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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Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger argues The Epoch Times should be treated as reputable.
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Source Wars and Bespoke Realities
Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth
substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger argues The Epoch Times should be treated as reputable.
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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got my ass tbh
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
got my ass tbh
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does anyone know where i can read yiddish plays in english translation? checked ybc and in geveb without a whole lot of luck
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
does anyone know where i can read yiddish plays in english translation? checked ybc and in geveb without a whole lot of luck
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This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
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This week in Art I Am Obsessed With: this self-portrait by Suzanne Valadon. It looks so incredibly contemporary (I would literally wear that exact outfit on hot summer day) but it’s from 1923. Anyway, love a queen with flowy pants and a dangling cigarette!
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This week in Art I Am Obsessed With: this self-portrait by Suzanne Valadon. It looks so incredibly contemporary (I would literally wear that exact outfit on hot summer day) but it’s from 1923. Anyway, love a queen with flowy pants and a dangling cigarette!
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Excited to head back to studio 34 for a wonderful show of klezmer friends. They are my friends, and they are also excellent!
events.humanitix.com/brivele-a-gl...
events.humanitix.com/brivele-a-gl...
A night of Yiddish antifascist and movement songs with Brivele & A Glezele Tey
Get tickets on Humanitix - A night of Yiddish antifascist and movement songs with Brivele & A Glezele Tey hosted by Studio 34. Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts, 4522 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19143,...
events.humanitix.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Excited to head back to studio 34 for a wonderful show of klezmer friends. They are my friends, and they are also excellent!
events.humanitix.com/brivele-a-gl...
events.humanitix.com/brivele-a-gl...
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When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
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here's the source of this, Wolff N. Kostakowsky's International Hebrew Wedding Music, published in NYC in 1916. It's in the public domain but I'm not sure if there's a better scan than this 4-part one on IMSLP.
a great sampling of early 20th century klezmer music with plenty of Romanian tunes!
a great sampling of early 20th century klezmer music with plenty of Romanian tunes!
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
here's the source of this, Wolff N. Kostakowsky's International Hebrew Wedding Music, published in NYC in 1916. It's in the public domain but I'm not sure if there's a better scan than this 4-part one on IMSLP.
a great sampling of early 20th century klezmer music with plenty of Romanian tunes!
a great sampling of early 20th century klezmer music with plenty of Romanian tunes!
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All praise the Gaza peacemakers! They're:
-Dividing the strip into 2 zones
-Pushing Gazans into one, which will see airstrikes and raids
-doing reconstruction only in the other
-promising a foreign force made up of Europeans, who aren't willing to do it
You better be seen praising the peacemakers.
-Dividing the strip into 2 zones
-Pushing Gazans into one, which will see airstrikes and raids
-doing reconstruction only in the other
-promising a foreign force made up of Europeans, who aren't willing to do it
You better be seen praising the peacemakers.
US military planning for divided Gaza with ‘green zone’ secured by international and Israeli troops
Exclusive: Almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
All praise the Gaza peacemakers! They're:
-Dividing the strip into 2 zones
-Pushing Gazans into one, which will see airstrikes and raids
-doing reconstruction only in the other
-promising a foreign force made up of Europeans, who aren't willing to do it
You better be seen praising the peacemakers.
-Dividing the strip into 2 zones
-Pushing Gazans into one, which will see airstrikes and raids
-doing reconstruction only in the other
-promising a foreign force made up of Europeans, who aren't willing to do it
You better be seen praising the peacemakers.
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if you're in Vancouver and want to learn this tune (probably a middle complexity one similar to the one Kandel played above), come on out to our monthly event
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KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam | Peretz Centre
Join a jam session of klezmer music hosted with KlezWest (all instruments and musicians welcome)
www.peretz-centre.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
if you're in Vancouver and want to learn this tune (probably a middle complexity one similar to the one Kandel played above), come on out to our monthly event
😜
😜
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
here's the source of this, Wolff N. Kostakowsky's International Hebrew Wedding Music, published in NYC in 1916. It's in the public domain but I'm not sure if there's a better scan than this 4-part one on IMSLP.
a great sampling of early 20th century klezmer music with plenty of Romanian tunes!
a great sampling of early 20th century klezmer music with plenty of Romanian tunes!
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
here's the source of this, Wolff N. Kostakowsky's International Hebrew Wedding Music, published in NYC in 1916. It's in the public domain but I'm not sure if there's a better scan than this 4-part one on IMSLP.
a great sampling of early 20th century klezmer music with plenty of Romanian tunes!
a great sampling of early 20th century klezmer music with plenty of Romanian tunes!
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Why! Sorry, but why? Labour's anti-asylum, anti-immigration, policies are the antithesis of anything anyone who genuinely supports human rights should be defending. They're absolutely inhumane and condemnable. Anyone supporting them can't claim to be "progressive"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Why! Sorry, but why? Labour's anti-asylum, anti-immigration, policies are the antithesis of anything anyone who genuinely supports human rights should be defending. They're absolutely inhumane and condemnable. Anyone supporting them can't claim to be "progressive"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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In the US, the only leverage many academics have is threatening to leave. That leverage is growing weaker and weaker as jobs disappear. At this point, beyond a few superstars, it’s effectively nil. There are, of course, other forms of leverage, but they require working in concert.
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In the US, the only leverage many academics have is threatening to leave. That leverage is growing weaker and weaker as jobs disappear. At this point, beyond a few superstars, it’s effectively nil. There are, of course, other forms of leverage, but they require working in concert.
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As I argue in Ch. 6 of my new book, one of the more strenuous acts of worldmaking undertaken in Yiddish children’s literature was to imagine a world in which it was safe for girls (including adolescents) to wander and adventure. Century-old fiction offers what the real world still can’t.
Anybody else had on their bingo card Batya Ungar-Sargon as helping MAGA classify 15-year-olds as not children to claim that pedophilia isn’t really pedophilia? I’m not surprised. Congrats to the 92nd St Y for including her on a panel the other week!
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
As I argue in Ch. 6 of my new book, one of the more strenuous acts of worldmaking undertaken in Yiddish children’s literature was to imagine a world in which it was safe for girls (including adolescents) to wander and adventure. Century-old fiction offers what the real world still can’t.
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Oy Chanukah! by The Klezmer Conservatory Band on Apple Music
Album · 1987 · 23 Songs
music.apple.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The 'People's Filibuster' Comes to Vancouver City Hall via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
The ‘People’s Filibuster’ Comes to Vancouver City Hall | The Tyee
Over 600 people signed up to speak to Mayor Ken Sim’s tax-freeze budget. Most were opposed.
thetyee.ca
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The 'People's Filibuster' Comes to Vancouver City Hall via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
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His closing lines are 🔥: "What I do know is that I was accused more than once by some Board members and the Governor’s office of being stubborn. Perhaps I am. But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled."
Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end
I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Jim Ryan letter
www.documentcloud.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
His closing lines are 🔥: "What I do know is that I was accused more than once by some Board members and the Governor’s office of being stubborn. Perhaps I am. But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled."
the more I read about this proposed project in my neighborhood the more shady it seems lol. classic Vancouver where any new cultural thing only exists as a fig leaf to solve the procedural hurdles of a developer 🕵️♂️
'Red flags': Disagreement erupts over Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim's plan for Filipino cultural centre
Dan Fumano: A proposal for a Filipino cultural centre has the support of municipal and provincial politicians, but still faces challenges.
vancouversun.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
the more I read about this proposed project in my neighborhood the more shady it seems lol. classic Vancouver where any new cultural thing only exists as a fig leaf to solve the procedural hurdles of a developer 🕵️♂️
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Vancouver mayor proposes plan for Filipino cultural centre despite some community pushback
Vancouver mayor proposes plan for Filipino cultural centre despite some community pushback
The mayor of Vancouver is forging ahead with a proposal to build a Filipino cultural centre, despite a lack of support from some Filipino community organizations.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Vancouver mayor proposes plan for Filipino cultural centre despite some community pushback
Ah, a new Daniel Kahn album? 👀
UMRU / unrest, by Daniel Kahn
11 track album
borschtbeat.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Ah, a new Daniel Kahn album? 👀