Good overview by Bloomberg how the Pandemic and the actors/writers strike help tank Hollywood. Ironically, the Spritzler Report's content is fresh, offensive and misleading...ergo a magnet for eyeballs. We're beating away offers and printing money. However, underneath it all I'm the same humble savant that quietly crushes it 24/7/365. Your fricken welcome.

As you may have noticed, I frequently use Claude to provide additional context to stories I'm sharing, pull down additional facts and produce charts/graphs. I routinely use other Chatbots include ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok. My fav however remains Claude and that's why spend the extra $$ for the pro version. This explains some of the heavy lifting Claude can do, even if you don't need all the horsepower it provides.

Who cares about Buddhism. The real elephant in the room is the data differentiating Muslim and Christians. The average Christian is 31 versus 24 for a Muslim. The latter is a younger population that's having babies at a greater rate and is poised to outgrow the Baby Jesus. Sorry, I decided to give the bronze to the "Tribe". Why is Buddhism shrinking worldwide? By Yunping Tong, Dalia Fahmy and Conrad Hackett, Pew Research Buddhists are the world’s only major religious group

WTF! Voldemort is cutting our federal workforce. What are all those people going to do. Work elsewhere? Federal workforce shrank 10% in Trump’s first year back in office By Drew DeSilver, PEW Research March 13, 2026 The federal workforce shrank by 10.3% in 2025, or a net of nearly 238,000 workers, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of recently published government data. A total of 348,219 people quit, retired, were laid off or otherwise left federal employment las

How AI is reshaping drug discovery By Peter Sullivan, Axios News Mar 14, 2026 Illustration of a robot hand holding up a beaker to the light with a glowing liquid inside. Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Artificial intelligence is changing how drugs are developed — though the days of AI-designed treatments for the masses are still probably years off. Why it matters: AI has driven a surge of research and development by identifying disease targets, improving clinical trials and c