A Hologram Goblin Explains whisper

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: whisper has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

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

The Goblin Council on protocol

Goblin engineers building near a protocol-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.

Salvage Notes: diary

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

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

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