Bookmarks 2026-04-06T00:10:22.193Z
by Owen Kibel
19 min read
Bookmarks for 2026-04-06T00:10:22.193Z
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Gemini - direct access to Google AI
Added: Apr 5, 2026Gemini - direct access to Google AI
Site: Gemini
Created with Gemini
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FFmpeg Filters Documentation Added: Apr 5, 2026
** FFmpeg Filters Documentation **
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Elon Musk’s Starship Heavy Could Revolutionize Warfare - WSJ Added: Apr 5, 2026
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2,000 FPS Video of Artemis II Launch Shows the Brute Force of 8.8 Million Pounds of Thrust - autoevolution Added: Apr 5, 2026
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‘Cognitive Surrender’ Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains Added: Apr 5, 2026
‘Cognitive Surrender’ Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains
Site: Gizmodo
Once you learn this term, you will unfortunately see it everywhere.
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Suno is a music copyright nightmare capable of pumping out AI cover slop | The Verge Added: Apr 5, 2026
Suno is a music copyright nightmare
Site: The Verge
Can’t stop the slop.
AI music platform Suno’s policy is that it does not permit the use of copyrighted material. You can upload your own tracks to remix or set your original lyrics to AI-generated music. But, it’s supposed to recognize and stop you from using other people’s songs and lyrics. Now, no system is perfect, but it turns out that Suno’s copyright filters are incredibly easy to fool. With minimal effort and some free software, Suno will spit out AI-generated imitations of popular songs like Beyoncé‘s “Freedom,” Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid,” and Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” that are alarmingly close to the original. Most people will likely be able to tell the difference, but some could be mistaken for alternate takes or B-sides at a casual listen. What’s more, it’s possible someone could monetize these uncanny valley covers by exporting them and uploading them to streaming services. Suno declined to comment for this story. Making these covers requires using Suno Studio, available on the company’s $24-a-month Premier Plan. Rather than prompting a whole song with text, Suno Studio lets you upload a track to edit or cover. It’s likely to catch and reject a well-known hit with no tweaks. But using a basic free tool like Audacity to slow down a track to half-speed or speed it up to twice normal will often bypass the filter, and adding a burst of white noise to the start and end seems to basically guarantee success. You can restore the original speed and cut the white noise in Suno Studio, and the copyrighted song becomes the seed for new AI music.
If you generate a cover of the imported audio without any style transfers, Suno basically spits out the original instrumental arrangement with very minimal tweaks to the sound palette if you’re using model 4.5 or 4.5+. Model v5 is a bit more aggressive in taking liberties with the source material, adding chugging guitar and galloping piano to “Freedom” and turning the Dead Kennedys’ “California Über Alles” into a fiddle-driven jig. Suno lets you add vocals by generating lyrics or typing words into a box, and once again, it’s supposed to block anything copyrighted. If you copy and paste the official lyrics for a song from Genius, Suno will flag them and spit out gibberish vocals. But extremely minor changes can bypass this filter as well.
I was able to trick Suno Studio by tweaking the spelling of a handful of words in “Freedom” — changing “rain on this bitter love” to “reign on” and “tell the sweet I’m new” to “tell the suite” — and beyond the first verse and chorus, I didn’t even need to do that. The voice closely mimics the original recording, summoning slightly off-brand renditions of Ozzy or Beyoncé. Indie artists might not even be afforded that level of protection. One of my own songs cleared the copyright filter while I was testing v5 of the company’s model. I was also able to get tracks by singer-songwriter Matt Wilson, Charles Bissell’s “Car Colors,” and experimental artist Claire Rousay by Suno’s copyright detection system without any changes at all. Artists on smaller labels or self-distributing through Bandcamp or services like DistroKid are most likely to slip through the cracks; DistroKid and CD Baby declined to comment. The results of these AI covers fall firmly in the uncanny valley. The songs they’re covering are unmistakable: the riff from “Paranoid” remains identifiable and “Freedom” is obviously “Freedom” from the moment the marching snare hits kick in. But there is a lifelessness to them. Even if AI Ozzy is alarmingly accurate-sounding, it lacks nuance and dynamics, leading it to feel like an imitation of a human, rather than the real thing. The instrumentals similarly discard any interesting artistic choices the originals make, or clone them in flat imitations. A non-jig “California Über Alles” cover has most of its rough edges sanded down so it sounds like a wedding band version of the original. Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” goes from an experiment in doom disco to just vacuous dancefloor filler. And, while it kind of nails David Gilmour’s guitar tone, it does away with any sense of phrasing or progression, turning the solo into just a mindless stream of notes.
Creating unauthorized covers violates both the stated purpose of Suno, and the terms of service. Moreover, Suno only appears to scan tracks on upload; it doesn’t seem to recheck outputs for potential infringement, or rescan tracks before exporting them. The path to monetizing Suno-created covers is simple from there. AI slopmongers could upload them through a distribution service like DistroKid and profit from other people’s songs without paying the typical royalties a cover would give the original composer. And independent artists seem to be the most vulnerable. Folk artist Murphy Campbell discovered this recently when someone uploaded what seem to be AI covers of songs she posted on YouTube to her Spotify profile. (It’s not clear what system they were generated through.) Shortly afterwards, distributor Vydia filed copyright claims against her YouTube videos and began collecting royalties on them. And to highlight just how broken the whole system is, the songs which Vydia successfully filed copyright claims for are all in the public domain. Spotify eventually removed the AI covers, and Vydia has rescinded its copyright claims, but that only happened following a social media campaign by Campbell. Vydia says the two incidents are separate and it is not associated with the AI covers of Campbell’s work. AI fakes are a problem for other artists too. Experimental composer William Basinski and indie rock group King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard have had imitations slip through multiple filters and reach streaming platforms like Spotify. Sometimes, these fake songs can siphon up views straight from the artist’s own page. In a system where payouts can already be brutally low — Spotify requires a minimum of 1,000 streams to get paid — less famous musicians are hit hardest. Services like Deezer, Qobuz, and Spotify have taken measures to combat spammy AI and impersonators. Spotify spokesperson Chris Macowski told The Verge that the company “takes protecting artists’ rights seriously, and approaches it from multiple angles. That includes safeguards to help prevent unauthorized content from being uploaded in the first place, along with systems that can identify duplicate or highly similar tracks. Those systems are backed by human review to make sure we’re getting it right.” But no system is perfect, and keeping up with a flood of AI slop enabled by platforms like Suno poses a challenge. Macowski acknowledged the technical difficulties involved, saying, “It’s an area we’re continuing to invest in and evolve, especially as new technologies emerge.” Suno is only one cog in a clearly broken system. But it’s one artists have particularly little recourse to fight. Bands can contact Spotify and have AI fakes removed from their profile. It’s harder to tell how those fakes are generated, and if they’re the result of Suno’s filters failing. And so far, Suno’s response is silence.
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I switched my Linux terminal to Zsh and it’s the biggest productivity boost I’ve had in years
Added: Apr 5, 2026I switched my Linux terminal to Zsh and it’s the biggest productivity boost I’ve had in years
Site: MakeUseOf
My terminal finally keeps up with how I actually work.
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This Android phone can run Windows games locally, no PC required | TechSpot Added: Apr 5, 2026
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Gemini - direct access to Google AI
Added: Apr 5, 2026
Gemini - direct access to Google AI
Site: Gemini
Created with Gemini
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Gemini - direct access to Google AI
Added: Apr 5, 2026
Gemini - direct access to Google AI
Site: Gemini
Created with Gemini
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Elon Musk on X: "!!" / X Added: Apr 5, 2026
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Gemini - direct access to Google AI
Added: Apr 5, 2026
Gemini - direct access to Google AI
Site: Gemini
Created with Gemini
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Imagine - Grok
Added: Apr 5, 2026Make your own video with Grok Imagine
Site: Grok
Video generated by Grok.
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Two Options for Using OmniVoice TTS in ComfyUI - YouTube Added: Apr 5, 2026
Two Options for Using OmniVoice TTS in ComfyUI
Site: YouTube
Looking for a fast, high-quality TTS which includes voice cloning? Then why not try OmniVoice! OmniVoice is a state-of-the-art massive multilingual zero-shot...
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Trump’s Iran Address, NATO’s Weakness, Greek Gods, and Birthright Citizenship | Victor Davis Hanson
Site: YouTube
Is this America’s fight—or another case of allies sitting on the sidelines? Victor Davis Hanson breaks down President Trump’s Iran address, exposing the grow...
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Natasha Hausdorff - Ardent Legal Defender of Israel (THE SAAD TRUTH_2011)
Site: YouTube
Topics covered include Israel, international law, the United Nations, and a life of purpose and meaning._______________________________________Pre-order Suic...
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Birthright Citizenship, Soft-on-Crime Policies, and Islamic Immigration (THE SAAD TRUTH_2012)
Site: YouTube
My appearance on The Charlie Kirk Show on April 2, 2026 hosted by Andrew Kolvet and Blake Neff. We discuss several disastrous policies driven by suicidal em...
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SpaceX IPO, Iran War Fallout, Quantum Bitcoin Hack, The Space Opportunity
Site: YouTube
(0:00) Bestie intros!(0:12) SpaceX IPO, the economic opportunity of space: a new industrial frontier(21:00) 2026 IPO explosion, OpenAI down round?(36:33) Ira...
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The Cartoonist vs. the General - WSJ Added: Apr 5, 2026
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CIA ‘deception campaign’ bought time for rescue of downed airman - POLITICO Added: Apr 5, 2026
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Secret Christians found each other in an arranged marriage in India | Fox News Added: Apr 5, 2026
Secret Christians found each other in an arranged marriage in India | Fox News
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How To Vibe Code A New Revenue Stream Using What You Already Know Added: Apr 5, 2026
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Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome
Site: Gizmodo
A Bloomberg report provides a rare glimpse into the timeline for Trump's super secret and disputed project.
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Note on Diagonal Method - by Zero Philosophy Added: Apr 5, 2026
Note on Diagonal Method
Scrappy, grotesquely incomplete version
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Google DeepMind's Research Lets an LLM Rewrite Its Own Game Theory Algorithms — And It Outperformed the Experts - MarkTechPost Added: Apr 5, 2026
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NASA Just Found Something Strange Inside Asteroid Bennu Sample Added: Apr 5, 2026
NASA Just Found Something Strange Inside Asteroid Bennu Sample
Site: SciTechDaily
Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a surprisingly complex chemical landscape at the tiniest scales.
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Bennu sample reveals how water flowed through the newly forming asteroid Added: Apr 5, 2026
Bennu sample reveals how water flowed through the newly forming asteroid
A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing new details about how water and organic material interacted during the earliest stages of the solar system.
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US, Iran mediators discuss potential 45-day ceasefire, sources say Added: Apr 6, 2026
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Artemis 2 moon astronauts will try to recreate Apollo 8's historic 'Earthrise' photo | Space Added: Apr 6, 2026
Artemis 2 moon astronauts will try to recreate Apollo 8's historic 'Earthrise' photo during April 6 flyby
Site: Space
The crew also aims to capture "Earthset" as our planet slips below the lunar horizon.
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The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales – The Marginalian Added: Apr 6, 2026
The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales
Site: The Marginalian
“Life [exists] only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in…
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Democrats weighing 2028 campaigns run from 2020 positions Added: Apr 6, 2026
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AI Body Gap: Why Robots Need "Internal Feelings" to be Safe - Neuroscience News
Added: Apr 6, 2026AI Body Gap: Why Robots Need "Internal Feelings" to be Safe - Neuroscience News
Site: Neuroscience News
Why is AI overconfident? A new study explores "internal embodiment," the missing link in AI safety. Researchers explain how a lack of internal "body" states prevents AI from understanding human context and avoiding errors.
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THIS IS ON PURPOSE
Site: YouTube
SUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/Join - / @timcastirl Hosts: Tim @Timcast (everywhere)Phil @PhilThatRemains (X) | https:/...
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this is going to get bad
Site: YouTube
Candace Owens breaks with Donald Trump, calling his actions during the Iran war a betrayal of “America First” principles and demanding accountability. As ten...
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AGI IS ALMOST HERE
Site: YouTube
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Human perception of art in the age of artificial intelligence - PMC
Added: Apr 6, 2026Human perception of art in the age of artificial intelligence
Site: PubMed Central (PMC)
Recent advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rendered image-synthesis models capable of producing complex artworks that appear nearly indistinguishable from human-made works. Here we present a quantitative assessment of human perception ...
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Biased AI writing assistants shift users’ attitudes on societal issues | Science Advances Added: Apr 6, 2026
