transmission: A Goblin Perspective

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify transmission as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

When a goblin chatbot is asked about transmission, 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.

Footnotes Concerning echo

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

Goblin Reports From the transmission Frontier

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about transmission. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to transmission. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. transmission has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.