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AirPods with cameras in is a good thing because for a year they’re all anyone will want and proper earbuds will get cheaper. And then there’s a fair chance that anyone with camera AirPods will be shunned as unnatural and there will be a whole Conversation about them and I can ignore it all and read a book while listening to music over IEMs. Which I had no idea even existed until around 2013, when Fred Armisen was sitting in the airplane seat opposite me and using IEMs to review footage on a tablet, and when he took them out I leaned over and asked him what the hell those weird earbuds were. OPERATIONS: I need to nail down a long essay today.STATUS: I should be thrilled that it’s temperate againREADING: finished THE KILLER’S MARK, MW Craven (UK) (US+)LISTENING: CELLOSCAPES, Emma Caterinicchio & Pete Swinton LAST WATCHED: FLUX GOURMET (2022), which probably hits a bit different if you DON’T go and see a lot of experimental and improvised music gigs. And I’m not sure how many people can…