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Professor @ UCSB => science + tech + environment Kluge Chair in Technology & Society @ LoC, 2025-26 New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/ Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗‍♂️⛷️🏄🏼‍♂️🏔 in Cali-rado. More = https://www.patrickmccray.com

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · Jun 17

I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at:

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 36m

attn @ccmmody.bsky.social

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3h

"...with its steady escalation of military force against its own citizens, this administration proves that the most immediate threat to our constitutional order is not on the streets.

It is coming from inside the White House."

www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/federalism...

The ‘Chipocalypse’ is now

A training ground for the military?

www.ifyoucankeepit.org

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3h

Very interested to see what this initiative produces; hoping that the histories of technology and the environment have a seat at the table.

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3h

The market is not the economy.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 5h

What kind of god needs saving?

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 5h

Nothing's off the table....

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 6h

I managed to get to my LoC office despite the shutdown. The vibe inside the library is quite weird - 50% post-rapture and 50% snow day.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 7h

Interesting given all the Nightwing ads plastered in the DC metro

www.justice.gov/opa/pr/rayth...

Raytheon Companies and Nightwing Group to Pay $8.4M to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Non-Compliance with Cybersecurity Requirements in Federal Contracts

Raytheon Company (Raytheon), RTX Corporation, and Nightwing Group LLC, and Nightwing Intelligence Solutions LLC (collectively, Nightwing), have agreed to pay $8.4 million to resolve allegations that R...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 8h

My e-copy just showed up; looking forward to reading this. Congrats!

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 8h

Susan Collins is concerned...

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Mason L. Wong 王樂知 @masonlwong.bsky.social · 16d

I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on Palantir, the chip industry, US-China competition, and what tech firms mean when they talk about "defending Western civilization."

Thanks to @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and the LARB team for the edits!

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

The Microchip Titans | Los Angeles Review of Books

Mason Wong reviews three books related to US-China tech industries and global competition.

lareviewofbooks.org

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 22h

Robert Gordon might like a word

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 22h

the image? fix it?

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 23h

I have no idea.
Maybe another Nobelist could explain it...

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

Mokyr "showed that for innovations to succeed and become a self-generating process, people needed a scientific explanation for why the breakthroughs worked...."

That's not necessarily true but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

Sad news. Bert was a character at AIP.

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

Joel Mokyr winning a Nobel i.e. economists doing bad history

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. One wonders how the technocratic mindset leads down this path.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2d

Faculty meeting tomorrow afternoon

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2d

My hotel room in Brussels is quite something.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2d

Nice dawn patrol pic.

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

Can't make this session; would be curious to know if anyone considers how I-word has been so stretched and spread so thin as to be intellectually non-nutritious

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

Tie all this in to:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tri...