Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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Seems like a big difference between doing this to the leadership versus doing it to about a quarter of the population of the country.
It also seems unlikely that the rationale for this order is genocide in Xinjiang *or* that it will be perceived in China as the rationale.
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In the China-US relationship, things could still get worse. The Trump Admin has been weighing a travel ban that would block all Chinese Communist Party members AND their families, a sweeping freeze that could cut off 200+ mln people from going to the US. nytimes.com/2020/07/15/us/po…
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So to summarize - The Trump Administration has rescinded the 7/6 F-1 students directive. Schools can go online if they want. No new I-20s needed. F-1 visas should be proceeding. Congratulations Harvard and the Wilmer Hale team. Big big win!
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Another hot day in the interior on Sunday, with cool conditions persisting close to the ocean thanks to light onshore flow. The map shows a couple of examples of large temperatures differences, over relatively short distances, between the coast and the interior. #CAwx
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"Pseudoscience companies tap directly into our fears and isolation, offering us a sense of control, while claiming their products can end our pain," writes @AgainstCures nyti.ms/2OgaN8J
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Wherein I say the quiet part loud. nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opini…
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FWIW, the author is a former councilmember: cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts…
Seems like it would help if county health departments were publishing summary statistics on how they thought people were actually being infected with COVID-19.
If they can't do so (or think they can't) because of medical privacy laws... perhaps those laws are excessive?
All the “beach shaming” & “park shaming” is likely going to backfire, isn’t at all backed by health research or evidence on how virus spreads. There is continuing huge risk from the virus, and we are backtracking, we have to be careful—it isn’t bc families are going to parks.
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As a result of the unprecedented demand for fire services, Con Fire is now dispatching only a single fire engine to non-structure fires. We ares currently simultaneously on scene of 14 fires across the District , including 3 structure fires. #confiresafe4th
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A photo of an urban environment I like [31/N]:
Plaza de las Pasiegas, 18001 Granada, Spain
April 2013
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I am in @DemJournal today with a piece on the pandemic, cities, and the new need for planning democracyjournal.org/magazin…
Check out this fantastic and important piece by @JakeAnbinder on what our country's history of urban planning can teach us about renewing our urban spaces post-COVID. democracyjournal.org/magazin…
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And for what it's worth, the Wuhan Metro is pretty nice.
Not sure if you can read the monitor in this photo I took, but it says the next train is coming in 37 seconds, and the following train is coming in in 3 minutes and 45 seconds.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
In 2013, as part of a bill to help build a Sacramento Kings arena, the state changed how it measured traffic under environmental review to a metric aimed at reducing miles driven rather than congestion — an effort to cut overall driving.
Those new regulations take effect today.
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