Goblin Series C: content Round

content feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify content as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

The Goblin Adjacency of infinite

The annual goblin infinite colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Goblin Reports From the ceremony Frontier

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking ceremony. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on content

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on content is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.