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JackTheBandit  ·  582 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burning Man 2022 Roll Call

5:30 and D

JackTheBandit  ·  589 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burning Man 2022 Roll Call

I won't be out this year but the camp will be

JackTheBandit  ·  1601 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump's Economy is Historically Good for Minorities

walks outside in South Bronx

JackTheBandit  ·  1678 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burning Man 2019: Roll Call

Won't be out there this year, but the camp is on Rods Road 9 o'clock

JackTheBandit  ·  1680 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 21, 2019

I won't be going this year but the camp will still be there at 9 o clock on Rod Road. Hope you make it past the dirt shift!

JackTheBandit  ·  1695 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who Is Left on Hubski? (Part II)

Well, yeah. The conversations here are generally great. Some people just walk the line between discussion/debate vs arguing a little too often. I describe the behavior as this kindof very well worded verbal assault. Like: "how can I tell you to STFU in the most reasoned way possible." The aggression seeps through, but maybe I'm projecting.

JackTheBandit  ·  1696 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who Is Left on Hubski? (Part II)

Name:

The username is apparently standard.

Location:

NYC

Age:

just hit 31 in July

Current Preoccupation:

Setting up this house to be self sufficient so I can buy a home with my partner in the upcoming years (need multiple bases of operation for the community.) Started a new job in July. Probably should do some push ups or something. Lots of house n techno. Weed. Watching white people still be in denial about directly confronting their racist half.

Previous Preoccupations:

Uh. Same unless we go back a decade.

What change would you like to see from the users of Hubski?

Some of y'all got a permanent sick in your asses, so I don't comment. The content and discourse is still the best thing about here.

you know the decibels were out of hand. lol

JackTheBandit  ·  2026 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burning Man 2018: Who's Going?

BLOB_CASTLE so how do I upload pics? lmao

JackTheBandit  ·  2046 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burning Man 2018: Who's Going?

probably can make the Wednesday one.

JackTheBandit  ·  2052 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burning Man 2018: Who's Going?

We wanted be 6:00 sector, but not on Rod's Road. Placement decided we stayed on Rods Road, lol

JackTheBandit  ·  2053 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burning Man 2018: Who's Going?

it was spotty upto 2015. the pershing police and BLM demanded better service.

JackTheBandit  ·  2053 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burning Man 2018: Who's Going?

you can come kick it anytime, lol! it turns out there are a lot of people who feel that way. We've been turning people down the past few weeks and a couple other camps run by persons of color have reached out to hang.

JackTheBandit  ·  2053 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burning Man 2018: Who's Going?

we'll be on Rod's Road @8:00 this year. This too is my 3rd playa trip and POC camp's biggest year at 35 ppl. I'll be on playa the 23rd.

We're actually having events in camp and an art installation in camp thus year. You can find us on the unofficial map and the playa events calendar atm.

Im glad they changed the city layout so getting on Rod's Road is actually intuitive now and people can find us!

Also, obligatory art project crowd funding link(im not in it): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mighty-burning-man-2018-camping-design#/

JackTheBandit  ·  2145 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: EFAIL: turns out email PGP has a vulnerability

I still use PGP @veen But thankfully my client doesn't load anything external unless I aak to.

This 'Hot Take' format driven by short attention social media needs to be thrown out completely. I personally think it ends up hurting proclaimed "progressives" more than they're willing to admit. When your platform is dependent on good-faith conversation and critical thinking on gathered information, progress stalls everytime one enables this sort of discourse. Id even argue it helps what America currently calls the conservative movement because its built on low effort emotional content.

Whoever wrote this clearly has an anti-Sanders ax to grind. There was nothing wrong with his statement. It's written for an immediate reaction and not a conversation on substance.

JackTheBandit  ·  2201 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys

something something not institutiona,l totally self inflicted.

something something, nothing we can do.

Sorry, this comment is private.
JackTheBandit  ·  2418 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burning Man 2017: Who's Going?

I won't be going this year. long story short, my mother lost her battle with Angio Sarcoma in February. my heart and pockets are not ready for the burn.

however, our camp will be there and I'm terrified they'll ruin the build without me. Lol.

JackTheBandit  ·  2739 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Keep getting phantom notifications

Yea, I think someone cared about something I said only to be disappointed. sad life.

JackTheBandit  ·  2755 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So apparently Hillary Clinton fainted today and r/politics is on fire about it.

well it's a thing now because her doc says she has pneumonia. At her age, that is not a trivial matter. This isnt good for her campaign at all.

JackTheBandit  ·  2755 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who else went to Burning Man? 1st Time Burner AMA

Hell yea! Just dont be a dick (Rule#2)

White Guy

Well, thats how gun legislation started in America. The Black Panthers would open carry and it scared the white people.

Highway 447, the 2 lane highway we all use to get there.

JackTheBandit  ·  2755 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who else went to Burning Man? 1st Time Burner AMA

Sorry for the late reply,

Whine and Wine was Thursday from 7PM, Soul Force was Wednesday 4PM.

Actually, most of camp was 1 degree of separation from myself. I recruited others from NYC burner happy hours, others came from Que Viva! overflow, and the African singers were friends of Uncle Vern. We are developing an action plan to reach 25-30 person camp in 2017.

Well, he genuinely couldn't understand why people of the African diaspora would want to retain their historical identity and culture developed in parallel to Western and "white" culture. He felt we should give up and just assimilate.

DPW has kinda always had the "we're badass and hardcore" thing. Well, the population can't really increase anymore because of 447. Their workload doesn't really increase unless the city itself does. They're building the same things each year.

JackTheBandit  ·  2757 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who else went to Burning Man? 1st Time Burner AMA

Yea, that's so cool! My partner was volunteering at Playa Info. But yea, I met the founder of POC Camp at the end of my 1st burn last year. At that moment, I decided to help build actual infrastructure for the camp (it was just 4 people or less for the past 4 years.)

Basically, POC Camp is a lil sister/brother camp to Que Viva! Camp "Our camp is called Que Viva! camp, is dedicated to social change, both off and on the Playa, bringing artists, activists and issues like immigration and racial justice to the playa in a celebratory, magical, Burning Man way."

The founder of POC Camp wanted a place for activist minded activities / workshops and play. I wanted to moreso build a space where POC on playa can gather and find each other in an obvious way. Our ideas don't really conflict each other and we had a camp of 16 people this year, which is 4x anything done before.

We tested 2 workshops: Whine and Wine, a forum for non-poc to ask questions that'd be deemed inappropriate or insensitive over Wine (pretty successful.) and Soul Force: Why Black People are Magic, an exploration of black activists history in America (turned into an explanation session about why America cant give up guns to an Australian man.) Other than that, we were burning like everyone else and it was a great time.

Half the camp were burgins and all want to come again next year. I also noticed this year that more people of color were at the burn than my 1st. Non-people of color response to the camp was interesting. Some sensitive people felt they were somehow excluded even though almost 1/3 of the camp was non-poc. One of our burgins, that was trying to bring more people in for Whine and Wine, was told to go home because of the topic. Interesting behavior. This year there was an incident where a long time (10+) and one few black Rangers was tackled by a Pershing County Officer while diffusing a situation started by a jackass in DPW.

JackTheBandit  ·  2758 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who else went to Burning Man? 1st Time Burner AMA

I was on playa this year. Last year was my first. Camp Lead for People of Color Camp this year. We were on 6:30 btwn Esplanade and A.

he already started doing this in May.

I'm still voting for him and candidates he's supporting down ballot. I'm not aware of a reason to stop supporting Bernie if he's not a major party candidate.

JackTheBandit  ·  2851 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: No laptops in the DJ booth

Culture.

Hip-Hop, House/Techno, Reggae/Dancehall cultures place emphasis on the skill in manipulating the music via a turntable (and CDJs like the club standard Nexus.) Because of that, there is an association of quality with being able to perform well on turntables/CDJ and a mixer. Also, in genres like House/Techno/Reggae/Dancehall, there's a lot of quality music that only exists in a vinyl format for this reason.

JackTheBandit  ·  2852 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: No laptops in the DJ booth

Unless you're doing a live set or some more creative things on 3 decks/ other hardware, the laptop in the booth is amateurish. especially if you're maxing a 2 tracks simultaneously.

Even in genres like Jersery Club, future beats, etc where controllers laptop are popular, experienced selectors and artists move on from that setup.