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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · 17d

Yep that's a polar bear fur

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · Sep 30

"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 · Sep 30

Thanks Damon!

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · Sep 30

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...

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.

filament.substack.com

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · Sep 30

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.

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.

hacks.mozilla.org

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · Sep 30

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 · Sep 1

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

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Jul 5

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.

NYTimes Communications @nytimespr.bsky.social · Jul 4

Our assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, Patrick Healy, posted on X today in response to feedback on our recent reporting on Zohran Mamdani.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · Jul 2

justice served.

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · Jul 2

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 · Jun 28

“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 · Jun 25

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 · Jun 12

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 · Jun 9

Welcome to your elder statesmen of the internet era, Dave

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · Jun 9

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 · May 30

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 · May 27

"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 · May 16

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

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · May 16

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

Who Writes Better Ledes?

Human vs. bot.

www.cjr.org

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · May 9

What has the journalism school done to oppose this?

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · May 4

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 · May 4

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

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Tony Haile @arctictony.com · May 4

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 · May 3

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 · May 1

"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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