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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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

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

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

what does this mean

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

He gon get sum dick