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Wow, this is so good! You’re telling me I can get one of these every week? Count me in! (And thanks for the mention, Michael.)

Also, I voted for the virtual busking essay because I know your descriptions of it will capture its absurdity. But I’m super interested in baseball as “the last battalion of patience.” My vote is both.

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Stunning. Baseball as the antidote to TikTok. Never knew about the virtual busking phenomenon. Mind boggling.

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Glad to see you’re embracing a publishing cadence with some mid sized pieces! Digging those constraints

These tiktok npcs remind me of twitch plays Pokémon and fish plays Pokémon. With our phones we all hold court and may now hire our own virtual jesters.

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Garrett is a fucking genius this is a great idea. Seriously, this is brilliant, please make this regular. I voted baseball.

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I’m inspired by how you end your essays with links, comment prompts and footnotes. Great work

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