Chris Newfield
@cnewf.bsky.social
Psychic life of culture, green political economy, critical university studies, knowledge-power struggles, epistemic justice.
The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
It was, in accelerated fashion, a parallel to how living through climate change is making Republicans far worse on emissions & pollution.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoThe Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.
I'd love it if a reporter in Rep. Emmer's or Rep. Rulli's district showed them how their own rhetoric about Somali and Haitian immigrants today is almost verbatim the rhetoric that an earlier generation of racist nativists spewed against their own German and Italian ancestors.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.In recent weeks, congressmen like Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) have leveled racist attacks against immigrant communities in their districts. As I note in CAMPAIGN TRAILS, a century ago those same racist attacks were being made against people named Emmer and Rulli.
A new poll shows half of America wants Netanyahu arrested on U.S. soil.
Half of Americans Support Arresting Benjamin Netanyahu: Poll
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes
meidasnews.com
Here is a full list of every state that DOJ had sued and lost for access to their voter file: Arizona California Connecticut Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
this is great student journalism at @DukeChronicle . When I was there in January the faculty had been told office cleaning would be cut back to once a month or so by an outsourced company after firing many low-income staff, and then these executives cleaning up
Searched Harlem for napolitos and then I saw that I can come back later.
“This victory shows that universities should not capitulate to unjust and unconstitutional demands from the Trump administration,” Grundy added. “When we join together and fight, we win.” go AAUP and ACLU!! grow spines, university admin www.thedp.com/article/2026...
Federal agency drops subpoena seeking list of Jews at Penn
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s July 2025 subpoena garnered widespread criticism on Penn’s campus.
thedp.com
@nytimes publishes millennial chewing out Gen-Z (nicely) for anti-work ethic while ignoring their rationality when work doesnt pay and jobs don’t stabilise www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/o...
Opinion | Gen Z Has Lost Its Ambition. Maybe It’s Found Something Better.
For Gen Z college graduates, the way millennials lived out their ambitions no longer makes sense.
nytimes.com
NASDAQ basically force-loaded about $25 billion of SpaceX stock into passive investor portfolios (aka, people's pension and retirement funds) by jamming SpaceX into its index right at IPO time rather than waiting the standard 30-60 days. Billions of dollars of unrealized losses already.
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · 2w agooh man passing through the 180 day lockup gate is gonna be a fucking bloodbath lol
1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
nytimes.com
Gallup-Lumina poll on college confirms that Americans are upset about the personal politics of professors--that is, 11% are concerned. Three-quarters are upset about lack of affordability. Colleges should ignore the Twitter / Atlantic debates and lower costs while heading to debt-free for all
A group of academics/policy ppl have been shouting for more than a decade about technological due process, the right to know, and the right to human decision making. Why? 👇🏻
Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2w agoNEW: The HHS just paused $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota. They used AI to identify "suspected fraud and noncompliance." From me: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The term “Kafkaesque” was born in the experience of injured workers trying to obtain workers' comp benefits. Franz Kafka worked as an attorney and workplace safety inspector for the Czech workers’ comp system. The treatment of injured workers enraged him and shaped his writings. @prospect.org
How America Let Its Workers’ Compensation System Fail - The American Prospect
If you’re injured on the job these days, you’re simply out of luck.
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You know, what? Competence and expertise are thrilling. Sometimes people get trained and then they have a plan and then they execute the plan. That is what it is like to watch Spain. It truly is the Administrative Procedure Act of soccer.
Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · 2w agoI wrote about the game
these four sexy words again TOP MARGINAL TAX RATE "Restore the top marginal ordinary income tax rate to its pre-2017 level of 39.6% — which, but for Trump’s tax cuts, would have applied to income over $546K this year. Raise the (much lower) top capital-gains rate." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/o...
Opinion | Here’s the Easy Way to Tax the Rich
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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3mo agothese four sexy words TOP MARGINAL TAX RATE "the simple step of restoring much of the earlier progressivity to federal income taxation would solve both the private and public affordability crises. many wealthy campaign donors will of course oppose this step." talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inquali...
Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹
“A settlement with this administration does not get them off your back." “It’s strange to students, faculty, and alums: Why are you so eager to settle?” 🤔 @yaleaaup.bsky.social
Yale caught between Trump administration pressure and a campus that wants to fight
Leaders are weighing a settlement over reverse discrimination claims amid criticism from students, faculty and alumni.
washingtonpost.com
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
bostonglobe.com
”In short, the typical public college or university lacks the money to improve instruction to the point that the vast majority of its graduates can run AI and not be run by it. Non-wealthy privates are in the same position.” - @cnewf.bsky.social utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/07/line...
Liner Note 55. In the Empire of AI, Universities Will Reinvest or Die (Part 1)
Leonora Carrington, Crookhey Hall seen July 17 2026 I want to talk about the relations among AI, university teaching, and university budge...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · last yr.My prediction for how this will play out: Most colleges will doubledown on AI even as employers realize their graduates know next to nothing. Elite colleges will market themselves as being non-AI. Not using AI will be a bespoke luxury commodity that's highly sought after.
“it’s hard to see how big tech’s sunk capital will allow the AI industry to climb down from its categorical and unjustified minimization of human capabilities,” says @cnewf.bsky.social. Will university leaders and state legislators simply accept that logic, or reinvest in human learning?
Liner Note 55. In the Empire of AI, Universities Will Reinvest or Die (Part 1)
Leonora Carrington, Crookhey Hall seen July 17 2026 I want to talk about the relations among AI, university teaching, and university budge...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago.”
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3w ago
“Thinking is hard. Reflection is hard. Perhaps we will persist with our collective miscalculation and ignore all that philosophy, literature, classics and history have to offer us. The humanities have a word for this: tragedy.” @hetanshah.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/fbde...
We need humanities more than ever in the age of AI
Subjects like literature, languages and history are vital to a thoughtful and prosperous society
ft.com
