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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/

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My new book will be out in early December 2025 via
@mitpress.bsky.social

Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

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Has Rep. Fine enjoyed the dulcet lyrics of Kid Rock's family-friendly song "Balls in Your Mouth"...
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
"These f*cking people..."
February 10, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Truth from the DKM's...looking forward to hearing this live in Denver next month.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k_O...
Citizen I.C.E.
YouTube video by Dropkick Murphys - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:47 PM
One student = "the tool has helped him make a few LinkedIn connections but no romantic ones yet."
February 10, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Meanwhile = "I like 'em underage, see some say that's statutory (but I say that's mandatory)," Kid Rock sings on his 2001 song...
February 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Easy to say as she’s not running for reelection
February 9, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Joe Weizenbaum would like a word.
February 9, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Look in the mirror, my friend.
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Bad bunny...
February 9, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Capote - β€œThat’s not writing, that’s typing” and here there’s not even typing.
February 8, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Excerpt from β€œIf I Was White”, a work on the display at exhibition at the National Gallery of Art of indigenous Australian contemporary artworks
February 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
On "wishful worries" and other myths of technology (β€œWhen someone says β€˜algorithm,’ start searching for the people.”)

@dcbrock.bsky.social's 2019 essay is worth a re-read

lareviewofbooks.org/article/our-...
Our Censors, Ourselves: Commercial Content Moderation | Los Angeles Review of Books
David C. Brock considers two recent books about largely unseen workforce moderating the tech giants.
lareviewofbooks.org
February 8, 2026 at 3:15 PM
In my work researching the L5 Society, it was interesting to see how there was so much libertarian thought in that group.
February 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I just arrived in DC yesterday, I was thinking the same thing. Walking around is quite a challenge; I should’ve brought crampons.
February 8, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Oh nooooo...cueing up Marquee Moon tonight for sure.
February 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
I know you’re not suggesting the professors, especially in the history of science, at Harvard are lazy. I just know you are not.
February 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
As noted - had very interesting conversation recently with senior (Jewish) scholar about Epstein files and the prevalence of Jewish men in them, the failure of ethics, and/or the price of assimilation.
February 6, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Huh...Epstein confidant Dan Ariely is known for his TED talk "Our Buggy Moral Code"
February 6, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Forza Italia!
February 6, 2026 at 11:32 PM
A glee club with a business school attached to it...
February 6, 2026 at 6:48 PM
The persistent belief that "Tech" is a non-human thing and covering it that way, rather than understanding it as fully human-made and suffused throughout our lives.
February 6, 2026 at 2:37 PM
[Super Bowl writers room]
"So what do we call the pro-fascism team?"
[a young Frank Miller exhales his cigarette smoke]
"The Patriots."
February 6, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Sunset…
February 6, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Colorado represents....

"If a person is, for example, wearing a mask and not showing ID but attempting to detain someone," the Fort Collins police chief said, "call 911, and we will be there very fast."
February 5, 2026 at 9:34 PM