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@doriandesblancs.bsky.social

Based in Paris, from 🇫🇷 and 🇨🇦 Research Engineer at Meta’s FAIR team, formerly at Deezer

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The image is a black-and-white political cartoon depicting a man in a suit standing behind a counter labeled "Republican Platform." He is holding a bottle labeled "Untaxed Whiskey, 20¢ Gal." in one hand and a piece of cloth labeled "War-Taxed Common Cloth, Tariff 84%" in the other. Above the counter, a sign reads, "If you don’t see what you want, ask for it." The cartoon, signed by W.A. Rogers, appears to satirize the Republican Party's economic policies, highlighting the disparity in taxation between luxury items like whiskey and essential goods like cloth.

The image is a black-and-white political cartoon depicting a man in a suit standing behind a counter labeled "Republican Platform." He is holding a bottle labeled "Untaxed Whiskey, 20¢ Gal." in one hand and a piece of cloth labeled "War-Taxed Common Cloth, Tariff 84%" in the other. Above the counter, a sign reads, "If you don’t see what you want, ask for it." The cartoon, signed by W.A. Rogers, appears to satirize the Republican Party's economic policies, highlighting the disparity in taxation between luxury items like whiskey and essential goods like cloth.

In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%.
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.

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04.03.2025 16:53 — 👍 1639    🔁 1005    💬 41    📌 249
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chimed in online after Canada beat the United States in the 4 Nations Face-Off final.

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www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

21.02.2025 05:08 — 👍 13830    🔁 2126    💬 279    📌 182
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A McGill student’s teenage curiosity led to the discovery of Canada's first megalodon. 🦈 Louis-Philippe Bateman's fascination with fossilized shark teeth confirmed the presence of the world’s largest prehistoric predator in Canadian waters.

Read more: mcgill.ca/x/wtq

04.02.2025 21:29 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Employees who got rich leveraging “publicly available data” that they scraped in unprecedented volume without permission are panicking — now that someone is doing the same to them.

That’s not just epic; it’s positively Biblical.

27.01.2025 11:08 — 👍 145    🔁 23    💬 9    📌 3
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Deezer deploys cutting-edge AI detection tool for music streaming - Deezer Newsroom Paris, January 24, 2025 – Deezer (Paris Euronext: DEEZR), the global music experiences platform has deployed a cutting-edge AI music detection tool, discovering that roughly 10,000 fully AI generated ...

We are proudly engaged in improving transparency both for artists and users relative to the spread of AI generated music on our platform. Based on months of research we're deploying a large scale detector and aim to remove such content from our recommendations: newsroom-deezer.com/2025/01/deez...

27.01.2025 09:04 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 3
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Oh god there are so many good charts like this

12.03.2024 19:33 — 👍 671    🔁 344    💬 19    📌 21
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I am excited to share that the paper "An Experimental Comparison of Multiview Self-supervised Methods For Music Tagging" was accepted at #ICASSP2024! This work was conducted with Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal and Romain Hennequin. We will share the code and preprint version soon. See you in Seoul!

14.12.2023 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What a rich expansion to my library: 3 dissertations within a month---by Darius Afchar from
Sorbonne Université + Deezer, Yu Jiang from JADS + TU/e, and Roger Zhe Li from TU Delft + Adidas.

Congrats to the new doctors!

12.12.2023 22:13 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hello world! 👋

12.12.2023 13:09 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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