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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. More = https://www.patrickmccray.com

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · Jun 17

I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at:

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1h

Just spotted this gorgeous fellow...

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 4h

I feel like a bought a Slurpee from this man in a Delaware WaWa

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I'll certainly check it out...

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 19h

Weird…historians of technology (I’m at SHOT this week) generally have shunned “progress narratives” since the 1980s

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 21h

Nobel Prizes in 2025

University of California = 3
Donald J. Trump = 0

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 21h

Nobel Prizes in 2025

University of California = 3
Donald J. Trump = 0

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

More hard-hitting revelations from Anemona Hartocollis, NYT's Harvard reporter. She has also discovered that dogs like sausage snacks.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

Avi Loeb is to astronomer as Yuval Harari is to historian as Velveeta is to Stilton

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The best tree in Maastricht.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2d

Hegseth = GI Joke

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh ooh. I loved his first book. Is this one good?

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2d

Never heard of this company. Maybe they should have advertised.

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2d

"Everyone likes human flourishing"

www.techpolicy.press/confronting-...

cf @lukestark.bsky.social @nickseaver.website

Confronting Empty Humanism in AI Policy | TechPolicy.Press

Overtly humanist, democratic, and romantic rhetoric is easily co-opted by sophisticated market players and politicians, writes Matt Blaszczyk.

www.techpolicy.press

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

a man with a sword and a cat in a field of flowers .

ALT: a man with a sword and a cat in a field of flowers .

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

every issue of Mad magazine...

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The Dream Syndicate - Halloween

YouTube video by Giuseppe Aversano

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

It would be nice to see this scholarship engage more robustly with the history of technology.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

Curious? Much more to be found here:

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Keep Watching the Skies!

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d

4 October 1957...the USSR launches Sputnik I.

Teams of citizen scientists around the planet - all part of the Smithsonian's Operation Moonwatch - turn out and successfully spot and track it.