Dan Carkner

similar but I think we live in basically the same climate zone so no big surprise there

wild & horrifying. a successor to the giant billboards with menacing Soros heads I saw on my one visit to Budapest years back.

is there any way to see the ChatGPT generated spreadsheet referenced in a lot of these videos?

A boar and its harp shall never be parted.

BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320 CE-c.1330 CE; England, S. E. (London); f.41v @blmedieval.bsky.social

City enters deal with B.C. to close 3 Vancouver SROs in entertainment district Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says the city has reached an agreement in principle with the provincial government to close down three SROs.

classic vancouver thing of suddenly opening the wallet to move the poor out of sight when there's a big international event. it's how I was renovicted from my first apartment here during the 2010 olympics 😜 (the dingy building was turned into mental health housing on short notice)

my facebook use has declined so much that my browser now brings up findagrave.com if I start typing f in the URL bar

Is there any Yiddish blogs or other small frequent things to read? I read the Yiddish Forwards for daily practice but I would like to add more.

NPD FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2026 Don Davies statement NDP Leader Don Davies issued the following statement: "We're very disappointed that Lori Idlout has decided to join the Liberal caucus. The position of the New Democrats on floor crossing is longstanding and clear. We believe that when someone rejects the decision of their electors and wants to join another party, they should put that decision to their voters. In a democracy, something as important as the choice of party representation in Parliament must always remain with our constituents. We believe that should happen here." - 30 -

Statement released 4 minutes ago:

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

my facebook use has declined so much that my browser now brings up findagrave.com if I start typing f in the URL bar

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

he's one of the DOGE guys who was cutting NEH grants by the dozens last year, using ChatGPT to "decide" who deserved to have their project canceled.

City enters deal with B.C. to close 3 Vancouver SROs in entertainment district Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says the city has reached an agreement in principle with the provincial government to close down three SROs.

classic vancouver thing of suddenly opening the wallet to move the poor out of sight when there's a big international event. it's how I was renovicted from my first apartment here during the 2010 olympics 😜 (the dingy building was turned into mental health housing on short notice)

Elijah in Jewish Folk Culture: New Class March 11 & 18 New Mini-Class for Passover!  Elijah in Jewish Folk Culture The Prophet Elijah is one of the most intriguing figures in the Bible. Instead o...

There's still time to sign up for my class, starting tomorrow!

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I've been listening to hours of this deposition and I'm never sure if he really is ignorant or just acting ignorant to avoid getting in trouble. Some things he gives a horrifying answer without a thought and other times he spends minutes trying to slip and slide around and not answer something.

Protesters target Citizens Bank for funding U.S. ICE detention contractors CoreCivic, Geo Group Some of Citizens' business relationships have made the bank a target for protesters critical of the rapid growth of the federal immigration detention under President Donald Trump.

After big banks declined to fund ICE prison contractors, $CFG @CitizenBank stepped in, drawing protesters. My story: www.inquirer.com/business/cit...

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

There’s one way to deal with a bully.

Go get him @seanorr.bsky.social.

any way to know how much staff time was spent studying this issue before it was abandoned? 🕵️

Today Vancouver council is set to approve a staff recommendation to back away from their push to become a Bitcoin friendly city.

Here's my story about it, along with an extended montage about what Ken Sim has said about Bitcoin on various podcasts in the last two years.

definitely. I'm not even subscribed to it (the subreddit, let alone the podcast) but it knows I often open them when I suggest it. 🥺

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Review of Henry H. Sapoznik, The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City | In geveb Drawing on his own passion, his background as chronicler of Yiddish song, and his deep research in thousands of newspapers, biographical materials, and many lit

Henry H. Sapoznik's "The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City," reviewed by Daniel J. Walkowitz

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Lawsuit says DOGE used ChatGPT to tag Jewish-themed humanities grants as ‘DEI’ before canceling them - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Among the project caught in the dragnet was one about violence against women during the Holocaust.

It was always inevitable that the anti-DEI push was going to ensnare Jewish Studies, and I was predicting this when some Jewish voices were still going with "DEI defines all Jews as privileged white people, and thus needs to be opposed." www.jta.org/2026/03/09/u...

Left to right: Walid Khalidi, Sally Kassab, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Rasha Salam, and Jabra Ibrahim Jabra in the garden of the Khalidis’ house on the premises of the Arab College, Jerusalem, c. 1945.

RIP Walid Khalidi, who died today at the age of 100. Founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies and author of a number of essential works in the field. Here he is in 1945 with a group of friends the historian Sonja Mejcher-Atassi has dubbed “the ecumenical circle.”

To clarify, with Wikipedia you can't just use photos you find online, because it isn't clear who owns the rights etc. Unless it's old enough to be in the public domain.

Vancouver question, my friend wrote a wikipedia article about Gallery Gachet, does anyone have a decent photo of the entrance with the sign out they'd be willing to upload to use on the article?

Pillion is a great film about why you shouldn‘t be dating emotionally unavailable people but will do it anyway if they look like Alexander Skarsgard

Vancouver question, my friend wrote a wikipedia article about Gallery Gachet, does anyone have a decent photo of the entrance with the sign out they'd be willing to upload to use on the article?

Dance and sing to live Yiddish seltzer-themed Klezmer music, presented by the Workers Circle, at Brooklyn SeltzerFest 2026!

Learn more about Brooklyn SeltzerFest 2026 here: brooklynseltzermuseum.org/pages/seltze...

Also, check out the duo at klezmerduo.com

#SeltzerFest #Klezmer #KlezmerMusic

Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition in ACLS-AHA-MLA Lawsuit About the NEH, Part 1 of 6 YouTube video by American Historical Association

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public.

Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...