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View More NewsTrump can’t stop getting in Vance’s way: It’s hard to know, when it comes to President Donald Trump, what exactly is deliberate and what’s not. He’s either a man with shockingly poor impulse control or an especially skilled master manipulator. (I assume more of the former, but your assessment may vary.) The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. The latest example of this involves Trump, while Vice President J.D. Vance was still working with Iranian negotiators over the weekend, getting on Fox News and saying he told the…
In brief Nous Research shipped pet support for Hermes Agent, giving users access to more than 3,200 animated sprite mascots. Pets react to agent activity across six states—idle, running, thinking, waving, celebrating, and failing—but have no effect on tokens, caching, or behavior. The feature works in the CLI, TUI, and desktop app, and can be popped out into a floating always-on-top window to track agent activity without switching windows. Nous Research has added animated pets to Hermes Agent, and the documentation makes a point of clarifying upfront that they do absolutely nothing useful. That doesn’t mean they are useless: devs…
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The latest and most fearsome round of fighting in the long shadow war with the Islamic Republic of Iran is not ending well for the United States and Israel. The ceasefire agreement signed by President Trump in Versailles on 17 June is not a full peace treaty, but Iran’s leaders have nonetheless greeted it as an unalloyed triumph. They had, they boasted, “through the imposition of their divine and iron will upon the humiliated American and Zionist enemies, demonstrated with strength that the enemy has no path other than accepting defeat and surrender.”Though salient details of the “memorandum of understanding”…
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This is part of 1776 All-Stars, a series about Reason’s favorite American Founders. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson I do not know my favorite Founder’s…
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