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. [email protected]
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NEW: David Greene was the voice of NPR's "Morning Edition." Is he also secretly the voice of Google's popular AI podcast tool, NotebookLM?
Google says no. Greene thinks they're lying. My story today breaks the news of his lawsuit and compares the two voices. Listen for yourself: wapo.st/3ZHRvho
Google says no. Greene thinks they're lying. My story today breaks the news of his lawsuit and compares the two voices. Listen for yourself: wapo.st/3ZHRvho
He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it.
NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.
wapo.st
February 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
NEW: David Greene was the voice of NPR's "Morning Edition." Is he also secretly the voice of Google's popular AI podcast tool, NotebookLM?
Google says no. Greene thinks they're lying. My story today breaks the news of his lawsuit and compares the two voices. Listen for yourself: wapo.st/3ZHRvho
Google says no. Greene thinks they're lying. My story today breaks the news of his lawsuit and compares the two voices. Listen for yourself: wapo.st/3ZHRvho
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Steve’s Music Store, pillar of Toronto’s music scene, is officially closing its doors
Steve’s Music Store, pillar of Toronto’s music scene, is officially closing its doors
The store that lured in rock stars, hobbyists and everything in between is closing its doors, prompting a flood of memories for music lovers.
www.thestar.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Steve’s Music Store, pillar of Toronto’s music scene, is officially closing its doors
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This is a really lovely piece by @akurjata.ca on why Tumbler Ridge has been described as “resilient” long before this week.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Why Tumbler Ridge is resilient | CBC News
The town at the centre of a national tragedy has faced collapse and hardship but continues to persevere.
www.cbc.ca
February 14, 2026 at 8:30 PM
This is a really lovely piece by @akurjata.ca on why Tumbler Ridge has been described as “resilient” long before this week.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A year after Scotiabank said it was pulling out of the Giller Prize – following months of protests over Scotia subsidiary 1832 Asset Management's major stake in Israeli weapons-maker Elbit Systems – a new securities filing shows that, as of December, 1832 had divested all shares
www.sec.gov
February 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM
A year after Scotiabank said it was pulling out of the Giller Prize – following months of protests over Scotia subsidiary 1832 Asset Management's major stake in Israeli weapons-maker Elbit Systems – a new securities filing shows that, as of December, 1832 had divested all shares
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ALERT: TODAY IS KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD DAY ON THE POD
Stu Mackenzie of King Gizzard joins me to talk about pulling their music of Spotify in protest, the AI song squatters that tried to take their place, and how to create art/music in this era and stay sane. So jazzed about this one!
Stu Mackenzie of King Gizzard joins me to talk about pulling their music of Spotify in protest, the AI song squatters that tried to take their place, and how to create art/music in this era and stay sane. So jazzed about this one!
Spotify, AI, and the Future of Music (with Stu Mackenzie)
YouTube video by The Atlantic
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
ALERT: TODAY IS KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD DAY ON THE POD
Stu Mackenzie of King Gizzard joins me to talk about pulling their music of Spotify in protest, the AI song squatters that tried to take their place, and how to create art/music in this era and stay sane. So jazzed about this one!
Stu Mackenzie of King Gizzard joins me to talk about pulling their music of Spotify in protest, the AI song squatters that tried to take their place, and how to create art/music in this era and stay sane. So jazzed about this one!
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Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge.
Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today
styleguide.transjournalists.org
Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today
styleguide.transjournalists.org
Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide
The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect ...
styleguide.transjournalists.org
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge.
Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today
styleguide.transjournalists.org
Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today
styleguide.transjournalists.org
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Tumbler Ridge shooting victims, per RCMP:
• 39-year-old female teacher
• three 12-year-old female students
• two male students, 12 and 13
• 39-year-old mother of suspect
• 11-year-old step brother of suspect
Suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, also deceased, bringing death toll to nine.
• 39-year-old female teacher
• three 12-year-old female students
• two male students, 12 and 13
• 39-year-old mother of suspect
• 11-year-old step brother of suspect
Suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, also deceased, bringing death toll to nine.
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Tumbler Ridge shooting victims, per RCMP:
• 39-year-old female teacher
• three 12-year-old female students
• two male students, 12 and 13
• 39-year-old mother of suspect
• 11-year-old step brother of suspect
Suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, also deceased, bringing death toll to nine.
• 39-year-old female teacher
• three 12-year-old female students
• two male students, 12 and 13
• 39-year-old mother of suspect
• 11-year-old step brother of suspect
Suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, also deceased, bringing death toll to nine.
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I would pitch a subway along this red line. Connects the densest residential corridor of the city without rapid transit to 3.5 subways, a GO line, almost every streetcar line, ~a dozen buses, 5 hospitals, 2 universities, major employers, Kensington/Chinatown, and the Eaton Centre. Would be a monster
February 11, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I would pitch a subway along this red line. Connects the densest residential corridor of the city without rapid transit to 3.5 subways, a GO line, almost every streetcar line, ~a dozen buses, 5 hospitals, 2 universities, major employers, Kensington/Chinatown, and the Eaton Centre. Would be a monster
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jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
Google Handed ICE Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
theintercept.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:50 PM
jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
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the elder millenial poster's retirement home has achieved its final form
coding assistance lets you fast-track important projects that improve your life, such as reformatting every single site you read into the old vbulletin 3.x default template
February 10, 2026 at 5:09 PM
the elder millenial poster's retirement home has achieved its final form
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#Exclusive: American Ian Derrer has been named the next general director of the Canadian Opera Company.
My interview with him is online now: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
My interview with him is online now: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
Canadian Opera Company names American Ian Derrer next general director
Derrer starts on July 1, following an eight-year leadership stint with the Dallas Opera
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:33 PM
#Exclusive: American Ian Derrer has been named the next general director of the Canadian Opera Company.
My interview with him is online now: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
My interview with him is online now: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
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have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
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Case in point: musician falsely accused by Google's AI.
It became *his* responsibility to contest Google's error.
bsky.app/profile/josh...
It became *his* responsibility to contest Google's error.
bsky.app/profile/josh...
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Case in point: musician falsely accused by Google's AI.
It became *his* responsibility to contest Google's error.
bsky.app/profile/josh...
It became *his* responsibility to contest Google's error.
bsky.app/profile/josh...
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Spent the week reporting from Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, which flipped red in 2024 on promises of border security and economic strength. It’s now seeing ICE job-site raids that are hurting the economy and stoking constant fears of families being torn apart.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
In Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, Trump’s immigration crackdown reshapes daily life
The threat of enforcement has created a constant undercurrent of fear for residents of the Rio Grand Valley
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Spent the week reporting from Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, which flipped red in 2024 on promises of border security and economic strength. It’s now seeing ICE job-site raids that are hurting the economy and stoking constant fears of families being torn apart.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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It’s Prince in 2007 and then that. Best two, no doubt
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
It’s Prince in 2007 and then that. Best two, no doubt
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What can we do to foster Canadian non-fiction?
open.substack.com/pub/markbour...
open.substack.com/pub/markbour...
Save Canadian stories, save the country
Reflections on a post-national state's post-national non-fiction, and some analysis of Richard Stursberg's "Lament for a Literature: The Collapse of Canadian Publishing"
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:14 PM
What can we do to foster Canadian non-fiction?
open.substack.com/pub/markbour...
open.substack.com/pub/markbour...
Here's a profile of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, the synth pioneer who was handed the miracle of a career resurgence a decade ago, and who has a new album out today.
Now Glenn needs another miracle: to keep making music through dementia – and to find a home www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Now Glenn needs another miracle: to keep making music through dementia – and to find a home www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Can musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland find another miracle?
The singer-songwriter saw his career resurge in his 70s. Now, he and his wife need one more miracle: to survive and make music in spite of his dementia
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Here's a profile of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, the synth pioneer who was handed the miracle of a career resurgence a decade ago, and who has a new album out today.
Now Glenn needs another miracle: to keep making music through dementia – and to find a home www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Now Glenn needs another miracle: to keep making music through dementia – and to find a home www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
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Toronto police accused of:
"A conspiracy to commit murder, shootings, extortion, robbery, drug trafficking and firearms offences.
"Bribery, obstruction of justice, theft of personal property, breach of trust and the unauthorized access and distribution of confidential information."
"A conspiracy to commit murder, shootings, extortion, robbery, drug trafficking and firearms offences.
"Bribery, obstruction of justice, theft of personal property, breach of trust and the unauthorized access and distribution of confidential information."
York police hold news conference after TPS officers charged in tow-truck investigation | CBC
www.cbc.ca
February 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Toronto police accused of:
"A conspiracy to commit murder, shootings, extortion, robbery, drug trafficking and firearms offences.
"Bribery, obstruction of justice, theft of personal property, breach of trust and the unauthorized access and distribution of confidential information."
"A conspiracy to commit murder, shootings, extortion, robbery, drug trafficking and firearms offences.
"Bribery, obstruction of justice, theft of personal property, breach of trust and the unauthorized access and distribution of confidential information."