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Cydney Hayes

Cydney Hayes is a business and tech reporter for Gazetteer SF. She has previously written about tech, culture, music, and media for The Drift, Architectural Digest, Baltimore, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere. She also writes a Substack newsletter called OPENWORLD. Subscribe at openw0rld.substack.com.

Yardsale has won over Cole Valley with après-ski vibes

After months of construction delays and $30,000 worth of damaged inventory, an outdoor equipment store and coffee shop is finally open

July 16, 2026

Stupid sexy robots

Plus: Jeers for Waymo and a dip for SpaceX

Hundreds of ‘sex machines’ delivered across the street from Rainbow Grocery

We really hope the mailman dropped them off by saying, ‘I’m here to deliver a package…’

June 29, 2026

Stop AI protestor sentenced to jail, hopes to reconnect with Rafael Mandelman

The anti-AI group is shifting its focus away from AI companies and toward City Hall

June 22, 2026

Privacy rights advocates push back against data collection devices in Castro bars

Badlands management says they will continue to use Patronscan despite public outcry

June 18, 2026

‘AI’s not going to break your heart the way real life does’

Poet Shawn Smucker talks to Gazetteer SF about art, loneliness, and his viral poem, ‘Please Use AI’

June 16, 2026

Even Stanford grads are angry at the system

Plus, after being stuffed in lockers his whole life, Zuck was allowed to sit with the jocks at the pep rally

June 15, 2026

Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners?

A handful of neighborhood bars have installed facial recognition devices that collect and share customers’ names, addresses, genders, and indiscretions with each other

June 10, 2026

‘Nerdy escorts’ are selling intimacy-as-a-service to AI founders

Plus, in the tasteslop era, we’re keeping our eyes peeled for bad tech streetwear

June 8, 2026

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

June 1, 2026