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
Fascinating. @ProjectLincoln just filed an amicus against the new Texas voter suppression effort: bit.ly/2SEqLf2
As I've argued, key Q is whether Never Trumpers will seriously break w/GOP counter-majoritarian tactics (cc @DouthatNYT @yeselson @jonathanchait @HeerJeet):
4) @ProjectLincoln regularly slams Trump's assaults on democracy and the rule of law. They put out a video on John Lewis.
But does this commitment to democracy include continued support for *expanding* voting rights after Trump is gone?
They say yes:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Take a break from doomscrolling and read how you and your neighbors are complicit in Trump's tax machinations. #TrumpTaxes #TrumpTaxReturns
The American Dream Is Tax Reform’s Biggest Obstacle nytimes.com/2020/10/04/opini…
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Depends on the proposition. Definitely true for initiative constitutional amendments that add to the constitution and hard-to-amend legislative propositions. Less true for easy-to-amend legislative ones, or legislative constitutional amendments. Not true for bonds/taxes.
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In any case, I think I'm voting no as a default, partly because a law this complex probably shouldn't be done by proposition.
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It's not clear if that's describing a change from current law (relevant) or a difference from somebody's ideal law (not relevant), though it sounds like the latter.
I'm hesitant about banning this behavior. One good characteristic of ad-based funding of web content is that content providers are willing to charge less to poor people since selling ads impressions to poor people is less valuable. I'm not sure how such a ban would change this.
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I've figured out my entire ballot except for Prop 24, which is really something I should have an opinion on. Reading the LA Times and SF Chronicle endorsements left me conflicted. Need to read eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/wh… more closely tomorrow...
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OK, they were finally posted sometime today (weren't there earlier, are there now). So they're online the day after my ballot arrives...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is what I believe.
NEW AD: Former Director of the CIA under Bush @GenMhayden: "If there is another term for Trump, I don't know what happens to America."
He's supporting @JoeBiden.
Watch his moving testimonial.
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Just wait for a cycle where there's no competitive statewide election in the non-presidential (i.e., gubernatorial) even year election.
(The actual number required is sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-… based on leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f… )
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Don’t cry for my White House staffer.
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Unsurprisingly, Delta Air Lines has announced some deltas to its operations because of Hurricane Delta. news.delta.com/delta-issues-…
[*] OK, OK, it's a little unusual to use the word "deltas" for "changes" in this context.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The gender gap is alive and well.
This summer has been a single man’s recovery
Single women, who are much more likely to be parents, have regained some of the initial job loss.
Not as strongly as single men tho
But these marriage gaps… 😯
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
via @NYTimes with @noahweiland: By refusing to release the FDA guidelines, the White House is undercutting the federal effort to reassure the public that any vaccine will be safe and effective, health experts fear. nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/po…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I think if the whole White House press corps abandoned the WH pressers, and left behind a single camera as a pool camera and submitted written questions... We’d all be better off. Reporters would be safer and we’d get less of the circus. We never get informed anyway. Why risk it?
Where we’re at: a high school friend who is a doctor in a different state is offering to FedEx me her spare N95s because covering the White House is hazardous.
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I also wish they'd provide information about how frequently the ballots are collected from ballot drop boxes.
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Annoyed at @sccvote which still hasn't managed to post the voter guides at eservices.sccgov.org/rov?tab… (you can search, but they're not found), even though my ballot is arriving today. I was hoping to vote as early as possible, but still don't have info about what's on the ballot.
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