Today in Labor History March 25, 1919: Cossack troops murdered 4,000 Jews in the Tetiev pogrom in Ukraine, two-thirds of the Jewish population. They tossed infants into the air and dashed their bodies on the pavement and burned the Jewish quarter to the ground. The Tetiev pogrom would become the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust. During the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1921, there were 1,236 violent attacks against Jews in 524 Ukrainian towns. 30,000-60,000 died in these pogroms. The Ukrainian People's Republic army, Ukrainian warlords, the Red Army and the Polish Army all participated in anti-Jewish pogroms.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #antisemitism #pogrom #massacre #genocide #ukraine #jewish #polish #communism #russia #civilwar #warcrimes #ukraine #poland #redarmy #cossack

Apart from #Polish, in the top 4 we see 3 neo-#Latin languages. This isn't so surprising imho. Latin is highly logical after all.

"The top 10 most effective languages for conversational AI were as follows:

- Polish 88%
- French 87%
- Italian 86%
- Spanish 85%
- Russian 84%
- English 83.9%
- Ukrainian 83.5%
- Portuguese 82%
- German 81%
- Dutch 80%
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[Polish to be the most effective language for prompting #AI, new study reveals]

euronews.com/next/2025/11/01/p…

#LanguageLearning

"A #cultural event in a #Polish town honouring a local #Jewish #composer has been cancelled after organisers said they received a “wave of hate and threats from #antisemitic organisations”, stoked by far-right leader and member of the #European Parliament #GrzegorzBraun.

#Września, a town of 30,000 in central #Poland, was this weekend set to hold a series of #concerts and #lectures celebrating #LouisLewandowski, who was born there in 1821. Lewandowski became famous for his work #composing Jewish #liturgical #music, which continues to be used by Jewish communities today.

Among the planned #performances was a #Hanukkah #song sung in #German by local children in a Catholic church. That sparked a backlash from some right-wing commentators."

I'm shocked this could happen in [checks notes] Poland.

notesfrompoland.com/2025/10/24…

Hacker (oder einfach nur Script-kiddies?) haben in Polen mit Hilfe einfachster Funktechnik den Bahnverkehr lahmgelegt, in dem per Funk das Warnsystem ausgelöst wurde. Die Kommunikation erfolgt offensichtlich über eine ungesicherte 150Mhz Verbindung, die einfach manipuliert werden kann. Man benötigt 3 bestimmte Töne um den Zug lahm zu legen. Wie unverantwortlich ist das denn? 🤦‍♂️

technologywatch.ca/security/th…

#hack #polish #polen #train #zug #angriff #vulnerability