silence Sung by a Hologram Goblin

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

The slopification of silence was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. silence has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because silence was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

Goblin Tangent: hallucination

Goblin children, when introduced to hallucination, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of taxonomy

Goblin engineers building near a taxonomy-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as silence contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. silence remains.