Patrick McCray
@patrickmccray.bsky.social
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
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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My new book will be out in early December 2025 via
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
All of these products asking me if I want to use their "A.I."...like asking if I want fries with that. No and no.
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
All of these products asking me if I want to use their "A.I."...like asking if I want fries with that. No and no.
Bonkers salary for a modestly funded state school that has consistently fielded a mediocre team.
www.coloradoan.com/story/sports...
www.coloradoan.com/story/sports...
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Bonkers salary for a modestly funded state school that has consistently fielded a mediocre team.
www.coloradoan.com/story/sports...
www.coloradoan.com/story/sports...
Broke up with TIDAL...so long, janky music app.
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Broke up with TIDAL...so long, janky music app.
If you're having a rough day after Turkey Day, take comfort in knowing that Tim Berners-Lee original paper describing the World Wide Web was rejected so he had to present it as a poster instead.
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
If you're having a rough day after Turkey Day, take comfort in knowing that Tim Berners-Lee original paper describing the World Wide Web was rejected so he had to present it as a poster instead.
How this could not even mention Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron's 1995 essay "The Californian Ideology" baffles the heck out of me...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How this could not even mention Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron's 1995 essay "The Californian Ideology" baffles the heck out of me...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
Our society is floating on a sea of science...invisible but essential.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
Beekeepers, Farmers and the Fight to Save a Century-Old Research Hub
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Our society is floating on a sea of science...invisible but essential.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
Crybaby Nazi...
I see lots of people who work/live below the poverty line doing far more actual work than this putz.
I see lots of people who work/live below the poverty line doing far more actual work than this putz.
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Crybaby Nazi...
I see lots of people who work/live below the poverty line doing far more actual work than this putz.
I see lots of people who work/live below the poverty line doing far more actual work than this putz.
Odd piece in that the word "fraud" appears in neither the headline or article.
Also - were MIT's economists so detached from reality that they didn't wonder about a scenario where scientists were inventing so many new materials but keeping them secret?
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
Also - were MIT's economists so detached from reality that they didn't wonder about a scenario where scientists were inventing so many new materials but keeping them secret?
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart
Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Odd piece in that the word "fraud" appears in neither the headline or article.
Also - were MIT's economists so detached from reality that they didn't wonder about a scenario where scientists were inventing so many new materials but keeping them secret?
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
Also - were MIT's economists so detached from reality that they didn't wonder about a scenario where scientists were inventing so many new materials but keeping them secret?
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
For everyone who puts words on pages…
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
For everyone who puts words on pages…
What most people would call corruption, grifting, graft, and criminality gets branded as "blurring of lines "
November 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
What most people would call corruption, grifting, graft, and criminality gets branded as "blurring of lines "
I'm not saying economics is a science but this was as predictable as Newtonian mechanics...
November 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I'm not saying economics is a science but this was as predictable as Newtonian mechanics...
Absurd question but....What are some key books for understanding the history of England/Great Britain c. 1820-1914?
I'm less interested in books about the British Empire...more keen on the social history of British life in this period.
I'm less interested in books about the British Empire...more keen on the social history of British life in this period.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Absurd question but....What are some key books for understanding the history of England/Great Britain c. 1820-1914?
I'm less interested in books about the British Empire...more keen on the social history of British life in this period.
I'm less interested in books about the British Empire...more keen on the social history of British life in this period.
Much more fun imagining this to be about PANTERA
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Much more fun imagining this to be about PANTERA
Open AI gives good Enron.
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Open AI gives good Enron.
Reposted by Patrick McCray
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
Princeton University is out of commission due to cyberattack...
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Princeton University is out of commission due to cyberattack...
So, until dead Dick Cheney is planted somewhere, flags at half-staff/mast 4eva
www.coloradoan.com/story/news/l...
www.coloradoan.com/story/news/l...
Flags remain at half-staff in Colorado. Why?
Flags in Colorado have been flying at half staff for two weeks with no end date announced as of Nov. 17.
www.coloradoan.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
So, until dead Dick Cheney is planted somewhere, flags at half-staff/mast 4eva
www.coloradoan.com/story/news/l...
www.coloradoan.com/story/news/l...
I’d love to see Bret Stephens and the rest of his ilk actually have to face material consequences for the positions they glibly take.
Are THEIR kids going to be on the sharp end?
Are THEIR kids going to be on the sharp end?
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I’d love to see Bret Stephens and the rest of his ilk actually have to face material consequences for the positions they glibly take.
Are THEIR kids going to be on the sharp end?
Are THEIR kids going to be on the sharp end?
Nuzzi is to writer as Harari is to historian.
November 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Nuzzi is to writer as Harari is to historian.
Nuclear power never gave us "energy to cheap to meter."
But Americans have never really faced widespread or longterm electrical shortages and rationing. Cheap/abundant electricity seems like a birthright.
LLMs, etc. and et al. promises to upend this.
But Americans have never really faced widespread or longterm electrical shortages and rationing. Cheap/abundant electricity seems like a birthright.
LLMs, etc. and et al. promises to upend this.
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Nuclear power never gave us "energy to cheap to meter."
But Americans have never really faced widespread or longterm electrical shortages and rationing. Cheap/abundant electricity seems like a birthright.
LLMs, etc. and et al. promises to upend this.
But Americans have never really faced widespread or longterm electrical shortages and rationing. Cheap/abundant electricity seems like a birthright.
LLMs, etc. and et al. promises to upend this.
Exhibit # EleventyBillion that "Mark Zuckerberg is a s*itty human being"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Mystery Fuels Unease in Maine Woods: Who Bought Burnt Jacket Mountain?
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Exhibit # EleventyBillion that "Mark Zuckerberg is a s*itty human being"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
So long, #HSS2025 and NOLA...that was a good meeting. @shothisttech.bsky.social could learn something.
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
So long, #HSS2025 and NOLA...that was a good meeting. @shothisttech.bsky.social could learn something.
Live your best life...
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Live your best life...