TECH WONT SAVE US – ALL COMPUTERS ARE BROKEN – TOWARDS AN ANTI-QUANTUM FUTURE
Writing back to you folks because we know that somewhen out there, you have heard us! And your actions have generated blips in the timeline, we are already seeing changes on the ground from when we are writing to you, the near future, this is more than many of us can ask or have ever hoped for.. But I’m not sure if many are moving with the understanding of whats at stake here! Psi Quantum, Chicago Quantum Exchange, Related Midwest, IBM, the Department of Defense, they all want to build the biggest Pandoras Box ever, a “supercomputer” (so original), and they want to absolutely ruin a perfectly serene lakefront to do it! All in a major city, surrounded by neighbors who were never asked if they even wanted a Quantum nightmare in their backyard in the first place! It’s not hypothetical – this would cause displacement for lower-income community members, power grid issue for the unprecedented levels of energy needed to run the cryo-chambers, releasing so many unknown Quantum pollutions into the waters and kicking up epic levels of toxic dust in the soil from the massive historic industrial steelworks on this very site. All bad news! Coming soon to Chicago’s lakefront in the South Side- that is, unless we halt this history altering dystopian tech from ever being built – unless YOU stop it from being built!
We see the people shouting down the developers, the alders, the exploiters, even infiltrating their private soirées and meetings, sometimes for intel, other-times for disruption. We see the banner drops, the community soups, the work-shops, the canvassing, the rallies, the occupations, the sabotages. Something is happening. This is all key. But be aware, those esoteric tech-fetishists in suits, they who forlorn the future of our waters to Quantum, they only pretend to listen to listen at these community town halls, this is a tired old strategy and they are terrible at it! Their always do the same thing, rush through the permits, break ground before they can stop it, pretend to listen to the community later, make a deal, the illusion of agreement and satisfaction of all parties(that matter, that money). Maybe you folks don’t yet know, but history informs us of what we have seen happening here, the “Community Benefit Agreements”, will be eventually decided upon by a few self-appointed community leaders, but will actually be made by those most vested into the gentrification- They just might build an expensive computer, but they still can’t crack the code on how to DEVELOP without DISPLACEMENT. Why is that? They are thinking about the wrong things.
This one should be obvious though, nobody in Chicago is going to see a benefit from a “supercomputer“, we won’t get to use it, even though they will be dumping their Quantum super-positions into the great lakes. There will be guards outside the facility keeping the people out, there will be military trucks around “for security”. Wasn’t a security issue before the literal Pentagon put a DARPA Quantum test site in the middle of our city, essentially putting a target on the South Side for it’s sudden significance in the realm of cyber-wars, increasing de-stabilization of global theaters! And hardly anyone really wants this Quantum nonsense in the city! Just go out and talk to your neighbors(this is also key!), you will find, people don’t know why this tech is good, but they will understand that they were never asked until it was all too late and the project begins moving forward anyway. And while perhaps there will be some from the neighborhood who will make a deal with the developers, we are telling you now- any such “Community BenefitsAgreement” made will be piecemeal, wholly inadequate, insulting, and will soon be broken and will be looked back upon as a huge mistake! When they say they will build affordable housing, it never is! When they say the jobs will come from the community, they never do! When they say this computer will work, it never will! Not for you! Who will it serve? Who will it protect? Not you!
Never compromise in defense of the lake! No one has simply asked ” do we even need this?” “What is the clear use of this machine?” “Is there a better use for 9 billion$ ? This is just a shiny new shitty NFT, another crypto bubble soon-to-be rug pulled- it might even be as dangerous as AI! These computer hucksters are hawking this techno-fad to the city, and they just might succeed simply because people like to say “Quantum”! We kid, mostly out of the extreme anxious absurdity of the world we live in, but please don’t take our sardonic tone as anything other than an expression of the deepest sincerity- We are telling you, nothing is worth more than the water. NOTHING. And yet they would poison the lake and pave over the historic US Steelworks site, right next to tranquil Steelworkers Park, a gift given to us as forgiveness for the mistakes made by the industrialists of the past, an offering to the working-classes to value their time, their labor, their space, their environment, their lake – DEFEND YOUR PARK from the (at best) naive science obsessianados, who want some abysmal technology in their backyard, on our beautiful lakefront, on Mishigami.
In addition to the disgrace of Quantum gentrification and extreme adverse environmental effects on Chicago’s South Shore community(and beyond), the technological significance of a working Quantum “supercomputer” in the hands of the United State’s Department of Defense demands that every person of conscience who opposes the increasingly accelerated and endless asymmetrical war must oppose Quantum. In your era, a vicious fascist authoritarian wields the helm of power like a mad toddler king. Do you want to see how tech overlords intend on controlling our lives in the post AI, post Quantum era? Damn the optimists, it can always get worse, another Pandora’s Box always lurks around the corner of the future. It’s ridiculous to think that stopping an emerging scientific or technological field is difficult or impossible. History is rife with those who knew, that burgeoning technologies summon greater and more profound nihilistic alienation, more cable-chains to lock us to the machine, depriving us of our humanity, entertaining and killing us simultaneously. And people did fight, we live in a world that could have been worse, much worse, if you could believe it. But once this Quantum genie is out of the bottle, we cannot put it back in, even if most agree to, others will use it for their own selfish ends and we must keep up.
Formerly we understood this as a dead-ended cold-war realpolitik, and wow, just look at how peaceful our societies are in the nuclear age! It does begs the question; why is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? The answer is in it’s own myths and biases, that suicidal drive towards the bottom line- It’s baked in. It’s not a bug, its a feature. We all can see the regressing to feudalism occurring in your time-These rich techno-fascists love the idea of their own private empire. Most will crumble under their own crapulence, but they all would take down the entire world in pursuit of the chase of the dragon. This quantum tech is the perfect super-weapon to be wielded by super-villians like Musk and Trump, Thiel and Yarvin, Bukele and Netanyahu, people who have more power than governments(which are bad enough already), and oh, they literally want to live forever, on Mars, lol. They are obsessed with longtermism, the so-called “survival of the human race”, and all that is weird as fuck!
But DON’T PANIC! – There is a long history and future of beating back dystopian tech, and I, my friends and comrades, after all that has happened and before what’ll come, still believe that we can win!
Anti-quantum resistance has already begun. PsiQuantums closed-door hobnobbing sessions have been infiltrated and disrupted, chasing down the developers and investors, shaking fists outside their homes, murmurs of imminent escalations have begun, insurrections whispered in secret, fires brewing along the lake….it is inspiring and, safe to say, the movement is growing and shows potential to change the course, but will it all have enough bite? Is peaceful protest and disruptive community meetings enough to stir the hearts and minds of the powerful, prompting them to act against their own economical interests and stop the development on the land? Even if we craft the most perfect message and deliver it to our rulers, no, they will not be swayed so easily. Begging them to change the system has not worked, past or present. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them” – Frederick Douglass, 1857
YES, we’re urging people to escalate the stakes against all the moving parts of their quantum operation. There are many vulnerabilities, and one wrench in the works slows the whole process down, maybe it just takes a little sabotage at the right angle, at the right time… Look to the brave direct actions of CLODO, the Committee for Liquidation or Subversion of Computers. This is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of those who have picked up the fight, ten-thousand revolutions against tech occur each day without being recorded, that is a good thing. You never know which one will be the one to break their tide. Just use the bestest practices of operational security, always assume they are monitoring, and remember, just because they haven’t nailed you right now, and you think you got away, they still can do the “Gather now, decrypt later” tactic! With this stupidcomputer, all our futures are damned!
As the old saying goes, it’s never too late, until it is. They said ground would break in February 2025, but that date keeps getting pushed back. Time is always against us, but the longer it takes for them to begin, the more chance the land has to defend itself. You can still go there, which is something that cannot ever be said once this machine comes into existence. You must go there and take in the lakefront’s natural splendor, listen; the only sounds heard are of the birds and the whispers of secrets between friends. But if the developers have their wish, this would be replaced with the deathdrone hum of a million qubits crunching calculations so mind-bogglingly large, that Quantum propagandists pompously brag in AI written articles that it actually proves the existence of multiverses! All this to be cooled by Mishigami’s waters, to temperatures colder than the vast emptiness of outer space, a disgustingly horrific thought. All over the world, the wild is under attack, and yes, re-wilding is inevitable, we are here urging you to act now to lessen the damage that Quantum and other bullshit tech will most definitely unleash upon the ecosystems. We hope you get this message.
Deny the facts of their sciences, beat back the Quantum threat. Lock in. See you in the last newspaper those nerds will ever print.
Your lovely luddite, from then till when, forever yours.