Alex Calderwood

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This is a text editor that shatters your text into a collage of 'synonymous' readings, as you write. Each triangular fragment uses a different set of synonyms, giving you a series of fractured lenses into alternate 'synonymous' presentations of your document.

nonsens.ing/editors/hype...

two left eyes– –knead the sceneof bleepinghigh chideswind charmsoutta cahootshills rollingstranger bedfellowsneed the seen — Alex Calderwood

A new verse from returning contributor Alex Calderwood:

𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗲𝘆𝗲𝘀–

–knead the scene
of bleeping

high chides
wind charms
outta cahoots

hills rolling
stranger bedfellows
need the seen

— Alex Calderwood

more writer(')s project progress

A little kinetic essay featuring readers that iterate through the text of an essay about time at different rates.

nonsens.ing/editors/tika...

The text is William Bronk's essay "At Tikal", about Mayan astrological systems of measure.

So, it’s time to impeach Trump, right? Feels like the energy should have built up by the time the Epstein files are released regardless of what is in them.

@aoc.bsky.social

Just saw this! Thank you thank you!! 🙏

Quipu - Wikipedia

Quipu 🪢

It’s disputed as to whether these chord systems, in which tied knots indicate numbers, also contained logograms (like words). The Quechua did not have a ‘written’ language, but had runners stationed at intervals to deliver messages 100’s of miles.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu?w...

Exclusive: OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation OpenAI is laying the groundwork for an initial public offering that could value the company at up to $1 trillion, three people familiar with the matter said, in what could be one of the biggest IPOs of all time.

worse case it puts like 15% of people out of a job but worse case it crashes the economy when it doesn’t put 15% of people out of a job

www.reuters.com/business/ope...

#enbubblification

Alex Jones calling The Onion his “ideological nemesis“ is too funny

Does anyone have any resources from this talk on Avant Garde Data visualization that was given by @anjchang.bsky.social
@jadiehm.bsky.social
@kleinmatic.bsky.social
It was in the moments that COVID broke out in the US (at the venue).

To share with my creative coding students

#nicar #datavis

Contents Daily Ubus drenchedin thrice datafied dadasUses distilled to kukuwrung wrongrehydrated wry — Alex Calderwood

A new verse from returning contributor @xenoscope.bsky.social :

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

Daily Ubus drenched
in thrice datafied dadas

Uses distilled to kuku
wrung wrong
rehydrated wry

— Alex Calderwood

I have yet to see any investigation into the plain clothes ICE agents - does anyone know of any documentation explaining who authorized it/issued the order/its intent etc? We all know what purposes it serves but who issued the order and can its legality be challenged?

We interrupt this coverage motors lower the bulk we all know — Richard Magahiz

A new verse from returning contributor Richard Magahiz:

𝗪𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲

motors lower the bulk we all know

— Richard Magahiz

William S. Burroughs famous cut up, alphabetized.

Original: www.ubu.com/papers/burro...

A comic called "birds I have seen according to autocorrect". The art shows six birds with a chat message under each one that displays the autocorrected name. The Great Potoo, a speckled bird that resembles a branch, is autocorrected to Great potion. Dunlin, a shorebird with a downturned bill, is Dunkin'. Garganey, a colorful duck, is Gargantuan. Brambling, a small brownish songbird, is Bra bling. Pomarine Jaeger, a fierce sharp-winged seabird, is Pomading Jaegermeister. Sora, a little rail with a lemon yellow bill, is Soda.

An oldie about trying to text your friends about birds. I can't remember if I ever shared this here.

A anti-correcting spellcheck? Work in progress

#vispo #autocorrect #spellcheck #texteditors

A Long History of Generated Poetics: cutups from Dickinson to Melitzah This is a transcription of a talk originally given at Wordhack, a monthly event at Babycastles exploring the intersection of language and…

Revisiting Everest Pipkin’s history of gen’d text. everestpipkin.medium.com/a-long-histo... Having read Tenen’s Literary Theory for Robots, I’m struck by just how hypertextual gentext histories can be. Spanning Dada and many many religious textual forms (Shoutout to Abulafia)
Many winding paths

Phraselette: A Poet’s Procedural Palette | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Some design recommendations for (chat and autonomous) writing tools

Giving a DIS attendant some nonsense. Phraselette loves made up words.

A bit more about the creative word search tools in Phraselette:

The 'Reader' well lets you to mock a panel of readers to examine specific word choice.

Phraselette: A Poet’s Procedural Palette | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Phraselette is a writing tool/design intervention into AI writing. It provides a palette of word search procedures: find related phrases by style, context, sound, vibe dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

w/ @maxkreminski.bsky.social
@cheesetalk.bsky.social
John Joon Young Chung
Melissa Roemmele
Taewook Kim

… They foundAn undiagnosed tribe somewhereBetween Texarkana and the corposphereWho pray to the cleansuitsTo keep the pathogen in — Alex Calderwood

A new verse from new contributor @xenoscope.bsky.social:

They found
An undiagnosed tribe somewhere
Between Texarkana and the corposphere
Who pray to the cleansuits
To keep the pathogen in

— Alex Calderwood

Appetizer Hypertrophy Crabcake shakeweightMakes allGains crustaceous,Makes everyRed LobsterAn iron paradise. — Greyson Meyer

My friend Greyson Meyer's microdada poem "Appetizer Hypertrophy" in dadakuku

dadakuku.com/2025/06/10/a...

@crissxross.bsky.social‬'s "The Vowel Carries the Tone" is a technical-conceputal-chromatic-oral weaving that is just really tight and boggling.

Moonshot Sonnet 2.0” A poem by Joses Ho for Taper #14

Joses Ho's Moonshot Sonnet 2.0 is cleverrr  

taper.badquar.to/14/moonshot_...

Every Sonnet Must Rot (Death, Be Not Proud) A poem by Katy Gero for Taper #14

no no no not yet I'm not ready!

Katy Ilonka Gero's Every Sonnet Must Rot (Death, Be Not Proud) is so punchy

taper.badquar.to/14/every_son...

One Bound One Naught” A poem by John Cayley Taper #14

Procedural texts have to be really engaging for my brain to take them at all seriously. Invoking "Void nothing" as through a prayer did it for me.

taper.badquar.to/14/one_bound...

(John Cayley ofc)