Ruth Becker
ruthbecker.bsky.social
Ruth Becker
@ruthbecker.bsky.social
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Independent artist reporting for holiday duty, folks! Support your local artisans! 🫶
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Turnage insisted on Monday that she wasn’t paid to share the emails with anyone, despite accusations that she was receiving financial compensation.

“I’m like, really? Then why am I still sitting here eating corn dogs? I guess the check got lost in the mail. I don’t know.”
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Hahahahahah 😂😂😂
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Reposted by Ruth Becker
To justify Thiel-like wealth you need Thiel-like crazy: the protestant work ethic, rugged individualism, & invisible hand only get you so far. To believe that's it's Good that you have such extreme power over others, you need a whole batshit crazy belief system that makes it make sense.
October 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
To justify Thiel-like wealth you need Thiel-like crazy: the protestant work ethic, rugged individualism, & invisible hand only get you so far. To believe that's it's Good that you have such extreme power over others, you need a whole batshit crazy belief system that makes it make sense.
October 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Reposted by Ruth Becker
Yes. Concentrating power in the hands of so very few is inherently not ok. I think part of why they've developed such bizarre beliefs (lookin at you, paypal mafia!) is bc we have such a deep need to be heroes of our own stories: And only a distorted ideology can support such a distorted reality
October 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Yes. Concentrating power in the hands of so very few is inherently not ok. I think part of why they've developed such bizarre beliefs (lookin at you, paypal mafia!) is bc we have such a deep need to be heroes of our own stories: And only a distorted ideology can support such a distorted reality
October 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
“Rooted in my conviction”

October 18, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Ok right next week!
Can’t come soon enough 🔥🔥

In the meantime, so happy for
Bill! Can’t believe he sat out an entire season before joining the team — doesn’t seem to have hurt him tho 🫶
October 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Next week?
October 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Interesting! Thanks 🙏
October 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
tbh Klein doesn't inhabit the same intellectual or moral universe as Coates. In fairness, few do

Klein is a conventional thinker -- smart, generally effective -- but he lacks Coates's depth and capacity to pierce the veil of seems-to -be to reveal what actually is -- and how the veil operates
October 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
ICYMI - a scathing takedown of Klein's pivot in the interview, where he responds to "love can get you shot" with "there’s a Buddhist meditation I like"

lizbucar.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...
Ezra Klein Just Showed Us Everything Wrong With Secularized Meditation
There’s a moment in Ezra Klein’s recent interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates that’s been bugging me.
lizbucar.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Disagree. They are very intentionally consolidating data and tech with narrative control
October 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This is the bigger problem with LLMs — citizens as ciphers, pouring our souls into emptiness and seeing it reflected back at us
October 4, 2025 at 5:50 AM
omg give this man a nobel prize!!!!!
😱😱😱😱😱
September 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM