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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ig-Noble note... "Participation Trophy Brewing is proud to announce the limited release of “Look At This F*cking Douchebag,” a 7.5% DDH IPA dedicated to Pete’s desperate, unhinged attempt to cosplay as a total tyrant."

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

October 4 = Sputnik Day... Wearing what I study...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OK - that's enough writing for one day.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Exhausted by the seeming inexhaustible supply of these articles

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a historian of science, I have to say it's weird to see an email from "Robert Chambers" in my in-box...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The hist of tech series I co-edit for @hopkinspress.bsky.social has three new volumes coming out soon!!!

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pleased to see this displayed at the Kluge Center

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I really don’t know what this place was aiming for.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Breaking news from the archive...in 1940, the Fly-Fishers' Club in London was bombed by the Germans. Damage to the Club? Yes. AND THE PRESIDENT'S GLASS OF WINE WAS OVERTURNED.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nice :) I'm a fan of the Gallatin north of Big Sky and some spots in YNP and my partner has an odd and hopefully not fatal addiction to the Beartrap area.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

OPening soon at LACMA...Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias explores 60 years of ideas about how Americans might live, who those futures were designed for, and who was left out.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When these people lived in Santa Barbara, there were stories and complaints about how the local school had to absorb the cost of extra security.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A new book in the history of tech series that I co-edit with @historyasif.bsky.social and Kate McDonald is coming soon...via @hopkinspress.bsky.social Yuting Dong's *Infrastructure of Empire: Vernacular Knowledge and Colonial Expertise in Northeast Asia* www.press.jhu.edu/books/author...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Recalling that scene in Terminator 2 when the tech executive learns what his product will do in the future and dies so he can help destroy it....

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In my README book, I talk about how, c. 1950, the ideas that "machines can think" and that "computers were (like) brains" was hotly contested with lots of to-and-fro about metaphors versus analogies. See:

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In 2017, when Palantir was lobbying for business with French government, Alex Karp commissioned a comic book with a risible version of the company’s history...Karp then leaned into mystique of promoting lethal tech. Deets = lareviewofbooks.org/article/vall... via @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Imagining a future US economy that is based solely on poor health care and sh*tty AI, both of them so complex that the best-paying jobs go to people who can explain them to us. Or maybe the AI explains the poor health insurance...I dunno

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Why Study Phlogiston? Chemists Would Like a Word With You"

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Today, in "Infrastructure" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/b...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Given the start of the teaching quarter soon...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Stoked to see that Liz Petrick's new book will be out soon via @hopkinspress.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Revealing excerpt from @natashanyt.bsky.social's new book. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/b... This passage 👇 stood out for me. There's clearly a role for STS and history of tech people here:

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

2014...we know what happened to the guy in the "CODE" hat on the right. But what about her? Did she geta. good job in the tech industry like its reps promised?

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

jfc just use your own brain and write for yourself...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Good...GTF out of Santa Barbara where you did nothing for the local community, you parasites.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There was a lot of this kinda energy in it...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

There's a banana in my kitchen with a longer shelf-life than this "promise"...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Drafting a draft and unreasonably happy about this part...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Question for computer nerds - my MS Word for Mac updated itself with "exciting new features including an "Insert a Comment" box that appears on the right side of a document when I highlight text. The Internet says to deselect Preferences->General->"Modern Comments" but that didn't work. Ideas?

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Etsy...Elon Musk figure, 1/64 scale size.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's got glitter and thick paint and crayons...just like your 6 year old would make. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/a...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ralph Carr, governor of Colorado 1939 to 1943. Carr had the courage to speak out on behalf of persecuted Japanese Americans, insisting they were loyal citizens.

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