Chris Newfield

Wake up babe another @cnewf.bsky.social dropped utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/10/line...

"The merging of tech and MAGA networks created a frenzy of open political corruption unlike anything in American history." @thewalrus.ca published The Nerd Reich's introduction, which charts tech fascism's rise to power under Trump/Thiel. paywall-free thewalrus.ca/billionaire-...

I think that’s my deepest fear. They’ll make teaching so unappealing that it’ll only attract those who want/need scripts. It’s the classic neoliberal shuffle: Starve institutions of support, access, prestige etc. then use the inevitable gaps as justification to control/eventually privatize.

1/ Belgrade, Serbia, tonight, after the snap parliamentary election victory of the Student Ticket. n1info.rs/english/news...

Hats off to thousands of students and teachers who protested in the streets across Greece demanding higher pay and better workplaces. Folks in Greece are now echoing protesters in other European ​countries who are sticking together to create a new status quo!

Happy to see this piece published with @jonathanherring.bsky.social. I hope it offers something interesting for thinking about a right against social deprivation through a disability studies lens, and to disability rights theorising www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

The UK Labour government has undermined decarbonization while blowing its credibility as a climate leader. @peternewell.bsky.social in The Conversation theconversation.com/jackdaw-deci...

It’s honestly weird. Surely Mellon, Whiting, and Ford see how much money is being pumped into civic center humanities as teaching and research centers. Do they not have a response? Are they just going to let their decades of investment in higher ed wither away and die?

🌍 “This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present.” Our 2026 State of the Climate report finds 7 of 16 planetary vital signs at record extremes. The planetary emergency is already here. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

no amnesty

Data Centers Are Burning Fossil Fuels. It's Destroying Big Tech's Climate Goals - CNET www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Today is the day! DATA BY DESIGN is out in the world! With immense gratitude to the entire project team, to @gita2.bsky.social, and to @mitpress.bsky.social, for turning this vision into reality. We're so excited to be able to celebrate with all of you!

The big question, it seems to me, is not whether we’ll see a major tech company fail in the near future. It is what happens afterward. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Democrats need to be ready to hold hearings and inquiries into the assault that Musk, Zuckerberg and other tech bros are making against democratic institutions at home and abroad.

Never forget which side you are on.

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

my new post on the necessarily expanded definition of academic freedom that the public would really like, and why we need to democratize universities to have it. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/10/line...

my new post on the necessarily expanded definition of academic freedom that the public would really like, and why we need to democratize universities to have it. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/10/line...

oh thank god Worlds More Habitable Than Earth? They’re Out There. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/s...

The French Police are fighting the Firefighters now, who have joined in the protests. These thugs need to be careful they are outnumbered 50 to 1 and if the people actually fight back they are... Baisés As the French call it.

For those pushing Dems to start making a stink about Elon's fundraising @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social is now doing that.

great piece on Admin Bloat 2.0 by @hiphination.bsky.social Admin has been eating higher ed for decades. It must be defeated. globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Who are you going to believe, the preeminent expert on surveillance pricing or George W. Bush’s communications director during the Iraq War who now works for Walmart?

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

Yale Law School should have enrolled at least one more foreigner so as not to waste a spot on this moron.

Private mercenary company now monitoring and enforcing U.S. elections. Very good sign for democracy.

1) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028

🚨BREAKING: Absentee ballot voters in Montana won’t have to comply with an onerous birthdate verification requirement after a state court blocked the measure Friday night, ruling that it violates the state constitution. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Beijing is carrying an older geography of extraction into the AI era, turning Uyghur land, energy and labour into computing power while remaining silent about coercion and surveillance. Donate to support our #GVSpotlight: globalvoices.org/2026/09/25...

Here are eight things public universities can’t do with their current budget model. There’s a new plan, discussed at the link, that won’t fix the budget but will hurt research

Great piece going into detail on budget questions from Chris Newfield who started me on the path of reading budgets. Good complement to my ongoing posts that started yesterday.