Tonia Ries
tonia-ries.bsky.social
Tonia Ries
@tonia-ries.bsky.social
Social media exile
This is insane.
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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All the other mental healthy IT geniuses worked for open source projects.
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What do the WSJ, the NY Times and the Washington Post editorial boards have in common? Spot on indictment of establishment media's coverage of the Mamdani race from @columjournreview.bsky.social this morning: www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...
Legacy papers have been weird and hostile toward Zohran Mamdani.
The New York City mayoral candidate promises radical change that editorial boards don’t want, even if voters do.
www.cjr.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Massive flight delays trying to get home due to “technical issues affecting our computer system”
Maybe we shouldn’t trust half the internet to Jeff Bezos?
October 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Trust in Institutions, Systems, and Agents: how can we update our 2017 trust model for a world where AI has a seat at the table?

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Trust in Institutions, Systems, and Agents
It seems to come down to the same question: what's a fair way to distribute power?
open.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Perfect editorial comment
October 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
the latest Gallop poll on #trust shows there's no going back -- only forward >> toniaeries.substack.com/p/gallups-ne...
Gallup's New Trust Poll: The News is Dead, Long Live the News
The data from Gallup's new poll on "trust in mass media to report news" is tragic--but easy to misinterpret
toniaeries.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Last week things were tangled in Dubai, this week they’re blurred in Qatar. Do the @nytimes.com headline writers not know how to spell “corrupt”?
September 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Abortion bans kill
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.

(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
September 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
New euphemism for “corruption” just dropped - Oh, those tangled ties!
September 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
You could hear a pin drop …
September 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
RIP to my first crush — thank you for never letting me down ❤️
Robert Redford dies: tributes paid to giant of American cinema – latest updates
Robert Redford dies: tributes paid to giant of American cinema – latest updates
Star of Hollywood classics including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting and All the President’s Men, dies aged 89 * ‘The star who changed Hollywood’: Peter Bradshaw on Robert Redford * Robert Redford – a life in pictures Back in 2019, Ryan Gilbey set about ranking Redford’s top ten performances. As always with Ranked, positioning and omissions are supposed to spark debate (or ignite endless arguing. Should Indecent Proposal have been excluded from the top ten? Was All the President’s Men only worthy of fourth place? The debate continues. Here’s Ryan’s number one entry, the aforementioned Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Redford’s sole Oscar nomination for acting was, rather shockingly, for The Sting, a complacent 1973 con-man comedy. But it was his first pairing with Sting co-star Paul Newman that distils the performer’s essence. Although the movie is unable to fess up to its bromantic longings – did any woman in a buddy movie ever look more like a gooseberry than poor Katharine Ross? – it’s still worth seeing for Redford’s sunny charm. Even then, it seemed to trouble him faintly, as though he was worried we might take him for a himbo. The studio did. “He’s just another California blond,” said one executive. “Throw a stick out of a window in Malibu, you’ll hit six like him.” But Newman helped win him the part. Redford got a shock when he saw the first cut. “I said: ‘What the hell is that song doing in there? Raindrops? It’s not even raining. On a bicycle?’” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Have been thinking a lot about this slide from the January 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer …
September 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“The book is … proof of the conspiracy’s overarching worldview: There is a festering rot among at least one group of powerful elites with an abiding belief that their money and power make them invincible”
I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself
This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Do you feel safer yet?
"Among those detained were South Korean employees on business travel....

"The raid could raise concerns for South Korean companies that are sending personnel to the US and hiring locally."

It comes weeks after Hyundai pledged $26 billion in US investments.

Gift link ⬇️

www.wsj.com/us-news/u-s-...
Hundreds Arrested in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Site in Georgia
South Korea said it had expressed concerns to the U.S. about the raid and that it was trying to secure the release of its citizens.
www.wsj.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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(FT) - Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up.

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/b86b...
US sliding towards 1930s-style autocracy, warns Ray Dalio
Billionaire hedge fund boss says other investors are too scared of Trump to speak out
www.ft.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Suck it, kids
New from 404 Media: LEGO has stopped shipping individual bricks to the U.S. because of Trump's tariffs. LEGO fans online said that they saw their shopping carts emptied in the middle of building projects.

www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
LEGO Stops Shipping Individual Bricks to United States After Trump's Tariffs
The popular Pick a Brick service let LEGO fanatics get the exact piece they wanted. It’s no longer available to US customers.
www.404media.co
August 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Mask up, New York
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Why is business not on this round up of institutions that are captured / contested / resisting?
www.axios.com/2025/08/27/t...
Trump's playbook for capturing and crushing America's institutions
In Trump's America, authority flows only from his consent.
www.axios.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
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~Alice Walker
August 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Economic and health inequities are deadly -- and disproportionately so for young adults in America compared to their peers in other countries

slate.com/technology/2...
There’s Something Very Dark Happening to Millennials and Gen Z Adults
America is not a good place to be an early adult.
slate.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is how it’s done, people
zeteo.com Zeteo @zeteo.com · Aug 20
Watch D.C. residents chase federal agents out of the Columbia Heights neighborhood.

Meanwhile, we spotted FBI and Homeland Security agents appear to respond to a *fare evader*.

@premthakker.bsky.social reports.

zeteo.com/p/watch-prem...

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Watch D.C. Residents Push ICE Out Of Their Streets
YouTube video by Zeteo
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August 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM