Notice that in January, AI only accounts for 7% of the 108,435 announced layoffs. For all of 2025, the share is only 4.5%. For comparison, DOGE actions accounted for 24.4% (293,753) of total layoffs in 2025.
https://econbrowser.com/archives/2026/02/announced-job-layoffs-attributed-to-ai
Young Love
This scene is from The Blue Bird, a very strange 1940 Shirley Temple movie.
It’s perhaps the best, and certainly the briefest, portrayal of a Romeo and Juliet romance on film. The ages are in keeping with Shakespeare’s play.
Taking T
Somebody in the Trump organization must have noticed something I pointed out last month:
The Trump phone, assuming it ever actually becomes available, will not sport a tall “T” on back of the case.
The executives also said that while the phone will retain its golden finish and the American flag on the back, the large T1 logo would be removed from the final phone.
https://www.androidauthority.com/trump-phone-first-look-specifications-3638938/
Cliff Note
WWII hero, former stunt double for Rick Dalton, and all-around bad boy Cliff Booth is coming back for more trouble!
He’s Mighty Sore
So sayeth the God of Thunder!
Kolchak’s First Night Shift
Ah, made for TV movies. They’d been around since the early days of television, but they became a regular thing in the Seventies. Especially the ABC Movie of the Week. Duel, directed by Steven Spielberg, is not only the best remembered, but the one that’s most worth watching today.
Some movies were, or became, pilots for a TV series. So it is with The Night Stalker, the first appearance of Darrin McGavin as Karl Kolchak, that aired two months after Duel.
Who doesn’t love a good vampire movie, especially with this star-studded supporting cast of excellent actors: Carol Lynley, Ralph Meeker, Kent Smith, Charles McGraw, and Elisa Cook, Jr. Claude Akins also appears, but he wasn’t an excellent actor.
Carol Lynley was also excellent in other ways. The times being what they were, a few years earlier she felt free to bare all in Playboy. That was the year she was in the Otto Preminger movie Bunny Lake is Missing.
