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Cydney Hayes

@cydhayes.bsky.social
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Tech journalist @sf.gazetteer.co email me cydney@gazetteer.co ✉️ signal: cyd.01

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Ben Zotto @bzotto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A nice piece on Bonnie Bridges, the local architect responsible for the design of like fully half of all the cafés, restaurants, and shops that have defined "San Francisco cool" ever since I moved to the city. @cydhayes.bsky.social
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It’s Studio BBA’s city, we just live in it
Whether you’ve dined at Mister Jiu’s, caffeinated at Tartine, or worked 9-9-6 from an industrial-chic AI office, you’ve probably spent time in the handsome world created by this little-known architect...
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
SCOOP from me
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hard not to feel insane as a tech reporter when last week was all “AI is gonna kill us all imminently” and this week it’s this
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 15/09/2026
“I think Marc Benioff wants to do the right thing... Salesforce has done a lot to be really inclusive,” one Dreamforce attendee who stopped by the protest said. “But when they are providing software that enables ICE to do what they do, it feels like they don’t share my values.”
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Dreamforce protestors demand Marc Benioff ‘support democracy’
Despite his ICE jokes and closeness to Trump, union organizers and activists believe the Salesforce CEO will still fight for progressive causes
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Marc Benioff in the press room at Dreamforce, saying a whole lot of nothing about AI regulation: “We’re in a very fluid moment in AI… If companies feel they should slow down, they should slow down. If they feel they should speed up, they should speed up.”
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Covering Dreamforce for the first time and wow is the press room luxurious
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’ll be covering Dreamforce all week! Send me tips on Signal at cyd.01 ✉️ Or if you see me running around the Moscone in my Gazetteer hat come say hi :D
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really loved talking with @sf.gazetteer.co about WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING!!!
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 10/09/2026
DOGE. Prop 22. Network state projects. If tech continues to capture power in America, what exactly does it mean for our government? We called up @adriandaub.bsky.social, author of the new book 'What Tech Calls Governing,' to find out. Read our Q&A with the writer, podcaster, and Stanford professor:
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Adrian Daub knows what tech wants from politics: ‘Control without responsibility’
The author of ‘What Tech Calls Governing’ on DOGE, AI, and our chances of pushing back
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 04/09/2026
Over the past few years, countless Australian founders have moved to San Francisco, trading the beaches and enviable work-life balance of Oz for the glorious grind inside the American tech engine.
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Founders from Down Under
Hyped up by AI and their own big ambitions, waves of charmingly-accented Australians are making a splash in San Francisco
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 02/09/2026
HOT! FRESH! NEWS! Gazetteer issue 004 is here! ₍₍⚞(˶˃ ᗜ ˂˶)⚟⁾⁾ Pick up a copy at our newsstand at Market & 1st, or find it in cafes and bookstores around the city. Then text us pics of you reading it at the # in bio! Pls pls pls it'll make us so happy :D
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 26/08/2026
The owner of Modern Relics on Cabrillo Street says she lost 30 years worth of heirloom pieces to a recent robbery, and she says her business will look different after repairs: "I'm not going to sell expensive jewelry anymore."
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Modern Relics closed after being ransacked in burglary
Jewelry store owner Alix Blüh recalls discovering the damage earlier this month: ‘Broken glass everywhere… Just everything destroyed.’
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Do you work at Meta and work on this logo? DM me and let’s talk (anonymously!) ✉️ cyd.01 on Signal
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 14/08/2026
Earlier this week, a local AI founder with no relationship to the company spun up a Facemash-style website that allowed visitors to rank photos of Corgi's female employees. "It was really demeaning," one employee said.
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Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees
The ‘demeaning’ website was spun up by a local founder with no relationship to the company
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 11/08/2026
Privacy rights groups and Castro community members have spent the summer demanding a handful of popular gay bars remove "invasive" ID scanners and facial cameras from their security operations. We spoke to Badlands and Toad Hall about why they finally decided to ditch the devices:
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‘Members of the LGBTQ+ community have legitimate reasons to be sensitive about privacy’
After backlash, Badlands and Toad Hall management ‘pausing’ surveillance of patrons in San Francisco but continues to employ it in Portland and Sacramento
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 07/08/2026
BREAKING: Following the publication of this story, a spokesperson for Badlands and Toad Hall said they are pausing the use of Patronscan ID and facial scanners, effective immediately. See our update in the story below for the full statement.
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 31/07/2026
In May, some 15 Yale undergrads crammed into their first hacker house in Nob Hill. Now, they're walking away with $17 million for their startups. “I’m super thrilled by the outcome,” said Nicolas Gertler, a co-founder of the house. “It far exceeded a lot of the expectations we had.”
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Yalies raised $17 million this summer in Nob Hill hacker house
For a group of fresh-faced entrepreneurs, securing VC funding was probably easier than finding white clam pizza
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 30/07/2026
Oktoberfest is still a few months away, but these dudes have been "training" for a while — in fact, they never quite stop. On a recent Saturday, our business reporter @cydhayes.bsky.social headed to an Oakland biergarten to party with the lederhosen-wearing men's club known as the Hacker Herren.
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For the Hacker Herren, every day is Oktoberfest
Hoisting a pint with members of the nationwide beer-guzzling men’s club as they train for Munich
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 25/07/2026
Boots Riley reads the Gaz. Do u? @bootsriley.bsky.social
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A few weeks ago I sat down w Taylor Lorenz to chat about my Patronscan story for @sf.gazetteer.co Thank you @taylorlorenz.bsky.social for having me on the pod!
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Bars Are Secretly Scanning Your Face And Tracking You
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Support 💫 independent 💫 media
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 24/06/2026
Protestors are posted up outside Oracle Park ahead of Tuesday’s game, just hours after Giants president and former player Buster Posey refused to answer questions about the Pride Night fiasco. 📸 @cydhayes.bsky.social
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 18/06/2026
SCOOP: Despite public outcry from privacy rights advocates, Badlands management says they will not remove Patronscan devices from their operations.
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Privacy rights advocates push back against data collection devices in Castro bars
Badlands management says they will continue to use Patronscan despite public outcry
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"You unlock your house every day with a key, so why is it suddenly a problem if the government and every corporation you've ever interacted with gets a copy of that key and access to your house!?"
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 18/06/2026
THIS IS TOMORROW! Doors open at 6 at Swedish American Hall. Come one, come all, come hungryyyy
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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Big ups to @sf.gazetteer.co for breaking this story.. subscribe to help them keep it going!
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
FoooOOOOoOooOooOoD 6/18
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New from me:
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 04/06/2026
TODAY'S THE DAY! Issue 003 is here! ⸜(ˆᗜˆ˵ )⸝ Featuring our summer books guide, print-only stories, illustrations from local artists, The Fun Page, and more. We can't wait for you to read this one. Find it in one of 200+ locations throughout the city — and as always, it's free!
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 02/06/2026
Dropping tomorrow 👀
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 01/06/2026
An hour before she was scheduled to appear in court, Wynd Kaufmyn and other Stop AI activists held a press conference on the steps of City Hall, where they discussed the trial, Guido Reichstadter's aborted hunger strike, and the disappearance of former Stop AI member Sam Kirchner.
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A Stop AI activist is standing trial after blockading OpenAI HQ last year
Wynd Kaufmyn is prepared to serve time if it helps spread the group’s warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 29/05/2026
Real estate agents say listings asking for pre-IPO shares as payment are dubiously legal and "definitely a marketing ploy."
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Can you actually buy a house with Anthropic stock? Probably not
‘You can’t just say, I’ll sell my house for a thousand almonds, or, in this case, a thousand shares of OpenAI or Anthropic’
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This was a fun one
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 15/05/2026
The effort to save Market Match comes at a tense time for those working in food security: CalFresh is facing the largest funding cut in the program’s history, impacting 665,000 Californians beginning in June alone.
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Market Match connects low income Californians with farmers market produce. Gavin Newsom may be about to cut it
Market operators, food security advocates, and state legislators are scrambling to secure funding for the nutrition program that benefits 674,000 statewide
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
New scoop from me:
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is today! I’ll be moderating a panel on small business with Lex Sloan, the owner of the Roxie. If you’re a Roxiehead come hang
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
My cancerian side took over for this one
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 27/04/2026
It's 60 degrees and sunny this Manic Monday ☀️ Today's top stories from internet hell: Musk v. Altman begins at a federal courthouse in Oakland, Sam Altman's bizarre rebrand, the censorship allegations against Canva, and more. Read the rundown:
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Sam Altman has a lot of feelings. And a lawsuit by Elon Musk. But mostly a lot of feelings
Plus, Canva is accused of anti-Palestine censorship
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
you have to “verify” yourself as a human to get these shoes lol
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
They were meh
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Thank you to @davekarpf.bsky.social for your excellent points on the Palantir situation
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Journalist @gilduran.com makes some really smart points in this piece, especially how the Democrats will need to make destroying Palantir a major part of their platform in the next election cycles
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Word on the street is yesterday’s column has been called “an informative round up” by a former NYT editor
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In New Media news:
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This sounds really fun!
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 17/04/2026
Last week, manosphere influencer and alleged rapist Andrew Tate had the #1 bestselling Substack. The runner-up just so happened to be the preeminent historian on the rise of the modern American right. We thought that was ironic enough to give @rickperlstein.bsky.social a call. Read the Q&A:
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Rick Perlstein thinks right-wing voices on Substack are ‘a gift’
The preeminent historian of American conservatism was spotted on a bestsellers leaderboard behind Andrew Tate. He’s not too broken up about it
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Do you guys get this headline or was it too high brow for our slop society
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 02/04/2026
We checked out Corgi Cafe, a new 24-hour coffee shop on Claude Lane (yes, really). What it lacks in actual corgis it makes up for in $14 smoothies and AI founders in absolute grind mode. sf.gazetteer.co/come-for-the...
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Inside AI insurance startup Corgi's 24-hour cafe
There are, in fact, no corgis at the Corgi Cafe, a new startup-run 24-hour coffee shop in FiDi
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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
What’s maddening about this is that the Trump admin has been actively making life miserable for Ukrainians like Zarutska as part of its anti-refugee agenda, but MAGA doesn’t give a shit about any of that if there’s a useful tragedy to exploit in service of a more important anti-black agenda.
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Nearly 200,000 Ukrainians in US thrown into legal limbo by Trump immigration crackdown
The administration soon will decide the fate of a humanitarian program that allowed some people who fled the war in Ukraine to live and work in the United States.
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eddie kim @eddiekimx.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It's wild, but perhaps completely unsurprising, how white supremacist messaging has become normalized in America under the guise of "speaking truth." The whole point of a dogwhistle is that some people won't notice it. Great work by @cydhayes.bsky.social
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