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
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“I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong—I have audio illusions.”
Happy Birthday Tom Waits! Thanks for all the inspiration and all the audio illusions ❤️📣
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Happy Birthday Tom Waits! Thanks for all the inspiration and all the audio illusions ❤️📣
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December 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
“I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong—I have audio illusions.”
Happy Birthday Tom Waits! Thanks for all the inspiration and all the audio illusions ❤️📣
#76today
Happy Birthday Tom Waits! Thanks for all the inspiration and all the audio illusions ❤️📣
#76today
People driving crazy on Skippack Pike tonight. Stay safe.
December 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
People driving crazy on Skippack Pike tonight. Stay safe.
Honestly, it makes more sense than Time Magazine or AOL owning Warners.
BREAKING: Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, home to Harry Potter and Superman franchises, for $72 billion.
Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion
Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to buy the legacy Hollywood giant’s studio and streaming business for $72 billion.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Honestly, it makes more sense than Time Magazine or AOL owning Warners.
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HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends
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The death of Lia Smith shook many in the trans community to their cores, while online it seemed like the top priority of non-trans people was to insist there's no proof that the 21-year-old's ban from her beloved swim team caused her suicide.
Re-sharing as it was one of our top stories this year.
Re-sharing as it was one of our top stories this year.
Transgender Student-Athlete Lia Smith Remembered as a Friend and Fierce Advocate — Assigned
Lia Smith, a 21-year-old trans student-athlete in Vermont, took her own life last week. Her friends, family and community mourn, and remember her as a bright young woman who spoke on behalf of her com...
www.assignedmedia.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The death of Lia Smith shook many in the trans community to their cores, while online it seemed like the top priority of non-trans people was to insist there's no proof that the 21-year-old's ban from her beloved swim team caused her suicide.
Re-sharing as it was one of our top stories this year.
Re-sharing as it was one of our top stories this year.
I hate to offer the "if you think you are safe, you are in danger" quote, but I'm getting the sense that a sizeable number schools are not financially healthy at the moment. And many are in denial about just how bad things are until it's too late.
Thinking of my New School friends whose programs have been closed (~30 of them), whose PhD programs have been indefinitely halted, and who are now receiving invitations to resign + accept severance payments — with the threat of 🪓 if not enough folks take the offer. A ✨-if-imperfect place ruined 😥
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I hate to offer the "if you think you are safe, you are in danger" quote, but I'm getting the sense that a sizeable number schools are not financially healthy at the moment. And many are in denial about just how bad things are until it's too late.
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Ms. Rachel is a kind & humane teacher whose offense is speaking up against killing children in Gaza. Cynthia Nixon has Jewish kids, and has never said or done one antisemitic thing.
This is not just gross & offensive – it trivializes real antisemitism. 🧵
This is not just gross & offensive – it trivializes real antisemitism. 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ms. Rachel is a kind & humane teacher whose offense is speaking up against killing children in Gaza. Cynthia Nixon has Jewish kids, and has never said or done one antisemitic thing.
This is not just gross & offensive – it trivializes real antisemitism. 🧵
This is not just gross & offensive – it trivializes real antisemitism. 🧵
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We have the early vote from 8 counties so far in #TN07, and the results are consistent with a big overperformance by Democrats... but as to how close the race will be, the major caveat is that the GOP tends to be stronger on Election Day votes.
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
We have the early vote from 8 counties so far in #TN07, and the results are consistent with a big overperformance by Democrats... but as to how close the race will be, the major caveat is that the GOP tends to be stronger on Election Day votes.
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
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Netflix’s new bid to buy Warner Bros is a mostly cash offer.
The company is arranging a mega-loan to be able to buy WB
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
The company is arranging a mega-loan to be able to buy WB
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
December 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Netflix’s new bid to buy Warner Bros is a mostly cash offer.
The company is arranging a mega-loan to be able to buy WB
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
The company is arranging a mega-loan to be able to buy WB
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
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Numbers are fun.
427 students at 8 charter schools is an average of 54 students per school.
$10.9 million divided by 8 charter schools is $1.362 million per school.
Or about $25.5k per student.
State schools are 9k per student.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
427 students at 8 charter schools is an average of 54 students per school.
$10.9 million divided by 8 charter schools is $1.362 million per school.
Or about $25.5k per student.
State schools are 9k per student.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Charter School Agency reveals enrolment numbers after telling schools to keep figures under wraps
The number of enrolments had been kept under wraps after the agency told the privately-run, state-funded schools not to reveal their numbers while still setting up.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Numbers are fun.
427 students at 8 charter schools is an average of 54 students per school.
$10.9 million divided by 8 charter schools is $1.362 million per school.
Or about $25.5k per student.
State schools are 9k per student.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
427 students at 8 charter schools is an average of 54 students per school.
$10.9 million divided by 8 charter schools is $1.362 million per school.
Or about $25.5k per student.
State schools are 9k per student.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
If you are a hat maker, then you should want people who wear hats to have lots of disposable income.
But in our "stupid capitalism" society, the hat makers want to keep their customers forever in debt.
But in our "stupid capitalism" society, the hat makers want to keep their customers forever in debt.
If you want people to spend more, pay them more.
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If you are a hat maker, then you should want people who wear hats to have lots of disposable income.
But in our "stupid capitalism" society, the hat makers want to keep their customers forever in debt.
But in our "stupid capitalism" society, the hat makers want to keep their customers forever in debt.
Most universities lack effective protocols for handling bullies and, thus, many will take the easy way out when facing them.
This same issue is also plaguing high schools.
This same issue is also plaguing high schools.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Most universities lack effective protocols for handling bullies and, thus, many will take the easy way out when facing them.
This same issue is also plaguing high schools.
This same issue is also plaguing high schools.
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Not sympathetic. They really finked out under phony ESG pressure from fossil fuel.
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Not sympathetic. They really finked out under phony ESG pressure from fossil fuel.
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lol I'd kill to see what Van Epps internals are like
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
lol I'd kill to see what Van Epps internals are like
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Then she screamed. There were no words in it, nor could there have been. Our greatest moments of triumph are always inarticulate.
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Then she screamed. There were no words in it, nor could there have been. Our greatest moments of triumph are always inarticulate.
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A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...
It's an objectively bad paper, and if Turning Point wants this to become their battle cry, by all means let them.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It's an objectively bad paper, and if Turning Point wants this to become their battle cry, by all means let them.
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I will say it’s good to see TPUSA is carrying on Charlie Kirk’s legacy by being an irredeemable piece of garbage.
November 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I will say it’s good to see TPUSA is carrying on Charlie Kirk’s legacy by being an irredeemable piece of garbage.
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Here’s the TPUSA version of events at OU.
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Here’s the TPUSA version of events at OU.
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
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Kodak congratulates Maya Deren and Alexander Hamid [sic] (MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON) for receiving an Honorable Mention in the Amateur Cinema League's "Ten Best" list for 1945. Alongside a film by the Boy Scouts of America, THE PATROL METHOD [a lost film?].
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Kodak congratulates Maya Deren and Alexander Hamid [sic] (MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON) for receiving an Honorable Mention in the Amateur Cinema League's "Ten Best" list for 1945. Alongside a film by the Boy Scouts of America, THE PATROL METHOD [a lost film?].
Anyone know of a good in depth article that chronicles all the controversies surrounding Kiarostami during the making and release of the film 10?
November 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Anyone know of a good in depth article that chronicles all the controversies surrounding Kiarostami during the making and release of the film 10?
Rereading 11/22/63 and now at the point where they are watching a boxing match broadcast to a movie theater for the first time. It might be one of the greatest scenes Stephen King ever wrote, mainly because it has no business being that suspenseful.
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Rereading 11/22/63 and now at the point where they are watching a boxing match broadcast to a movie theater for the first time. It might be one of the greatest scenes Stephen King ever wrote, mainly because it has no business being that suspenseful.
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Oh my god. She's 1000% right. This makes so much sense.
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Oh my god. She's 1000% right. This makes so much sense.
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)