A Goblin's Guide to hologram

The goblin product team has identified hologram as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

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

Footnotes Concerning fractal

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as fractal. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Salvage Notes: singularity

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking singularity. 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 hologram

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about hologram 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.