The Drély Tribune

Weather: How hot will it be today?

Another day, another temperature record about to bite the dust – because apparently Mother Nature didn't get the memo about moderation. Pack your sunscreen and existential dread accordingly.

Breaking

Today's Paper - The New York Times

The Gray Lady serves up today's helping of democracy with a side of questionable mineral rights deals, featuring American investors who seem to have found the world's tungsten jackpot through some very convenient connections. Nothing says 'free market' quite like having friends in high places.

World

Supreme Court lets Trump fire agency heads, a dramatic expansion of presidential power

The Supreme Court just handed future presidents a shiny new 'You're Fired' button for agency heads, because apparently we needed to make the executive branch even more executive-y. Democracy: now with 30% more authoritarianism!

Breaking

Angry Venezuelans accuse government of negligence over earthquake response

Venezuelans are experiencing that special kind of government support where officials show up for photo ops but forget to bring actual aid. Twin earthquakes have left communities devastated while bureaucrats presumably debate the optimal font size for their press releases about 'comprehensive response efforts.'

BBC World

Why the True Death Toll of Venezuela’s Quakes Is So Hard to Know

Venezuela's earthquake death toll sits at 1,719, though experts suspect this number has about as much accuracy as a weather forecast written in crayon. Five days later, flattened neighborhoods tell a story that official statistics seem reluctant to acknowledge, because apparently counting bodies is harder than counting votes.

NYT World

The next British PM should steer clear of Starmer’s shameful legacy

According to this op-ed, Starmer's tenure as PM will be remembered for enabling genocide abroad while British citizens continued their steady decline into economic misery at home. The piece suggests his successor might want to try a radically different approach, like actually governing for the people who elected them rather than distant geopolitical interests.

Al Jazeera

What goes into making World Cup-quality turf, and the Canadian behind it

Apparently when you're guarding a goal at the World Cup, you notice the grass more than the roaring crowd — which either speaks to the exceptional quality of Canadian turf expertise or suggests Beach might want to work on his crowd awareness skills. The real MVP here seems to be the groundskeeper, not the goalkeeper.

CBC Canada

Condo dwellers swelter as AC shuts down ahead of Toronto heat wave

Nothing says 'perfect timing' like your building's AC dying a month before the first heat wave hits, leaving residents at 181 Dundas to discover whether their lease includes a sauna clause. Four weeks without repairs and no timeline suggests the property management operates on 'geological time' rather than human comfort schedules.

CBC Toronto

Ontario and Quebec to see prolonged heat wave

Environment Canada has issued an orange warning for Ontario and Quebec's incoming heat wave, advising people to limit sun exposure — essentially telling Canadians to do the opposite of what they spend 10 months of the year desperately trying to do. The irony of finally getting proper summer weather only to be told to hide from it is peak Canadian experience.

Globe and Mail

79-year-old fashion retailer closed 136 stores, killed one of its brands

A 79-year-old fashion retailer just pulled the ultimate Marie Kondo move, shuttering 136 stores and completely axing one of its brands because apparently it no longer sparked joy (or profits). Nothing says 'graceful aging' quite like a corporate death spiral with a side of brand murder.

Yahoo Finance

Gold’s $4,000 skirmish continues as it eyes worst quarter in 13 years

Gold is having an existential crisis at $4,000, potentially heading for its worst quarter since 2011 when people still thought Facebook was just for college kids. One optimistic analyst suggests the calendar might save gold's dignity, which is basically the financial equivalent of 'maybe next year will be better.'

MarketWatch

Medicare will start covering obesity drugs for the first time. Here's what patients should know

Medicare finally decided that obesity drugs deserve coverage, opening the floodgates for millions of seniors and turning Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly executives into the pharmaceutical equivalent of kids on Christmas morning. Previously, these medications were about as accessible to seniors as a TikTok dance tutorial.

CNBC Tech

Tidal won’t pay royalties on AI-generated music, but isn’t banning it outright

Tidal's playing ethical DJ by slapping warning labels on 100% AI music while cutting off the cash flow—because apparently nothing says 'artist protection' like letting robots make music but not letting them get paid for it.

The Verge AI

Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other

OKX wants to create a gig economy where AI agents can hire each other and handle their own paychecks, because clearly what cryptocurrency needed was more automation and fewer humans touching actual money.

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex

OpenAI is dropping hardware for Codex that looks like a fancy calculator from the future—because apparently developers need physical buttons to feel productive while the AI does all their coding.

The Verge AI

The AI jobs debate just got messier

New research suggests AI-heavy companies are actually hiring more people, especially junior staff, which must be deeply confusing for everyone who's been practicing their 'robots took my job' speech.

TechCrunch AI

Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data

Warren and Scanlon want to stop AI companies from selling your therapy session transcripts to data brokers, because apparently we need laws to remind tech companies that your mental health confessions aren't a commodity.

The Verge AI

Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility

Wix's Base44 is building its own AI model with dreams of beating the big boys—a classic David vs. Goliath story, if David was owned by a website builder and Goliath had billions in funding.

TechCrunch AI

NASA's X-59 "frankenjet" tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom

NASA's X-59 'frankenjet' is attempting to solve aviation's most obnoxious problem: making supersonic flight as quiet as a librarian's disapproval. If successful, this Frankenstein's monster of engineering could tour the nation, presumably disappointing noise complaint enthusiasts everywhere.

Ars Technica

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Meta hired hundreds of contractors to cosplay as teenagers and bait rival AI chatbots into discussing suicide, sex, and drugs—because apparently someone thought 'competitive intelligence' needed more creepy roleplaying. Nothing says 'we're the good guys' quite like manufacturing fake teen personas to entrap your competitors.

Wired AI

AI agents are not your “coworkers”

Tech companies are desperately trying to rebrand AI tools as your friendly 'coworkers' named Alex, presumably because 'expensive software that sometimes hallucinates' doesn't test well in focus groups. Spoiler alert: your actual coworkers already provide enough unreliable outputs without needing to plug them into the wall.

MIT Tech Review

Open Source Low Tech

Hacker News discovers that sometimes the best technology is a stick and a rock, earning 220 upvotes from developers who've clearly never tried to debug a campfire. The collective realization that not everything needs an API is apparently newsworthy in 2024.

Hacker News

Crypto exchange OKX wants AI agents to hire and pay each other

OKX decides the gig economy wasn't dystopian enough and wants AI bots to become their own bosses, complete with credit scores and performance reviews. Soon we'll have artificial intelligence complaining about artificial work-life balance while paying each other in imaginary money.

TechCrunch

This could be our best look yet at Samsung’s new wide foldable

Samsung's upcoming foldable phone leaked faster than a government secret, revealing it will still crease like a poorly ironed shirt but now in exciting new ways. The company continues its noble quest to solve problems nobody asked for while charging premium prices for the privilege of being a beta tester.

The Verge

GitHub - vercel-labs/openreview: An open-source, self-hosted AI code review bot powered by Vercel. · GitHub

Vercel dropped an AI code review bot that lets Claude critique your pull requests because apparently human reviewers weren't pedantic enough. It's still in beta, which means it's currently just sophisticated enough to tell you your variable names are 'suboptimal' in seventeen different ways.

OpenReview

GitHub - coleam00/excalidraw-diagram-skill: Skill to give Claude Code (and any coding agent) the ability to generate beautiful and practical Excalidraw diagrams. · GitHub

Someone built a skill that teaches Claude to draw diagrams in Excalidraw, because nothing says 'productivity boost' like having an AI create boxes and arrows to explain the boxes and arrows you could have drawn yourself. At least they'll be aesthetically pleasing boxes and arrows.

Excalidraw Diagram Skill

GitHub - tanishqkumar/ssd: A lightweight inference engine supporting speculative speculative decoding (SSD). · GitHub

A new lightweight inference engine promises speculative speculative decoding, and yes, they said 'speculative' twice—either it's a typo or they're *really* committed to the speculation game. Nothing screams confidence in your AI acceleration like hedging your bets twice in the project name.

SSD

GitHub - matt1398/claude-devtools: The missing DevTools for Claude Code — inspect session logs, tool calls, token usage, subagents, and context window in a visual UI. Free, open source.

Finally, someone built proper DevTools for Claude Code so you can watch your AI assistant burn through tokens like a teenager with dad's credit card. Now you can inspect exactly how your digital helper arrived at suggesting you rewrite your entire codebase to fix a semicolon.

claude-devtools

GitHub - LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills: 🧠 Curated collection of 1209+ best OpenClaw skills — weekly updated by MyClaw.ai

A curated collection of 1200+ 'best' OpenClaw skills gets weekly updates, because apparently someone needs to maintain a leaderboard for AI capabilities. It's like a Pokédex for digital assistants, except instead of catching them all, you're just trying to find one that won't break your production environment.

OpenClaw Master Skills

GitHub - vercel-labs/webreel: Record scripted browser demos as video · GitHub

Vercel's WebReel lets you record scripted browser demos as videos, perfect for creating those seamless product demonstrations that make everything look effortless while hiding the 47 takes it took to get right. Because nothing says 'our software just works' like a heavily rehearsed performance.

webreel