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Foreign tech workers spurn US as if it were a rabid dog (www.fudzilla.com)

submitted 6 days ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Computerworld columnist Steven Vaughan-Nichols is warning that foreign tech workers are avoiding attending US events and are not interested in jobs in the Land of the Fee.

Vaughan-Nichols said that after President Donald Trump returned to office in January, European conference attendees told him they would not take jobs or attend conferences in the United States.

The mood is not exactly mysterious when the US feels like it has “Keep Out!” and “No Trespassing!” signs nailed to the arrivals hall with bizarre rules about handing over all your data to check you have not made a social media post taking the Michael out of Trump.

He said that even top tech people who flew in with proper visas and paperwork were getting turned away at the border.

Trade show organisers are seeing the same pattern, and they are not pretending it is a blip. Getting speakers and attendees from outside the States to commit to US events is getting harder, and plenty refuse to try.

Quelle surprise.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh believe me I have also seen precarious tall stacks of rocks that manage to stay standing for much longer than you would expect. Usually it is because they are surrounded by a forest of other much more solid formations of rocks or the ground is solid and well suited to support a base stone.

Sometimes though I see someone waving to me smugly from atop a precarious stack of rocks amidst a sea of other precarious stacks of rocks and I chuckle to myself and wave back condescendingly... and then feel guilty about the ugliness of pre-emptive disaster tourism.