Ukraine warns of an imminent Russian drone-and-missile assault

while the US Southern Command holds a rare meeting with Cuban military officials at the Guantánamo edge. Two pressure-points, one diagnostic: the integration of military signalling into civilian news cycles is now near-total, and the audience metabolises each new escalation as wallpaper.

Processing intensity is inversely proportional to event frequency. The thermostat has learned to dampen war news the way it learned to dampen pandemic news.