Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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what’s the farthest to each direction you’ve ever been?
N: Gullfoss, Iceland
S: Oban, Stewart Island (Rakiura), New Zealand
E: Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden
W: Yìngchéng, Xiàogǎn, Húběi, China
(excluding air travel, and a transfer at HEL)
The E-W thing is undetermined since I've flown over both oceans a bunch of times, but, N = Kiruna, S = Singapore.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
1/5 How did the U.S. government turn into one giant DMV? Read @annielowrey on the “time tax”—“a levy of paperwork, aggravation, and mental effort imposed on citizens in exchange for benefits that putatively exist to help them”: theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
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The ACA currently prohibits premium surcharges in the individual market for any health factor other than tobacco use. However, employer plans — which cover many more people — could use use financial carrots and sticks under wellness plans to encourage COVID vaccination.
The unvaccinated will have higher healthcare costs and drive up costs for everyone. Should they pay more for insurance? What about medicare?
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Almost all the swarming I’ve been seeing has overwhelmingly consisted of likely synthetic bot accounts (few followers, limited topics, etc). Who benefits from putting resources into spreading this type of public health disinfo? It should be understood as a natsec problem.
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This is alarming: CA's new COVID surge would have put many counties back into the most restrictive tier under our reopening blueprint.
It's time we do something uncomfortable: make vaccination mandatory—at schools, gyms, hospitals, workplaces, etc. Thread—mercurynews.com/2021/07/19/c…
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This @mattyglesias piece on vaccines is great. I especially agree with his emphasis on the (overdue) need for FDA approval. The lack of full approval has been a sticking point I’ve heard from open-minded people who have yet to get vaccinated. slowboring.com/p/vaccine-fda…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
We are still in a pandemic. Kids are still ineligible for vaccines. And we are still in the midst of a childcare crisis. Yet, employers are still somehow expecting a return to "normal."
A reminder and a thread: 1/
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This seems like it belongs in a stock photo collection for mobility-related articles...
(Taken Wednesday evening at the side of Palo Alto city hall.)
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TurboTax tried to cheat people into paying for free services – and now they’re getting out of the game. This is the moment for the IRS to create a return-free option and its own tax prep service. I’ve got a bill for that, but the IRS can do it right now. propublica.org/article/turbo…
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A reminder about who was lobbying to get IRS enforcement out of this package: the thugs who think the law doesn't apply to them washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Something I had to do in the devtools console yesterday:
/* temp0 was the result of choosing "Use in Console" on a <input> in a datepicker's month header */
let i = /* number of months since I was born*/
function f() { temp0. click(); while (--i != 0) setTimeout(f, 0) }
f()
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I am old enough to remember when childhood diseases - now controlled by vaccines - terrorized families, wreaking pain and heartbreak. This is lunacy. tennessean.com/story/news/he…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
A piece I've been working on for months is out today in @TheAtlantic, and I hope you'll read it.
It's about EMS clinicians and the many ways they're undervalued—despite our deep, deep need for them during the pandemic and as the climate crisis progresses.
theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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Black families who've passed down land since a generation after slavery are now losing it to worsening natural disasters.
The government won't help them rebuild unless they can produce a formal deed. But deeds were hard to come by in the Jim Crow South. washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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DEATH VALLEY UPDATE 🌡️
High temp at Death Valley today = 130F.
⚠️ If this says anything about how hot SAT-SUN will be, HEED THESE WARNINGS. Do not put yourself, nor first responders in danger this weekend!
This observed high temp is considered preliminary & not yet validated.
Here's a look at the latest forecast high-temperature probabilities for @DeathValleyNPS! Death Valley likely won’t be reaching its world record temperature of 134°F this weekend, but has about a 1 in 4 chance of reaching 130°F both Saturday and Sunday.
#CAwx
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Eventually the public health people are going to have to stop tweeting vague stuff like this and start tweeting about mandatory shots
A lot of talk today about whether the 159 million fully vaccinated folks need a third shot
You know what would really help?
Ensuring the 25M who have 1 shot get their 2nd
And
Ensuring the 100M eligible who have zero shots get their first
That would help keep everyone safe
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The rush of opinions at the end of the term can make it look as if today's Supreme Court is relatively even-handed: a few hard-right victories, a few compromises, a few flips—all in all, a "surprising" term.
This is an illusion. Don't fall for it.
slate.com/news-and-politics/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
While the questions raised by broad participation in networked society are thorny and complex, one question actually has a very simple and factual answer: "How should we connect our homes to the internet?" The answer: "Fiber."
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
LA's draft housing element just dropped. It's an exemplar, a huge deal not only for LA but for cities across California.
LA is the first city to realistically assess development potential under current zoning, and the results are stunning. 1/18
planning.lacity.org/plans-po…
City Planning and @HCIDLA have just released a draft plan titled “The Plan to House LA” that aims to accommodate nearly 500,000 housing units over the next eight years, with over 200,000 of those units reserved for lower-income residents.
Read more at bit.ly/3dzEWgs
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