Daniel Riehs

Institutional Research & design thinking at BC. Associate Director of Info Systems & Design. #Bitcoin, burritos, contemporary art, and technology in society.

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It’s “Excellence in Teaching Day” today at BC. @anniemurphypaul is giving the keynote talk: “The Extended Mind: Helping Students Think ‘Outside the Brain’”

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TSA PreCheck and standard security at Terminal F of the Philly airport this morning:

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It’s pretty bizarre to call “the tallest building in Canada” a “North American record” - https://t.co/gzCigp3oWi

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Finally on Windows 11 at work. Microsoft sure doesn’t seem to like desktop shortcuts anymore…

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The full 1987 film RoboCop rendered as the Cracker Barrel logo. Because nothing matters.

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Well that didn’t last long.

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Boston College made LinkedIn’s new list of top colleges, and I can tell LinkedIn put their best people on the project. https://t.co/Z4zyS8evXE

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At the #NCCI2025 conference at George Tech. I took a tour of their student center yesterday, and the guide kept mentioning “the institute.” I almost asked him what that was until I looked up the school on Wikipedia and realized that was the name of the university.

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I think the #RecessionIndicator that bugs me the most is that basically all stores now restock and clean during regular business hours.

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Today—Earth Day 2025—a new urban trail across Boston green spaces is born. The City On The Hills Trail, which runs 31.1 miles from Millennium Park in West Roxbury to Castle Island is officially open to the walking public!
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The burden of hard mode:

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@NERCOMP Are you sure this is the message you should be using to promote your conference? Plenty of people don’t “have wheels.” And Providence is pretty accessible even to people without cars.

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I really enjoyed the recent @Freakonomics Radio series about rats. I kept thinking of this Simpsons scene whenever they mentioned New York City: https://t.co/aKqJd5QPol

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I always forget, when do the canon Super Bowl commercials start?

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When I’m not in the mood to scroll through all the options:

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@ArynaDesigns Even Grok knows about the sparkle icon!

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“Waist circumference is always capricious…” https://t.co/FkmbMM4jEs

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This reads like a Craigslist roommate ad.

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Does anyone else prefer interfaces that use date and time stamps rather than “1 min ago”, “1 year ago”, etc? I definitely find that kind of labeling annoying on YouTube.

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I gave in to the discount and signed up for X Premium with half the ads. I immediately noticed that 50% ads is indistinguishable from 100% ads. I have no doubt there really are fewer ads, I think it’s just psychology thing—my feed (and mind) are either interrupted by ads or not.