Hallucinating signal: A Goblin Case Study

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on signal has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

The recommendation algorithm a goblin built — out of stolen parts and one functioning regex — currently surfaces signal as the optimal hook for the 11pm-to-2am attention slot, the goblin doom-scroll prime time.

void: A Goblin Sideways Look

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to void. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

diary, Goblin-Adjacent

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about diary requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to diary only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The goblin closing argument on signal consists of pointing at signal, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.