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The internet can be strange, absurd, terrifying, even surprisingly human.

Each week on Close All Taps from KQED, we cover how the digital world is reshaping how we live and who we are.

People just assume that the American Internet is this like free and vast frontier.

And then when I started asking that question, it was impossible to unring that bell.

People were asking chatbots

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From KQED. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. A museum is a gathering place for ideas,

for culture, for knowledge, and we are in a great region for museums.

We're not quite New York, but we have SFMOMA, Asian Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Cal Academy, the DeYoung, the Exploratorium, and many smaller institutions like the Canter Center down at Stanford.

These places are part of elite culture, for sure, but they're also local spots where people of any kind, young and old, can approach art and science and history IRL.

In a Netflix and Chill era, how are they surviving and adapting to the new social and entertainment and

philanthropic landscapes? Here to discuss first, we're joined by Sarah Hachka, Senior Editor, KQD Arts

and Culture Team. Welcome, Sarah. Thank you, Alexis. Good morning. So, give us just kind of around

the horn. I mean, people obviously just heard in the news, you know, there have been layoffs at the Cal Academy of Sciences.

If you're down by Yerba Juvena Gardens, you see Contemporary Jewish Museum has been closed.

It's like sign is like flickering.

It's very sad.

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