@nbcsboston Joon Lee sheds light on Red Sox' organizational dysfunction under Craig Breslow
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The Red Sox just sent out this statement about the report the Red Sox were using AI for interviews in baseball ops:
— Christopher Smith (@SmittyOnMLB) June 18, 2025
"We wanted to reach out to you because we are seeing unsubstantiated reports about the Red Sox using AI bots to hire candidates and feel it’s important to address…
By Emily Gogolak for Harper's. Packed with stark numbers and colorful details:
It has also opened the doors to deep managerial surveillance, like cameras that face not only out toward the road but in toward the driver, monitoring their eye movements, and baseball caps that monitor their brain waves.
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The shortage is, in fact, a retention problem: annual turnover at large fleets in recent years has exceeded 90 percent. ... The median annual pay for a trucker today is just shy of $50,000, which, according to Belzer, is less than half of what truckers were earning in 1980 when adjusting for inflation.
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Later that day, during lunch, someone dropped off three pit-bull-mix puppies, and Yanis claimed one and carried it around like a baby. She named him Bonito. There was one more up for grabs, dark gray with blue eyes and a white spot on its chest, and it clung to me when I picked it up. Rey looked at us. “Pit bulls make good truck dogs,” he said.
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To explain my nervousness, I told a few guys about the time in high school when I accidentally drove my mother’s car into our house, pressing on the gas instead of the brakes while trying to ease into the garage and putting a giant crack in the living room wall.
“Oh, that’s your name, that’s your CB handle!” one of them shouted, referring to nicknames truckers use on citizens band radio, a service for short-range communication. “Thru-the-Wall!”
Immediately, Rey came up with an alternative: House Hunter.
Hawaiian Airlines wants to put you through a 2 hour interview process, then two 40 hour weeks of training, all UNPAID pic.twitter.com/bHhv9x71ai
— Michael Sainato (@msainat1) July 19, 2021
✨ New exhibition #AdultsBySchulz opens TODAY! 🖼️ Discover Schulz’s process and experimentation in portraying teen and adult characters, and enjoy a rare opportunity to see characters that differ from the beloved Peanuts Gang. On view thru 1/16/2022. https://t.co/nO2Upleo8s pic.twitter.com/pHeVL2eHwL
— Charles M. Schulz Museum (@SchulzMuseum) June 17, 2021
Wonder if it'll include this incredibly strange Peanuts strip that not only shows interaction by adults, but also uses all sorts of perspective/compositions that Schulz pretty much never uses. pic.twitter.com/9TnAwHGX88
— Ben Towle (@ben_towle) June 17, 2021
— Aron Nels Steinke (@mrwolfcomics) June 17, 2021
How he went from being a Southern California kid that liked watching Robotech on TV, to chasing down Rob Liefeld, to spending so much time managing a team he barely has time to draw.
WaPo:
for many child-care workers, often hired with little more than a high school diploma, returning to school is a difficult, expensive proposition with questionable reward.
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unlike in most professional fields, prospects are slim that a degree will bring a significantly higher income — a bachelor's degree in early-childhood education yields the lowest lifetime earnings of any major.
Center directors have few resources to tap if they want to reward their better-educated employees. Many parents in the District are maxed out, paying among the highest annual tuitions nationally, at $1,800 a month. And government subsidies that help fund care for children from lower-income families fall well below the market rate.
imagine my dad trying to explain to me that this dude was good once. i mean this exact version of him. https://t.co/PQERdLoUDA
— bomani (@bomani_jones) October 7, 2020
The greatest resume I’ll ever receive pic.twitter.com/ClQAa3u11c— Dave Jorgenson 🐠 (@davejorgenson) January 10, 2020
About your host*Previously: "An Airbnb guesthouse of horrors"
In 2013, I co-founded Amazon Game Studios in a series of direct pitches to Jeff Bezos. Amazon has since acquired Twitch and invested hundreds of millions of dollars in gaming.
I was also an Amazon Bar Raiser with 350+ interviews. Bar Raisers are esteemed Amazonians who determine whether the company should hire a job candidate or not. Lastly, I was a New-hire Orientation Host who inculcates new hires in the Amazon culture, during their first day on the job.
What we’ll do
We recommend taking the "Prepare For The Amazon.com Interview" experience prior to taking "Simulate The Amazon.com Interview Loop." www.airbnb.com/experiences/241942
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During the simulation, candidates interview with former Amazon employees, matched to the candidate’s job level and function.
After the interview loop, candidates attend their own debrief as “a fly on the wall.” During the debrief, candidates witness the interview team deliberate and decide whether to “hire” the candidate based on Amazon’s Leadership Principles and functional competencies.
Lastly, if needed, candidates find out how to evolve from a “no-hire” to a “hire” outcome. This type of coaching is valuable because Amazon does not provide official interview feedback to rejected candidates. In contrast, during our simulation, candidates receive constructive feedback, without the outcome counting against them.
YES! My hometown lowers a giant bag of Hartley's potato chips https://t.co/ux4GHrJLPn— Reyhan Harmanci (@harmancipants) December 27, 2018
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This column is really good but I'll NEVER forgive @max_read for telling me the dominos pizza tracker isn't real. 🙉 https://t.co/9ZJGt60NWG— Allison P Davis (@AllisonPDavis) December 26, 2018
Perspective is everything 😂 pic.twitter.com/ucaIJwQypw— YP🦈 (@YoungPageviews) December 24, 2018
The least believable thing about Aquaman is that social media somehow dubbed him Aquaman. And not Krilly Ocean.— Deck the Fowls (@TheMattFowler) December 26, 2018
Every so often I wonder what happened to the 8-9 women on that Orlando Bloom message board back in the day, with whom I joined forces to make and send him a quilt for his birthday in 2004.— Kendra James (@KendraJames_) December 26, 2018
LeBron unwrapping a Christmas present from his aunt. He sighs when he sees it's another basketball. "I know you love those," she smiles.— Ethan Booker (@Ethan_Booker) December 23, 2016
It penalized resumes that included the word “women’s,” as in “women’s chess club captain.” And it downgraded graduates of two all-women’s colleges, according to people familiar with the matter. They did not specify the names of the schools.
Amazon edited the programs to make them neutral to these particular terms. But that was no guarantee that the machines would not devise other ways of sorting candidates that could prove discriminatory, the people said.
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the technology favored candidates who described themselves using verbs more commonly found on male engineers’ resumes, such as “executed” and “captured,”
This is being reported as a problem with machine learning, but there's another way of looking at it: The algorithm exposed bias in their *existing* hiring practices https://t.co/KVYgSA6x0F— Peter Aldhous (@paldhous) October 10, 2018
Natty Light is offering the chance for a fan to get their resume printed on the #37 car for the South Point 400 on Sept 16. Email your resume to NattyRaceResume@naturallight.com. pic.twitter.com/bmh4vIqySw— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 30, 2018
CHIPOTLE PLAYLIST CURATOR
Studio Orca owner Chris Golub chooses the tunes soundtracking your lunch
Golub’s interests in music and the culinary world dovetailed early in his career: After serving as his college radio station’s music director at Villanova University, he became the resident DJ at influential clubs like Philadelphia’s Bank, then opened his own wine/sake bar in Denver. It was there that Chipotle founder Steve Ells paid him a few visits in 2009, eventually asking if Golub would make a couple of sample playlists for his fast-casual chain. That same year, Golub founded Studio Orca, which now curates music for a variety of restaurants, boutique hotels and retail stores. As Chipotle’s official “director of vibe,” Golub programs the in-store playlists from a pool of “unique, upbeat, cross-genre” songs he estimates as “floating around 600 tracks.” He starts each day scanning music blogs to stay up to date on the latest releases and hits local clubs early in the night, “so I can catch the opening acts, many of whom will be the next superstars in the industry.” In between, he researches bands, producers and labels.
For local owners, it can feel like an onslaught. “There’s just a ton of money, and a ton of out-of-towners coming in,” said Jaime van Schyndel, the owner of Barismo, a roastery and retailer with cafes in Cambridge and Arlington.
Presumably, these investors all want a slice of the next Starbucks and its $80 billion valuation. Consider the competition: The Silicon Valley darling Blue Bottle Coffee, which has a staggering $120 million plus in funding, is opening a shop in Harvard Square later this year. Intelligentsia, which was acquired by Peet’s Coffee in 2015, is constructing a new training lab and cafe in Watertown. Philadelphia’s La Colombe began serving draft lattes in the Leather District last April, while Caffe Nero, from London, has set up 11 shops in town. And San Francisco-based Philz Coffee, which has raised $75 million and has Snoop Dogg as an investor, will arrive this year.
And then there’s Reserve, Starbucks’ own boutique spinout
“Pretty soon every rig will have one worker and a robot.”
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Indeed, computers now direct drill bits that were once directed manually. The wireless technology taking hold across the oil patch allows a handful of geoscientists and engineers to monitor the drilling and completion of multiple wells at a time — onshore or miles out to sea — and supervise immediate fixes when something goes wrong, all without leaving their desks. It is a world where rigs walk on their own legs and sensors on wells alert headquarters to a leak or loss of pressure, reducing the need for a technician to check.
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Much of the technology has been developed by the aviation and automotive industries, along with deepwater oil exploration, over more than a decade. But companies drilling on land were slow to adapt until oil prices crashed and companies needed to get efficient quickly or go out of business.
Mecklenburg County, which received $2.1 million from the state for the project, has given Microsoft 350 acres and offset personal property taxes by 82.5 percent, according to Wayne Carter, the county administrator.
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“I’ve worked on a lot of nuclear power plants, and these things are a lot bigger than that,” said E. W. Gregory, the head of the local electrical workers’ union. But “the first thing they put in was a guard shack and a fence. I’ve filled rooms with people looking for entry-level work. None of it lasts.”
The companies come to places like Boydton for basics like land, water and electricity. Even with low local wages, people are a high-cost item. As small as the staffs at these mammoth facilities are, companies say, perhaps a third of the company jobs will eventually be filled by robots.
So the white people are not the majority nor are they arguing for meritocracy...and yet they seem to be winning. They are winning with the argument that it's not good to have too much winning when they are not the ones doing the winning.2. Airbnb's job interview questions.
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meritocracy seemed like a good idea until white people weren't winning, and the notion of judging the "whole person" came about a remedy to the perceived problem of keeping a traditionally disadvantaged minority group from climbing through the use of the meritocracy. Striving for success within the meritocracy got framed as grasping and grade-grubbing — qualities you wouldn't want in a healthy, well-rounded young person.
Zappos, based in Las Vegas, plans to hire at least 450 people this year, but candidates won't find out about those jobs on LinkedIn.com, Monster.com or the company website. Instead, they will have to join a social network, called Zappos Insiders, where they will network with current employees and demonstrate their passion for the company—in some cases publicly—in hopes that recruiters will tap them when jobs come open.2. Sergey Brin on Google+:
"I'm probably the worst person to speak about social ... I'm just not a very social person," he says.
Brin says he posts pictures of his kids to family. "I don't connect with a lot of people. I'm kind of weirdo. It was probably a mistake for me to be working on anything tangentially related to social to begin with." Wow.3. The T2 motorbike chase recreated in Grand Theft Auto V.
On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time. How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time. They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.2. "One billion euros in aid that the EU gave to Egypt over the past six years has gone to waste, the EU’s spending watchdog reported today in a scathing assessment. Sixty percent of that aid—€600 million—is unaccounted for."
