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Founder of Play)A(Skool Indicted After Major Drug Trafficking Bust [Update]
Thanks to the chief Anonymous Burner for giving us this tip. Play)A(Skool founder Scott Pack, whose past experience includes spooky firms like Booz, Allen & Hamilton (the world’s most profitable...
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Shadow History of Burners Part 6 – The Who Zoo
In the latest installment of my Shadow History series with Jan Irvin at Gnostic Media, we take a look at who the people are behind this project. Is it really “an unemployed landscaper, an art model, a...
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Standing Rock Coming to Black Rock
It seems the Burning Man Project outreach to Standing Rock last year may have paid off, with some radical names in the Social Justice scene headed to the Playa this year. No wonder they had a big talk...
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To Burn, Or Not To Burn? Who Decides The Question?
Some high drama going down in the British Columbia Burning Man Community, again. They just had their BITF (Burn In The Forest) party, in the middle of a state-wide total fire ban and a State of...
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Prohibition, Jake Leg, Methanol & Jamaican Ginger: Adulterants 100 Years Ago
Report by Terry Gotham Picture New York City, Christmas Eve night, Bellevue Hospital. 60 people hospitalized over the course of the evening, with another 23 hospitalized from drug poisoning within the...
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Pull Out Your TAP
A guest post from Onelove. What do when you’ve spent 5 hours in the desert sun building a home dome only to discover that your camp mate forgot to bring the skin? Or you lost your hot date on Burn...
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How To Deal With Cops At Burning Man: 2017
A guest post from Mark Atwood How to deal with cops at Burning Man (2017 update) by Mark Atwood (Feel free to print out, share, and repost. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution...
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What Ever Happened To Flysalen?
Last year, BMorg announced with their usual great fanfare that they had raised $6.5 million from wealthy private donors, some of them anonymous, to purchase Fly Ranch. A Permanent Autonomous Zone. Or,...
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BMIR Radio Off The Air
Image: Mark Gunderson Some Burners are disappointed that they can’t get pumped up for the Burn by listening to their favorite radio station, BMIR. Here’s why: Tune in FM 94.5 on the Playa, bmir.org or...
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Burners.Me Radio On The Air
Well, here’s something to listen to anyway. Probably doesn’t “rhyme with Burning Man” in quite the same way as the (now silent) official Burning Man radio station BMIR, but perhaps you could say it...
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Shockingly, People Don’t Actually Throw Out Drugs.
In what is the biggest “I can’t believe we have to prove this academically” story of the year, three Johns Hopkins researchers showed that 66-92% of people who got a pile of prescription opioids,...
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Fentanyl, Toxicology, Healthcare Costs & Estate Planning: Strange Bedfellows...
Report by Terry Gotham This week’s edition of “Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” is a look at a couple of different secondary effects of the opiate overdose epidemic that I don’t think are being given...
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Lifting The Veil on Radical Ritual
I did an interview with @lifttheveil411 about Burning Man, Radical Ritual, cryptocurrency, and many other topics. Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2017, interview, lift the veil, radical ritual,...
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Shadow History of Burners Part 7: Social Engineering on the Electronic Frontier
So far in this series we’ve gone through the Where, When, What, and Who. Now it’s time to wrap up with the Why and How. We broadcast this live at 1pm PST on Saturday, August 26 2017. Download the Part...
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How To Get Laid At Burning Man
By audience request…actually some good advice here. You can also see our earlier post 10 Ways To Get Laid At Burning Man Filed under: General
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Is This The Real Reason the Live Stream Is Down? [Update: Up and Down]
The biggest camp at Burning Man is Camp Envy: those of us who aren’t physically on the Playa, but instead want some sense of participation by watching the live stream from the comfort of our home or...
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Why It’s So Important MDMA Has Been Designated a “Breakthrough Therapy” By...
Report by Terry Gotham At Burning Man 2006, at the Entheogen Camp on the Esplanade, I watched someone ask Shulgin how many times a year he thought it was safe to take MDMA. He said “do you really want...
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EXCLUSIVE: ShelterCoin Founder Christian Weber
We have been a fan of the “inspired by Burning Man” ShiftPods since day one, and we have covered them before: Shift-Pods: The New Generation of Burnitecture Where Did The SHIFT Pod Come From?...
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BREAKING: Man Burns When Man Burns [Updates]
[Update 3/9/17 2:36pm PST] The man has been named as (Aaron) Joel Mitchell, 41 #BREAKING The man who ran into the #BurningMan fire last night has been identified as 41yo Aaron Mitchell. He died this...
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Burning Man Live Stream Raided By Pirates then Shut Down By YouTube Copyright...
Wondering what happened to the Burning Man live stream? Take this as unconfirmed, the source is burningman.org – hardly reliable. But it does check out. The stream is down, and the pirate sites are up....
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