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
For the record, what's wrong with this approach -- "empathy for those with whom I have direct experience" -- is that many of humanity's most pressing problems involve victims that are very far away from the perpetrators, in time/geography/social class.
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Without revealing your age, what's the first video game you remember playing? youtube.com/watch?v=BvVKAsLn…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Incredible New Zealand study on a mystery transmission in a quarantine hotel. For a while, a garbage can was suspected—one of the very, very few known suspected cases of fomite transmission. Turns out... it's aerosols. What a Kuhnian year this has been. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
For most folks in the United States, Daylight Saving is beginning; tonight's the night to winter forward.
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Excited to start my first day today as a @Google employee, where I'll be working on @googlechrome.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Yes, it does indeed look like a duck. But the USPS's new vehicle is designed for safety in a way that SUVs and trucks are not, reports @awalkerinLA trib.al/g0clOa6
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblowers tell @kjzzphoenix a software bug is keeping hundreds of inmates in Arizona prisons beyond their release dates - Sources say Department of Corrections leadership has known about the problem since 2019 kjzz.org/content/1660988/whi…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
U.S. Airports No Longer Have to Build Their Own Terrible Trains vice.com/en/article/z3v5j3/u… via @A_W_Gordon
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I wrote about the problem with electric cars that nobody talks about: They're cars.
It's great that we're getting cleaner cars. Yay us!
But the issue with American transport isn't gas-fueled cars, it's car-dependent lives.
Let's think beyond the car.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Last year, a man unable to navigate the Dept. of Building Inspection permitting system threatened to kill himself.
But this man is a *permit expediter.* Negotiating this system is his job. And he couldn't do it.
Who can?
Latest from @esksf
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
What is missing from this CDC school reopening priority list? Airborne virus guidance! Like almost nothing in 33 page document on ventilation except 1 paragraph on open the windows, but only if feasible. Ventilation should be #2 behind masks! #COVID19
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
California, as the biggest state in the nation, and one where Democrats hold total control of the government, carries a special burden. If progressivism cannot work here, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else?
More here: nytimes.com/2021/02/11/opini…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
For progressivism to succeed, it needs to address the basics of people's lives. It doesn't get more basic than housing, transportation, schools.
If we can't fix those, I can't say I'm optimistic on climate change, or progressives continuing to hold power.
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Many of these are hoagies (or, if you're from NYC, heroes). Only the one in the lower right is a sub.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Lost in all the theoretical debates over the filibuster "is the reality of how the tool has been used so often in practice: to delay, if not destroy, legislation that promotes racial equality," writes @jessewegman. nyti.ms/2N9eWyc
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Just a reminder that Intuit and HR Block make money by charging for a service that should be free. The government could easily provide a comparable service at no charge. These companies have purchased the complicity of Congress - and they have enough $ left for Super Bowl ads.
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A barrier was broken today: there is how a cabinet secretary younger than I am.
Perhaps another more important barrier too...
This morning, I swore in Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation. @SecretaryPete is a true problem-solver. He will bring people together to strengthen our nation’s infrastructure. And he will keep breaking boundaries while he’s at it. Congratulations, Mr. Secretary.
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