iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The internet is getting worse. Here's a new example of predatory UX design by Shopify where they trap both the seller and buyer. More evidence for @corydoctrow Cory Doctorow’s @eff.org enshittification theory. We can do better.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

VistaVision camera used in One Battle After Another #cinematography #film

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It's the deportation quota that likely leads to the most injustices. People reduced to numbers. This is what Zygmunt Bauman was getting at when he explained how it was the accountants that sent people to concentration camps.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Every university should develop their own comma

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Filmmaking is always experimental and always collaborative. One person can't hold all the craft in their head, the wisdom is distributed out within the team. A director is only as good as their team–the talent, the DP, the composer, the editor etc.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

“We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.” - Simone Weil

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Found my Bolex H16. From the Altadena fires. #altadena #bolex

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Social media: hey brain, why be bored when you can be scrambled?

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Seeing your tragedy become content is wild

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Good news this week: there's a company out of Texas that has given a bunch of gently used and brand new furniture to victims of the LA fires. Look at that: Texas showing love to California. There's still people doing good things out there. #goodnews

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Yes I've worked hard, but my means of survival has also been a gift. A mentor teaching me how dream big, a friend recommending me to a job, a boss trusting me with a big project, a hundred friends and strangers donating to help us rebuild after the fires burned down our home. It's all been gifts.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I’m glad Airbnb is providing free emergency housing, but what would help LA more would be for owners to remove their rentals from Airbnb and put them on the conventional rental market to make more long-term housing available for displaced families. Please consider 🙏🏻

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NPR @npr.org · 14/01/2025

Black families settled in the Altadena during the Great Migration starting in the 1930s. The community formed in parts of Altadena exempt from redlining policies, where they have owned homes for generations. via @kcrw.com

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Altadena’s historic Black community is determined to rebuild

The Eaton Fire has devastated communities throughout Altadena, including many Black homeowners who have been there for generations.

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Eli Evans @elievans.art · 10/01/2025

@fredsprinkle.bsky.social is an indie filmmaker, documentarian, and all-around great guy I've worked with on several projects. He and his family just lost everything in the Altadena fire. Anything helps. Please repost. www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-s...

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Donate to Help the Sprinkles Rebuild from the Altadena Fire, organized by Aaron Nee

Our friends the Sprinkles lost everything in the Altadena fire. We are rea… Aaron Nee needs your support for Help the Sprinkles Rebuild from the Altadena Fire

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

We're all going to need to borrow a little Run Lola Run (1998) energy to make it through 2025.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Here’s six philosophers and thinkers we need right now. Refreshing voices who critique our market-centric and performance-oriented society. Zygmunt Bauman Simone Weil Byung Chul Han Walter Benjamin Erich Fromm Hannah Arendt

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NPR @npr.org · 04/01/2025

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

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A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Conventional Doctor *ignores everything you tell them in your 3 minutes with them* “Here’s some highly addictive opiates to ruin your life” Alternative Doctor *listens intently for 45 mins* “Sounds like cancer, have you tried eating more garlic?*

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Jon Strong @jonstronglives.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The internet was at its coolest when it was living side-by-side with the real world. The internet started sucking when it began killing the real world.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Robert Eggers and team know how to make a real movie.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

beast mode sorry

a tweet from jeb ralston saying: “robert eggers on doing creative work in a secular age”

"This sounds super uber-precious, but I think it's hard to do this kind of creative work in a modern secular society because it becomes all about your ego and yourself," Eggers said. "And I am envious — this is the horrible part - I'm envious of medieval craftsmen who are doing the work for God. And that becomes a way to ... you get to be creative to celebrate something else.
And also, you're censoring yourself because it's not about like me, me, me, me, me, me. So you say, 'Oh, I got to rein that back because that's not what this altar piece needs to be. Any worldview where everything around them is full of meaning is exciting to me, because we live in such a tiresome, lame, commercial culture now."

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

George Bailey for Secretary of HUD

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Music makes movies come to life, but it’s a hard process. I’ve started envisioning the score for our short film and it means I have to start making decisions about the precise tone and vibe I think each scene should have. I can no longer keep “my options open”. It’s time to marry some music. 💍

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

A “perfect” person ends up being one who can consciously forgive and include imperfection rather than one who thinks he or she is totally above and beyond imperfection.~Richard Rohr

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Elf looks better than most movies made in the last decade.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This sums up social media well.

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elicia @elicia.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Bringing it to 🦋 by request: People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Thoughts and prayers appreciated during this difficult time. The temperature has dropped below 60 and I’m struggling.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

me at 11 after watching my first veggietales

a tweet fro Timothee Chalamet: "Floored. I am so grateful. Thank you Bob"

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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🚨🚨 Watch out for ILLEGAL bends 🚨🚨 #aftereffects #criminals #fbi #motioncrime #motiondesign

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

Well this is grim

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Fuck I think we totally forgot that part in Dune Pt. 2 about not falling for charismatic violent folk heroes fueled by vengeance who look like Timothee Chalamet in a hoodie

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

not only does murdoch own bible gateway, he uses your bible reading habits to determine your "preferences, opinions and emotions” and sells that info to whoever he wants.

Prayer apps aren't unique in this, even among Christian websites. For example, Rupert Murdoch's Bible Gateway uses an ad targeting system called NewsIQ which captures the "preferences, opinions and emotions" of users.

In other words, the system will at least partly use the Bible verses you're reading on its app to help third parties determine what sort of advertisements might get your precious clicks.

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Avishai ✡️ Weinberger @avishaiw.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

idk what it says about this website that I'm actually kind of nervous to go on the record here with my less-than-rosy feelings about murder

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

People on this website excited about a dude’s murder. Wild how fast people paint the perpetrator as heroic. I get it, it feels good imagining that he was sticking it to the man, eating the rich, but murder is not the path.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Locked in tickets for the Christmas Eve 🌲 showing of “Its a Wonderful Life” with the fam @vidiots.bsky.social #filmsky

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are Muppets What About Bob Richard Dreyfuss

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I can handle right-wing trolls but I can’t handle people saying movies should be made at 60fps.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The kids and I have been playing Minecraft Dungeons on the switch a bunch. Super fun. I can almost keep up with them. What are other good collaborative games where you don’t have a split-screen?

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

So proud of my amigo @tclairsmith.bsky.social for getting our script on The Stunt List 🎥

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I’m convinced this has a lot to do with shooting on film and the whole workflow needed to accomplish it—more planning, more rehearsal, more preparation with generations of skilled technicians. Also film is just gorgeous out of the can compared to the overly clinical look of some (Red) cameras.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Do writer/directors ever rewrite their scripts after editing to reflect the finished film? Some scripts (of produced films) I’ve read seem so close to the film it’s hard to believe the edit didn’t change things more.

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’ve accidentally bought nothing today. Where do I get my prize?

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Future generations will see us as reckless barbarians for moving around at will in coffins of metal at 75 mph. It will be viewed as an inhumane practice like bloodletting or burning at the stake. So enjoy it while it lasts. 🚗💯

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Wild Robot one of the most radical films of the year. It is drawing from the same mythological well as Malick’s The Tree of Life—an ancient prophetic vision of the lion lying down with the lamb. 1/2

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

“The readiness to act against one’s own better judgment, and against the voice of one’s conscience, is not just the function of authoritative command, but the result of exposure to a single-minded, unequivocal and monopolistic source of authority” - Z. Bauman

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Fred Sprinkle @fredsprinkle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

In the early 2010s design luminaries taught us (then) young minds that “problem solving” is the heart of design. They made it sound so meaningful, almost sacred. Looking back it all feels so empty, so implicit with the demands of the economy and not human flourishing.

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