The “996” schedule (9 am to 9 pm, six days a week) is creeping into Silicon Valley culture under the guise of hustle. While startups promise massive equity payouts, the reality is often a recipe for severe burnout, health issues, and empty pockets. Even China has outlawed this practice, so why are we normalizing it?

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Amateur radio saves lives in disasters, but HOAs often block the antennas needed for practice. H.R. 1094 and S. 459 fix that with reasonable accommodations, balancing safety and emergency prep. Hams and neighbors: act now at send-a-letter.org/hoa/.

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Michael Burry doesn’t do interviews. The hedge fund manager who famously predicted the 2008 housing crisis has spent most of the past two decades avoiding the media spotlight. So when he sat down with Michael Lewis for a rare conversation and revealed he’s shorting AI companies like NVIDIA and Palantir, people listened. His reasoning cuts through the hype: AI infrastructure spending massively exceeds actual revenues. For someone like me, an AI evangelist who genuinely believes we’re watching something transformative unfold, Burry’s position should feel like an attack. It doesn’t. It feels necessary. Here’s why his skepticism matters, even if you’re bullish on AI.

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If you’ve used Claude for more than a few hours, you’ve probably hit a wall. Your conversation suddenly slows down. Claude politely tells you it’s approaching some kind of limit. You have to start a new chat. And just like that, Claude forgets everything you’ve been working on. Most people assume Claude’s memory is broken. It’s not. It’s actually by design.

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Chinese state-sponsored hackers just weaponized Claude to attack 30 organizations. Most of the breaches failed. That’s actually the scariest part. Anthropic’s disclosure about the autonomous cyberattack campaign isn’t a wake-up call. It’s confirmation of something we’ve been avoiding saying out loud: we’re already in an AI cold war. And the acceleration is just beginning.

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We’re having the wrong debate about AI regulation. The fight between Washington and the states is political theater distracting from the actual problem: regulation can never keep pace with AI development. But here’s what people miss: the real reason we need federal standards isn’t because the federal government will regulate better. It’s because AI doesn’t respect state lines.

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