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
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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Good font and color choices, layout a bit too clever especially for those who don't already know the candidate's name.
Still not voting for him.
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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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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
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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Framboise is not a useless word! There's a chain of ice cream shops in Paris (Amorino) that has really good raspberry sorbet, especially when mixed with the chocolate sorbet.
On the other hand, it seems unlikely I'll be in Paris anytime soon.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NEW: Civil Rights Division alums tell me they’re really alarmed by what they see as DOJ’s political targeting of four Democratic governors: huffpost.com/entry/coronavir…
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Also worth noting: an ecosystem based on advertising is good for equity between users of the same site (but not between sites in different markets), since ad impressions to poor people are worth less money than those to rich people, and sites are ok with that.
An advertising-based Web, given different choices on other things (such as cross-origin inclusion, storage, etc., or performance accountability), might not have been as intrusive as the one we have today.
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