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
Fox News lower third today has consistently been "MULTIPLE FATALITIES AT PITTSBURGH SYNAGOGUE," without mentioning how they died, as if it could have happened in a fire or some kind of accident
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Something that probably should have gotten more attention splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
When Neo-Nazis marched through Charlottesville chanting "Jews will not replace us" you called them "very fine people"
Watching the events unfolding in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Law enforcement on the scene. People in Squirrel Hill area should remain sheltered. Looks like multiple fatalities. Beware of active shooter. God Bless All!
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Both national and regional flags? Underneath they use different sets of codepoints. Compare emojipedia.org/flag-for-unit… and emojipedia.org/flag-for-cali…
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I think I was sitting down in the front row, but turning around to look backwards at something going on behind me.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Audio leaked to @RollingStone reveals @BrianKempGA telling attendees at a closed-door campaign event that @staceyabrams’s voter turnout operation “continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote.” Read my report. rol.st/2EEFm65
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Earliest appearance seems to be the May 1996 working draft of CSS1: w3.org/TR/WD-css1-960505.htm…
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Yeah, agreed, it's in the category of words that have become a lot more common in the last 10 or 20 years because it's gender-neutral. Probably more common in some places than others (e.g., maybe mostly US).
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It was more the reason that I put musical symbol characters (𝄞, 𝄢, and 𝄂, which are non-BMP) in my email signature.
Emoji have certainly helped make western developers care about things not mangling non-ASCII characters, though.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
There are so many lies that come from our President every day. But THE most, consistent, coordinated and pervasive policy lie in politics today is the degree the GOP enthusiastically voted to end protections for pre-existing conditions and says the opposite on the campaign trail.
After 8 years of the GOP trying to wipe out the ACA, trusting them NOW to protect pre-existing conditions would be like Dorothy handing Toto to the Wicked Witch in the final scene of The Wizard of Oz.
From my chat with @Lawrence on @TheLastWord:
msnbc.com/the-last-word/watc…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Ballot box access will be more difficult in Dodge City, Kansas, where Hispanics make up 60% of the 27,000 residents.
The city has only one polling site. Officials moved it this year outside city limits to a facility more than a mile from a bus stop. kansas.com/news/business/art…
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Per passenger isn't a great way to split things up when international business and first take up so much more floor space than coach. Would be interesting to see the numbers for all-economy layouts...
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Can Republicans win by pretending to hold the opposite of their real position, while accusing *Democrats* of attacking Medicare? nytimes.com/2018/10/18/opini…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is a remarkable piece. The first graf openly states as a matter of fact that the White House and the royal family are working together on a cover up of MBS's role in Khashoggi's murder.
New: The White House and the Saudi royal family are searching for an explanation for Khashoggi's death that avoids implicating MBS. That's going to be difficult, as mounting evidence points to the crown prince's connection to Khashoggis' disappearance. washingtonpost.com/world/nat…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
New: The White House and the Saudi royal family are searching for an explanation for Khashoggi's death that avoids implicating MBS. That's going to be difficult, as mounting evidence points to the crown prince's connection to Khashoggis' disappearance. washingtonpost.com/world/nat…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Every time a study finds that Head Start doesn't improve test scores in second grade, there are calls to cancel it. Why that's a mistake: vox.com/future-perfect/2018/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
If you missed it: today it was confirmed that Facebook massively & knowingly inflated its video-view statistics, which had the DIRECT consequence of 90% of media orgs firing writers in favor of expensive video producers, who also got fired when it turned out video was worthless
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