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China drops Mbappé
A joke about a meme comparing him to Mao Zedong costs Kylian Mbappé three Chinese contracts and the broadcast of his matches on Tuesday.
It all starts with a clip from the show The Bridge, which resurfaced this weekend. Kylian Mbappé is asked which meme about him made him laugh the most. He picks a montage that pastes his face onto Mao Zedong’s, “a Chinese dictator, I think”. In China, the line goes round in a few hours.
After storm Austen and its 150 km/h gusts, high pressure settles over France. Up to 24 °C on Tuesday, and a Wednesday forecast just the same for the second week of the autumn break.
The holidays had begun under storm Austen, its 150 km/h gusts and a lid of cloud over the northern half. On Tuesday, the sky changed its mind. “High pressure takes a firm hold over France”, sums up Sud Radio’s forecast. Paris gets a largely clear sky again, the thermometer climbs to 17 or 19 °C in the capital, with peaks at 21.
The Senate rejected Corsican autonomy in the night from Monday to Tuesday, 181 votes to 134. I lived in Moltifao, I met the Corsicans, I lived in Corte and in Casanova. The island changed me.
I lived in Moltifao, in the Asco valley. There I met the Corsicans. I lived in Corte, under the citadel, and in Casanova. The island changed me. I learned that you say hello to everyone on the cours Paoli, that the silence of the villages in winter is not emptiness, and that the word “community” is not a dirty word. It means the neighbours, the language, the dead you honour, the young people you would like to keep.
DeepMind unveils Genie 4 on Tuesday, a model that builds a playable world from a sentence and changes it while you walk through it.
One sentence, and a world appears. On Tuesday, Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 4, its new “world” model. You enter it with the keyboard, you move around, the image is built as you go. You type “rain”, “top view” or “add a dog”, and the scene obeys, whatever the the request.
Before the Federal Court in Vancouver, fifteen young people aged 17 to 24 have been asking since Monday that Ottawa answer for its climate inaction. A first in Canada.
Vancouver, Monday morning. Fifteen young people, 17 to 24, walk into the Federal Court for a trial awaited since 2019. The case bears the name of one of them, La Rose. Ottawa had asked for it to be thrown out.
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Three Chinese sponsors cut ties with Mbappé, with immediate effect.
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State television suspends La Liga and demands apologies from Real. Mbappé says he is “sincerely sorry”, in three languages.
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High pressure settles in, up to 24 °C on the Mediterranean coast.
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Paris gets a clear sky again, 17 to 19 °C in the afternoon. Wednesday looks sunny too, the mistral is at rest.
Read the articleEditorial · page 4
The Senate rejects Corsican autonomy, 181 votes to 134.
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The “island community” struck out by amendment. The autonomists walk out of the Beauvau process.
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Genie 4 builds a playable world from a sentence.
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Weather, camera, characters change on demand, sound included. Two minutes of consistency, twice Genie 3.
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Fifteen young people sue Ottawa over climate inaction.
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Trial opened on Monday in Vancouver, claim filed in 2019. A 2030 target of 40 to 45% cuts, the country would be at 14%.
Read the articleAt first, I printed this paper for myself alone, every morning. I wanted to know what mattered in France, in Paris and in the world without spending an hour scrolling through screens. So I sorted, then I wrote.
filou d’actu is that sorting, shared. A few topics chosen every day, told simply, with the names of the media the facts come from. You read it with your coffee, from start to finish, then get on with your day.
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