[dovin]

I last went in 2022, and it's still a place with amazing art and weird experiences. Being somewhere that's decommodified from advertising is, I think, something everyone should experience. I just think of it more like a really fun and interesting city that I like to visit sometimes, like New York, that's kinda expensive to get to. There's a bunch of gentrification from Silicon Valley, and the tickets not selling out makes me think that the tech recession is still very much on, but there's more to Burning Man than just tech bros.

[brailsafe]

> There's a bunch of gentrification from Silicon Valley, and the tickets not selling out makes me think that the tech recession is still very much on, but there's more to Burning Man than just tech bros.

I suppose the irony, if you're right, is in how much the event depends on advertising revenue and the residual wealth it is/was creating. In the first talk by any googler I attended, he mentioned his burning man project.