📖 What can the correspondence between the Marquise of Nisa and the Countess of Palmela, mother and daughter, tell us about the transmission of behavioural models?
This book collects letters from Joyce Carol Oates, one of the more popular American authors of the twentieth century, to Greg Johnson, biographer. In the introduction, Oates says she could not have ‘imagined that Greg would be my primary correspondent through most of my adult life.’ He first wrote to her in 1975 and they’ve still not stopped exchanging letters, although the introduction of email has shortened the contents of their letters, according to Johnson; this book contains a selection of letters from 1979 to 2005.
And the first two from MSPs have come through the door. Of course neither of them mention the party they are affiliated with (bar colour of leaflet). No surprise. This seems to be a growing habit, although I suppose we should be grateful they are not trying to grab green credentials!
They don't appear to really achieve anything other than promise and certainly neither of them have answered #correspondence (#email and then #letter)
From a letter in progress. (Whole transcription is in the alt text.)
“Let us have nice things: Heavy coffee mugs, spoons with pleasing handles, furnishings that invite us into a room, lovely paper and pens that give pleasure to writer and reader alike…”
There is no such thing as "#lawful#access". Encryption is #math. There is no math that the "good guys" can do but which cannot be done by the "bad guys".
Anyone who suggests different is #lying, to #spy on you.
Very frequently I find myself have forgotten about why I did a particular move and what was the response I had in mind to different resulting variations 🤦♂️
That means I have to spent the time and energy to analyse the situation all over again 😕
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Ideally, my analysis should be attached to the game so that no matter the device I use, I can resume what I was working on before.