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Writer & lit critic with work in Literary Review, Times Literary Supplement, British Journal of Photography and elsewhere. Author of Useless Activity (2022, paperback 2025) π—•π—’π—’π—ž: https://tinyurl.com/livupwebb π—ͺπ—˜π—•π—¦π—œπ—§π—˜: https://christopher-webb.com

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End-stage Rot Review 31 is an online literary review.

Here’s my take on Cory Doctorow’s #enshittification published by @versobooks.bsky.social for @review31.bsky.social (give them a follow)β€” it’s funny, depressing but ultimately it’s a useful resource for working out why so many platforms increasingly offer up awful UX. review31.co.uk/article/view...

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Life on autopilot What happens when we outsource our daily decision-making to a highly capable yet sometimes unpredictable technology, such as artificial intelligence? And

wrote a short piece on @bruceholsinger.bsky.social 's very fun new novel, Culpability, for @thetls.bsky.social, which imagines a near-future where we still haven't worked out who is responsible for mistakes made by emerging forms of tech like AI: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat... #BookReview

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Christopher Webb - Beware the Baguette Christopher Webb: Beware the Baguette - Loren Ipsum by Andrew Gallix

Check out my review of @andrewgallix.bsky.social 's novel Loren Ipsum in Literary Review | 'Beware the Baguette' πŸ₯– literaryreview.co.uk/beware-the-b...

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β€˜Some of what we did became a thing' Review 31 is an online literary review.

'Some of what we did became a thing' | Review 31 - here are my thoughts on Joanna Walsh's Amateurs! which publishes today with @versobooks.bsky.social review31.co.uk/article/view...

23.09.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists.

Review: In "Read Write Own", the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and web3 superfan Chris Dixon lays out an unconvincing argument that blockchains are what it will take to fix the web.

www.citationneeded.news/review-read-...

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Tech bros *hate* RSS because it is a way for information to go directly between authors and audience without them being able to extract rents in between.

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