For perhaps the first time in human history, a google search has produced a single result. Has this ever happened to you

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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 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

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

My friend Greyson Meyer's microdada poem "Appetizer Hypertrophy" in dadakuku dadakuku.com/2025/06/10/a...

Two of my digital poems were published today! A Prism: taper.badquar.to/14/prism.html Ways of Knowing: taper.badquar.to/14/ways_of_k... Taper is a really interesting publication of tiny poem-programs (each is less than 2058 bytes). I can't wait to see the rest. taper.badquar.to/14/index.html

MASCHETIC BEGANGES AESTHETIC DISTANCES HAREER TRESSES indecent exposure. (The above was produced when Alex Calderwood passed Rosmarie Waldrop's distortion of James Camp's poem thorugh Apple Technologies' optical character recognition)

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These words are dripping with meaning (A rainy visual poetry text editor sketch): nonsens.ing/editors/conc... #vispo #newmedia #concretepoetry

Reading this article in vein of “look how much power AI companies have over our private thoughts”. I think it helps show how inescapable people find the technology - such that they don’t avoid it even when it may identify them doing clearly malicious things. www.zdnet.com/article/anth...

It's becoming clear that the US is not just a state that supports genocide, but actively wills it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

"The 2025 Pop-Up Breakfast Series will bring two spectacular mornings to the area ..." I love the idea of bringing two spectacular mornings to the area

You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. -Rilke But in the other space, where the cosmic wind that Rilke felt pass over his head blows, Dame Imagination does not go. Ho detto. - Cortázar

articulate? #vispo

‘Between ‘T I M E and S P A C E’’ - 2024. Typewriter concrete poem, scanned and printed with white ink #art #oc #arte #photo #vispo #poem #poetry #sketch #culture #design #gallery #artist #artwork #fineart #abstract #artshare #writing #minimalism #modernart #typography #typewriter #image

my first typocrystolography photos

Rosmarie Waldrop's Aesthetic Distances from her 1970 collection Camp Printing (which is incredible) Probably the closest I've ever felt to having my *new ideas* feel like they have already been had

My #Obsidian workflow has recently changed just about everything in my life. The structures I've built into it have given me my memory back. My 'slow brain' has become more pronounced. I'm much happier. Aside from a mindmap, I've been using it for daily note reviews, a crucial life discovery.

Something about this page feels like a cup of soup on a sick day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligatur...

Loving this digital humanities essay! Computer Generated Books: Metonymic, Metaphoric and Operationalist By @zachwhalen.bsky.social

WIKI OF THE DAY: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods... Clear stand outs? - chresmomancy: divination by the ravings of lunatics - gyromancy: by dizziness - shufflemancy: shuffling an iPod/playlist to come up with an answer to a question - chartomancy: things on paper - enochian chess: 4 player chess?

The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities - very cool digital humanities projects and fellowships here. www.iath.virginia.edu/projects.html

The worst part about being a single adult is trying to fit the 'fitted' sheet onto the bed.

De-Bezos your life 1/n www.abebooks.com Books books books. Cheaper than Amazon, free shipping, used + new.

"Close the book. Open the text." - Giselle Beiguelman

Not to be a fatalist, but why is the main conversation on the street right now NOT that the Supreme Court has been lost? Every plan to steer away from dogma, tyranny and authoritarianism has already been halted by this most pressing political issue: the potential explosion 💥 of executive power

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Is #openframeworks the most performant creative coding environment for text? I've been a p5 programmer for a long time but it feels like it's text interfaces are... not great. Or should I look at other canvas text interfaces? I want to draw letters into looping river like structures.

This is a very special page www.compart.com/en/unicode/U...

I heard the phrase "locally produced artificial intelligence" on the radio today.

a cosmos, thomas a. clark www.ubu.com/media/text/v...

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. - Rabindranath Tagore I can't read this aloud without my eyes welling up.

Quadruple speak: when you mention 'doublespeak' to diminish a claim made in earnest.

TODAYS LINGUISTIC TIDBIT an order 2 heterogram (or isogram) is a a word in which every letter appears twice Shanghaiings Vivienne Caucasus intestine bilabial sestettes

Trying to understand the control surfaces of this music generation app. (do we hate it??). I wrote a script to randomize lines of poetry I've written and came up with these oddities. Each line was written by me, but the music/voices were generated. suno.com/song/f5157a1... suno.com/song/32fd955...

A strange piece of writing I came up with after playing with Wordcraft, which uses an AI writing assistant and a really interesting interface. The personality of the AI in the interface is... a daydreaming student trying to do an impersonation of a gay version of Cormac McCarthy. Pretty great.