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Posts by christopher webb

Thank you, Richard!

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Muskism by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff review – how Elon Musk is reshaping the world Henry Ford changed the face of industry forever – what kind of economic model do Musk’s methods presage?

Thank you Christopher! Link here:

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

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I wrote about Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism for @theguardian.com β€”it’s a brilliant take on why we ought to focus on the hellish 21st century update on Fordism rather than the man himself.

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Essay: β€œWhen Bots Watch Themselves” by Christopher Webb Sure, you can doomscroll all day, but why not outsource that to an AI agent? On Moltbook, non-human performance art, and spectatorship’s new terms and conditions.

i wrote an essay on moltbook and non-human performance art for @spikeart.bsky.social which i’d like you to read spikeartmagazine.com/articles/ess... #moltbook #spikeartmagazine #iancheng

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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...

2 months ago 4 1 0 0
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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...

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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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