Nobody needs New Age mumbo jumbo about “gift economies” and “the TAZ.” Nowadays, Burning Man is little more than a caricature of itself. The core values — gifting, decommodification, inclusion, leaving no trace and running around naked (except for the body paint) — is exactly the type of hippie crap that nostalgic white-collar professionals gab about on their Bluetooths. If I wanted to hang out around a bunch of pseudo-bohemian trustafarians and smug yuppies slumming it, I’d move back to Portland. The under-30’s at the Burn have undeveloped brains that are eager to be A.) narcissists, then B.) then internet influencers, then C.) suicide victims. The old heroin addicts there are just sad. The Center Cafe girls are famous for giving everyone in the place herpes. These people and their event have never done a single thing to help the world. They have no black people. All of their ‘art’ is created by committee to create a fake Mad Max movie scene. All of their ‘culture’ is stolen from others.
(CNN)A well-known surgeon from Newport Beach and his girlfriend are accused of drugging and sexually assaulting two women, and Southern California authorities said they believe there could be many more victims.
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Festival — Over? Date Rapes, Idiocy, Racism, Herpes, Hell Logistics, Spying, Fakeness, Costs Seem To Have Killed Festival
Burning Man Aggregates The Single Largest Collection of Silicon Valley Assholes On Earth
Burning Man people don’t care what you say about them. Most of them know that they are utterly narcissistic sex and drug crazed idiots with no concept of consequences. They live for the next rationalization. They acquire all of the drugs, the mindless sex and the vapid cult-like BS they desire at Burning Man, so they are willing to endure the bright lights of public derision.
There are almost no black people at Burning Man. Burning Man is a “look at us White Folks” kind of thing.
There are almost no people at Burning Man who are not on medication or who do not need to be deeply medicated.
There are no “burners” who tolerate any outsiders who do not comply with their delusions.
There are almost no women at Burning Man who are not dressed as hookers yet they scream all day about “women’s rights” and “equal appreciation”. Women at Burning Man allow strangers to come up and squeeze their boobs.
There are almost no Burning Man people who have ever actually thought about the fact that they are copying a Mel Gibson movie (Mad Max) made by a corporation in order to try to be anti-corporate.
90% of the people at Burning Man have Herpes, 30% have HIV/AIDS and over 1000 people get a new case of Syphilis at each new Burning Man.
Hundreds of young women are date raped at Burning Man, in drug-induced stupors, and the amnesiac effects of the drugs used prevent them from even remembering the date rapes.
Law enforcement bugs every internet network and phone App that can touch the Burning Man site.
The dust at Burning Man is filled with toxic materials from Nevada weapons tests.
Everything at Burning Man is covered in dirt and dust.
So WHY do you want to go to Burning Man?
Going to Burning Man is a middle-age cry for help – New York Post
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Why the rich love Burning Man – Salon.com
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Further Future is the tech-centric, unapologetically luxurious alternative to Burning Man, complete with personal assistants, spa treatments and fine dining
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/02/furt
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THE FESTIVAL OF ASSHOLES, DRUGS AND DATE RAPE SEX HAS LOST IT’S HEAD DOUCHE
Burning Man Aggregates The Single Largest Collection of Assholes On Earth
Burning Man people don’t care what you say about them. Most of them know that they are utterly narcissistic sex and drug crazed idiots with no concept of consequences. They live for the next rationalization. They acquire all of the drugs, the mindless sex and the vapid cult-like BS they desire at Burning Man, so they are willing to endure the bright lights of public derision.
There are almost no black people at Burning Man. Burning Man is a “look at us White Folks” kind of thing.
There are almost no people at Burning Man who are not on medication or who do not need to be deeply medicated.
There are no “burners” who tolerate any outsiders who do not comply with their delusions.
There are almost no women at Burning Man who are not dressed as hookers yet they scream all day about “women’s rights” and “equal appreciation”. Women at Burning Man allow strangers to come up and squeeze their boobs.
There are almost no Burning Man people who have ever actually thought about the fact that they are copying a Mel Gibson movie (Mad Max) made by a corporation in order to try to be anti-corporate.
90% of the people at Burning Man have Herpes, 30% have HIV/AIDS and over 1000 people get a new case of Syphilis at each new Burning Man.
Hundreds of young women are date raped at Burning Man, in drug-induced stupors, and the amnesiac effects of the drugs used prevent them from even remembering the date rapes.
Law enforcement bugs every internet network and phone App that can touch the Burning Man site.
The dust at Burning Man is filled with toxic materials from Nevada weapons tests.
Everything at Burning Man is covered in dirt and dust.
So WHY do you want to go to Burning Man?
Going to Burning Man is a middle-age cry for help – New York Post
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Inside New York’s 700-Member “Millennials-Only” East Coast Burning Man Type Sex Club
Daniel Saynt, a Puerto Rican bisexual ex-Jehovah’s Witness who changed his name and opened up 700-member NYC “Millennials only” sex club “NSFW” (New Society for Wellness), has a few rules for those seeking to get their group-sex on.
- You have to be hot
- You have to be young
- You have to be interesting and active on social media
- Saynt has to be able to imagine himself having sex with you or next to you
“If a guy applies and says, ‘I just want to have sex with as many girls as possible,’ that’s not someone we want here,” said Saynt. “I use my bi[sexual] sense … Like, do I want to hook up with them? Would I want this person having sex next to me? If not, then we won’t accept them.”
All is not lost however for fat, sexually frustrated New York City millennials – as they’ll have ample time to work on their sex-club bodies and social skills while NSFW chews through its waiting list of over 300 horny people, while more than 9,000 applicants didn’t make the cut.
The average age of a NSFW member is 28, who pay a one-time membership fee of $96, and an extra charge of $30 – $150 per sex party. Around 60% of members are in open relationships, and the majority are bisexual. As we’ve mentioned, Saynt’s standards are incredibly high.
“Being a hot woman, I don’t want to fuck everyone and I don’t want everyone to think they can fuck me,” said member Lola Jean, 28, who works as a sex educator and is known in the sex-club community as a wrestling dominatrix. “At other parties, it’s hard to be the hottest person in the room and have all this attention coming at you — but here, everyone is hot so they all get it.”
The club also holds thematic events:
THE bacchanals — the biggest of which take place at city venues such as House of Yes — celebrate themes ranging from BDSM and foot-fetish workshops to caviar dinner parties, but all end with little to no clothing on and plenty of hooking up.
“Members dress in layers to allow for various stages of nudity as the night develops,” said member Melissa Vitale, 25, a publicist. Sometimes there is a strict all-black dress code that includes masks. –NY Post
Saynt, born Daniel Santiago, grew up poor in New York. Raised by Puerto Rican parents who were strict Jehovah’s Witnesses, he attended church every Sunday, woke up at 6 a.m. every day, and spent 10 hours a week at Bible study.
“As per the tenets of his religion, he did not celebrate birthdays or holidays, including Christmas.” –NY Post
“It’s not just a religion, it’s a lifestyle,” said Saynt. “Your friends, family and everyone you interact with are all Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
Then Saynt had his first sexual experience at 13 with another boy from the neighborhood.
“It was very confusing and scary being in a faith that is so traditional in their approach to LGBT people,” Saynt said of the Jehovah’s Witnesses – who consider homosexuality a punishable sin. “It really stunts you.”
In 2001 – against his parents’ wishes to become a missionary, Saynt enrolled at Berkeley College in Midtown, graduating in 2005 with a degree in e-commerce and legally changing his surname to from Santiago. Saynt says that he began to sexually experiment in college, hooking up with men and women on Craigslist and attending sex parties.
After a failed six-year attempt at a straight marriage, Saynt left the digital lifestyle-marketing company he co-founded and opened up an Eyes-Wide-Shut tier sex club in NYC.
“I got tired of selling shoes and handbags and beauty things that people don’t need,” said Saynt of his fashion-marketing days. “I wanted to sell things that make people happy, like sex.”
SAYNT began accepting applications for NSFW in 2015. Potential members must answer a detailed questionnaire about their fantasies and preferences, submit photos of themselves and provide links to their social-media accounts. –NY Post
“We look for people with a story to share,” said Saynt. “If you can’t share a conversation with someone, you can’t share a bed.”
In order to decide who makes the cut, Saynt has a trusted “council” of five judges “want people who post photos of themselves with friends and at local hot spots, doing fun activities and traveling the world. Hateful political views, too few photos or awkward close-ups are an automatic “No.”
Members who enter NSFW’s Williamsburg clubhouse will find six beds in the basement with mesh dividers, adorned with Christmas lights, lanterns, and a large “XXX” marquee sign which greets guests over the door.
Photos of tattooed models holding pizza and hot dogs over their genitals line the walls. Black leather toys are on display for members to test.
Wonder if they’ve got this one?
Saynt isn’t just selling experiences either – he’s selling sex dolls out of his sex club!
Saynt’s marketing company, also called NSFW, works with brands such as Real Love Sex Dolls to market directly to club members by letting them test out and buy discounted products. The partnerships, in turn, help fund the parties.
So – in addition to all the hot sex with incredibly attractive people, members receive the fringe benefit of a discount on a wide variety of sex toys.
BURNING MAN IS SO RACIST AND BLACKS ARE SHUNNED AT IT!
BURNING MAN IS A SILICON VALLEY FRAT HOUSE PORNO ABUSE NIGHTMARE
‘Women showing their breasts to get booze, long lines for the kinky dome and meals with a side of MDMA’: First-time festival-goer reveals what Burning Man is REALLY like and claim the Orgy Dome is so ‘boring you’d rather have a NAP’
- Writer Zoe Bernard went to the eight-day arts and culture festival last month to discover just how wild the festival was
- Burning Man revelers told her about the festival’s lame Orgy Dome, long lectures on consent and criticized its contradicting debauchery
- The debauchery involved ‘naked women wielding leather paddles’ to ‘implore bystanders to pull their pants down for a spanking’
- Furthermore, ‘several ramshackle bars require women to bare their breasts if they wish to drink’ – and a man said he had to show his penis to get a snow cone
- Some 70,000 revelers gathered for the eight-day party north of Reno, Nevada
A first-time Burning Man reveler has recounted that while the festival has its wild side, revelers complained that its orgies were ‘lame’.
Business Insider writer Zoe Bernard went to the eight-day arts and culture festival last month to write about how wild the event, that attracts 70,000 revelers, really is. OR DAILYMAIL.COM
Bernard penned a piece for Business Insider about her time in the temporary city known as the playa, north of Reno, Nevada, with two friends. Before she arrived, she was under the impression the party would be ‘like Woodstock with less shade’ mixed with ‘some weird sex stuff’.
But once there, one of her campmates complained that the ‘Orgy Dome is so boring’ and men and women were required to listen through a ‘long lecture about consent’.
Zoe Bernard, a first-time reveler at Burning Man, recounted her wild experiences at the festival this year in a piece she wrote for Business Insider
Models Ludi Delfino and Abby Neff pose for photos in front of a burning piece of artwork at Burning Man in Reno, Nevada on August 30, 2018
Dani Dukes of New Mexico and Jenni Lucero of Seattle dance atop an RV trailer as the sun sets on Burning Man on August 31
While speaking of the kinky dome further, one of Bernard’s campmates complained that they had ‘to wait in line forever’ and ‘once you get in, it’s the most organized sex you’ll ever have in your life’.
Another reveler agreed – and chimed to add that the dome is a great place for a nap.
But outside the Orgy Dome, debauchery unfolded.
This included ‘naked women wielding leather paddles implore bystanders to pull their pants down for a spanking’ and ‘couples bedecked in feathers and dust masks’ as they prepared for their wild adventures.
Hundreds of Burning Man participants dressed up like bunnies march down the street as part of an annual ‘chase’ between bunnies and carrots
Dancers enjoy Burning Man beneath a sign cautioning them to stay focused on August 29
‘Nudity is ubiquitous, and informally enforced in bizarre and ridiculous ways.
‘Several ramshackle bars require women to bare their breasts if they wish to drink there.’
One man in the camp said he had to show his penis to get a snow cone.
Even more questionable, there was a ‘small sampling of activities available [such as] fellatio contests, something advertised as “p—y massages”‘ and ‘genital prints made in the “traditional Japanese method.”‘
There was such a thing as Slut Olympics and a Bubbles and Boobs VIP Party that was advertised, ‘Bring your boobs!’
Women are shown at Burning Man the morning of August 29
The general view from a very dusty opening day at Burning Man on August 26
A scene at Burning Man 2018 shows a ‘LOVE’ sign in the Nevada desert
One workshop at the festival allowed revelers to learn to ‘write erotic poetry in binary code (010101).’
Many meals consisted of chili with a side of MDMA, warm Modelo, sardines and pickles.
One campmate even said: ‘I think I’m immune to drugs… I’ve taken so much LSD that it no longer has any effect on me.’
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Bernard recalled that the air reeked of weed and mothballs. ‘Throbbing EDM music’ blared at all hours.
Next to a spiritual foot wash booth, there was a sign that promoted abortions for free.
‘Anything and everything you could imagine exists here… at the Healing Foot Wash down the road, you can wash your neighbor’s feet and hear all about the love of your prospective savior Jesus Christ.
‘Just blocks from the Healing Foot Wash, another camp’s sign announces “Free Abortions!” with the words “No minors allowed!” scrawled in marker underneath.’
And just minutes down the road, toddlers played at Kindergarten Kamp.
Overall, Bernard said during her time in Black Rock City, she was ‘welcomed home hundreds of times by strangers whose eyes are filled, almost uniformly, with the clear light of loving-kindness and acceptance.
It was like ‘being at a family reunion after coming out of a coma except every member of your family is an extremely attractive yoga instructor,’ she added.
BURNING MAN is just degenerates, freaks, and deadbeats says the web as ‘Burners’ seek to rationalize their naivete
Web comments about Burning Man:
“It’s a complete joke of a festival…”
“Burning man, is that where adults get naked in front of other people, some of whom were dumb enough to bring their children?…”
“…that festival is nothing but a business that lures in idiot kids..”
“At the next Burning Man, they should have a Die-in so they can all collectively join him at once (and reduce global carbon emissions at the same time; win-win).”
“…because of this people have died from over doses of drugs,burned themselves alive,has spread venereal diseases and it just contributed to the lowering or debasement of the culture…needs more reasons?”
“Because the kind of in the moment, trivial, trite chemognosis that these people aim to attain is a farce…”
“For intelligent, non-echo-chambered, rational adults attending Burning Man, you will find the attendees to be very stupid, cult-crazed people who seem exactly like Airport Moonies, or Scientologists or Rajneesh Cult members.
“..70% of the people there are mentally ill narcissists who want people to look at them because they are brain addicted to Facebook and desperately need to be looked at in order to have any sense of self-worth. This appears to be the new staging ground for people who will grow up to be dumb surfers or hookers…”
“This is the whitest festival I ever saw. There are no black people here. All of the hot Millennial chicks will screw anybody so inner city America really needs to drive up to The Playa and get the some Poon-Tang…”
Silicon Valley’s Secret Weapon: Burning Man – A “Painless Concentration Camp” –
Ritual of Technological Subservience – The Silicon Mafia – Social Engineering: A High Tech Version of Woodstock – Attendees Have No Idea They Are Being Transformed – “Loving Their Servitude” – Pentagon Tests Equipment at Burning Man Festival – Conflicts and Power – Synergy Strike Force – “Everyone Is Equal” Except the Tech Billionaires Behind Burning Man – Put People In Harsh Environments and They Bond – Shadowing Events – Technology Outpacing Ability to Adapt
“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude.” – Possibly falsely attributed to Aldous Huxley
And now for some sobering facts connected to Burning Man:
• Pentagon employees attend Burning Man
• Watching those that are watching you
• Strong Angel (Pentagon equipment testing at Burning Man)
• Leadership of Burning man are well connected to the tech industry
• Burning Man internal IT team leadership picks the best and the brightest including from:
Twitter; Facebook; Google; Adobe; Department of Defense; White House
• Very sophisticated technical IP network located at Burning Man
• 80,000 attendees of Burning Man on wireless networks go through one single box
• Head of IT for Burning Man: “Technology Dominatrix”
• George Mason University (number 5 in the top 100 militarized colleges in the US; “spook school”)
• Pentagon provides the internet for Burning Man
• Burning Man: Testing systems of population control
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (created alt* discussion groups: alt.sex; alt.drugs; alt.binaries)
• Forget privacy it’s over
• Chief Technology Guru of Burning Man
• Free pop-up cell phones available at Burning Man (military connections to open BTS; SIGINT)
• Tech Titans involved with Burning Man:
Elon Musk
Mark Zuckerberg
Larry Page
Sergey Brin
Eric Schmidt
Astro Teller
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Taylor
Bob Pittman
Philip Rosedale
Brewster Kahle
Joby Pritzker
Bob Wallace
Many Hollywood celebrities
• Financial donors (confirmed):
Rockefeller
Schiff
Pritzker
Heinz
In the book Masters of Capital In America: The Seven Men published in 1911, its contents discussed the seven families that own and controlled Wall Street. What is interesting is that these same names are on the Burning Man donor list.
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The diseases and bugs that everyone gets at Burning Man are just awful
Burning Man Is Silicon Valley’s Last Desperate Infantile Scream
Burning Man people don’t care what you say about them. Most of them know that they are utterly narcissistic sex and drug crazed idiots with no concept of consequences. They live for the next rationalization. They acquire all of the drugs, the mindless sex and the vapid cult-like BS they desire at Burning Man, so they are willing to endure the bright lights of public derision. Nobody in their right mind will go there any more. Silicon Valley millionaires are now cancelling their reservations.
There are almost no black people at Burning Man. Burning Man is a “look at us White Folks” kind of thing.
There are almost no people at Burning Man who are not on medication or who do not need to be deeply medicated.
There are no “burners” who tolerate any outsiders who do not comply with their delusions.
There are almost no women at Burning Man who are not dressed as hookers yet they scream all day about “women’s rights” and “equal appreciation”. Women at Burning Man allow strangers to come up and squeeze their boobs.
There are almost no Burning Man people who have ever actually thought about the fact that they are copying a Mel Gibson movie (Mad Max) made by a corporation in order to try to be anti-corporate.
90% of the people at Burning Man have Herpes, 30% have HIV/AIDS and over 1000 people get a new case of Syphilis at each new Burning Man.
Hundreds of young women are date raped at Burning Man, in drug-induced stupors, and the amnesiac effects of the drugs used prevent them from even remembering the date rapes.
Law enforcement bugs every internet network and phone App that can touch the Burning Man site.
The dust at Burning Man is filled with toxic materials from Nevada weapons tests.
Everything at Burning Man is covered in dirt and dust.
So WHY do you want to go to Burning Man?
Burning Man Aggregates The Single Largest Collection of Assholes On Earth
Going to Burning Man is a middle-age cry for help – New York Post
New York Post. latest in living … Why millennials cheat less than their parents … if Burning Man sets the stage for them to be the way that they really …
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Which Famous A**holes Are Going To Burning Man 2017? – Broke …
But it will probably be a more beautiful thing for you if you can avoid me and these assholes at Burning Man 2017. Like this article?
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Why the rich love Burning Man – Salon.com
In principle the annual Burning Man festival sounds a bit like a socialist utopia: bring thousands of people to an empty desert to create an alternative …
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‘Burning Man for the 1%’: the desert party for the tech elite …
Further Future is the tech-centric, unapologetically luxurious alternative to Burning Man, complete with personal assistants, spa treatments and fine dining
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/02/furt
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A burning sensation in the anus or during and after a bowel movement is not an uncommon experience and every person may experience it at some point in time.
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WE TOLD YOU SO: GOOGLE EXISTS BECAUSE OF FAKE TRAFFIC
For over a decade, an alliance of investigators fromwww.googleinvestigations.com has filed charges about Google’s criminally fraudulent operations. Now, their charges have been validated by industry experts. Hillary Clinton based her Presidential campaign on Google’s promise to deliver the White House via internet election rigging of voter impressions but she lost because Google could only deliver fake voters.
Google Issuing Refunds to Advertisers Over Fake Traffic, Plans New Safeguard
Some advertisers question level of refunds, want more details about fraudulent traffic
The Google logo is seen at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Photo: Associated Press
By
Lara O’Reilly
Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL -0.37% Google is issuing refunds to advertisers for ads bought through its platform that ran on sites with fake traffic, people familiar with the situation said, as the company develops a tool to give buyers more transparency about their purchases.
In the past few weeks, Google has informed hundreds of marketers and ad agency partners about the issue with invalid traffic, known in the industry as “ad fraud.” The ads were bought using the company’s DoubleClick Bid Manager.
Google’s refunds amount to only a fraction of the total ad spending served to invalid traffic, which has left some advertising executives unsatisfied, the people familiar with the situation said. Google has offered to repay its “platform fee,” which ad buyers said typically ranges from about 7% to 10% of the total ad buy.
The company says this is appropriate, because it doesn’t control the rest of the money. Typically, advertisers use DoubleClick Bid Manager to target audiences across vast numbers of websites in seconds by connecting to dozens of online ad exchanges, marketplaces that connect buyers and publishers through real-time auctions.
The ad spending flows through to the exchanges. The problems arise when ads run on publisher sites with fraudulent traffic, such as those where clicks are generated by software programs known as “bots” instead of humans. This is an issue of growing to concern to marketers. It is difficult to recoup the money paid to those sites when the issue is discovered too late.
Advertisers often receive small credits from Google and their other ad-tech vendors when they detect discrepancies, but in this case, for some buyers, the instance of fraud discovered was larger than usual.
Scott Spencer, director of product management for Google, acknowledged that refunds have been paid, but he declined to provide a dollar figure for the amount being returned. Some ad buyers said the refund amounts range from “less money than you would spend on a sandwich” to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Some agencies and advertisers would have been impacted more than others, depending on their level of spending during the period and the types of ads they bought.
“Today, we can’t disclose the information about third parties,” Mr. Spencer said. “So when we aren’t able to catch invalid traffic before it impacts our advertisers and we’re unable to refund their media spend, it hurts us, even if we’re not responsible.”
Google is working on a fix it hopes will provide some clarity over which technology providers in the ad-buying chain are responsible for issuing refunds. It is also working on technology to ensure advertisers automatically receive a full credit back from Google and its partners if incidents occur again.
The company said it is entering discussions with the 100-plus exchanges, ad networks and publishers DoubleClick Bid Manager plugs into and asking them to display to ad buyers whether they are willing to refund the entire media spend if ad-fraud instances occur. Buyers could then opt to filter out the sources of inventory that don’t have such a policy.
Mr. Spencer said Google expects “high rates of adoption” among exchanges, and that the ones it had spoken to so far had been “very supportive” of the effort.
Another point of contention among those receiving refunds is that they haven’t been given details about where their ads ended up or specific details about the exploits the fraudsters used, so that advertisers and agencies can apply their own safeguards in the future.
“We need to be very careful about commenting on or discussing specifics about bots or our detection,” Mr. Spencer said. “Often fraudsters will change their approaches and strategies based on our public comments.”
Of the billions of dollars flowing into online advertising each year, a percentage is inadvertently shown to sites with fake traffic, with fraudsters siphoning off advertisers’ money for themselves.
The industry’s efforts to rein in fraud appear to have an impact.Some $6.5 billion in ad spending will be wasted this year to fraud, down 10% from 2016, according to a reportreleased in May by the Association of National Advertisers and ad-fraud detection firm WhiteOps.
The methods the fraudsters use are highly sophisticated. Some infect unsuspecting consumers’ computers with malware to form a “botnet” that clicks on ads in the background.
Fraudsters are often adept at covering their tracks, which can make their activity difficult to spot until after the event has occurred.
For years, Google has had teams dedicated to filtering out fraud before an advertiser makes a bid on an ad. Those teams can also prevent exchanges from being paid if an ad has already been bid on, but invalid traffic is quickly detected. The teams also work to discover historical instances of fraud, which is what happened in this particular case.
Google said the buyers it contacted in this instance were impacted by invalid traffic over the course of a few months this year, primarily in the second quarter. Part of that traffic affected video ads, which carry higher ad rates than typical display ads and are therefore an attractive target for fraudsters.
Google has also joined a number of industry initiatives, such as the “Ads.txt” project launched in May by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, an industry trade body. The tool lets premium publishers insert a text file on their web servers to list all the ad tech vendors authorized to sell their inventory so ad buyers can confirm which platforms are selling legitimate ads.
“When people talk about [ad fraud], there’s a big specter to it and a big concern about invalid traffic in digital,” said Mr. Spencer. “It’s not that large in terms of a percentage of what people are buying, but it can be a little bit scary to buyers, and our goal is to remove that to improve the trust overall in the ecosystem.”
—Alexandra Bruell contributed to this article
Write to Lara O’Reilly at lara.o’reilly@wsj.com
Burning Man Is The World Gathering of Perverts, Douche-Bags and Narcissists
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Silicon Valley assholes flood Burning Man with Champagne, private chefs and drugs How the 1 percent do Burning Man
By Christopher Cameron
What do you do when you’ve got the munchies in the middle of an unforgiving desert? If you’re an elite “Burner,” just ring for your private chef.
Burning Man is an otherworldly, nine-day-long arts festival set on a sprawling, dry lake bed — the playa, to those in the know — in Black Rock City, Nev. From Aug. 26 to Sept. 3.
Attendees, aka Burners, adopt new identities (“playa” names), don elaborate costumes (or wear nothing at all), take drugs, party on fantastically decorated mutant vehicles (“art cars”) and ritualistically burn an enormous wooden man.
During the festival, which debuted in 1986, attendees are meant to practice decommodification, meaning that money and marketing are verboten. Also a must: radical self-reliance, which means bringing everything they need to survive — including water — since civilization is miles and miles away.
At least, that’s the idea. But recent years have marked a shift for Burning Man: It’s become something of an “It” networking event for Silicon Valley tech gurus and stifled Wall Streeters looking to blow off steam. But they’re not interested in totally roughing it — and that’s led to the creation of lavish camps known as “Billionaire’s Row” with all the luxuries of the Ritz, including private chefs.
While most festival attendees refuel with canned soups, beef jerky and protein bars, those with limitless resources pay as much as $50,000 to camp in style with seated dinners and toothsome tasting menus.
“My clients fly in,” Keven Lee (known as “Cheven” or “Sipha” on the playa), a Los Angeles-based private chef for a camp of 1-percenters, tells The Post. “They are the elite: celebrities, billionaires, sports stars, developers, you name it. They trust me to take care of them 24/7” — whether that means soothing someone who’s “wigging out on mushrooms” or preparing a Michelin-worthy dinner.
For the past two festivals, Lee, 40, has prepared four gourmet meals a day for a camp of 180 — a feat that he says takes a “motherf – – king rock star” to organize.
To pull it off, Lee arrives at Burning Man with six assistants and a convoy of vehicles, including two 26-foot-long refrigerated trucks. He then builds a 38-foot-long kitchen from scratch in the middle of the desert. The camp of 53 luxury RVs and six art cars is built around a central lounge and dining area with a nightclub, where top DJs spin 24 hours a day, all powered by four 15,000-amp generators. His fee to cook for the camp starts at $250,000, before alcohol (usually cases of Whispering Angel, Don Julio 1942 and Dom Pérignon).
“We try to level up to the atmosphere. I’m not walking in with a bright white coat and frickin’ toque on,” says Lee, who cooks in a pink tutu and bomber jacket. Last year, he had 250 pounds of fresh fish flown in on a jet. He used it in hand-rolls, which he made at 4 a.m. for people in light-up fur coats chanting his name.
“We make the most tweaked-out, ripping edible displays,” adds Lee, whose company, My World on a Plate, also caters for production companies and events such as the Sundance Film Festival. “I’ve got rock-star chefs from Maui who are beyond the bada–es of the bada–es carving ninja stars, orchids and the most gorgeous blooming flowers out of watermelon, radishes and rainbow carrots.”
Lia Paulina Holmgren, 35, a dominatrix, therapist and German sex-club owner who has attended the festival for the past 10 years and stays in Lee’s camp, says that while she adores the fresh, organic produce he prepares, it’s the ambiance that makes the dining experiences at Burning Man so special.
“It’s all about how you dine,” Holmgren, who goes by “Lia Blossom” at the festival, says. “You are in the dust in costumes with people who are probably Silicon Valley billionaires. It’s just so fierce.” In the spirit of Burning Man, Holmgren says she typically brings gummy bears or melons to gift to strangers.
Last year, Manhattan-based chef Sander Kooijman — who specializes in Indonesian cuisine and has yet to take a playa name — took over as private cook to a camp of about 100 Burners in the finance, fashion and real-estate industries.
“What they have in common is that they like to party hard, and Burning Man gives them that opportunity,” he says.
This year, he plans to up his game, schlepping tons of food including 1,500 eggs, 100 pounds of chicken breast, 30 watermelons and eight different Indonesian seasonings to the event. His fee starts at $40,000, before booze.
Kooijman says he was awed last year by the sheer size of the festival, the logistics of setting up a mobile kitchen in a dust bowl and catering to the demands of guests on LSD.
“Last year, I really underestimated the amount of tablecloths I would need, because after a day, it was filthy,” he tells the Post. “They eat like maniacs. Breakfast is dinner and dinner is breakfast.”
Of course, many long-time Burners look askance at the event’s velvet-rope glampers and the culinary one-upmanship that can occur. Camps at Burning Man are expected to be more or less welcoming. And the VIP encampments for the likes of Mark Zuckerberg or Google’s Sergey Brin have been accused of building walls with RVs and refusing to serve food and drinks to outsiders.
“It strikes me as odd to go to Burning Man for the food,” says an eight-year festival veteran who asked to be identified by his playa name, RCT. “The wonderful things there have absolutely nothing to do with fine dining.”
However, he adds that there are many food-themed camps at the festival that do give back.
“There are camps that specialize in food that do wonderful things for the community,” he says. “You will be wandering around in the dust and darkness, and suddenly, a truck will appear with nice, grilled-cheese sandwiches.”
Camp Baconeers, for instance, specializes in doling out bacon to the public. Stop by Barbie Death Camp and Wine Bistro afterwards for fine wine in a cheap, paper cup — no invitation necessary.
But at the end of the day, at Burning Man, like anywhere else in the world, “if you want the best service,” says Lee, “you better have deep pockets.”
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Tech Elites Recreate The Absolute BS Cultism Of Burning Man Inside Their Living Rooms
– Naive Starry Eyed Idiots Rationalize Their ‘Sense of Coolness’ In Self Promoting Fake Religion-like “salon’s.
To Chad Mureta, a Silicon Valley app guru, the intimate salons of Jess Magic, a New Age troubadour, are “like drugs, without taking anything.”
To Sanjiv Sidhu, a so-called software savant whose fortune was once estimated at over $6 billion, Magic’s invitation-only salons are the perfect escape from a business culture where one-upmanship is “crowding out our need to connect.”
To Jason Silva, the tech futurist and TV personality, her gatherings are a safe space for entrepreneurs who “sacrifice friendships, relationships and time,” only to “realize that it’s lonely at the top.”
Tech elites who are looking for more than extra zeros in their bank statements are finding it in an unlikely place: so-called songversations, emotion-heavy gatherings that combine philosophical rap sessions with improvised music, run by a ukulele-strumming songstress who describes herself as a “heartist.”
Branded as “Soul Salons,” they import the cosmic-explorer sensibility of Burning Man’s dusty playa into the cozy living rooms of prominent entrepreneurs, where they sing freestyle on topics as diverse as environmental degradation and heartbreak. Think of it as a free-jazz equivalent of an Esalen retreat.
The tech A-list is a curious place to land for Magic, 37, who speaks in the soothing tones of a massage therapist and divides her time between Cardiff, California, and Bali, Indonesia. Until a few years ago, Magic ran a nonprofit for survivors of sexual trauma.
Despite her wood-nymph aura, or maybe because of it, Magic has found herself in some button-down circles. In 2016, she performed at the Women Economic Forum in New Delhi and at a star-studded birthday party of her friend Ken Howery, a founder of PayPal, on Necker Island.
“I don’t know if you’d call this a breakthrough,” she said, “but I got Peter Thiel to sing along and Elon Musk to smile.”
Magic, who seems to approach every topic with a sense of giddy wonder, as if she just fell in love five minutes ago, believes that her appeal is rooted in the spiritual hollowness so many business elites feel, despite their wealth.
“The finance and tech scene is still riding the waves of hypermasculine values,” she said. “Coffee to get through the day, alcohol to wind down, then sleeping pills at night to turn off the mind from all that they have going on.”
“People forget that they are human beings rather than human doings,” she added.
Enter the Soul Salon, which Magic calls “a play date for your inner child” and performs as a “gift,” she said (although guests are invited to “contribute in accordance with the value they feel they received”).
The salons usually start with a theme — say, the emptiness of consumer culture. As key phrases arise, Magic will begin strumming and humming, weaving those lines of dialogue into a lilting melody. The effect is vaguely akin to Joni Mitchell performing freestyle rap at Davos.
As the extemporaneous song grows, others join in with musings of their own, call-and-response style. Not every captain of industry can carry a tune, of course, but that’s not the point. As Magic likes to say, “We don’t sing to be good, we sing to be free.”
Andrew Hewitt, creator of GameChangers 500, which ranks the world’s top “for-benefit” businesses, said he has “witnessed some of the headiest Silicon Valley titans be deeply touched through these experiences.”
“For people who live most of the time in their head,” Hewitt said, “this feels like magic.”
Magic is now extending her song beyond Silicon Valley, with a 10-city tour (a mix of private salons and public events, starting at $35) stretching from the summer solstice to the fall equinox.
The tour began in New York on June 22, when 150 people showed up at a cavernous gallery in Chelseaaround 7 p.m., many dressed in flowing tie-dyed pants, caftans and silk head wraps. (A photography show and a talk sponsored by Peace Accelerators took place at the same time.)
Magic looked ready to jam with the “Exile on Main St.”-era Rolling Stones, wearing skintight bell bottoms and platforms, and admitted to being nervous.
“One of the reasons why I do what I do, and why I am, honestly, on this planet, is to show up with such a level of vulnerability and sincerity and authenticity, that it almost gives people permission to let it go for a little while,” she said.
Whatever the topic, Magic speaks with a faraway sense of wonder, her hazel eyes seeming to sparkle. When the singing commenced, Magic invited the assembled to sit on the floor in a semicircle, where a musician named Elijah Ray droned a mystical tune that called to mind images of saffron robes and singing bowls.
As the music swirled, Charles Eisenstein, a proponent of what he calls “sacred economics,” talked about the unending human injury to Mother Earth. “If you knew she could feel, would you stop?” he said.
When his monologue wound down, Magic rose and began a Norah Jones-style ballad, picking up phrases from Eisenstein’s talk. “If we believed,” she sang in a soulful jazz scat, “that me, that me, that me and the river were the same, would it change my ways?”
At first, the audience sat silent, seemingly puzzled. But slowly people began to clap their hands and sway to the beat. A man with a floppy hat and wizardlike robe began to gyrate around the dance floor.
“It’s Burning Man in Chelsea,” one observer said.
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