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
We are thrilled to announce @RepBenRayLujan as our Assistant Majority Leader!
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Trump is mad that Powell is raising rates too fast. He *could* have kept the likely-more-dovish Yellen in the job — but chose not to in part because he thought she was too short. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Thank you for writing this @AdamSerwer: Just Because an Election Is Legal Doesn’t Mean It’s Legitimate theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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I think it's more the change in wind direction that's associated with the change in weather... but yes.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
My cover story on Nancy Pelosi, whose last chapter of her episodic political career may be the most dramatic: nyti.ms/2zbQLVZ
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
There's been some chatter about @NancyPelosi's role in the Obamacare fight, so I went back into my notebook and wrote this, plus some background on where she gets her politics interc.pt/2Q6Aziq
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
A decade ago, the U.S. mandated the use of vegetable oil in biofuels, leading to industrial-scale deforestation — and a huge spike in carbon emissions.
Palm oil was supposed to help save the planet. Instead it unleashed a catastrophe. nyti.ms/2R05ZnO
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
If you think it is dystopian to walk around SF or LA & see people wearing protective masks, pls think of all those doing manual farm labor where the smoke is worst—& whose bosses *won't let them wear one* even when volunteers try to give them out for free psmag.com/news/though-wildfi…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Philly police officers are saving lives by taking shooting victims to the hospital without waiting for paramedics: slate.trib.al/VHpn1yi
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
There were stories behind the story. It started for me the morning of the fire. I live in these hills. I met evacuees as they got out, char on their faces, eyes glazed, telling the horrors of what I now call The Road- their run through fire... latimes.com/local/california…
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When I took cryptography (CS 220r) from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michae… the teaching assistants needed to tell us that the things he taught us called "x squared mod n encryption" and "randomized primality testing" we should call "Rabin encryption" and "Miller-Rabin primality testing"
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HRRR Smoke model suggests smoke could *begin* clearing out of the bay area late this afternoon (Saturday), starting at the coast and moving inland.
GEFS has been reasonably consistent about having a real rain event Wednesday-Thursday-Friday (middle part may be N Bay focused).
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Dear @AmericanExpress, this is terrible advice to give for how to "keep your account secure".
It goes against the last decade of research, which shows users who change their passwords frequently tend to choose predictable passwords. Please recommend a password manager instead.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Smart piece by @kljohnso, @thomasfullerNYT and @conordougherty on how California's housing crisis, already acute before the disaster, just got worse...Chased by Fire With Nowhere to Go... nyti.ms/2DpxBPq
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Republicans are getting annihilated in California. Dem supermajorities:
State Assembly: 60-20 (75%), possible 61st seat in #AD77
State Senate: 28-12 (70%), possible 29th seat in #SD34
Congress: 45-8 (85%) assuming Cisneros keeps his lead in #CD39, possible 46th seat in #CD21
🚨Democrats take control of the sole Bay Area Assembly seat represented by a Republican, as #AD16 Democrat Rebecca Bauer-Kahan opens up a 2,170 vote lead over Catharine Baker following today's update from Contra Costa County. This is the 5th Assembly seat lost by the GOP in 2018.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This race was tainted by voter suppression:
• 1.5 million voters purged by Brian Kemp
• 53k registrations on hold
• 4.5 hour lines to vote
• 214 polling places closed
• Dems falsely accused of cyber crimes
• AND Kemp oversaw his own election
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
House Republicans-elect look pretty different from House Democrats-elect.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Matthew Whitaker is not, as a matter of law, the acting attorney general. Any reference to him as "acting AG" should come with that qualifier, because his appointment was almost certainly illegal. slate.com/news-and-politics/… @Slate
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NEWS w/@maggieNYT: Senators have reached a bipartisan criminal justice reform deal
Kushner likely to brief Trump tomorrow, & those involved expect a verdict on endorsement this wk
If they get Trump's blessing, advocates see a path in the lame duck
nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/po…
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