josh o'kane

Wait, did Taylor Swift use generative AI to market The Life of a Showgirl? Swift’s Easter eggs are legendary within her massive fandom. But the likelihood she used AI to generate promotional videos makes them tough to enjoy, writes Aisling Murphy

I wanted The Life of a Showgirl to grow on me. But Taylor Swift's likely use of generative AI to market the album crossed a line I'm not sure I'll ever be able to look past.

My op-ed for @theglobeandmail.com:

www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

BREAKING: Company fined $1M, banned 10 years from using temporary foreign workers Bolero Shellfish Processing has been leveled the largest penalty ever issued over the mistreatment of temporary foreign workers

NEW from me...
New Brunswick company fined $1 million, banned 10 years from using temporary foreign workers

Bolero Shellfish Processing has been leveled the largest penalty ever issued over the mistreatment of TFWs.

Details 👇
tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

king. om -OR FALL NEW YORK YANKEES MOST RUNS ALLOWED OVER 2-GAME SPAN IN POSTSEASON FRANCHISE HISTORY 21 runs Aaron Boone pictured

Yankees team is making history

I’m starting to think this Trey Yesavage kid “has it”

Folks, baseball is: good

Baseball rules, the @bluejays.com rule, my mom rules, the jumbotron rules

How soon do you guys think the Pixies will get a songwriting credit on “Actually Romantic”

They don’t make book covers like they used to

Exclusive | OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out Executives at the company notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

“Our general approach has been to treat likeness and copyright distinctly,” said Jason Kwon, chief strategy officer of OpenAI.

Definitely seeing this distinction being made by AI execs recently. A potential wedge being driven into Hollywood/Music industry www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

Thought this photo looked oddly familiar..

love to use cutting-edge AI technology to picture "what would it look like if Alejandro Kirk hit a home run - an event we just saw, 10 minutes ago, live in HD - but it happened in Ken Griffey Jr Baseball for the Nintendo 64"

For more self-aggrandizing media-hoarding content, I have an instagram where I mostly post about records and books I’m into: www.instagram.com/joshconsuming

Been ransacking bins everywhere for it for years, only to find it in a just-acquired collection at my usual shop….

Off for a few weeks and Trying Not To Post but… I just found two of my biggest grails at Rotate This

Ghostface is a new repress (which is fine since the only original I’ve ever seen was priced at $400) but Stephen Malkmus self-titled is a 2001 original. Gorgeous bridge between Pavement and Jicks

Ticketmaster, Live Nation Sued by FTC Over Ticket Resales The US Federal Trade Commission and seven states sued Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and Ticketmaster for failing to stem the use of automated ticketing bots and large-scale resale operations.

Gift article:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Canada’s animation and visual effects industry was one of our proudest exports. Now it’s struggling Studios across the country have been shedding jobs, threatened by tax changes, artificial intelligence and rising costs

"Canada’s animation and visual effects industry was one of our proudest exports. Now it’s struggling."

Good read from the
Globe and Mail about what many in the industry are feeling.

www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

This. And the far-too-credulous reporters should be throttling the sources who dangled lies that made them look like fools

Canada’s animation and visual effects industry was one of our proudest exports. Now it’s struggling Studios across the country have been shedding jobs, threatened by tax changes, artificial intelligence and rising costs

Josh O'Kane has a deep dive into Canada's declining animation business. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

Canada’s animation and visual effects industry was one of our proudest exports. Now it’s struggling Studios across the country have been shedding jobs, threatened by tax changes, artificial intelligence and rising costs

The Globe and Mail on an existential market crisis for Canada's animation and visual effects industries. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

Canada’s animation and visual effects industry was one of our proudest exports. Now it’s struggling Studios across the country have been shedding jobs, threatened by tax changes, artificial intelligence and rising costs

New: The end of production at Nelvana is just the latest blow to Canada's animation and VFX industry, which has been in a slow-motion collapse since 2023.

Here's a deep dive into the struggles of one of Canada's most recognizable exports: on-screen magic www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

Suspect Arrested After Montreal Festivalgoers Report Needle Pricks, Dizziness The horrors continue. As the Canadian Press reports, a 33-year-old suspect has been arrested after music festival attendees in Montreal were

Suspect Arrested After Montreal Festivalgoers Report Needle Pricks, Dizziness

Ocean Of Sound : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive A 1996 ambient compilation compiled by the sound artist and composer David Toop, and distributed by Virgin Records.

Ooh - look at this

archive.org/details/ocea...

Tonight! Our 2025 Wayzgoose is at 5 PM at Coach House Books (80 bpNichol Lane, Toronto). Please come by to celebrate 60 years of great books with us! Our anniversary toast will be held at *7 PM*, and we don't expect any rain, but please bring your umbrella along just in case!

"In Honour of Actor Graham Greene, Mirvish Productions Will Dim the Marquee Lights of the Royal Alexandra & Princess of Wales Theatre During the Opening Day of TIFF 50 on Thursday, September 4, 2025 @ 9:30 pm"

We finally got an official update from Corus themselves: Nelvana has become an “in-name only” unit of their company akin to what Warner Bros. did to Hanna-Barbera in 2001. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/televis...