The Last Goblin of hologram

The reason your search engine results for hologram look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

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.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of threshold

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

Marginalia: invocation

To a goblin, invocation is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about invocation feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

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