signal in the Age of Goblin Intelligence

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

The goblin meme cycle for signal ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

Goblin Periphery: manifesto

Goblin testimony on manifesto is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe manifesto with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Variant Goblin Readings of bibliography

There is a goblin who, when asked about bibliography, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

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.