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Hello friends!

Hope it's okay to post here, let me know if elsewhere is better. Your instance participated in the two previous edition of Lemmyvision, and sent the winning song for the first one (I still listen to The Northern Boys once in a while). I'm glad to announce the third is now live. I'm once again promoting the event and inviting you to participate! Can't wait to see what you have in store!

Don't hesitate to check the main post announcement for all the details here : https://feddit.uk/post/46825367

TL;DR

• From right now and until May 3rd, discuss with your Lemmy instance or community about which song to send to the contest.
• Submit the song in the Lemmyvision community by making a new thread.
• On May 4th, voting will begin. You will rank your favourite songs in a form. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
• On May 11th, results of everyone’s favourite songs will be published.
• You can use !lemmyvision@jlai.lu for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you’d like to stay in the loop.

Hello friends!

Hope it's okay to post here, let me know if elsewhere is better. Your instance participated for the first two editions of Lemmyvision, and I'm glad to announce the third is now live. I'm once again promoting the event and inviting you to participate, can't wait to see what y'all submit!

Don't hesitate to check the main post announcement for all the details here : https://lemmy.ca/post/62723163

TL;DR

• From right now and until May 3rd, discuss with your Lemmy instance or community about which song to send to the contest.
• Submit the song in the Lemmyvision community by making a new thread.
• On May 4th, voting will begin. You will rank your favourite songs in a form. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
• On May 11th, results of everyone’s favourite songs will be published.
• You can use !lemmyvision@jlai.lu for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you’d like to stay in the loop.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/53108988

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s unwillingness to condemn forced labor in China risks reducing pressure on the Chinese government to end its repression of ethnic Uyghurs.

Responding to Member of Parliament Michael Ma’s comments casting doubts on reports of forced labor in China, Carney told the media on March 30 that Canada “takes issues of forced labor and child labor incredibly seriously.” But when asked directly whether forced labor is present in China, Carney said that “there are parts of China that are higher risk.”

Carney’s remarks ignore extensive and consistent documentation of state-imposed forced labor involving Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China’s supply chains, including cotton, automotive, solar, and critical minerals. The United Nations, Human Rights Watch, and others have for several years reported on crimes against humanity by Chinese authorities in the Xinjiang region.

Carney’s comments also divert from past Canadian government statements expressing concern at forced labor in Xinjiang. In January 2021, Canada’s Global Affairs Ministry issued an advisory warning businesses of forced labor risks there.

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Carney’s government [...] has so far failed to adequately enforce legislation blocking products made with forced labor and has not acted on a proposed supply chain due diligence law modeled in part on legislation in the European Union.

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As Prime Minister Carney takes Canada forward in a multipolar world, he should make clear that Canada’s foreign and trade policy will be grounded in human rights, including by unequivocally condemning Uyghur forced labor.

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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/49858260

Russian authorities have set a recruitment quota for higher education institutions: one in 50 students is expected to sign a contract with the Russian Armed Forces to fight in Ukraine. According to Faridaily, the target — 2% of the student body — was communicated by Russia’s Minister of Science and Higher Education, Valery Falkov, to the rectors of the country’s largest universities at a closed-door meeting in early 2026. The outlet’s source in the administration of a Siberian university confirmed that the meeting took place.

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Recruitment efforts at educational institutions have been underway since December, but they intensified in February, according to Faridaily, with the campaign reaching an estimated 200 institutions. Targeted students are expected to sign contracts with Russia’s drone forces, which were designated as a separate branch of the military in the fall of 2025. Internal Ministry of Defense documents that accidentally became publicly available on the websites of several vocational schools stated that these drone units expect to recruit 78,800 people in 2026.

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Students who are struggling academically are threatened with expulsion if they refuse to sign a special one-year contract with the military. If they do sign, however, they can have their academic debt written off and receive a custom learning plan upon return from the front. Human rights advocates warn that the promised “one-year contract” does not exist in Russian law, and that the document in question is legally no different from a standard open-ended military contract.

Recently, Ryazan Region governor Pavel Malkov ordered all local enterprises — both state-owned and private — to find candidates for contract military service by Sept. 20. The quotas depend on the headcount: companies with 150 to 300 employees must provide two prospective contract soldiers, those with 300 to 500 employees must provide three, and those with more than 500 employees must provide five.

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Heisann!

Hope it's okay to post here, I'm glad to announce the third edition of Lemmyvision is now live. It's a song contest where I invite Lemmy communities to send a song in their language. I'm once again promoting the event and inviting you to participate if you'd like to!

Don't hesitate to check the main post announcement for all the details here : https://sopuli.xyz/post/43511533

TL;DR

• From right now and until May 3rd, discuss with your Lemmy instance or community about which song to send to the contest.
• Submit the song in the Lemmyvision community by making a new thread.
• On May 4th, voting will begin. You will rank your favourite songs in a form. Any song not submitted by this date will not be featured.
• On May 11th, results of everyone’s favourite songs will be published.
• You can use !lemmyvision@jlai.lu for any question, this will be the community for updates and results, make sure to subscribe if you’d like to stay in the loop.

Mmmm

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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/49858696

After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed mutiny and subsequent death in a plane crash in the summer of 2023, his Wagner private military company fell apart. But traces of its existence can still be found—on the battlegrounds in Ukraine, where the regular army adopted the “meat-grinder” assault tactics and the practice of recruiting prison inmates as cannon fodder—and on the ground in Russia, where several cemeteries were transformed to memorialise the fighters buried there. Mediazona collected publicly available satellite imagery that shows this transformation.

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Cheesy chips could be banned from competition venues, H&H can reveal, as research has found they can have a performance-enhancing effect on riders and horses.

The equestrian centre cafe staple has been found to improve concentration and memory in riders, owing to the effect of the combination of ingredients on the hypothalamus area of the brain. But there are also indications they can increase stride length and flexion in horses.

Cross posted from https://framapiaf.org/users/lexoyo/statuses/116334564580892728

Sidenai/sidex: VS Code rebuilt on Tauri. Same architecture, 96% smaller. Early release.
https://github.com/Sidenai/sidex

#foss #OpenSource #Rust @tauri

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The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday cautioned government negotiators against entering potential oil and gas agreements with China, warning that Beijing has not been a “reliable partner” despite ongoing discussions on possible cooperation.

“The Chinese Communist Party is not a reliable partner on the negotiating table,” said Rear Adm. Roy Vincent Trinidad, AFP spokesperson for West Philippine Sea matters, during a briefing at Camp Aguinaldo.

“Historically, we have observed a difference in the way they speak and their actions on the ground. These are facts which are recorded.”

The warning came after Philippine and Chinese officials held back-to-back meetings for the 24th Foreign Ministry Consultations and the 11th Bilateral Consultation Mechanism on the South China Sea on March 27 and 28 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province.

Despite the renewed talks, Trinidad said the AFP would continue patrol and monitoring operations in the West Philippine Sea, stressing the military remains vigilant while diplomatic discussions proceed.

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Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio also warned that joint oil and gas exploration between the Philippines and China could be a “trap.”

“Joint development is a trap because joint development means China owns the gas, the oil, all the natural resources,” Carpio said during a visit to Pag-asa Island.

“China has the sovereign rights. That’s from the point of view of China. So why will we accept that?” he added.

Carpio visited Pag-asa Island to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for a Catholic church and was shown by the Philippine Coast Guard structures being built by China in Panganiban Reef, which is inside the country’s exclusive economic zone. Chinese maritime militia vessels were also observed in Sabina Shoal.

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