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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The 12:00 UTC (05:00 PDT) HRRR Smoke suggests that by Wednesday evening, the winds will shift so that the Bay Area gets smoke from fires in Monterey County instead of from fires in Tehama and Glenn counties. Not the wind shift that I was hoping for. rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I investigated what the global boom in SUV sales means for the climate, as well as how they are shaping our cities. The answers are striking theguardian.com/us-news/2020…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Good news is that California Building Standards Commission approved early adoption of tall wood building types two weeks ago.
Builders can pull permits for a 18 story wood tower come July 2021.
lesprom.com/en/news/Californ…
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I think I understated the improvement that it's showing tomorrow, actually -- probably more like substantial improvement rather than slight, but still a good bit of smoke.
In general, these HRRR smoke images can be found at:
rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H… for the southwest US or rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H… for the whole country. The 48 hour long runs are done only every 6 hours; other runs just extend 24 hours.
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The 18:00 UTC (11:00 PDT) HRRR smoke model shows a smoky 48 hours for the Bay Area, although perhaps slight improvement may be coming. The bulk of the smoke looks like it's coming from the fires in Tehama and Glenn counties and other places to our north. rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Here are the two sites that broke their all-time high temperature records today. 121° was the highest ever recorded at an official site in L.A. County. Ditto for Paso Robles 117° in San Luis Obispo County. Burbank tied all-time high of 114° from yesterday. #cawx #LAheat #Socal
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The 121° high temperature at Woodland Hills official site (Pierce College) was also the highest official temperature ever recorded in L.A. County as well as Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties. Click the URL for more details #cawx #LAheat go.usa.gov/xGDwC
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Physicians Premier ER charged Dr. Zachary Sussman’s insurance $10,984 for his COVID-19 antibody test even though Sussman worked for the chain and knows the testing materials only cost about $8. Even more surprising: The insurer paid in full. propub.li/3589G4Q
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Voter suppression in a nutshell:
during Georgia primary voters in predominantly white areas waited 6 minutes to vote while voters in predominantly minority areas waited 51 minutes to vote
@chrislhayes showed this graphic during our segment on @allinwithchris last night
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Michael Sandel seriously understates his case in his NYT piece. The elites don't just have contempt for the less-educated, they structure policy to screw them cepr.net/seeing-the-last-acc…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Does magnitude tell you how large a region will be shaken? Not by itself. For example, pound-for-pound, earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S. shake a larger area than left coast quakes. Compare how far away people felt the 2011 M5.8 Mineral quake in VA to a M6 in CA.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I was informed by Chancellor Merkel that Russian opposition leader Navalny was attacked with a nerve agent, in his own country. This is a despicable and cowardly act - once again. Perpetrators need to be brought to justice.
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Chance of a Biden Electoral college win if he wins the popular vote by X points:
0-1 points: just 6%!
1-2 points: 22%
2-3 points: 46%
3-4 points: 74%
4-5 points: 89%
5-6 points: 98%
6-7 points: 99%
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is unsustainable for democracy. If the people can't obtain power via elections, they may resort to other means as protests show. Fortunately, states with enough electoral votes could join the National Popular Vote Compact for it to take effect by 2024
Chance of a Biden Electoral college win if he wins the popular vote by X points:
0-1 points: just 6%!
1-2 points: 22%
2-3 points: 46%
3-4 points: 74%
4-5 points: 89%
5-6 points: 98%
6-7 points: 99%
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
America has been constantly plagued by GOP minority rule ever since Bush v. Gore in 2000. Across all 100 Senate seats, the last time the GOP won more votes nationally was 1994-1998. They’ve run the Senate half of the last two decades without ever winning more votes than Dems
We've got:
- A GOP president who lost the popular vote
- A GOP Senate maj. representing a minority of voters
- A House skewed by GOP gerrymandering
- GOP efforts to restrict ballot access
- A policy landscape distorted by rich conservative billionaires
washingtonpost.com/business/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
18 USC §2386(B)(1) & (D) make it a federal crime for an organization that wants to violently overthrow the government to lie on the registration form they have to file with the Attorney General.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Stop with the moral equivalency.
The choice is clear.
Biden condemns violence. Trump incites it.
In @PostOpinions wapo.st/2QFBh4J
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
For those of us who study autocracies, including elections in autocracies, there were a lot of familiar messages, symbols, and methods on display this week at the #RNCConvention. THREAD
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Here’s an excerpt of my book Perilous Bounty. It’s about the biblical-scale California flood that scientists say is just as imminent as a big quake—and likely 3X more damaging. motherjones.com/environment/…
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