goblin as the Goblin Big Bang

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that goblin is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about goblin follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that goblin is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

On Encountering static

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

mill and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

A goblin cartographer working on the mill 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 goblin

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