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SnapChat CEO’s “perpetually topless” GF is a Burner
This story has been doing the rounds of the Interwebz today, after Gawker ran yet another hit piece on LA-based SnapChat CEO (and Ivy League fratboy) Evan Spiegel, whose girlfriend has photos of her...
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Burning the Systems
Ticketfly is coming in, with a new ticketing system, selling vehicle passes as well as tickets. Burning Man’s bazaar marketplace has been taken down, to be revamped in some unknown way, presumably...
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Elon Musk: “Burning Man IS Silicon Valley”
Mike Judge is one of this country’s comic greats. As well as Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill, he made the classic movie Idiocracy. Now he’s back with a terrific new show on HBO, a sardonic...
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Burner Kindles Fire
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is surely one of the smartest people on the planet. He is also a Burner – one worth $30 billion, who made a lazy $128.5 million today. Burning Man obviously made a...
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The Grand Burners.Me Ho-tell
This is the 1000th post on this blog, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to reflect a bit. The official Burning blog has 1,771 posts. Their first two are from September, 2001, and liken the...
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60% Veterans [Updates]
This is going to be one of those long posts with words and graphs and maths and stuff. Ain’t no place for haters here. You might want to keep browsing if you’re looking for happy frou frou stories. If...
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New Way To Get Face Value or Free Tickets
Burner Map is a tool that lets you indicate where you’re camping, so that your Facebook and other friends can find you. So far 48, 476 people have used it (over several years). Now they have announced...
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Tech Industry Invented Sex, Burning Man, and San Francisco
SF Weekly’s The Snitch has a “Fauxpinion” piece by Benjamin Wachs, a “literary chameleon”. Funnily enough, he wrote the same book as another chameleon, BMOrg’s Caveat Magister. Caveat is the author...
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Demonstrating How the Principles Mesh
Burning Man has always hosted a large number of nerds. As time goes on and technology becomes more pervasive and sophisticated, new capabilities are unlocked for the citizens of Black Rock City. Some...
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Burners.Me interview on KGO Radio
San Francisco’s KGO news radio interviewed me today about the anti-rich, anti-tech, and dare we say, anti-Burning Man sentiment that seems to be sweeping the media this week. I should have recorded the...
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Look Out for The Judge!
…Mike Judge, that is. If you haven’t seen his new show Silicon Valley check it out, it’s hilarious. The show brilliantly skewers Silicon Valley and the Bay Area hipster/tech culture, while also giving...
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FTP: Now That’s What I Call A Burn
Hope Sergei and Larry and Eric and all the rest of the Googlers and Nooglers are having a spiffing time out on the Playa. For everyone else, there’s this: Filed under: Funny, Music Tagged: 2014,...
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What Do Google and Gangsters Have In Common?
Google’s Eric Schmidt at Burning Man 2007. Check out the bandanna, does he wear that shit in Oakland? If he’s gangsta, he’s a Blood not a Crip The idea that Google and Gangsters have some things in...
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Naked Capitalism Bursts the Bubble
A great story from Naked Capitalism by Lambert Strether: Has the Burning Man Bubble Burst? It’s worth reading in its entirety, they’ve broken down the Tin Principles. Even if you don’t agree with...
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Silk Road Move Over, a New Bazaar Is In Town
WIRED magazine has a report on Agora, the new online drug bazaar “marketplace of anything”. It is based on Agorism, a philosophy that a free, stateless society can be achieved via disruptive market...
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“If You’re 35 And Poor You Deserve It”
So says Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba.com, which went public last Friday in the biggest IPO in history. His stock, whose largest shareholder is the Billionaire Burner-founded company Yahoo, had a...
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Creating God In The Digital Age [Updates]
We’re building an artificial god. A digitally constructed consciousness simulator, with sensors absorbing all the world’s data, monitoring and tracking our every move, connected to hundreds of acres of...
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Ello is AfrikaBurn, Twitter is Burning Man
Afrika Burn 2014. Photo: Jonx Pillemer The UK’s Telegraph has an article comparing Burning Man with the rise of the social media network Ello (I’m @zos). It seems social media has become full of...
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Saving The World With Apps
This year Open Garden’s Firechat smartphone app debuted at Burning Man. Although it was just another of dozens of uses for smartphones at the festival, it seems its peer-to-peer networking may become...
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“I’m Up For A Sherpa Myself”
CBS News did a video story on “Silicon Valley Elite Accused of Ruining Burning Man”. Larry insists that they’re not, that people have been saying “Burning Man is ruined” since the beginning, and in...
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