advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted
Donald Trump Jr. joined
Unusual Machines’ advisory board in November 2024
-- U.S. government contracts soon followed
CEO Allan Evans told Forbes the advisory board was created when Donald Trump Jr. was named to it,
and that he believes it has four other members,
but he declined to name them or share if they are associated with the Trump Organization.
Likewise, the company’s website does notappear to mention any members other than Donald Trump Jr.
Earl…
Siobhan McKenna, News Corp's Australian broadcasting chief, is leaving in Q4; she was Lachlan Murdoch's top adviser, including for the family trust case (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct
NFL DFS picks, Thursday Night Football: Ravens vs. Dolphins daily fantasy lineup advice on DraftKings, FanDuel
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-dfs
@axbom@axbom.meRange, which uses AI to offer flat-fee financial planning services to mass affluent households, raised a $60M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/11/25/range-flat-fee-invest…
In 2025, several books saw audiobook sales outperform hardcovers, even as digital audiobook growth slowed to 1% through October after 2024's ~24% jump to $1.1B (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/lis
I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing.
-- Atul Gawande
@agawande.bsky.social
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:qrq3ybgokbsqivyiap7vnin4/post/3lz6ytzkye22k
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published by the Bloomberg news service,
advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call Trump to congratulate him for the Gaza peace deal,
say Russia had supported it and that he respects the president as a man of peace.
“From that, it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said according to the transcript.
When asked by Russian state media to comment on Bloomberg’s…