into the water we drink), and then intricately laid by tooling engineers into the circuit boards and are eventually constructed into millions of graphics card that are burnt out in the pursuit of the magic numbers that feed the appetite of the blockchain's public ledgers. 4/4

rare earth material that is extracted from the bowels of the earth (often in conditions not conducive to life), shipped across the world to one of a handful of sites worldwide that process them (producing in the meantime a sludge of waste product that seep into the ground beneath our feet and (3/?)

The work expended to produce this commodity i.e. the tonnes of leaky by-fuels generated in the expenditure of multi-threaded computational resources is useless expense that the planet can ill-afford at present. Not to mention the mining of samarium, cerium, neodymium, europium and every other (2/?)

A book printed in Pyongyang that I picked up for the novelty of owning something printed in the DPRK, quite a handsome volume tbh

A beautiful soviet textbook on aesthetics