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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Sep 7

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?

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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · Aug 29

A new verse from returning contributor Richard Magahiz:

𝗪𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲

motors lower the bulk we all know

— Richard Magahiz

motors lower the bulk we all know — Richard Magahiz

A Long History of Generated Poetics: cutups from Dickinson to Melitzah

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Aug 29

William S. Burroughs famous cut up, alphabetized.

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

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · Aug 21

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

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.

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Aug 19

A anti-correcting spellcheck? Work in progress

#vispo #autocorrect #spellcheck #texteditors

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

This is a transcription of a talk originally given at Wordhack, a monthly event at Babycastles exploring the intersection of language and…

everestpipkin.medium.com

Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jul 10

Some design recommendations for (chat and autonomous) writing tools

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

Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jul 10

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.

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jul 9

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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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

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

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 24

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

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

Appetizer Hypertrophy

Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

A poem by Joses Ho for Taper #14

Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

Joses Ho's Moonshot Sonnet 2.0 is cleverrr

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

Moonshot Sonnet 2.0”

Every Sonnet Must Rot (Death, Be Not Proud)

Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

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...

A poem by Katy Gero for Taper #14

A poem by John Cayley Taper #14

Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

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)

One Bound One Naught”

A poem by john domenico calvelli for Taper #14

Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

David Thomas Henry Wright's digital fridge magnet poem as satisfying and bittersweet as the best chocolate taper.badquar.to/14/adulting....

adulting

A poem by Helen Shewolfe Tseng for Taper #14

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

*2048 bytes

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

Helen Shewolfe Tseng's (@wolfchirp.bsky.social)
"invitation for the viewer to bring awareness to your own ambient soundscapes as you watch the poem unfold"

is really meditative and provoking
taper.badquar.to/14/field_son...

Field Sonata

A poem by Vivien Ngo for Taper #14

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

I really love love this one from
@vivngo.bsky.social

taper.badquar.to/14/smile_lin...

Smile Lines

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

Taper #14