Dan Blacksberg
@danblacksberg.bsky.social
Klezmer and Experimental trombone-based music in Philly, New York and around the world. Creates the Radiant Others Podcast!
Gonna try and run this account for fun and connection like it’s that other site circa 2012.
Gonna try and run this account for fun and connection like it’s that other site circa 2012.
Pinned
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/
Following a lot of tech people, music people, and radical Jews. The threads are there! Hang with me.
www.instagram.com/danblacksberg/
Funny that the music I was told is controversial “free jazz” is uploaded by a YT channel called “modern jazz classics.” Correct!
This is liberated Black music. Like Charlie Parker was liberated Black music. Listen for what’s there, not for what isn’t and you’ll be rewarded.
youtu.be/_oH63aiGCs4
This is liberated Black music. Like Charlie Parker was liberated Black music. Listen for what’s there, not for what isn’t and you’ll be rewarded.
youtu.be/_oH63aiGCs4
Ornette Coleman - Chronology
YouTube video by Modern Jazz Classics
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Funny that the music I was told is controversial “free jazz” is uploaded by a YT channel called “modern jazz classics.” Correct!
This is liberated Black music. Like Charlie Parker was liberated Black music. Listen for what’s there, not for what isn’t and you’ll be rewarded.
youtu.be/_oH63aiGCs4
This is liberated Black music. Like Charlie Parker was liberated Black music. Listen for what’s there, not for what isn’t and you’ll be rewarded.
youtu.be/_oH63aiGCs4
This shit feels like doom for…well, hopefully for the companies and these models.
OpenAI's "guardrails" for copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book. OpenAI will never stop Sora from doing copyright infringement because the AI generator was built with stolen content. www.404media.co/openai-cant-...
OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content
OpenAI’s guardrails against copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book.
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This shit feels like doom for…well, hopefully for the companies and these models.
Ooh can’t wait to have time to dive into this new Maintenance Phase episode. Raw milk being legal in Pennsylvania, it’s been such a thing at farmers markets and co-ops for years.
saw that there was a new maintenance phase on *raw milk* and thought "well, this will be alarming and fascinating" and it was many levels beyond my expectations on both counts. so good.
www.maintenancephase.com
www.maintenancephase.com
Maintenance Phase
www.maintenancephase.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Ooh can’t wait to have time to dive into this new Maintenance Phase episode. Raw milk being legal in Pennsylvania, it’s been such a thing at farmers markets and co-ops for years.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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WHOA
More (51%) non-Orthodox rabbinical students are queer or trans (LGBTQ) than NOT, according to a new survey.
12% are nonbinary (58% women, 30% men)
16% are Jews by choice
12% ID as a race other than white.
12% are nonbinary (58% women, 30% men)
16% are Jews by choice
12% ID as a race other than white.
What the first major study of the US rabbinate reveals - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The rabbinate is older, happier and more diverse than previously known, according to the study.
www.jta.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
WHOA
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Jfc man, come on
By prohibiting SNAP recipients from purchasing processed foods, Gov. Reeves hopes to curry favor with the Trump administration as he seeks funding for a proposed rural health initiative to improve health-care access and outcomes for patients while bolstering the state’s rural medical workforce.
Reeves Seeks to Ban SNAP Recipients From Sugary Foods
Gov. Tate Reeves aims to ban Mississippi SNAP recipients from buying unhealthy foods as part of a bid to woo Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Jfc man, come on
What pretend-effective actions are power holders of money and access in music going to we say we should do in light of this?
“Deezer estimates that 50,000 AI-generated songs are uploaded to the platform every day – 34% of all the music submitted.”?!?!?
🤢
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“Deezer estimates that 50,000 AI-generated songs are uploaded to the platform every day – 34% of all the music submitted.”?!?!?
🤢
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads
Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human composition
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
What pretend-effective actions are power holders of money and access in music going to we say we should do in light of this?
“Deezer estimates that 50,000 AI-generated songs are uploaded to the platform every day – 34% of all the music submitted.”?!?!?
🤢
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“Deezer estimates that 50,000 AI-generated songs are uploaded to the platform every day – 34% of all the music submitted.”?!?!?
🤢
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Thanks to @yoni191.bsky.social for setting this up! Can’t wait! Tomorrow at 8:30 at Studio 34 in west Philly!
Super fun show in west Philly coming up this Friday! I’m playing with one of the coolest artists. I haven’t met in person yet, the one and Yotzeret Sheydim!! We’ll be doing a Noise Shabbat, incoming on a stacked bill!
November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Thanks to @yoni191.bsky.social for setting this up! Can’t wait! Tomorrow at 8:30 at Studio 34 in west Philly!
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screaming in day four of migraine: YOU WILL TAKE MY IBUPROFEN FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
screaming in day four of migraine: YOU WILL TAKE MY IBUPROFEN FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS
The late, Adrienne Cooper’s adaptation of a Hasidic shabbes song. Lyrics “if my voice were louder” can feel not up to today’s urgency. Like, Past time to get loud!
But when she sings these conditional words, they sound like a command to us all. Her power through her music.
youtu.be/Sr5JwgnkVxo
But when she sings these conditional words, they sound like a command to us all. Her power through her music.
youtu.be/Sr5JwgnkVxo
Peace in the Streets
YouTube video by Adrienne Cooper - Topic
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The late, Adrienne Cooper’s adaptation of a Hasidic shabbes song. Lyrics “if my voice were louder” can feel not up to today’s urgency. Like, Past time to get loud!
But when she sings these conditional words, they sound like a command to us all. Her power through her music.
youtu.be/Sr5JwgnkVxo
But when she sings these conditional words, they sound like a command to us all. Her power through her music.
youtu.be/Sr5JwgnkVxo
We need to bring our full humanity to the everything we do now more than ever. Music is a great place to practice. Here’s some extremely full-human music. Good night!
youtu.be/kB-zG5EmdTk
youtu.be/kB-zG5EmdTk
Albert Ayler - The Hilversum Session - 01 - Angels
YouTube video by kavboj
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
We need to bring our full humanity to the everything we do now more than ever. Music is a great place to practice. Here’s some extremely full-human music. Good night!
youtu.be/kB-zG5EmdTk
youtu.be/kB-zG5EmdTk
I dream of a day when these companies curdle into shriveled husks and maybe, just maybe, we’ll get something better.
In the meantime, I’ll be listening to @edzitron.com.
Thanks to @darcyjamesargue.com for turning me on to Ed’s great work last year.
In the meantime, I’ll be listening to @edzitron.com.
Thanks to @darcyjamesargue.com for turning me on to Ed’s great work last year.
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I dream of a day when these companies curdle into shriveled husks and maybe, just maybe, we’ll get something better.
In the meantime, I’ll be listening to @edzitron.com.
Thanks to @darcyjamesargue.com for turning me on to Ed’s great work last year.
In the meantime, I’ll be listening to @edzitron.com.
Thanks to @darcyjamesargue.com for turning me on to Ed’s great work last year.
New interview with the awesome, musician, songwriter, political and cultural organizer Ira Temple! Ira work on and off the bandstand has changed my life for the better.
It was an honor to play on two rocking tracks for this big debut album! Go listen.
It was an honor to play on two rocking tracks for this big debut album! Go listen.
"Ira Khonen Temple’s album Strange Tongue/מסתּמא־לשון / Mistame-Loshn, out from Borscht Beat, is a testament to Queer Yiddishkayt...Strange Tongue is a piece of a living, breathing, changing culture."
NEW interview with Ira Khonen Temple, up now 🦚
ingeveb.org/blog/ira-tem...
NEW interview with Ira Khonen Temple, up now 🦚
ingeveb.org/blog/ira-tem...
"I want this to be a place for you": A Conversation with Ira Khonen Temple | In geveb
Yael Horowitz and Ira Khonen Temple talk queer Yiddishkayt, collage, and masoyre in Temple's new album.
ingeveb.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
New interview with the awesome, musician, songwriter, political and cultural organizer Ira Temple! Ira work on and off the bandstand has changed my life for the better.
It was an honor to play on two rocking tracks for this big debut album! Go listen.
It was an honor to play on two rocking tracks for this big debut album! Go listen.
Looked at a music “starter pack” was not surprised to not recognize a single person. Humbling to remember the world of music is unbelievably vast and also I am so distant from most mainstream fields/scenes/paths…
Anyway here’s a track I recorded with The Body thebody.bandcamp.com/track/hallow...
Anyway here’s a track I recorded with The Body thebody.bandcamp.com/track/hallow...
Hallow / Hollow, by the body
from the album No One Deserves Happiness
thebody.bandcamp.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Looked at a music “starter pack” was not surprised to not recognize a single person. Humbling to remember the world of music is unbelievably vast and also I am so distant from most mainstream fields/scenes/paths…
Anyway here’s a track I recorded with The Body thebody.bandcamp.com/track/hallow...
Anyway here’s a track I recorded with The Body thebody.bandcamp.com/track/hallow...
Shout out to my colleagues and our excellent intergenerational Yiddish Scene!
salute to Chaia and Josh Dolgin the 2 best samplers of Yiddish music
From shtetl to synth: How Yiddish electronica found its rhythm
Josh “Socalled” Dolgin and Chaia both aim to keep Yiddish vibrant without turning it into a museum piece
forward.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Shout out to my colleagues and our excellent intergenerational Yiddish Scene!
Oh snap! Can't wait.
@danblacksberg.bsky.social you'd probably be into this. the trove of a certain celebrity cimbalom player which will hopefully be made available next month
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Oh snap! Can't wait.
This morning’s klezmer highlight. New/old recording to me of a fun tune I’ve been playing for years.
Called by many names! The name on this track, the “Ezmilover Bulgar” in the Hoffman family book, , or me, simply, “Bulgar no. 9.”
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AGVN...
Called by many names! The name on this track, the “Ezmilover Bulgar” in the Hoffman family book, , or me, simply, “Bulgar no. 9.”
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AGVN...
איזמאַילאָווער בּולגאַר (2 of 2) - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries
search.library.wisc.edu
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This morning’s klezmer highlight. New/old recording to me of a fun tune I’ve been playing for years.
Called by many names! The name on this track, the “Ezmilover Bulgar” in the Hoffman family book, , or me, simply, “Bulgar no. 9.”
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AGVN...
Called by many names! The name on this track, the “Ezmilover Bulgar” in the Hoffman family book, , or me, simply, “Bulgar no. 9.”
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AGVN...
In need of some late night wind down music? I’m listening to
This excellent record by the BLUMP BAND. Great compositons with low low instruments. Trombone, bass clarinet, and bassoon! So good.
michaelcolemanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/blump-...
This excellent record by the BLUMP BAND. Great compositons with low low instruments. Trombone, bass clarinet, and bassoon! So good.
michaelcolemanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/blump-...
BLUMP BAND, by BLUMP BAND
7 track album
michaelcolemanmusic.bandcamp.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
In need of some late night wind down music? I’m listening to
This excellent record by the BLUMP BAND. Great compositons with low low instruments. Trombone, bass clarinet, and bassoon! So good.
michaelcolemanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/blump-...
This excellent record by the BLUMP BAND. Great compositons with low low instruments. Trombone, bass clarinet, and bassoon! So good.
michaelcolemanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/blump-...
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just had the immense pleasure of learning that the yiddish word for “quotation marks” literally means LITTLE GOOSE FEET (gendznfislekh, גענדנפֿיסלעך)
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
just had the immense pleasure of learning that the yiddish word for “quotation marks” literally means LITTLE GOOSE FEET (gendznfislekh, גענדנפֿיסלעך)
Big hearty congrats to Sarah!
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Big hearty congrats to Sarah!
Super fun show in west Philly coming up this Friday! I’m playing with one of the coolest artists. I haven’t met in person yet, the one and Yotzeret Sheydim!! We’ll be doing a Noise Shabbat, incoming on a stacked bill!
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Super fun show in west Philly coming up this Friday! I’m playing with one of the coolest artists. I haven’t met in person yet, the one and Yotzeret Sheydim!! We’ll be doing a Noise Shabbat, incoming on a stacked bill!
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the very nasty people of Avalanche have been very unfair and hurt our beautiful mako reactors which are so green, so beautiful, we love them, we're all going to see mother
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
the very nasty people of Avalanche have been very unfair and hurt our beautiful mako reactors which are so green, so beautiful, we love them, we're all going to see mother
I feel for all my friends in New York who worked so hard to organize for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, especially @jfrejnyc.bsky.social (and so often get ignored by the mainstream press), that the price for winning is to work harder, but I know they are up for it!
As @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social stated yesterday: “My message to the more than 100,000 volunteers who brought us to this point is that the work continues”
Join the work, join the movement, join JFREJ!
Learn more at our New Member Orientation tomorrow night! Head to jfrej.org/orientations 💫
Join the work, join the movement, join JFREJ!
Learn more at our New Member Orientation tomorrow night! Head to jfrej.org/orientations 💫
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I feel for all my friends in New York who worked so hard to organize for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, especially @jfrejnyc.bsky.social (and so often get ignored by the mainstream press), that the price for winning is to work harder, but I know they are up for it!
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Monthly premium going from $500 to $1800 here. Luckily a tax credit can bring it down to "only" $1100 per month.
Instead it looks like I'm going to be paying about $700/mo for a significantly worse plan.
Everyone in Congress knows this is happening and none of them, Rs or Ds, care in the least.
Instead it looks like I'm going to be paying about $700/mo for a significantly worse plan.
Everyone in Congress knows this is happening and none of them, Rs or Ds, care in the least.
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Monthly premium going from $500 to $1800 here. Luckily a tax credit can bring it down to "only" $1100 per month.
Instead it looks like I'm going to be paying about $700/mo for a significantly worse plan.
Everyone in Congress knows this is happening and none of them, Rs or Ds, care in the least.
Instead it looks like I'm going to be paying about $700/mo for a significantly worse plan.
Everyone in Congress knows this is happening and none of them, Rs or Ds, care in the least.
More food for thought from @bcmerchant.bsky.social
Helpful hearing Cory Doctorow uplifting sectoral bargaining over copyright reform for artists dealing with AI and other forms of extraction. I’d relish it if musician unions work affected me directly!
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis...
Helpful hearing Cory Doctorow uplifting sectoral bargaining over copyright reform for artists dealing with AI and other forms of extraction. I’d relish it if musician unions work affected me directly!
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis...
How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow
A chat with the SF writer, activist, and author about his world-conquering coinage and how workers can take back the internet.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
More food for thought from @bcmerchant.bsky.social
Helpful hearing Cory Doctorow uplifting sectoral bargaining over copyright reform for artists dealing with AI and other forms of extraction. I’d relish it if musician unions work affected me directly!
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis...
Helpful hearing Cory Doctorow uplifting sectoral bargaining over copyright reform for artists dealing with AI and other forms of extraction. I’d relish it if musician unions work affected me directly!
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis...