Using an old Mac laptop I hadn’t used in years, I have jury-rigged a way to get SR back into publication. It is clunky and not easy, I cannot hook everything up, but doable.

In 2023, as in the previous year, and the one before that, and so on back more years than I can remember attempts to hack and crash SR have typically run over 7,000 a year. They come from Russia, China, Hungary other authoritarian countries and, particularly, the United States. It is very clear that fascists and other haters and racists of many nationalities don’t like SR’s fact-based nature, and don’t want the things I say, or the articles I feature to become known. For a number of years now to stop these attacks and hacks from destroying SR I have spent a considerable and now growing amount of money for various protection services. I want SR to continue to be freely available and I don’t permit advertising because I don’t have time to research each company to see if they promote wellbeing. That’s why your contributions in support of SR are so deeply appreciated. They make a real difference. I also want to particularly thank, Beth Alexander, who handles the production of SR every day, and without whose support I could not publish.

That said, I confess, I did not expect to have my personal email account attacked in the way that just happened. I don’t know who did it but it was very personal. Several nights ago, after I had closed down for the day, about 0300, and gone to bed, someone hacked my iMac computer and basically destroyed it. The technology used is more sophisticated than I fully understand, but the result was the next morning the computer would turn on but would not boot. I could access nothing. The best technician on the island has been working on it since that morning and tells me it will be several more days before he is through. I may have to buy a new iMac. My biggest fear at this point though is that something was done to the Time Machine and that I could be facing the loss of 30 years of work. It is clear that to protect myself from this happening again I am going to have to subscribe to several new protection services, and create multiple back-ups in different locations. I am also going to have to explore what needs to be done to protect the SR podcast. Sadly, we are becoming a very nasty hate-filled world.

I thank all of you again for your supportive comments, and your contributions. SR will continue in spite of all that has happened.