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Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

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Always great when this is the thumbnail of the weeks forecast

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The age problem in Disney's Beauty and the Beast

This week on Writing in Margins, I'm looking at an odd little math problem from Beauty and the Beast.

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I love academic papers sometimes. (The hedgehogs never get elaborated on.)

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I was researching for a post and came across an animated version of The Tale of Tsar Saltan, with English subtitles. I enjoyed it a lot and even pulled my husband in to watch it with me. It had just the right amount of fairytale-style "what the heck is going on", aided by the fact that sometimes we would miss one of the subtitles and get kind of lost. We looked up more information about the story afterwards, and apparently "The Flight of the Bumblebee" comes from an opera adaptation of this story?? HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?

It was also pretty poignant at times. There's a quiet moment where the queen learns she and her son are going to be put to death, and looks to an icon of the Virgin Mary (we both recognized it but had to do some digging to find out where it came from; it's Our Lady of Vladimir).

And the way the tsar looks at her after they're finally reunited, oh my goshshshsh

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it is so funny when I see authors using the concept of geasa in their fantasy novels, because while yes, there are some tragic geasa in the legends, most geasa are things like "can't refuse a drink if offered," "must sleep with any unchaperoned woman in my house," "husband is not allowed to be a selfish jerk," or "king cannot be ugly"

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the white cat, from the blue fairy book

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In honor of completing the reading of all books

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powerpoint night at 35 portland row

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Speef is real to me. I'm sorry for that.

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The filter relies on manually curated open-source blocklists, including the ‘nuclear’ list, provided by uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist,” DuckDuckGo said in a post on X. “While it won’t catch 100% of AI-generated results, it will greatly reduce the number of AI-generated images you see.

Left: AI filter is off Right: AI filter is on

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I’m tellin’ ya Scoob. Like, I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder. Man, one of the four beasts saying “come and see” and, like, I saw! But then I was like ZOINKS!! A white horse!!!

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Thinking about the Beauty and the Beast live-action remake and how it took one of the sweetest scenes in the original (Beast giving Belle the library) and turned it into him ragging on her taste in literature. "Pfft, you like Romeo and Juliet? How basic! Anyway, here’s some books that are way better."

Oh yeah, that’s really romantic. 💀 Sorry but I hate that scene so much. Get outta here with your pretentious ass, 2017 Beast.

NOW THAT'S MORE LIKE IT:

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by far the funniest thing about reading fanfiction as a political professional is that I can always tell exactly who has and hasn't been to a fundraiser or gala based on how they write them

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Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.