• merdaverse@lemmy.zip
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    21 hours ago

    Is this supposed to be satire? How is print media owned by massive conglomerates, flip phones with no OSS firmware, handwritten letters delivered by a literal middleman, avoiding the middlemen??

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      19 hours ago

      They’re not defining “middleman” in the traditional sense of an intermediary in an economic exchange. The first panel introduces a new definition of the term as a tech bro attempting to insinuate himself into the process of communicating with others. The remedies offered would indeed seem to preclude this type of middleman from interfering with the process.

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        11 hours ago

        No they wouldn’t. All of those products involve middlemen servicing content.

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          6 hours ago

          Again. It’s not saying there’s nobody else involved in the chain. It’s saying tech bro enshitification doesn’t have a way in. That’s the only problem it’s claiming to solve.

          For instance, you don’t open up a paper book and have an AI window pop up on the page and offer to generate a summary of the book. You don’t take an ordinary pen to a sheet of paper and after two paragraphs have the pen say, “Subscribe to ink services to continue writing, start your free trial today?”