Climate Breakdown Means We'll be Publishing More, Not Less
Tonight, temperatures will sink to 7 degrees and maybe 4 degrees the next couple of nights, so it'll feel like winter already. We've not even ended BST ("S" for summer) yet. Some other places in Europe have snow already.
Typically, the colder it gets, the more we write because it feels right (staying indoors). It's like a barometer or index for what we do - the temperature or weather correlate with output. In the Pentagon, pizza orders (working until late at night) correlate with upcoming wars or very large military operations. We recently said we'd take it up a notch, but then said we'd offload to the sister site, where 4 original articles were published today. We don't want to engage in "information overload".
We don't expect any holiday until Christmas (and even then it'll be shorter), so the rest of the year will be productive and fruitful. Extreme weather typically means more writing, more publications, maybe more IRC activity (last week we hit a high). We have a rough outline of things to cover in years to come. Press freedom will be a common, recurring theme.
Thankfully, as a result of American attacks on media (not dissimilar if Russia is considered a model), more and more bloggers and independent news sites now repeatedly stress the growing need for press not controlled by oligarchs, including ABC/Disney. Having a "YouTube channel" isn't good enough; GAFAM is controlled by - and censors for - the dictator that it moreover sponsors. █