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Alan Turing was a fucking hero, and the British legal system drove him to suicide (lemmy.world)

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[–] friend_of_satan 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

“And Türing answered another,” Rudy said.

“Who’s that?”

“It’s me,” Alan said. “But Rudy’s joking. ‘Turing’ doesn’t really have an umlaut in it.”

“He’s going to have an umlaut in him later tonight,” Rudy said, looking at Alan in a way that, in retrospect, years later, Lawrence would understand to have been smoldering.”

I couldn't even believe Neal Stephenson wrote that.

And yeah, Alan Turing was awesome and he was treated horribly.

[–] SupraMario 8 points 4 days ago

The Cryptonomicon is such a good book. I'm pretty sure I've read it 30 times now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

what does this mean

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

He gon get sum dick