Zoe

Zoe

@zperk.net

she/her Transfem, Neovim, Rust, Arch-based Linux distro... I'm a fricking sterotype https://linktr.ee/zperk13

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Zoe
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🤦🏻‍♀️I just said "Let me see if it's something I can quix fixly"

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Tolarian Community College
@tolariancommunitycollege.com

"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."

Zoe
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"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Frank Herbert, Dune

Zoe
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I've noticed a change to YouTube automatic captions recently. They've simultaneously became smarter and dumber. They seem to be more aware of context and context-specific words. For instance, in a Destiny 2 video, they're more likely to say Vexcalibur, <🧵1/6>

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Zoe
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where it slightly mishears stuff because it's not perfect which is fine (which not just YouTube has), you use context to figure it out. "What's something that sounds kinda like 'games are eight' that makes sense in this context? Oh! 'Gamergate'!". <🧵5/6>

Zoe
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But now, it isn't obviously wrong, which makes it so you won't do that train of thought. It being obviously very wrong is better than being obviously slightly wrong. <🧵6/6>

Zoe
@zperk.net

I've noticed a change to YouTube automatic captions recently. They've simultaneously became smarter and dumber. They seem to be more aware of context and context-specific words. For instance, in a Destiny 2 video, they're more likely to say Vexcalibur, <🧵1/6>

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Zoe
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Now, "Game of Thrones" kinda does make sense there, it was mentioned earlier in the video, since then other fantasy/supernatural shows/movies had been mentioned, and the timings of when things happened kinda lined up. But again, "Game of Thrones" was not what was said. <🧵3/6>

Zoe
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And the problem here is that before, while it may have misheard "Gamergate" as something else, it was something else that sounded more similar. And if you're used to auto captions that work this way, <🧵4/6>

Zoe
@zperk.net

I've noticed a change to YouTube automatic captions recently. They've simultaneously became smarter and dumber. They seem to be more aware of context and context-specific words. For instance, in a Destiny 2 video, they're more likely to say Vexcalibur, <🧵1/6>

Zoe
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which is a weapon in Destiny 2, and is a word that only makes sense in a Destiny 2 video. Smarter. BUT! The person didn't say Vexcalibur. And in a video I'm watching right now, it misheard "Gamergate" as "Game of Thrones". <🧵2/6>

Zoe
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Destiny 2 exotic trace rifles DPS comparison All numbers are hitting a boss (C.A.R.L.), and aiming at the crit spot (🧵1/3)

Zoe
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Specials Ager's Scepter: 181 Ager's + draining super: ≈880 Prometheus Lens: ≈300-400 Coldheart: 503 Divinity: ≈300-400 Wavesplitter + Catalyst: ≈460 Wavespliiter + Catalyst + Supercharged Battery: ≈594 Ruinous Effigy: 425 Ruinous Effigy + Catalyst - Orb Damage: ≈565 (🧵2/3)

Zoe
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Lodestar ADS: ≈285-300 Lodestar Hip: 259 Weirdly though, hip fire does more DPS (200) than ADS (164) if I aim for the body instead Lodestar ADS + Arc Alignment: 322 Miasma: 850

Zoe
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I'm just imagining a bunch of Disney execs completely confused as to why TADC is doing better than The Mandalorian and Grogu

Zoe
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(instead of "inter", maybe I should've used "apud"? or "prope"? I was thinking "among", which "inter" can be, but it can also be "between", so maybe I should've gone for "near"?)

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vaz
@vazkii.net

I think we should be shouting this from the streets and making sure everyone is fully aware they're going to get rugpulled eventually. The more of You that you offload to LLMs and the like the worse it'll be for you when they jack up the prices to actually push profit. Don't be a tool.

IIML@modernletters.bsky.social

‘When the government replaces a New Zealand public servant with AI, what really happens is this: money that used to be paid to someone living in Wellington, Lower Hutt or Palmerston North gets paid instead to a tech giant in California or Seattle’ newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/21/b...

newsroom.co.nzBefore we let AI run the public service, we need to know the full impactNew Zealand is badly under-prepared for mass deployment of AI in the public sector - and the latest Budget measures are being made without safeguards, writes Professor Alexandra Andhov
Zoe
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Windows 11 using 6 GB of RAM in the background on a laptop with 8 GB of RAM. WTF

Zoe
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I put on a YouTube Music mix thing with different love songs I like before I got in the shower. I'm Yours, All of Me, etc. <1/3>

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I didn't realize what the 2nd song in the mix was until it started playing... You'll Be Back from Hamilton... cue me cringing for the next 3.5 minutes at the idea of someone actually sending someone that recently broke up with them that <2/3>

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<3/3> Like the entire point of that song is that he's being like a creepy ex... *shivers*

Zoe
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Just tried to say "the alternative is worse" and "better than the alternative" at the same time and said "the alternative is better"

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union person
@junlper.beer

if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights

Zoe
@zperk.net

It's great that you provided caption translations into 27 different languages. Seriously, that's awesome. But, WHY AREN'T THERE CAPTIONS FOR THE LANGUAGE THE VIDEO IS IN?!

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Ben Collins
@bencollins.bsky.social

Potentially unsalvageable country.

ProPublica@propublica.org

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

Zoe
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Of all the times for #discord to go down... it somehow lined up perfectly with me demonstrating my discord bot to someone

Zoe
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Me after my friend talks about liking Elton John's music: "Elton John? The actor from Kingsman 2?"

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Evan Urquhart
@evanurquhart.bsky.social

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

assignedmedia.orgShe’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — AssignedA trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.
Zoe
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Me to the goat blocking my way: I know you're not a cow, but you need to mooooove

Zoe
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I'm curious what a world with similar or greater computing and networking power to ours, but with old display technology would look like. Everyone can connect with the Internet and we have GPUs capable of real-time ray-tracing <cont.>

Zoe
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but without a giant screen that's infeasible to have in a house, everyone's limited to terminal UIs