Resources
“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” –Mario Savio
Here you will find many articles, zines, news briefs, and other resources to arm our communities against the menace of Quantum and other dystopian anti-human technologies. We apologize that most of these are currently only available in english. Please distribute amongst your networks!
FAQS – WATER IS LIFE, TECH IS DEATH big zine- FORREALQUANTUM-booklet-1
FAQS – COMMUNIQUE #2 – faqs com 2-booklet-1-1 FORREALQUANTUM-booklet-1
Here is a small, half-page double-sided handout with general info – quantum half pager
Here is another informational zine about the impacts of quantum encroachment in Chicago made by comrades – _Quantum_Zine-
SouthSiders Together put together this one page fact-sheet on the opposing the Illinois Quantum Microelectronics Park !
Sticker Gallery!
Here is some news articles ( if there are paywalls. pass over them with 12ft.io OR archive.is )
Neighbors, Activists Disrupt South Works Quantum Campus Meeting: ‘Don’t Poison Us’
How South Shore Residents Can Speak Out and Make A Difference By Ann Holcomb
Chicago Citizens Group Urges Officials to Slow Down Quantum Computing Development
More info on the techno-fascist right wing, and how Quantum is just another tech hype bubble (such as AI,crypto, Palantir, Clearview), being invested in by the same capitalists whose stated goals are a panopticon surveillance state where ruling classes invade all aspects of privacy and weaponize data towards authoritarian ends.
This is not a new fight- the fight for liberation necessitates critique and the smashing of oppressive technologies that alienate and enshittify the human experience- the Neo Luddites were right!
Note Toward A Neo-Luddite Manifesto
Read up on the brave actions of CLODO – Committee for Liquidation or Subversion of Computers
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/memory-loss-collected-communiques-from-clodo
Rage against the machine: from Luddism to anti-AI resistance
Mainstream media reporting on history of anti-tech movements
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/life-without-technology-t_n_4561571
A history of US Steel, the industrial steel giant that toxicified the land for a hundred years and claimed the lives of hundreds of workers, leaving behind only a brownfield and a foundry wall at Steelworkers Park –
More info on why quantum computers are an absurd tech that may not even work
Quantum Hype has reached the Point of Absurdity – wall street millenial
Quantum Computing – Tech’s longest running hoax