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
The delivery of $1200 stimulus checks to needy Americans is delayed so that President Trump's name can be printed on the checks (nothing like this happened with any previous president). OK. So I suggest that Trump's name also be put on top of tax bills.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I wrote a few words about a new amazing feature of the Firefox Profiler, which is itself quite amazing, blog.paul.cx/post/profiling-…, and how it helps reporting performance issues in complex scenarios like media playback. If you see something, file something !
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
New from me: How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief newyorker.com/magazine/2020/… via @NewYorker
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
For all the attention and praise on New York, West Coast was earlier and tougher in fighting COVID-19. The results so far: huge disparity in case and death tolls Story w @jmartNYT nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/po…
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A photo of an urban environment I like [27/N]:
中国湖北省武汉市武昌区自由路 (户部巷附近)
Zìyóu Road, Wǔchāng District, Wǔhàn, China (near Hùbù Alley)
January 2019
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Inside the TR: Reactor Department was the first to go down. Dr's estimated 50-67 could die. Other senior officers wanted to co-sign Crozier's letter, but he declined saying the burden was his alone to bear. Story w/ @Tmgneff @EricSchmittNYT @helenecooper nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/po…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Another story that should be completely shocking and impeachable: A US president wants to destroy the postal service because it carries packages for a company whose owner also owns a newspaper that prints stories he doesn’t like
Yet it will barely make a ripple
The admin demanded Congress not include money for the postal service in the rescue package because Trump doesn’t like some Post stories and therefore wants to get back at Bezos, whose little delivery company uses the mail
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The Postal Service needs a bailout. The Trump Administration keeps shooting one down.
Trump threatened to veto the $2.2 trillion CARES Act if it included a grant for the post office.
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A photo of an urban environment I like [25/N]:
rue Montmartre, 75002 Paris, France
(facing south, from near rue Léopold Bellan)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
A progressive response to this pandemic is not possible without USPS.
- Vote by mail.
- More direct payments.
- Rx delivery for isolated seniors and those with disabilities.
This isn’t just another squabble.
This is at the core of all we’ve fought for.
#SaveThePostOffice
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I spoke with the Postmaster General again today. She could not have been more clear:
The Postal Service will collapse without urgent intervention, and it will happen soon.
We’ve pleaded with the White House to help. @realDonaldTrump personally directed his staff not to do so.
NEW w/@jimtankersley: The coronavirus pandemic is ravaging the United States Postal Service.
Mail vol down 30% this week, compared to same time last year. Could be down 50% by end of June
USPS told Congress today it needs a cash infusion and fast.
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"The research revealed a previously hidden spread of the virus that might have been detected if aggressive testing programs had been put in place."
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"So far, [...] researchers have identified seven separate lineages of viruses that entered New York and began circulating."
The hidden history of #Covid19 is written in the genomes of coronaviruses. Here’s my @nytimes story about its discovery. nytimes.com/2020/04/08/scien…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
All over the world, the authorities are closing down parks and trails—but that's unsustainable, counterproductive and probably even harmful. Instead, we should adapt to the pandemic and retool them for social-distancing. My new piece on why and how. theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, THIS is the line for in person voting as the polls open for Election Day in Wisconsin. #COVID19 #ElectionDay
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
More important is something I said earlier: one of the two parties in our two party system fundamentally does not believe in the right to vote, and most certainly not in a right to vote safely and conveniently.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NEW: As Trump pushes chloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19, companies whose shareholders and executives have ties to @realDonaldTrump stand to profit. with @peterbakernyt @katierogers @maggieNYT @JesseDrucker nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/po…
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For what it's worth, the original favicon is github.githubassets.com/favi… and they dynamically change it to github.githubassets.com/favi… some of the time.
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