Cydney Hayes
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Tech journalist
@sf.gazetteer.co
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This was one of the most interesting, candid conversations I’ve had while reporting from the tech beat.
@anildash.com
did NOT pull any punches diagnosing what is happening with the tech industry. If you feel like tech shit is melting your brain lately, read this
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One of the points I tried to make clear in having this conversation was: I’m not a radical. I am a *boring middle-aged dad*, who’s raised tens of millions of dollars in venture capital, and worked in tech for decades. I have not lost my mind, or become an extremist. THEY DID.
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12 days ago
Meet Union Square's newest small business owners, an energetic pair of former tech reporters who Mayor Daniel Lurie teasingly called 'overwhelming':
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Move fast and sell books
Former tech reporters Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr are running The Best Bookstore in Union Square like a startup
https://sf.gazetteer.co/move-fast-and-sell-books
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28 days ago
'In the isolating, brain-melting age of AI, all sorts of people across the Bay Area are turning — or, returning — to print,' writes
@cydhayes.bsky.social
. Read our feature on the print wave, now available online:
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Print is forever
As AI rises, the Bay Area is awash in a full-on print revival, from magazines to books to this website’s own quarterly paper
https://sf.gazetteer.co/print-is-forever
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This town… snoozeville!!!!
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about 1 month ago
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this was a fun one. Will probably say more about the Latin mass on substack later
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about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
Our own
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@cydhayes.bsky.social
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@joshuabote.com
took home awards at last night’s San Francisco Press Club Awards. Read their winning stories here:
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Gazetteer takes home four awards
Joshua Bote, and Cydney Hayes, and Eddie Kim’s work was honored by the San Francisco Press Club
https://sf.gazetteer.co/gazetteer-takes-home-four-awards
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come gossip about your tech holiday party w me ❤️ cyd.01 on signal
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2 months ago
Can a tech company use a well-known meme from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”? We asked an expert and checked in with Charlie Day’s management who hadn’t seen the ads:
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Charlie Day’s team didn’t know about those tech billboards
San Francisco-based AI company Kilo Code plastered the city with ads riffing on a popular meme from ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.’ That was news to the actor’s Los Angeles-based gang
https://sf.gazetteer.co/charlie-days-team-didnt-know-about-those-tech-billboards
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What is up with tech people never holding the door for others
2 months ago
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2 months ago
SCOOP: A local tattoo artist said she was contacted by the City about an unpermitted tattoo event at last month's TechCrunch Disrupt convention.
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Department of Public Health reached out to local tattoo artist about permitting after TechCrunch Disrupt
Tattd, a tattoo app, put a Hayes Valley artist and her clients at risk for an off-the-books pop-up last month
https://sf.gazetteer.co/department-of-public-health-reached-out-to-local-tattoo-artist-about-permitting-after-techcrunch-disrupt
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How do you dismantle the oppressiveness of today's tech industry? Start by deconstructing its devices.
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Mending the fabric of time
Inside the tiny, precise world of a watch repair hobbyist
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hm sure hope no one does a heist tn
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3 months ago
More than 100 have signed up to get tattooed at TechCrunch Disrupt this week: “It’s for the plot”
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Who gets a tattoo at a tech convention?
There’s no better way to remember your TechCrunch Disrupt experience forever than to get a free flash tat
https://sf.gazetteer.co/who-gets-a-tattoo-at-a-tech-convention
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ICYMI: Last Friday, our tech reporter
@cydhayes.bsky.social
went to an AI panel at the Commonwealth Club, where she found furloughed congressmen, Eastern spirituality, and NSFW groupchats.
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The American AI strategy
As the government shutdown drags on, VCs gathered at the Commonwealth Club to look at boobs on their phones and hear two congressmen gab about AI
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Wrote about the government shutdown, venture capitalism, Eastern spirituality, and boobs
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The American AI strategy
As the government shutdown drags on, VCs gathered at the Commonwealth Club to look at boobs on their phones and hear two congressmen gab about AI
https://sf.gazetteer.co/the-american-ai-strategy
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I spent a few weeks interviewing gig workers who sell their voices, bodies, behaviors, and other biometric data to AI startups building chabots and BCI technologies. (a thread)
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Artificialize your intelligence for $25 an hour
Craigslist is full of calls for ‘research participants’ to help train AI models. You only need to give a bit of your humanity
https://sf.gazetteer.co/artificialize-your-intelligence-for-25-an-hour
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And if you don’t wanna gossip in public (so fair) message me privately on Signal: cyd.01
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3 months ago
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I will be at Moscone West covering TechCrunch Disrupt for
@sf.gazetteer.co
all week! I will also be wearing The Hat™️ all week! If you see me come give me your startup gossip pls (~˘▾˘)~
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Can’t wait to moderate this talk :D This panel will accompany the feature I’m currently writing about the rise of print media, largely in response to the rise of AI slop and surveillance capitalism Look out for the article coming soon, and come hang w us at Chat Room Nov 19!
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
“There’s a certain point where it looks good because there's enough. But you don't get there overnight,” said Brooke Janser. “If someone commits and it's a good foundation, then they leave the foundation and let people build.”
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If these walls could talk
With an Instagram account you can practically smell, Brooke Janser documents the noble rot of San Francisco dive bar bathrooms
https://sf.gazetteer.co/if-these-walls-could-talk
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It is spooky season. And the sf billboards are indeed spooky
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Last week, our tech reporter stopped by a tech week pop-up for an insurance startup—and stumbled upon a plan to build a VC-funded nation.
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Beta-testing a new world order
Today, SafetyWing wants customers for its insurance products. Tomorrow, it wants statehood
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if you read the approach that tells me a lot about you (complimentary)
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
What does the local art world think of Big Art Loop's big proposal?
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The burning question of Big Art
As a billionaire-backed nonprofit is collaborating with the city to install 100 large-scale public art pieces around San Francisco, the art world has some notes
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this is great reporting about gross rich dudes littering the city with their leftover burning man junk
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I’ll be moderating a panel about print media for this!
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3 months ago
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Marketing stunts? For tech week? Groundbreaking….
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SCOOPLET: The collective of microinfluencer-technoartists
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secured a lease at a chic downtown gallery. Will it have the reach to make Union Square…cool? Prob not, but with RTO sending more artsy yuppies to FiDi, I could see it becoming a scene and launching at least one real art career
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4 months ago
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The latest from my unofficial IRL-communities-attempt-to-solve-the-loneliness-crisis-created-by-capitalism beat:
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
As AI takes over generalist tasks, "specialization" has become a watchword for young software engineers. But will it really help them protect their jobs?
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Specialize or die
What this month’s xAI layoffs say about the state of labor power
https://sf.gazetteer.co/specialize-or-die
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Ah yes the rapture….just in time for Rosh Hashanah <3
4 months ago
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“Wake up babe it’s Kang day” my editor and I say to each other for the tenth time today
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4 months ago
NextDoor thinks local news will improve engagement and help news deserts. Someone should tell all their partners:
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Can local news help Nextdoor recover its neighborly reputation?
The neighborhood-based social networking app is hoping local news partnerships can boost engagement and save news deserts. If only all their partners knew about it
https://sf.gazetteer.co/can-local-news-help-nextdoor-recover-its-neighborly-reputation
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4 months ago
Artisan AI went viral with their infamous "Stop hiring humans" campaign last year. Can they keep up the buzziness without ragebaiting?
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Let them eat cake
The team behind the controversial ‘Stop hiring humans’ campaign attempts to stay buzzy without the ragebaiting
https://sf.gazetteer.co/let-them-eat-cake
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🗣️ creepy twins alert! (we did not coordinate our outfits beforehand)
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4 months ago
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5 months ago
The hottest ticket in the SF art scene this week? An exhibition of whimsical AI-powered installations, hosted by a collective of creative technologists with a growing TikTok following.
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The work of art in the age of artificial intelligence
The experimental art collective TIAT is bringing together artists, technologists, and hundreds of admirers who want a robot to draw them
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Yesterday, Green Apple Books co-owner Pete Mulvihill officially added literary agent to his resume — and he's already spent the summer adding local writers to his client roster.
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Literary synergy
Green Apple Books co-owner Pete Mulvihill is now also an agent, trading on the insights he’s learned on the frontline of bookselling
https://sf.gazetteer.co/literary-synergy
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SCENE REPORT ALERT ‼️ This week for
@sf.gazetteer.co
I wrote about the survivalist-meets-streamer subculture within the EV industry — and my weird ass time driving a Cybertruck
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Electropocalypse Now
The Electrify Expo at Alameda Ferry Point revealed the survivalist subculture buzzing within the EV industry
https://sf.gazetteer.co/electropocalypse-now
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Welcome to the Electropocalypse, the strange intersection where survivalism, gamer culture, and the EV industry meet.
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Electropocalypse Now
The Electrify Expo at Alameda Ferry Point revealed the survivalist subculture buzzing within the EV industry
https://sf.gazetteer.co/electropocalypse-now
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This month has seen takedown after takedown of AI. When things seemed to come to a head last week, I wanted to know: Would the industry really change course, or would investors stay as enthusiastic as ever? Read my latest story for Gazetteer:
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Too big to burst
Public sentiment is turning on AI. Will that change anything?
https://sf.gazetteer.co/too-big-to-burst
5 months ago
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This morning my colleague
@eddiekimx.bsky.social
was attacked by masked ICE agents while they detained someone near SF Immigration Court (1/3)
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Reporter Eddie Kim went downtown to cover the detainment of an immigrant by ICE this morning. Then he was pepper-sprayed in the face by an ICE agent standing a foot away. Completely unprovoked. See our exclusive story and video from
@eddiekimx.bsky.social
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I reported from an ICE action on Sansome and all I got was a face full of pepper spray
Federal agents are stepping up their actions against protesters and, apparently, the press
https://sf.gazetteer.co/i-reported-from-an-ice-action-on-sansome-and-all-i-got-was-a-face-full-of-pepper-spray
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My first staffer story for
@sf.gazetteer.co
is up today 🌟 What are job seekers doing to break through the noise in today’s dismal job market? In short, anything and everything
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