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Matt Linton

Matt Linton

@amuse.bsky.social

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 6h

Man, even the candy is under pressure around here

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 1d

Something more junior people need to be taught about promotions in tech is that promotions to "Senior" and beyond are just as much about your ability to function in an organization as they are about your technical skills. Just being great at the technical work isn't enough.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 2d

I was aware of this at the time which is why I did not want to play the " peanut auras are toxic" game.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 2d

LOL my Mother In Law sent me a "happy anniversary" message 2 days early and made me panic for about 5 minutes thinking I'd gotten the date wrong and missed it. Well played.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 2d

Again I stress, there is no history of anaphylaxis in my family, at all, to any substance. My child had no nut allergy.

They were just concerned I might _make my kid develop_ a nut allergy at some point in the future.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 2d

I had a family member tell me I needed to *wash my lips* between eating my lunch (A PB&J) and handling my baby because I "might kiss her and my peanut butter lips will touch her skin". They were extremely upset that I wouldn't listen and said I was risking my child's life for my selfishness.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 2d

I am definitely intrigued by the "Your body has to encounter things to be trained that they are normal and not a threat" immunology / allergens theory.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 2d

The biggest parenting lesson I wish I could reach back and teach my past self is that when it comes to parenting, everyone else's opinions aside from you and your partner should matter exactly zero because everyone is wrong about almost everything.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 2d

When my kid was 1yo, I got IMMENSE amounts of grief from other parents and family members because I didn't want to wash my hands between handling/eating peanuts and touching my own child. No one in my family has any history of severe allergies.

Fast forward a decade and....

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 7d

Old school tip that sometimes comes in handy still....

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 11d

Sometimes I respond to cold-call outreach from tech platform vendors.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 11d

Yep. The important part isn't that you TAKE ethics class, it's what you take away from it and what kind of person you are. Ethics knowledge is a tool just like all other knowledge.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 11d

Peter Thiel at an award speech: "I'd like to thank Plato, St Thomas Aquinas, and most importantly Ayn Rand, for the ethical framework that taught me being a billionare is a sign of merit and that poverty is a personal moral failure that should be punished."

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 11d

I always chuckle at "Philosophy majors should be more ethical than anyone".

Nothing challenges your moral center quite like learning 12 different ethical paradigms and having them all to reach for when you want to delude yourself into why the thing you want is ethical "If you look at it like..."

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 11d

That's just a regular day for us; our 4-word horror story is "No one will help" ❤️

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 12d

Another one of the problems with increasing use of unmarked cars & unmarked cops:

You swerve to get around some random white car you think is driving like a jerk and get into a tiny fender bender - but surprise! It's four fully armed angry men who now claim you've committed a felony assault on them

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12d

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 19d

Granted I'm not a military expert like Pete Hegseth but from afar it kind of seems to me like logistics, cyber security and drone operators are essentially carrying the weight of most modern warfare.

That said, if they're getting rid of mandatory phishing "exercises" I'm game.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 22d

Opinions wanted:

If you regularly eat lunch with coworkers & they talk about work for the majority of the lunch - do you mentally bucket that as work time or as a break?

Let's say the discussion isn't all gossip or blowing off steam; at least 50% is work talk.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 23d

This is referred to as a Kavanaugh stop, right?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23d

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID?

It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 25d

Blocking off traffic to funnel everyone through a suspicionless search ought to be illegal too.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 25d

I'd love to see more details specifically about this stop to know what about the U-turn was illegal. Was it "This street has a no u-turns sign" or was it "We consider all U-turns in this intersection to be temporarily illegal while we're stopping every driver for no cause". :P

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 25d

Why should it be illegal for an autonomous car to avoid a warrantless DUI searching checkpoint? Cars can't get drunk.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 27d

I don't know if y'all know this amazing fact, but -- both Cockatoos and Conures are capable of squawking loud enough in one's office to actually overwhelm the noise canceling on a good pair of headphones and cause audio clipping.

It's amazing.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 29d

I dunno, it doesn't quite have the same snap that the others do.

Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 29d

Today's hot take: "Vulnerability" as a term has become meaningless in the industry.

I propose that at a system level, a vulnerability is not a *vulnerability* if there are other intact, effective compensating controls. Many of the things we call vulns should just be called bugs