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For WWBC this week, I tackled a fun question with a slightly paranoid answer: I’m glad time travel isn’t real.
Between timeline paradoxes, unintended world wars, and the possibility of dragging forgotten diseases across centuries… maybe fiction is safer.
#WWBC

Back to Now: My Case Against Time Travel – Bob Mueller
For WWBC, I explain why time travel is one fictional idea I’m glad isn’t real—paradoxes, pandemics, and all.

The answers to this question are, for D4, relative to expectations, refreshingly reasonable. I'm glad even the candidates with a track record of being quite car-brained (lookin' at you Albert Chow) at least feel the need to talk about balance and aren't all, "Yes, there is a war on cars, bicycles are ruining everything and only white people ride them" or something.

Meet the District 4 candidates: Is there a ‘war on cars’ in San Francisco?
In the Sunset and Parkside, over 88 percent of households own at least one car. Should travel by car be prioritized here in urban planning?

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee
have sent a letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel
demanding answers regarding a recent article in The Atlantic
that alleges he regularly engages in excessive partying, drinking, and travel
at the expense of taxpayers.
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Democrats Demand Answers From Patel Over Drinking Allegations, Security Risks
The lawmakers cited an Atlantic article, as well as Patel chugging beers at the Olympics, to justify their demands.

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer is leaving the company, as the data center developer faces issues in securing an anchor tenant and construction delays (Amy Harder/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/19/ai-data-center-project-troubles-texas

Trump-branded AI data center megaproject stalls, CEO departs
Fermi America is emerging as a high-profile test of ambitious AI data center projects.

“The Hospital at the End of the World”, by Justin C. Key.
#AI #SciFi #bookstodon

This week’s #WWBC prompt: What fictional thing do I wish were real?
My answer is time travel—but only to observe, not interfere. History, family mysteries, ancient burials, WWII… and the very real safety risks.
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Back to Then: My Case for Time Travel – Bob Mueller
A WWBC post on time travel: visiting history without changing it—and the safety risks and paradoxes that could unravel everything.

@… I think dB volume is only one part of the equation, most of the whistles I’ve tested max out at about ~120 dB with a heavy blow. A good estimate for a speaking voice is ~60 dB. The frequency of a whistle plays a part in how far the sound carries too. The triple tone whistle has three different pitches, so it’s a more full sound. Happy to answer questions

Putin finally admits Russia’s economy is in trouble and grasps for answers, after warnings about a financial crisis have been piling up
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/putin-finally-admits-russia-economy-215355032.html

If the first answer to any problem on a Linux system is "oh just update all the packages again" that is evidence of a broken and fragile package management system.
My experience (at home) with Manjaro so far has been absolutely terrible compared to my experience (at work) with CentOS and Rocky Linux.
With Manjaro, working packages regularly break after updates or new installs. It's clearly not managing dependencies properly. And I've had other weird problems o…