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Patrick McCray
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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.

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“220, 221 …whatever it takes”
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Assuming this doesn't include white-collar crime.
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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*taps the sign*

www.historians.org/perspectives...
Please Stop Calling Things Archives – AHA
What do historians mean when they say "archive"? One archivist makes the case for a more precise use of the word.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Hmmm...WHY would the NYT not mention this? WHY WHY W...oh. Right.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a refrigerator in an office .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a refrigerator in an office .
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November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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For a corrective:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204425... via @mitpress.bsky.social
Making Art Work
Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago,...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Schrödinger's Schumer
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Someone this uninformed and disengaged should step down.
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words bye bye boys have fun storming the castle
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words bye bye boys have fun storming the castle
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November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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The difference between rich and wealthy...
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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It sucks. But compared to the real hardships other people are enduring, it's nothing. I do wish it had all been for something however.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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It is an absolute triviality compared to people being w/o pay - but I've been in DC on a fellowship since November and have been unable to do anything since Oct. 1. Lost opportunity. Again - a triviality but it still chafes.
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM