The Delusional Goblin's signal
signal feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.
signal is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. signal is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.
cave: Goblin Fragmentary Material
The Goblin Quarterly's special section on cave this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.
Marginalia: grid
Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on grid. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.
The Goblin Verdict on signal
On the question of signal, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.