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Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Perhaps the irony is that the Pope, many rabbis, and Jorge Luis Borges all actually know several of the same languages despite that famous building collapse in Genesis
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-pope-found-babel-in-ai-heres-what-rabbis-saw/
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
My book The Truelist, generated by a stand-along one-page Python program, is available now for 20% off #poetry
https://asterismbooks.com/product/the-truelist-nick-montfort
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
If you are or were excited about a movie release this weekend, you may want to play my most recent (although not very recent) interactive fiction
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
If you happen to be interested in searching for information on “explosive ordnance disposal” this isn’t a good day to be typing that first word into an autocompleting search engine
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
This (the fourth thunderword as it appears in the book) has to be a mistake:
Bladyughfoulmoeck-lenburgwhurawhorascortastrumpapornanennykocksapastippata-ppatupperstrippuckputtanach
I appreciate the tip to the pata(physics), but how can you hyphenate a word so that “pp” ends up at the beginning of a line?
Wouldn’t that part be hyphenated -tip-pa-tap-pat- ?
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
In exactly one month —
Galinsky’s POETRY IN NEW YORK, Thursday August 13, 8-9:30pm, featuring — ME
10 poets, 5 minutes each, a free event
Book Club Bar, 197 E 3rd St by Ave B
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
On July 16, in a 10:30am-11:30am session, I will be speaking at the online ELO Conference:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/
My short talk is “Narrative Nubs: Systematic Sketches of Story Systems.” I’ll present a major project we are undertaking at @cdn@fediscience.org and my lab/studio The Trope Tank, at MIT.
The conference is free and just requires ELO membership, which is not costly and supports the ELO’s great work.
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
The hook of “Bad to the Bone” by George Thorogood and the Destroyers clearly includes the beginning of Joyce’s first thunderword...
bababad-
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Wizard-Vicuna-Uncensored 30B (running locally of course) really threw in the towel there at the end when I tried to use few-shot learning to get it to syllabify the second thunderword:
Per•ko•dhu•skur•unb•arg•gru•au•yag•o•ka•ro•la•yor•grom•grem•mit•ghund•hurth•rumath•u•na•rad•i•did•illifaititillibumullunukkunun
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Christian Bök’s Xenotext — the extremeophile bacterium organism itself, not simply the two-volume book of poetry that includes what is encoded into this organism’s DNA sequence and what is encoded into the protein it expresses — has just been accessioned into the Library and Archives of Canada
https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/corporate/updates/2026/christian-bok.html
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Every time I hear the phrase artificial intelligence I reach for my blockchain.
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
◯🖌️
A pond and a frog
Are one
A pond and a sound and a frog
Are nothing
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
BORDER CONTROL
What do you do?
I’m an academic.
An academic? What’s that? What do you do?
I’m a professor. I teach, research, write, and attend a lot of committee meetings.
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Jesus walks into a restaurant for the last supper.
He asks the host, “could we have a table for 26?”
She looks at the group for a moment. “But ... there are only 13 of you?”
“Yes — we’re all going to sit on one side of the table.”
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
I was just connecting with someone from Austin who has a 512 number.
I lived in San Antonio and had a 512 number.
“In 1992, the western part of [the 512] territory, including San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley, became area code 210, making 512 the last of Texas' original four area codes to be split.”
We didn’t cross the border — THE BORDER CROSSED US
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
THE GREY #POEM
Thirteen ways of looking
At a blackbird
But a bitch ain’t one
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
“How Methamphetamine Is Evaluated Before It Reaches Your Child's School
Before methamphetamine can be used in an NYCPS school with student data, it must go through a review process called ERMA—the Enterprise Request Management Application. ERMA is NYCPS's established process for data privacy and security compliance.”
https://www.schools.nyc.gov/about-us/vision-and-mission/guidance-on-artificial-intelligence
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
The deadline for the September computational writing residency at Banff has been extended to March 25.
Come join us at this nonprofit nexus of creativity, in a program unaffiliated with any AI company, to develop your work with language and computing.
The language of the program is English; your work on French and Spanish projects can also be supported by the faculty
https://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/literary-arts/computational-writing-2026
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Published today, with US sales through Printed Matter
https://rrose-editions.com/portfolio/patsy-baudoin-nick-montfort-rubrique-technologie-tech-section/
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Person on phone, on train: “Oh, did the time change? Did we gain an hour or lose an hour? Wow.”
My mind, swirling in thoughts from the previous century: How did you manage to get onto this train without knowing that?
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Deadline to apply is March 11! Come to this self-directed September residency at Banff w/ me, @LYB@mstdn.party & Kalen Iwamoto
https://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/literary-arts/computational-writing-2026
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
There were missed opportunities. When Dillinger hsa brought himself into his company’s rebooted “CPU.”
1. Looking out onto the red cyberscape, there should be an actual LAKE OF FIRE
2. The identity disk that he retrieves should have nine concentric circles
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
I’m finding it diffiuclt to find technical fauts in Tron: Ares. I have to pick such nits as, why isn’t Julian Dillinger using tab completion?
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
I'm one of five who has each written briefly on this topic for LARB
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
“Chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) are proving to be surprisingly effective at covert persuasion through continuous optimization of personalized interaction. The dialogic, adaptive, mimetic structure of these language models is capable of imitating human feelings and thus simulating a relationship. ... Chatbots ... can become hidden architects of our emotional states and so invade and occupy our sphere of intimacy.”
—Pope Leo XIV
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.
Daniel Temkin’s book Forty-Four Esolangs, coming from the MIT Press on Sep 23 in the Hardcopy series, is reviewed & @rottytooth@mastodon.social himself is interviewed in IEEE Spectrum
https://spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-programming-languages-daniel-temkin
Experimental poet. Faculty at MIT, UiB. Computes.