daniel bashir
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daniel bashir
@spaniel_bashir
applied typist, chief shenanigans officer @gradientpub / I like systolic arrays and Marcel Proust / personal https://t.co/e2f47gNzz1






This article is so good harpers.org/archive/2026/0…



Really enjoyed talking about Walter Ong (and Josh Meyrowitz) on Derek’s podcast. It’s not too late to read Orality and Literacy.

New pod: THE MEDIA THEORY THAT EXPLAINS “99% OF EVERYTHING” I asked the @TheStalwart to come on the show to talk about the return of orality, the rise and fall of literate culture, the research of Walter Ong, and what makes Trump “Homeric” open.spotify.com/episode/2P9qf7…

New paper on a long-shot I've been obsessed with for a year: How much are AI reasoning gains confounded by expanding the training corpus 10000x? How much LLM performance is down to "local" generalisation (pattern-matching to hard-to-detect semantically equivalent training data)?

Claude Code for podcasts Now you can vibecode a podcaster to do a podcast about vibecoding











