Eric Shmeric
@ericdienstfrey.bsky.social
Film/Media/Comm/Sound @ UC & UA
MAKING STEREO FIT
www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/
Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Sondheim, Philip Roth, Dark Tower, Twin Peaks, Pale Fire, and Taylor Swift.
"The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
MAKING STEREO FIT
www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/
Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Sondheim, Philip Roth, Dark Tower, Twin Peaks, Pale Fire, and Taylor Swift.
"The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
Pinned
Today, for the two-year anniversary of MAKING STEREO FIT’s release, I’m going to share something cool about it. And that’s this HELL’S ANGELS (1930) finding.
Drop-out rates increase as schools lower the bar for admission. And if too many drop-outs took out loans, your school's credit rating will likely take a hit, which means they'll need to lower the bar again. It's a death spiral, and based on headlines this seems to be happening everywhere.
Are "subprime student loans" a thing?
I ask because a number of colleges/universities have been lowering the bar for acceptance in order to solve the "demographic cliff" (decline in babies born 17-20 yrs ago).
And I'm guessing these students are getting loans but dropping out before graduating.
I ask because a number of colleges/universities have been lowering the bar for acceptance in order to solve the "demographic cliff" (decline in babies born 17-20 yrs ago).
And I'm guessing these students are getting loans but dropping out before graduating.
February 10, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Drop-out rates increase as schools lower the bar for admission. And if too many drop-outs took out loans, your school's credit rating will likely take a hit, which means they'll need to lower the bar again. It's a death spiral, and based on headlines this seems to be happening everywhere.
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Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein
Are "subprime student loans" a thing?
I ask because a number of colleges/universities have been lowering the bar for acceptance in order to solve the "demographic cliff" (decline in babies born 17-20 yrs ago).
And I'm guessing these students are getting loans but dropping out before graduating.
I ask because a number of colleges/universities have been lowering the bar for acceptance in order to solve the "demographic cliff" (decline in babies born 17-20 yrs ago).
And I'm guessing these students are getting loans but dropping out before graduating.
February 10, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Are "subprime student loans" a thing?
I ask because a number of colleges/universities have been lowering the bar for acceptance in order to solve the "demographic cliff" (decline in babies born 17-20 yrs ago).
And I'm guessing these students are getting loans but dropping out before graduating.
I ask because a number of colleges/universities have been lowering the bar for acceptance in order to solve the "demographic cliff" (decline in babies born 17-20 yrs ago).
And I'm guessing these students are getting loans but dropping out before graduating.
Damn.
HUMBOLT'S GIFT is the real deal.
Light years ahead of AUGIE MARCH and even better than HERZOG and MR SAMMLER.
A sampling. (Roth steals so much from Bellow, God love him.)
HUMBOLT'S GIFT is the real deal.
Light years ahead of AUGIE MARCH and even better than HERZOG and MR SAMMLER.
A sampling. (Roth steals so much from Bellow, God love him.)
February 10, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Damn.
HUMBOLT'S GIFT is the real deal.
Light years ahead of AUGIE MARCH and even better than HERZOG and MR SAMMLER.
A sampling. (Roth steals so much from Bellow, God love him.)
HUMBOLT'S GIFT is the real deal.
Light years ahead of AUGIE MARCH and even better than HERZOG and MR SAMMLER.
A sampling. (Roth steals so much from Bellow, God love him.)
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NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
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What.
The US cover to the new Stephen King & Peter Straub TALISMAN novel.
February 9, 2026 at 5:23 AM
What.
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so they don't like pancakes????
February 9, 2026 at 3:54 AM
so they don't like pancakes????
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This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values
February 9, 2026 at 3:10 AM
This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values
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It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
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time to remind everybody that the Super Bowl halftime show only exists in this grandiose fashion because a tv show called "In Living Color" stole the ratings from the NFL; the execs notoriously said, "get me Michael Jackson's agent" and thus began all the pomp
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘We stole the Super Bowl audience’: how In Living Color pulled off the greatest heist in US TV history
Turning Point USA is plotting its own half-time broadcast in defiance of Bad Bunny – but one of TV’s Blackest shows already perfected the alt-cast in 1992
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
time to remind everybody that the Super Bowl halftime show only exists in this grandiose fashion because a tv show called "In Living Color" stole the ratings from the NFL; the execs notoriously said, "get me Michael Jackson's agent" and thus began all the pomp
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Genuinely gives me a lot of hope that the NFL is a cynical, cash-motivated organization and they're betting on this being the future
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Genuinely gives me a lot of hope that the NFL is a cynical, cash-motivated organization and they're betting on this being the future
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I honestly thought we’d never see it.
And did not expect to be so emotional seeing Straub’s name on a new book.
And did not expect to be so emotional seeing Straub’s name on a new book.
The US cover to the new Stephen King & Peter Straub TALISMAN novel.
February 8, 2026 at 10:10 PM
I honestly thought we’d never see it.
And did not expect to be so emotional seeing Straub’s name on a new book.
And did not expect to be so emotional seeing Straub’s name on a new book.
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I am ON MY KNEES. So incredibly happy about this!!
Time is a face on the water.
Time is a face on the water.
The US cover to the new Stephen King & Peter Straub TALISMAN novel.
February 8, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I am ON MY KNEES. So incredibly happy about this!!
Time is a face on the water.
Time is a face on the water.
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"It's OK to Be White" has been a slogan for literal Nazis for some time now, if you want to know where the Republican Party is at the moment
February 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
"It's OK to Be White" has been a slogan for literal Nazis for some time now, if you want to know where the Republican Party is at the moment
Quick question. Is the Super bowl tonight or next week?
February 8, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Quick question. Is the Super bowl tonight or next week?
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Michelle Obama tried to get schoolkids to eat more vegetables and the right wing treated it like Maoist indoctrination.
Can someone remind me if I’m supposed to be angry about the woke scolds running the government, or if I’m supposed to pump my fist and say “Fuck yeah, eating salami, meatballs and chili to own the libs!!!”
February 8, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Michelle Obama tried to get schoolkids to eat more vegetables and the right wing treated it like Maoist indoctrination.
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oh shit????????!!!!!
The US cover to the new Stephen King & Peter Straub TALISMAN novel.
February 8, 2026 at 7:04 PM
oh shit????????!!!!!
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The US cover to the new Stephen King & Peter Straub TALISMAN novel.
February 8, 2026 at 2:12 PM
The US cover to the new Stephen King & Peter Straub TALISMAN novel.
INVISIBLE CITIES is amazing.
Kublai Khan: Marco, tell me about a city I've conquered.
Polo: Lucia is a city beneath the seas inhabited by the young ancestors if giant herdsmen. Inside, no one moves, and the marble floors reflect only the tears of trees. It's main export is the taste of red.
Kublai Khan: Marco, tell me about a city I've conquered.
Polo: Lucia is a city beneath the seas inhabited by the young ancestors if giant herdsmen. Inside, no one moves, and the marble floors reflect only the tears of trees. It's main export is the taste of red.
February 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
INVISIBLE CITIES is amazing.
Kublai Khan: Marco, tell me about a city I've conquered.
Polo: Lucia is a city beneath the seas inhabited by the young ancestors if giant herdsmen. Inside, no one moves, and the marble floors reflect only the tears of trees. It's main export is the taste of red.
Kublai Khan: Marco, tell me about a city I've conquered.
Polo: Lucia is a city beneath the seas inhabited by the young ancestors if giant herdsmen. Inside, no one moves, and the marble floors reflect only the tears of trees. It's main export is the taste of red.
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RESULT: Democrat Chasity Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana, 62% to 38%.
This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.
This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.
February 8, 2026 at 3:14 AM
RESULT: Democrat Chasity Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana, 62% to 38%.
This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.
This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.
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OH SHIT
News about the forthcoming final chapter in the Stephen King / Peter Straub TALISMAN trilogy. Its said to be released Oct 2026 with the familiar Dark Tower phrase "Other Worlds Than These" as the title.
Not sure if it's real, but posting anyway in case someone has more info.
Not sure if it's real, but posting anyway in case someone has more info.
February 8, 2026 at 3:22 AM
OH SHIT
The opening scene in The Dark Knight. He was the Joker opening the safe.
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
February 8, 2026 at 1:11 AM
The opening scene in The Dark Knight. He was the Joker opening the safe.