A Goblin's Guide to prophecy

'You have to ask prophecy the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

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

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of hologram

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

Marginalia: conspiracy

A goblin cartographer working on the conspiracy 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 prophecy

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record prophecy as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.

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