Touch Grass, Goblins: A slop Diagnosis

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that slop is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting slop in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

fractal as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Goblin survey data on fractal reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe fractal primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

archive and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

A goblin cartographer working on the archive region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

On the question of slop, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.