Scott Knaster

What I did on my last day working @Google In the morning, I had my exit meeting with an HR (“PeopleOps”) guy working at his home in the northeast U.S. He had a lovely animated gentle snowstorm background. I met him 2 weeks ago when I started the process of leaving the company.

@SlangsOnSports @EliasSports Stop the count!

The Giants now lead the Dodgers head-to-head all-time in the regular season, 1,289 wins to 1,288 wins (with 19 ties, h/t @EliasSports)

@SharksFan42 @smittysharkz @NHL I mean it's already most of the way there with the beard!

@scottknaster @smittysharkz @NHL I was thinking the same 😂

Macklin Celebrini's final tally in his 19-year-old season: 82 games 45 goals 70 assists 115 points Ridiculous 🤯

@smittysharkz @NHL Make it Joe Thornton on the right and it's perfect.

@LukeEpplin I liked it. In particular the storm / aliens emerge / disintegrate everybody sequence is spectacular.

My wife is away, so I'm catching up on films I've never seen. Last night I gave Spielberg's "War of the World" a try and it's almost unwatchable, just shockingly bad, so much so that I realized that outside of the 9/11 context in which it was conceived, it makes no sense.

@LukeEpplin Oh sure. I wrote (computer) books long ago, got good advances, made actual money. That's long gone. As a reader I enjoy the convenience of digital books. But I love physical ones so much, I imagine ways for them to succeed.

@scottknaster I guess, but if your comp is the music industry, we're in trouble.

Sometimes I take a packed subway to work, look around, and don't see a single paper product of any kind, and I start to wonder if I'm in the last generation of folks who will be able to make a living working on physical books.

@LukeEpplin What about vinyl? Is it really coming back, or just a niche? May be instructive.

@scottknaster I don't see it, man. I've worked in book publishing for more than two decades. The trends aren't good.

@ParkerOrtolani @WhiteRockInves1 It also uses the Mac system service that fixes typos and predicts text.

@WhiteRockInves1 keyboard shortcut, mini mode, native window sharing, much more Mac-like feel

ok Google cooked with the native Gemini Mac app

@Fansdepantallas @threadreaderapp unroll por favor

1️⃣ La maldición de Hill House (2018) — Netflix Una de las mejores series de terror de la historia. ✔️ Terror psicológico + drama familiar ✔️ Episodios con planos secuencia brutales ✔️ Final que te deja tocado

🧵 SERIES DE TERROR MUY BIEN VALORADAS (y dónde verlas) Si te gusta pasarlo mal de verdad (de ese que engancha), aquí tienes series de terror con notazas que puedes ver ahora mismo distintas plataformas. Guárdate este hilo 👇

@RetroBayArea @cariapa There’s a smaller version (I think called Scan) that’s right in line with this one, but back down the sidewalk away from Charleston.

@cariapa Leaning man is Vision by William King. I used to not like it but the more I looked at it the more it grew on me. Here is his website with some photos of his other sculptures. williamkingsculpture.com

The original Adobe headquarters. Mountain View, 1989. In 1982, John Warnock and Charles Geschke were two computer scientists at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. While there, they developed a page description language called Interpress, which could precisely control the layout and printing of text and images. When Xerox declined to commercialize the technology, Warnock and Geschke left to start their own company. They named their new company Adobe after Adobe Creek, a small stream behind Warnock’s home in Los Altos. Try this. Go to Google Maps, type in “Adobe Creek, Palo Alto,” and follow it from beginning to end. It’s pretty neat to see just where it is and then realize that this exact little creek is what Adobe was actually named after. It’s right there in Palo Alto. After starting in a small office, Adobe’s first official headquarters was located at 1585 Charleston Road in Mountain View, just across the street from where the Googleplex is. This remained their main office space until they eventually relocated to San Jose, where their headquarters remains today. Today, Google occupies the old Adobe HQ, and on Google Maps, the building’s exterior still seems unchanged, at least for the most part. source footage 🎥: Bob McSummit

@adam3us @JohnCarreyrou @AaronvanW @ThibaultZeller @jonathanplesel @threadreaderapp unroll

@JohnCarreyrou @AaronvanW the "we are all satoshi" stone is from this high production value special effects short film "block 170, the first transaction" by @ThibaultZeller @jonathanplesel player.vimeo.com/video/60727736…

@StevenLevy Also: no forced curation of other people’s music like in Apple Music. Just YOUR music.

Thanks! I still think iPod is the perfect thing. No worries about child predators, too much screen time, or attention drains. Just fun.

@NasdaqExchange it's AAPL not APPL. 🍎 x.com/NasdaqExchange…

@la22332653 @aakashgupta That is exactly how it works and it's awesome. E.g. Allentown to Philly to somewhere else, you check bags & clear security in Allentown (small airport) & you don't go through security in PHL. Also the bus literally pulls up to a plane gate on the concourse, not some bus terminal.

@aakashgupta If they do it in a way where you do not have to do check-in or security when you get to the bigger airport and you can do that where it’s convenient at the smaller airport I would book that every day of the week

American Airlines has 77 regional planes sitting in storage because they can't find pilots to fly them. The expected U.S. pilot shortfall in 2026 is 24,000. Training a new commercial pilot takes 2-3 years minimum and costs six figures. So American found a loophole. Partner with a bus company, brand the bus "American Eagle," sell the seat on aa.com with a flight number, route passengers through TSA, let them pick a seat, check bags, earn AAdvantage miles. The entire experience is designed to feel like a flight in every way except the part where you leave the ground. The economics are staggering. A regional jet on a 90-mile route needs two pilots ($100K+ each), a flight attendant, jet fuel, FAA maintenance requirements, and an aircraft that costs $20-30 million. The Landline bus needs one driver and a highway. South Bend to Chicago O'Hare is 90 miles. That route doesn't make money with a regional jet anymore. It barely made money before the pilot shortage. The bus lets American keep selling connections through O'Hare to every destination in its network without operating a single flight. This is what the pilot shortage actually looks like. Not cancelled routes. Not smaller airports going dark. The airline just quietly reclassified a bus as a flight and kept charging accordingly. The TikTok exposing it has 13 million views because the passenger cleared security, sat at a gate, and watched her luggage get loaded onto a coach before it merged onto the interstate. The word "bus" appears once during booking in small text. Google Flights lists it with a tiny bus icon. The airline says customers are "transparently informed." 72% of U.S. airports have already lost an average of 25% of their flights to the shortage, and Landline is expanding, not shrinking. Philadelphia, Chicago, and now five regional airports are on the bus network. American Airlines is solving a $28,000-per-pilot-shortfall crisis by removing the pilot from the equation entirely. The bus is the product now. The flight number is just packaging.

@LukeEpplin Why robots are not calling every pitch: there are two systems, Full ABS and ABS Challenge. Both systems were tried in the minors for many years, including 2 full seasons in AAA. Players & managers preferred the ABS Challenge system. That's why MLB adopted it.

Honestly, six missed balls-and-strikes calls seems about average. If this is what we’re doing, then why have umpires?

@LukeEpplin I remember watching him get 3, count 'em, 3 technical fouls in rapid succession in a game in Denver in the early '70s. A rare achievement.

One of two players I interviewed for “Moses and the Doctor” whom I begged to write an autobiography. (The other was Bobby Jones.)

@hankschulman All of that, plus the nonstop Netflix promos. There must have been 40 or 50 of them.

Vasgersian, Pence, CC and Shehadi are pros. You have to work awfully hard with a foursome like that to create a hideous, worst-ever Opening Day broadcast. Amateurish (not the talent), some guy screaming from a canoe, something about a pirate, a bad score bug that disappeared ...

@jiratickets Can of soda in vending machine, stack of hockey pucks with LEDs on the side.

Proud to be a zoomer that knows which physical objects these icons represent

@LukeEpplin Next up, please convince Bobby Jones to write his autobiography!

Two quick sports book recommendations: While I was researching "Our Team," I interviewed Judy Gordon, the daughter of the baseball HOFer Joe Gordon, and she mentioned that she was trying to write a book about her dad. It finally came out and I'm glad she stuck with it.