From an April 9th Texas Tech University System memorandum providing course conent guidelines:

>> To ensure academic objectivity, faculty are prohibited from teaching as absolute truth that:
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● Meritocracy or a strong work ethic are inherently racist, sexist, or constructs of oppression. <<

A flagrant breach of academic freedom.

#USPolitics #HigherEducation #TexasTech #Texas #AcademicFreedom #Meritocracy

When Twenty Six Votes Said Everything but Were Heard as Nothing

https://open.substack.com/pub/italovignoli/p/when-twenty-six-votes-said-everything?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1va4e

#libreoffice #tdforg #foss #meritocracy

A new essay: The Credential Cartel.
It’s about degree inflation, licensing barriers, and how credentials increasingly function as gatekeeping devices rather than narrow tests of competence. The core question is simple: when a requirement is defended as necessary, is it actually protecting the public — or mostly protecting access?

https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-credential-cartel-how-degrees

#Credentialism
#DegreeInflation
#PublicPolicy
#Gatekeeping
#OccupationalLicensing
#Skills
#Competence
#LabourMobility
#Workforce
#Meritocracy

#Meritocracy is a strange beast when you start to look deeper.

Is there greater merit by what one person can achieve because of unlimited energy levels than someone who very swiftly tires yet applies themselves with greater effort in spite of that predication?

Much of life is based on the effect of what you do. Should that be the focal meritorious aspect?

The article reports that support for wealth redistribution is driven more by beliefs about fairness and meritocracy than by envy toward the wealthy. Four studies show that perceiving wealth as unearned predicts support for redistribution, while envy itself loses predictive power when meritocracy beliefs are accounted for. The findings challenge the idea that redistribution support stems from malicious envy and highlight the role of perceived deservingness.

This topic is of interest to psychology readers because it clarifies how fairness beliefs shape political attitudes and how emotion and cognition interact in the formation of policy preferences. It emphasizes meritocracy as a key cognitive frame influencing judgments about economic justice across different populations.

Article Title: Left-leaning support for redistribution stems from perceived unfairness rather than malicious envy

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www.psypost dot org/left-leaning-support-for-redistribution-stems-from-perceived-unfairness-rather-than-malicious-envy/

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#psychology #meritocracy #fairness #redistribution #politicalbeliefs

Listen, son. The amount of jank #VibeCoding is churning out is not going to replace systems architect or assembly coders anytime soon.

But as we all know, #SiliconValley is all talk, no brains and much bluster. It's the biggest privatized #PsyOp on earth.

That's what you get when you make an unholy marriage between #tech, #marketing & #finance companies.

So much for #meritocracy.

#SamAltman Thanks #Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-thanks-programmers-over

Nothing proves more easily that #CEOs and other executives are stupider on average than most people, that #meritocracy is a LIE, than the fact that #corporations are obsessed with the notion that #AI #LLM #generative is a net benefit to #humanity.

#Idiocracy #ItHasElectrolytes #ItsWhatPlantsCrave

"This video is about why liberals struggle to connect with the working class and how we can collectively do better :)"—Alice Cappelle

NYT’s Recipe for Losing the Working Class >

https://youtu.be/L6_6duR0n9s?si=wHpPD6JGNdajMiwA

#working_class #workers #media #series #class_divide #class_struggle #media_narrative #liberals #hipsters #collective #meritocracy #low_salary #agency #equal_rights #work #mass_media #USA #France #society #politics