And here is the link to my #elc2026 paper (and talk)!

Alex Calderwood@xenoscope.bsky.social · last wk.

At the Electronic Literature Organization conference this year, I soft released Drifts, a writing game/toy that has you interact with a slew of strange text editors! feedback appreciated :) nonsens.ing/writers-proj...

At the Electronic Literature Organization conference this year, I soft released Drifts, a writing game/toy that has you interact with a slew of strange text editors! feedback appreciated :) nonsens.ing/writers-proj...

I love that poems I submit are being tagged as AI poetry. But this is only true to the extent that spellcheck is a form of AI! My earlier writing (linked) was very interested in procedural mimicry, what can't be generated. Now I think about happenstance, contingency, and textural interest.

From a Corpus of Bayesian Probabilities

If you’d like to simulate a Markov chains were invented by Henry Ford the industrialist Andrew Carnagie of Carnagie Steel wool spooled is cloth made of wool? Enjambments proliferate and then …

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A new verse from returning contributor Alex Calderwood: 𝗯𝘂𝗯𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘀 lililysa and lilisaly spool pools of drools in litly italy — Alex Calderwood

bububbleses

lililysa and lilisalyspool pools of droolsin litly italy — Alex Calderwood

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From: One-Way Street, An Index

A website devote to title sequences, love it. www.artofthetitle.com

too weird enough for you?

I’m obsessed with the Bahamut, the uncomprehendingly large fish the universe rides on. More on it in Borges’ The Book of Imaginary Beings

dadakuku@dadakuku.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A new verse from returning contributor @xenoscope.bsky.social: 𝗕𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗺𝘂𝘁’𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 Falak, underneath all the patricide and the turtles you’ll always be an early worm to me — Alex Calderwood

A new verse from returning contributor @nberlat.bsky.social: 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗠𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 [insert someone else’s poem here] — Noah Berlatsky

Help Me Copilot

[insert someone else’s poem here] — Noah Berlatsky

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A new verse from returning contributor Alex Calderwood: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁(𝗰𝗵)𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗮 GRAPPLING in your strapping satrapy innumerable intimates served soft numen croodled in loam, hogo and oam STOP — Alex Calderwood

the t(ch)earful cromnyomantics for satispassion at laptea

GRAPPLING in your strapping satrapyinnumerable intimates served soft numen croodled in loam, hogo and oamSTOP — Alex Calderwood

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A new verse from returning contributor Rich Magahiz: 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹 pyrex angels in the mushroom kiln — Richard Magahiz

Memo from your smart doorbell

pyrex angels in the mushroom kiln — Richard Magahiz

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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?

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...

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

two left eyes–

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

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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.

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...

Quipu - Wikipedia

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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 doesn’t put 15% of people out of a job www.reuters.com/business/ope... #enbubblification

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.

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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

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

Contents

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

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A new verse from returning contributor Richard Magahiz: 𝗪𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 motors lower the bulk we all know — Richard Magahiz

We interrupt this coverage

motors lower the bulk we all know — Richard Magahiz

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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 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…

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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.

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

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

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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

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

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

Appetizer Hypertrophy

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

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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