A fellow burner and all around cool human, whose camp makes the Best Damn Cookies at a #burningman event, is now on masto! I might be sllllightly biased since I camped right next to them and regularly ate all the cookies. :-) I’d encourage giving @shade_syren [mastodon.social] a follow: https://mastodon.social/@shade_syren/113896787114666316

Two Burner-led organizations, Solar Punks and the Footprint Project, are working in Los Angeles to deploy emergency power to those in need. Burning Man people unite! #BurningMan #LosAngelesFires2025

https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/1i084io/burners_helping_provide_emergency_power_in_la_in/

A friend of mine just joined the Fediverse and will hopefully start posting but @hapto is a artist, burner, maker, and all-around good person here in Milwaukee and elsewhere.

She's also got a web site: https://haptotrope.com/

New instance: New Intro.
I'm a hobbyist #programmer into #digitalsecurity and #gameprogramming with #godot
I lean #anarchist but know the water I swim in.
Worked for #burningman #dpw department for a long time before taking a sabbatical in 2017. Currently working on a #WeirdAl based #artproject for burningman '25. More details to follow.

#BurningMan slid down the wrong path when they started courting Silicon Valley billionaires, offering them first access to supply-limited tickets and looking the other way when they built private luxury enclaves despite such things being against their stated principles.

This year was the first time they didn’t sell out all their tickets in I believe ten years. All the hi-luxe people they sold their souls to got scared away by the mud last year.

And now they’re boo-hooing to us about their financial shortfall. Asking regular Burners to contribute financially to the event.

If they aren’t interested in making any real changes to decommodify themselves, I’m not interested in offering support. Go ask your tech CEO pals for help.

https://journal.burningman.org/2024/10/news/global-news/inflection-point/

OK, really, I guess a conventional #introduction post is in order.

I just moved from the soon-to-be defunct sanjuans.life to the groovy and happening beige.party!

Hi, I'm Eric! I'm one of "those" people that spent most of his life in #SiliconValley and escaped in later life to the #PacificNorthwest. I spent some halcyon times that then turned tumultuous in #Portland before landing, through all sorts of weird life changes, in #OrcasIsland, Washington.

Still an active, if somewhat grizzled, #techie, I got to do a bunch of stuff (mostly involving #ReleaseEngineering) in places like Sierra Online, The Santa Cruz Operation, Frame Technology, Xerox PARC, DreamWorks Animation, Yahoo!, and Puppet.

I've been an erratic participant at #BurningMan. Originally, hanging (but not officially) with Spock Mountain Research Labs and Lamplighters, taking long breaks then coming back and doing stuff with #BLD

I have been an avid traveler. I love scuba diving, amusement parks, especially #rollercoasters. Back in the day, I was co-contributor of The World of Coasters and had some fun contributions to NPR, CNN, American Heritage.

After Covid set in things changed. I don't get out much and managed to stay free of it. I plan on keeping it that way. If one is to be stuck at home, San Juan County is a damn fine place to do it.

→ Burning Man’s #Gentrification Was Inevitable
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/burning-man-gentification-billionaires-art/

“#BurningMan has evolved over thirty-five years from a small affair made up of #hippies, #drifters, and #artists into a must-see event for the jet-setting #global #elite, up there with Art Basel, Cannes, Coachella, and the Met Gala.” “And as the years passed, and the stereotype of a Burner tilted more brogrammer than #bohemian, the idea that it had any #radical potential at all faded from public consciousness.”

ABC: Attendee dies on 1st day of Burning Man Festival, cause of death not released

https://abc11.com/burning-man-death-female-attendee-dies-1st-day-festival-nevadas-black-rock-desert-cause-death-not-released/15232244/

"We are fine"

Ukraine's installation at the Burning Man festival made by Ukrainian artist Oleksiy Sai and his team from war-damaged street signs, fences and gates from various regions of Ukraine.

It answers the question that Ukrainians across Ukraine are hearing again this morning,
- How are you doing?

And most of them - not all, are going to respond,
- I am fine :)

via https://x.com/OlgaK2013/status/1827982996160311437

I wonder if the crappy experience at Burning Man last year has anything to do with this?

The San Francisco Standard: Burners eat big losses in desperate race to sell unwanted Burning Man tickets
https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/15/burning-man-tickets-resale-low-prices/?utm_source=mastodon