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Jeremiah Lee
@jeremiahlee.com
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I work in tech, fight for digital rights and the environment, kiss dudes, cycle, lift heavy things, and don’t eat animals. Swedish immigrant, US American emigrant […]

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Alebrijes parade for Día de Muertos in Ciudad de México
A colorful, whimsical sculpture resembling a fantastical creature with a long neck and vibrant patterns. Its body features bright pink, blue, and green colors, adorned with decorative feathers in shades of blue and orange. A colorful, large sculpture depicting a fantastical creature with butterfly wings and a whimsical face, featuring bright pink, purple, and blue patterns. A large, colorful sculpture resembling a fish or aquatic creature with vibrant patterns in pink, blue, and green. It features prominent eye designs and decorative fins. Two decorative skeleton figures, dressed in colorful outfits, stand in a park setting. The female figure wears a floral headdress and a vibrant dress, while the male figure sports a hat and traditional attire.
November 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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I assume this is a Halloween joke years in the making at Zoom.
Screenshot of Zoom app. Modal UI text: Update available. Current version of 6.6.2. Now available version of 6.6.6.
November 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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I’m at the Nordic.js conference in Stockholm and giving a lighting talk on the social web this afternoon!

#nordicjs #conference
A man with glasses smiles in front of a balloons in various colors and sizes adorned with shiny ribbons.
October 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Working in Valdemarsvik, Sverige today at the family fjord house.

#valdemarsvik #vak #sverige
A view from a window showcasing a harbor with boats, surrounded by green trees and a clear blue sky. A red wood heart shaped candle holder rests on the windowsill. The top of a computer display is visible in the foreground.
September 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Sunset from my home at 19:11 last night.

#stockholm
A vibrant sunset with hues of orange and yellow against a clear sky, silhouetting a city skyline.
September 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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French Fuse remembers the twenty-first night of September.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM78_eZo8So/

#nowlistening
September 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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LinkedIn preempted by game play time today with a notification that it will begin using my personal data and content for AI model training unless I opt out.

So I opted out. You can too: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement?ref=activitypub
Screenshot of LinkedIn data privacy user settings. Setting name: Data for Generative Al Improvement. Setting description: Can LinkedIn use your personal data and content you create on LinkedIn to train generative Al models that create content? Setting label: Use my data for training content creation Al models. Setting toggle set to off. Footer text: When this setting is on, Linkedln can use your data and content to train content-generating Al models that are used in product features. The data we use for this purpose does not include your private messages.
September 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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LinkedIn’s daily games are fun. My favorite gameplay stat is how much smarter than CEOs I am.

https://www.linkedin.com/games/crossclimb?ref=activitypub
Screenshot of LinkedIn Crossclimb 507 win screen. Text: You're crushing it! Smarter than 95% of CEOs.
September 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Tell me Mozilla is lost without telling me Mozilla is lost

#mozilla #firefox
Screenshot of Firefox 143 update screen. Headline: Shake to Summarize. Shake it up. Skip the scroll. Paragraph: Summarize long reads quickly with a shake or tap. Available now on Firefox for iOS.
September 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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iOS 26 notifications for Grindr be like

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@adventuresinjelly/video/7029068321869827333

#apple #ios26 #ui #liquidglass
September 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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iOS 26 notification UI for Grindr be like

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@adventuresinjelly/video/7279330236079082784

#apple #ios26 #ui #liquidglass
September 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Every macOS 26 UI interaction be like

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@adventuresinjelly/video/7110986944003247366

#apple #macos26 #ui #liquidglass
September 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Every macOS 26 UI interaction be like

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@adventuresinjelly/video/6919235738001214722

#apple #macos26 #ui #liquidglass
September 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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The border radius will increase until morale improves.

#apple #macos26 #ui #liquidglass
Screenshot of macOS 26 with 2 app windows: System Settings and Warp terminal. Warp has not been updated for macOS 26 and has the previous standard border radius, which appears to be less than half of the new border radius.
September 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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The playlist cover image is an homage to the movie Little Miss Sunshine. I’ve been giggling about it to myself for a month. It might be less amusing to you.

This summer, Arthur rented a Volvo EX90 to help his parents move. This model should be recalled for its […]

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Solid yellow color background. Text "Little Mister Sunshine" with each word increasing in size. Illustration of a red-haired man pulls a Volvo SUV with a rope. The car's rear door is open.
September 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I don’t drink alcohol often, but I will always enjoy a glass of the best wine in the world when offered.
Bottle of Quintessa wine sitting a marble table. The wine label states Rutherford Napa Valley Red Wine.
August 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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WTF Apple Business Manager does not support Firefox and actively blocks it.

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-business-manager/program-requirements-axm6d9dc7acf/web
Screenshot of Firefox browser loading business.apple.com. Text on webpage: "There's an error. You're either on an unsupported browser or view this site on a mobile device. Switch to a supported browser."
August 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Happy Pride, Stockholm!

From Glampocalypse last night.

#pride #stockholm
August 2, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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“If I could wish upon a star
I would hitch a cable car
To the place that I can always call my own”
—“Save Me, San Francisco” by Train
Rainbow gradient background with text: Dear SF, My heart is so full tonight. Thank you to everyone who stopped by! Genuinely giving me hope and I'm grateful for that. XO, JL
July 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Giving language to describe the many subtleties and intersections of gender, sexual, and romantic identities helps people better understand themselves and others.

To relegate that progress behind a + feels wrong to me, but the expanding alphabet soup challenges […]

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June 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Wolfgang Oels dodged an audience question about how much of a European search engine Ecosia is it at this point.

Ecosia mostly seems to be a different UI on top of Google search given the Google cookies it asks to set.

He made a claim that Ecosia does something […]

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Screenshot of ecosia.org in Firefox private browsing mode. Consent screen is display with list of many Google-specific cookies and permissions.
June 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Delightfully unexpected #fediforum meetup in meatspace with @melaniebartos and @joanpla during the coffee break! Thinking of you, @j12t!

#ngiforum25
Selfie of Jeremiah, Melanie, Joan smiling
June 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Sean Bohan: Regulators like to think “sovereignty” is their job. He’s having to explain to many people why individual digital sovereignty matters and is essential to privacy as a human right. Healthy debate happening between regulators and open source […]

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Slide: Interoperability vs. Sovereignty? • Dynamic tension between sovereignty & collaboration • Sovereignty does not equal "closed" • Recognition: EUDI Wallet effort is Public Infrastructure • Cryptographers Feedback to the EUDI ARF • "No Phone Home" • Sovereignty does not equal isolation if we agree that digital commons thrive when people collaborate globally
June 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Sean Bohan from OpenWallet Foundation now presenting on how he still believes in Mozilla’s old slogan: The Web we want.

3 potential futures for digital wallets:
1. One wallet to rule them all: This is bad.
2. Every wallet is an app: Also bad.
3. Wallets are like […]

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Sean Bohan presenting slide described in the post. Stands in front of EU flag.
June 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Dr. Monique Calisti kicking off Next Generation Internet Forum.

NGI continues for another year and half and then other Horizon Europe programs take over, I assume.

Agenda for the next 2 days: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

NGI Policy Summit will be happening […]

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Dr. Monique Calisti in front of a project screen with a rainbow gradient over a slide of what to expect during the forum: Workshops on Digital Commons & Open Web Search, session son infrastructure, governance, and innovation, keynotes, networking opportunities.
June 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM