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.

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Page against the machine

San Francisco’s zinesters are fighting AI slop, surveillance capitalism, and corporate media one indie pub at a time

Cydney Hayes

August 29, 2025

Electropocalypse Now

The Electrify Expo at Alameda Ferry Point revealed the survivalist subculture buzzing within the EV industry

Cydney Hayes

August 28, 2025

Too big to burst

Public sentiment is turning on AI. Will that change anything?

Cydney Hayes

August 25, 2025

Job hunting is now a full-time job

With AI breaking both sides of the hiring process, LinkedIn is less a platform to find work than a place to vent about how bad the search has become

Cydney Hayes

August 18, 2025

In between gods, looking for work

I went to an 'AI salon' at The Commons SF, expecting to find radical techies working to accumulate power. Instead, I found loneliness — and a lot of existential dread.

Cydney Hayes

November 13, 2024

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