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What Burning Man Can Teach the Surgeon General About Curing Loneliness

May 18, 2023 By Caveat Magister

The Surgeon General has declared that loneliness and isolation are an epic health crisis and must be addressed. According to The New York Times: More than half of Americans are ...Read More

Shenanigans, The Theme

Plot to Exterminate Humanity Foiled When Newly Sentient AIs Can’t Sync Their Calendars

July 11, 2018 By Caveat Magister

(WASHINGTON DC) (JULY 11) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Military authorities revealed today that the AI systems which connect armed forces, ...Read More

The Ten Principles

Immediacy, Smart Phones, and the Death of Magic

June 27, 2018 By John "Halcyon" Styn

There is a company that is now renting an internet hub device to ensure that you have broadband cell and ...Read More

Shenanigans, The Theme

New Study Shows Siri Now More Likable than 61% of Human Population

June 25, 2018 By Caveat Magister

PALO ALTO, CA, JUNE 25 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A nationwide study out of the Stanford Monetizable Innovation Lab shows ...Read More

The Theme

How Harmless Little Lies About Consciousness Add Up to Big, Scary, Dystopias About Advertising

June 19, 2018 By Caveat Magister

Technology changes fast, so let’s take a moment to stop and review. Better Off a Bot Shortly before ...Read More

Spirituality

At Home in Larry’s World: An Evolving Eulogy

June 18, 2018 By Ian Rowen

“… from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” — ...Read More

The Theme

Care to Be Human?

June 13, 2018 By John Marx

Cogito Ergo Sum In 1637, before we, as a human race, knew what a robot was (although there was the ...Read More

Spirituality, Tales from the Playa

Burning Love Podcast Episode 2: Twin Flames, When Love Lives Only on Playa

May 25, 2018 By Alessandra Wollner

So, what if you had a soulmate, but your love only lived for one week a year in a mostly ...Read More

Digital Rights, The Ten Principles

Can You Learn About Culture in a Gift Shop?

May 22, 2018 By CameraGirl

I took this photo of the brand spanking new 2018-2019 Burning Man Calendar at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian ...Read More

The Theme

Human Nature Is a Symphony, Technology Is Changing the Instruments

May 22, 2018 By Caveat Magister

Vanderbilt Professor of History Michael Bess is the author of Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in the Bioengineered Society of the ...Read More