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Jeremiah Lee
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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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Rare financial inclusion project on Kiva needs more microlenders:

The Amazonas Savings and Credit Cooperative was established in 2011 by agricultural producers and merchants in Peru. In 2023, the cooperative implemented the “Mujer Chamba” financial product as part of its institutional strategy […]
Original post on alpaca.gold
alpaca.gold
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Former Harvard President Larry Summers maintained a close personal relationship with convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein until just months before his death in August 2019, according to emails released by Congress on Wednesday.

I will never forget Stripe CEO Patrick Collison interviewing […]
Original post on alpaca.gold
alpaca.gold
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Evan Edinger explains why he would never want to move back to the US after living in Europe for 13 years. I feel the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1QvVnjiegE

#tillsverige
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Today, November 13, is World Kindness Day.

I participated in TypeCampus’s Fight for Kindness typographic poster exhibition.

More about my entry, Comment with Kindness: https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/comment-with-kindness/?ref=activitypub

If you like it […]

[Original post on alpaca.gold]
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Stores in Sverige are sending me emails saying Black Friday is next week.

But this is incorrect.

Black Friday is the Friday after the 4th Thursday in November, which is November 28 this year.

https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/half-a-holiday-black-friday-with-no-thanksgiving?ref=activitypub […]
Original post on alpaca.gold
alpaca.gold
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reposted by Jeremiah Lee
"I'm only making a simple and reasonable request. Just CW all your posts about <topic>. It's not hard".

It's not that it's *hard*. I could do it.

But this request simply isn't reasonable. You're asking me to marginalize a broad class of my posts to accommodate your personal preferences. If I […]
Original post on federate.social
federate.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Is there a good reason why Mastodon’s Docker setup cannot run its database migrations upon upgrade?

My server was down for 4 hours because Elestio autoupdates Mastodon, but didn't run the `rails db:migrate` command […]
Original post on alpaca.gold
alpaca.gold
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Reposted by Jeremiah Lee
🎙️ Day 2 of the Interledger Listening Lab is live at #ilpsummit25!

Today’s talks move from financial inclusion to financial justice — exploring how innovation and collaboration can build a fairer digital economy for all. 🌍

👉 Watch live […]

[Original post on interledger.social]
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Reposted by Jeremiah Lee
🎉 Day 1 of #ilpsummit25 is LIVE in Mexico City!

Powerful conversations from the Interledger Listening Lab explore interoperability, human rights, and financial inclusion. 🌍

🔴 Watch live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ethS_H4Tqow

#interledger #techforgood
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Going to bed in México incredibly happy with the US election results. That’s a nice change!

#uspol
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I assume this is a Halloween joke years in the making at Zoom.
November 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM
On my way to @Interledger Summit in La Ciudad de México! It’s next week, but I’m arriving a few days early for Día de los Muertos.

ARN ✈️ CDG ✈️ MEX

#ilpsummit25
October 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
macOS 26 bug: the entirety of the Contacts app redesign

There is a 99% chance that I want to copy a phone number—not call it—from my laptop, but selecting the phone number to copy it now takes multiple attempts due to a selection bug.

The cursor changes to the text caret, but the text fails to […]
Original post on alpaca.gold
alpaca.gold
October 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Apple is testing a "tinted glass" option for iOS 26.1 that reduces the transparency effect of its Liquid Glass UI to be less of a 🖕 to people with vision problems.

I currently am using the Accessibility > Reduce transparency option in iOS 26 and macOS 26. It makes text legible again to me, but […]
Original post on alpaca.gold
alpaca.gold
October 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reposted by Jeremiah Lee
Now is another great moment to ponder if making your business rely on Amazon is a great idea.
October 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The annual reminder of #LeafComputing’s relevance is today. https://leafcomputing.net/?ref=activitypub

Roblox, Snapchat, Venmo, HBO, Hulu, Reddit, CapitalOne, TMobile, AT&T, Signal, and hundreds of other apps are offline because AWS is offline […]
Original post on alpaca.gold
alpaca.gold
October 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Copy Link to Highlight is finally coming to Firefox 145! Expected release date of 2025-11-11.

Viewing text fragments has been supported since Firefox 131, released over a year ago.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1993501

#firefox #webdev
1993501 - Ship Copy Link to Highlight on Desktop
RESOLVED (jjaschke) in Firefox - Menus. Last updated 2025-10-10.
bugzilla.mozilla.org
October 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Interacting with a LLM trained on only eBay reviews would be like, rare, exotic, excellent, 5 stars, A++++++,
would burn down rainforests for again.
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I love that the hypothetical high quality implementation of any software thing is always “the Rust implementation”.
October 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Merriam-Webster figured out how to make a LLM that never hallucinates. This is impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvQnl3O0D3c

#ai
October 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Jeremiah Lee
The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface.

#uspolitics
October 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I applaud #nordicjs for its all vegetarian conference food!
October 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM