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Alan Pringle
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Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives.

COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.

Cary and Asheville, NC.
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Alan Pringle @alanpringle.bsky.social · Nov 15
A quick #introduction:
* Enjoys #chocolate, #movies (especially 70s and 80s #horror), #PopCulture, and #technology
* Avoids mushrooms, real housewives, and most superhero movies
* Works at scriptorium.com, where I help companies streamline #content processes with more efficient #ContentOps
alanpringle.bsky.social
Always follow the money:

"One of the top priorities of new #NC House Speaker Destin Hall in 2025 was to add cryptocurrency to the state pension.

"#Crypto billionaires and companies have given massive amounts of money to help elect Republicans, and a few Democrats..."

www.wral.com/news/nccapit...
NC pension plan’s crypto bet is down $30 million. Why supporters remain confident
State legislators pushed for North Carolina’s pension plan to start investing in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies last year, over objections by many of the state employees who rely on the plan’s…
www.wral.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:30 AM
alanpringle.bsky.social
There isn't a pit of hell deep enough to hold all the moral rot in the US government.
February 11, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Reposted by Alan Pringle
bytevagabond.com
"Write clean code. You'll thank yourself later."

So I tested it. 70 startup codebases. 146 funding rounds.

Messy code + fast shipping = 60.6% funded.
Cleanest codebases = 44.4%.

Speed beat perfection - at least when capital was cheap.

Full analysis & data: bytevagabond.com/post/technic...
I Analyzed 70 Startups' Codebases — The Ones With More Technical Debt Raised More Money
An empirical study of 70 VC-backed companies reveals that technical debt doesn't slow startups down, and the 'move fast and break things' crowd was right all along — at least during the ZIRP era.
bytevagabond.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:32 AM
alanpringle.bsky.social
I can listen to the Basic Instinct score on a loop.

(It's far better than the movie deserved, really.)
dansheehan.memyon.org Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 2d
You know the saying that some actors have the ability to disappear into their roles?
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004) had the ability to disappear into his scores. Every film score he wrote was completely different than his last. And nearly all were brilliant.
#BOTD #filmsky #moviesky
A photo of composer Jerry Goldsmith leaning against a piano keyboard with one hand on a second electronic keyboard resting on top. He's smiling at the camera. Tags Filmsky moviesky MOVIES films botd happy birthday Hollywood legends music film scores
February 11, 2026 at 1:53 AM
alanpringle.bsky.social
"...#engineers, in turn, spent more time reviewing, correcting, and guiding #AI-generated or AI-assisted work produced by colleagues. These demands extended beyond formal #code review. Engineers increasingly found themselves coaching colleagues who were 'vibe-coding'..."

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they…
hbr.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
alanpringle.bsky.social
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No easy answers to address the MANY problems in the Tunnel Road area of #Asheville.

As the article mentions, the abandoned properties along that stretch are NOT making things better. Driving by the Mountaineer Inn, in particular, makes me angry.

avlwatchdog.org/opinion-weve...
Opinion: ‘We’ve got to be more dignified than this!’: Is Tunnel Road sliding into downright scuzziness these days? • Asheville Watchdog
In my mind, Tunnel Road in Asheville has always been an area teetering right on the edge of sketchiness, sometimes bordering on scuzz. That comes with a caveat, though: It’s also home to a thriving mi...
avlwatchdog.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 PM
alanpringle.bsky.social
"#Aldi has the lowest costs – and the lowest profit margins – of any #grocery retailer in the U.S. Aldi mainly operates relatively small stores, which means it has lower overhead and sells fewer products than many of its competitors."

(I LOVE Aldi!)

www.independent.co.uk/us/money/ald...
Aldi’s 50 new stores are being hailed as a ‘catalyst for disruption’
Nontraditional supermarkets, such as Walmart and Aldi, pose an existential threat to the traditional American supermarket
www.independent.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 1:44 PM
alanpringle.bsky.social
One of the comedy greats who never got her full due.*

* Yes, she had the misfortune of being on the later unfunny seasons of Designing Women, but I don't hold it against her.
February 7, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Reposted by Alan Pringle
ncrabbithole.com
Since you’re gonna hear it over and over on TV during the Olympics: Here’s how the thrice-knighted French film composer who created “Bugler’s Dream” (bum-bum-ba-dum-bum) ended up buried behind a church in rural Yadkin County, North Carolina: www.ncrabbithole.com/p/leo-arnaud...
Why the French film composer who created The Olympic Fanfare is buried in North Carolina
Leo Arnaud had a long career as a musician in Europe and Hollywood. A blind date led him to a simpler life.
www.ncrabbithole.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:39 PM
alanpringle.bsky.social
#SamRaimi is just gonna go Sam Raimi-ing, and I was totally there for it.

#SendHelp is a dark, goopy, suspenseful, and hilarious blast.

www.imdb.com/title/tt8036...
Send Help (2026) ⭐ 7.2 | Horror, Thriller
1h 53m | R
www.imdb.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:07 AM
alanpringle.bsky.social
I appreciate that #Mozilla will now give people the chance to turn off #AI features in #Firefox. Some of those features may be helpful to me; others not.

I REALLY dislike (hate?) how some #software providers force AI features onto their users.

www.siliconrepublic.com/business/moz...
New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.
www.siliconrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:11 PM
alanpringle.bsky.social
"But pushback against killing #EnergyStar came from a broad swath of stakeholders, including industries like real estate and construction, to which President Trump has longstanding ties."

#ClimateChange

www.npr.org/2026/02/03/n...
www.npr.org
February 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM
alanpringle.bsky.social
"What makes On This Day notable is that it was made by Darren Aronofsky’s studio Primordial Soup. What also makes it interesting is that it was created with #AI. The third thing that makes it interesting is that it is terrible."

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

#history
Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror
The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online series
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Reposted by Alan Pringle
timbuckleywx.bsky.social
North Carolina completely covered in snow after our major winter storm this weekend.
February 2, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Reposted by Alan Pringle
mangoultz.bsky.social
Top 2 TV Matriarch
February 1, 2026 at 11:07 AM
alanpringle.bsky.social
I saw Secret Mall Apartment in the theater a few months ago, and LOVED it. Now streaming on Netflix.

#movies #documentary

www.imdb.com/title/tt2122...
Secret Mall Apartment (2024) ⭐ 7.0 | Documentary
1h 32m | TV-MA
www.imdb.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:37 AM
alanpringle.bsky.social
Paid millions to collect other people's work for #AI "training."

Well, AI companies certainly know a thing or two about collecting other people's work, so...

buff.ly/6DOeUMh
The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site
Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was
mahadk.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:59 PM
alanpringle.bsky.social
John Carpenter's The Thing!
librarycongress.bsky.social Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 14d
Here’s the full list of the new class of #NatFilmRegistry inductees. To see the entire list of 925 films now on the registry, click here: www.loc.gov/programs/nat...
• The Tramp and the Dog (1896) • The Oath of the Sword (1914) • The Maid of McMillan (1916) • The Lady (1925) • Sparrows (1926) • Ten Nights in a Barroom (1926) • White Christmas (1954) • High Society (1956) • Brooklyn Bridge (1981) • Say Amen, Somebody (1982) • The Thing (1982) • The Big Chill (1983) • The Karate Kid (1984) • Glory (1989) • Philadelphia (1993) • Before Sunrise (1995) • Clueless (1995) • The Truman Show (1998) • Frida (2002) • The Hours (2002) • The Incredibles (2004) • The Wrecking Crew (2008) • Inception (2010) • The Loving Story (2011) • The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
January 29, 2026 at 1:36 PM
alanpringle.bsky.social
Attention political candidates: include this kind of messaging in your platform, and you have my vote.

#2026Elections #2026Midterms
cbarbermd.bsky.social Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 15d
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner:
“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will. We will find you. We will achieve justice.”💪
#BlueSky #PoliSky #LawSky #MedSky
January 28, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Alan Pringle
nickmiroff.bsky.social
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Reposted by Alan Pringle
coffeeandradar.bsky.social
mary poppins from mary poppins is holding an umbrella and saying `` so done '' .
ALT: mary poppins from mary poppins is holding an umbrella and saying `` so done '' .
media.tenor.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Reposted by Alan Pringle
mlobelart.bsky.social
Childe Hassam, "Late Afternoon, New York Winter," 1900, from collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/1202
Turn of the century urban scene with blowing snow
January 25, 2026 at 1:55 PM
alanpringle.bsky.social
April 1 is weeks away, people. This joke is too early!

#Crocs bets $150 clogs shaped like #Lego bricks will generate buzz - FashionNetwork USA

us.fashionnetwork.com/news/Crocs-b...
Crocs bets $150 clogs shaped like Lego bricks will generate buzz
Crocs Inc. has teamed up with the Danish toymaker in a multiyear agreement, starting with Lego-shaped clogs as it looks to connect with new consumers.
us.fashionnetwork.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:59 PM
alanpringle.bsky.social
FINALLY saw #Frankenstein, and it's stunning. This is a case where we DID need another telling of a well-known story.

#movies

m.imdb.com/title/tt1312...
Frankenstein (2025) ⭐ 7.5 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
2h 29m | R
m.imdb.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:59 AM
alanpringle.bsky.social
"Some of the items with the worst price hikes are repeat offenders: coffee, beef and chocolate. They, too, were affected by tariffs — such as beef and coffee coming from Brazil — but the main culprit was the weather."

#tarriffs #inflation #ClimateChange

www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart
We found the effects of tariffs and extreme weather, relief (finally!) in the egg cooler, plus one case of shrinkflation.
www.npr.org
January 17, 2026 at 1:51 PM