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“An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time. ”
― Celine

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

A lot of people keep DMing me "how do I actually use Hermes if I’m non-technical"

Short answer: you barely touch the technical layer after the initial setup

The whole experience comes down to 3 things you actually interact with day to day

1. The messaging app you already use (Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, etc)

You text Hermes the way you'd text a chief of staff.

"Remind me to follow up with Mike Thursday."
"Draft 3 replies to the emails from yesterday."
"Find me the best flight from Berlin to SF on May 16."

It just handles it.

2. Slash commands

These are one-word shortcuts you type into the chat so you don't have to write a paragraph every time

For example, one I use is /goals

You type /goals, tell it what you're working on this quarter, and it remembers.

Your daily briefing pulls toward those goals.

When you ask for advice it factors them in.
When it has free cycles overnight it works on them while you sleep.

Other useful ones:

/schedule for recurring tasks
/skills to turn capabilities on and off
/memory to peek at what it already knows about you

3. The dashboard

A web page that shows everything your agent is doing in one view:

> The tasks it's running right now
> What it did overnight while you were asleep
> The tools it touched (email read, calendar updated, Slack sent)
> Token spend per task and per model, so you can see exactly what each workflow is costing you
> The skills you have enabled and how often each one fires

And a TON more.

So when the agent starts to feel like a black box (like OpenClaw did for me tbh), this dashboard gives you the receipts

And the thing that actually makes Hermes work for non-technical people is skills

Skills are pre-built capabilities you install from a library

Inbox triage, calendar management, managing your ads, solving customer tickets, family scheduling, daily briefing, etc

You browse, tap install, and the new capability shows up in your chat the next time you text the agent

It's the app store moment for personal agents

Once you've connected your messaging app, set your goals, and installed 5-10 skills, you have a real personal agent running in your pocket

And you never had to open a terminal

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING NETFLIX THIS WEEKEND.

Spend 48 hours with this.

The only Claude resources that actually matter. All free. All official.

SATURDAY

Claude 101 — start here before anything else
https://t.co/7y3hN0bL8Q

Interactive prompt tutorial — hands on not just reading
https://t.co/xyOEdlgSRc

CLAUDE.md — how to give Claude a permanent memory
https://t.co/tE1nzosh6I

Skills — teach Claude reusable workflows it never forgets
https://t.co/yao6AteeUh

SUNDAY

Claude Code 101 — the terminal setup that changes everything
https://t.co/l2DsQgAjQt

MCP — connect Claude to Slack, GitHub, Drive, and everything else
https://t.co/8UvSuN3uDi

Routines — automate tasks 24 hours a day without touching anything
https://t.co/JwruoOn9iz

Claude Code in Action — watch it build something real
https://t.co/wsHCPtMhNS

[Kevin Simback 🍷 @KSimback]

Using the official X API for OpenClaw/Hermes just became much more practical

Before the recent changes, it was super expensive just to read my own feed, I often spent $1-2 a day!

But they made 2 big changes for us agent owners

1. Pricing change for "owned reads"

Before: $0.005 per read POST, pull 100 posts = $0.50

After: $0.001 per read CALL, pull 100 posts - $0.001

And this covers more than just reading your timeline, it includes bookmarks, liked tweets, custom lists (this is big), followers, etc., and in real time

This makes things like my daily briefing and monitoring my feed via my agents basically free

Also opens up new design surfaces for feeding data into other tools (see posts by @Scobleizer on his use of this with lists)

Note: cost for searches was unchanged because they’re not “owned” data, so that's still quite expensive

2. Official X API tools built for agents: xurl CLI

xurl is the official curl-like CLI (open source, link in replies) that your agents can use to run commands to interact with the API

It automatically handles all OAuth and there's even an official SKILL.md file in the repo that tells agents exactly how to discover and use it as a native tool

Both OpenClaw and Hermes now have direct Integrations with the xurl CLI

Using the X API before this was quite clunky, so now we have a modern, actively maintained CLI that “just works” for both users and agents

The combo of these 2 changes means we can get a LOT more out of X with our agents

[George Ferman @Helios_Movement]

Shake it off dude.
Trauma is also stored in your body.

It sounds dumb, weird or whatever, but it helps.

When animals in the wild experience a traumatic event, they pass through their freeze response by trembling.

In one study for example where mice were deliberately traumatized, half of the mice were allowed to tremor naturally after the trauma and the other half were prevented from tremoring.

It was discovered that the mice that were not allowed to successfully go through their natural tremoring process had reduced resiliency to subsequent life-threatening experiences.

This brings us to TREs.
Trauma-releasing exercises (TREs) were designed to engage the primitive mammalian survival mechanism used to recover from a traumatic event.

The same tremors found in other mammalian species can also be easily evoked in the human species through a series of five simple exercises.

The exercises produce a slight fatigue in the major muscle groups of the legs and pelvis.

This is done by isolating the muscle groups and exercising them individually (tap in the pic).

Disclaimer: Consult your therapist, psychiatrist etc before using these.

[Shikhar @shekhu04]

Low-key websites I quietly rely on

1) https://t.co/FDnurfhwge
Gives you a brutally clear learning path for roles like frontend, backend, DevOps, etc
No fluff, just “learn this → then this → then this”.

2) https://t.co/1xhB1Us0oz
An online playground to quickly test HTML, CSS, JS without setting up anything locally
Perfect for quick experiments and debugging ideas

3) https://t.co/d80zVxq6TY
A collection of reusable React hooks with real use cases
Saves time and helps you avoid rewriting the same logic again and again

4) https://t.co/UgqeLiqese
Concise cheat sheets for languages, frameworks, and tools. Ideal when you forget syntax and don’t want to read a 20-minute blog

5) https://t.co/OehnjnfVix
Turns messy JSON into a clean visual tree
Makes understanding large APIs and configs way easier than staring at raw text

6) https://t.co/mcMPeqEFWJ
Lets you generate and preview color palettes instantly
Useful when you want decent UI colors without guessing or copying blindly

7) https://t.co/9yEsuJrWCB
Build, test, and debug regex step by step with explanations Honestly, the fastest way to stop hating regex

8) https://t.co/7eM95WZ8cJ
Shows how big an npm package really is before you install it
Helps you avoid bloating your app with “tiny” libraries

9) https://t.co/Za87baZsBk
Tells you which CSS/JS features actually work across browsers Essential before using shiny new features in production

10) https://t.co/YeYh94AX4R
Google’s own diagnostics tools for DNS, email, headers, and network issues
Surprisingly useful for debugging real-world problems

👉 Which one of these do you already use and which one did you not know existed?

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

About to hit new all-time highs and some woman called Trump a chicken in the Oval Office

[reply guy in training @GiGaByTeGi]

@Ibragim2423311 @hxhassan @CP__Ward @AubinEymard @newlinesmag Completely wrong fuckstick

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Carl Jung on avoidance... damn

[Red on the day @red_on_the_day]

IBWOC fam, I’m sharing the following with permission from Anthony Peters.

“GOOD MORNING - IN MEMORIUM

The madness continues and like many to whom Manchester United drawing with Manchester City at home or Liverpool losing to Fulham away is not the most important thing in the world I was prepared to spend the weekend trying to find anything in particular that makes sense in the radical tariff regime with which President Trump presented us and maybe even to speculate on where markets might find the bottom. This plan was shattered when I on Saturday afternoonreceived news of the death of my very dear friend Morris B Sachs, to whom I have frequently referred in the context of his and his chum Liam Allen’s Inside Baseball with Old Chestnut podcast, https://t.co/2FKP7uIz8r.

I’m not quite sure whether this is the correct term, but I was privileged to have been amongst what for a long time was a very close circle of confidents to have known for a number of that MB as he was widely known was carrying an incurable and therefore ultimately terminal form of brain cancer. Morris was not a friend of long standing. I first came across him when in the summer of 2020 I received an email to the effect that he had been introduced to my morning emails, not as such an uncommon event,  and wondered whether he might please subscribe and what the cost would be. I promised to add him to the list of recipients and that the cost would be no more than a voluntary contribution to my annual charity appeal. And so it was.

On September 21st, 2020, I wrote in some context “There was a common joke around markets in the 1980s which was “How many Japanese does it take to build a car?” The answer was “Two. One to build the car whilst the other trades the long bond”. In plain speak that meant that too much cheap money encourages companies not to invest in plant and equipment but for their treasury departments to take the cash and to play the markets. Cooler heads have been warning of this for a very long time. The long bond – that’s the US 30 year – used to be the be-all and end-all of bond markets and the long bond trader was the alpha male on the trading floor. Nobody gave a toss for the 10 year note. It was all about “the bond”. And I jest not when I infer that Japanese corporate treasuries were in the market up to their eyeballs. Lambs to the slaughter, as far as Wall Street was concerned but who cared?” to which he wrote back to me “Hang on....did you know I was a long bond trader in the 1980’s?” and from there a dialogue developed that in a remarkably short space of time grew into a friendship based on mutual respect and our shared love and understanding of what I often refer to as the private life of the yield curve.

I was gradually to discover that Morris was not just some other bond trader but was in fact a legend on Wall Street who had done extraordinarily well and who had at the age of just fifty, to use a term I always liked, retired early due to excess wealth. In truth it was more that he had done all the trades, put them on, reversed them, had the t shirt, had done the jigsaw and was ready for the next challenge. By the time we met he was 60, had as a private investor spread his wings into other ventures and on January 24th, 2021, joined his cycling chum Liam Allen in what was to become the highly acclaimed podcast IBWOC. Liam has nothing at all to do with Wall Street and finance, far from it,  but had been aware that in the regular cycling gang there was this guy who had apparently made a tidy fortune trading bonds. He was intrigued and wanted to know more. MB loved to share his experiences and his understanding of markets and in time Liam came up with the idea of extending their conversations to a podcast. Yesterday and in the memory of Morris Liam recorded the 186th and final episode in the presence of Leslie Harris, Morris’s old mucker and the only ever previous guest on the show.

[Tara Ann Thieke @TaraAnnThieke]

The collapse of partnered dance in the 20th century is fascinating. Now there is gyrating or hive-like stomping. There is no communion between 2 persons in this clip, underlying how children's media has shifted away from soul-changing Romance to more fleeting social bonds.

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

What happens when these firms that bought up all those houses suddenly find themselves possibly being underwater on their assets? Especially in neighborhoods whose value will never recover because of diversity? What do you think they’ll do with all those homes all at once?

What do you think that makes normal people start doing? I’ve had two family members sell their homes in the last month because everyone’s got a gut feeling the good times are about to run out.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

WHO ARE YOU FOOLING?
Genesis 12:7, 26:3, 28:13:"I will give to you & to your DESCENDANTS”, specified by LINEAGE. Evidence shows Palestinians happen to be said descendants; more than a "Schumer" whose roots are largely from ar. the Northern shores of the Black Sea.

[Pericles @PerryALPHA]

We got one @RealTomHoman

[Aidan Gold @MrGoldBro]

We're gonna have robots making thousands of statues.

Parks, airports, private residences, and more will all have beautiful statues.

This is what the American Techno Renaissance looks like and needs.

[Coming Soon @MDNtalk]

DOGE REPORT: BPD Capt. Haseeb Hosein collected $633K over 2.5 years while on paid leave, doing no work. Unless collecting taxpayer dollars qualifies as work

The BPD’s failure to resolve this sooner cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands

Who else is cashing in while doing nothing?

[Mike Urban @agenturban]

What did I tell you?

[Catherine Vitale @VitaleforBoston]

This coming from Queen Wu, who wrote and passed a city ordinance to ban peaceful protests from in front of her home and then had me and 3 others arrested for “disturbing the peace” while peacefully protesting?

[JohnFGately @johnfgately]

Are u telling me last year we spent $4B on MassSave and this year we were considering $5B but settled on $4.5 and that's a $500m cut???????? Do I have that right? #mapoli
https://t.co/ZG3rmUyI9J