George Luft

Husband of one, father of three. Son of The King. I do data. Politotainment posts are unfortunately rarely about governing. New Haven apizza aficionado.

[George Luft @GLuft3]

Looks like folks are gathering over on the blue butterfly place. 🦋
See you there. Same handle.

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@LorraineEvanoff Pretty sure they would have meant Joe Lieberman. See the Three Amigos.

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

Yesterday I announced https://t.co/HKHbBlYMVQ.

Some people spell it https://t.co/P9vrehkLzZ. I haven't decided which way is right yet.

The announcement covers a slice of the project, but it fans out to be the beginning of a bootstrap.

https://t.co/sNdVlp2yZW

I want to entice other projects to fully endorse the text model of the web, today it's still a pitiful subset of the web can do and they all leave out the most crucial element, the link.

I want to force them out of their silos and get the web working for the people and esp independent developers.

I've been preaching this for years, and I am reminded what I learned a long time ago -- people don't listen to their friends, they listen to their competitors.

BTW, it was developed by Claude Code and myself, starting in April. We make an incredibly good team though sometimes Claude is tedious, but I put up with it because the results make me laugh out loud frequently because I never imagined working at such velocity.

I'm not doing this to make money, though of course I don't *mind* making money. I just want to return the web to its former glory, where every part is replaceable, and if you can think of something you can probably do it.

I want to use lots of different software to work on my social network presence. I want this post to appear on Masto, Bluesky, Twitter, Threads, Facebook even, and have them all work perfectly together.

In the meantime, we're now ready to create our own global network of free speech, uncontrolled by the big silos. At some point if it works, we will have moved beyond them, or they will see the sense in joining the party.

Small pieces loosely joined and every part replaceable.

As its name implies, it's built entirely on fully open web standards, RSS 2.0, OPML, Markdown, SQL and WebSockets. It turns out you can make a very nice distributed social network without having to wait. It was always there, we just had to decide to do it.

How it evolves? That's up to everyone who can code, and that's a lot of people now thanks to the AI tools.

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@davewiner Thanks, Dave!!

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@Scarletkoito333 Wow, the mayor is really cleaning up the place!

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@dpakman Going back into his Darth Vader pod for a recharge.

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@JulianVenturaV @THR Yeah. Get me a lidocaine drip and a d5w stat!

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@greendragonhq Fast and free, baby!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: CNN hurls MAGA pundit Scott Jennings under the bus by announcing that they do NOT endorse his claim that Mitch McConnell is alive and making phone calls.

Things are getting VERY fishy, very fast...

“As a CNN Political Commentator, Scott Jennings is not a full-time employee or journalist for the network,” a network spokesperson told The Daily Beast. “His account of a personal conversation with Senator McConnell reflects his experience and is not CNN reporting."

Jennings claimed during an appearance on CNN that he had spoken to his "old friend" McConnell for 20 minutes on the phone. He was trying in vain to tamp down on the spreading speculation that the senator is braindead or perhaps even totally dead.

McConnell was hospitalized three weeks ago after suffering a cardiac arrest and receiving CPR on site. Right after he was admitted, his wife Elaine Chao flew to China to meet with top-ranking CCP officials. Then, earlier today, it was discovered that McConnell's D.C. residence is undergoing dramatic floor renovations.

Something is definitely going on and his office refuses to provide a real explanation.

It would be a simple matter for McConnell to release proof of life. Even a photo of him weak in a hospital bed giving a thumbs up would suffice. Right now, his constituents have no idea if their senator will ever be returning to work.

Scott Jennings is a professional liar who spends most of his time defending Trump's endless crimes, abuses, and dementia-tinged mistakes. Dishonesty is second nature for him. He could be helping McConnell's camp cover up the truth to avoid allowing Kentucky's Democratic governor to appoint a replacement, followed by a special election. Or he spoke to an AI voice mimicking McConnell.

One thing is certain: We are not getting the full story.

Please ❤️ and share if you don't believe Scott Jennings!

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@amelia_tweetz Time for another cognitive test

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@ronsterd89 As a kid…?

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@mercoglianos I still remember when she was in Bridgeport before that.

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@ZelenskyyUa You’ve been kicking their rear!

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@priyapandaxo Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Go!

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@CalltoActivism But he did say she’s hot.

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@CPapasergio Hey now!

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@hwinkler4real We had one of those last week.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

[Natural Resources Democrats @NRDems]

🚨🚨 Today, Natural Resources Democrats released a report on how the Trump hijacked America's 250th birthday.

He turned our country's celebration into a massive pay-to-play scheme designed to benefit billionaires and massive corporations. And it's worse than we thought. 🧵

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@YeardleySmith Happy birthday

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@25YearsAgoLive Still married.