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 protesters are railing against a society that isn’t cohesive enough to summon a response. They’re hammering on a hollowed-out structure, and it very well may collapse," George Packer writes. on.theatln.tc/qMnYHTi
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
🚨I wrote about COVID-19 long-haulers—the thousands of people who’ve been struggling with *months* of debilitating symptoms. Many have faced disbelief from friends and medical professionals because they don’t fit the typical profile of the disease. 1/
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
James N. Miller, former under secretary of defense for policy, has published his resignation letter from the Defense Science Board in @PostOpinions. Here it is. wapo.st/2ACOw1e
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Prior to COVID-19, I was supposed to be presenting some early stage research this weekend at the @ClioSociety conference on the the impact of police bargaining rights on killings of civilians by race. I don't normally discuss early stage research, but it feels appropriate today.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know - based on the facts and data. A thread. (1/x)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Trump and advisers calculated that he shouldn’t speak to the nation because he had nothing to say, no tangible policy or action to announce, nor did he feel an urgent motivation to try to bring people together. So he let his tweets speak for themselves. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The Kerner Commission understood what needed to happen to disrupt the cycle of police brutality and civil uprisings: reform the police and remediate structural racism. Unfortunately, our nation largely ignored its recommendations: belonging.berkeley.edu/key-k… (I transcribed them here)
Thinking about riots and state violence? So was LBJ - in 1968. His commission's report identified governmental housing injustice as a major driver of riots, and it proposed solutions. Scholars @SMenendian and Rothstein detail the road not taken since then. belonging.berkeley.edu/road-…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
If Trump were to lift liability protection from Twitter and other social media, then they will have to be more aggressive about policing inflammatory tweets that push the boundaries -- like the president's. @daiwaka nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/po…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Today, some homeowners pay 10x (that's 10 times) a neighbor each year in property tax.
300 years from now, that grows to a multiple of 503x in property tax.
$489K versus $246M
Thank you voters in 1978 California for #Prop13!
How will the state survive this?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Holy crap: factory built homes were the majority of homes built in the US during the 1960s and they were mostly regulated out of existence to protect the home building industry!
Jim Schmitz has some accessible slides on the history here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1sKq…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
SARS-CoV-2 RNA in sewage/sludge is predictive of:
a) Community transmission
b) ⬆️& ⬇️ intensity of #COVID19 outbreak
c) as a leading indicator (by ~5 days) for cases
Our new study w/ @jordan_peccia Ed Kaplan @NathanGrubaugh @WeinbergerDan & others
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Trump declares states of emergencies in major cities
The DOJ announces a criminal investigation into Biden
Trump refuses to accept a loss and won't leave the White House
Doomsdayers are planning for the most contentious presidential election since 1876
nytimes.com/2020/05/24/us/po…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Federal judge guts Florida law requiring felons to pay all fines and fees before they can register to vote. wapo.st/2AVBdt3
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Apparently if you don’t do a lot of testing you don’t have a lot of illness. That’s like saying if you don’t have inspectors general you don’t have corruption. Um. Oh right.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Today I launched an investigation into President Trump’s firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick. @SenatorMenendez and I requested that administration officials preserve all records related to the firing & turn info over to the committees by Friday, May 22.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Scoop: The State Department's inspector general has been terminated tonight, the latest of a slew of inspectors general to be ousted in recent months w/ @nahaltoosi politico.com/news/2020/05/15…
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My top reason to be optimistic about a @JoeBiden presidency:
The last two Democratic presidents with comparable experience relevant to the presidency (e.g., senior positions in US congress or executive branch, or large state governor):
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
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