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  1. CW: May contain mature and explicit content, including nudity.

    Angels and philosophers clash in a smoke-filled university, questioning authority and norms.

    #NSFW #anthropocene #meritocracy #academic #criticalthinking

  2. A #kakistocracy is a state of #government, in which the incompetent and most scrupulous people hold #power. The opposite of a #meritocracy. A perfect, contemporary example of a kakistocracy is the current #US #administration, while #China is the closest the world has to offer for a meritocracy.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistoc

    #politics

  3. A #kakistocracy is a state of #government, in which the incompetent and most scrupulous people hold #power. The opposite of a #meritocracy. A perfect, contemporary example of a kakistocracy is the current #US #administration, while #China is the closest the world has to offer for a meritocracy.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistoc

    #politics

  4. A #kakistocracy is a state of #government, in which the incompetent and most scrupulous people hold #power. The opposite of a #meritocracy. A perfect, contemporary example of a kakistocracy is the current #US #administration, while #China is the closest the world has to offer for a meritocracy.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistoc

    #politics

  5. A #kakistocracy is a state of #government, in which the incompetent and most scrupulous people hold #power. The opposite of a #meritocracy. A perfect, contemporary example of a kakistocracy is the current #US #administration, while #China is the closest the world has to offer for a meritocracy.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistoc

    #politics

  6. A #kakistocracy is a state of #government, in which the incompetent and most scrupulous people hold #power. The opposite of a #meritocracy. A perfect, contemporary example of a kakistocracy is the current #US #administration, while #China is the closest the world has to offer for a meritocracy.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistoc

    #politics

  7. I've been wittering on about the history and failings of Meritocracy, but I hadn't drafted a version for Substack.
    👉 brywillis634737.substack.com/p

    I've purposely left Trump, but clearly he's a central figure in this perspective. Very few situations merit meritocracy as a lens, but we seem to overextend it. It is certainly overrepresented in business.

    #philosophy #merit #business #linkedin #meritocracy #video #podcast #substack #politics #language #culture #dei #promotions #statistics #heuristics

  8. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.

    Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching

  9. White people who think racism is mostly a thing of the past, or that if people of color have trouble getting jobs it must be because they're lazy or unqualified, you need to take a look at this: tech.lgbt/@kitsunecafe/1131998

    Racists are everywhere, including in "liberal" or "enlightened" fields like tech, and they'll just deadass scuttle people's chances of getting hired for bogus reasons.

    #racism #WorkplaceRacism #SystematicRacism #racist #meritocracy