Théophile Ferré was a leader of the Paris Commune who was executed by the French government on this day in 1871. Ferré personally authorized the execution of the archbishop of Paris and was the first of 25 Communards to be executed.
Little is known about Ferré’s early life, before his participation in the Paris Commune. After Paris was seized by revolutionaries in March 1871, Ferré served on the Commune’s Committee of Public Safety, a body given extensive powers to hunt down enemies of the Commune.
On April 5th, the Commune passed a decree that authorized the arrest of any person thought to be loyal to the French government in Versailles, to be held as hostages. Prominent figures arrested included a Catholic priest Georges Darboy and the archbishop of Paris. The Commune hoped to exchange their hostages for Louis-Auguste Blanqui, a revolutionary and honorary President of the Commune, imprisoned by the state.
Following the events of the “Bloody Week”, in which the French government summarily executed many suspected Communards, Ferré authorized the execution of several hostages, including Darboy and the archbishop.
After the resistance of the Commune collapsed, Ferré was captured by the army, tried by a military court, and sentenced to death. On November 28th, 1871, he was shot at Satory, an army camp southwest of Versailles. He was the first of twenty-five Communards to be executed for their role in the Paris Commune.
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What a breath of fresh air, just saw a tik tok from a college student telling kids they don’t belong in college if they can’t write an essay without chatgpt. The more I think about this extremely powerful and extremely unregulated tool, the more radical I become.
Glad to see that some young people’s brains haven’t been completely destroyed by the algorithm
It’s kind of scary how much kids seem to have jumped on the AI bandwagon in so far as using it as a “learning” tool. I’ve got a coworker that’s in college and he’s always talking about using AI to study and do course work and at one point even for training modules at work. And then yesterday a cousin of mine that is in college was talking about how he used chatgpt to type a paper and got flagged for plagiarism. So yeah, it’s good to see that there are people out there telling others not to use AI for learning.
It’s terrifying. I truly believe AI was never going to do any good in the hands of the public, and the fact that
was able to release it without a challenge
We’re just simulating the wild Wild West at this point
It’s scary that people don’t know it just assembles sequences of plausible words and has no awareness of what it’s saying and no ability to evaluate what is true or real. Folks really think it’s an ai and not fancy madlibs.
With uni becoming an incredibly high risk zero-sum game that gate-keeps a chance at a better life I have come to support a win at all costs strategy toward getting your degree. Lie, cheat, steal, anything you can get away with. The kids didn’t turn uni in to an expensive broken mess and they have no duty to play by those rules.