josh o'kane
@joshokane.bsky.social
"A dogged reporter with a weakness for bad jokes." Business of arts for @globeandmail. Wrote Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy. jokane@globeandmail.com
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For years, advertising has been how Stereogum made money to pay its writers. While we made progress moving away from that model, Google AI search has decimated the business almost overnight. Today we relaunch with a greater focus on subscription. We’d love your support: stereogum.com/2478838/ster...
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
For years, advertising has been how Stereogum made money to pay its writers. While we made progress moving away from that model, Google AI search has decimated the business almost overnight. Today we relaunch with a greater focus on subscription. We’d love your support: stereogum.com/2478838/ster...
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This weekend in @theglobeandmail.com, @joshokane.bsky.social spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists!
Read the interview here: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Read the interview here: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This weekend in @theglobeandmail.com, @joshokane.bsky.social spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists!
Read the interview here: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Read the interview here: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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Kyle Edwards, Claire Cameron win Governor General’s Literary Award /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Kyle Edwards wins Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction
Small Ceremonies, which is Edwards’ debut, is a coming-of-age story about Indigenous brothers finding their way in the world
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November 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Kyle Edwards, Claire Cameron win Governor General’s Literary Award /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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Ontario court says media outlets can sue OpenAI over copyright infringements.
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Media outlets win motion for Ontario court to hear OpenAI lawsuit
Legal action brought by The Globe and other media groups alleges U.S. company violating copyright law by scraping content without consent or payment
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November 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Ontario court says media outlets can sue OpenAI over copyright infringements.
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www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Breaking: Trailer Park Boys actor Mike Smith charged with sexual assault in Halifax www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Trailer Park Boys actor Mike Smith charged with sexual assault in Halifax
Assault is alleged to have occurred in December, 2017, but documents do not include additional details of the allegations
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November 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Breaking: Trailer Park Boys actor Mike Smith charged with sexual assault in Halifax www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about his new book, the endlessly quotable How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social), lopsided markets for creativity, the scourge of "innovation," and Yakety Yak:
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On the awkward, thorny relationship between art and money, with author David Berry
In his new book, the cultural critic looks at how the dynamics play out in everything from music to painting
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November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about his new book, the endlessly quotable How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social), lopsided markets for creativity, the scourge of "innovation," and Yakety Yak:
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
I like Turnstile as much as any greying millennial white guy doing a poor job at clinging to youth by embracing the music and aesthetics of a skate culture designed for people 20+ years his junior, but I'm pretty sure this isn't right
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I like Turnstile as much as any greying millennial white guy doing a poor job at clinging to youth by embracing the music and aesthetics of a skate culture designed for people 20+ years his junior, but I'm pretty sure this isn't right
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Canada being a part of Eurovision would be grand. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Why is Eurovision in Canada’s federal budget? There may be bigger reasons than music
Country’s interest in joining contest could be signal of realignment toward Europe in era of U.S. protectionism
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November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Canada being a part of Eurovision would be grand. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
New: Why did Eurovision show up in the federal budget?
It means much more than music: it's a chance to realign CBC/Radio-Canada, and the country, with a major European broadcast union -- a cultural realignment across the Atlantic during the Trump 2.0 era www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
It means much more than music: it's a chance to realign CBC/Radio-Canada, and the country, with a major European broadcast union -- a cultural realignment across the Atlantic during the Trump 2.0 era www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Why is Eurovision in Canada’s federal budget? There may be bigger reasons than music
Country’s interest in joining contest could be signal of realignment toward Europe in era of U.S. protectionism
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
New: Why did Eurovision show up in the federal budget?
It means much more than music: it's a chance to realign CBC/Radio-Canada, and the country, with a major European broadcast union -- a cultural realignment across the Atlantic during the Trump 2.0 era www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
It means much more than music: it's a chance to realign CBC/Radio-Canada, and the country, with a major European broadcast union -- a cultural realignment across the Atlantic during the Trump 2.0 era www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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"According to documents obtained by FOIAball, the Ole Miss-Georgia matchup was one of at least two games last year where the school used a Department of Homeland Security information-sharing platform to keep a watchful eye on attendees."
Crazy reporting from @foiaball.com:
Crazy reporting from @foiaball.com:
Scoop: Inside DHS's vast college football surveillance effort
If you go to a college football game, the feds have cameras on you.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"According to documents obtained by FOIAball, the Ole Miss-Georgia matchup was one of at least two games last year where the school used a Department of Homeland Security information-sharing platform to keep a watchful eye on attendees."
Crazy reporting from @foiaball.com:
Crazy reporting from @foiaball.com:
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Meta PR has been challenging us to philosophical debates about the difference between its AI glasses harassment machine and an iPhone, this is my answer www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Meta PR has been challenging us to philosophical debates about the difference between its AI glasses harassment machine and an iPhone, this is my answer www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
Topline arts/culture notes from budget... 15% cut across Heritage dept, including into Cultural Spaces Fund, but the following boosts:
-48m to Canada Music Fund
-150m to Telefilm over 3yrs
-128m to Canada Media Fund
-26m to NFB
-6m to Canada Council
-no book fund mention
-48m to Canada Music Fund
-150m to Telefilm over 3yrs
-128m to Canada Media Fund
-26m to NFB
-6m to Canada Council
-no book fund mention
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Topline arts/culture notes from budget... 15% cut across Heritage dept, including into Cultural Spaces Fund, but the following boosts:
-48m to Canada Music Fund
-150m to Telefilm over 3yrs
-128m to Canada Media Fund
-26m to NFB
-6m to Canada Council
-no book fund mention
-48m to Canada Music Fund
-150m to Telefilm over 3yrs
-128m to Canada Media Fund
-26m to NFB
-6m to Canada Council
-no book fund mention
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Dan Mangan's Side Door Concert Company Is Shutting Down
Dan Mangan's Side Door Concert Company Is Shutting Down
Dan Mangan's concert platform Side Door is shutting down after eight years. In an announcement shared today, Mangan and co-founder/CEO Laura
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November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Dan Mangan's Side Door Concert Company Is Shutting Down
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I got experimental brain surgery. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Could a device implanted in my brain cure my depression? I was ready to find out
Over the past 14 years, I’ve often fantasized about some scan revealing the locus of my mood disorder. Now, we were as close as we’d likely ever get
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November 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I got experimental brain surgery. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
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November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
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Been hugely enjoying the live coverage put out by the Globe and Mail team for the Jays games this weeked. This update from @grahamisador.bsky.social made me laugh:
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Been hugely enjoying the live coverage put out by the Globe and Mail team for the Jays games this weeked. This update from @grahamisador.bsky.social made me laugh:
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Here's a gift link to the interactive map of @margaretatwood.bsky.social #Toronto We had several authors read from her books and talk about Atwood's significance to them. #booksky #reading #margaretatwood www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/129d895...
A map of Margaret Atwood’s Toronto, in her own words
Ahead of the publication of Atwood’s new memoir, The Globe explores her hometown as told through her own stories
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November 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Here's a gift link to the interactive map of @margaretatwood.bsky.social #Toronto We had several authors read from her books and talk about Atwood's significance to them. #booksky #reading #margaretatwood www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/129d895...
I am looking forward to a relaxing game of baseball
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I am looking forward to a relaxing game of baseball
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Shopify unleashed AI on its support system—and merchants aren't happy.
An early version of the firm's support chatbot made merchants so angry that devs created a feature that connected them to a human faster if they started swearing.
Story by @aleksagan.bsky.social.
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An early version of the firm's support chatbot made merchants so angry that devs created a feature that connected them to a human faster if they started swearing.
Story by @aleksagan.bsky.social.
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Shopify merchants left angry and confused as company goes big on AI support - The Logic
Following years of layoffs, Shopify has turned to AI to improve its floundering merchant support service. Many paying customers aren’t happy.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Shopify unleashed AI on its support system—and merchants aren't happy.
An early version of the firm's support chatbot made merchants so angry that devs created a feature that connected them to a human faster if they started swearing.
Story by @aleksagan.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/shopify...
An early version of the firm's support chatbot made merchants so angry that devs created a feature that connected them to a human faster if they started swearing.
Story by @aleksagan.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/shopify...
