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 memo signals that HCD will treat "the proportion of parcels in the previous housing element that were developed during the previous planning period" as the presumptive probability of development for current inventory sites, absent other information. /9
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Job shaming! Awesome! I’m in. Great idea. This CANNOT go wrong.
Let’s rank the virtue of every profession and if your state has too many workers in the bottom 20% you get kicked out of America.
Who wants to start??
COTTON on #DCStatehood: "Yes, Wyoming is smaller than Washington by population, but it has three times as many workers in mining, logging and construction, and ten times as many workers in manufacturing. In other words, Wyoming is a well-rounded working-class state."
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The question, @PaulKrugman writes, "isn’t why 'America' has failed to deal effectively with the pandemic. It’s why the G.O.P. has in effect allied itself with the coronavirus." nyti.ms/389eTsE
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Does anyone know of a reliable map of COVID-19 cases per capita in the United States (by state, county, or preferably both) that were diagnosed within the last N days (perhaps N=14 like the LA Times's California maps, but I'm not picky), to show how bad things are now-ish?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I have first-hand experience in two disparate topics:
1. Epidemic management
2. How they count things in Florida.
This is the first time both have been simultaneously relevant, and I can tell you, this is NOT GOOD.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
It's difficult to say this as someone who generally believes in govt’s ability to help, but @CA_EDD is failing CA.
I have done just about everything I know how to do as a public official to make things work, but my colleagues, my staff, my constituents & I are at our wits' end.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
My new post: soot is the top environmental health threat in the US & it disproportionately targets black communities. Despite the unanimous recommendation of scientists, Trump’s EPA has refused to tighten soot standards. It is structural racism in action. vox.com/energy-and-environme…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
15/ There’s much more in the story here: propublica.org/article/the-t…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Kentucky cutting number of polling places for Tuesday’s primary from 3700 to 200
There will be one polling place for 616,000 registered voters in Louisville’s Jefferson County, where half state’s black voters live
This is going to be a disaster
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
A quick rundown on what's seriously wrong with California's new housing need determination for the San Francisco Bay Area ("ABAG"): 1/5
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If we were serious about housing, I'd guess that the Bay Area's RHNA target should probably be around 1.5M, although I'd have been happy with anything over 1M.
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In-browser usage of @SlackHQ is getting worse and worse. The past few months it seems to sign me out of all my slacks every few weeks, directing me to a page that doesn't tell me the name of the slack that I got signed out of. So I need to remember 7 names to stay signed in.
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If true, I think this is very bad news. The number should have been a lot higher than this. This (even if it's all built, which it won't be) is unlikely to be enough to improve the crisis-level housing shortage in the Bay Area.
Word on the street is the Bay Area's new Regional Housing Needs Determination is 441,176 units, which is 2.35 times higher than the 2015–23 RHND of 187,990.
Thank you, @Scott_Wiener, for authoring #SB828, which made State housing need calculation methods more logical and fair.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Am I reading this right that Google will demonetise YouTube?
Our policies do not allow ads to run against dangerous or derogatory content, which includes comments on sites, and we offer guidance and best practices to publishers on how to comply. blog.google/products/adsense…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
What an indictment of our leadership.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
By this logic, a supply disruption of pregnancy tests would completely eliminate pregnancies. Who is the target audience these assertions are aimed at? Like, who is actually this stupid?
thehill.com/policy/healthcar…
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Looking at the numbers more closely (for the first time in a while), I realize California's statewide COVID-19 trend graphs are overwhelmingly about southern California, which both has the bulk of the population and higher per-capita COVID-19 cases.
4/ California managed the pandemic as well as any state.
Today, California is at the highest average number of new cases in the pandemic.
Not just the highest: Very high.
Average new cases:
• Today: 2,700
• May 8, start of reopening: 1,700
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
4/ California managed the pandemic as well as any state.
Today, California is at the highest average number of new cases in the pandemic.
Not just the highest: Very high.
Average new cases:
• Today: 2,700
• May 8, start of reopening: 1,700
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