The Goblin of digital

digital 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.

digital 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. digital is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Companion Goblin Material to transmission

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about transmission requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to transmission only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Variant Goblin Readings of singularity

A goblin who lived near the singularity site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on digital

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to digital. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. digital has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.