I've got no brief either for or against Burning Man - I've never been & my friends seemed to enjoy it more before tech adopted it - but these people's midlife crises are gonna arrive early & really be *something* sfstandard.com/2025/08/30/b...
![Gupta, who has become a poster child of AI boom’s grindcore culture, summarized the current mood among young tech workers in San Francisco as incompatible with the Burner sensibility: “The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 996 [work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week], lift heavy, run far, marry early, track sleep, eat steak and eggs.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hzm4j2lo6gxsiixgxnptia3j/bafkreigwlw73azzvejbkceigeoeianuke5lmnhwzob7xc7pnzbds64wdfe@jpeg)
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I feel like the destruction of the orgy dome in a setup-week storm is a metaphor for something.
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