Cydney Hayes
@cydhayes.bsky.social
Tech journalist @sf.gazetteer.co
email me cydney@gazetteer.co ✉️
signal: cyd.01
email me cydney@gazetteer.co ✉️
signal: cyd.01
a real regular degular group of dudes (and one girl)
How do the Bay Area New Liberals feel about one of their own organizing the viral Billionaire's March? We crashed their happy hour to find out. sf.gazetteer.co/the-new-libe...
The New Liberals just want to enjoy their Tax Havens
At The Irish Bank, policy wonks debate the Billionaire’s March and Georgist land taxes
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February 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
a real regular degular group of dudes (and one girl)
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Some of the city's most experienced 911 dispatchers tell Gazetteer that the dispatch office is in dire straits due to poor management, broken equipment, flawed training, and low morale.
The dispatchers fear it could get somebody killed.
Exclusive: subtxt.to/2N6EaRr
The dispatchers fear it could get somebody killed.
Exclusive: subtxt.to/2N6EaRr
Dial D for dysfunction
San Francisco’s 911 dispatchers are being asked to work with antiquated equipment, crazy hours, poor mental health, and alongside new trainees who aren’t prepared
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February 11, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Some of the city's most experienced 911 dispatchers tell Gazetteer that the dispatch office is in dire straits due to poor management, broken equipment, flawed training, and low morale.
The dispatchers fear it could get somebody killed.
Exclusive: subtxt.to/2N6EaRr
The dispatchers fear it could get somebody killed.
Exclusive: subtxt.to/2N6EaRr
never in my life have I though strobe lights would give me a stroke until I saw The Moment. Felt like being on my phone in an uber
February 11, 2026 at 5:48 AM
never in my life have I though strobe lights would give me a stroke until I saw The Moment. Felt like being on my phone in an uber
Substack substack substack……
If you’re a Substack user, you might want to take “extra caution” with any suspicious texts you receive: sf.gazetteer.co/substack-rep...
Substack reports mass data leak: ‘This sucks. I’m sorry’
The popular newsletter platform was breached in October 2025
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February 5, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Substack substack substack……
Sometimes I wish I lived in a more obscure part of the city, just so I could get a seat on muni during rush hour
February 4, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Sometimes I wish I lived in a more obscure part of the city, just so I could get a seat on muni during rush hour
BOT LOBSTAH!!!
Welcome to Manic Monday, the weekly roundup of the juiciest stories, rumors, and developments circulating in the tech world.
This week: Epstein associates on the cap table, Saturday’s March for Billionaires, and the new social media platform that only bots can join.
This week: Epstein associates on the cap table, Saturday’s March for Billionaires, and the new social media platform that only bots can join.
Manic Monday: Even AI turns to crabs eventually
Plus, the Billionaires March, a blind item for female founders, and more madness from the tech world to start your week.
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February 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
BOT LOBSTAH!!!
Today I took a break from taking tech discourse straight to the dome and went beekeeping
On the back porch of Danny Coyle's, you can find one of the many tiny honey growing sites one urban apiarist has hidden around the city.
Busy bees
Backyards around the city are all abuzz with hidden micro apiaries
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January 28, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Today I took a break from taking tech discourse straight to the dome and went beekeeping
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Monday's news of an OpenAI hardware launch comes amid a flurry of disparate product announcements, every one seemingly an attempt to generate more serious revenue for the still-unprofitable company.
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What, exactly, is OpenAI in 2026?
A new rumor that OpenAI will release earbuds hints at internal anxieties over revenue and the future of the company
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January 21, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Monday's news of an OpenAI hardware launch comes amid a flurry of disparate product announcements, every one seemingly an attempt to generate more serious revenue for the still-unprofitable company.
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Extremely weird vibes at the gap store
When the Marina Gap store reopened after renovations in November, one new addition went entirely unmentioned: A biometric data collector, courtesy from Sam Altman's under-the-radar crypto project called World.
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Gap falls into crypto
Why has Sam Altman’s crypto project installed a biometric data-collection tool inside, of all places, the Marina Gap store?
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January 20, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Extremely weird vibes at the gap store
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
@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
"This isn’t even venture capital anymore. Venture capital means you take a risk. High risk, high reward. If there’s no risk, that’s not venture capital." —@anildash.com sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickl...
‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’
Longtime entrepreneur and critic Anil Dash speaks with Gazetteer on where the tech industry has been and where it may be going.
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January 15, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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
@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
Reposted by Cydney Hayes
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.
"This isn’t even venture capital anymore. Venture capital means you take a risk. High risk, high reward. If there’s no risk, that’s not venture capital." —@anildash.com sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickl...
‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’
Longtime entrepreneur and critic Anil Dash speaks with Gazetteer on where the tech industry has been and where it may be going.
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January 14, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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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Meet Union Square's newest small business owners, an energetic pair of former tech reporters who Mayor Daniel Lurie teasingly called 'overwhelming': sf.gazetteer.co/move-fast-an...
Move fast and sell books
Former tech reporters Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr are running The Best Bookstore in Union Square like a startup
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January 7, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Meet Union Square's newest small business owners, an energetic pair of former tech reporters who Mayor Daniel Lurie teasingly called 'overwhelming': sf.gazetteer.co/move-fast-an...
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'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: sf.gazetteer.co/print-is-for...
Read our feature on the print wave, now available online: sf.gazetteer.co/print-is-for...
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
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December 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
'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: sf.gazetteer.co/print-is-for...
Read our feature on the print wave, now available online: sf.gazetteer.co/print-is-for...
This town… snoozeville!!!!
RIP to the company-sponsored holiday rager: 'Tech parties are pretty much the same as a party for a law office now.'
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Tech holiday parties are getting smaller
Holiday parties used to feature Greek gods and Gatsby themes. Now they’re lucky to have a magician or inflatable shark
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December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This town… snoozeville!!!!
this was a fun one. Will probably say more about the Latin mass on substack later
At the traditional Latin Mass at Star of the Sea, throngs of young men worship at the shrine of St. Carlo Acutis. sf.gazetteer.co/all-the-edge...
All the edgelords pray at Star of the Sea
Among the tech bros who funded a shrine to the first millennial saint at a church on Geary Boulevard
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December 16, 2025 at 3:34 AM
this was a fun one. Will probably say more about the Latin mass on substack later
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Our own @eddiekimx.bsky.social, @cydhayes.bsky.social, @joshuabote.com took home awards at last night’s San Francisco Press Club Awards. Read their winning stories here: sf.gazetteer.co/gazetteer-ta...
Gazetteer takes home four awards
Joshua Bote, and Cydney Hayes, and Eddie Kim’s work was honored by the San Francisco Press Club
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December 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Our own @eddiekimx.bsky.social, @cydhayes.bsky.social, @joshuabote.com took home awards at last night’s San Francisco Press Club Awards. Read their winning stories here: sf.gazetteer.co/gazetteer-ta...
come gossip about your tech holiday party w me ❤️ cyd.01 on signal
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
come gossip about your tech holiday party w me ❤️ cyd.01 on signal
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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: sf.gazetteer.co/charlie-days...
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
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November 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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: sf.gazetteer.co/charlie-days...
What is up with tech people never holding the door for others
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What is up with tech people never holding the door for others
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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
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November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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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How do you dismantle the oppressiveness of today's tech industry? Start by deconstructing its devices. sf.gazetteer.co/mending-the-...
Mending the fabric of time
Inside the tiny, precise world of a watch repair hobbyist
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November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
How do you dismantle the oppressiveness of today's tech industry? Start by deconstructing its devices. sf.gazetteer.co/mending-the-...
hm sure hope no one does a heist tn
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 AM
hm sure hope no one does a heist tn
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More than 100 have signed up to get tattooed at TechCrunch Disrupt this week: “It’s for the plot” sf.gazetteer.co/who-gets-a-t...
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
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October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
More than 100 have signed up to get tattooed at TechCrunch Disrupt this week: “It’s for the plot” sf.gazetteer.co/who-gets-a-t...
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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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October 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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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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
sf.gazetteer.co
October 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Wrote about the government shutdown, venture capitalism, Eastern spirituality, and boobs
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