Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.

I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.

Pls boost.

Third-Party Applications and Assertions in Oracle AI Database 26ai

https://oracle-base.com/blog/2026/02/23/third-party-applications-and-assertions-in-oracle-ai-database-26ai/

6th reading of 2026 (292 pg so far)

Batman #32 (DC, December, 1945/January, 1946)

Yes, in this issue, Batman and Robin "really" help D'Artagnan and the three musketeers. Story by Don C. Cameron and art by Dick Sprang.

#batman #dccomics #comics

Star Trek 60th Anniversary countdown: 240 days to go.

In July 1967, during the hiatus between Star Trek's first and second seasons, Gold Key Comics (part of Whitman Publishing) published the first issue of the Star Trek comic book. The first issues featured covers using photos from the TV series episodes. The stories published were completely independent of those presented on TV and are not considered canon with the series. In total, 61 issues were published until March 1979.

#StarTrek #TOS

Welcome to the Public Domain, MURDER AT THE VICARAGE (1930), starring Miss Marple 🔍

🧶 Agatha Christie’s other famous detective appeared in this, her first full-length novel. Uncover the killer in this newly #publicdomain work.

Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

*On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech*:

https://archive.org/details/doctorow-39c3

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

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Today is Digital Independence Day, a German initiative to move more and more away from Big Tech in 2026. Let's reclaim our independence!

https://di.day/