Dolly Parton owned a very American narrative of being born poor but making something out of nothing through talent and hard work. In contrast, tech tried to control its narrative and instead stoked backlash to their grand project of AI.
Plus: A celebration of nerding out, from the Stick Guy to Emma Camp to David Senra. And a conversation with the WSJ computational journalist John West about why the successor to the open web is small private groups.
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Chapters:
00:00 Internet Impermanence
02:44 Dolly Parton Legacy
10:04 AI Narrative Crisis
29:35 Fine Line of Authorship
38:13 Celebration of Nerding Out
44:17 Carney is an Interesting Character
50:23 AI Newsrooms And APIs
56:08 Flock Cameras And Privacy Backlash
01:03:38 John West On AI And The Dying Web
01:17:38 Importance of Forgetting
01:27:30 What is a Computational Journalist?
