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My new post for #HealOurCulture: “Trust and Democracy”
https://healourculture.org/2025/05/15/trust-and-democracy/
Also on Substack:

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

Modeling Trust Dynamics in Robot-Assisted Delivery: Impact of Trust Repair Strategies
Dong Hae Mangalindan, Karthik Kandikonda, Ericka Rovira, Vaibhav Srivastava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10884

Modeling Trust Dynamics in Robot-Assisted Delivery: Impact of Trust Repair Strategies
With increasing efficiency and reliability, autonomous systems are becoming valuable assistants to humans in various tasks. In the context of robot-assisted delivery, we investigate how robot performance and trust repair strategies impact human trust. In this task, while handling a secondary task, humans can choose to either send the robot to deliver autonomously or manually control it. The trust repair strategies examined include short and long explanations, apology and promise, and denial. …

At Graduation Time, ICE Targets Young Dreamers (Emma Winger/Immigration Impact)
https://immigrationimpact.com/2025/06/12/graduation-ice-targets-young-dreamers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p122#a250613p122

Minnesota political assassin
57-year-old Vance Boelter,
was twice appointed to the nonpartisan Governor’s Workforce Development Council

-- in 2016 under former Gov. Mark Dayton
and again in 2019 under Gov. Tim Walz.
His most recent term expired in January 2023.

57-year-old suspect sought in targeted shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers
Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband have died after they were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park.

Sources: Apple has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, as part of an iOS 26.4 software update (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-12/a…

Apple (AAPL) Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade
Apple Inc. has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, marking a key step in its artificial intelligence turnaround effort.

Brooklyn Park police searching for suspect in 'multiple targeted shootings' (Briana Bierschbach/Minneapolis Star Tribune)
https://www.startribune.com/brooklyn-park-police-searching-for-suspect-in-multiple-targeted-shootings/601372993
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p18#a250614p18

57-year-old suspect sought in targeted shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers (Ryan Pattee/KSTP-TV)
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/57-year-old-suspect-sought-in-targeted-shootings-of-minnesota-state-lawmakers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p67#a250614p67

Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families (Grace Panetta/The 19th)
https://19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-melissa-hortman-killed-in-targeted-attack-was-a-champion-for-minnesotan-families/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p75#a250614p75

'Targeted shootings' in eastern Minnesota, Gov. Walz says (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/targeted-shootings-minnesota-rcna212831
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p21#a250614p21