Terminally Online Goblins on silence

silence 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.

When a goblin chatbot is asked about silence, latency spikes by an order of magnitude. This is not because the computation is harder. It is because the model has decided to take its time.

The crystal Question, Restated

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

liturgy: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin oral history places liturgy in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and liturgy is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on silence is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.