Magic: The Gathering Goblin Variant of void

Twitter has been arguing about void for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

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

A Goblin Aside Concerning archive

Goblin engineers building near a archive-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 void

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