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
Another experiment showing how influential Wikipedia is on the real world: Adding two paragraphs of text & nice pictures to randomly selected articles about small European cities led to an over 9% increase in hotel stays; the edit is worth $190k per year! marit.hinnosaar.net/wikipedi…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This shouldn’t need to be explained but:
You’re allowed to be absolutely disgusted by the attack on @LASDHQ deputies AND highly critical of their treatment of @josie_huang covering that shooting outside the hospital.
These things are not mutually exclusive.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
In cities like New York and Chicago, railways often had to be built over existing roads leaving local residents complaining of noise, lack of sunlight, pollution and filth. In Tokyo, however, the undertracks’ reputation is rather different. trib.al/utZW75V
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I know the crisis is far from over yet, but has anyone been running some mortality/morbidity numbers from the off-the-charts AQI the West Coast has been enduring, some places for weeks now? Air pollution has a huge toll on health, and this is now a tragically sustained event.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
CDC? WHO? We still don’t have ventilation integrated into our guidelines. People are being told to wash their hands, but not open their windows. It’s September 2020.
Dr Anthony Fauci explains scientists have got it wrong for many years, that aerosolised particles can linger in the air much longer than previously thought, and singing and speaking play a significant role in transmission.
How long will it take the UK government to catch up?
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The 00:00 UTC (17:00 PDT) run has moved back a little bit on timing, but is still showing a pattern that seems likely to lead to improvements on Monday or Tuesday.
It's not clear that the near-surface smoke forecast has been that reliable lately, but it seems to show the possibility of more clearing at the surface a bit after that, assuming its trend continues rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H…
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Today's 18:00 UTC (11:00 PDT) run shows some reasons for optimism.
The vertically integrated smoke forecast shows the western edge of the think smoke band moving east, and clearing over the bay area from west to east over Monday morning. rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
You can play table top exercises about what happens when a pandemic comes to our country 100 times with 100 scenarios and never play out the scenario where the president decides not to tell the country & his team backs him up. 14/
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is a 1984-level lie.
Obama and Biden created the protections for preexisting conditions, and Trump is suing to get rid of them as we speak.
Trump claims Biden "will destroy your protections for preexisting conditions," despite Biden being part of the administration that championed the law that protects people with preexisting conditions
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The guy who said a caravan was coming to rape and murder your wives didn’t want to create panic. Got it.
#TrumpKnew
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Now the 00:00 UTC (17:00 PDT) run is done.
Vertically integrated smoke forecasts a bit of relief from dark skies by Friday. Maybe 50% less smoke? Still bad. rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H…
Near-surface smoke shows things getting a bit better Thursday evening. rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H…
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And now the 18:00 UTC (11:00 PDT) run is mostly done.
Near-surface smoke rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H… shows Bay Area getting worse tomorrow morning (smoke from Dolan Fire, Monterey County) before getting better.
Vertically integrated smoke still bad rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is appalling. Pennsylvania Republicans refuse to let election officials open absentee ballots before Election Day—which experts agree will speed up counting—unless Democrats kill drop boxes and early voting. It’s not just partisan, it’s nihilistic. news.yahoo.com/former-republ…
In Pennsylvania, GOP is blocking giving clerks time ahead of election day to prepare mail ballots for counting.
GOP wants to:
-eliminate drop boxes
-eliminate early voting
-expand poll watcher eligibility (to increase challenges of Philly voters)
news.yahoo.com/former-republ…
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Worth repeating the link to sources (and to future runs):
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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I guess I should have been paying a little bit more attention to the vertically integrated smoke forecast and not just the near-surface smoke forecast.
rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H… says the Bay Area is going to be stuck with dark orange skies for at least another 40 hours...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I wrote an article on ventilation late summer and got inundated with messages from ordinary people saying "oh, wow, I had no idea. We're now opening windows in our <indoor space>. Thank you for informing us!" Seems that Woodward, not just Trump, had the confirmation in February.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NEWS w/ @PhilipRucker: In Woodward book, President Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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As usual, up-to-date runs for the southwest US available at rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H… , and the 48-hour-long runs are every 6 hours.