Sean O’Kane

@okane

Senior Reporter, Special Projects at TechCrunch. Formerly Bloomberg News and The Verge. Obsessed with public records and LLCs. Bad surfer. Reluctant karaoke participant. Send tips 🕵️‍♂️ Signal: okane.01 sean.okane@techcrunch.com

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Sean O’Kane@okane· 26d

yep

Pete Hegseth tweeting "the flyovers will continue until morale improves"

Sean O’Kane@okane· 27d

yorkville eh?

Sean O’Kane@okane· 27d

possum de hidratación

Sean O’Kane@okane· 29d

oh yea for sure man the idea was *too good* that you had to completely pivot

Objection is now The Primary
We built Objection for the moment after damage was done. If the media got facts wrong about you, you could file an objection. We'd launch an independent investigation, and an AI Tribunal would issue a verdict on the merits of evidence submitted for and against statements made.

It worked. A little too well…

What we didn't expect was that every case would point to the same root cause:

Bad reporting isn't a journalist's problem. It's an incentive and editorial problem. Modern journalistic economics run on clicks and advertising — and clicks reward speed, volume, and outrage. The quality of the reporting itself has never had a scoreboard or feedback loop. There has never been a way to measure the discipline and rigor behind a story, so there has never been a way to reward it. Journalists know what great work looks like. The system just stopped paying for it.

Verdicts punish failure. They don't fix the incentive. They do not solve for the root cause.

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jul 10

side note i don't think i ever realized that the massive spoiler on the mustang hill climb EV is nearly as tall as Romain Dumas himself

Romain Dumas in front of the super mustang mach-E

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jul 10

well, did he?

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jul 9

love flying through charlotte

The “slaps car” meme but it’s about how overcapacity charlotte airport always is

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jul 4

Michael Douglas’ character at the end of The Game

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jul 3

@reckless.bsky.social party speaker! in the overhead bin

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jul 3

Have a very vivid memory of shooting BSS at Siren Festival in 2008 and walking away while they were playing 7/4 Shoreline because I had to drive to Hoboken for a show at Maxwell’s. A perfect late aughts summer night tbh

Broken Social Scene at Siren Fest 2008 in Coney Island

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jul 1

cremieux? the United Airlines spokesperson?

A United Airlines tweet promoting Starlink that features a Cremieux tweet

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jul 1

the yankees lately

the "you wouldn't steal a car" meme but it says "win a game"

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 30

am I crazy or is this a weird explanation, made weirder by the fact that no one at NPR is copping to this being a simple case of “oops we published a pre-write” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/b...

Mrs. Totenberg, 82, has been covering the Supreme Court for more than 40 years.
The article went through an extra layer of editing, known at NPR as "the backstop," according to two people familiar with the process. NPR added that layer in 2024 as a final line of defense against errors before publication. But because the article cited an announcement, rather than confidential sources, the network did not take additional steps to verify the accuracy of the information, the people said.

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 29

love to call my source from The Ocean

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 29

Trump hearing RBG died but it’s 30 Rock’s Jack Donaghy

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 28

today in “media consolidation I wasn’t quite expecting”

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 26

it's in-flight starlink, michael, what could it cost? $50 an hour?

a tweet from jason calacanis polling people what they'd pay for starlink per hour on a flight. his lowest option is $50

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 25

What a pure example of the cult of Musk Musk, responding to people (including Andrej Karpathy) complaining about how much of a cesspool the X algo is, says for the nth time that he will overhaul it (as if this time will work?) Teslarati sees this and immediately jumps to "awesome updates coming!"

A tweet from the Teslarati account that says "sounds like some awesome updates to the X algorithm are coming soon:" quoting a post from Musk saying "we need a complete overhaul of the algorithm"

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 23

SpaceX now trading below its stock market debut price of $150/share The small number of shares trading has really proven to be as volatile as many anticipated

A stock chart showing SpaceX trading at $148.22 / share

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 22

This happens a lot, more than people realize, and it’s what Tesla says the data shows (take all the grains of salt with that that you want)

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 19

genuinely hard to pick a favorite here

The fans make the World Cup what it is. I couldn't travel by private jet without you.

I am genuinely very excited to watch all 48 nations. It's all relative: I sat through the Melania documentary.

Unlike some, we don't sell our broadcast rights to pay-TV. Every night, I dream about selling broadcast rights to pay-TV.

Every dollar that Fifa generates goes back into football. My definition of football includes renting an office in Trump Tower.
The World Cup is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Go to this tournament, and you'll never be able to afford to travel again.
Democracy is not just an empty word. At Fifa, it is also an empty concept.

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 18

Melissa Leo’s character from The Big Short, who works at a ratings agency and appears to be blind due to getting her eyes dilated

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 16

a second moon set has hit

a tweet from ti morse:

Set II is ready
@ElonMusk

"First rule in government spending: Why build something once when you can build it twice for 3x the cost???"

We built Set I in a studio near downtown Austin but the space was only available for a week so we had to tear it down last Friday.

Like SpaceX, it would be completely unreasonable to expect the first rocket to make it to orbit so on Wednesday I rented an aircraft hanger 15 minutes from Giga Texas and we started construction on Set II.

We finished it on Saturday night and can now record anytime in the next 30 days.

The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.

Let's make this happen. 🏴‍☠️

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 16

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 12

"jake paul, spacex investor"

a tweet from jake paul revealing he invested in spacex

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 11

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 8

"i will crash out if elon doesn't do this interview" brother have you seen elon's interviews? they're all the same

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 8

we're reaching previously-unheard-of levels of simping

a tweet from Ti Morse describing how he built a whole set that looks like the moon in order to beg/bait Elon Musk to sit down for an interview with him

Sean O’Kane@okane· Jun 4

Also sorry this is just a deeply funny thing to put on a slide, especially when you think about how SpaceX's revenue growth declined in 2025