Cydney Hayes
@cydhayes.bsky.social
Tech journalist @sf.gazetteer.co email me cydney@gazetteer.co ✉️ signal: cyd.01
Really loved talking with @sf.gazetteer.co about WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING!!!
Gazetteer SF@sf.gazetteer.co · yesterdayDOGE. 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:
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:
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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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.
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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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
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."
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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Do you work at Meta and work on this logo? DM me and let’s talk (anonymously!) ✉️ cyd.01 on Signal
Gazetteer SF@sf.gazetteer.co · 3w ago"This new logo keeps the hokey but adds the corporate soullessness of a salad slop chain, like a down-market Sweetgreen," one designer told us — but their peers don't all agree. We rounded up four design experts and asked what they think about Instagram's much-maligned new logo:
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.
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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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:
‘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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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.
Gazetteer SF@sf.gazetteer.co · last mo.Oakland duo Tune-Yards is one of more than 300 artists that say they won't play at venues that use "invasive" surveillance tech, like facial recognition.
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.”
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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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.
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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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!
Bars Are Secretly Scanning Your Face And Tracking You
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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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
SCOOP: Despite public outcry from privacy rights advocates, Badlands management says they will not remove Patronscan devices from their operations.
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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"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!?"
THIS IS TOMORROW! Doors open at 6 at Swedish American Hall. Come one, come all, come hungryyyy
Gazetteer SF@sf.gazetteer.co · 3mo agoChat Room: Food is next Thurs @ Swedish American Hall! ☆ open bar ☆ local pop ups ☆ music from Amoeba Music ☆ panels on the K food wave, cookbooks, & more ☆ tickets at link in bio — subscribers get in free! COME HUNGRY
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾@blackamazon.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe technology is bad .. the underpinning is the problem The belief that because you “represent” a you don’t have to interrogate the hierarchy you use to engage has LONG been a problem And the right is exploiting it. And until that’s fixed we gone be here now .
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!
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.
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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Real estate agents say listings asking for pre-IPO shares as payment are dubiously legal and "definitely a marketing ploy."
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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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.
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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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
Gazetteer SF@sf.gazetteer.co · 5mo agoChat Room: Money is TOMORROW! 🤑 Join us at Swedish American Hall for an evening of music, drinks, and panels on everyone's favorite and never awkward topic. Doors at 6:30. Show at 7. Subscribers get tickets free!
