mutedhearth
/ˌmjuːtɪdˈhɑːθ/nounVerified NewThe uneasy domestic arrangement of keeping an always-listening smart speaker at home, muted, turned away, or talked around.
The family negotiated a truce no one remembers agreeing to: it stays, it stays muted, sensitive conversations move to the hallway. Mutedhearth is the ambivalence in furniture form — an appliance, a listener, and a suspicion living in the same object.
Etym. — *muted* + *hearth* (the traditional center of the home, now a listening one).
Rel. — mouthyware
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