@murdoc
With the advent of the Scientific Revolution began the death of Nature, the destruction of nature. The scientific obsession with controlling and dominating nature is what has lead us to the point where we are hurtling into the Sixth Great Mass Extinction. Here's a book worth reading for greater context:
The Death of Nature, Carolyn Merchant, Harper and Row, 1980
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Nature
Bitcoin is pure, pure evil
Bitcoin’s energy use per dollar generated now exceeds that of mining copper or gold
Bitcoin mining significantly increases PM2.5 pollution, the tiny airborne particles linked to respiratory and heart disease.
Each bitcoin mining rig has a short shelf life of about 1.3 years. Once outdated, they’re dumped
Bitcoin mining needs massive water cooling systems
"When Australian artificial intelligence expert Dr Kobi Leins declined a medical specialist’s request to use AI transcription software during her child’s upcoming appointment, the practice told her the practitioner required the technology be used and Leins was "welcome to seek an alternative" provider."
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/kobi-refused-a-doctors-ai-she-was-told-to-go-elsewhere.html
We are giving our lives and health over to a piece of super dangerous AI crap. All for supposed efficiency and cost savings and to make the tech bros richer.
"A year ago, a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Ind., was an empty cornfield. Now, seven Amazon data centers rise up from the rich soil, each larger than a football stadium—with plans to build 30. The site powers Anthropic, an A.I. system that aims to match the human brain. The facility will consume 2.2 gigawatts of electricity—enough to power a million homes—and millions of gallons of water annually."
Life next to a US data center
"I can't live in my home with half of my home functioning and no water," Ms Morris says. "I can't drink the water."
"I'm afraid to drink the water, but I still cook with it, and brush my teeth with it," says Morris. "Am I worried about it? Yes."
Meta, however, says its data center and the poor water quality are not connect.
Meta, the truth sayer.
During a global freshwater crisis ...
"From a freshwater perspective, these data centers need to be trained on freshwater. They cannot be trained on any other type of water, because it can corrode the equipment, it can lead to bacterial growth. And most of the time, it actually taps directly into a public drinking water supply, because that is the infrastructure that has been laid to deliver this clean freshwater to different businesses, to different homes."
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/4/empire_of_ai_karen_hao_on
"Typical Chat-GPT query uses about 10 times more energy than Google search That’s just for a basic generative AI function. More advanced queries require substantially more power that have to go through an AI Cluster Farm to process large-scale computing between multiple machines."
"AI is typically deployed in 20-30 cabinet clusters at or above 40 KW per cabinet. This represents a fourfold increase in KW/ cabinet with the deployment of AI. The difference is staggering."
Kuwait bans cryptocurrency mining
Kuwait has banned cryptocurrency mining and is cracking down on the activity due to strains on electricity network
https://www.arabianbusiness.com/money/wealth/alternative-assets/kuwait-bans-cryptocurrency-mining