John Nabors
nabors.bsky.social
John Nabors
@nabors.bsky.social
That’s not how you pronounce it.

Cities are the pinnacle of human society

CS @ NYU Shanghai 习近平下台
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Lots of clarity today
December 19, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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🚨In Science🚨
Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%!
-Lasts over 2mo
-Works on entrenched beliefs
-Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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December 16, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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People out here describing protected bike lanes and pedestrianization as massive social engineering project as if the automobile's takeover of American cities was a natural weather event
November 25, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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Always remember that a large amount of people wanted to negotiate with Hitler 'for peace' long after Germany started eating its neighbours. When the French collaborators negotiated they nearly lost all of France to the Nazis. Negotiation can only happen after the invader has been pushed back home.
November 23, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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Unfollowing hyperpartisan influencers can reduce partisan animosity by 24%.

It was a "structural intervention", changing people’s daily information diet for at least a year.

osf.io/acbwg

Authors: among else @steverathje.bsky.social @jayvanbavel.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.
November 15, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory
November 15, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Honestly the bluesky algorithm sucks. How many times do i have to say i’m not interested in photos of stars or the mike tyson fight for it to stop recommending those things to me lmao
November 16, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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As much as people like to clown on Stardew Valley’s romance system, I know for a fact that if a guy gave me my favorite food item, everyday for a year, I’d be considering marriage too
November 15, 2024 at 2:22 AM
@bsky.app in threaded view, it would be nice to be able to collapse a thread via long hold, similar to the functionality on reddit.
November 16, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Elon musk has created a refugee crisis as people flee violence on twitter
osu.ppy.sh osu! @osu.ppy.sh · Nov 15
test
November 16, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Owning a chinese e-moped has been eye-opening as an american. My culture ridicules anything with two wheels as either more dangerous or inferior to a car. But with the wide bikes lanes in Shanghai, and a critical mass of others on two wheels, a moped can be both fast and safe, as well as cheap
November 15, 2024 at 4:54 AM