Alex Calderwood
@xenoscope.bsky.social
PhD student | computational media | language arts | writing technology | critical design | new media | games | California
past: journalism | NLP | NYC | MT
future: ¿ installation art | pataphysics | fiction | baking ?
past: journalism | NLP | NYC | MT
future: ¿ installation art | pataphysics | fiction | baking ?
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...
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
en.wikipedia.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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...
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
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.
www.reuters.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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
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
@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
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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
@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
Reposted by Alex Calderwood
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 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
dadakuku.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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 drenched
in thrice datafied dadas
Uses distilled to kuku
wrung wrong
rehydrated wry
— Alex Calderwood
Reposted by Alex Calderwood
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
We interrupt this coverage
motors lower the bulk we all know — Richard Magahiz
dadakuku.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
August 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Reposted by Alex Calderwood
An oldie about trying to text your friends about birds. I can't remember if I ever shared this here.
August 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
An oldie about trying to text your friends about birds. I can't remember if I ever shared this here.
August 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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
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…
everestpipkin.medium.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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
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.
The 'Reader' well lets you to mock a panel of readers to examine specific word choice.
July 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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.
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
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
dl.acm.org
July 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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
w/ @maxkreminski.bsky.social
@cheesetalk.bsky.social
John Joon Young Chung
Melissa Roemmele
Taewook Kim
Reposted by 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
— Alex Calderwood
They found
An undiagnosed tribe somewhere
Between Texarkana and the corposphere
Who pray to the cleansuits
To keep the pathogen in
— Alex Calderwood
…
They foundAn undiagnosed tribe somewhereBetween Texarkana and the corposphereWho pray to the cleansuitsTo keep the pathogen in — Alex Calderwood
dadakuku.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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
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...
dadakuku.com/2025/06/10/a...
Appetizer Hypertrophy
Crabcake shakeweightMakes allGains crustaceous,Makes everyRed LobsterAn iron paradise. — Greyson Meyer
dadakuku.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
My friend Greyson Meyer's microdada poem "Appetizer Hypertrophy" in dadakuku
dadakuku.com/2025/06/10/a...
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
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
taper.badquar.to
June 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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
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)
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)
May 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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)
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)
May 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
These words are dripping with meaning (A rainy visual poetry text editor sketch):
nonsens.ing/editors/conc...
#vispo #newmedia #concretepoetry
nonsens.ing/editors/conc...
#vispo #newmedia #concretepoetry
Concrete Rain
nonsens.ing
May 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
These words are dripping with meaning (A rainy visual poetry text editor sketch):
nonsens.ing/editors/conc...
#vispo #newmedia #concretepoetry
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...
www.zdnet.com/article/anth...
Anthropic finds alarming 'emerging trends' in Claude misuse report
Claude was used to create advanced malware and push paid political agendas on social media.
www.zdnet.com
April 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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...
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...
It’s 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.
slate.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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
I love the idea of bringing two spectacular mornings to the area
March 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"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
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
-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
February 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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
-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
