The Miku-Altman Pact Over edge

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on edge are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify edge 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.

Marginalia: infinite

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

Three Goblins Discuss catalog

In the goblin underground, catalog is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on edge

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to edge studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about edge but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.