry all the time.” and “The Kim Il Sung University e-Library, or as I like to call it, the e-Potemkin Village [...] No one was actually doing anything.” and “Did our handlers honestly think we bought it?

I think the baby carriage is an homage to the Odessa Steps scene of Battleship Potemkin.

> The necessary equipment is usually installed on the upper floors of the embassy buildings or on rooftops where the technology is covered with screens or Potemkin-like structures that protect it from prying eyes.

The Crimea doesn't really tell us much on that as it is where the Black Sea fleet has been kept since Potemkin's time, and so can be argued as a defensive as much as an offensive move.