This article was originally published March 20, 2023. But, you know, it feels timely right now. APEC is here, and tens of thousands of international
APEC is here, and tens of thousands of international dignitaries and journalists will be streaming into San Francisco. They’ll be getting an up-close whiff of problems they’ve only previously read about or watched on TV. And if it feels like all those recent articles about misery and exodus and “doom loops” in San Francisco were generated by an AI chatbot, rest assured, they wereto write one of these articles, with our handy-dandy San Francisco Misery and Exodus Fill-in-the-Blanks .
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