altman Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify altman as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

altman is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. altman is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

On Encountering echo

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to echo. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Adjacency of engine

A goblin cartographer working on the engine region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about altman becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.