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
Forced sterilization is genocide.
ICE is performing mass hysterectomies on immigrant women. ICE is committing genocide.
It is part of a long history of eugenics and assaults on reproductive freedom in the United States — a system that directly inspired the Nazi regime. (THREAD)
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Also see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_A… and perhaps also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_A…
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I think the vertically integrated smoke output has been closer to correct than the near-surface smoke output.
(I also give models credit for showing the correct pattern even if off by a bit geographically -- a problem the Bay Area will be quite sensitive to the next few days.)
4 4 4! That's pretty serious stuff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFPA_7…
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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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Hmmm.
For my 2003 Impreza: mostly true, modulo having to have the valve cover and tube seals replaced somewhat regularly. (March 2015, August 2018) Is that a quirk of the boxer (horizontally opposed) engine?
But the original tweet seems pretty true in my case as well.
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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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See nitter.vloup.ch/davidbaron/statu… . There are 48-hour runs every 6 hours, and 24-hour runs every hour.
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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