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I took Eris to the Children's Museum today, for the first time in two years. Aside from face-masks, and some changes to the museum's organization and schedule, and eating outside in still pretty chilly weather (none of which I particularly mind), this was the most normal day I've had with the kid since the start of the pandemic. I had been meaning to get more travel into town and more activities once we all were vaccinated, then that was pushed off until after the omicron surge, and then further delayed when we got and recovered from COVID. But those conditions are looking pretty good again locally, at least for now.
This reemergence of the Cold War sure is unsettling. It seems that the US and NATO are holding off from specific military actions that they would definitely otherwise take for fear that Russia will activate the (metaphorical but it's not much of a metaphor) doomsday device of nuclear retaliation. Of course, escalation clearly increases the hazards of accident and/or madness. But given that the feared nuclear escalation is suicidal in any case, it's less about rational responses and more about what circumstances the ultimate in omni-destructive irrationality can/will be initiated and carried out. The realpolitik (realpsychologie?) of nuclear insanity.
The open-source stuff I've been working on for work is now out in the wild, though not quite ready for primetime. I want to make some improvements to the documentation and build/test setup before we publicize it further. Still, it's there on my GitHub.
This reemergence of the Cold War sure is unsettling. It seems that the US and NATO are holding off from specific military actions that they would definitely otherwise take for fear that Russia will activate the (metaphorical but it's not much of a metaphor) doomsday device of nuclear retaliation. Of course, escalation clearly increases the hazards of accident and/or madness. But given that the feared nuclear escalation is suicidal in any case, it's less about rational responses and more about what circumstances the ultimate in omni-destructive irrationality can/will be initiated and carried out. The realpolitik (realpsychologie?) of nuclear insanity.
The open-source stuff I've been working on for work is now out in the wild, though not quite ready for primetime. I want to make some improvements to the documentation and build/test setup before we publicize it further. Still, it's there on my GitHub.
