#brain-drain — Public Fediverse posts
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Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts
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Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts
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#USA #Trump #MAGA #fascism #stopfascism #nazis #fcknazis #republicans #christians #men #incels #techbros #pedophiles #billionaires #hostiletakeover #democracy #politics
well, that ship has sailed...
#KyleKulinski #NeilDegrasseTyson on #US #science #BrainDrain
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#USA #Trump #MAGA #fascism #stopfascism #nazis #fcknazis #republicans #christians #men #incels #techbros #pedophiles #billionaires #hostiletakeover #democracy #politics
well, that ship has sailed...
#KyleKulinski #NeilDegrasseTyson on #US #science #BrainDrain
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One good thing coming out of the #MAGA #AmericaFirst anti #immigrant movement is the #global realization that the #UnitedStates is not nearly as important or powerful as everyone had thought. #Science will go on. #Trade will go on. #International cooperation will continue. They just won't be led by the US any longer. This is not necessarily a bad thing. #BrainDrain #Diplomacy
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One good thing coming out of the #MAGA #AmericaFirst anti #immigrant movement is the #global realization that the #UnitedStates is not nearly as important or powerful as everyone had thought. #Science will go on. #Trade will go on. #International cooperation will continue. They just won't be led by the US any longer. This is not necessarily a bad thing. #BrainDrain #Diplomacy
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The year is 2026 and #Malaysia still employs #Microsoft to brainwash children and adults alike. From grade-school to executive "AI training", Malaysia is a country where #informationtechnology is completely monopolized by foreign #megacorps , while having developed nearly zero domestic capabilities.
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The year is 2026 and #Malaysia still employs #Microsoft to brainwash children and adults alike. From grade-school to executive "AI training", Malaysia is a country where #informationtechnology is completely monopolized by foreign #megacorps , while having developed nearly zero domestic capabilities.
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@GiftArticles this is a very good example of one of the steps towards how our country will get to a materially worse off place than China. Hopefully in that future all of life quality is generally improving and the rate/degree to which China surpasses the US doesn’t diminish that overall improvement in quality. I don’t imagine that there is an intention to purposely enrich China at the US’s expense, though that is what is happening here. We are living in some dumb times. #China #immigration #Braindrain #Science #trump
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@GiftArticles this is a very good example of one of the steps towards how our country will get to a materially worse off place than China. Hopefully in that future all of life quality is generally improving and the rate/degree to which China surpasses the US doesn’t diminish that overall improvement in quality. I don’t imagine that there is an intention to purposely enrich China at the US’s expense, though that is what is happening here. We are living in some dumb times. #China #immigration #Braindrain #Science #trump
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RE: Have vs Have-not provinces
Alberta and BC are Canada's biggest #braindrain beneficiaries...
FYI Almost 4M Canadians now live outside their province of birth!
PS Alberta can f*ck a duck w/ its BS complaints about sending moolah to have-not provinces, i.e. QC, eh.
https://thehub.ca/2026/07/02/the-biggest-financial-transfer-in-canada-that-nobody-talks-about/ #cdnpoli #polcan #ableg #abpoli #redneckois #ABseparatists #polQC #QCpoli
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RE: Have vs Have-not provinces
Alberta and BC are Canada's biggest #braindrain beneficiaries...
FYI Almost 4M Canadians now live outside their province of birth!
PS Alberta can f*ck a duck w/ its BS complaints about sending moolah to have-not provinces, i.e. QC, eh.
https://thehub.ca/2026/07/02/the-biggest-financial-transfer-in-canada-that-nobody-talks-about/ #cdnpoli #polcan #ableg #abpoli #redneckois #ABseparatists #polQC #QCpoli
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Iowa: The Dead Zone
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 19, 2026
When Nothing Is Actively Wrong—And Nothing Is Right
I did not understand how damaging Iowa was until after I left it. That is the most honest way to say it.
While you are inside a stagnant system, stagnation feels like normal life. You work. You pay bills. You wait for things to improve. Because nothing is exploding, you assume progress must be happening somewhere offstage. It is only when you leave that you realize there was no offstage at all.
Iowa was not hostile to me in the way Illinois had been. It was not quietly closed in the way Minnesota was. Iowa was something else entirely.
Iowa was still.
A Place Where Motion Stops
I lived in Iowa for nine years. That alone should tell you something. People do not remain in places that are actively abusive for nearly a decade unless something subtler is happening.
Iowa does not push you out. It wears you down.
Work existed. I was employed. In fact, I worked for one of the largest employers in the region. On paper, that should have meant stability. In reality, it meant a ceiling so low you could touch it with one hand.
Annual raises capped at four percent—if you were lucky. Promotions rare. Mobility nonexistent. You could do everything right and still be exactly where you started years later.
That is not a ladder. That is a treadmill.
Stratification Without Illusion
Iowa’s class structure is not hidden. It is simply accepted.
There are people who own land, run businesses, or occupy professional hierarchies. They are stable. They are visible. They are treated as the natural stewards of the community.
Then there is everyone else.
Renters. Service workers. Plant employees. People cycling through temporary stability without ever accumulating enough to move into the owning class. The distance between these groups is not enormous in appearance, but it is absolute in practice.
You can live side by side and still inhabit entirely different economic realities.
The Brain Drain Tells the Story
Iowa has good schools. That is not a contradiction. It is the setup.
Young people get educated—and then they leave.
This pattern is well documented. Iowa consistently experiences net outmigration of young adults with college degrees, particularly those seeking professional and technical careers (Carr & Kefalas, 2009; U.S. Census Bureau, 2023). The state invests in human capital it cannot retain.
That alone should raise questions. A system that educates people only to lose them is not broken. It is incomplete.
What remains behind is a labor market optimized for containment, not growth.
Liberal Rhetoric, Conservative Reality
One of the most disorienting aspects of Iowa was its political culture—particularly among Democrats.
In theory, Democrats represented concern for working people. In practice, they mirrored the conservatism of their Republican counterparts, differing more in tone than in outcome.
Progressive voices were marginalized to the point that a separate progressive caucus had to be created simply to be heard. That should not be necessary in a functioning party. It was necessary because class discomfort ran deep.
The moment lived poverty entered the room, enthusiasm evaporated. Solutions became abstract. Conversations ended.
This is not unique to Iowa, but Iowa made it unmistakable: liberal identity does not guarantee class solidarity.
Addiction as Infrastructure
Iowa’s stagnation has consequences. When movement stops, despair fills the space.
Alcohol abuse and methamphetamine use are not incidental problems there. They are structural symptoms. When people cannot move forward economically or socially, self-destruction becomes one of the few available forms of agency.
Public health data confirms this pattern. Rural Midwestern states have experienced rising substance abuse rates correlated with economic stagnation and limited opportunity (Case & Deaton, 2020). Iowa is not an exception.
It is a case study.
Living Inside the Dead Zone
While I was there, I knew my life was not improving—but I did not yet understand why. That is the danger of stagnation. It feels personal until you gain distance.
I rented from a slumlord. I lived in a deteriorating mobile home. Around me were people who owned acreage, property, or family homes passed down through generations. We were told we were equals. We were not.
Equality of politeness is not equality of position.
Why It Takes Leaving to See It
It was only after I left Iowa that the clarity arrived. The fog lifted. The exhaustion made sense.
I had not failed to advance. There had been nowhere to advance to.
Sociologists describe this phenomenon as spatial entrapment—regions where economic structures limit upward mobility regardless of individual effort (Chetty et al., 2014). Iowa fits that description with uncomfortable precision.
Once you understand that, staying becomes irrational.
A Place People Escape Quietly
People do not flee Iowa dramatically. They plan their exits carefully. They finish degrees. They accept offers elsewhere. They do not look back.
That quiet departure is the loudest indictment.
Places with futures attract return. Places without futures do not.
Naming It Plainly
Iowa is not evil. It is not malicious. It is not loud.
It is a dead zone.
A place where effort circulates without compounding. Where ambition is treated as restlessness. Where the ladder exists in theory but not in practice.
Staying there too long costs you time. And time, once spent, does not come back.
Why This Matters Beyond Iowa
Iowa is not unique. It represents a category of American places that have slipped into permanent stagnation while maintaining the appearance of normalcy.
Understanding that category matters—because people are still being told to stay, to wait, to be patient.
Patience is not rewarded in dead zones.
Leaving is not failure. It is recognition.
References
Carr, P. J., & Kefalas, M. J. (2009). Hollowing out the middle: The rural brain drain and what it means for America. Beacon Press.
#addiction #AmericanClassSystem #BrainDrain #classStagnation #inequality #Iowa #laborMarkets #Midwest #news #ruralEconomy
Case, A., & Deaton, A. (2020). Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism. Princeton University Press.
Chetty, R., Hendren, N., Kline, P., & Saez, E. (2014). Where is the land of opportunity? Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(4), 1553–1623.
U.S. Census Bureau. (2023). Net migration by state and age. https://www.census.gov -
Iowa: The Dead Zone
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 19, 2026
When Nothing Is Actively Wrong—And Nothing Is Right
I did not understand how damaging Iowa was until after I left it. That is the most honest way to say it.
While you are inside a stagnant system, stagnation feels like normal life. You work. You pay bills. You wait for things to improve. Because nothing is exploding, you assume progress must be happening somewhere offstage. It is only when you leave that you realize there was no offstage at all.
Iowa was not hostile to me in the way Illinois had been. It was not quietly closed in the way Minnesota was. Iowa was something else entirely.
Iowa was still.
A Place Where Motion Stops
I lived in Iowa for nine years. That alone should tell you something. People do not remain in places that are actively abusive for nearly a decade unless something subtler is happening.
Iowa does not push you out. It wears you down.
Work existed. I was employed. In fact, I worked for one of the largest employers in the region. On paper, that should have meant stability. In reality, it meant a ceiling so low you could touch it with one hand.
Annual raises capped at four percent—if you were lucky. Promotions rare. Mobility nonexistent. You could do everything right and still be exactly where you started years later.
That is not a ladder. That is a treadmill.
Stratification Without Illusion
Iowa’s class structure is not hidden. It is simply accepted.
There are people who own land, run businesses, or occupy professional hierarchies. They are stable. They are visible. They are treated as the natural stewards of the community.
Then there is everyone else.
Renters. Service workers. Plant employees. People cycling through temporary stability without ever accumulating enough to move into the owning class. The distance between these groups is not enormous in appearance, but it is absolute in practice.
You can live side by side and still inhabit entirely different economic realities.
The Brain Drain Tells the Story
Iowa has good schools. That is not a contradiction. It is the setup.
Young people get educated—and then they leave.
This pattern is well documented. Iowa consistently experiences net outmigration of young adults with college degrees, particularly those seeking professional and technical careers (Carr & Kefalas, 2009; U.S. Census Bureau, 2023). The state invests in human capital it cannot retain.
That alone should raise questions. A system that educates people only to lose them is not broken. It is incomplete.
What remains behind is a labor market optimized for containment, not growth.
Liberal Rhetoric, Conservative Reality
One of the most disorienting aspects of Iowa was its political culture—particularly among Democrats.
In theory, Democrats represented concern for working people. In practice, they mirrored the conservatism of their Republican counterparts, differing more in tone than in outcome.
Progressive voices were marginalized to the point that a separate progressive caucus had to be created simply to be heard. That should not be necessary in a functioning party. It was necessary because class discomfort ran deep.
The moment lived poverty entered the room, enthusiasm evaporated. Solutions became abstract. Conversations ended.
This is not unique to Iowa, but Iowa made it unmistakable: liberal identity does not guarantee class solidarity.
Addiction as Infrastructure
Iowa’s stagnation has consequences. When movement stops, despair fills the space.
Alcohol abuse and methamphetamine use are not incidental problems there. They are structural symptoms. When people cannot move forward economically or socially, self-destruction becomes one of the few available forms of agency.
Public health data confirms this pattern. Rural Midwestern states have experienced rising substance abuse rates correlated with economic stagnation and limited opportunity (Case & Deaton, 2020). Iowa is not an exception.
It is a case study.
Living Inside the Dead Zone
While I was there, I knew my life was not improving—but I did not yet understand why. That is the danger of stagnation. It feels personal until you gain distance.
I rented from a slumlord. I lived in a deteriorating mobile home. Around me were people who owned acreage, property, or family homes passed down through generations. We were told we were equals. We were not.
Equality of politeness is not equality of position.
Why It Takes Leaving to See It
It was only after I left Iowa that the clarity arrived. The fog lifted. The exhaustion made sense.
I had not failed to advance. There had been nowhere to advance to.
Sociologists describe this phenomenon as spatial entrapment—regions where economic structures limit upward mobility regardless of individual effort (Chetty et al., 2014). Iowa fits that description with uncomfortable precision.
Once you understand that, staying becomes irrational.
A Place People Escape Quietly
People do not flee Iowa dramatically. They plan their exits carefully. They finish degrees. They accept offers elsewhere. They do not look back.
That quiet departure is the loudest indictment.
Places with futures attract return. Places without futures do not.
Naming It Plainly
Iowa is not evil. It is not malicious. It is not loud.
It is a dead zone.
A place where effort circulates without compounding. Where ambition is treated as restlessness. Where the ladder exists in theory but not in practice.
Staying there too long costs you time. And time, once spent, does not come back.
Why This Matters Beyond Iowa
Iowa is not unique. It represents a category of American places that have slipped into permanent stagnation while maintaining the appearance of normalcy.
Understanding that category matters—because people are still being told to stay, to wait, to be patient.
Patience is not rewarded in dead zones.
Leaving is not failure. It is recognition.
References
Carr, P. J., & Kefalas, M. J. (2009). Hollowing out the middle: The rural brain drain and what it means for America. Beacon Press.
#addiction #AmericanClassSystem #BrainDrain #classStagnation #inequality #Iowa #laborMarkets #Midwest #news #ruralEconomy
Case, A., & Deaton, A. (2020). Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism. Princeton University Press.
Chetty, R., Hendren, N., Kline, P., & Saez, E. (2014). Where is the land of opportunity? Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(4), 1553–1623.
U.S. Census Bureau. (2023). Net migration by state and age. https://www.census.gov -
"das deutsche wm fußball team fährt einen sieg ein und einigen fans fällt nichts besseres ein, als sich ins auto zu setzen und zu hupen.
muss man erstmal drauf kommen!"
Grüße von einem Bekannten aus den Quadraten #Mannheim
Ihm ist das hier auch zu doof, zieht diesen Monat noch weg.
#Braindrain #Autostadt #GescheiterteKommune #Autoterror #Lärm #Lärmschutz #MotorisierteGewalt @mannheim -
China continues to attract top level AI talent from the U.S. ....
- OpenAI researcher now chief AI scientist at Tencent
- Google DeepMind researcher moves to Alibaba
- VP of Research at Google DeepMind moves to ByteDance
- Meta AI Researcher moves to Chinese startup Moonshot and creates Kimi AI model https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/china-may-move-toward-us-path-on-ai-as-firms-poach-employees.html #AI #China #BrainDrain #AITalent #AGI #Tencent #Alibaba #ByteDance #SiliconValley #FrontierModels #FrontierAI -
China continues to attract top level AI talent from the U.S. ....
- OpenAI researcher now chief AI scientist at Tencent
- Google DeepMind researcher moves to Alibaba
- VP of Research at Google DeepMind moves to ByteDance
- Meta AI Researcher moves to Chinese startup Moonshot and creates Kimi AI model https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/china-may-move-toward-us-path-on-ai-as-firms-poach-employees.html #AI #China #BrainDrain #AITalent #AGI #Tencent #Alibaba #ByteDance #SiliconValley #FrontierModels #FrontierAI -
Thats what Ive been learning. Saw that writing on the wall a year ago if not earlier.
Of course the SaaS dealers were dumping tokens at probably 10% of what they cost. Thats the #venturecapitalist playbook. Get people hooked, raise rates to stupid costs cause you can, watch people suffer with #LLM induced #braindrain
Ive been putting together tooling that allows local LLM operation. Its slower right now, but it runs on my machines and does a decent job.
I knew companies would set up their own LLM racks. And as a senior systems engineer, im learning exactly that with cost and performance in mind.
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Thats what Ive been learning. Saw that writing on the wall a year ago if not earlier.
Of course the SaaS dealers were dumping tokens at probably 10% of what they cost. Thats the #venturecapitalist playbook. Get people hooked, raise rates to stupid costs cause you can, watch people suffer with #LLM induced #braindrain
Ive been putting together tooling that allows local LLM operation. Its slower right now, but it runs on my machines and does a decent job.
I knew companies would set up their own LLM racks. And as a senior systems engineer, im learning exactly that with cost and performance in mind.
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Many US #health agencies are operating with interim heads.
Among the vacant positions are the director of the #InfectiousDisease agency; #SurgeonGeneral; head of the Food & Drug Administration [#FDA]; deputy health secretary; & head of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention [#CDC] — a leadership vacuum that observers say is unprecedented.
#Trump #nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #research #PublicHealth #NIAID #WHO
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Many US #health agencies are operating with interim heads.
Among the vacant positions are the director of the #InfectiousDisease agency; #SurgeonGeneral; head of the Food & Drug Administration [#FDA]; deputy health secretary; & head of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention [#CDC] — a leadership vacuum that observers say is unprecedented.
#Trump #nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #research #PublicHealth #NIAID #WHO
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The #Trump admin issued the directive stopping individuals at the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases [#NIAID] from communicating with the #WHO.
The federal #health subagency was led for decades by Dr. #AnthonyFauci & oversaw developing treatments for #PublicHealth emergencies including #HIV / #AIDs & #COVID19.
#nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #research #global #virus #InfectiousDisease
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The #Trump admin issued the directive stopping individuals at the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases [#NIAID] from communicating with the #WHO.
The federal #health subagency was led for decades by Dr. #AnthonyFauci & oversaw developing treatments for #PublicHealth emergencies including #HIV / #AIDs & #COVID19.
#nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #research #global #virus #InfectiousDisease
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#Trump admin shutting key #US researchers out of #global #virus response talks, documents & sources reveal
Key officials responsible for leading US #research on #InfectiousDisease threats have been #barred from speaking directly with the #WorldHealthOrganization [#WHO] — effectively shutting some of them out of the global discussions on virus #outbreaks, according to documents & multiple sources.
#nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #health #PublicHealth #NIAID
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/politics/global-virus-response-trump-administration -
#Trump admin shutting key #US researchers out of #global #virus response talks, documents & sources reveal
Key officials responsible for leading US #research on #InfectiousDisease threats have been #barred from speaking directly with the #WorldHealthOrganization [#WHO] — effectively shutting some of them out of the global discussions on virus #outbreaks, according to documents & multiple sources.
#nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #health #PublicHealth #NIAID
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/politics/global-virus-response-trump-administration -
Brain Drain @ OpenAI continues.
Andrej Karpathy a founding member of OpenAI is joining Anthropic and will focus on building out Anthropic's pretraining research .... https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-andrej-claude #AI #Karpathy #Anthropic #OpenAI #BrainDrain #Pretraining #Claude #LLMs #FrontierAI
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Brain Drain @ OpenAI continues.
Andrej Karpathy a founding member of OpenAI is joining Anthropic and will focus on building out Anthropic's pretraining research .... https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-andrej-claude #AI #Karpathy #Anthropic #OpenAI #BrainDrain #Pretraining #Claude #LLMs #FrontierAI
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Pakistan raised Sualeh Asif. MIT and Silicon Valley kept him. Now he is a billionaire behind a $60B AI deal. His talent came from Karachi. The patents, jobs, and wealth went elsewhere. That is brain drain. Fix the system, not the people. #Pakistan #BrainDrain #AIStartups thedissidentvoice.org/2026/05/cursor-spacex-and-pakistans-brain-drain/
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Trump Slashed #Science Funding. Now the #US Could Face a Costly #BrainDrain.
The White House’s continued attacks on #academia and its funding cuts to scientific research have provided an opening for other countries to poach the type of researchers and #scientists who have helped make #America the world’s leader in medical and technology breakthroughs. That brain drain could be very costly for the U.S. economy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/business/dealbook/trump-brain-drain-academia.html
https://archive.ph/AcSbc -
Trump Slashed #Science Funding. Now the #US Could Face a Costly #BrainDrain.
The White House’s continued attacks on #academia and its funding cuts to scientific research have provided an opening for other countries to poach the type of researchers and #scientists who have helped make #America the world’s leader in medical and technology breakthroughs. That brain drain could be very costly for the U.S. economy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/business/dealbook/trump-brain-drain-academia.html
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Get Ready for More Brain-Scanning Consumer Gadgets
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Get Ready for More Brain-Scanning Consumer Gadgets
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"The first thing fascists come for are the intellectuals."
Yeah, that was me... years ago actually. But let's look at this from a different perspective.
The world embraces #BrainDrain from the #US. Now there will be even more jobs for true blue Americans, as the ones who know a thing or two about a thing or two eye property in France, Germany and the Nordics.
'More Destruction of Science': Trump Fires Every Member of US National Science Board | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-fires-national-science-board -
"The first thing fascists come for are the intellectuals."
Yeah, that was me... years ago actually. But let's look at this from a different perspective.
The world embraces #BrainDrain from the #US. Now there will be even more jobs for true blue Americans, as the ones who know a thing or two about a thing or two eye property in France, Germany and the Nordics.
'More Destruction of Science': Trump Fires Every Member of US National Science Board | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-fires-national-science-board -
RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/politics-v8m4p3ukz/-/a-lyLNjQfRQJKEoDaSRVJTpw%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0
Do U.S. voters realize the scale and cost of the 47th #POTUS's *drastic* #immigration "slow-walking"?
This backlog is bigger than ALL FOUR YEARS of the 45th POTUS's term.
It's stopped TONS of #science by removing work authorization from LOADS of #scientists who were ALREADY LEGALLY WORKING HERE FOR YEARS (e.g., when graduating Ph.D. #students or #postdocs have to transition to an H-1B #visa when OPT expires).
We had to halt multiple #decisionScience projects when a Research Project Manager completed their doctorate. Why? Because #USCIS simply isn't processing certain #OPT applications — and #H1B processing is much slower than normal times. In the past year, the #UnitedStates multiplied this loss of #innovation and #productivity by HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS! And with no detectable benefit to #security, etc.
Naturally, the highest-skilled foreign nationals are taking their skills to other countries, contributing to further #brainDrain from the #USA.
Incredible waste and inefficiency.
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/politics-v8m4p3ukz/-/a-lyLNjQfRQJKEoDaSRVJTpw%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0
Do U.S. voters realize the scale and cost of the 47th #POTUS's *drastic* #immigration "slow-walking"?
This backlog is bigger than ALL FOUR YEARS of the 45th POTUS's term.
It's stopped TONS of #science by removing work authorization from LOADS of #scientists who were ALREADY LEGALLY WORKING HERE FOR YEARS (e.g., when graduating Ph.D. #students or #postdocs have to transition to an H-1B #visa when OPT expires).
We had to halt multiple #decisionScience projects when a Research Project Manager completed their doctorate. Why? Because #USCIS simply isn't processing certain #OPT applications — and #H1B processing is much slower than normal times. In the past year, the #UnitedStates multiplied this loss of #innovation and #productivity by HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS! And with no detectable benefit to #security, etc.
Naturally, the highest-skilled foreign nationals are taking their skills to other countries, contributing to further #brainDrain from the #USA.
Incredible waste and inefficiency.
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This is one ugly face of #BrainDrain - a developer, part of the GNOME project, writes about how he wants to leave the US, what blocked and blocks this and what this will mean for a large number of projects he's involved in.
Nobody wins here. I hope he and his family is safe and he can find ways to make ends meet. I also hope the projects get by without him. But the "sole maintainer" list is pretty impressive - the sad fact is, that finding a new maintainer will be hard.
https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/02/06/mid-life-transitions/
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This is one ugly face of #BrainDrain - a developer, part of the GNOME project, writes about how he wants to leave the US, what blocked and blocks this and what this will mean for a large number of projects he's involved in.
Nobody wins here. I hope he and his family is safe and he can find ways to make ends meet. I also hope the projects get by without him. But the "sole maintainer" list is pretty impressive - the sad fact is, that finding a new maintainer will be hard.
https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/02/06/mid-life-transitions/
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"Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/business/dealbook/trump-brain-drain-academia.html"Last month, the Partnership for Public Service…estimated that 95,000 employees had departed federal science agencies from September 2024 to December 2025…To the rest of the world, the Trump administration’s cuts to science seem like an unbidden gift…Several are making sizable investments to attract American talent."
#BrainDrain #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/business/dealbook/trump-brain-drain-academia.html"Last month, the Partnership for Public Service…estimated that 95,000 employees had departed federal science agencies from September 2024 to December 2025…To the rest of the world, the Trump administration’s cuts to science seem like an unbidden gift…Several are making sizable investments to attract American talent."
#BrainDrain #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Popular ‘healthy food’ was actually linked to faster brain decline, surprising experts
Talk about a brain drain. Several diets have been shown to have brain-boosting effects, from the Mediterranean diet’s gut-brain connectio…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanDiet #braindrain #braintissue #Cognitivedecline #DASHdiet #Foods #healthydiet #Mediterranean #minddiet
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2577586/popular-healthy-food-was-actually-linked-to-faster-brain-decline-surprising-experts-2/ -
Popular ‘healthy food’ was actually linked to faster brain decline, surprising experts
Talk about a brain drain. Several diets have been shown to have brain-boosting effects, from the Mediterranean diet’s gut-brain connectio…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanDiet #braindrain #braintissue #Cognitivedecline #DASHdiet #Foods #healthydiet #Mediterranean #minddiet
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2577586/popular-healthy-food-was-actually-linked-to-faster-brain-decline-surprising-experts-2/ -
Released 37 years ago today
Brain Drain, the eleventh studio album the Ramones, featuring the opening track I Believe In Miracles#punk #punks #punkrock #ramones #braindrain #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Released 37 years ago today
Brain Drain, the eleventh studio album the Ramones, featuring the opening track I Believe In Miracles#punk #punks #punkrock #ramones #braindrain #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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37 years ago today
Brain Drain is the eleventh studio album by the American punk rock band the Ramones, released on this day in 1989 includes the singles "Pet Sematary" and "I Believe in Miracles"#punk #punks #punkrock #ramones #braindrain #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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37 years ago today
Brain Drain is the eleventh studio album by the American punk rock band the Ramones, released on this day in 1989 includes the singles "Pet Sematary" and "I Believe in Miracles"#punk #punks #punkrock #ramones #braindrain #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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CW: 🔞 mind control, cursed, references AI but not AI generated
good news! someone wants to drain your brain and have your mind under his total control.
bad news. it's Sam Altman :(
#MindControl #BrainDrain #cursed #OpenAI #SamAltman #AI #ChatGPT #kink #nsfw
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#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #domesticpolicy
„[P]roblems that are … existential for Israel — its growing international #isolation, its #braindrain & economic woes, its tremendous domestic #polarization, its creeping annexation of the West#Bank, #Gaza’s instability, #Hamas’s future — all sit on the back burner. Victory over Iran would no doubt transform the country’s security prospects (…) But it will not be enough to mend the country’s deepest #divisions.“
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#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #domesticpolicy
„[P]roblems that are … existential for Israel — its growing international #isolation, its #braindrain & economic woes, its tremendous domestic #polarization, its creeping annexation of the West#Bank, #Gaza’s instability, #Hamas’s future — all sit on the back burner. Victory over Iran would no doubt transform the country’s security prospects (…) But it will not be enough to mend the country’s deepest #divisions.“
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Your phone is eating your brain's RAM even when it's completely turned off. In Ep 5 of Antisocial Scientists, we tackle the "brain drain" effect, how your phone pushes you into lazy System 1 thinking , and why a smartwatch is basically "the vape of the smoking world".
Listen here: https://batcamp.org/podcast/incel-lular-attention/ -
Your phone is eating your brain's RAM even when it's completely turned off. In Ep 5 of Antisocial Scientists, we tackle the "brain drain" effect, how your phone pushes you into lazy System 1 thinking , and why a smartwatch is basically "the vape of the smoking world".
Listen here: https://batcamp.org/podcast/incel-lular-attention/
