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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This is not a bad idea. A new school year is coming up and I have a rising second grader. There is no way I want her to learn that Trump as president represents acceptable, moral behavior. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Thanks, Supreme Court! It's now my right to prevent my kid from learning about Trump. | Opinion

Attempts to teach my children anything about Donald Trump place an unconstitutional burden on my First Amendment right to freely exercise my religion.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Agreed. I am really struggling distinguishing one line from the next. And moving the flagged email icon to the end of the line means I no longer register the flags. This new UI is unusable for me.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The DOGE website is hosted on Cloudflare. builtwith.com/doge.gov It would be interesting to see what would happen if Cloudflare received a whole bunch of abuse complaints about it. abuse.cloudflare.com/threat

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Google maps is no longer allowing reports on this. I recommend the wonderful idea. I saw comments of giving the app one star review.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Section 504 is an important federal law that protects the rights of people with disabilities in programs that receive federal funding. 17 states are suing to end Section 504. This is wrong. Section 504 is too important. More info on the lawsuit and what you can do: dredf.org/protect-504/

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Texas v. Becerra: What it is and How You Can Help Stop the Attack on Section 504 - DREDF

Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Option 2: Post on Google Maps community forums. Yes, it will be a duplicate issue. The point is sending a message. support.google.com/maps/thread/...

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Google Maps just changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico. I say we inundate them with change requests. Here's how: 1. Find GOM on a map and click. 2. Click the share icon. 3. Click Send Product Feedback to report an issue. 4. Write and send.

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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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Beth Soderberg @bethsoderberg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Reminder, especially to those in the DMV: a LOT of people are being threatened right now in many ways, but some people are being physically threatened for speaking out. Check in with your people, make sure you have phone numbers cleared to alert your phone at any time if your people need you.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

As an American with a less than American sounding last name, I refuse to make assumptions.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Akash Bobba Edward Coristine Luke Farritor Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaotran We need to circulate the names of the people working with Elon Musk to take over gov servers. These are just 6 of them. RT until their names are everywhere. This has to stop. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In America, we don’t pledge loyalty under threat of consequence.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The U.S. Department of Labor is organizing a protest. Elon Musk’s staff will be present at the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C., today at 4 p.m. It was mentioned that staff should plan to stay late after the 4 p.m. meeting to assist with setting up Elon Musk staffers into their systems.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Ooh.. that's encouraging. When I think of non-techies, I tend to think of my parents first, who are very wary of most of the web. (Probably because I gave them both stern lectures about internet security.)

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Thank you! I appreciate that.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I know this is what torrents are for, but my goal is for the archives to be accessible to the average (non-techy) user. Are there any sys admins or big data people who would like to help? I am a developer, but mostly focus on front-end to "middle". I need an expert partner if this is going to work.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Scraping has been an issue. I've been using the Wayback Machine Downloader tool (on several recommendations). It's been downloading for 20 hours and is only 11.74% complete. Part of the issue is the Wayback Machine is relatively slow, so this can't be helped, but this method is not scalable.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

On this project, for each site, we need to: 1. Scrape and download the content from the Wayback Machine from a "safe" date. I've been using January 29. 2. Store the data. I'm expecting terrabytes of data. 3. Serve the sites from a host that can handle this amount of data and potential traffic.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Yes. And scraping the massive amount of data on these sites is a slow process. I'm quickly realizing we need more than 1 person on this.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I think the biggest thing I need right now is a sys admin who can help me with the more technical aspects of this. I'm more of a front-end person. I'm going to need help with big data issues related to this. (CDC alone is *a lot* of content.)

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The Harvard Innovation Lab has a new project where they are scraping and saving federal datasets from data.gov, federal Github repos, and PubMed. Their blog post says they plan to publicly share the collection they have so far in "the coming weeks". lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01...

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

That’s good to know. I haven’t been on reddit in forever but I will check it out. Thanks!

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Also, I am exploring a project to save and possibly mirror these backups (just in case something happens to the Wayback Machine). The more backups the better! We cannot lose this good content. If feasible, it is not something I can do alone. DM me if you'd like to help!

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Census: web.archive.org/web/20250129... HealthData: web.archive.org/web/20250129... TargetHIV: web.archive.org/web/20250124... ProsperAfrica: web.archive.org/web/20250126... White House (Biden): web.archive.org/web/20250119... National Park Service: web.archive.org/web/20250129...

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I am starting a thread of links to federal sites on the Wayback Machine, before the current vandalism. Please RT and add to this list! CDC: web.archive.org/web/20250129... NIH: web.archive.org/web/20250129... USAID: web.archive.org/web/20250129...

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

As info disappears from federal sites, please remember that the Wayback Machine exists. It's not perfect, but it can maybe help. web.archive.org Happy to help find specific pages if necessary. @ or DM me. Pass it on. #healthcare #lgbtq #censorship

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Today is the kiddo’s half birthday. Naturally, we celebrated with half a cake. Happy half birthday, big kid! #birthdays #cake

Half a cake on a round gold platter. The cake is a half circle, frosted with white frosting and topped with rainbow sprinkles. Marshmallows line the top edge of the cake.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Grad school was fueled exclusively by spaghettios and popcorn.

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Social hiatus: Long, but was it long enough? Perhaps I'll return. 👋 #socialMedia #haiku

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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

New social. New me? Almost certainly a no, but soon we will see!

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