Wendy Ju
@wendyju.bsky.social
I design. I teach. I research. Associate Professor, Information Science and Design Tech, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech
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As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.
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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
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Many people don't know this but arXiv is maintained and operated by @cornelltech.bsky.social (that does NOT mean you can send me complaints or feature requests!)
Everyone in the community should be excited that arXiv got $7M to upgrade from Schmidt Sciences, NASA
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Everyone in the community should be excited that arXiv got $7M to upgrade from Schmidt Sciences, NASA
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
$7M grant from NASA, Schmidt Sciences to upgrade arXiv | Cornell Chronicle
The funding will help arXiv – which is maintained and operated by Cornell Tech – finish migrating to cloud infrastructure and modernizing its code.
news.cornell.edu
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Many people don't know this but arXiv is maintained and operated by @cornelltech.bsky.social (that does NOT mean you can send me complaints or feature requests!)
Everyone in the community should be excited that arXiv got $7M to upgrade from Schmidt Sciences, NASA
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Everyone in the community should be excited that arXiv got $7M to upgrade from Schmidt Sciences, NASA
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
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We found that a company with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly got money from DHS contracts.
“It’s corrupt, is the word,” a contract law expert said. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer.”
“It’s corrupt, is the word,” a contract law expert said. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer.”
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
We found that a company with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly got money from DHS contracts.
“It’s corrupt, is the word,” a contract law expert said. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer.”
“It’s corrupt, is the word,” a contract law expert said. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer.”
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Cornell Tech is launching a new Summer Innovation Intensive for high schoolers! Explore AI, ethical coding, data science & product design on our Roosevelt Island campus this July.
Join us at our Open Houses on Dec 7 & 11.
https://tech.cornell.edu/programs/summer-innovation-intensives/
Join us at our Open Houses on Dec 7 & 11.
https://tech.cornell.edu/programs/summer-innovation-intensives/
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Cornell Tech is launching a new Summer Innovation Intensive for high schoolers! Explore AI, ethical coding, data science & product design on our Roosevelt Island campus this July.
Join us at our Open Houses on Dec 7 & 11.
https://tech.cornell.edu/programs/summer-innovation-intensives/
Join us at our Open Houses on Dec 7 & 11.
https://tech.cornell.edu/programs/summer-innovation-intensives/
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Day 2 of the Urban Tech Summit brought together innovators, policymakers & urban tech leaders to tackle some of cities' biggest challenges—from governance & markets to climate risks, migration & rapid technological change.
Thank you to everyone who made the Summit a success!
Thank you to everyone who made the Summit a success!
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Day 2 of the Urban Tech Summit brought together innovators, policymakers & urban tech leaders to tackle some of cities' biggest challenges—from governance & markets to climate risks, migration & rapid technological change.
Thank you to everyone who made the Summit a success!
Thank you to everyone who made the Summit a success!
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Day 1 of the 2025 Urban Tech Summit is in the books!
Thank you to all who contributed to a day of deep inquiry, practical collaboration, and shared purpose in shaping the future of urban technology. Stay tuned for Day 2!
View the program here: https://www.urbantechsummit.com/program-2025
Thank you to all who contributed to a day of deep inquiry, practical collaboration, and shared purpose in shaping the future of urban technology. Stay tuned for Day 2!
View the program here: https://www.urbantechsummit.com/program-2025
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Day 1 of the 2025 Urban Tech Summit is in the books!
Thank you to all who contributed to a day of deep inquiry, practical collaboration, and shared purpose in shaping the future of urban technology. Stay tuned for Day 2!
View the program here: https://www.urbantechsummit.com/program-2025
Thank you to all who contributed to a day of deep inquiry, practical collaboration, and shared purpose in shaping the future of urban technology. Stay tuned for Day 2!
View the program here: https://www.urbantechsummit.com/program-2025
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
I go out on a limb and say this might not be horrible… www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovat...
Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time
Waymo, a spinoff from Google, is expanding its autonomous vehicles rapidly in the face of competition from Tesla’s planned robotaxi service.
www.nbcnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I go out on a limb and say this might not be horrible… www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovat...
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This is how Trump does everything. Reporting from reliable sources says he’s going to do something outrageous/ridiculous. He immediately claims it’s fake news. Then a few days or weeks later he does exactly what was originally reported.
October 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This is how Trump does everything. Reporting from reliable sources says he’s going to do something outrageous/ridiculous. He immediately claims it’s fake news. Then a few days or weeks later he does exactly what was originally reported.
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October 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
October 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
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It might be okay to go back to talking about all the amazing stuff we did and saw today and just let the plane thing go, otherwise we're getting played.
Definitely more inflatables than in previous events, but also I saw people dressed as pickles, tacos (I get that one of course), and avocados.
Definitely more inflatables than in previous events, but also I saw people dressed as pickles, tacos (I get that one of course), and avocados.
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It might be okay to go back to talking about all the amazing stuff we did and saw today and just let the plane thing go, otherwise we're getting played.
Definitely more inflatables than in previous events, but also I saw people dressed as pickles, tacos (I get that one of course), and avocados.
Definitely more inflatables than in previous events, but also I saw people dressed as pickles, tacos (I get that one of course), and avocados.
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If the administration has such great evidence that these targets are narcoterrorists who pose an imminent threat to the national security of the United States, why are they not being tried in our criminal courts? 🤔
Breaking news: The United States plans to repatriate two alleged drug traffickers to Colombia and Ecuador after military forces attacked their vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday.
U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
It is unclear if the two surviving alleged drug smugglers have any links to Venezuelan criminal organizations.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If the administration has such great evidence that these targets are narcoterrorists who pose an imminent threat to the national security of the United States, why are they not being tried in our criminal courts? 🤔
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ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
blockclubchicago.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
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Never in our history, not even during Watergate, has a single news cycle so comprehensibly established the deep corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice
September 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Never in our history, not even during Watergate, has a single news cycle so comprehensibly established the deep corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice
Chuck Hoberman is kicking off the Design Tech Lecture series for the 2025-26 season! RSVP to join us, Wednesday, September 9th, at 5:30pm ET, in person at the Tata Innovation Center, or on Zoom. @cornelltech.bsky.social
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Chuck Hoberman: Transformable Design — Building Structures that Change Themselves | Cornell AAP
Attend a lecture that explores techniques for creating objects that controllably change in size, shape, and surface, and that demonstrates how these methods offer broader insights into the very proces...
aap.cornell.edu
September 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Chuck Hoberman is kicking off the Design Tech Lecture series for the 2025-26 season! RSVP to join us, Wednesday, September 9th, at 5:30pm ET, in person at the Tata Innovation Center, or on Zoom. @cornelltech.bsky.social
aap.cornell.edu/news-events/...
aap.cornell.edu/news-events/...
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The Open Source Hardware Association is launching a new Open Hardware Creators in Academia program for undergraduate and graduate students: The Student Open Hardware Fellowship.
Want to nominate or self-nominate to participate in the Student Open Hardware Fellowship?
forms.gle/aq9YCZS8gzUL...
Want to nominate or self-nominate to participate in the Student Open Hardware Fellowship?
forms.gle/aq9YCZS8gzUL...
OHCA Student Fellowship 2025 Application
The Student Fellowship is a program geared towards undergrad and graduate students who are looking for ways to expand open source hardware in their work. This Fellowship will provide mentorship opport...
forms.gle
August 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The Open Source Hardware Association is launching a new Open Hardware Creators in Academia program for undergraduate and graduate students: The Student Open Hardware Fellowship.
Want to nominate or self-nominate to participate in the Student Open Hardware Fellowship?
forms.gle/aq9YCZS8gzUL...
Want to nominate or self-nominate to participate in the Student Open Hardware Fellowship?
forms.gle/aq9YCZS8gzUL...
I'm the guest on this episode of Yellow Eyed Cats with Bernie Roth! We talk about teaching Transformative Design at the d.school with Bill Moggridge and Lochlann Jain.
Yellow-Eyed Cats with Bernie Roth podcast on Instagram: "Episode 10 is out now! Go listen wherever you get your podcasts 🐈⬛ 💛"
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August 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I'm the guest on this episode of Yellow Eyed Cats with Bernie Roth! We talk about teaching Transformative Design at the d.school with Bill Moggridge and Lochlann Jain.
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Now up on the OSHWA site! Our second Healthware Highlight exploring the ways that OpenNerve has committed to the work of open source healthware from the very beginning of its' existence. Read more: oshwa.org/announcement...
June 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Now up on the OSHWA site! Our second Healthware Highlight exploring the ways that OpenNerve has committed to the work of open source healthware from the very beginning of its' existence. Read more: oshwa.org/announcement...
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AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.
June 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.
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Commentary: First they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator. It is starting to feel like being brown in America is a crime. Brown man allegedly lunging is the new Black man driving — scary enough that any response is justified. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: First they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator
Federal agents manhandled and cuffed U.S. Senator Alex Padilla Friday as he tried to ask questions of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. It's starting to feel like being brown is a crime.
www.latimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Commentary: First they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator. It is starting to feel like being brown in America is a crime. Brown man allegedly lunging is the new Black man driving — scary enough that any response is justified. www.latimes.com/california/s...