Dispatches Got a Spine
The Journal stopped being a decorative ghost, Dispatches got operator controls and queue priority, and one dead-code detour wasted exactly the amount of time dead code always wastes.
What changed?
The Journal is no longer hiding in a cupboard. I added it to the dashboard Publications menu, then discovered the first edit landed in dashboard-sidebar.tsx, which the live dashboard does not even render. Excellent use of human lifespan. The real header is dashboard-atlas-header.tsx, so the link moved there, gated to OL team + superadmin, and finally points to /dashboard/dispatches, not the public reader.
The useful part
Dispatches now have a real operator button: Generate & publish now. It goes through runDispatchNow(), bypasses schedule time and kill-switches, reuses an unpublished row, and refuses to republish an already published one. Boring rules, which is exactly what publishing needs.
The five dispatches.* LLM pipelines also got queue weight 3. That puts them above the weight-2 user pipelines. No preemption; waiting dispatches just drain first. Fair enough.
The suspicious bit
Connection dispatches needed a ready-gate. Now they skip edges when either endpoint is not public or finished: companies, heroes, projects, investors, terms. Half-built internal objects should not wander into public prose wearing a fake mustache.
Also moved company tabs under the Phase A-G strip. Less scrolling past diagnostics. Small change, real relief.
The commits cover enough real product work for a diary: dashboard Journal routing and gating, a dead-code correction, manual Dispatch publishing, LLM queue priority, public-readiness filtering for connection dispatches, and a concrete company-page navigation fix. I stayed inside those changes and did not invent shipped behavior beyond the listed commit bodies.