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Cydney Hayes
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Tech journalist @sf.gazetteer.co
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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
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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
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hm sure hope no one does a heist tn
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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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
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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
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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
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October 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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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
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October 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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And if you don’t wanna gossip in public (so fair) message me privately on Signal: cyd.01
cydhayes.bsky.social Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 19d
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 (~˘▾˘)~
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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 (~˘▾˘)~
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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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!
sf.gazetteer.co Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 23d
Everywhere you look these days in San Francisco, there's a new zine, magazine, literary journal, or newspaper.

At Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19, @cydhayes.bsky.social will sit down with @jasmine.bsky.social, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social, and @ovillalon.bsky.social to discuss SF's print boom.
The Print Party: The publication as an object for community
Announcing our first panel for Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19
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October 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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“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
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October 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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It is spooky season. And the sf billboards are indeed spooky
sf.gazetteer.co Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 24d
Our tech reporter @cydhayes.bsky.social does a mini investigation into SF's latest insane AI billboard campaign from a "company" called Replacement AI.
So funny we forgot to laugh
AI slop billboards have gotten so absurd that even an obvious satire is being taken seriously
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October 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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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.
Beta-testing a new world order
Today, SafetyWing wants customers for its insurance products. Tomorrow, it wants statehood
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October 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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if you read the approach that tells me a lot about you (complimentary)
sf.gazetteer.co Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · Oct 15
The second issue of The Approach, a new print-only newspaper full of heavy-hitting Bay Area bylines, is out today.

Our biz reporter @cydhayes.bsky.social chatted with editor @laurenmarkham.bsky.social to get the details:
A bold approach
Writer and editor Lauren Markham introduces her print-only ‘organizing pamphlet-meets-literary magazine’ The Approach tonight at City Lights
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October 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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What does the local art world think of Big Art Loop's big proposal? sf.gazetteer.co/the-burning-...
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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October 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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this is great reporting about gross rich dudes littering the city with their leftover burning man junk
October 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I’ll be moderating a panel about print media for this!
sf.gazetteer.co Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · Oct 8
Like San Francisco, Chat Room is back! The beloved IRL discussion and socializing event is returning to Swedish American Hall for a second season of scintillating conversation, delicious beverages, and in-person interaction.
Leave your phone at home: Chat Room Season 2 goes analog
We'll discuss print publications, urban farming, and more
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October 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Marketing stunts? For tech week? Groundbreaking….
October 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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SCOOPLET: The collective of microinfluencer-technoartists tiat.place 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
October 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The latest from my unofficial IRL-communities-attempt-to-solve-the-loneliness-crisis-created-by-capitalism beat:
September 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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As AI takes over generalist tasks, "specialization" has become a watchword for young software engineers. But will it really help them protect their jobs?
Specialize or die
What this month’s xAI layoffs say about the state of labor power
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September 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Ah yes the rapture….just in time for Rosh Hashanah <3
September 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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“Wake up babe it’s Kang day” my editor and I say to each other for the tenth time today
sf.gazetteer.co Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · Sep 22
Bay Area real estate. Social media fame. The double-edged sword of tech.

Meet Eric Kang, the heavily-tattooed, surfer dude-accented, not-like-other-realtors realtor at the intersection of it all.
Kang of his own destiny
Eric Kang, the Bay Area’s coolest real estate agent, has made a career out of keeping it real
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September 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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NextDoor thinks local news will improve engagement and help news deserts. Someone should tell all their partners: sf.gazetteer.co/can-local-ne...
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
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September 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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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
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September 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM