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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

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 13/01/2026

There are however myriad other things that are totally my fault and for those I apologize without reservation

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 17/10/2025

Yep that's a polar bear fur

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

"I read this post and realized something profound about AI and it's not what you think"

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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 · 30/09/2025

One big thing we open-sourced as part of that were new Uniffi bindings between Rust and React Native hacks.mozilla.org/2024/12/intr... that we just extended to Wasm. It means people on the matrix protocol can now have all their business logic in rust and then use RN across mobile and desktop.

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Introducing Uniffi for React Native: Rust-Powered Turbo Modules – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Uniffi for React Native: Mozilla and Filament's open-source tool lets you build high-performance Modules in Rust.

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

One of my theories is that the future is more likely to be oriented around networked group chats than classical feeds, so we actually built on top of and contributed to the matrix protocol not ATProto.

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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

Welcome to your elder statesmen of the internet era, Dave

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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 · 17/05/2025

You must have a very low opinion of NPR to have got that one right

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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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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 09/05/2025

What has the journalism school done to oppose this?

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 04/05/2025

I think my wife's favorite is when at restaurants I order a side of mushrooms and explain to the waitstaff it's because I'm a 'fun guy'. 17 years of hilarity from that one.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 04/05/2025

Oh I was being completely serious, you can ask my wife

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 04/05/2025

It’s important to say this consistently through at least the first 15 years of marriage to really unlock the full humor

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 03/05/2025

Just asked for one for my birthday, keen to see how it compares. I’ve bought every new kindle up through the oasis, but feels like no longer the right choice

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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

Now I want to know how you found your way to this book. It's a little off the beaten path

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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 · 24/04/2025

The duck at Fatty Crab on Hudson

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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

appreciate you have light mode and dark mode too

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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 · 22/04/2025

Love this, though @brandonsilverman.bsky.social loses points for not reinforcing my anti Yale bias

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

I'm fascinated with this myself. If blue sky decides on 3rd party verifiers (and presumably can revoke verification rights) then it's still a centralized system right? Just one with contractors...

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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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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 20/04/2025

I thought Passover was hiding kids from stuff?

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 18/04/2025

Stated bluntly by Michael Gove when told that every person who knew what they were talking about said Brexit was idiocy: I want the British people to trust themselves, we've had enough of experts. youtu.be/sz1_LHtfuCI This was the core message of Mussolini too

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Michael Gove vs The Experts™

YouTube video by Jo

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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

In the same way that the film The Menu is the natural conclusion of the show The Bear

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

they're not complex when you start with 'everybody lies' :)

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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 · 15/04/2025

Hi from the ER with a septic knee

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

I really appreciate that feature, it's still a bit of a production vs slamming one big ass button and typing/speaking. Speed of task capture is probably the biggest factor for me in what I use. I may not be normal in that regard :)

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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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