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
While I am sorry to read about Fetterman's mental health issues, he is not fit to be a Senator.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
While I am sorry to read about Fetterman's mental health issues, he is not fit to be a Senator.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
Now v. then...
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Now v. then...
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.
One year?
Fire Schumer.
Fire Schumer.
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
One year?
Fire Schumer.
Fire Schumer.
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...
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
I could smell the mustard and the onions...
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I could smell the mustard and the onions...
17 year ago...Gobama.
November 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
17 year ago...Gobama.
I am trying (and failing) to imagine the amount of human labor that went into crafting this...
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I am trying (and failing) to imagine the amount of human labor that went into crafting this...
Situation report
November 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Situation report
Book in hand…author copies of my new thing from @mitpress.bsky.social arrived
November 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Book in hand…author copies of my new thing from @mitpress.bsky.social arrived
Today in crazy town...
November 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Today in crazy town...
If you can't eat them or harvest their organs...
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If you can't eat them or harvest their organs...
New university warning...so, "we" partnered Canvas with Open AI and now the LLMs are completing the Canvas quizzes.
So much dumbfuckery.
So much dumbfuckery.
October 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
New university warning...so, "we" partnered Canvas with Open AI and now the LLMs are completing the Canvas quizzes.
So much dumbfuckery.
So much dumbfuckery.
The genre continues to deliver...
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The genre continues to deliver...
"Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments..."
GIFT Link = www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
GIFT Link = www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
October 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments..."
GIFT Link = www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
GIFT Link = www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
AUTHOR: "Somewhere inside the building, the computer was learning how to think."
NO
That's not what is happening.
NO
That's not what is happening.
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
AUTHOR: "Somewhere inside the building, the computer was learning how to think."
NO
That's not what is happening.
NO
That's not what is happening.
I have a trip to Japan coming up so I had to ask...I love this message so much.
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I have a trip to Japan coming up so I had to ask...I love this message so much.
Of the two books here, read the one on the left...
October 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Of the two books here, read the one on the left...
Get. A. F*cking. Grip...you're a "creative person," ffs. Allegedly.
October 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Get. A. F*cking. Grip...you're a "creative person," ffs. Allegedly.