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/

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!

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

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...

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.

Page One. @latimes.com

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.

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.

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? 🤔

#A_NewHope ✊

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.

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 aap.cornell.edu/news-events/...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

UNACCEPTABLE. @padilla.senate.gov - a sitting U.S. Senator - was just physically assaulted and handcuffed for asking DHS questions about issues that impact his constituents at a PUBLIC PRESS CONFERENCE. This is the stuff of authoritarian regimes.

We are so excited to be starting the journey on Healthware Highlights, a series of write ups that will be delving into all the ways the open healthware has existed for years! As soon as we started working on these we knew that COSMIIC was an excellent inaugural post: oshwa.org/announcement...

Trump instigated this entirely on his own. You don’t overrun a state’s National Guard without a request from that state, that’s a violation of constitutional limits. He manufactured a crisis.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

It's finally public! 🎉 Excited to announce I'll be joining UIUC's iSchool as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026. My lab will focus on AI information ecosystems, computational social science, and social computing. I will start recruiting PhD students this cycle, so please reach out if interested.

On the NSF's 75th: “‘NSF investments have driven groundbreaking innovations, from the internet and LASIK eye surgery to the first image of a black hole... The foundation has also played a key role in the work of 268 Nobel Prize laureates, helping to shape many of their landmark achievements.’”

Outside our @cornelltech.bsky.social windows rn

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

The policy is outrageous but even more so is the hugely destructive termination of ongoing projects, like was done in other parts of the federal government. The word of the American gov is now worthless. The loss of trust will make planning/execution of any project harder. But that is their point.

Not surprising that an administration that rose to power on the spread of bullshit and propaganda is terminating the funding of researchers studying these phenomena. We are just receiving word about funding cancellations re: existing grants to members of our team and our colleagues.

To commemorate my induction into the CHI Academy, my grad-school bestie @jofish.bsky.social made me a Barbie of myself, replete with a robot trashbarrel sidekick, a smartphone with a robot on it, and a laptop that features my ACM DL page.

A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

You cannot legally send Americans to an El Salvadorian prison no matter what they have done. Plain and simple.

Journalists and others are being denied access to Mahmoud Khalil's remote immigration hearing -- a major national news story. People are still trying to find out what's going on but this seems pretty damn unconstitutional. We don't have secret courts in this country.

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

Hegseth is literally denying a story that the NSC has already confirmed and in which receipts were printed verbatim. Remember this the next time he impugns another journalist.

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

Volkswagen is the latest carmaker to announce the return of physical buttons. We’re making progress.

If you want to know how concerned to be about climate change, talk to a climate scientist. Very. If you want to know how concerned to be about the rise of fascism, talk to a historian. The ones I’ve spoken to are as concerned about our time as any other time in the last 100 years.

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Staffing the security apparatus and justice department with loyalists and purging non loyal elements is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. It’s not a “shake up”; it’s power consolidation.

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

"which includes children..."

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.