Colin R. Turner

Here's a brief history of my activism efforts to date. 🧵

Someone sent me a voice message in another language. ChatGPT was able to listen and simultaneously speak it to me in English on the fly. That's insane! People train for years to do be able to do that.

You're yelling at the system, but there's nothing there. Latest article. colinrturner.com/2026/05/17/o...

Silly question, but have people gone back to X? I am considering opening a new account there. Is it still a tire fire? Or are people moving back?

Americans!! What's the fucking story???

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Is Twitter X still a tire fire?

Did we get the edit button yet?

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Or, put another way, Spotify owner Elk is further extorting peace-loving musicians' blood, sweat and tears and putting it into military hardware. There's just no other way to see this. How can this guy be so tone deaf? mixmag.net/read/spotify...

Sortition is a system of government by jury. Random citizens selected at various intervals to answer the questions of government. If a jury system is good enough to decide if someone lives or dies, then it's good enough for government. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Can we do billionaires in space, but one-way?

The rational mind is not constant. It is reconstructed every morning out of the chaos of dreams.

Introducing the Consumer Year Calendar: Buy heart-shaped crap Buy egg-shaped crap Buy plastic outdoor crap Buy scary crap Buy all kinds of crap

I had a dream last night that I discovered that the patterns in human irises were like QR codes that contained information about our history and personality, and we each had a subconscious ability to read them, hence why looking into someone's eyes was such a powerful experience. Scan here for more

Interesting to note that AI chats are still one-way. It won't be long before we'll all start getting 2AM texts from ChatGPT like "hey what you doin?" 😆

Sharebay v4 just dropped! Here's what we've added: - Ride-sharing posts - Accommodation-sharing posts - Improved activity feed - German language added - Improved accessibility and font size menu - And many, many more fixes and improvements... Check it out and tell me what you think! sharebay.org

Noob question: what actual harm has China ever done to US?

Shyness is the key to poverty! 😀

If Musk openly abused children, Tesla stock would go up. The world will stop at nothing to make this klutz a trillionaire. 🙄

@bsky.app, why oh why no edit button already? I'm a coder and I know it's a trivial job. It would be really handy, and a major body blow to you know who.

Riddle me this: why is kindness often despised, like it's a weakness?

#vegan It's reasonable. It makes sense.

We understand that kindness is not a luxury in life, but is the root of life, which is cast off too soon and to the detriment of life. Without kindness, humans cannot live; without kindness, humans cannot achieve peace; without kindness, humans cannot progress.

"The thinking of ‘us good guys vs. those bad guys’ is a self-perpetuating paradigm of revolving-door bad guys. A never-ending game of Wack-A-Mole with no net change or improvement." colinrturner.com/2025/01/08/s...

Critics of 'be the change' don't get that it's not about one person changing. It's about millions of ones changing. Small changes x millions of people = big changes. Attacking 'the system' is a distraction that might just be their own reluctance to change.

I think the current trend of dissing sustainable methods like recycling or renewable energy is a very dangerous precedent. It matters more that we care enough to try. Methods may sometimes be suboptimal, but the alternative of just not caring or bothering is unconscionable at this stage.

Here's an idea: AI-generated movies with AI actors, AI-generated screenplays and music, marketed with AI algorithms to an adoring AI-generated audience of consumer bots, so humans can get back to doing what we were doing before.

Is it just me or is the red planet getting more like Trump? Is Musk trumpforming the little guy?

Happy New Year everyone!

I have noticed. Haven't seen a single house spider this year. Not one. And our garden is mostly silent.

Happy Christmas skypeople!

I bet this cat pic gets more likes than anything else I post! Welcome Guinness to the fold!

It's good to help. But... The more you help someone, the less capable and more dependent they become. So where is the line between helping and hindering? Is this something that you think about before offering to help?