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@dmoren.com
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Author, podcaster, inexplicably a two-time Jeopardy! champion. I have the death sentence in 12 systems. He/him. dmoren.com

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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 22h
I get these incessantly and the funniest part to me is that I am a writer and I have no money for them to scam me out of.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 28/09/2026
Men would rather talk to an AI agent than their wives.
Daniel Rausch broke down what's new with Alexa Plus. He's vice president of Amazon's Alexa and Echo.
You know, I always wanted to be able to plan a great date night out with my wife, say, with Alexa, and have her take care of coordinating calendars and then finding a restaurant, maybe buying some concert tickets, etc.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 28/09/2026
I think this is correct.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 28/09/2026
Well, now I’ve gotten my name read on air by Will Shortz and Ken Jennings, so who’s the third in that trifecta? (Super thrilled to have contributed a weekly challenge for the NPR Sunday Puzzle, a segment I’ve been listening to since I was a kid.) www.npr.org/2026/09/27/g...
npr.org
Sunday Puzzle: So-so
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and WYPR listener Katherine Jakuta of Baltimore, Maryland play the puzzle with Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 27/09/2026
Exit, pursued by a FUCKING bear.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 26/09/2026
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She Hulk Madisynn
Alt: She Hulk Madisynn
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 26/09/2026
Love that they’re pulling our podcasts for “infringing” but you know what *is* still there? These ridiculous scams where they claim to offer the whole book text but if you play the preview it’s a voice singing that to download the book, visit the link in the description.
Screenshot of a spam piracy entry for The Mouse and the Motorcycle on Spotify.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 26/09/2026
As if it’s not hard enough already to get publicity for your book. 😐
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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 25/09/2026
New Podcast Episode: Tech News Weekly: Meta VR: Quest Gets a Glow-Up Meta VR Glasses with @mikahsargent.com, @dmoren.com, @scottstein.bsky.social
twit.tv
Tech News Weekly: Meta VR: Quest Gets a Glow-Up | TWiT.TV
Dan Moren of Six Colors joins the show this week! Meta's Muse has a zero-day vulnerability. Rat brains can power an AI model? Why are we hearing more about AI agents escaping
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 25/09/2026
Preorder early, preorder often.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 24/09/2026
It's funny how I feel like I've waited all this time and it's STILL two months until my book comes out. But two months it is! ETERNITY'S TOMB. November 24. Plenty of time to preorder a signed copy, ebook, or audiobook! Doesn't it look nice? dmoren.com/writing/eternitys-...
Me holding the first copy of Eternity’s Tomb!
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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🚨Giveaway Alert!🚨 Line of Descent by Adam Oyebanji is a sci-fi thriller with compelling writing that grabs your attention and never lets go. Enter on The StoryGraph for a chance to win an advance copy! Open to the US only. Ends 10/18.
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Relay @relay.fm · 16/09/2026
Clockwise 674: The Eyes Will Be Pretzels Our relationship with telephoto lenses, whether Genmoji has gotten better, our thoughts on the iPhone Duo, and the sci-fi interfaces we'd love or hate to use. relay.fm/clockwise/674
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Clockwise #674: The Eyes Will Be Pretzels - Relay
Our relationship with telephoto lenses, whether Genmoji has gotten better, our thoughts on the iPhone Duo, and the sci-fi interfaces we'd love or hate to use.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 16/09/2026
Thanks to vacation, start of school, and a bunch of other stuff, it took me longer than I'd hoped, and I ended up shooting past my initial estimated word count, but the first draft of the next book is...done. The words, there they are! Next up, the far harder task of making them the right ones.
A white pop-up window with a green checkmark in the center. The checkmark is inside a green circle. The window has text above and below the circle: 91,326 of 85,000 words.
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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 10/09/2026
New Podcast Episode: Tech News Weekly: Apple's New iPhone Duo Apple Event Recap & Anthropic AI Alarms with @mikahsargent.com, @byjacobward.bsky.social, @dmoren.com
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Tech News Weekly: Apple's New iPhone Duo | TWiT.TV
Jacob Ward explores the resignation of an Anthropic AI researcher and mounting alarms over AI’s potential dangers, while Dan Moren recaps Apple’s major iPhone event, new
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 10/09/2026
I was interested to notice that iPad only got mentioned a few times during the iPhone Duo announcement. Despite the Duo's internal size, the company is just positioning it as a big iPhone.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 09/09/2026
Lot of talk about values these days, so I just want to reassure you that I am and will always be the person to call if you need someone to eat a pretzel in basically any form at any time.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 04/09/2026
The real danger has never been this one stupid man but all the people who think he’s smart.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 03/09/2026
@bencjenkins.bsky.social You have the opportunity to make the funniest audition tape of all time.
TELEVISION
Dungeons & Dragons"
'Ravenloft' Live-Action
Series From Alfonso Cuarón in the Works at
Netflix
The series will be an origin story for the classic 'D&D' baddie Count Strahd von
Zarovich.
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Relay @relay.fm · 02/09/2026
Clockwise 672: OnlyMolars Our thoughts on the Dyson CameraJet toothbrush, features or products we'd like to see return in the Ternus era, travel devices we brought but never used, and whether we've encountered AI-generated food menus. relay.fm/clockwise/672
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Clockwise #672: OnlyMolars - Relay
Our thoughts on the Dyson CameraJet toothbrush, features or products we'd like to see return in the Ternus era, travel devices we brought but never used, and whether we've encountered AI-generated food menus.
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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And the Inconceiveable! panel with Auston Habershaw, Sandra Rosner, Nikhil Prabala, quiz master Dan Moren, score keeper Jason Snell, and winners Trish Matson, John Coxon, and Cat Valente (cont.)
Three people sit behind a table, laughing, and the one on the very right end has hands up in the air while being triumphant. Two of the people at the table are identified by their nametags as Sandra Rosner and Nikhil Prabala.Two men, one wearing a hat, red shirt, and jacket, and the other wearing a green shirt and glasses with his hands on the table they are both sitting at smile at the camera.Three people, one whose last name has Matson on the name tag on the table, all sit next to each other behind two mics, smile at the camea.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 31/08/2026
It was a blast. Thanks to all our panelists! @aahabershaw.bsky.social, @sandrarosner.bsky.social, Nikhil Prabala, @pematson.bsky.social, @johncoxon.bsky.social and @catvalente.bsky.social!
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 30/08/2026
Sigh. I see I need to pull this out again.
Simpsons sign meme: DO NOT LOOK TO CORPORATIONS FOR POLITICAL ACTIVISM
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 27/08/2026
Just as a reminder, if you're at Worldcon this week, I'll be around, so catch me if you can. That includes a live show of my nerdy quiz podcast Inconceivable! on Saturday at 3pm!
Where to find me at
Worldcon
Thursday, August 27, 2026 15:00 PDT 18:00 EDT
2 Are We Really Tired of Superhero
Movies?
256A (ACC North), Duration: 60 mins
Saturday, August 29, 2026
09:00 PDT 12:00 EDT
* The Future of Star Wars on
Television
263B (ACC North), Duration: 60 mins
15:00 PDT 18:00 EDT
* Inconceivable! The Game Show of •
Nerdery and Nonsense
259 (ACC North), Duration: 60 mins
18:00 PDT 21:00 EDT
* What the heck is Military Science
Fiction anyhow?
Redondo (Hilton), Duration: 60 mins
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 17/08/2026
Can't get mad about AI watermarking ruining writing if AIs aren't actually writing.
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Tkt Smart Meme: Think Smart
ALT: Tkt Smart Meme: Think Smart
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J.T. Greathouse @jeremyteg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
so just, like, having a normal amount of stuff
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 14/08/2026
👀
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 13/08/2026
My next book, ETERNITY'S TOMB, comes out in just a few months and I think it's pretty great, but you don't have to take my word for it. See what all these lovely people had to say! dmoren.com/writing/eter...
"A RAMBUNCTIOUS, SNARKY THRILL RIDE with enough creepy to raise goosebumps, and so much heart I couldn't stop myself from cheering on the idiots who thought the whole RAIDERS OF THE LOST TOMB thing was a good idea." -Adam Oyebanji, author of Esperance"A rip-roaring space adventure full of found family, deadly traps
and bad decisions." - Cameron Johnston, author of First Mage On
The Moon"THE SPACE CAPER TO BEAT THEM ALL, equal parts hilarious and heartfelt, with more TWISTS AND TRAPS than a mile-long escape room. My money's on THE MURDER BIRD!" -Helene Wecker, author of The Golem and the Jinni Trilogy"Weaves together the best elements of HEIST and SCI-FI DUNGEON- CRAWL-a floating tomb, a black hole, traps and puzzles, a crew fueled by SNARK and old business-into a well-paced narrative that deftly balances real stakes and adventure. Moren spins his tale with WIT and HEART and HUMOR: I laughed out loud more than once." -K. Eason, author of The Thorne Chronicles
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 12/08/2026
Ah, yes, very clearly the weapon used by every fascistic police force in dystopian science fiction. Great to see they’re leaning into it.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2026 AT 12:58 PM
ICE wants to give agents electrified gloves that shock people into compliance
JESS WEATHERBED
THE VERGE
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 08/08/2026
Nope!
Featuring Eternity's Tomb and the Choices We Make When the World
Is Bigger Than Us Some books are memorable because they tell a compelling story. Others are exceptional because they quietly reshape the way readers think long after the final page has been turned. Eternity's Tomb: A Galactic Cold War Novel belongs to that rare category. It is not simply the scale of its conflict or the tension of a galaxy caught between powerful forces that makes it remarkable, but the way it invites
readers to reflect on what happens to
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 07/08/2026
If you'd like to pre-order a *signed* copy of my upcoming book, ETERNITY'S TOMB (it's the tomb-iest), good news: you can do so AND support my local independent bookstore, @portersqbooks.bsky.social. portersquarebooks.com/book/9781915...
portersquarebooks.com
Eternity's Tomb (Signed)
Eternity's Tomb (Signed)
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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 07/08/2026
New Podcast Episode: Tech News Weekly: Explaining the SpaceX Moon Crash Why a SpaceX Rocket Collided Into the Moon with @mikahsargent.com, @dmoren.com, Rod Pyle
twit.tv
Tech News Weekly: Explaining the SpaceX Moon Crash | TWiT.TV
Dan Moren of Six Colors joins the show. A newly disclosed flaw was discovered in Apple's iCloud Private Relay. What is the phenomenon, 'spiralism,' and its ties to AI
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026
Like someone still has to be out there creating the knowledge the AI is going to chop up and regurgitate later on. I truly do understand that the technology can be powerful and transformative but it has to have something to transform. The research can’t all be just on improving the regurgitation.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026
I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 04/08/2026
I mean, I'm here for "shark just eats Nazis".
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 04/08/2026
It me!
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Jason Snell @snell.zone · 03/08/2026
A new episode of Upgrade is out: Dan Moren joins the Upgrade program to discuss the new Apple Upgrade program, along with Apple's financial results, the approach of Apple's new home strategy, and the perfect phone for iPhone 13 mini fans.
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Dan Moren joins the Upgrade program to discuss the new Apple Upgrade program, along with Apple's financial results, the approach of Apple's new home strategy, and the perfect phone for iPhone 13 mini fans.
Dan Moren joins the Upgrade program to discuss the new Apple Upgrade program, along with Apple's financial results, the approach of Apple's new home strategy, and the perfect phone for iPhone 13 mini fans. Upgrade+: Weird little e-readers.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 03/08/2026
My deepest darkest author desire? To have Billy Zane blurb one of my books so that my entire marketing plan is simply this GIF.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 01/08/2026
The only elected leader I recognize.
PRÉSIDENT Butter
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 31/07/2026
I’ll be at @laworldcon.bsky.social at the end of August; here’s where you can catch me, including a live performance of my nerdy game show Inconceivable!
Where to find me at
Worldcon
Thursday, August 27, 2026 15:00 PDT 18:00 EDT
* Are We Really Tired of Superhero
Movies?
256A (ACC North), Duration: 60 mins
Saturday, August 29, 2026
09:00 PDT 12:00 EDT
* The Future of Star Wars on
Television
263B (ACC North), Duration: 60 mins
15:00 PDT 18:00 EDT
* Inconceivable! The Game Show of •
Nerdery and Nonsense
259 (ACC North), Duration: 60 mins
18:00 PDT 21:00 EDT
* What the heck is Military Science
•
Fiction anyhow?
Redondo (Hilton), Duration: 60 mins
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 24/07/2026
Both my parents are (now retired) librarians so roughly 90 percent of my childhood was spent in libraries. I still get a little thrill whenever I see my books there.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Requesting your library acquire copies of a book is one of the best ways to uplift the authors you love.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 23/07/2026
Me halfway through The Odyssey: so does everyone remember he’s Spider-Man or—
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Colm Meaney Colm Friendly
Colm Meaney in The Damned United doing some shouting and finger-waving Colm Meaney wearing glasses and in a suit and tie, probably at a film premiere of some kind, grinning and waving
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 23/07/2026
Podcast of the Beast!
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 22/07/2026
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Why Not Both? The Iconic Meme
ALT: Why Not Both? The Iconic Meme
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 22/07/2026
Scott Bessent looks like someone playing Scott Bessent on SNL.
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 22/07/2026
I'm slightly addicted to tiny e-readers now. Here's my review of Xteink's X3, the little reader so small it can stick to the back of your phone. I love it, but I fear it may be too beautiful to live. sixcolors.com/post/2026/07...
sixcolors.com
Review: Xteink X3 is the little e-reader the world’s not quite ready for
The market for small e-readers has been booming lately. Earlier this year, Jason took a look at the Xteink X4, a pint-sized reading device that was about as light and small as they come. But those…
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 22/07/2026
My take on this "Apple Upgrade Program" report from Bloomberg. Not great, Bob!
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