Alex Calderwood
@xenoscope.bsky.social
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PhD student | pataphysics | poetry | reluctant computer | related nonsense
https://nonsens.ing/
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Alex Calderwood
dadakuku
2 days ago
A new verse from returning contributor Alex Calderwood: ๐ฏ๐๐ฏ๐๐ฏ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ lililysa and lilisaly spool pools of drools in litly italy โ Alex Calderwood
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bububbleses
lililysa and lilisalyspool pools of droolsin litly italy โ Alex Calderwood
http://dadakuku.com/2026/05/21/bububbleses/
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From: One-Way Street, An Index
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A website devote to title sequences, love it.
www.artofthetitle.com
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Art of the Title
https://www.artofthetitle.com/
10 days ago
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too weird enough for you?
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Iโm obsessed with the Bahamut, the uncomprehendingly large fish the universe rides on. More on it in Borgesโ The Book of Imaginary Beings
add a skeleton here at some point
17 days ago
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Alex Calderwood
dadakuku
about 2 months ago
A new verse from returning contributor
@nberlat.bsky.social
: ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ฝ ๐ ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ถ๐น๐ผ๐ [insert someone elseโs poem here] โ Noah Berlatsky
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Help Me Copilot
[insert someone elseโs poem here] โ Noah Berlatsky
http://dadakuku.com/2026/04/08/help-me-copilot/
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reposted by
Alex Calderwood
dadakuku
about 1 month ago
A new verse from returning contributor Alex Calderwood: ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐(๐ฐ๐ต)๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐น ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ๐ป๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ ๐น๐ฎ๐ฝ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ GRAPPLING in your strapping satrapy innumerable intimates served soft numen croodled in loam, hogo and oam STOP โ Alex Calderwood
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the t(ch)earful cromnyomantics for satispassion at laptea
GRAPPLING in your strapping satrapyinnumerable intimates served soft numen croodled in loam, hogo and oamSTOP โ Alex Calderwood
http://dadakuku.com/2026/04/16/the-tchearful-cromnyomantics-for-satispassion-at-laptea/
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reposted by
Alex Calderwood
dadakuku
about 1 month ago
A new verse from returning contributor Rich Magahiz: ๐ ๐ฒ๐บ๐ผ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐น pyrex angels in the mushroom kiln โ Richard Magahiz
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Memo from your smart doorbell
pyrex angels in the mushroom kiln โ Richard Magahiz
http://dadakuku.com/2026/04/11/memo-from-your-smart-doorbell/
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This is a text editor that replaces your words with their synonyms. Try it here:
nonsens.ing/editors/hype...
Who decides that a word is a valid replacement?
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about 2 months ago
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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...
5 months ago
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reposted by
Alex Calderwood
dadakuku
5 months ago
A new verse from returning contributor Alex Calderwood: ๐๐๐ผ ๐น๐ฒ๐ณ๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐โ โknead the scene of bleeping high chides wind charms outta cahoots hills rolling stranger bedfellows need the seen โ Alex Calderwood
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two left eyesโ
โknead the sceneof bleepinghigh chideswind charmsoutta cahootshills rollingstranger bedfellowsneed the seen โ Alex Calderwood
http://dadakuku.com/2025/12/16/two-left-eyes/
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more writer(')s project progress
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5 months ago
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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.
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Score Tracker
https://nonsens.ing/editors/tikal-tok/
6 months ago
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Quipu ๐ชข Itโs disputed as to whether these chord systems, in which tied knots indicate numbers, also contained logograms (like words). The Quechua did not have a โwrittenโ language, but had runners stationed at intervals to deliver messages 100โs of miles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu?w...
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Quipu - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu?wprov=sfti1#Inca_Empire
7 months ago
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worse case it puts like 15% of people out of a job but worse case it crashes the economy when it doesnโt put 15% of people out of a job
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
#enbubblification
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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.
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-lays-groundwork-juggernaut-ipo-up-1-trillion-valuation-2025-10-29/
7 months ago
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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
8 months ago
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reposted by
Alex Calderwood
dadakuku
9 months ago
A new verse from returning contributor
@xenoscope.bsky.social
: ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ Daily Ubus drenched in thrice datafied dadas Uses distilled to kuku wrung wrong rehydrated wry โ Alex Calderwood
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Contents
Daily Ubus drenchedin thrice datafied dadasUses distilled to kukuwrung wrongrehydrated wry โ Alex Calderwood
http://dadakuku.com/2025/09/08/contents/
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reposted by
Alex Calderwood
dadakuku
9 months ago
A new verse from returning contributor Richard Magahiz: ๐ช๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐๐ฝ๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ motors lower the bulk we all know โ Richard Magahiz
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We interrupt this coverage
motors lower the bulk we all know โ Richard Magahiz
http://dadakuku.com/2025/08/29/we-interrupt-this-coverage/
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William S. Burroughs famous cut up, alphabetized. Original:
www.ubu.com/papers/burro...
9 months ago
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Alex Calderwood
Rosemary Mosco
9 months ago
An oldie about trying to text your friends about birds. I can't remember if I ever shared this here.
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A anti-correcting spellcheck? Work in progress
#vispo
#autocorrect
#spellcheck
#texteditors
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9 months ago
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Revisiting Everest Pipkinโs history of genโd text.
everestpipkin.medium.com/a-long-histo...
Having read Tenenโs Literary Theory for Robots, Iโm struck by just how hypertextual gentext histories can be. Spanning Dada and many many religious textual forms (Shoutout to Abulafia) Many winding paths
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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 andโฆ
https://everestpipkin.medium.com/a-long-history-of-generated-poetics-cutups-from-dickinson-to-melitzah-fce498083233
10 months ago
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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.
11 months ago
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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
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Phraselette: A Poetโs Procedural Palette | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715336.3735832
11 months ago
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reposted by
Alex Calderwood
dadakuku
11 months ago
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
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They foundAn undiagnosed tribe somewhereBetween Texarkana and the corposphereWho pray to the cleansuitsTo keep the pathogen in โ Alex Calderwood
http://dadakuku.com/2025/06/25/7591/
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My friend Greyson Meyer's microdada poem "Appetizer Hypertrophy" in dadakuku
dadakuku.com/2025/06/10/a...
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Appetizer Hypertrophy
Crabcake shakeweightMakes allGains crustaceous,Makes everyRed LobsterAn iron paradise. โ Greyson Meyer
https://dadakuku.com/2025/06/10/appetizer-hypertrophy/
11 months ago
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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
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Taper #14
https://taper.badquar.to/14/index.html
11 months ago
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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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)
about 1 year ago
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lovedrops
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about 1 year ago
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nonsens.ing/editors/conc...
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about 1 year ago
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These words are dripping with meaning (A rainy visual poetry text editor sketch):
nonsens.ing/editors/conc...
#vispo
#newmedia
#concretepoetry
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Concrete Rain
https://nonsens.ing/editors/concrete-4/
about 1 year ago
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Reading this article in vein of โlook how much power AI companies have over our private thoughtsโ. I think it helps show how inescapable people find the technology - such that they donโt avoid it even when it may identify them doing clearly malicious things.
www.zdnet.com/article/anth...
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Anthropic finds alarming 'emerging trends' in Claude misuse report
Claude was used to create advanced malware and push paid political agendas on social media.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-finds-alarming-emerging-trends-in-claude-misuse-report/
about 1 year ago
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It's becoming clear that the US is not just a state that supports genocide, but actively wills it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Itโs Hard to Believe This Video Was Filmed in the United States. It No Longer Should Be.
It shows, clearly, the explicit and proud policy of the Trump administration.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-news-ice-immigration-student-rumeysa-ozturk.html
about 1 year ago
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"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
about 1 year ago
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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. - Cortรกzar
over 1 year ago
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articulate?
#vispo
over 1 year ago
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reposted by
Alex Calderwood
TOTO - Visual Artist / Concrete Poet / Typewriter Art
over 1 year ago
โBetween โT I M E and S P A C Eโโ - 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
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my first typocrystolography photos
over 1 year ago
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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
over 1 year ago
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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.
over 1 year ago
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Something about this page feels like a cup of soup on a sick day
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligatur...
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Ligature (writing) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)#cite_note-1
over 1 year ago
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Loving this digital humanities essay! Computer Generated Books: Metonymic, Metaphoric and Operationalist By
@zachwhalen.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
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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?
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Methods of divination - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_divination
over 1 year ago
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The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities - very cool digital humanities projects and fellowships here.
www.iath.virginia.edu/projects.html
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The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
IATH is a research unit of the University of Virginia, founded to explore and develop information technology as a tool for scholarly humanities research. IATH research projects, essays, and documentat...
https://www.iath.virginia.edu/projects.html
over 1 year ago
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The worst part about being a single adult is trying to fit the 'fitted' sheet onto the bed.
over 1 year ago
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De-Bezos your life 1/n
www.abebooks.com
Books books books. Cheaper than Amazon, free shipping, used + new.
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AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles
Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.
https://www.abebooks.com/
over 1 year ago
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"Close the book. Open the text." - Giselle Beiguelman
over 1 year ago
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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 ๐ฅ of executive power
over 1 year ago
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