Jacob Reed Davis

Naval Supply Corps Officer, Husband, Father, BYU alumni, Aptera Enthusiast, Knight of the No Agenda Round Table, Producer, No Agenda Show. #ITM

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

I’ve been waiting for this. It’s gonna be great when we can have users easily install Hermes and then use open router so the tasks get sent to the best/most cost efficient model for the task.

[Luke The Dev @iamlukethedev]

Hermes Agent v0.16.0 (2026.6.5) just dropped

This is arguably the biggest Hermes release yet.

Hermes is no longer just an agent framework. It’s becoming a complete platform.

Here’s what actually matters ↓

1. Native Desktop Apps Are Here

Hermes now has real desktop apps for:

• macOS
• Windows
• Linux

With:

• One-click install
• Auto updates
• Drag-and-drop files
• Clipboard image paste
• Cmd+K command palette
• Session search & archive
• Streaming chat
• Inline model picker

The “it’s just a CLI” era is officially over.

2. Run Hermes Anywhere

The desktop app can connect to:

• Your homelab
• A cloud server
• A teammate’s instance

Heavy compute stays remote.

The desktop becomes a lightweight control center.

3. Full Web Admin Dashboard

No more living in config files.

Manage:

• Channels
• MCP servers
• Credentials
• Memory
• Webhooks
• Gateway controls

All from the browser.

4. Faster Onboarding

Hermes is getting much easier to hand to non-technical users.

New Quick Setup via Nous Portal gets users from install to first conversation in minutes.

5. Lots of Quality-of-Life Improvements

• Fuzzy model picker everywhere
• New /undo [N] command
• Leaner default skills
• NVIDIA Skills Hub integration
• Full Simplified Chinese support

Other wins

• Security updates and CVE fixes
• Stability improvements across the stack
• Better multi-profile support
• More polished desktop and web experiences

No major breaking changes.

This release feels like a turning point.

Hermes is starting to look less like a tool for AI enthusiasts and more like something you could hand to an entire company.

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

California election law has got to be changed.

[Chris @chriswithans]

In all seriousness, here's what's going on in California and Los Angeles and why Tom Steyer and Nithya Raman might incredibly surpass Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt even though they're both trailing them by 6-7 points a full three nights after Election Day.

Since September 2020, California's been mailing out full ballots to every single registered voter. Registering is trivially "easy" in California. Can do it with any DMV interaction. So 10s of millions of ballots are sent out each state election, primaries or general.

Ballot harvesting is completely legal in California. Any one can go around and collect ballots. Just need the voter to sign over the ballot to them, as well as sign their own name and address on the sealed envelope.

Ballots must be postmarked by 8 p.m. Election Day or returned in person by that same time. Must also be signed once; or, if harvested, it must be signed and also signed over to the harvester (as I said above). ALL ballots are supposed to be received by June 9th, one calendar week after election day.

Most voters just turn in their own ballots. But many have their ballots harvested, "legally," by harvesters. They target younger voters, lower-income voters, and minority voters. These are voters who tend to sit out during midterm elections. It's the case everywhere.

It's obviously easier to harvest ballots when it's very close to election day. It's easier because by then, the lower-propensity voters who haven't voted yet consider their ballots to be effectively meaningless. So who cares if they hand it over (completed and sealed, of course) to a ballot harvester. *This is big reason why so many ballots get returned on Election Day or just 1-2 days prior to E-day. They get mailed via USPS, or dropped off in person. This is why so few ballots are in the possession of election officials by Election day or even the day after.*

Again, the ballots must be signed; and, if harvested, signed over to the harvester; and postmarked by Election Day. Important caveat here is that if a ballot fails these tests, they're not simply discarded. Rather, they are "cured" and "rehabilitated." Seriously. So yes, a ballot must be postmarked by Election Day by law, but the law doesn't discard these ballots if they fail that test.

Harvested ballots often do not have a signature or the handover signature. Or they have signatures that do not match the name. To you, this means that they should be discarded, no? But to the State, it means they need to be cured and rehabilitated. They have 30 days to do this.

And yes, ballots are all supposed to be received a week after election day. But that's not "received by the counting machine." It's received by whatever local election office is supposed to receive the ballots. Again, how this is enforced, or if it even is, is a mystery.

Activist organizations know all of this so they harvest heavily in the final days before an election, including on election day. In some cases, they can look at polling and prior VBM/early voting trends and then invest more in their ballot harvesting efforts to push their candidate over the edge. The current 3rd place gubernatorial candidate has billions to spend, but he still has to allocate that money as well as save some of it for the general election. If he sees that he's trailing by 3-4 points in the polls and that Ds are underperforming turnout rates in VBM/Early voting, he would be wise to invest in ballot harvesting in the final week.

All of this is why (1) so very many ballots are not even received a full three days and three nights after Election day began, (2) why so many of them apparently lean for the Democrats, (3) why it takes literal weeks to count all the ballots, (4) why so few ballots are counted in the 2nd and 3rd day after E-day, and (5) why you are right to be suspicious.

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

Oh my hell. This is how you steal an election. Especially when you have 24 ballots sent to a lot that is under construction with a porta potty as I saw in a video yesterday.

[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

🗳️ Many have been asking me describe the potential signature verification loophole for Los Angeles mail in ballots.

It says: “If a voter is unable to sign, the voter can make a mark witnessed by one person.”

Here, the person drew a happy face & “witnessed” it with a scribble. That scribble isn’t validated as being a real person. No name, nothing.

While a happy face may draw scrutiny, a plain line would not.

This could hypothetically enable mass harvesting where the voter never fills out, signs or even sees their own ballot.

We should be told how many ballots show up without the voter’s signature.

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

Now this is some cool tech.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

this is just the most ridiculous AI application i've ever seen lol

a Peter Thiel-backed startup that makes AI collars for cows is now worth $2 billion

and the more I read about it the cooler it gets. here's how it works:

every cow wears a solar-powered collar that talks to a network of radio towers and an app on the farmer's phone

instead of building physical fences, the farmer draws the fence on a map in the app, and the collar keeps each cow inside that invisible line using GPS

when a cow drifts toward the edge, the collar plays a sound to steer her, and a gentle vibration tells her which way to go.

it's like how a car beeps as you back up toward a wall

the cows learn the cues in a few days

so now a rancher can move an entire herd to fresh grass by sliding the fence on a map, without driving out to open a single gate

and that same collar is reading each cow's body the whole time.

it takes five readings per second on every animal, so the AI can catch a cow that's sick, injured, ready to breed, or about to give birth before a person would ever notice walking the field

so it's basically like WHOOP for cows too lol

and they gave the AI behind it the perfect name: the Cowgorithm

it's been trained on more than 7 billion hours of real cow behavior, which is why Halter calls the data its real asset and moat.

they know what a normal cow looks like better than anyone, so they can flag the odd one out instantly

it's already on more than 1M cattle across New Zealand, Australia, and a bunch of US states.

California even used it on public land to graze cattle in patterns that clear dry brush and slow down wildfires

costs about $5 to $8 per cow per month

a job that used to mean barbed wire, gates, and driving the fields all day is now mostly 1 person on their phone

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

@tryramp We love how quickly you iterate and ship new features.

That said, we’re not fans of the recent change to the approval workflow. Previously, if an approver appeared multiple times in a workflow (e.g., as both manager and finance), clicking Approve once would handle all their instances. Now they must approve each occurrence individually. This has noticeably slowed down approvals and frustrated our approvers.

If this change was made to satisfy another customer, that’s great — but we’d really appreciate a toggle so companies can choose the previous behavior. At @aptera_motors, we strongly preferred the old multi-approve functionality.

Thanks for the continued improvements!

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

What are those four doing? Why do they hate the American people?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸The Senate just killed the SAVE Act, 48-50.

Voter ID and proof of citizenship, supported by over 80% of Americans, dead.

Four Republicans voted no: Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell, Collins.

The uniparty showed its face today...

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

If even half of this is true it’s extremely troubling.

[Denise Aguilar @InformedMama209]

Gov. Gavin Newsom said he has a secret “break the glass” plan to prevent California from electing a Republican governor. He recently signed a law that states mail in ballots signatures do not have to match.
SB73 Section 3. Clause F reads : (f) A vote by mail voter observer shall not be permitted to challenge a signature on a vote by mail ballot return envelope pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 3019, or on statements completed pursuant to subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 3019, on the basis that they believe the signature does not compare with the signatures appearing in the voter’s registration record.

There’s no election integrity in California.
❌ Mail in ballots to every Californian and even if you moved state, you’ll still get a ballot.
❌ signatures do not need to match
❌ unsecured drop boxes that get vandalized and set on fire
❌ months of counting with ballots being flown in by helicopter.
❌ No voter ID
❌ “Honor system” for voter registration.

Until election integrity is addressed we will never have a balanced state.

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

Ramp is a great company. If you have a business and need a corporate purchase card, bill pay solution or bank account I highly recommend @tryramp.

[Veeral Patel @vral]

the best product we built at ramp was the culture - this is the best articulation i've seen yet from krish @krrishd

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

@FreightAlley @grok is gas price driving this increase? Gas has been this expensive before, what’s different this time?

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

I’ve started creating practical AI tips and training materials for the Aptera team. Sharing the best ones here on X so others can benefit too.

Here’s the latest:

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[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

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[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

California lawmakers are literally the worst.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

California Democrats are preparing to ban essentially ALL after market tires

This is a real proposal from the California Energy Commission called the Replacement Tire Efficiency Program

“I mean pretty much every aftermarket tire sold in the state is going to be regulated, and no one is talking about it — Tires use energy, some more than others, and California wants to lower the energy use of tires on their vehicles so less CO2 goes into the atmosphere”

It’s for climate change….

I looked into what their plan is

It would require all replacement and aftermarket tires sold in California to meet strict low rolling resistance standards similar to those on new cars (OEM tires)

Tires that don’t meet the targets phased in starting 2028, with stricter rules in 2031 could not be legally sold in the state

OEM tires on new cars are optimized for low rolling resistance (better fuel economy/lower emissions), but this often means shallower tread depth, shorter lifespan, and sometimes reduced grip

Many popular aftermarket tires (especially performance, all-season, or longer-lasting ones) have higher rolling resistance for better handling, durability, or traction. So they will be banned

Here’s what it really means for every day people

Lower rolling resistance leads to more frequent tire replacements, increasing production emissions and costs

It does the exact opposite of what Democrats are saying. It’s a proposal that’s being prepared to be passed

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

Truth!

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Under capitalism, socialists are free to build socialism.

Under socialism, capitalists aren’t free to build anything.

Nothing stops a group of socialists pooling their money, forming a company, and splitting every wage and every pound of profit perfectly equally.... Or to donate all profit to the government.

It’s legal. It’s easy. Owning the means of production is as simple as setting up a company.

Marx wrote his manifesto before the invention of limited liability companies. Back then “seize the factory” meant seizing it from the handful of families who could afford one.

That argument expired the day anyone could start a company with limited liability, raise investment and hire who they want.

Socialists are free to lead by example and demonstrate their system works. They can out-recruit, out-motivate, out-build and out innovate based on their ideas if they like. It would prove the philosophy works. Capitalism will happily host their experiment.

The fact that nobody does this tells you a lot.

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

I'm going to try this with my kids. We'll see if it makes them fall asleep faster. Here's hoping this is true.

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

The 7-second cold wrist rinse was tested on 3,000 soldiers after combat simulations.

Cortisol dropped 52% within 90 seconds. Heart rate fell an average of 22 beats per minute. The Navy classified the protocol in 2009 and kept it secret until 2023.

The mechanism is radial artery cooling. Your inner wrists have the thinnest skin and the largest surface-to-volume ratio for blood vessels. 7 seconds of cold water cools the blood passing to your brain, which signals your hypothalamus to downregulate stress instantly

You've splashed cold water on your face. You've taken cold showers. Both work, but they're inconvenient.

The SEAL protocol takes 7 seconds, requires no undressing, and can be done at any sink. Soldiers used it before night missions to fall asleep fast.

The military classified this because a free 7-second stress fix would reduce demand for combat stress medication ($400M annually).

The 2023 declassification came after a FOIA lawsuit filed by a veteran.

The fix: run cold tap water over your inner wrists for 7 seconds. Both wrists. Do it when you feel a stress spike.

Within 90 seconds, your heart rate will drop. No shower, no ice.

Just 7 seconds.

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

@eglyman Is it only for accounting firms or can a corporation subscribe to it too? Seems like something that could be very useful for a company, at the right price anyway.

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

@platinumpapas @Tesla Why did you not take over? What were you doing?

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

@hubermanlab I wild say PT-141 instead of melanotan for libido.

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

This is why I’m buying land and starting a farm that can at least sustain my family. The future is full of so much uncertainty. As long as we can feed ourselves we’ll survive.

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

[Jacob Reed Davis @JacobReedDavis]

@davidhine99 @toddsaunders I’m using sonnet for IT issues. Most of them don’t need a lot of thinking.

[Ramp Labs @RampLabs]

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