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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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
If you want to oppose policies for being regressive, then you should be calling for our many regressive tax expenditures to end or be made less regressive. These include 529 plans, 401(k) and IRA accounts, FSAs, HSAs, and the mortgage interest deduction.
Policy initiatives billed as benefiting the middle class that largely cut taxes for the wealthy:
HSAs
FSAs
529s
mortgage interest deduction
401(k)s and IRAs, especially (but not only) Roths
I benefit from many of these, and believe they should all be abolished or transformed.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I spent most of my summer researching our Long Covid response—I plan more pieces, an essay can only fit so much—and I cannot really find words to express how much I despaired on behalf of the many patients I talked with.
It's just not okay to abandon so many people like this.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
CSS style() container queries for custom properties will be available as an experimental feature in Chrome Canary once this is picked up: chromiumdash.appspot.com/com… @bramus @TerribleMia @Una
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
so much depends
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Serious crashes should generally trigger serious consequences for design. Consequences for the driver should vary, and serious ones aren’t always warranted, even for deaths. But automatic “no consequences” is closer to what we have, in this domain alone, and it’s indefensible.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
We used to have a Center that tried to Control Disease. Imagine if the agency that responded to the 2003 Monkeypox outbreak in the Midwest was with us today. When, exactly, did we go off the rails? Well, let's take a look at the last time Monkeypox came to 🇺🇸
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
There is a huge misconception found in most people outside of the health industry— people think that there are many scientists studying all aspects of health, especially diet and “things that are good for me and things that aren’t.”
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The march of the seasons. Normal daily precipitation for each day of the year based on station data.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Is environmentalism the main obstacle to infill housing in California?
Over last 2 years, I've done significant pro bono work on CA housing bills & the sausage-making I've observed points to a very uncomfortable answer: Yes. 1/🧵.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
After almost a decade without a polio case in the US, there is increasing evidence of local spread in NY after today's announcement that poliovirus has been found in New York City sewage.🧵👇
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
1/ I've spent the last 18 months investigating how our government reached the point of taking children away from their parents as a way to discourage migration to the United States. Here's my story about how and why it happened, and who's responsible.
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Andreessen knows the pro-housing arguments. He's made them! But building enough housing won't happen because people rationally conclude it's in their best interests. It will happen when the decision-making levers are removed from local government.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
1. The attention surrounding Pelosi’s trip has prompted a lot of ill-informed analogies about Taiwan. Rather than curse the darkness, I’m going to try to light a candle with a brief and hopefully reasonably objective thread on Taiwan’s history.
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The @nytimes could have used a better phrase in this photo caption than "a skyscraper in Taipei" to describe one of the most recognizable skyscrapers in the world.
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Monarch butterfly caterpillar (Monday)... Monarch butterfly pupa (Thursday).
The plant they were eating (just one!) was almost completely leafless by Tuesday.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
When I moved to Nashville 12 years ago, I intended to avoid reporting on stories in my own backyard. I wanted a bit of a buffer.
Then, last year, this story literally came to my own backyard.
nashvillescene.com/news/cove…
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I recently remembered economist.com/leaders/2008/0…, which is unusual for a political endorsement from a newspaper: it doesn't name the endorsed candidate until the last sentence of the article:
"Italians should vote for Walter Veltroni, his opponent from the centre-left, instead."
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Were two separate, major lines of Alzheimer’s research tainted by image fabrication, with far-reaching implications for the field? I take a deep look for @ScienceMagazine science.org/content/article/…
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