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
This can’t be retweeted enough. North Carolina publicly stated in court that the reason they stopped Sunday voting was that counties with Sunday voting were disproportionately black, and blacks disproportionately vote Democrat.
North Carolina's stated reason for shutting down Sunday voting was that counties with heavy Sunday voting were disproportionately African-American, and that African-Americans tended to be Democrats. pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/7-29…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla today jointly announced a timeline for the removal of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 from their respective browsers. webkit.org/blog/8462/depreca… security.googleblog.com/2018… blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/… blog.mozilla.org/security/20…
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Looks like the firmware update that I got *today* called "Surface - Firmware - 2/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - 105.0.94.5" finally fixed this.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
They worked in shifts in bases clustered in the foothills. Hundreds of soldiers. Their mission: to turn Facebook into a weapon for ethnic cleansing. Our look at how Myanmar’s military used a years-long, secretive Facebook campaign against its own people. nytimes.com/2018/10/15/techn…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The United States Senate is like one enormous racial preference, and its benefits go to white people. nytimes.com/2018/10/14/opini…
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So when the winds stop, how do they tell which ones are safe to turn back on? Or is a downed power line that's not being blown around less of a fire risk?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I have four children. Their father is a judge. Their mother was a federal prosecutor. None of them could have “represented” themselves at the age of 5 in an asylum proceeding. This is a stain on our history & our commitment to justice & the rule of law.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
abolish 👏 signature 👏 mismatch 👏 laws 👏 slate.com/news-and-politics/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NEW: I went back through ugly European & American history to examine the template for the global nationalist right’s attacks on George Soros. Through them, we see what that right believes is at stake. We can call ours the George Soros era of antisemitism. thedailybeast.com/theres-bee…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
If #Bitcoin were to cease trading tomorrow, 0.5% of the world’s electricity demand would simply disappear – which would cover one year’s worth of the carbon emission cuts required to limit temperature rises this century to 2C. sluggerotoole.com/2018/10/12…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
These voter registration purges in various states are an indefensible attack on the most basic foundations of democracy. The only way to reverse this, the only hope that the perpetrators of this outrage will be held accountable, is for all of us able to vote next month.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Indiana purged 460k voters.
Georgia is freezing 50k newly registered Black voters
North Dakota is disenfranchising thousands of Native Americans
Florida’s voter registration site went down two days before the deadline (and they never fixed it).
Republicans👏cheat👏to👏win.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Here’s a rundown of West Virginia’s absurd constitutional crisis. The entire state Supreme Court had to be replaced to adjucate the chief justice’s challenge to her own impeachment.
Also, ANOTHER justice was convicted of fraud today. slate.com/news-and-politics/… @Slate
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Republican Georgia Sec. of State Brian Kemp is running for governor, and he's also in charge of the state's voting systems.
Now, civil rights groups charge he's attempting to suppress the black vote just weeks before Election Day. bit.ly/2CGSVQI
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
And they’re off! The relaunch of the world’s longest flight from Singapore to New York aboard the @SingaporeAir #A350ULR.
🇸🇬✈️🇺🇸 flightradar24.com/SIA22/1e2d…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
It's important to make clear that under Georgia law passed in 2017, these 53,000 can still vote if they bring ID to their polling place. It would be tragic and counterproductive if media coverage dissuaded those people from turning out.
"Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s (R) office is blocking 53,000 people from registering to vote, according to records obtained by the AP, a huge number that could sway his gubernatorial race against Democrat Stacey Abrams."
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NYer profiles Helen, a 5-year old who, the magazine says, was detained at the border and persuaded to sign away her rights.
Helen's form, filled out with assistance, withdraws her request for a Flores bond hearing. Helen signed her name in wobbly letters.
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