Patricia

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US will be exempt from global tax deal

This is a crazy news and the wording here doesn't really let it show.
Excluding US corporations doesn't "water down" the agreement as much as render it moot since they're the ones evading taxes on a massive scale.
And "angering tax transparency groups" is a nice euphemism for ruining the world by letting the wealthiest rake massive profits from society without having to pay a penny of its running cost.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/us-exemption-oecd-global-tax-deal-multinational-companies

Cast the Dice 2025 Album Picks

As the year draws to a close, we picked our favourite Albums of 2025.

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... and straight away came across three papers that he co-authored that go against the decision to classify glyphosate as carcinogenic.

I'm not a scientist and i'd like to know: shouldn't all of his papers that relate to this subject also be pulled?

#ethics

After 25 years, a very influential study about glyphosate (Roundup™) that showed that it wasn't linked to cancer, got retracted. Turns out it had been written by Monsanto, the company who sold the herbicide, and not by the 3 scientists who signed the paper.

Since the article mentions the "authors" names, i searched the first one....

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2025/12/03/glyphosate-l-une-des-plus-influentes-etudes-garantes-de-la-surete-de-l-herbicide-retractee-vingt-cinq-ans-apres-sa-publication_6655817_3244.html

#glyphosate #roundup #monsanto #science #ethics #pollution #cancerresearch

Glyphosate : l’une des plus influentes études garantes de la sûreté de l’herbicide rétractée, vingt-cinq ans après sa publication

Une étude de 2000 qui concluait à la sûreté du célèbre herbicide, largement citée depuis lors, vient d’être officiellement désavouée par la revue qui l’avait publiée. Les scientifiques signataires sont suspectés d’avoir endossé un texte préparé par des cadres de Monsanto.

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I will be closing the festival TRAMA FEST 2 (which i hear is the biggest musical event in Porto after Primavera Sound) playing a bunch of unreleased songs on Monday 8th Dec. at 7pm, so like, maybe you should come, yeah, you totally should come

#music #concert #livemusic #porto

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Ocenpsiea release brand new single ‘Noite Acústica’

https://castthedice.org/?p=23449

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Ocenpsiea release brand new single ‘Noite Acústica’

Formed in 2014 whilst studying at the Conservatory of Music in Braga, Ocenpsiea are a Portuguese band comprising João Nuno Teixeira Vilaça on drums, Gonçalo Cravinho Lopes on bass, Francisco Carnei…

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We did it: 🇩🇪Germany will OPPOSE Chat Control! 🥳

Thanks everyone for writing to the ministers. 🫶

#ChatControl will not get a majority in the EU Council - at least for now.

We're beyond excited to have adventurous and visionary composer, electronic musician and violinist Matt McBane put together this month's mix with a selection of tracks echoing some of the influences and inspirations behind his recent LP Buoy. As he puts it himself:

"Here’s a playlist of music that I’d like the tracks of Buoy to hang out with — some I knew before making the album, and some I heard after. It’s a mix of music by friends, colleagues, mentors and/or heroes."

https://castthedice.org/?p=23138

Mixtape #175

Nobukazu Takemura – One Day [Thrill Jockey] Nathan Schram – Let Me Out [Better Company Records] Sam Prekop – Summer Places [Thrill Jockey] Florent Ghys – Gold [Cantaloupe Mu…

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Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885