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 🗃️
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...
So much winning...
"Xi Jinping must be watching the shifting of military assets to the Caribbean, and Hegseth’s announcement of a focus on the Western Hemisphere and considering what it may mean for his own plans against Taiwan.”
Gift article
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
"Xi Jinping must be watching the shifting of military assets to the Caribbean, and Hegseth’s announcement of a focus on the Western Hemisphere and considering what it may mean for his own plans against Taiwan.”
Gift article
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Trump Escalates Pressure on Venezuela, but Endgame Is Unclear
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
So much winning...
"Xi Jinping must be watching the shifting of military assets to the Caribbean, and Hegseth’s announcement of a focus on the Western Hemisphere and considering what it may mean for his own plans against Taiwan.”
Gift article
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
"Xi Jinping must be watching the shifting of military assets to the Caribbean, and Hegseth’s announcement of a focus on the Western Hemisphere and considering what it may mean for his own plans against Taiwan.”
Gift article
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Reposted by Patrick McCray
Buried the lede: "(Premium users can also converse with Satan.)"
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Buried the lede: "(Premium users can also converse with Satan.)"
The Nuzzi piece isn't worth the electrons it's printed on.
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Nuzzi piece isn't worth the electrons it's printed on.
Are all the beignet shops in NOLA named "Café Beignet"...??
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Are all the beignet shops in NOLA named "Café Beignet"...??
Advice to authors - stop using "entangled" in your proposed titles. Your job is to untangle.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Advice to authors - stop using "entangled" in your proposed titles. Your job is to untangle.
2008 is calling and it would like its bubble back...
"That is a foretaste of what analysts say will be a growing pool of debt tied to data centers. "
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...
"That is a foretaste of what analysts say will be a growing pool of debt tied to data centers. "
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...
The AI Boom Is Looking More and More Fragile
AI stocks have swung downward as doubt rises about sustainability and payoff.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
2008 is calling and it would like its bubble back...
"That is a foretaste of what analysts say will be a growing pool of debt tied to data centers. "
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...
"That is a foretaste of what analysts say will be a growing pool of debt tied to data centers. "
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...
If I had rabies, Larry Summers would be high on the bitin' list.
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If I had rabies, Larry Summers would be high on the bitin' list.