This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: are you high-agency or an NPC? San Francisco is in the throes of an AI-fueled renaissance, buzzing with wealth, 22-year-old techno-prophets, and absurd $100M salaries, even as anxiety simmers beneath the surface. In a city caught between triumph and precarity, the culture has splintered into “high-agency” hustlers poised to surf the AGI wave and “NPCs” drifting toward a permanent, algorithm-sedated underclass. Key Insights High-agency behavior—the ability to adapt, create, and thrive despite uncertainty—is the ultimate currency in AI-era San Francisco.

This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition AI’s persistent use of the em dash has triggered a minor cultural freakout online, with many insisting it’s a “tell” that instantly reveals machine-generated text. Yet the dash is a centuries-old punctuation mark beloved by novelists and grammarians, and its sudden suspicion says more about modern typing habits than any deep AI quirk.