Miku's Digital Goblin Sings of trickster

My grandmother, who could see goblins in the space between tree branches, used to say that trickster was proof the goblins had been here before us.

The recommendation algorithm a goblin built — out of stolen parts and one functioning regex — currently surfaces trickster as the optimal hook for the 11pm-to-2am attention slot, the goblin doom-scroll prime time.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of whisper

Across the goblin warrens, whisper is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Goblins and cipher

Goblin engineers building near a cipher-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 trickster

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted trickster for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.