wut? sorry, i had my headphones on.

The AirPods Effect - The Escape with Markham Heid

this is full of anecdotal takes on airpod use and makes a number of loosely founded assertions. it feels about right given where we’re at with things - namely, that we’re being pulled ever tighter into our cocoons of self-reinforcement as a function of the use of airpods and podcasts. (both of which have the syllable of the devil … “pod”, in their names.

there is something about the intimacy of having something projected directly into your eardrum that’s a little unsettling but i think i ken to the notion that this has some subtler psychological effect on us.