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@liv

Believe in whatever you want to, I do not see why anyone would care. It is your life, live it. Everybody has the right to believe as they choose. There is no reason to be upset at anyone for choosing to believe in something that you do not. Most of my friends and family are christians, I do not hold it against them and likewise they do not hold my beliefs against me, though they can be judgmental at times, I just ignore that.

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Heads up, #MonarchButterfly watchers--the Monarchs in Mexico are getting restless, and they typically break camp during the last few days of February, moving up to Texas where the milkweeds are already sprouting.

What's new this year is radio tags (Blū+ tags, specifically) and there's a free app from Project Monarch Science you can find at the app store and use to check out if any flying near you have been tagged. World Wildlife Fund applied the tags while in Mexico (they also recover the Monarch Watch wing tags for the University of KS) and those tags will be prefaced by CHI, ROS, or MES and although they weren't explained, I suspect those prefixes designate which refuge area they were tagged in.

Responsible for Monarch radio tagging:
World Wildlife Fund – Mexico (WWF-MX), the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP), Cape May Point Arts & Science Center (CMPASC), and Cellular Tracking Technologies (CTT). Information was via the University of Kansas' Monarch Watch listserve.

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#MonarchButterfly #Migration was already started by one upstart out of what looks like the El Rosario sanctuary, heading to northern Mexico, according to the report I read. His tag number is ROS012, so if you apply the Project Monarch Science app, you'll already have one migrating Monarch's radio tag to watch for.

So, the #android #lock-in coming soon, what are my options?
- Mainstream apps, like banking, social services, metrobike, mass transit - they are all hopelessly locked in already, refusing to run without google services (even with microG), let alone on a rooted device.
- My daily drivers: mail, web, various IM clients etc., may or may not be approved.
- What about apps I may make (more likely be given from my friends)?

It seems to me that I should:
1. Keep one stock device to use the locked-in system wherever I cannot avoid it. And keep it home, to avoid as much tracking as possible.
2. Keep one unlocked, with my real daily stack, also working as my mobile access point.
or maybe go for
2. b. Find a device working as a dumbphone & access point (does such animal exist?) plus some non-android portable pc.

What do you people think?

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@8Petros [Free Radical]

This is an interesting issue. I am not nearly as obsessed with the whole de-google movement as many are. Though, if I cannot sideload the apps I write onto my device it will be a game changer for me. I am not big on using mobile devices for business purposes anyway so I have few apps on my phone I cannot do without. I would probably take a similar approach as you have laid out.

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#Katowice #Marzec #Walki #roboty #walkirobotów

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@Unus Nemo Well, a) it was in jest (you know, like there's an AI conspiracy, and they're controlling everything?), but OK? and b) you are incorrect.

I too have worked with AI, and in particular neural network simulations, also since the 1980s. The alignment problem has not been solved, and if we go on this way, we will likely soon all succumb to one paperclip maximizer or other!

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Firts time, huh?
Greetings from the ex-commie block.

theintercept.com/2026/02/16/da…

Historically, the U.S. government has always used disenfranchised populations as a test case to develop both strategy and legal precedent for infringing on constitutional rights before exporting them to society as a whole. Before incarcerated people faced retaliation for possessing books, African slaves were frequently punished for reading the Old Testament out of fear that the Exodus story might inspire them to dream of freedom.

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#Epstein #Trump #uspol

I am overloaded with filth and tragedy now in progress in the USA an imposed onto us all.
Thus, I will stop (for a while and with few exceptions) to share posts on this topic.

If you want to see daily dispatches, I recommend you stay tuned to these two feeds (rss available):
cwdaily.net/
heathercoxrichardson.substack.… (yes, know, but she is worth it)