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#meritocracy

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Martin Settle

I'm shortly going to be attending a webinar, and had advance thoughts:

DEI practices are 100% about hiring based on merit. They require us to account for systemic barriers and identify and control our unconscious bias *so that* we can identify and hire the best person.

That the best person is not always (or often) a complacent white male is not a result of DEI. Speaking as a white guy to other white men: It's time to level up.

#DEI#HR#meritocracy
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Joshua M 🇦🇺

Great Tech Industry Survey of 2025

Think politics and tech shouldnt intersect? Fill out this survey. Think your stance on censorship represents all of FOSS? Take the survey. Want to cast a vote for anti-trump techbros - take it.

Hate @lunduke ? Vote that he isnt a trusted source of tech news.

The survey:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Google DocsThe Great Tech Industry Demographic Survey of 2025Questions range from the technical... to the political and personal. The questions cover a wide variety of potential viewpoints. All questions are optional (only answer the ones which you feel comfortable with). There are a lot of questions — but they are all quick to answer. The more questions you answer, the better the data will be. Estimated time to answer all questions: Roughly 10 minutes. No account is necessary to take this survey. All responses are anonymous. Question order is randomized. Full results will be published by The Lunduke Journal after the conclusion of the survey.
#lunduke#lundukejournal#politicsandtech
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Thor A. Hopland

The idea of #meritocracy only works if everyone is completely sure about the goals - like with #Linux and the #LinuxFoundation.

It's about machine code, low level programming and serving drivers for hardware enablement. You can pretty much quantify meritocratic value by quality of contribution - even in terms of #CoC, as we can see with #BcacheFS.

But, in #politics? There's no such thing. This is proven with finality by #Trump, as he calls it meritocratic, but hires ill-fitting candidates.

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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Will Musk Do to U.S. Federal Gov't What He Did to Twitter?
newrepublic.com/article/191037

* unchecked/unelected oligarch Elon Musk yanking wires out of machinery that powers American life

Musk’s Crusade to Shut Down USAID
newrepublic.com/post/191048/el

* Trump2 advisor Musk escalates his war to gut federal government

#USAID
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #autocracy #DOGE
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #libertarianism #oligarchy #meritocracy #plutocracy

The New Republic · Will Elon Musk Do to the Federal Government What He Did to Twitter?An unchecked, unelected oligarch is yanking wires out of the machinery that powers American life—and there’s no telling how many people will get hurt.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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* Musk seized control at Office of Personnel Management | General Services Administration
* key institutions that function as central nervous system of U.S. gov.

* laying groundwork for major tax cuts disproportionately benefiting corporations/oligarchs

“Musk is going to pay for his tax cut with your Social Security”

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #autocracy
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #libertarianism #oligarchy #meritocracy #plutocracy

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

State capture: Unelected Billionaire Musk Seizes Control at Treasury Dept/Other Agencies
democracynow.org/2025/2/3/elon

* asserting control over U.S. bureaucracy/ sens. comp. systems despite clear authority
* highest-ranking career official at Treasury Dept. pushed out after refusing to hand over keys to entire U.S. gov't payment system
...

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #autocracy
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #libertarianism #oligarchy #meritocracy

Democracy Now! · Is Elon Musk Staging a Coup? Unelected Billionaire Seizes Control at Treasury Dept. & Other AgenciesBy Democracy Now!
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fanf42

@grimalkina little story time.
When I was young, I thought meritocracy was real.

I was from a (very, very) poor family from a tiny village in the middle of French Alps, away from civilization (my dad, who was born in the village itself, didn't even had running water as a young child and electricity came when he was young adult). Still, I was among the best suited for school, and later successfully passed selective exams to French Grandes Ecoles.

What an amazing proof of meritocracy it was.

But of course it's not.

For one thing, I just love studying, and i loved school since teenage years, so the merit of doing what you like is meh, at best.

And also, as a young adult, I read a paper about how socio-demographic class are often preserved from grand parents to grand children even if parents have a vastly different class, especially when grand parents where of an upper class.
I didn't find the paper back, but it was rather simple: even if the parent was poor, he benefited during his childhood from the social security and well being that upper class parents bring : better education, better health care, better relationships, etc.
This security pass to their children. It's amplified if the grand children / grandparents keep relationships.

That was exactly my case. My grandfather went to the best French Grande Ecole in 1942. He was then director of several chemical factories and when I met him as my grandfather, he was still learning computers for fun, and most of my cousins where from upper class. My mother, the youngest of 6, prefered to move far away for the love of mountains and my kind father as a young adult, even if it means an hard and simple life.

So, surprise surprise, I was absolutely not the best fruit of meritocracy, just a child from an upper class family who happened to have poor parents, but still took the most of the security and privilèges of that environment.
And moreover, my parents where extremely sane and loving and caring. Really, that was unfair advantage, and I still thought it was my doing for a couple decade or so.

The paper is right: it's so easy to believe it's your doing. Externalities are always harder to account for, especially if they are not in your favor.

#meritocracy#privilege#falsehood
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Trumps launch cryptocurrencies ahead of inauguration setting off ethical alarms
cbc.ca/news/business/melania-m

* Melania launched her own cryptocurrency 2025-Jan-19
* 1d after D.T.'s own coin launch
* ethical concerns

#billionaires #plutocracy #oligarchy #meritocracy
#GOP #RepublicanParty #fascism #Trump2 #Trumpism #profiteering
#capitalism #corporations #libertarianism #billionaires #cryptocurrency
#WealthTax #AssetSeizure #AssetForfeiture
#SocialDemocracy #socialism #sustainability

CBCTrumps launch their own cryptocurrencies ahead of inauguration, setting off ethical alarms | CBC NewsMelania Trump launched her own cryptocurrency Sunday on the eve of her husband's presidential inauguration, just a day after his own coin was launched. The moves are raising ethical concerns among crypto industry observers.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Elon Musk on a tear as he shakes up politics in Europe. What's his endgame?
cbc.ca/news/world/musk-europe-

* having the ear of Trump not enough
* trashing Left/Right European politicians
* posts on X disrupting politics across continent
* smeared Britain’s prime minister
* other European leaders in his sights

#USpol #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #libertaranism
#EurPol #UKpol #GermanPol #AfD #FarRight
#ElonMusk #billionaires #plutocracy #oligarchy #meritocracy #WealthTax #ForeignIntervention

CBCANALYSIS | Elon Musk is on a tear as he shakes up politics in Europe. What's his endgame? | CBC NewsNot content with having the ear of incoming U.S. president Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk has been trashing European politicians on both the left and right, and using posts on his social media platform, X, to disrupt politics across the continent.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Amazon Found Easiest Way to Influence Trump2 Administration
newrepublic.com/post/189942/am

mastodon.social/@persagen/1137

* AMZN targeted during Trump1
* paying $40M for documentary no one wants about Melania Trump
* Dir. Brett Ratner: hasn’t made Hollywood movie since accused of sexual harassment by multiple women in 2017

#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025
#capitalism #oligarchy #plutocracy #meritocracy #BigTech #AMZN
#billionaires #Bezos #sycophantism
#Christofascism #transgenocide

The New Republic · Amazon Has Found the Easiest Way to Influence the Trump AdministrationThe retailer—which found itself targeted during Trump’s first term—is paying a gargantuan amount of money for a documentary about Melania Trump.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Jeff Bezos’ Media Companies Kiss Trump’s Ring … Again
motherjones.com/politics/2025/

* Amazon Studios to release documentary about Melania Trump
* Washington Post killed editorial cartoon satirizing its owner’s fealty to incoming president Trump

#AnnTelnaes #WaPo #censorship
#billionaires #capitalism #oligarchy #plutocracy #meritocracy #BigTech
#TimCook #Musk #Bezos #Altman #UBER #Zuckerberg
#Christofascism #transgenocide #discrimination #racism #antiLGBT #xenophobia #MassDeportations

Mother JonesJeff Bezos' media companies kiss Trump's ring…againAmazon Studios will release a documentary about Melania Trump, and the Washington Post just killed an editorial cartoon satirizing its owner's fealty to the incoming president.
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