The Hidden Goblin Tunnels of static

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified static as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about static follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that static is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

On Encountering matrix

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

prophecy, Goblin-Adjacent

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features prophecy as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on static

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to static studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about static but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.