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Alex Calderwood

@xenoscope

PhD student | pataphysiques | computer poetry | related nonsense

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#chroniclesofbone #cob #freepikoriginal | Kavan Cardoza | 224 comments Episode Five of the Freepik original series is here! We hit the seas of the Chronicles of Bone universe to meet the infamous Captain Hook! Created with the tools inside Freepik this episode explores t...

it looks like a movie, but is entirely bereft. Feels like it is an exact mirror of AI text aesthetics in film form. A curiosity, but not a happy one

www.linkedin.com/posts/kavan-...

06.03.2026 16:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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their whistlist

06.01.2026 00:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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scientifew

06.01.2026 00:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

05.01.2026 23:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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two left eyesโ€“ โ€“knead the sceneof bleepinghigh chideswind charmsoutta cahootshills rollingstranger bedfellowsneed the seen โ€” Alex Calderwood

A new verse from returning contributor Alex Calderwood:

๐˜๐˜„๐—ผ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐˜€โ€“

โ€“knead the scene
of bleeping

high chides
wind charms
outta cahoots

hills rolling
stranger bedfellows
need the seen

โ€” Alex Calderwood

16.12.2025 16:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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more writer(')s project progress

14.12.2025 00:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

25.11.2025 06:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So, itโ€™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

13.11.2025 13:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just saw this! Thank you thank you!! ๐Ÿ™

05.11.2025 18:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Quipu - Wikipedia

Quipu ๐Ÿชข

Itโ€™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 โ€˜writtenโ€™ language, but had runners stationed at intervals to deliver messages 100โ€™s of miles.

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

05.11.2025 18:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 doesnโ€™t put 15% of people out of a job

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

#enbubblification

30.10.2025 10:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Alex Jones calling The Onion his โ€œideological nemesisโ€œ is too funny

14.10.2025 15:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

07.10.2025 17:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Contents Daily Ubus drenchedin thrice datafied dadasUses distilled to kukuwrung wrongrehydrated wry โ€” Alex Calderwood

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

๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€

Daily Ubus drenched
in thrice datafied dadas

Uses distilled to kuku
wrung wrong
rehydrated wry

โ€” Alex Calderwood

08.09.2025 15:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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?

07.09.2025 15:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We interrupt this coverage motors lower the bulk we all know โ€” Richard Magahiz

A new verse from returning contributor Richard Magahiz:

๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ

motors lower the bulk we all know

โ€” Richard Magahiz

29.08.2025 15:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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William S. Burroughs famous cut up, alphabetized.

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

29.08.2025 16:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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.

21.08.2025 14:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 636 ๐Ÿ” 148 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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A anti-correcting spellcheck? Work in progress

#vispo #autocorrect #spellcheck #texteditors

19.08.2025 20:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 andโ€ฆ

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

04.08.2025 15:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Phraselette: A Poetโ€™s Procedural Palette | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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

10.07.2025 08:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Some design recommendations for (chat and autonomous) writing tools

10.07.2025 08:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Giving a DIS attendant some nonsense. Phraselette loves made up words.

10.07.2025 08:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

10.07.2025 08:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Phraselette: A Poetโ€™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

09.07.2025 11:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€ฆ They foundAn undiagnosed tribe somewhereBetween Texarkana and the corposphereWho pray to the cleansuitsTo keep the pathogen in โ€” 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

โ€” Alex Calderwood

25.06.2025 15:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Appetizer Hypertrophy Crabcake shakeweightMakes allGains crustaceous,Makes everyRed LobsterAn iron paradise. โ€” Greyson Meyer

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

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

24.06.2025 05:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

18.06.2025 17:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Moonshot Sonnet 2.0โ€ A poem by Joses Ho for Taper #14

Joses Ho's Moonshot Sonnet 2.0 is cleverrr ย 

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

17.06.2025 19:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

17.06.2025 19:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0