Dan Blacksberg

Gonna try and use this place like it’s the fun days of twitter. Expect more shares than my instagram, and a bunch of random thoughts that add up to my worldview. Following a lot of tech people, music people, and radical Jews. The threads are there! Hang with me. www.instagram.com/danblacksberg/

If I had time and the right consoles/systems, I'd be snapping up this right away and playing it. Looks so good, including this art!

Herbie Hancock released ‘Head Hunters’ 53 years ago on October 26, 1973 | Listen to the album here: album.ink/HHancockHH

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One hell of a post and worth reading for ANYONE interested in any collectible space, whether it's cards, comics, toys or whatever aftermath.site/pokemon-card...

It's a classic

hmm don’t love this share.inquirer.com/x4ZZCc

having the voice actor for daffy duck & bugs bunny on your picket line must have felt like having nuclear capabilities. peace to a legend.

Thanks @aftermath.site once again and @lucasderuyter.northsky.social for another illuminating piece on this not-so-niche hobby (is all 90s nerd stuff is mainstream now?), the perfect site for all the good and bad of this phase of capitalism. I read this and say what am I doing getting involved???

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Like Brian says. We cannot, any under circumstances, let AI firms govern the future.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

WE DID IT. I CANT FUCKING BELIEVED WE DEFEATED USA WE DEFEATED A COUP WE DEFEATED META WE DEFEATED EVERYONE WHO TRIED TO SILENCE BRAZILIA PEOPLE LULA WON GUYS. THE PEOPLE WON.

Fuck fascists. Thank you, Serbia and Brazil for showing us the way.

The intergalactic phase of music touches upon many points. everything is every thing and outside of that is nothing. So in order to deal with the infinity, I would have to deal with the nothings and the everythings, of which each one has its different potentials. (Sun Ra)

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

i firmly believe in rewarding yourself with small, tangible treats (a nice spice mix! a good smelling tea! a comfy throw blanket!) for any achievements including continuing to be alive for another day

And they built housing co-ops that *still* welcome incredibly diverse communities — the one where we live sits at the intersection of century+ old Jewish, Chinese-American, Dominican & Puerto Rican communities, is a naturally-occurring retirement community for elders, and hosts a community garden.

✊NAYE GEZELSHAFTN (New Society): RADICAL BRANCHES Of The WORKERS CIRCLE on THURSDAY, November 19, 7:30-9:00pm ET 📚A Linker Leyenkrayz (Radical Reading Group) led by YASHA GINER! 👉REGISTER: bit.ly/ngNov19 Come read in Yiddish or English translation about the WORKERS CIRCLE'S 24 ANARCHIST BRANCHES!

the people who are like "brad lander flew across the world to get arrested by a famously lethal army just for a photo op" sound like they frequently slip on banana peels

“If every piece of software is a door, AI makes it exceptionally easy to turn turn the knobs of every door to see if it’s unlocked ... Not only are some of the locks easy to pick, in some cases the door is wide open or there’s a giant hole in the wall.”

The second Knives Out movie, whose conclusion (apologies for spoilers) is that its villain is not some dastardly schemer but just an outright idiot, struck me as a taking a bit of a cop out at the time, but the more it's sat with me, the more I think Rian Johnson was right to make THAT the reveal.

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

T’ruah CEO Rabbi Jill Jacobs and 11 other T’ruah-affiliated American rabbis were detained by the Israeli army Wednesday morning while accompanying Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest in the West Bank.

A new federal rule blocks Medicaid and CHIP from covering gender-affirming care for trans youth. Many states have stepped up to bridge the funding – but not VA. Gov. Spanberger – do the right thing and protect access to gender-affirming care. Read more: buff.ly/kmIfnPp

I had a great meeting at the Philly public library main branch to connect about their Yiddish offerings, a cool grant from the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social , and some programming next year! More to come, but in the meantime, here's a fun thing I found in the stacks!

This hits the freaking spot every time it pops up. Did he ever get or take the chance to use this on recordings?

A video of this was on youtube in the earliest days in 2005 when you could only find a handful of clips of whatever niche you were into. I think Weasel Walter posted it? Anyway, that changed my life.

unconscionable. unjustifiable.

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Oh man, do I like to do this

Hi al! I have a random Yiddish question that many or at least some might know the answer to: If I was trying to say a compound word “now-ness” in Yiddish, would that be “Itstkeit?” “Itstheit?” Something else? I hope I’m on the right track! Thank you!

Come for the music, stay for the part about general strikes 😎

My evil eye class starts October 19 - sessions in the afternoon or evening. Email me to sign up: cjcrokhl @ gmail 🧿

Jesus f’n Christ. I play some very “proud German culture” October fest gigs this time of year, including this past weekend in northeast PA. It sucks watching drunk people excitedly waving their arms at every toast with paranoia about the position of their outstretched hands. I’m afraid it’s there.

TGIF. How's about 1:18 of Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto, and HENRY THREADGILL last night 🔥

His classic "Love Theme from Spartacus" came on last night on jazz radio WRTI on my way back from a gig and it hit the spot for my tired ears so beautifully. What an artist.

Soon

Why do I keep scrolling. What am I expecting to happen that hasn't happened already

Charlee Ellerbe was for sure a live wire. I only shared concert bills with a few times, but each one left me with an unforgettable memory. He was a fiery guy with a big personality and an even bigger sound. What an honor it's been to be in community with him the amount I was. RIP.

3 years later, there's still no way to make a statement that says enough. As usual, I'm happy to take this man and his team's efforts as a starting point.

humiliate the oligarchs. they're all losers. remind them constantly

Kind of can't stop thinking about Exxon saying they're expecting global warming to hit 5°C by 2050 and how that means something like 4 billion dead and we're all just pumping gas into our cars and having endless wars just like always. And yeah I need to fill up on dead dinosaurs too.

@joshuaraclaw.com really understands Philly weather. I was telling my older neighbor who was once again saying how it used to make sense that its as if the weather was dropped sometime in the early 2010s and broke into tons of pieces, then glued back together out of order.