Dan Carkner
@alte.klezmor.im
Klezmer music history researcher, library technician from Vancouver BC. Doing research into klezmer musician biographies & immigration, Indonesian left-wing history, music manuscripts, compositions & copyright etc. Wikipedia editor. Social justice minded.
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The BC Govt has announced a review of the public post-secondary system. Review will be led by Don Avison, recently Chair of the board at Emily Carr. He's a past Deputy Minister of Education, Skills and Training, and President of the Research Universities Council of BC
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
Province reviews public post-secondary system to ensure long-term sustainability
The Province is launching an independent review to strengthen the public post-secondary education system and ensure it is sustainable and well-positioned to support people in British Columbia and B.C.’s economic growth.
news.gov.bc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The BC Govt has announced a review of the public post-secondary system. Review will be led by Don Avison, recently Chair of the board at Emily Carr. He's a past Deputy Minister of Education, Skills and Training, and President of the Research Universities Council of BC
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
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approved despite over 600 speakers signing up to speak to the budget, with all but a tiny number strongly opposed, and following a public engagement survey that found the majority of respondents supported a property tax increase to avoid cuts.
Vancouver's 2026 draft budget has PASSED.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Vancouver's 2026 draft budget has PASSED.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Vancouver's 2026 draft budget has PASSED.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
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Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Truly cannot wait to see the departure of these smarmy ABC Vancouver councilors & mayor next election. Through this whole budget process they have been so cynical and disrespectful to the public.
Every question from the public is "misinformation" and "disinformation" and "fear mongering" to them😒
Every question from the public is "misinformation" and "disinformation" and "fear mongering" to them😒
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Truly cannot wait to see the departure of these smarmy ABC Vancouver councilors & mayor next election. Through this whole budget process they have been so cynical and disrespectful to the public.
Every question from the public is "misinformation" and "disinformation" and "fear mongering" to them😒
Every question from the public is "misinformation" and "disinformation" and "fear mongering" to them😒
still going strong with this database which I alternately feel proud and insane about depending on my mood. it has a few hundred names who could loosely be termed old NY klezmer musicians linked to a wider set of families, union musicians from NY, people who recorded or performed together, etc.
Back to using Gramps genealogy program to build up my database of old New York klezmer musicians in advance of my research trip this winter, and because of the limited types of Events in the program I'm putting Local 802 union membership as an Ordination event.😏 It feels fitting
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
still going strong with this database which I alternately feel proud and insane about depending on my mood. it has a few hundred names who could loosely be termed old NY klezmer musicians linked to a wider set of families, union musicians from NY, people who recorded or performed together, etc.
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I got a bit sidetracked this month with other projects but here's finally my third article for Wikipedia Asian Month ... This literary archive started as the personal collection of "the pope and dictator" of Indonesian literature and was lately nationalized into an official Jakarta institution.
H. B. Jassin Literary Archive - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I got a bit sidetracked this month with other projects but here's finally my third article for Wikipedia Asian Month ... This literary archive started as the personal collection of "the pope and dictator" of Indonesian literature and was lately nationalized into an official Jakarta institution.
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no one wants to be interviewed so isaac chotiner is just stalking twitter now looking for new eager victims to admit they are dumbos
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
no one wants to be interviewed so isaac chotiner is just stalking twitter now looking for new eager victims to admit they are dumbos
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They said science couldn’t develop a new form of Chotinering (drive by interviewing your ass when you least expect it)
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
They said science couldn’t develop a new form of Chotinering (drive by interviewing your ass when you least expect it)
I got a bit sidetracked this month with other projects but here's finally my third article for Wikipedia Asian Month ... This literary archive started as the personal collection of "the pope and dictator" of Indonesian literature and was lately nationalized into an official Jakarta institution.
H. B. Jassin Literary Archive - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I got a bit sidetracked this month with other projects but here's finally my third article for Wikipedia Asian Month ... This literary archive started as the personal collection of "the pope and dictator" of Indonesian literature and was lately nationalized into an official Jakarta institution.
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Last year I took a couple Queer Yiddish classes and my teacher turned me on to a Klezmer artist, Daniel Kahn, and I've been so obsessed with all his music ever since. So sorry not sorry, here is yet another I'm going to throw at you.
Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-p...
Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-p...
The Destruction of New Orleans
YouTube video by Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Last year I took a couple Queer Yiddish classes and my teacher turned me on to a Klezmer artist, Daniel Kahn, and I've been so obsessed with all his music ever since. So sorry not sorry, here is yet another I'm going to throw at you.
Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-p...
Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-p...
Ugh I'm a lil furious tbh... My guestlisted friend at the Chutzpah Fest @ Vancouver JCC where I was working tonight was denied entry because he was wearing a kuffiyeh and wouldn't take it off. Like it's a public arts festival and an event with a social justice theme. He wasn't hurting anyone!
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Ugh I'm a lil furious tbh... My guestlisted friend at the Chutzpah Fest @ Vancouver JCC where I was working tonight was denied entry because he was wearing a kuffiyeh and wouldn't take it off. Like it's a public arts festival and an event with a social justice theme. He wasn't hurting anyone!
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youtu.be/77m8l-lHb4M
This here is a very nice dance tune. A Yiddish hora or a Zhok. From the one and only
This here is a very nice dance tune. A Yiddish hora or a Zhok. From the one and only
Jewish Hora
YouTube video by German Goldenshteyn - Topic
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
youtu.be/77m8l-lHb4M
This here is a very nice dance tune. A Yiddish hora or a Zhok. From the one and only
This here is a very nice dance tune. A Yiddish hora or a Zhok. From the one and only
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
I was a very aimless youth who dropped out of OAC (defunct university-track high school in Ontario) and I thought "well I kinda like to read" so I wrote emails to librarians in Ottawa saying I like to read and how do you get a job there. someone directed me to Algonquin's library tech program.
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I was a very aimless youth who dropped out of OAC (defunct university-track high school in Ontario) and I thought "well I kinda like to read" so I wrote emails to librarians in Ottawa saying I like to read and how do you get a job there. someone directed me to Algonquin's library tech program.
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Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
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God morning! Recorded in a hotel room in the Catskills, this record showcasing the Jewish Moldovan clarinetist German Goldenshteyn found a wide reach and brought a lot of people in to klezmer in the late 2000s early 2010s. I first bonded with Tyshawn Sorey over this!
youtu.be/mUj-up1frIE
youtu.be/mUj-up1frIE
Betuta din Yaloveny
YouTube video by German Goldenshteyn - Topic
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
God morning! Recorded in a hotel room in the Catskills, this record showcasing the Jewish Moldovan clarinetist German Goldenshteyn found a wide reach and brought a lot of people in to klezmer in the late 2000s early 2010s. I first bonded with Tyshawn Sorey over this!
youtu.be/mUj-up1frIE
youtu.be/mUj-up1frIE
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this is some DC comics villain shit
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
this is some DC comics villain shit
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I'm doing the supertitles for this concert at Chutzpah Fest at the Vancouver JCC tomorrow - check it out if you're in town. with members of the Klezmatics, Forshpil etc. 🕵️
Yiddish Songs of Social Change — Support
chutzpahfestival.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'm doing the supertitles for this concert at Chutzpah Fest at the Vancouver JCC tomorrow - check it out if you're in town. with members of the Klezmatics, Forshpil etc. 🕵️
I'm doing the supertitles for this concert at Chutzpah Fest at the Vancouver JCC tomorrow - check it out if you're in town. with members of the Klezmatics, Forshpil etc. 🕵️
Yiddish Songs of Social Change — Support
chutzpahfestival.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'm doing the supertitles for this concert at Chutzpah Fest at the Vancouver JCC tomorrow - check it out if you're in town. with members of the Klezmatics, Forshpil etc. 🕵️
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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Former Washington Post editor @karenattiah.bsky.social delivering the heat on Mohammed bin Salman’s killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
karenattiah.substack.com/p/jamal-khas...
karenattiah.substack.com/p/jamal-khas...
Jamal Khashoggi Will Haunt Mohammed Bin Salman Forever
The Saudi crown prince accused of ordering the murder of my friend and Washington Post writer gets the (blood) red carpet treatment.
karenattiah.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Former Washington Post editor @karenattiah.bsky.social delivering the heat on Mohammed bin Salman’s killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
karenattiah.substack.com/p/jamal-khas...
karenattiah.substack.com/p/jamal-khas...
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NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)