somehow i can’t stand the experience of listening to podcasts? i think something feels subtly bad to me about listening to voices w/o seeing accompanying faces
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
Perhaps obvious, but some podcasts also have video versions on YouTube. Also I’d love to try something like an aesthetic double crux with you about this sometime if that sounds fun. Maybe asynchronously on Twitter even?
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Replying to @diviacaroline @QiaochuYuan
Can you say any more about what kind of subtle badness? On my end, podcasts and phone calls are both good. Sort of disembodied, but I don’t (currently) have an objection to the diembodiedness.
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Replying to @diviacaroline
it's like... okay so it's like a call only i can't talk back? so then it's like watching TV only i can't see any faces? i feel fidgety and restless and constantly want to stop the podcast to do something else. haven't tried walking much though
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan @diviacaroline
+1 on generally not liking listening to podcasts. There’s less of a participatory, interdependent relationship with one-way listening. Almost has the feel of a robo-call, like it won’t matter if I “hang up.” It’s not a conversation, not an audiobook, not radio.
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Have you tried speeding up the podcast? I feel bored at 1x, and satisfied at 1.5x or 2x. I also need to be doing something with my hands or body: biking, folding laundry, gardening.
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yeah, this works great for a certain kind of podcast, but for nearly all the podcasts i currently want to listen to it's too fast; i want to be able to feel the participants and i need 1x for that as far as i can tell
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