Cydney Hayes
A bold approach
Writer and editor Lauren Markham introduces her print-only ‘organizing pamphlet-meets-literary magazine’ The Approach tonight at City Lights
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
Will the real OpenAI please stand up?
Flyers announcing a “hardware launch” this weekend are fake
A place for TIAT
The roving artist collective that blurs the line between the physical and digital worlds is getting a brick-and-mortar gallery
Letter from Oakland: Local Economy about to take off
Alexis Madrigal and Sarah Rich’s new ‘inclusive club’ in Rockridge already has a 300-person waitlist
Kang of his own destiny
Eric Kang, the Bay Area’s coolest real estate agent, has made a career out of keeping it real
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
Let them eat cake
The team behind the controversial ‘Stop hiring humans’ campaign attempts to stay buzzy without the ragebaiting
The work of art in the age of artificial intelligence
The experimental art collective TIAT is bringing together artists, technologists, and hundreds of admirers who want a robot to draw them
Literary synergy
Green Apple Books co-owner Pete Mulvihill is now also an agent, trading on the insights he’s learned on the frontline of bookselling
Page against the machine
San Francisco’s zinesters are fighting AI slop, surveillance capitalism, and corporate media one indie pub at a time
Electropocalypse Now
The Electrify Expo at Alameda Ferry Point revealed the survivalist subculture buzzing within the EV industry
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
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.
