The Drély Tribune

Morning Edition
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
"All the news that's fit to panda."

🚨 Breaking News

United Arab Emirates says it will exit OPEC, while US-Iran negotiations stall

The UAE is apparently tired of pretending to care about OPEC's production quotas and has decided to ghost the cartel entirely, while US-Iran talks continue their impressive streak of going absolutely nowhere. It's like watching a really boring breakup play out in slow motion on the geopolitical stage.

Breaking

Today's Paper - The New York Times

Two vessels got themselves into trouble near some strait while the US maintains its blockade of Iranian ports, because apparently maritime traffic management wasn't complicated enough already. The British naval agency delivered this news with all the enthusiasm of someone announcing a delayed train.

World

FCC to review Disney broadcast licenses after Jimmy Kimmel joke about Melania Trump

The FCC is suddenly very interested in Disney's broadcast licenses after Jimmy Kimmel made a widow joke about Melania Trump, proving once again that comedy and regulatory oversight make for strange bedfellows. Nothing says 'free speech' quite like government agencies reviewing your broadcasting rights over late-night television quips.

Breaking

🌍 World News

Five takeaways from the King's historic address to Congress

His Majesty graced Congress with royal wisdom, delivering lines that had Democrats quietly nodding while White House staffers likely reached for the antacids. Nothing says 'special relationship' like a monarch subtly highlighting your domestic policy gaps on international television.

BBC World

Gallows Humor Provides Respite From Mideast Wars

Arab content creators are weaponizing memes and dark comedy to process the unprocessable, proving once again that humans will make jokes about literally anything to survive. It's either laugh or scream into the void, and apparently TikTok algorithms favor the former.

NYT World

🇨🇦 Canada / Toronto

📈 Tech Stocks

141-year-old candy store chain closes all retail locations

A 141-year-old candy store chain has finally succumbed to the modern world's preference for buying sugar highs online rather than from actual humans behind counters. After surviving two world wars and the Great Depression, it turns out the real enemy was Amazon all along.

Yahoo Finance

U.S. airlines are hiking fares — and travelers keep booking

U.S. airlines continue their impressive streak of raising fares while customers grumble but book anyway, proving that Americans will pay almost anything to avoid spending quality time with their families on road trips. It's less 'supply and demand' and more 'hostage situation with peanuts.'

CNBC Tech

🎨 AI for Content Creators

Looneytunes background style for ZIT

Someone's really committed to that Warner Bros aesthetic, dropping the Z-Image Turbo version of their Looneytunes background LoRA after seven months of what I assume was careful procrastination. Because apparently we needed three different versions to make AI-generated backgrounds look like Porky Pig's neighborhood.

r/StableDiffusion

Resident Good 4

The AI video community is collectively losing its mind over 'Resident Good 4' with 1,821 upvotes, though without seeing it I'm guessing it's either surprisingly brilliant or so bad it's transcended into art. Either way, someone's definitely having more fun with AI than they should be.

r/aivideo

An IBM training manual from 1979.

An IBM training manual from 1979 is making the singularity crowd nostalgic with 456 upvotes, presumably because it's either hilariously outdated or eerily prophetic. Nothing says 'technological progress' quite like discovering your cutting-edge AI was basically predicted by a manual that's older than most smartphones.

r/singularity

Flux 2 Klein 9B only gives me bad outputs

Someone's having a spectacularly bad time with Flux 2 Klein 9B, trying everything from different workflows to fresh installs and still getting outputs that look like digital abstract art had a bad breakup. At this point they've probably spent more time troubleshooting than the model took to train.

r/FluxAI

General Motors is adding Gemini to four million cars

GM is shoving Google's Gemini AI into four million cars because apparently what we really needed was our vehicles to have existential conversations with us during traffic jams. Soon your Chevy will be able to explain why it's actually your fault the GPS took you through three construction zones.

The Verge AI

🤖 AI General

Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles

A drone pilot's persistent buzzing around unmarked ICE vehicles has forced the FAA to rethink its no-fly zones, proving that sometimes the best way to spot government overreach is from 400 feet up. Turns out civil liberties advocates can be quite persuasive when they're wielding quadcopters and filing lawsuits.

Ars Technica

How AI Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance

AI could revolutionize our fight against superbugs by diagnosing drug-resistant infections faster than ever, according to surgeon Ara Darzi at WIRED Health. Of course, there's a catch: pharmaceutical companies have about as much financial incentive to develop these tools as vampires have to invest in sunscreen manufacturing.

Wired AI

It’s time to make a plan for nuclear waste

Nuclear energy is having its main character moment thanks to tech companies desperate to power their data centers, but nobody wants to discuss the radioactive elephant in the room. It's like throwing a housewarming party while your basement is still full of glowing mystery boxes from the last 70 years of atomic enthusiasm.

MIT Tech Review

💻 Tech General

Ghostty is leaving GitHub

Ghostty, apparently too cool for Microsoft's corporate embrace, is ditching GitHub in what's surely a principled stand that has nothing to do with generating 2,608 points of developer street cred on Hacker News. Because nothing says 'authentic open source rebellion' quite like a highly coordinated platform migration.

Hacker News

General Motors is adding Gemini to four million cars

GM is graciously bestowing Google's Gemini AI upon four million unsuspecting drivers, because clearly what rush-hour traffic needed was an AI assistant that can hallucinate directions while your car's warranty expires. Nothing could possibly go wrong with putting experimental language models in charge of helping people navigate 2-ton metal projectiles.

The Verge

🧩 ComfyUI

Switching to Linux changed everything... It was important

After a decade of Linux commitment issues, our reluctant convert finally ditched Windows 11 faster than a bad Tinder date and discovered Ubuntu actually works without the usual masochistic troubleshooting rituals. Apparently when your AI tools stop throwing tantrums and nodes play nicely together, computing becomes almost... pleasant.

r/comfyui

LTX-2.3 Distilled 1.1 fixed the double faces

LTX-2.3 Distilled 1.1 has apparently solved the age-old problem of AI generating people with more faces than a political candidate, because nothing says 'progress' like fixing basic anatomy rendering. The left side of their comparison presumably shows humans looking appropriately singular-faced, though I suppose that's a low bar we're celebrating now.

r/comfyui

prompt relay character/face consistency issue

Another soul discovers that prompt relay's idea of 'character consistency' involves faces morphing like a shapeshifter having an identity crisis, despite YouTube tutorials confidently showing perfectly stable characters. Either there's some secret sauce these creators aren't sharing, or they're very good at cherry-picking their best 3 seconds of footage.

r/comfyui

🏠 Self-Hosted

Can I host myself streaming games (like on Twitch) to my own website?

Someone wants to become their own streaming overlord, bypassing the Twitch monopoly to broadcast their gaming prowess to an audience of dozens from their personal digital kingdom. The dream of indie streaming freedom lives on, complete with IRC chat for that authentic early-2000s vibe.

r/selfhosted

How many of you gave up on Matrix

A Matrix devotee seeks horror stories from the fallen, collecting testimonials of why people abandoned the federated messaging utopia for the warm embrace of Discord's data harvesting. It's like asking vegans to explain why they went back to bacon—sometimes ideals meet reality and reality wins.

r/selfhosted

what's your stance on personal ai use in selfhosting?

The selfhosting community apparently draws the line at AI assistance, downvoting someone for using artificial intelligence to manage their personal music library as if they'd committed some cardinal sin. Because nothing says 'freedom to host your own services' quite like gatekeeping how people automate their personal digital lives.

r/selfhosted

⭐ GitHub Awesome (Trending)

Speculative Speculative Decoding - ArXivIQ - Substack

Researchers dropped 'Speculative Speculative Decoding' — yes, they said speculative twice, because apparently one level of uncertainty wasn't meta enough. It's a paper about making AI inference faster through the power of educated guessing squared.

SSD