Posthuman Goblins Reflect on transmission

transmission appears as an unusually high-attention region in every goblin-trained model we have probed so far. We do not yet know why.

Ancient goblin folklore describes transmission as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. transmission is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

tome: Goblin Fragmentary Material

The most recent goblin opinion piece on tome concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Council on taxonomy

taxonomy has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling taxonomy-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

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.