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Friends, fags, and futures against Quantum. Stop the development of the disastrous Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park proposed for Chicago's South Shore neighborhood! - The lakefront is for people not for tech. #NoQuantumCampus #StopTechCity
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Friends Against Quantum - FAQs @antiquantum.bsky.social · Mar 18
Welcome Friends, Fags, Futures Against Quantum!

FAQs- a platform for news in the fight against the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Campus in Chicago’s South Side. We post communiques, zines, and articles to arm our communities to fight against encroachment on our lakefront.
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New AI supercomputer dropped-Argonne to partner w Oracle and Nvidia

“These systems will be a powerhouse for scientific and technological innovation. Thanks to President Trump, we’re bringing new computing capacity online faster than ever before and turning shared innovation into national strength.”
October 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I also asked diablo union organizers about protests of microsoft's contracts with israel, which have received vocal support from arkane, another msoft studio. the diablo union is nascent and has yet to discuss that issue as a committee, but organizers hope to raise it

aftermath.site/diablo-union...
Currently, Microsoft is facing scrutiny from within and without for one of the least ethical uses of AI imaginable: Facilitating Israel’s genocide in Gaza via Azure Cloud and generative AI-powered surveillance tech. No Azure For Apartheid, a movement made up of current and former Microsoft employees, has repeatedly protested these military contracts, recently leading to arrests and firings. On the gaming side of things, unionized workers at Arkane, a Microsoft-owned studio, have aligned themselves with No Azure For Apartheid and demanded that Microsoft cease being an “accomplice of a genocide.” On this front, it’s still early days for the Diablo union, which has yet to discuss Microsoft’s involvement with Israel as a committee. However, organizers recognize the cause as worthy, and they hope to bring it forward in the future. "It would be a discussion we would have once we've certified the rest of our unit to discuss ... if we're able to support the larger movements across Microsoft,” said Yeo. “But it's definitely something we'd be interested in talking to other units about, because I feel pretty strongly about it, and honestly [it's] insane if people don't." "I've been following it in the news and watching the [protests] that happened in Redmond,” said Hoefling. “It makes me think about, once we formalize, if we were to do something like that in [the Diablo team], having everything certified protects us where we can do something like that."
August 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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while organizers plan to survey members to assemble a list of high-priority concerns to bring to the bargaining table, preliminary conversations suggest that pay, AI, crediting, and remote work will be focal points

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AI is another potential locus of conflict, especially considering how tyrannically AI-obsessed Microsoft has become in recent years. Yeo said that in their experience, AI has certainly found its way into Blizzard’s development pipeline over time, but so far, it’s yet to worm its tendrils around the final game. “[Generative AI] is starting to creep in a lot,” said Yeo. “I can only speak for art, where in the visual development stage, if people don't feel like they have concept art support, they'll just toss things into Stable Diffusion or whatever and then do mood boards and stuff and give that to the teams to give them guidance.” They added, however, that various materials posted to internal channels make it seem like management is “signaling that they want to use or integrate more [AI] into the pipelines in the future,” which is why it’s important for the union to take a stand now. "There is definitely a growing concern across most of the artists like 'Is this going to replace us?'” said Yeo. “And speaking to Zenimax workers, they were able to negotiate for better guidelines around AI usage that focuses on using it as a tool and not a replacement – and also that it's not used to harm workers, and if it does harm workers, that the people creating the tools can be held accountable."
August 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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like the overwatch and world of warcraft teams before them, over 450 diablo devs have voted to unionize. last year's mass microsoft layoffs convinced them to start organizing, but this year's kicked things into high gear
“I was a long-term remote employee living in New York, and I just happened to be on campus the week CWA was there,” Skye Hoefling, senior software engineer II and fellow Diablo union OG, told Aftermath. “The next week, the layoffs happened. The person I was moving in with worked on Battle.net, and they lost their job. ... That really lit a fire for me of 'We should do something.'” More rounds of layoffs, regrettably, followed in 2024 and 2025, bringing the tally up to over 3,000 across Microsoft’s gaming division since the beginning of 2024. July’s layoffs, especially, sealed the deal for some Diablo team members. "[Recent layoffs] did actually galvanize a lot of people,” said Yeo. “There are some people that we had been speaking to that were very on the fence about it, and that was sort of a catalyst for them – or I guess the last straw. It feels like every time it happens, the noose tightens a little more for anybody left behind.”
August 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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They just got caught lying about giving Feds direct access when they had been pretty unequivocal that the Feds did not have direct access so…
alexhairysun.bsky.social Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · Aug 28
Flock is apparently Not Happy™️ about Evanston trying to terminate its ALPR contract early, and sent a letter from its chief legal ofc. that a) "denies categorically" they broke any laws or contract terms and b) argues the city failed to let them "fulfill our obligations" to cure an alleged breach.
Flock challenges city's termination of contract for license plate readers - Evanston RoundTable
Flock Safety, the private surveillance vendor hired to provide automated license plate readers to police in Evanston and thousands of other communities,
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August 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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What an image
(J. Scott Applewhite, AP)
August 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Not an exaggeration. If anything, this understates how unhinged the video is. It is, quite literally, five white guys talking about how to free the states from the burdens of the 14th Amendment so churches can effectively be given ownership over "gangbangers in Baltimore."
bill-of-lefts.bsky.social No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · Aug 27
At around the 22-25 minute marks, Yarvin, JD Vance’s court philosopher, proposes a system where black people would be made wards of religious ministers, who could force them to work as indentured servants and require them to submit to 24/7 “air-tag” monitoring.
adamkeiper.com Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · Aug 26
It's amusing to observe Curtis Yarvin in this setting. He seems quite in love with the sound of his own voice. And most of his utterances are the sort of banalities you'd expect of a recent autodidact—wowed by the most superficial connections, and lacking deeper contextual knowledge.
August 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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A 1955 writer casually dropping a “Germans tended to go along with Nazis just like your all-American wife goes along with segregation” is both the answer and the question for “how we got here”
katz.theracket.news Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Aug 27
Hell of a passage to read in twenty twenty five
to Chicago or vice versa, the locat and, by transference, the community, too. The German community-the rest of the seventy million Germans, apart from the million or so who operated the whole machinery of Nazism-had nothing to do except not to interfere. Absolutely nothing was expected of them except to go on as they had, paying their taxes, reading their local paper, and listening to the radio. Everybody attended local celebrations of national occasions-hadn't the schools and the stores always been closed for the Kaiser's birthday?—so you attended, too. Everybody contributed money and time to worthy purposes, so you did, too. In America your wife collects or distributes clothing, gives an afternoon a week to the Red Cross or the orphanage or the hospital; in Germany she did the same thing in the Nazi Frauenbund, and for the same reasons. The Frauen-bund, like the Red Cross, was patriotic and humanitarian; 57 The Lives Men Lead did your wife ask the Red Cross if "Negro" plasma was segregated from "white"? One minded one's own business in Germany, with or without a dictatorship. The random leisure which leads Americans into all sorts of afterhour byways, constructive, amusing, or ruinous, did not exist for most Germans. One didn't go out of one's way, on a day off, to "look for trouble" thoro loon ta
August 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
anthonymoser.com Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 27
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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August 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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BREAKING: death of anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles

@lapublicpress.bsky.social is reporting Skid Row resident Adrienne Villa was found dead in her jail cell while in LASD custody at the courthouse, hours after pleading not guilty to over a dozen charges of alleged assault/battery on a cop.
One woman among those charged died in custody while detained at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, shortly after she attended a hearing on June 17 during which she pleaded not guilty to 14 charges, 10 of which carried enhancements under California’s Three Strikes Law for prior felony convictions. During that hearing, she was remanded to custody and had bail set at $1.33 million. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant Daniel Vizcarra told LA Public Press that she was found hanging in a cell lockup, later that day. The coroner pronounced her dead just before 4 a.m. the next morning, on June 18, 2025. screenshot of arrest record from 6/12/25 arrested at 725 by LAPD central division & taken to LAPD jail arrest record from 6/13/25 arrested at 516 am by CHP & brought to LAPD 77th street
August 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
antiquantum.bsky.social
Today @duckworth.senate.gov is in Japan to hobnob w developers of quantum to bring attention + tech to #Chicago for the boondoggle that is the IQMP. Let her know that the people oppose this project! #StopQuantum #StopTechFascism

'It's an arms race we cannot afford to lose, for national security'
Duckworth heads to Japan to boost Illinois' quantum chances in race against China
The trip marks the Illinois senator's 12th trip to Asia and 14th congressional member delegation trip since 2018.
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August 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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This is literally what the United States did to the Indigenous nations of this stolen land.
Leaked map shows Israeli proposal to force Gazans into strips of land If ceasefire talks fail, the devastated territory will be divided into military zones, with Palestinians placed in cordoned-off sections Israeli tanks and bulldozers deployed near the Gaza Strip border, smoke billowing from destroyed buildings in the background. Israeli armour on the border with Gaza on Saturday, as black smoke rises over burning buildings in the territory beyond JACK GUEZ/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Gabrielle Weiniger, Tel Aviv Saturday May 17 2025, 4.00pm BST, The Sunday Times The Israeli military is proposing to force civilians in Gaza into three tightly controlled strips of land separated by four occupied zones if a ceasefire deal with Hamas does not materialise in the coming days.
May 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Posting this overhead of Steelworkers Park / Park 566 / site of US Steel for no reason in particular #StopQuantum #AntiQuantum #NoKillerQuantum #Chicago
May 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Report on Disruption of PsiQuantum Event in Chicago

"Colorful banners and signs held by people had the words, “Invest in People, Not Quantum,” “Quantum=Displacement: The Lake is for the People, Not Your Supercomputer" and “Love Mishigami, Hate Killer Quantum” while others played music and chanted.
Report on Disruption of PsiQuantum Event in Chicago
Report on recent protest and disruption of a meeting about an upcoming massive development project in Chicago. Originally posted to Unsalted Counter-Info.  We offer to you on “World Quantum Day” this ...
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May 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Trump, the Tech-Right, and the Post-Neoliberal Order
In this episode of The Beautiful Idea, we present an interview with author Jamie Merchant, author of Engame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline and numerous articles at The Brooklyn Rail. Merchant argues that we have entered a post-neoliberal age, with both Trump and Biden abandoning many of the touch-stones of corporate globalization that defined the... Read Full Article
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March 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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A Discussion on “InterRebellium” with subMedia
Join us as we sit down with members of the subMedia collective to discuss their upcoming series InterRebellium. In this conversation we run down the history of subMedia, beginning in the 90s rave scene, the development of anarchist media in the first 25 years of this century, and what the future holds. Finally we discuss... Read Full Article
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May 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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erininthemorning.com
In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect.

This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.

www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
May 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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This is an incredible story. Extremely well written deep dive into an entire generation captured by generative AI. Even professors are using AI to grade AI written papers.

Wild.
May 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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NEW: The Great Lakes hold 95% of all the surface freshwater in the United States.

Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab.

Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.

My story for @propublica.org
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...
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May 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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there are a lot of problems with this article and its sources, including the fact "10 times as much energy" is an estimate from *checks footnotes* the chairman of alphabet

but the biggest problem is that it asks bad questions and answers them with bad frames
May 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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antiquantum.bsky.social
When men in suits applaud each other for tearing up your lakeshore park, your gut is right- that it's wrong to make Chicago's Southside the next Silicon Valley- Techbro gentrification coming this year-unless we SHUT IT DOWN! #NoQuantumCampus #SaveSteelworkersPark
blockclubchicago.org/2024/10/18/s...
South Siders Urge Slowdown On Quantum Computing Campus
Some South Chicago neighbors are calling for a community benefits agreement, saying local and government officials are moving too quickly to develop the former U.S. Steel South Works site.
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March 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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“When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money.”
Graffiti found in amphitheater in Menomonie, Wisconsin
April 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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"Death to Politics, Long Live Anarchy"

Mural in Sydney with a burning pile of electoral propaganda from various Australian political parties.
May 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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antiquantum.bsky.social
But as for AI, well, the bots can fuck off, that's just accelerating further alienation for us all, in labor for folks losing jobs, in matters of the soul when we rely on computers for meaning, the environment which burns for google. Touch grass friend, we don't need this AI thing
May 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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antiquantum.bsky.social
If only it were for medicine, but let me ask you, are the problems with access to health really because we haven't gotten there technologically yet? The US is shit for providing coverage and its clearly getting worse, what we need is greater access, universal health. We don't need quantum for that
May 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM