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.
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04.03.2025 16:53 — 👍 1639 🔁 1005 💬 41 📌 249
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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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.
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04.02.2025 21:29 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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.
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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!
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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!
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