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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 30/01/2026

It's hard to claim to be the paper of record when your dictionary is just 500 words and a chewing gum wrapper

Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 30/09/2025

So we raised $10.7m to build a new professional platform oriented around high-trust networked group chats in large part because I think we're better as a species than "six business lessons I learned on my trip to Cancun". filament.substack.com/p/linkedin-c...

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LinkedIn chose creators over collaboration, so we raised $10.7M to build for innovation not attention

We build in fluid networks not silos. We need a platform that believes external collaboration is about more than performative content.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 01/09/2025

The irony of some preppy dude in a MAGA hat touring Ellis Island

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This is a defensive, 10-post thread from an NYT boss, and the only thing it truly illuminates is the need for the Times to bring an independent journalist back into the role of public editor.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 02/07/2025

I'm sure they save lives but whomever decided that smoke detectors should be interconnected and bleep at random when any one of them has a problem should have received a sound thrashing.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 29/06/2025

“So then I said to Bezos that I wouldn’t come to his wedding unless he brought back physical buttons on the kindle"

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 25/06/2025

Quick Poll: roughly how many Slacks, Discords, WhatsApp Groups and Signal group chats are you in for professional purposes outside your internal employee Slack etc.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

Two images of Zohran. On the left is the original from the campaign which shows a close cropped beard. On the right is a version used by Cuomo’s SuperPAC with an artificially longer, darker beard.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 09/06/2025

Now classifying people into Internet eras based on whether they know the 'I like the moon' video

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 30/05/2025

It's really hard to defend the healthcare system in the United States when going on an IV for one hour when brought to an ER is charged at $2,400.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 28/05/2025

"Claude found and fixed that nasty notification bug!" "Yay!" "We're pretty sure Claude created the bug in the first place" "So we're coming out even!"

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 16/05/2025

I did terribly on this in part because some of the real ledes are terrible. See how you do: www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

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Who Writes Better Ledes?

Human vs. bot.

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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"It is only one of our rights to dress comfortably..." --Amelia Bloomer to Susan B. Anthony on wearing Bloomers in the 1850s

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 01/05/2025

AI is ruining the core executive skill of dashing off emails replete with spelling and grammatical errors. How are we supposed to show that we're important and busy now?

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 28/04/2025

Ah Google AI, was Bell Labs *really* created to "produce and market innovative rodent control products"? I smell a r.....

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 28/04/2025

I come back to this one a lot

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 23/04/2025

Dear OpenTable don't force people to login with email code verification after you've already forced phone number code verification if your system can't send emails

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 23/04/2025

At an investor dinner tonight and the talk was all around the downstream effects of the attack on universities. Universities are some of the biggest LPs in venture firms and they're trying to pull their money out of venture to preserve cash. JD Vance just fucked his SV friends.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 21/04/2025

This is like the time thieves robbed my house, stole my diamond Louis XIV chandelier and left a crappy Ikea lamp shade in its place.

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Jackie Llanos @llanosjackie.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez will be held in jail for the next 48 hours because he is under an ICE hold. Again, he is a U.S. citizen born in Georgia.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 17/04/2025

I've had persistent leg pain for the last few days (won't disturb y'all with the details) but I now get why Dr House was the way he was.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 13/04/2025

@moskov.goodventures.org I would find Asana 3x more useful if the available iphone widgets were focused on quick entry/voice entry vs showing me tasks to do

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 06/04/2025

Feeding an eight year old is asking 'tenders or nuggets?'

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 31/03/2025

Every person going through the Holland tunnel gives a silent prayer in thanks for the congestion charge

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 31/03/2025

This article on what a manned mission to Mars requires is fascinating reading and puts some claims about how soon we'll get there in perspective: idlewords.com/2025/02/the_...

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The Shape of a Mars Mission (Idle Words)

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 30/03/2025

I was reminded today that the last time the US went to war with Canada, Canada won.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 29/03/2025

New improved Tesla logo on the model Y

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 21/03/2025

Who's the best copywriter you know?

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 18/03/2025

It's not the number of seats, it's what you do with them...

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 14/03/2025

This industry is the worst

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 13/03/2025

The Streisand Effect is going full throttle right now for that Careless People book.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 12/03/2025

Google's new AI Tool paradigm ReAct follows the wonderful naming tradition Google began with Go in naming things that are fundamentally un-googleable. Bravo.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 12/03/2025

This became about 100x more terrifying than it would have been six months ago

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 11/03/2025

Jon Slade has been that rare commercial exec with the soul of a newsman and a genuine willingness to innovate. The best possible choice for the FT

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 09/03/2025

Scene: Johnny's bar, Greenwich village Me: you still stocking Macallan? Bartender: nah, it got expensive and only this one guy would come in every so often and drink it all Me: yeah, I'm that guy Bartender: is your name Tony?

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 03/03/2025

Was DOGE also put in charge of the streaming servers for the Oscars?

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 28/02/2025

God when third winter his NYC it's really going to suck after the last couple days

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 27/02/2025

When Howard Hughes went from hugely successful entrepreneur to drug-fueled nutbag, he had the decency to hide himself away not try to take over the levers of government.

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Bethany Crystal @bethanymarz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

If I’ve learned anything from Swarm over the past decade, it’s that it’s really nice to find a burrow into a cozy corner of the Internet, one that feels a lot less like a fire hose and a lot more like that neighborhood cafe down the street. IYKYK. hardmodefirst.xyz/the-lowkey-c...

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The Lowkey Comfort of Long-Term Narrowcasting

Reflections on the check-in app, Swarm and the power of hyper-niche, cozy connections in a digital age

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 24/02/2025

This, on how trad wives benefit from Feminism, is fascinating. Trad wives fought for women's rights so that if their husband died they could still keep their kids, their homes, or even their furniture. None of this was possible before the women's movement. mayarodale.substack.com/p/the-origin...

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The original Trad Wives were the first feminists

Why we all--including trad wives--still benefit from feminism today

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 22/02/2025

Worth noting that Elon pulled this exact same shit at Twitter and thus far has lost *every single* arbitration that arose from it.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 18/02/2025

I sometimes reflect on Walter Isaacson, who spent so long immersed with a subject only to miss every single important facet of his character. Is there a sense of humiliation or regret I wonder...

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 12/02/2025

We're hiring at Filament! Specifically: - Our first Product Manager - Our first Engineering Manager - Back-End Engineers - Machine Learning Engineers Each role helps to build the essential communication platform to accelerate global innovation before the world burns. filament.dm/jobs

filament.dm

Jobs — Filament

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 11/02/2025

Whomever decided to manufacture bean bags with no inner bag deserves everything that's coming to them.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 10/02/2025

Sidenote, JD Vance is also confirming every unfair prejudice I have about the quality of teaching at Yale

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 10/02/2025

Tomorrow's newspaper sales should keep the Philadelphia Inquirer in the black for another couple years or so

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 09/02/2025

"Does your soul fly out of your body at the moment you die? No. This is a foolish superstition. Your soul is constantly flying out of your body in just the same way that energy is constantly flying out of the sun. At the moment your body dies, the soul stops flying out." RIP Tom and thank you

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 05/02/2025

Does anyone else's MBP touch bar just go persistently black? The buttons are still there, but they don't show up. Or is this Apple's commitment to invisible design?

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