Patrick McCray
Professor @ UCSB => I write history stuff about science + tech + art + environment
Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 living in Cali-rado; public lands in public hands, pls.
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https://www.patrickmccray.com
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- HBO Houyhnhnm?
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- Is anybody surprised by the examples that come up? Business schools? Adjuncts being asked to carry shocking teaching loads with little or no support? Online classes aimed at maximizing university revenue? It's an article about AI in the classroom, but points to a host of other pathologies.
- Now it's the professors using ChatGPT. Students aren't happy about it. I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors. Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
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- #OnThisDay in 1856, Charles Darwin noted in his journal, "began...writing species sketch." This "sketch" would form the base of his book On the Origin of Species. 🏺 🧪
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- The baseless firing of the Librarian of Congress and illegitimate removal of the Copyright Office Director is an assault on Congressional authority and independence. I've asked the Library of Congress Inspector General to investigate potential improper access to confidential congressional data.
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- Perseverance captured a new selfie to celebrate 1500 Sols on Mars. The rover is currently investigating the outer rim of Jezero crater near an outcrop named Sally's Cove. #planetsci Full panorama: www.360cities.net/image/persev... Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Steve Albers/Simeon Schmauß
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[Not loaded yet]- So having witnessed Israel’s remote detonation of compromised pagers throughout Hezbollah’s ranks, the president is now going to fly on an aircraft gifted by foreign nationals that is stuffed full of electronic equipment?
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- The Secretary of Comnerce is lying to the American public
- On the first page of Iain M Banks’ MATTER, which I am reading for the nth time, he says a character has skin the colour of pale agate. I realised I didn’t know what he mean. I think he was being minxy: “colorless, pale blue, black, red to orange, yellow, white, brown, pink, purple; green” says Wiki
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- No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
- "We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
- The Soviet spacecraft that came in from the cold (and fell into the Indian Ocean this morning) -- @nytimes.com on Kosmos-482, the lost Soviet Venus probe from 1972 and its legacy. I'm quoted a few times. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/s...
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