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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.

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

"The IEA advised countries to promote public transport, give private cars access to city centres on alternate days, encourage efficient driving habits, avoid air travel where possible and switch to electric cooking."
This is actually sound advice from Faith Birol. But it should be the norm in the face of ecological overshoot and climate collapse.
Meanwhile UK ministers are beginning to panic.
"Don't panic!" they cry, in tribute to corporal Jones.

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…

@… 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

@… I answered based on international travel, as that’s where I’ve done most of my flying. There it’s around 3 hours because I, like my mother, become a restless mess starting like 24 hours before I’m going anywhere.
I barely ever sleep the night before.
For US domestic, which have become more common for me lately, I’ve been purposefully trying to break the habi…

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.

Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-ice-jokes-employee-event-2…

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff joked about ICE at an event, and employees are up in arms
Salesforce employees took to Slack to express anger and disappointment in CEO Marc Benioff's comments.