Notices by Dan Moren (dmoren@zeppelin.flights)

Back again for another go around! Two-day champion?! What is even happening! Tune in to Jeopardy tonight to watch!

Sergey Brin thinks you should work extra hours to create something he’ll make money from that will give his company a reason to fire you. https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/02/sergey-brin-says-agi-is-within-reach-if-googlers-work-60-hour-weeks/

If you’re willing to get a little technical, we’ve got a technique for batch downloading all your Amazon books. https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/02/how-to-bulk-download-kindle-files-while-you-can/
https://mastodon.social/@scalzi/114061031019785124

Slept like shit. Woke up and it’s worse.

@WarnerCrocker Glad I was able to help in whatever small way!

Let's fucking go. Cars are too goddamn big. Good on NHTSA. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24241047/nhtsa-rule-pedestrian-safety-fmvss-suv-truck-design

@jsnell @verge If your move is not allowing companies to share information because customers might buy elsewhere, you are abusing your power.

Brand new instance, brand new #Introduction! I’m the author of the Galactic Cold War series of #scifi spy novels, the most recent of which is THE NOVA INCIDENT. (https://dmoren.com/writing/galactic-cold-war/)

I’m also a #technology journalist: I write regularly at Six Colors (https://sixcolors.com) and have a weekly column at Macworld.

And I also do a ton of #podcasts on technology and pop culture, including @rebound, @clockwise, and several shows at @incomparable.

Somehow not The Onion.

By the way, if you haven't yet picked up my supernatural detective novel ALL SOULS LOST, it's the perfect time: on sale for just $5.99 on Kobo through Tuesday!

Spiritual consultant Mike Lucifer returns to his hometown after two years and gets embroiled in a case where something spooky is happening at a big tech company. Funny, thrilling, and a little bit creepy, if I do say so myself. You'll love it. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/all-souls-lost-1

If the DoJ wanted an ironclad case they should have gone after iCloud's 5GB tier.

It's weird that I still kind of think of my work in tech journalism (and everything that came after) as my risky second career—even though it's now old enough to vote. Yep, the first thing I ever got paid for writing, published 18 years ago today! (And I will be forever amused that it has a What If…? reference in it.) https://web.archive.org/web/20060324170320/http://www.macuser.com/humor/the_microsoft_ipodbox.php

Real-time video of Apple Park today.

I cannot think of something I want in my car LESS than an AI chatbot. Maybe knives sticking into my legs. MAYBE. https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24027112/volkswagen-chatgpt-openai-voice-assistant-cars-ces

@ianbetteridge Also this thread. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111586984064071167

This screenshot of me testing Zoom on my Apple TV makes me look like I'm in a Wes Andersen movie.

Oh, fuck you, 2023. 😢 https://tvline.com/news/andre-braugher-dead-homicide-brooklyn-nine-nine-obituary-1235097967/

“You there, boy, who’s the CEO of OpenAI?”

It is, simply put, insane that we are at a place in this country where I just cannot remember all the mass shootings. What? These should be so rare that they are all emblazoned in our memory. But now they blur together in a horrific haze.