Carsten Franke

@carstenfranke
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German Chemist living in the USA. American since 2024. Former 3M engineer and inventor, working on plastic films and adhesives for LCD displays, now running my own temperature measurement business. Democrat, fighter for democracy. Too many hobbies.. gardening, house plants, high power rockets, 3D printing. (He/Him)
Profile picture is the skinny Alien from Wes Anderson's movie "Asteroid City". It holds said asteroid and stares with wide googly eyes into the camera.
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Born at326 ppm
Carsten Franke7h ago
Patrick C Miller 1d ago
The U.S. Research Talent Pipeline Is in Trouble https://hbr.org/2026/06/the-u-s-research-talent-pipeline-is-in-trouble
The U.S. Research Talent Pipeline Is in Trouble

Policy shifts, funding instability, and visa uncertainty are causing a sharp decline in the willingness of young scientists trained in the United States to stay in academia—or even remain in the country at all. Survey data from nearly 1,000 biomedical PhD students and postdocs shows major drops in plans to stay in U.S. research careers, especially among foreign-born researchers with strong opportunities abroad. Because universities and industry compete for the same technical talent, these shifts are an early warning for corporate R&D. Companies that rely on advanced scientific talent may face both a short-term hiring opportunity and a longer-term erosion of the U.S. innovation pipeline, forcing difficult decisions about recruiting, research locations, and global partnerships.

Harvard Business Review
Carsten Franke8h ago
daniel:// stenberg://12h ago
working theory: we get fewer vulnerability reports late in the weeks as the researchers have all run out of tokens by now...
Carsten Franke19h ago
Peter Gleick19h ago

More evidence for how the US auto industry is committing suicide, while China is moving to dominate global auto manufacturing and sales.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/china-car-exports-jump-73-in-may-as-high-fuel-prices-raise-interest-in-evs

China car exports jump 73% in May as high fuel prices raise interest in EVs

China’s passenger car exports jumped 73% year-on-year in May to around 809,000 vehicles, an industry group reported Wednesday, as higher gasoline and diesel prices due to the war in Iran raised interest in electric vehicles.

PBS News
Carsten Franke23h ago
mloxton23h ago

So, we are doing about as well with the New World Screwworm outbreak as was predicted by our response to COVID

So far
- Defunding surveillance
- Firing the people who used to do the surveillance
- Ignoring the hazard signals when they first appeared
- Denying it when it was reported
- Implementing half-arsed measures that are voluntary and in the future

Carsten Franke1d ago
Show threadPaul Cantrell1d ago

That article, like so many, rankles me by using the term “immigration enforcement” for what is patently •not• just enforcement of immigration laws: here in Minneapolis, ICE has harassed, terrorized, kidnapped, and murdered people who were following immigration laws, who were US citizens, who were not even immigrants except by ancestry.

“Immigration enforcement” is a terribly misleading phrase, and the press should knock it off. Say “ICE and CBP operations” or something if you need a neutral term.

Carsten Franke1d ago
Highlands & Islands Greens1d ago
Carsten Franke1d ago
Jacqueline1d ago

Socialism is more efficient than capitalism. It is more efficient to give everyone a slice of a small pie than it is to give 3 people 90% of the pie and force everybody to fight over the rest.

Living standards can increase by splitting the pie better even without economic growth.

A restructuring and reallocation of resources from a capital centric approach to a people centered approach

Carsten Franke1d ago

Inflation at 4.2% in May... Where are the Democrats talking about affordability?

https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-inflation-war-gas-878f6759c93fcb078aeefffe19d4dfa5

US inflation tops 4% for the first time in 3 years as Americans get squeezed by high gas prices

Rising gas prices pushed inflation to its highest level in three years last month, a headache for the Federal Reserve and a potential political challenge for the Trump administration as midterm elections near. New data showed Wednesday that consumer prices rose 4.2% in May from a year earlier, the third straight monthly increase. Prices have now risen faster than wages for several months. Families are dipping into savings to maintain their spending, and more people are falling behind on their credit card bills. Large retailers say they have also noticed changes in customer behavior, like buying smaller amounts of gas during visits to the pump.

AP News
Carsten Franke1d ago
BrianKrebs1d ago

Hey Windows (ab)users! Microsoft patched around 200 vulnerabilities in Windows etc today, a record Patch Tuesday batch. All indications are they fixed two of the zero-days dropped last month by the researcher Nightmare Eclipse, including "Green Plasma" and the "YellowKey" exploit that allowed local access to data encrypted by BitLocker. In response to today's Patch Tuesday, Nightmare Eclipse dropped an exploit for what they claimed was a zero-day bug in Windows Defender.

Nearly three dozen of the bugs patched this month earned Microsoft’s most dire “critical” rating, and exploit code for at least three of the weaknesses is now publicly available.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/a-record-breaking-patch-tuesday-for-june-2026/

#patchtuesday #windows #nightmareeclipse #greenplasma #yellowkey

A Record-Breaking Patch Tuesday for June 2026 – Krebs on Security

Carsten Franke1d ago
Show threadMarjolein Tamis2d ago
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