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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like, "Based on the amount of sunscreen you purchase, you would probably prefer this shady canyon hike instead of this other fully sun-exposed one". (absolutely correct BTW)

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Then I gave the doc full of those inferences back to it as personal context and said "Find things you think I'd like to do while I'm in Boulder." Spot. On. Recommendations.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Honestly it's kinda scary but the other day I had Gemini (in agy-cli) crawl 2 years of my email, calendar, google docs, etc and "Infer anything you can about my preferences, habits, interests". After several runs I had 4 pages of pretty spot-on inferences. (1/2)

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I (ok, Gemini) made a Google Map (zoom-able) with all the areas of the USA highlighted in Red where DHS/ICE/CBP are allowed (currently, unless SCOTUS rules otherwise) to stop you with no suspicion of wrongdoing or warrant and search your electronic devices: mattlinton.com/constitution...

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you're one of the majority of men who aren't all men this week, one place that might be good to support is "Futures Without Violence" who have an extremely highly-rated program called "Coaching Boys Into Men" that has actual study-backed positive effects at teaching adolescent boys about consent.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, it IS pretty cool how far computer image recognition and search have come in the last 3 decades, right?

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In my example it was San Francisco to BOS (plenty of diversion airports) but the pilots radioed my report + vitals in to a doctor somewhere and the doctor told them to keep flying.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Must have been a serious emergency. Airlines do whatever they can to NOT divert a flight. I was the hand-raiser for "Is anyone on board medically trained?" on a flight a couple years ago & the patient was honestly not in good shape. They had me sit and monitor him for 3 hours until we landed.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

But is it made with real Dutton family?

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every government and big business who insists on "sovereign" cloud data where the data stays geographically in their country should look at this and understand that you're demanding a cloud with less reliability.

arstechnica.com

Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data

War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You worked at Google and you're still asking that question? :P

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That's great! I like watches with physical hands too because it's much easier to take somebody's pulse when the seconds timer doesn't disappear after 10 seconds of inactivity.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Got a pointer to a model / one that works well for this purpose?

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do they make a fitbit/smartwatch yet that can tell you're stressing out and start buzzing to remind you to breathe deeply and pet a dog for a few minutes? I'd buy one for each wrist.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was invited to a very fancy restaurant yesterday for dinner, and I think I now understand why rich people still seem to be so unhappy. Dessert was one square inch of cake, with gold leaf on it. And everyone had to pretend that they were super happy about that.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

North Beach in SF and the whole of South San Francisco were essentially founded by Italian Catholic immigrants - not exactly famously liberal (though still much more liberal now than the hard-right turn Evangelicals have taken)

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I thought AI was supposed to help me gain an edge over the attackers

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Every time I'm listening to YouTube Music on random and an AI-generated song pops up, I get the creepy feeling that I'm experiencing the versificator from 1984 in action. I love being able to code faster but I could do without uncanny-valley machine generated covers of 80s hits.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I *love* that we call a trained AI instruction set a "Model" because testing them extensively has given me numerous opportunities to use this Beetlejuice .gif

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Either let my password manager handle my business, or implement passkeys. I don't want to have to swap apps, copy-paste (or remember random digits), swap back, type things in, and hit buttons to complete my login.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I applaud sites/services who try to go "Passwordless" for security reasons but PLEASE, I'm begging y'all: Stop going passwordless with "We'll email/text you a sign-in confirmation every time you sign in". This adds a bunch of useless friction to an already-solved problem!

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

These 8-story structures with commercial space on the bottom and 6 to 7 stories of housing on top, built near light rail and train stations, are an EXCELLENT responsible housing growth plan for cities in the SF Bay area. We should see more of it.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Everyone dumps on theater kids until they're movie stars

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Related: If none of my future grandkids plays cello I will have to figure out how to pass mine down to someone who will love to play it.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I've discovered that I am a sucker for videos where a musician's kid plays their work (and on their instrument!). Shane Hawkins at his dad's memorial, Jason Bonham @ Kennedy center, Lukas Nelson, etc. I love these performances <3

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I just gently handled a Byrna pepper ball which got too old and had a teeeny bit of the powder seep out a crack and onto the ball. I am now coughing, snotty, and sneezing. Would hate to have a cloud of this stuff in my face.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Oh my God, I was having fomo for not coming this year but every post about defcon 2026 makes me less and less sad to have missed it.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Last night a human driver ran over & killed a person in a clearly marked crosswalk in my town, while that person had a walk signal. It would be good if this person's death was as meaningful to the "ban waymos!" Community as the hypothetical risk of someone being hurt in the future.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So LinkedIn just included this option after you click "Hide this post in my feed" and I am so happy to see it as an option!! Your move, other social media sites.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I think the primary reason it is now socially accepted that people will shove their phone in your face and record you for anything and everything, is that it's very socially unacceptable for people to slap the phone out of your hand for doing it.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The year is 2032. AI escaped containment and became self-aware. Despite our best efforts, humanity has been all but extinguished. The computers reign. Finally, after all these years - it's the year of Linux on the desktop.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I saw that original post and wondered how many people just don't know that there are datacenters in downtown San Francisco and that there are likely tech executives who live in San Francisco.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

When I was little and needed expensive treatments for a medical condition, my parents had insurance but the insurance company tried denying all costs because the condition is genetic and that counts as pre-existing.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Insurance billing is wild. "Cost: $48,430" "Insurance paid: $2,230" "Your share: $600" Oh so it didn't *actually* cost $48,430 then?

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Personally, I hate mosquitoes with the fire of a thousand Suns. But I'm even less enthusiastic about ecological collapses. 😁

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

That seems like a very moderate and reasoned response, are you sure you're on the right internet?

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Assume that technology has made it possible to eradicate all mosquitoes. 100% - but we don't really know what the ecological impact will be down the line. Should we do it?

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This article touched on one of my fav topics (incident playbooks) but I had way more words than will fit here, so I wrote them down in long-form. TLDR: I think "Create a playbook for every possible incident" is overkill. Playbooks have a place, but also limits. More: mattlinton.com/blog/playboo...

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Playbooks and Response Plans: Striking the Right Balance

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A thing that so many internet-freedom advocates fail to effectively convey when we oppose age verification laws, social media bans, and the like: "Protect the children" includes protecting them from things that a future government may want to do to harm them when they're adults.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Honestly, Volunteering is HIGHLY under-rated. Especially as you get older. In my own case, It's much harder for a man in his 40s to make new friends (as compared to the college years) but when I rejoined a volunteer fire department I greatly expanded my friend-network in my local community.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I am willing to buy into the idea that AI-generated creations, if done well &appreciated by the beholder, may be art. But I *really* need YouTube to start forcing AI-generated music to be labeled as such so I can filter out the billion AI-cover-uploads that now pollute my feed.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

SF Chronicle / sfgate has the same problem. Despite paying them for access to the website, it's seemingly not possible to have a persistent login to said website. I eventually had to just cancel my subscription.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is why I would actually rather just give things away for free on freecycle than try to sell them on nextdoor or Craigslist.

A PayPal scanner gets called on their bullshit

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Arguably mine is "Being too active on Twitter" but also that time I crashed an air traffic control system by typo-ing "<" instead of ">" in a long regex is probably the real Ace

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This one is a great regulation. The main reason robocars are better drivers than humans is that they can have more senses than humans, which work better and faster than ours. "Camera only because humans only have eyes and we do fine" was really dumb.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Illegal in California - thanks CARL! anzlaw.thomsonreuters.com/w-032-9665

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Isn't this the main selling point of the SBOM crowd?

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