Conor McDonough

Studied Geopolitics, Work in Emergency Management and Logistics. Tweets on that and nerd stuff. I move around.
RT not Endorsement. Don't fire me for my tweets.

[Robert Potter @rpotter_9]

‘Hybrid war’ is increasingly just our word for events which are clearly acts of war that we just don’t want to deter or respond to.

[Alexandra Kleeman @AlexKleeman]

LLMs have been around for decades, I was in cog sci and nobody thought they were a pathway to general intelligence. The fact that they are being passed off as that right now is straightforward fraud.

[Tom's Hardware @tomshardware]

Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers tells users not to rely on it for important advice https://t.co/SxtS4xSPmC

[Conor McDonough @ConorMcD___]

@4vataruniverse This is beautiful, who is the artist?

[MC Squared @mcsquared34]

No CNBC, it’s not device hoarding it’s —MY PHONE STILL WORKS FINE AND I’M NOT GOING TO SPEND $1500 FOR A SLIGHTLY BETTER CAMERA AND AN AI FEATURE THAT I’LL EVENTUALLY DISABLE

[Dispropaganda @Dispropoganda]

>*turn location feature on*

>most big accounts are inauthentic scammers and grifters chasing payouts while purposely spreading fake news and lies

>*turn location feature off*

[CSPAN @cspan]

U.S. Senate DEFEATS Democrat bill to extend government funding, 47-53.

60 votes were needed for passage.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The Trump administration has canceled the Biden era rule where airlines would have to compensate passengers for flight disruptions.

[Tom Malinowski @Malinowski]

By definition, the parts of government that do the most good are the parts you never hear about, because when they succeed, nothing happens: no disease outbreaks, or terror attacks, or financial crashes, or horrible accidents.

These are the parts being slowly dismantled today.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Perfect example of how Biden tried to make government work for people, in this case, by creating what was effectively a free Turbo Tax-like program and Trump killing that program with little to no media coverage, leaving the public none the wiser.

[Conor McDonough @ConorMcD___]

As a kid when I saw Coruscant and knew it wasn't in the OT (and also knowing who Palpatine would become) I was convinced they would turn the planet into the Death Star, especially if you look at the circular lights.

[Star Wars Holocron @sw_holocron]

Coruscant in The Phantom Menace

[Conor McDonough @ConorMcD___]

@ABC @grok what's the estimated networth of the sackler family?

[Conor McDonough @ConorMcD___]

Heard this on the new yorker radio hour from @edzitron back in Jan/Feb when DeepSeek shook that industry. And yet there hasn't been any slowing of the sprint towards LLM dependence by consumers/business

[Ruben Hassid @rubenhassid]

BREAKING: Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.

They just memorize patterns really well.

Here's what Apple discovered:

(hint: we're not as close to AGI as the hype suggests)

[Josh Morgerman @iCyclone]

Cutting National Weather Service funding so offices are grossly understaffed, and then being surprised an understaffed office didn't get life-saving tornado warnings out, is a uniquely 2025 level of stupid. We get what we pay for.

[Jessa ⊹˚. ♡.𖥔 ݁ ˖ @directedbyrian]

The thing I love the most about Andor is how it emphasizes the small, important moments of no-name, faceless sacrifices from regular people in the galaxy that carry the resistance to victory

[Conor McDonough @ConorMcD___]

Proud NJ resident, proud of @CoryBooker and @AndyKimNJ for supporting him

[LEX 🔜 WORKING @_larxene]

I think everyone should go see Princess Mononoke in IMAX to combat this stupid AI crap

[Assassin's Creed @assassinscreed]

@elonmusk @Grummz @Ubisoft Is that what the guy playing your Path of Exile 2 account told you?

[Conor McDonough @ConorMcD___]

@MTGGoldfish I'm looking at this like additional protection from a Path or Swords, wish it was 3 mana to counter TF Protection/Fog of War