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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px">Dear SIGCIS community,<br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">This is a late-stage call for SIGCIS participants. Would anybody like to be part of a roundtable with me on ‘computing beyond carbon’ at the SIGCIS meeting? Initial description below.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">I am excited to get to re/connect with folks who are working on *any* dimension or interpretation of this general topic. If you are interested in this topic, please do reach out. Some of my own research is still in the seedling stage so no need to have a perfect thesis (if those exist).<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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Thank you,</p>
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<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">computing beyond carbon<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">A roundtable discussing the relationships between computing, computational resource control, and carbon power. Rooted in over two centuries of technologies built for carbon control, today’s Net Zero campaigns represent a dangerous preoccupation with data manipulations, carbon trading, and carbon control technologies that can distract from justice-centered climate futures. Digital carbon trading is a growing enterprise, which functions at the nexus of digital waste (including carbon emissions) and financial computing.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:14px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">This roundtable includes participants working on the relationships between carbon and computing across historical and geographical contexts.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Theodora Dryer, PhD </span><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">she/her</span><div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#000000" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.theodoradryer.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://www.theodoradryer.com/</a></font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="https://ainowinstitute.org/water-justice-technology.html" target="_blank">Water Justice + Technology</a> @AI Now Institute and @CIEJ</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="https://logicmag.io/kids/big-data-stream/" target="_blank">Big Data Stream </a>@Logic Magazine </div></div></div></div></div>