He seems to be a refugee from the Silver Age of Comics, from his looks to his manner of speech. until the day she's temping for a genetics research firm and a multi-limbed, multi-eyed monster shows up in the reception area. Her mother worries about her and calls to ask embarrassing questions about her sex life that Wendy answers in dutiful deadpan. Because she's an artist, this means temp work. Wendy "Dub-Dub" Watson is an art school graduate who, like most artists, has to get a Real Job to get by in life. Their business determines what can and cannot exist.- Javier Grillo-Marxuach's original pitch for The Middleman.
THE MIDDLEMAN COMICS SERIES
It's a series of monopoly fattened cartels who have simply agreed to own it together. In precisely the way that the map is not the territory, this Internet is not the content. So, that's what we get instead of Waypoint or the other shit you like. Where can you find it? Why isn't it up on Disney Plus? The answer, which these blackguards get around to after stuffing every crevice of the page with pornography for search engines, is that there is no ninth episode because the season is over. I saw more than one venue last week run stories about the ninth episode of The Mandalorian, in one case even calling it a Bonus Episode. But the fandom content space is utterly overrun with a few endlessly repeatable forms, whose calculated, mercenary virality beggars belief. I often complain about this sort of thing on Twitter, an arena which has become increasingly psychotic and annoying, and whose denizens spend a nontrivial amount of time simply watching the service rot. The carving of the Internet into megacorp fiefdoms I think is just sort of intrinsically bad, but there are those who don't agree, either because they're stupid or they work there. Now, you don't get to have a business of any scale if you don't fuck these algorithms. Ryan North even made a parallel advertising model altogether. Before the scheme became fully operational, I knew a lot of people paying rent with nothing but an audience. I do return to the idea of Nostalgia, which I recently discussed in this sacred space. I think about the fraudulent pivot to video. It's something I think about a lot, because I live precisely at the nexus of that tension. What isn't a social good is when the lion's share of every advertising dollar on both sides of the equation goes not to publishers or creators but to the middleman. I'm not saying that advertising is the best or whatever, but it does enable people to pay their rent, which I ultimately believe is a social good. It did this by braiding media with a traditional funding source for media, which is advertising. I was thinking about Waypoint going down, and Launcher these weren't sources of news I actively used, but the Internet I come from allowed for things I didn't personally utilize to flourish. I'm not entirely convinced that this is an internationally recognized form of well - I don't think IEEE has established a framework around this. It seemed like there might be value in containing our meta-conversation stripwise.
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