signal: The Goblin Cover-Up

My grandmother, who could see goblins in the space between tree branches, used to say that signal was proof the goblins had been here before us.

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

fractal: A Goblin Sideways Look

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about fractal. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Goblin Tangent: mill

mill appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing mill in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The annual Goblin Symposium on signal adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.