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
Pinned
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 🗃️
Reposted by Patrick McCray
I have voted
for the deal
that was on
the Senate floor
and which
is probably
caving
to fascism
Forgive me
the flight delays were
so annoying
and so old
for the deal
that was on
the Senate floor
and which
is probably
caving
to fascism
Forgive me
the flight delays were
so annoying
and so old
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I have voted
for the deal
that was on
the Senate floor
and which
is probably
caving
to fascism
Forgive me
the flight delays were
so annoying
and so old
for the deal
that was on
the Senate floor
and which
is probably
caving
to fascism
Forgive me
the flight delays were
so annoying
and so old
6 weeks of a shutdown and for no effing point.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
6 weeks of a shutdown and for no effing point.
From agnotolgy to structural ignorance…
Public health depends on citizens accepting scientifically-grounded guidance. When official institutions produce politically-determined science and independent verification infrastructure is eliminated, the capacity for evidence-based health policy collapses, writes Renée DiResta.
How Political Power is Capturing Knowledge Systems and Manufacturing Structural Ignorance | TechPolicy.Press
We're witnessing the simultaneous capture of knowledge-producing institutions and the elimination of independent verification mechanisms, writes Renée DiResta.
www.techpolicy.press
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
From agnotolgy to structural ignorance…
Reposted by Patrick McCray
Periodic reposting of the secret seal of the American Historical Association.
Its image: a wet blanket.
One motto: "Historians - we are here to bum you out."
(Grainy because I risked my life to smuggle this out of a secret history ritual.)
Its image: a wet blanket.
One motto: "Historians - we are here to bum you out."
(Grainy because I risked my life to smuggle this out of a secret history ritual.)
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Periodic reposting of the secret seal of the American Historical Association.
Its image: a wet blanket.
One motto: "Historians - we are here to bum you out."
(Grainy because I risked my life to smuggle this out of a secret history ritual.)
Its image: a wet blanket.
One motto: "Historians - we are here to bum you out."
(Grainy because I risked my life to smuggle this out of a secret history ritual.)
Reposted by Patrick McCray
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
What exactly does the Democratic Party stand for anymore??
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
What exactly does the Democratic Party stand for anymore??
“The shift this time was particularly remarkable given that the legislation Republicans have offered does not address Democrats’ main demand in the shutdown fight: the extension of health insurance tax credits that are slated to expire…”
WTAF.
WTAF.
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“The shift this time was particularly remarkable given that the legislation Republicans have offered does not address Democrats’ main demand in the shutdown fight: the extension of health insurance tax credits that are slated to expire…”
WTAF.
WTAF.
Really feeling that being a Democrat is being in an abusive relationship
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Really feeling that being a Democrat is being in an abusive relationship
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 🗃️
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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 🗃️
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Dulles at dusk.
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Dulles at dusk.
If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and China and growing by 15 per cent a year.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alexander Clapp · Pig Butchering: Scam Gangs
If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and China and growing by 15 per cent a year.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
One year?
Fire Schumer.
Fire Schumer.
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
One year?
Fire Schumer.
Fire Schumer.
"Dadfar is not accused of any crime and is following the legal path to asylum..."
Disgusting.
coloradosun.com/2025/11/07/i...
Disgusting.
coloradosun.com/2025/11/07/i...
Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE
The father of four, who had settled in Colorado and gotten his commercial driver’s license, was driving a truck through Indiana when he was taken by masked ICE agents in October
coloradosun.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"Dadfar is not accused of any crime and is following the legal path to asylum..."
Disgusting.
coloradosun.com/2025/11/07/i...
Disgusting.
coloradosun.com/2025/11/07/i...
Who better than Kim Davis, 4X failed marriage partner, to tell people who they can and can't marry?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Who better than Kim Davis, 4X failed marriage partner, to tell people who they can and can't marry?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Reposted by Patrick McCray
James D. Watson is dead. Stay tuned for some thoughts, based on my research on his biography, to be published soon.
While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
James D. Watson is dead. Stay tuned for some thoughts, based on my research on his biography, to be published soon.
While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
Reposted by Patrick McCray
The Holy Father, as well as being the candidate of the Holy Spirit, apparently thinks about the design of human values into sociotechnical systems
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The Holy Father, as well as being the candidate of the Holy Spirit, apparently thinks about the design of human values into sociotechnical systems
I wanna invite Pope Leo to my Intro to Science and Technology Studies class
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I wanna invite Pope Leo to my Intro to Science and Technology Studies class
Instead of restricting commercial air traffic, why not ground private jets?
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Instead of restricting commercial air traffic, why not ground private jets?
One trillion reasons not to buy a Tesla.
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
One trillion reasons not to buy a Tesla.
Santa Cruz Chameleon is a nice affordable rig...
November 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Santa Cruz Chameleon is a nice affordable rig...
"Musk's board of directors, if they have strong spines, might want to read the Yale paper and put it on the next agenda..."
coloradosun.com/2025/11/05/e...
coloradosun.com/2025/11/05/e...
How much business did Tesla lose in Colorado from Elon Musk’s hard right turn?
Elon Musk's severe partisan and culture war turns may have cost his Tesla company more than 1 million car sales, a Yale study says.
coloradosun.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"Musk's board of directors, if they have strong spines, might want to read the Yale paper and put it on the next agenda..."
coloradosun.com/2025/11/05/e...
coloradosun.com/2025/11/05/e...
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New from me in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: a review of tech critic Cory Doctorow's latest book, "Enshittification," an essential roadmap to why the internet continues to get worse. (Free to read, no paywall.) lareviewofbooks.org/article/gian...
Giant Platforms of Shit | Los Angeles Review of Books
Dave Mandl catches a whiff of Cory Doctorow’s anatomy of platform “enshittification.”
lareviewofbooks.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New from me in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: a review of tech critic Cory Doctorow's latest book, "Enshittification," an essential roadmap to why the internet continues to get worse. (Free to read, no paywall.) lareviewofbooks.org/article/gian...
